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Wants to do acrobatic tricksEvery time I download a PDF file, the clarityand great style of the document is amazing.Graphics are downloaded inside a documentwithout a problem. To say I'm impressed isan understatement. Is it possible to convert aWordPerfect 8 document into PDF? I wouldlike to use it for tutorials and instructionaldocuments.

Incidentally, I enjoy TCP immensely...keep up the good work

Ron Hamilton

TCP replies: PDF stands for portable documentformat, and we concur with you that it is afineway to distribifte documents with theformattingpreserved. You can bfiy a program called AdobeAcrobat 4.0, which will allow yoif to convetyour documents into PDF (Acrobat includes anffmber of other features too). We' ve seen itadvertised for around $360.

However, since you are a WordPerfect user,you will be happy to hear that WordperfectVersion 9, which is part of the recently releasedWordPerfect 2000 Suite, includes the ability tocreate PDF files. When you select "publish toPDF" in the File menu, WordPerfect creates aseparate PDF file ffom your document. We' vetned this with text and simple graphics as part ofour ongoing evaluation of the new WordPefectsuite and have found it works.

And speaking of Acrobat 4.0.. .I am a high school math/physics teacher andI work with a lot of PDF files that the min-istry posts on the Web. Hence, I need to useAdobe Acrobat Reader a lot. I was happy tosee that Adobe released the new AcrobatReader 4.0 and I eagerly downloaded the pro-gram. Much to my disappointment, when Iopened up the program I noticed that theSelect Graphic tool icon is missing from thetoolbar. I searched through all the puli-downmenus and was unable to locate it. Did I misssomething or did Adobe?

J. Wu

GB replies: The Select Graphic tool is there. It's apop-up (or fiywut) tool hidden under the SelectText tool (notice the little triangle indicating apop-up tool).

Who you caiiin' old?My blood boils whenever I see those threeletters "O-l D o in front of 486. Now, my 92-yearold grandmother is old! I used to drive a1972 GM Camaro. That was old! I still havesome of my college books. They are old!

But in the article RSurfin' all through thehouse," in your May issue you mention your"old 486 ThinkPad Butterfly subnotebook o

Now, a computer that's five or six years"young" should not be called old. Why notsay: My trusty 486, or my reliable 486, or mycompact 486, or my convenient 486, or m yrobust 486, or my ...?

Well, ... you get the picture.;-)Serge Desaulniers

DT replies: We' ve become used to seeing computertechnology change so quickly that we don't thinkof it on the same time line as humans. Supposecomputes age more like dogs do, with one doggieyear (or computer year) eqffaling about sevenhuman years. By that reckoning, that four-year old4&6 is aboift the same vintage as your Camafo.

Cross-platforsn printingI thought that I read a review in your paperabout file shafing with Mac computers.

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me (Pentium PC running Windows 95) toshare files with my printing company thatuses, I believe, a Power Mac, System 7.5(again I assume). Generally we wouldexchange PageMaker 6.5, Illustrator andPhotoshop files or images.

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The best strategy is to find out from theprinting company what its requirements are forpreparing files. To use TCP as an example, manyadvertisers submit artwork for their ads to ourprofhfction department. We provide an informa-tion sheet that covers the basks of preparing a

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Fuji MX-2700 offers 2.3 megapixelsDigital cameras have lagged behind film cameras in the maximum image resolution they can cap-ture, but Fuji Photo Film of Canada Inc.'s MX-2700 is a fine example of how digital cameras arebeginning to close the gap.

The camera will capture 1,800x1,200 pixel images, which Fuji sayswill produce a 4x6-inch print at 300 dots per inch (dpi), or an Bx12-inch print at 150 dpi. The company also claims the MX-2700 is theworld's smallest two-million pixel camera. It measures 7.9x9.7x3,3 cm(3.1x3.8xl.3 in.) and weighs 240 g (8.5 oz) without battery. TheLithium Ion battery is good for about 250 shots before it needsrecharging, or about a third that many if the LCD viewer is used.

The focal length of the lens is the equivalent of 35 min on a 35mm film camera, and an optical zoom offers up to 2x zooming. Amacro mode allows objects to be as close as 8.9 cm (3.5 inches). Likeother Fuji digital cameras, this model uses SmartMedia cards forimage storage, and will accept 4 MB, 8 MB, 16 MB, and the latest 32MB cards.

The suggested retail price for the camera is $1,369, but Fuji esti-mates the street price will be around $1,200. We' ll have a moredetailed review of this camera in a future issue.— DT

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Cantrek charges companies $4.99 annually to list a Website in the directory.— DT

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ny talk about peripheralsshould include discussionabout the state of universal

serial bus (USB) connectivity, Lastyear we prophesied that USBwould become mainstream in late1998. Although that predictionwas premature, we feel there arenow enough products on the mar-ket to allow you some choice. Thereasons why you'd want to buyUSB devices include the promise ofeasy installation and no hassle use.But are those claims true? That' swhat we hope to answer in this

Digital cameras are also startingto incorporate USB, since imagefiles can be moved off the cameramuch more quickly using USBthan through a standard serialconnection. Digital camera userslike to connect and disconnectoften, so USB's "hot plugability" isanother reason for its inclusion ondigital cameras.

It has been argued that key-teards and mice will move to USBquickly. However, there is littleindication that this is the case.Such products are available but ourcurrent trusty input devices are sostable and so ubiquitous that thismight be an area that remainsresistant. However they may gainfavor with notebook computerusers, particularly those who haveother uses for their notebook's PS2or serial port.

Companies like Best Data andEntrega have come out with USBnetworking products that allowyou to set up a small peer-to-peernetwork. Modem manufacturersare also making the move but it isunclear whether there is any ben-efit to b e g a ined f rom USBmodems.

Gaming devices are increasing-ly available in USB versions, butthey also have a regular 9 pinadapter just in case. This is a gooduse of USB technology and shouldreally get multi-player applicationsmoving. Lastly, look for a futurereview in these pages of the newcrop of USB peripheral adapters.These products let you connectyour old peripheral to a USB plug.

Like your serial port, USB sendsand receives data in a stream, like aqueue of people moving through asingle door. Your parallel port, on

the other hand, has 25 pins somore information moves concur-rently, which is why it is called a"parallel" po r t conn ection.However, there is very little thateither the parallel or serial portshave in common with UN etherthan their basic conceptual simi-larity. Comparing your serial portto USB is like comparing one ofthose miniature, steam-enginetrains in a children's park with theToronto subway system.

USB has a top speed of 12 Mbps(megabits per second or 12 millionbits per second), and a slowerspeed of 1.5 Mbps. The serial portin most PCs, on the other hand,t ransmits at a ma x imum o f115Kbps.

The testingWe mixed and matched nine USBdevices on three machines: a 450MHz Pentium III-based PC, a 200MHz Pentium MMX-based PC, anda Compaq Presario 1670 notebook,which uses a 350 MHz AMD-K6 2p recessor with 3 D Now. T h ePentium MMX system did nothave built-in USB support so weinstafled the Entrega 2 Port USBUpgrade, which is simply a PCIcard with UN ports on it.

The most challenging situa-tions were when three or fourdevices were connected to a USBhub. We wanted to see if deviceswere properly recognized, applica-tions worked as advertised, andwhether or not there were con-flicts. The USB protocol calls fer upto 127 devices to be connected toone computer. The system alsoallows for powered and non-pow-ered devices and hubs; USB is sup-posed to be hot-swappable and

should not require a systemreboot. When a fault occurs thesoftware should not hang thewhole system.

The resu1tsOverall, USB is a work in progress.Don't expect trouble-free use ofUN products under all conditions.It is true that UN peripherals areeasier te install and remove, butUSB isn't perfect. There were anumber of difficulties that provethis is not a bulletproof system.Here are some details.

For the most part plugging aUSB device into the back of yourcomputer is painless. If you don' tuse a hub then you are unlikely tohave any difflculty. Of course, ifyou don't use a hub you can onlyhook up one or two devices.

Although there were timeswhen the computer needed areboot to proceed (more a require-ment of the software than thehardware), we were unabie to cre-ate any problems this way, It is truethat USB products are supposed tobe daisy-chainable (connected oneafter the other) but none of theproducts we received had built-inhubs, If such products have thekind of hub problems we had, thenit's a good thing they don"t.

Both the Belkin and Entregahubs had similar difficulties insimilar situations. On the PentiumIII system neither hub could havethe Microsoft D ig ital SoundSystem 8Q and either ene of thetwo flatbed scanners operating atthe same time. In each case, thehub lights went out. This canoccur when un powered USBdevices try to draw too much

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Scanners are leading the packbecause they truly benefit frem theease of setup. It looks like youwon't be able to buy a scannerwithout USB by this time nextyear, except for models aimed atthe professional graphic arts com-munity.

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peripherals in three test systems: two Intel-based PCs that I built and one AMD-pow-ered notebook computer from Compaq.

This review didn't look at comparativeperformance. (In other words, I didn' tbenchmark the USB device and compare theresults to a similar model that used a serialor parallel connection.) The main purposeof the comparison was to see how well USBdevices lived up to the claims of being sim-pler to configure and use than non-USBdevices. Following are additional notes onthe USB devices that were part of the testing.

Two Port USB UpgradeFrom: Entrega Technologies inc.25691 Atlantic Ocean Dr., Lake Forest, CA 92630Tel: 949-859-8866. http: //www.entrega.cornEstimated street price: $59,99The Two Port USB Upgrade is a PCI cardthat you insert into your motherboard forUSB connectivity. It is simple and workswell — as long as you have Windows 98 or95 release 2.1.

Seven Port USB HubFrom: Entrega Technologies, Inc.25691 Atlantic Ocean Dr., Lake Forest, CA 92630Tel: 949-859-8866. http: //www.entrega.cornEstimated street price: $159.99

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3040 Oakmeed Village Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051Tel: 800-800-3321. http: //www.sharkmm.cornEstimated street price: $120This is the tiniest modem we have everseen. It is translucent green plastic like thenew iMac computers, but is only compati-ble with Windows PCs, If your laptop does-n't have an internal modem and you needyour PC Card slots, this is a good choice.

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See our review "Great sounds from MSspeaker system" in the May issue of TheComputer Paper, or check out the back issueon our Web site for a full review of this sys-tem. The long and short of it is this productwill amaze your ears.

Microsoft SideWlnder Came PadFrom: Microsoft Canada300-90 Metheson Blvd. W, Mississauga, ON LSR 3R3http: //www.microsoft corn/canada/Estimated street price: $109Although rather limiting, for the rightgame (Motorcycle Madness), this game padis very cool. You can steer simply by tiltingthe pad from side to side.

Smart One USB $6K ModemFrom; Best Data Products lnc.19748 Dearborn St., Chetsworth, CA 91311Tel: 818-773-9600. http: //www.bestdata.cornEstimated retail price: $149

Another translucent green peripheral, theBelkin four-port hub is inexpensive andlooks good to boot.

PageScanUSBThis is a great little product. However, itsmanufacturer, Storm Technology, has goneout of business,

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four-port hub with purchase of a USB 56Kmodem in select cities in Canada and theU.S. until the end of June. A companyspokesman told us there was a very highlikelihood that the offer would be availableafter that date.

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In the home, a tabloid printer can becalled on to produce a number of personalprojects, including maps, posters, signs orenlargements of photographs. These printerstake up more space than a letter-size inkjet,so the physical size may be an importantvariable when considering if you want onefor home use.

In this article, we look at three tabloidinkjet printers. This is not meant as a head tohead comparison, since these are very differ-ent products designed with different users inmind.

The Xerox DocuPrint C20, for example, isvery much like the letter-size inkjet printeryou may already be familiar with, except thatit has been stretched to accommodatetabloid-size paper. It would be suitable as ahome or small office printer, offering a goodcombination of image quality, affordableprice, and decent speed.

The Hewlett-Packard 2500C, on the otherhand, is designed and built for office work,and isn't really intended to be used in ahome or home office. It has the highest dutycycle of the printers mentioned here, thelargest capacity for paper and big, individualcolor ink cartridges. It is the speed demon ofthe group, but is also the heaviest and occu-pies the most space.

Epson's Color Stylus 3000 is designedspecifically to be used by graphic artists as acolor "comping" tool. It can't match thehigh monthly print volumes the HP 2500C iscapable of, but it has the best color accuracyright out of the box, offering users a highdegree of control over the color characteris-tics. It also supports a wide variety of mediamade by Epson, including 17x44-inch ban-ner paper and transparent stock for backlitsignage.

Xerox DocuPrint C20From: Xerox CanadaTel: 600-275-9376. hitp 1/www.xerox.caEstimated street price: $1,199 ($1,799 for the NC20)

Xerox calls the DocuPrint C20 a smallworkgroup printer, but it is probably bettersuited as a personal printer. A similarmodel, the NC20 is a better choice for net-work use for two reasons. An Ethernetadapter is standard on the NC20, while it isan extrawost option on the C20. The NC20also comes with more standard memory.The rest of the specifications are the samefor both models.

The C20 is rated at up to eight pages perminute (ppm) for black and up to 4 ppm forcolor, both in draft mode. Image resolution is600x600 dots per inch (dpi), while anenhanced setting will produce what Xeroxcalls "1,200 image quality." We found that

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Tabloid inhjets for blei PrintsContinued from page 28for printing typical office documents, suchas letters, spreadsheets, and charts, the imagequality was very good even on the standardsetting. Text-enly documents could be print-ed in just a few seconds when the C20 wasset to draft mode, and the printing was quiteacceptable,

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A year or two ago, we would have beenastounded by the photo output of this print-er. However, technology moves on, andwhile its photographic print quality is verygood, other tabloid printers in this roundupdid a better job. The C20 produced the dark-est and most contrasty print of a photo-

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The C20 uses a tw~artridge ink system,but offers the option of sixxolor printing ifyou substitute the black ink cartridge with aphoto cartridge. Rendering of photographicimages improves with the Photo cartridge,which provides a more subtle rendering of

tones, completely eliminating the faintbanding that was occasionally visible whenusing the main color cartridge with the blackcartridge.

Spot color printing was also quite goodon this printer, although printing pages ofmixed text and colors can be quite slowwhen the printer is set to the highest resolu-tion, as we discovered when we printed out16 bar charts for a report the boss needed"right away."

The menu panel has some odd andannoying arrangements. For example, thechange cartridge button, which moves theprinthead to an accessible area of the printer,is in the Tests menu, rather than in theSupplies menu, which would be a more logi-cal spot for it,

Of the three, the Xerox is most like astretched version of a letter-size inkjet, withcomparable basic dimensions (apart fromwidth). The Xerox has a $5.8x44.5 cm(22x17.5 in.) footprint, is 24.6 cm (9.7 in.jhigh, weighs just 9 kg (20 lb.), and it wouldfit well in a home office.

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inkjet printers. In fact, one of TCP's free-lancers declined an invitation to review theunit because it was just too big for his homeoffice. It stands 33.7 cm (13.3 in.) tall andoccupies 68.5x73.6 cm (27x29 in.) of desksurface, while weighing in at 27 kg (60 lb.).

This size gives it extra capacity to shinein an office environment, however. The twopaper trays hold a total of 400 sheets ofpaper, while a third tray, which also acts asthe output bin, holds another 10 sheets. The

trays will accept paper up to 13x19 inches,allowing for full-bleed tabloid printing.

The beefiness of this printer extends tothe cartridges. Here, we find four big indi-v idual cartridges — they look l ike l i t t leflasks — for cyan, magenta, yellow and black.These were introduced on HP's 2000 model.As part of HP's Smart Printing Technologyeach print head/cartridge includes a chipthat indicates when each of the cartridges isrunning low on ink.

The duty cycle for this printer is rated at12,000 pages per month, more than doublethat of the Docuprint. The 2500C is also oneof the fastest inkjets we' ve tested. It is ratedat up to 9 ppm (draft setting, black). Alongwith the big print cartridges, it has largerprint heads that provide a wider print swath.This contributes to increased printing speed.Even for high-resolution color photo output,the printing times were surprisingly fast.

Image quality is also very good. Theprinter uses HP's image enhancement tech-nology called PhotoRet II color layering.While the printer is rated at 600x600 dpi, thedot pattern looks finer than on the similarlyrated Xerox DocuPrint C20. However, we diddetect some fine banding in the mid-tones ofthe test photographs.

Like the Xerox product, the HP 2500C isclassed as a workgroup printer but requiresthe purchase of a network card to be used ona network. If you intend to install this print-er on a network, you might consider the HP2500 CM model, which costs more, but hasnetworking built in.

Epson Color Stylus 3000From Epson Canada800-463-7766htip://www.epson.cornSuggested retail price $2,299

Tabloid Ink)ets for big printsContinued from page 30

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Like the HP 2500C, the Stylus 3000 is big,so if you are contemplating it for your home-based studio, remember that you' ll needalmost a metre of desk space for the printer.It has an 81x56.5 cm (32x22.3 in.) footprint,is 24 cm (9.4 in.) high, and weighs 17.2 kg(37.8 lb.).

The Stylus 3000 also uses large, individ-ual ink cartridges. The color cartridges arerated at 2,100 letter-size copies, while theblack cartridge is good for 3,800 pages (bothat 360 dpi and five percent ink coverage).

The paper bin will hold up to 17x23-inchpaper, although the printer will accommo-date continuous tractor-feed paper or bannerrolls. The Stylus will print up to 17x44-inchsheets. Epson makes a broad range of papersfor the Stylus 3000, including a transparentstock for pfinting out a graphic for use in anilluminated sign. The printer software willreverse the image so it looks right whenviewed through the transparent stock.

This printer can be used as a personalgraphics tool, or one that might serve a smallstudio. A proofing system needs to offercolor accuracy and control. To test this

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Tabloid inklets for big printsContinued fronr page 34aspect of the printers, we created a file con-taining 25 Pantone CMYK color swatches,printed it out on each of the printers, andcompared the printout to the Pantoneswatch book. Given the Epson's focus as acolor graphics system, it is not surprisingthat of the three printers, the Stylus renderedthe colors most faithfully right out of thebox.

Out of the box is probably not the way agraphic artist would want to use this printer,though, so Epson includes color adjustmentsettings for altering the brightness, contrastand saturation settings for the individualc yan, m agenta a n d yel l o w ink s ,Alternatively, users can select presets thatoptimize the output for specific circum-stances, such as photorealistic color, or toincrease the contrast of images taken with adigital camera. The software supports ICMunder Windows and ColorSync under theMac OS.

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andkeyboards, but we should as theseperipherals can make the difference

between pleasant and painful computing

ith all the hoopla surroundingnewly accessible technologies likeDYD, CD-RW and scanners, little

attention has been paid to what are arguablythe most crucial devices attached to our com-puters: our mouse and keyboard.

Mouse and keyboard makers, however,realize the importance of these peripheralsand have been steadily working behind thescenes to create a whole new generation ofpointers and boards to make our computingexperiences ever more efficient and pleasant.So it is time to take a serious look at the meatand potatoes of interacting with o~stems.

MiceMice have evolved significantly from the sin-gle-button Mac mouse of yore through two-and even three-button variations. And varia-tion is the key to mouse husbandry thesedays as manufacturers have not only addedfeatures but moved the activation buttons tosome pretty curious locations on the anato-my of their mice.

Of course, it is still possible to buy micewith the standard two or three buttons posi-

tioned where your first, secondand third fingers might fall.But it is becoming more com-mon to find ostensibly moreergonomic mice on which the

buttons are positioned forthe thumb, forefingeror even palm of thehand.

designs the introduc-tion of a scrolling

"wheel," textured andgrip~oated buttons, and

interfaces such as serial, PS/2,USB and cordless, and you have a dizzyingarray of choices. It's no surprise then thatprices can vary from $15 to more than $100for this erstwhile basic device.

Cordless technology'Cordless mice have yet to gain any real pop-ularity in spite of the fact that so many peo-ple say they'd love to reduce the number ofcables and wires connecting to their comput-ers. But cordless technology, when applied to,any peripheral, creates drawbacks most con-sumers aren't yet prepared to undertake.

The most common version of cordlesstechnology currently is infrared (IR), whichoperates on the same principle as mostTV/VCR remote controls. The trouble withinfrared, however, Is that it requires a clear"line of sight" to work. The sending device(mouse, keyboard, printer, etc.) must have an

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unimpeded direct line to the receiving unitor the infrared signal won't get through.

So„ if you' re in the habit of moving yourmouse widely around your desk, for exam-ple, the pointer on the screen will stopresponding as soon as you' ve hit an angle, ordistance, beyond the capabilities of thereceiver. Placing a book or other item onyour desk between the sender and receiverwill also cut off communication.

However, this limitation has been largelyalleviated by the more recent introduction ofradio-frequency (RF) cordless technologywhich does not require a line of sightbetween sender and receiver. Plus, the issuesof angle and range are essentially eliminatedbecause radio waves transmit radially.

However, both IR and RF technologiesrequire that a receiving unit be hooked upto the computer so, though you mighthave eliminated the cord between yourmouse (or other peripheral) and yourcomputer, you introduce a new onefrom the computer to the receiving unit(another box that you must find spacefor on your work area).

Yet another drawback to both cord-less technologies is that the "cordless"half of the send/receive partnershiprequires batteries. While electronics engi-neers have created circuity that is increasing-ly power smart, batteries eventually fade anddie so you' ll need to always be prepared withspares for your cordless device or be willingto make unscheduled trips to the store.

But back to mice...Another thing to keep in mind when pur-chasing a new mouse is handedness. Major

models,

peripheral manufacturers, like logitech,have taken this into account and now pro-duce several syinmetrical nuce as well asdevices specifically for right- or left-handedusers. In most cases, mouse-control softwareallows you to customize the button andwheel functions to accommodate user idio-syncrasies to some degree. However, leftieswill always have a more limited choice of

On a slightly more specialized note, a fewmanufacturers have come up with specialmice for portable users, perhaps in recogni-tion of the fact that many notebookers areunhappy with the pointing devices built into their machines. The two most popular arethe "joystick" type, familiar to IBM andToshiba notebook users, and the touch-padtype, familiar to almost everyone else. I haveused both extensively and find that they areequally effective after some practice.

Many consumers, however, dislike themand end up purchasing an external mouse ortrackball to do the job. Mice and trackballsspecially made for use with portables areessentially the same as desktop models buthave a shorter cord and, often, software thatreduces the degree of motion necessary totraverse the screen.

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a mouse — around with your finger.Trackbails have been around for almost as

long as mice but remain far less popularbecause, as with integrated pointing devicesin portables, they take some time to get usedto. They are also slightly more expensivethan mice, starting at around $80 and reach-ing upwards of $150.

There are several reasons why trackballsmerit serious consideration. The most obvi-ous is that they remain stationary, whichfrees up valuable desktop real estate for otheruses. Their stationary nature also allows engi-neers to build a lot more variation into theirdesign and configuration, so users are morelikely to find a combination of body design,ball placement, ball size and button place-ment to ideally suit their tastes.

As with mice, ergonomics have played asignificant role in the design of trackbails.Body design can vary from long, slender andundulating to wide and corpulent. You' llfmd less variation in ball placement, which issituated for rolling with the index finger onthe majority of trackballs. However, some are

designed so the ball can be manipulated

hand.There seems to be an infinite vari-

ety of ball sizes, but the rule of (ahem)thumb is that larger balls gather moremomentum and are easier to roll.They also require less rotation tocover more screen area. Some users,however, find smaller baBs to be eas-ier to maneuver and more precise

(for neophytes, on-screen accuracycan initially be a very frustrating aspect

of trackbaII use).Finally, button placement is almost as

varied as body design. Genuflecting onceagain to ergonomics, designers have come upwith multiple variations of button size anddesign with nearly every arrangement actual-ly making sense. What they all share is thatthe buttons and scrolling wheel quite natu-rally lie beneath one digit or another.

Contfnued on page 44

Other mousevariations to watch for are models for begin-ners and children. These are basic units withfew refinements or very large buttons forneophytes and little hands.

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Getting back to the basics of inputContinued from page 41However, you might find that the leftwlickbutton is under your thumb on one modelbut under your index finger on another.Some trackballs even make the ball itself a

shapes, other tailored features can includetilt, wrist rests of varying design and compo-sition and even dimensions — some boardsare specifically designed to maximize deskspace while maintaining full-sized keys.

Though rare, it is still possible to findkeyboards that have a built-in pointingdevice. The most common among theseemploy a trackball or joystick-type con-troller. However, these not only increase thesize of the board, they are usually miniatur-ized to fit onto the board and are less satis-factory than separate full-sized pointer

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button by suspending it on springs so it clickswhen pressed down. This variety of designmeans almost everyone can find a version toideally suit their needs, wants or habits.

As with mice, trackballs come in both fla-vors of cordless (IR and RF). And they are farbetter suited to these technologies than micebecause they are stationary. Line-of-sight canstill be a a problem if you put something onyour desk between an IR sender and receiver,but angle and range aren't an issue. Dealingwith batteries and accommodating receivingunits somewhere on your desk, however, arestill issues.

devices.

Keyboard 'feel'It is also important to test the "travel andfeedback" of a keyboard. Travel is the dis-tance each key moves when you hit it. It haslong been possible to make keyboards withzero travel (like a touch-pad) but consumertesting has established that most people likekeys to have some travel. Conversely, toomuch travel — especially if the user has neverused a typewriter — can slow down typing orforce errors.

Feedback is the combination of tactileand aural sensations the user gets while typ-ing. Compaq once tested a completely silentkeyboard but, as with zero travel, nobodyliked it because there was no aural confirma-tion that a letter had been typed. Compaqended up building in an artificial "click" foreach keystroke to correct this. The soundand feel of a keyboard can greatly influencenot only comfort of typing but the ability totype well.

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suffer from the same technological draw-backs. However, at least with RF technology,users can type from various positions and atany distance from the monitor to increasetyping comfort. An RF cordless keyboardwith an RF cordless trackball would be anideal combination for those to whom com-fort is paramount and cost is no object. 0

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Electronic ink is real ink on paper or a sim-ilarly thin display. But the ink can be changedjust like letters on a computer screen. Onegoal is of electronic ink is to make a book thatlooks and feels exactly like today's books,except that its contents can be changed bydownloading new material onto the paper.

The concept seemed far-fetched just ayear ago. "It's come from an experiment in achemistry lab to a clearly defined product,"

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The first sign, in the sports clothingdepartment of a Marlborough, Mass., Penneystore, is about as thick as the brim of a base-ball cap and consumes less energy than alight bulb.

To a shopper, it looks like a large printedsign. But every few seconds the sign changes.Unlike a typical electronic display, E Ink'slooks the same from any angle and in anylight, J.C. Penney technology manager EdSample says.

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urocom promotes the 8500-CT5 as adesktop replacement notebook, so it' sprobably appropriate to start by noting

what kind of a desktop it aims to replace. Themodel reviewed sports a 433 MHz Celeronprocessor (a mobile Pentium II processor isavailable in a similarly configured model, the8500-IrT5). The unit has a truly gorgeous15.1-inch active matrix screen, which pro-vides 1,024x768 resolution and about thesame viewable area as a typical 17-inch desk-top monitor. In the notebook equivalent of adesktop unit's ATI Rage Pro-based graphicscard, the 858KT5 (and ils cousin the PT5)includes 8 MB of video RAM, complete withvid~ a p ture and TVwut capabilities silnilarto those found in ATI's AII4n-Wonder Pro.

It includes two RAM slots (one of whichwas filled in our 128 %&equipped test unit),plus a 6 GB hard drive, an LS-120 SuperDrivedrive (which reads and writes to standardfloppies and 120 MB SuperDisks) and a DVD-ROM drive — all of which were interna. Thenotebook has ports for USB devices, stereoaudio (based on the Maestro chipset), twoCardbus slots and a pair of PS/2 ports.

The 850MZS doesn't include a gameport, so you'd have to add one via the PCCard slot, or preferably, do away with thegame port altogether and connect a joystickto the USB port. Silnilarly, if you prefer amouse over the unit's built-in trackpad, youcan easily add one via the USB or P5/2 ports.Our test unit didn't indude a 56Kbps faxmo-dem, but you can plug one into the USB orPC Card ports, or pay Eurocom an extra $280to install an internal modem.

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Details are available at the Eurocom Web site.

Eurocom sells a number of upgradeoptions. You can add a second hard drive (inthe floppy bay), a Zip drive, a port replicator,or extra Lithium Iion batteries. Although the433 MHz Celeron CPU is cunently the top ofthe line, other models can upgrade the CPU,RAM (to 384 MB) and hard drive. Dependingon the configuration you choose, you maybe able to upgrade one or all of these things.

You can also extend the warranty by up to 24months at the time of original pulchase foran additional S200 per year.

Screen and vfdeo captureThe 8500-CT5 screen supports up to 24-bitcolor (with 16-bit, 8-bit and 4-bit modes alsoavailable). On this model, switching resolu-tions is possible and doesn't result in chunkyand uneven text (which was a complaint wehad with Eurocom's 1100 notebook, andmany other 1998-era models). The text dis-play scales to other resolutions using whatappears to be a built-in anti-aliasing algo-rithm that looks great. If you want to hookup an external momtor, you can "mirror"the display, or shut off the internal LCDentirely.

The 85 MT5's video capture capabilityis a unique feature for a notebook, but don' texpect ioo much. A 640x480 capture of adean signal from a Matrox Marvel 6200-TVby the unit's RCA video-input jack was quitepoor. Fortunately, captures in the highest-resolution (1,024x768) mode captures werequite acceptable for most uses.

girives and power managementHaving both DVD and floppy drives builtinto the drive bay is a beneftt for thosewho've ever tried to install an operating sys-tem, such as Windows NT, or other applica-tion that requires both floppy and opticaldrives.

Battery life, however, was so-so. The fullycharged battery ran out 110 minutes into amovie we were playing on the DVD drive-right at the climax of the movie.

The unit ships with a "hibernate mode"activatt«d„which automatically saves all yourwork and system status to a file before shut-ting down.

We found the 6 GB drive to be noisierthan those found in most other notebooks. Ittended to make high-pitched beeping noisesas its heads moved — sounds that were louderthan any of the hard drives in nearby desk-top units. You might want to check this withEurocom if you are considering a purchase orcompare the sound with that of a 3 GB drive(our review drive may have been unusuagynoisy).

«onclugionAs its huge screen and full~ize keyboard dic-tate, this is one of the largest of notebookson the market. Still, it brings an unprece-dented level of portability — and expandabil-ity — to the notebook user. It is a viablereplacement for a desktop PC at the home oroffice. 0« •

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Windows 2000 Professionaland Server betaVersion: testing build 2031 of beta 3 (April '99}.Summary: Plug and Play and capabilities come toWindows NT, bol molbmadia support is lacking.Estimated price: $100

w e installed Windows 2000 on sev-eral machines, including one witha minimal configuration (a 150

MHz Pentium PC with 32 MB of RAM and a1.2 GB drive) to test Microsoft's claimed min-imum hardware requirements for this oper-ating system.

found that Windows 2000 had enabled"generic television" output for this ATI card'sTV out jack. A browse through the driversrevealed that ATI cards are well supported-the list even included drivers for the unre-leased (at press time) Rage 128 models.

Our second test machine was a CompaqPresario 1920 portable. On this system,Windows 2000 issued severalwarnings,cit-ing incompatibilities with the IDE controller,APM battery manager, and even ourFlashCard TrueFFS PCMCIA flash RAMcard — all of which worked fine underWindows 9x. We elected not to i nstallWindows 2000 on this unit, as a result.

Our other test units didn't fare so well,either. The third test system we tried was a166 MHz Pentium PC based on an Asus P5A-8 motherboard, which includes built-inCMI8330A sound hardware. Windows 2000didn't support this, either, nor did it like theunit's Adaptec 1542CF SCSI interface, whichis not exactly an obscure model and wasincluded in Microsoft's hardware compatibil-ity list. However, we successfully tested bothVoodoo Banshee and Permedia 2 graphicscards on this machine.

We then installed Windows 2000 on adual-processor machine based on a Legend-QDI BrillianX IV motherboard. We tested

this system both before and after a BIOSupgrade that added ACPI (AdvancedConfigurable Power Interface) compatibility,with interesting results. Before the ACPIupgrade, Windows 2000 installed withoutincident (except for the behaviors listed inthe notes on installation), However, after aflash EEPROM update that refreshed theBIOS to a date later than 01/01/99 (an arbi-trary date Microsoft uses to determinewhether a machine is or isn't ACPI capable),the installer repeatedly froze moments afterthe Setup program started its process, We hadto disable ACPI functions by modifying atext string in Windows 2000's setup informa-tion file to get the system to work.

To disable ACPI BIOS detection (which iseasiest if the required directories are firstcopied to your hard drive):1 . Modify the f i l e t x tsetup.sif in t h e

Windows 2000 Setup folder.2. Change the line "ACPIEnable= 2" to

"ACPIEnabie = 0". Save.3. Install Windows 2000.

Both before and after the BIOS update,several components on this system had a fewdifficulties with Windows 2000. Using a seri-al mouse caused the installer to crash duringPlug and Play device detection. Substituting

a PS/2 mouse solved this problem, The sys-tem induded an Adaptec AIC-7880 SCSI con-troller, connected to a Panasonic DVD-RAMdrive and a Sanest270 MB removable drive.All was well, although the Windows 2000DVD player cautioned us that it required ahardware or software decoder to play backDVD movies — having the drive alone wasn' tenough. A Matrox Marvel G200-TV graphicscard worked as a graphics adapter only — itsTV-out jack was not supported, and thevideo-capture software supplied by Matroxfor use with NT 4.0 caused the system tocrash hard when we attempted to quit thecapture program.

This conflguration gave us no other com-patibility warnings. (Of course, that doesn' tmean it was telling the truth. When weinserted a 5.2 GB data disc into the DVD-RAM drive, our attempts to read or write to itfailed, resulting in an "incorrect function"error message.) This unit was also configuredwith a Sound Blaster Live! card, a parallel-port Travan tape backup and a parallel-con-nected Hewlett-Packard 7110e CD Writer.None of these units were supported and, infact, the NT 4.0 drivers for the 7110e alsocaused a nasty "blue screen of death" crash.(An article at htfp;//betanews.corn details possi-ble workarounds for the Souiid

On this system, we installed an ATI All InWonder Pro graphics card, a Sound Biaster 32sound card and a 3Com network card. Notsurprisingly, we found the company's claimsthat "hardware requirements have notchanged since NT 4.0" to be unrealistic. Themachine was very sluggish when applica-tions were loaded onto the bare OS.Interestingly, though, the Display Propertiescontrol panel said the machine had "multi-ple displays," Upon closer inspection, we

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Bhster Live! and the MX300, although it cau-tions that such fixes shouldn't be tried onmultipmcessor PCs and, in fact, it didn' twork for us.)

This desktop system also included a PCCard adapter with a Future Domain SCSI2GoPC Card, which apparently would haveworked, but Windows 2000 complained thatit was out of interrupts. A look at the DeviceManager in Windows 2000 revealed anotherproblem: both serial ports were listed as hav-ing a conflict. (The system — Identically con-figured — worked fine under Windows 98.)IDK hard drives and CD-ROMs on all sys-tems, however, were identified correctly. Welater managed to get the PC Card adapterworking by disabling one of our serial ports,freeing up an interrupt. It's worth mention-ing that our tests reflect the results on thisparticular machine — you may, indeed, beable to use a serial mouse or two serial ports(etc.) on your system.

With a growing sense of unease, wemoved on to a 450 MHz Pentium II systembased on an Abit BH6 motherboard, with anAMD PCNet Ethernet adapter, Adaptec 1505SCSI card, Canopus Spectra 2500 graphicscard (using the nVidia TNT chip), a Voodoo2game card (with NT 4.0 dnvers from CreativeLabs' Web site) and a Terratec KWS64 XLsound card. Windows 2000 reported compat-ibility problems with the Terratec product,but seemed to like the other components,

Lastly, we tested a mainstream machinebased on an AOpen AX59Pro motherboard(with USB and ACPI support) configuredwith a 266 MHz Pentium CPU, 64 MB ofRAM, an Adaptec 151OA SCSI controller,

Plextor SCSI CD-ROM drive, ATI Rage Prographics card, 3Com 10/100-BaseT networkcard, and a Creative Labs AWK64 sound card.Windows 2000 reported no problems, butafter restarting, complained it couldn't find aCD-ROM drive and could not continue.Repladng the CD-ROM drive with an IDEmodel was necessary to complete the instal-lation. On this machine, Windows 2000complained again that the COM 1 and COM2 ports had trouble finding needed resources.Again, we had shared an IRQ between themwithout difficulties under Windows 98.Apparently, Windows 2000 doesn't like this.Setting the IRQ allocations to Auto in theCMOS setup solved the problem.

The lesson we learned from our variousinstallation atteinpts is t hat W indows2000= even with its large library of support-ed devices — can be trickier than Windows 98or 95 to configure. Using mainstream hard-ware and standard configurations seems tobe one method of siinplifying the process.

InatallatlessThe most convenient way to install Windows2000 is to simply boot from the CD-ROM.This requires a computer with a'BIOS thatsupports this feature, but it makes the instal-lation more convenient than the "three-flop-py" boot process required by previous ver-sions of NT (and OS/2), Microsoft says it isalso possible to install the system over a net-work using a single boot floppy.

We entered our PC's CMOS setup screen(typically, you can do this by premng DEL atstartup time) and, from the Boot Order sec-tion, selected CD-ROM as the boot device.

After saving these settings and restartingwith the Windows 2000 disc in the drive, itbooted directly into the Setup program.

From there, we were prompted to choosewhether to reformat or convert our system'sblank FAT-formatted hard drive as NTFS orleave it as is. We elected to leave it as FAT, tomaxunize our options, although Micirmoftmaintains that new features in Windows2000, including new partitioning tools anddefrag functions, minimize the need to keepa FAT partition. Although Windows 2000supports NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16, severalother PC operating systems, including DOSand the original release of Windows 95, onlysupport FAT16.

Fmm there, Windows 2000 booted quick-ly into a graphical mode, where it installedWindows security features, device driversand the various components needed forWorkstation-mode operation. After about ahalf hour and three restarts, the setup pro-gram was done and the system was usable.

Windows 2000 Server beta 3 requires aminimum of 708 MB of free disk space; theWorkstation version ( W indows 2000Professional) about 100 MB less, with a stan-dard instauation occupymg 535 MB on afreshly formatted hard drive.

Sisal bootWe also tested an installation on a machinethat had Windows 95 preinstalled. Bootingfrom the CD-ROM automatically installedWindows 2000 as a dual-boot configuration.In a separate test, we found that inserting theWindows 2000 disc in the Windows 95 envi-ronment and choosing the "install" option

produced the same result. Alternately,Windows 9x users can "upgrade" their exist-ing operating system, replacing it withWindows 2000, while retaining their existingappfication installation settings. In the eventof a clean installation of Windows 2000, allapplications must be reinstalled (theoretical-ly, at least — we found a number of apps ddn'tneed re-installation) and user settings re-entered.

In the case of an upgrade, the Windows2000 setup program prompts you to providesoftware and hardware upgrade files, if any.It will also search for Incompatible hardware,software and settings, and create an upgradereport that you can print or save, Users ranalso connect to an upgrade support page atMicrosoft's Web site during this process.

In general, we recommend configuringWindows 2000 (or NT, for that matter) todual-boot on your system to minimize com-patibility headaches. As noted above, a sig-nificant number of device drivers and soft-ware applications are currently incompati-ble. Until you determine if any such issuesexist for your system, retaining the option toselect your previous operating system is thesafest course of action.

It is also possible to install Windows 98after Windows 2000 is installed, with noapparent problems. We installed Windows98 to a different directory and, when we weredone, we could select the desired operatingsystem from a dual-boot screen at startuptime. Both worked welL (fhis doesn't work ifyou convert your hard drive to NTFS duringthe Windows 2000 installation.)

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Windows 98 — especially if they' ve alreadydownloaded Internet Explorer 5.0.

Following are some of the upgrades toexisting features of Window's 98:

Internet Explorer 5.0 (IKS): Microsoft'slatest browser update is its fastest yet~full 86 percent faster than NetscapeNavigator 4.5 at accessmg cached pages,Microsoft includes the standard 40-bitencryption version of the browser with theupgrade. However, Windows 98 ownerscan easily obtain the 128-bit encryptionversion via the Windows Update feature.Even without the update, the 40-bit ver-sion indudes Server Gated Cryptography(SGC) technology, which allows you toconduct 128-bit transactions with intema-tional banks and hnancial institutions.Incidentally, you can upgrade a Windows98 system that already has IES installedwith no ill effects.

• I nternet Connection Sharing: With thisfeature, Windows 98 can share anInternet connection. Once one computeris set as the "server" and connected to theInternet, any computer on an internalLAN may use that machine's connectionto browse the Internet. No setup isrequired on the client machines.

• DirectX 6.1: Drawing heavily from ideaspioneered by Apple's QuickTime software,Microsoft's DirectX 6.1 includes a numberof APIs (application programming inter-faces) that allow programmers to moreeasily add features such as 3D spatializedsound, hardware or software-based 3Dacceleration, and other services to 32-bitWindows programs. Direct3D, for exam-ple, allows programs such as games or 3Dviewers to use a standard set of 3D func-tion calls to ease the complex task of pro-gramming 3D graphics. DirectInput doesthe same thing for input devices like ana»

Iogue or digital Ioysticks or game pads.DirectShow ( formerly known a sActiveMovie) and DirectSound performsimilar tasks for video and audio. DirectX6.1 includes bump-mapping technologyfrom TriTech Microelectronics and inter-active music and downloadable soundsets via DirectMusic.

Ivy fixesIn February, Microsoft acknowledged a bug

was discovered in Windows 95 and 98 thatlocks up a machine after 49. 7 days of consec-utive use, The bug's fix (also available on theMicrosoft Web site) is built into Windows 98SE, along with fixes for a number of otherissues. Overall, om' upgraded system seems alittle snappier, and so far seems to be verystable.

The following features are also new inWindows 98 SE:• NetMeeting 3: This program is rapidly

becoming the whiteboard and videocon-ferencing tool of choice. Version 3.0makes big changes to the interface andimproves performance noticeably.

• Advanced Configuration and Po~erInterface (ACPI): Support for ACPImight actually lead to some power-savingbenefits now that most newer BIOSes()an. 1 or later) have ACPI code that isn' tfull of bugs. Of course, the probability ofthis depends on whether your video cani,network card, etc., will "wake up" prop-erly after ACPI-induced sleep.

• IREE 1394 (HreWire): Support for1394/USB CD-ROMs, discs, and opticaldiscs is now standard. That's probably agood thing, as now Intel says it will sup-port the technology (despite earlier flip-flops). Support for Device Bay andWindows Driver Model (WDM) modemsare also provided. (Contrary to reportswe' ve read elsewhere, however, we couldfind no evidence of built-in support forthe Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Live onthe Windows 98 SK disc.)

• USB: Support for USB is apparentlyenhanced, although we could detect noobvious c hanges. A rep o r t atActiveWindows.corn, however, says thisupgrade addresses a problem that occa-sionally cropped up when USB deviceswere plugged in.

• WebTV: The WebTV viewer is enhanced.• Windows networking: This now

includes Virtual Private Networking(VPN) services, which allow secure net-work access, file sharing, and more, overInternet connections.

• Updated Windows fonts: This upgradenow supports the Euro currency symbol.

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One test that was spectacularly unsuc-cessful was our attempt to install Windows2000 on one rnachine, then move the harddrive to another PC — a fairly common eventhere at the TCP Test Labs. We pulled thehard drive from the 166 MHz Pentium sys-tem and moved it to a machine configuredwith the same graphics card, keyboard, andmouse, and 40 MB RAM, a Sound Blaster 32sound card, a different IDK CD-ROM drive,an Asus 440FX motherboard and a 200 MHzPentium Pro processor — a fairly similarmachine. We were surprised when Windows2000 crashed hard, refused to boot, andreturned a "boot configura'tion haschanged" error message. Those familiar withWindows 95 or 98 know that these operat-ingsystems generally handle this sort of

I iiiemoiy usage,oI. individual: p'r o-"to,system page faults. An integrated'i

change with aplomb. Unfortunately,Microsoft apparently has no intention ofsupplying this functionality in the finalrelease.

Better PLL controlSoftware compatibility, in our tests, was notas much of a problem. We performed in-depth tests of several programs known to"mess with the system," including internetExplorer 5.0, Microsoft Office 2000,QuickTime 4.0, and 3D Studio MAX.Windows 2000 handled them all withoutincident, although it warned that Quickrime"may introduce problems with the Windows2000 control panel."

Windows 2000, Microsoft says, preventsapplications from replacing coresystem DLLfiles. This should make the operating systemmore robust, although it is expected that

server.

Microsoft provides an option to uninstallWindows 98 SE and roll back your computerto the previous operating system. This took110 MB of disk space on our test system,which was running the original release ofWindows 98 before the upgrade.

Also on the Wlnrfows 9$ SK CO• Microsoft's Personal Web Server, which is

pretty lame and doesn't even supportuser authentication of FTP functionality.

• Both 16- and 32-bit Citrix dients foraccessing Citrix's WinFrame terminal

• A tonne of Microsoft marketing material.• Trial versions of several Microsoft games,

induding Golf 99, Age of Empires,Motocross Madness, Money, MonsterTruck Madness, and Pinball Arcade.

• In the drivers directory, you' ll find a pro-gram for enabling or disabling the infa-mous serial number built into everyPeritluln IH processor

• New drivers for a wide array of new hard-ware, including the Voodoo Banshee,Matmx G200, and most recent Epsonand Hewlett-Packard printers (unfortu-nately, not the trouble-prone 722C).The old Microsoft Fax program is stilllurking in a directory called "oldwin95."

• There are a few other uNities in the Toolsdirectory. However, they were includedin previous Windows 98 release, so wewon't discuss them here.

• WebTV for Windows, which, unfortu-nately, still sucks. On our 266 MHz testmachine, it t ook several secondsbetween mouse dicks to change chan-nels and the process of auto-detectingchannels during the initial setup is inter-minably slow.

VerdktIn the big scheme of things, this is a roughlyequivalent upgrade to the improvementsOSR2 represented to the original Windows95 release. We encountered no obvious prob-lems or difficulties during our upgrade, butno big payoff either.

We recommend Windows 98 SE for thosewho need Internet Connection Sharing, orwant IES but don't want to download it.Others may want to save their pennies forWindows 2000 instead. Q

compatibility with some applications (forexample, Novell Directory Services for NT)will be affected.

Avalladle for testingThe beta 3 version can be ordered fromhttp:llwww.microsoft,corn/windows/preview/order.asp. A list of what is included on the beta isalso available at the site.

In the weeks and months ahead, we' llpresent some more detailed informatiorr onthe beta 3 release and its successors. Untilthen, remember that, as Microsoft Corp.senior vice-president Jtm Allchin recentlynoted, "It still has lots of bugs, and that' swhy it's still a beta."

As with some other Microsoft beta releas-es, this version is a limited technical releasethat expires 444 days from the date of instal-lation. 0

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Of course, there is one thing that isn' tsmall about the CapShare: the price. For$1,295, you will probably expect a great dealfrom HP's latest brainwave — and it may well

deliver on those expectations. But rememberthat you are paying five to 10 times the priceof a flatbed scanner capable of a lot morethan the CapShare.

The CapShare will probably hold themost appeal for "early adoptersa of handheldtechnology who can convince someone else

to foot the bill. For the rest of us, however,the CapShare will probably have to remainthe kind of James Bond-style device that wecan only. dream of owning, until the pricedrops as new versions of this technologyinevitably appear.

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lt also includes the ability to "stitch"together parts of documents that are widerthan the scanner, ln our tests, this functionworked surprisingly well.

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There are other attractions, as well. Magixrepresentative, Petri Nauha, who optimistical-ly (and we think somewhat naively) character-ized the package as "'the first software to com-bine audio and video on a professional levelon the PC platform," notes that MMP is one ofthe few programs that can turn MPG moviesinto AVI files. This is an odd feature for amusic program to have, perhaps, but is veryuseful nonetheless. It can also convert MP3flies to various other formats if a suitable MP3codec is present on the system. In a pinch, thecompany says, the freely downloadableWinAmp can be used for this purpose.

MMP is suitable far professional multi-media producers, Web designers, musicians,directors, graphic designers, artists and oth-ers who want to add audio to presentations,Web sites or productions. As the companypromises, it lets these people be artists — not

'We found the program somewhat lessintuitive to use than Sonic Foundry's Acid,which has really been growing on us inrecent months. As well, the graphics-heavyinterface is a little sluggish at times, andthere were often glitches while moving win-dows around, even on our Pentium fi testsystem. The company says this issue and afew other bugs will be addressed with a freepatch, which it says should be available justafter press time. Acid, in contrast, ~orkedwithout a hiccup under similar situations onthe same systems.

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So<alled MOD players have existed formany years, having first appeared backin the early days of the Amiga and Atari

Sl' (in fact, Darren Schebek wrote the firstknown sample player for the Atari ST III themid '80s while working for the author of thisarticle). The MOD files played snippets ofdigital audio in sequences, designed tosound like continuous waveforms — butwithout, of course, the enormous disk andmemory requirements of waveform files.

Indeed, such software players were com-puter counterparts to hardware devices onthe market that performed similar sample-p lapback tasks: the Fairlight CMI andSynclavier at the high end, aIId instrumentslike the EMU Emulator and the KILloniq

„Mirage at the low end.By the late '80s, sample players were

common in the musical instrument market,as companies sudI as Korg, Yamaha, Roland,and others quickly advanced the state of theart. Korg was a trendsetter with its Ml ,which added digital effects units that greatlyimproved the tone of the samples played.And now, all these innovations and morehave now found their way into computersoftware sample players.

BIiXman StudiO PrOFrom: Mixmanhttp: //www.mlxman.cornSuggested retail price: US$89Mixman Studio Pro is a product that uses theDJ/record player metaphor for mixing audiotracks. Like Sonic Foundry's ACID {below), itcan automatically match the beat, pitch andtempo of samples and loops, making itremarkably easy to develop a mix from a col-lection of samples.

In our tests, Studio Pro exhibited someannoyances, particularly an apparent bugwhich caused an occasional "giitchs soundthat was not in the original source record-ings. The steps involved III loading up to 16instruments seemed clumsy; As well, wefound it fairly inconvenient to alter thepitch of sections — a process that involvedswitching between the sequencer and trackeditor portions of the program.

Studio Pro allows you to Anon-destruc-tivelys add effects (reverb, wah-wah, andmore) to your sounds. Unlike some pro-grams, Studio Pro can apply up to 80 multi-effects presets — a feat that would be impossi-ble on even the most powerful computerswhen running a real-time effects "virtual stu-dios environment such as Cubase VST orCakewalk Audio.

Studio Pro comes with a limited editionof Steinberg'a WaveLab for editing sounds,and a great collection of samples to get youstarted (more free samples are provided as anincentive to register). It allows yoLI to recordyour own loops, as well.

The program's easy interface makes it aIet of fun, and we really liked its exportoptions, which i n c lude ASF ( MP3),SoundFont (allowinIt you to create a collec-t ion of sound files that will act as MDI

instruments for Creative Labs Sound Blastercards), WAV, and the company's proprietaryTRK formats. At under US$100, it's worthpicking up.

ACIDFIOIII: SOIIIC Found(Yhttp:llwww.sonicfoun dry.cornPrice: US$399 full version, US$99 (trimmed-downversion), or USES (DJ or Rock versions)In addition to being the subject of one of themost dever and outrageous marketing cam-paigns in recent history, Sonic FouIIdry"sACID is a great program. At its introductionat Comdex Fall '98 in Las Vegas, groups ofconservatively dressed "zealots" stood withmegaphones outside the Sands ConventionCentre and cried "Don't let your kids tryACID! ACID is dangerous!" Elsewhere, bandsof tie-died "hippies'" passed out pamphlets forthe pIoduct, uttering slogans like "ACID iscool maIL Everybody should try ACID."Throughout the city, bumper stickers andbus-banners proclaimed "Beethoven nevertried ACID," and to top it off, there were anumber of what may best be described as slut-ty-looking rock chicks with their big hair,leather pants and electric guitar cases, embla-zoned with still more ACID promo stickers.

We tested the U()$49 DJ and Rock genre-specific versions of the program, and werevery impressed, despite some limitations. Thefull version of ACID, unlike the "style" ver-sions, isn't limited to eight tracks and it canadd digital signal processing effects. The inter-face for all versions, though, is simply great-completely convenient and natural to use,(We did, however, find Mixman Studio Pro'sreal-time recording of volume fades, panningand pitch alteration superior to ACID.)

WAV sounds can be previewed while anACID tune is playing, and adding tracks (Mloops is as simple as dragging and dropping.Sections of music can be drawn in anywhere,and it is easy to change volumes, pitch ortempo. Several hundred megabytes of sam-ples are provided with all versions of ACID.While it doesn't have as extensive an exportoI mixing capability as Mixman Studio Pro,its interface is a better music-making tool.

ACID is highly recommended.

LOOPlng neWSNot to be outdone, Cubase developerSteinberg has posted samples of its ownlooping extensions for Cubase in t heReCycle format. In addition, Steinberg andRocket Networks announced a new set ofextensions to the program that allow users tolink and share projects using the Internet asa live connection.

Steinberg also announced a new versionof ReCycle, the loop and groove sample edi-t or developed i n co n junction w i t hPropellerheads Software, makers of the pop-ular TR606/TB303 emulator, ReBirth.

The Steinberg and Propellerhead prod-ucts also have the distinction of being theonly ones mentioned here available on boththe PC and Mac platforms. 0

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a t er o e on er s i t s t u r eTORONTO, Ont. (NB) — Ten years after TunBemers-Lee conceived the idea of the WorldWide Web, it is nowhere near completed,and he hopes it never will be. Delivering thefirst keynote address at the eighth WorldWide Web Conference, held in Toronto inMay, to a crowd well beyond what the roomcould take comfortably, Berners-Lee saidthere is much stifl to be done to develop theglobal hypertext network.

"All that clapping and cheering we' vedone for ourselves is sort of like the clappingand cheering when a space shuttle blasts offfor Jupiter," he said.

He outlined some far-reaching ideasabout where the Web goes from here, and

also expressed some concerns about barriersthat are delaying that progress.

Berners-Lee said there is a need now fora "semantic Web" in which things can bedefined in ways that will be clear' to every-one.'That will help ensure that onlinetransactions and processes work reliably, hesaid, by iinposing some limits on what canbe done in a certain context At the sametime, he added, limited languages like thatwhich inight be used to process a banktransaction must be able to link into abroader language with almost unlimitedexpressive power.

The extensible markup language (XML)will play a major role in achieving this, he

said. XML is expected to be a major theme atthis conference.

Other elements of Berners-Lee's visioninclude searching that is intelligent enoughthat a query for a yellow car for sale inMassachusetts, for example, would success-fully find a primrose automobile listed forsale in Boston, and the ability for two peoplewho both have "write" access to a Web pageto edit it simultaneously and see the other' schanges immediately.

He also said adapting social mechanisms,such as voting, to the Web is interesting.Using the Web to facilitate sorial processesmight help raise the ethical level of society,he suggested. "Every few millennia we make

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OTTAWA (NB) — Both Canada and GreatBritain have taken a handcuff approach toInternet rqplation, at least for the time being.

In May, the Canadian Radio and

Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)backed off passing regulations that ~ouldimpose new restrictions on Internet use andcontent. Days later, the British Trade andIndustry Committee announced a similarconclusion in deciding not to enact the so-

"Our message is clear.Let me repeat that forthose of you who wereworried; the CRTC willnot regulate any por-tion of the Internet."

— I'rancoiSe Bertrand,CRTC chairperson

called "'key escrow" law that would haveimposed severe restrictions on electroniccommerce (ewommerce).

Following a year of consultations anddeliberations, the CRTC announced it wiHnot institute any new laws on cyberspace,and added that it's possible they never will.

Britain, however, wil l p roceed withdebate on certain new regulations, aimed pri-marily at e~ommerce.

Among the proposed Canadian legisla-tion was the imposition of the BroadcastingAct, which would have d ictated thatCanadian Web sites post a specified and sig-nifican proportion of "Canadian content."

However, CRTC spokesman Denis Carmelsaid the commission is satisfied with the pre-sent balance of Canadian content in cyber-space. "We feel there's enough Canadian con-tent. We are governedby a law that says youhave to encourage Canadian content. Fivepercent of what is on the Internet worldwideis Canadian, which is pretty big."

Great Britain based its decision on a desireto foster growth in the potentially lucrative e-cornmerce industry, estimated to be worth asmuch as US$809 billion annually by 2002.

The multi-party Trade and IndustryCommittee said in a report on e-commercethat a controversial proposal has been

dropped from recommendations.British members of Parliament say they

hope the tempering of key escrow and otherdraft laws will help Britain cash in on onlinemarketing.

Key escrow had been proposed as a wayto police freewheeling electronic trade. It willnot be enacted, according to insiders, whenthe government tables draft cyber-legisla-tion — which is expected to happen some-time in June.

Under the key escrow plan, encryptionkeys used to protect electronic informationwould have to be registered with a third partyand accessible by law enforcement agenciesand other authorities armed with a warrant.

"Now that the key escrow has beendropped by the government, the rationalefor an electronic commerce bill is open toquestion," says the report.

Britain's Industry Committee chairmanand Labour MP, Martin O'Nei/1, said he wel-comed the new approach, adding: "We needto create the climate for commerce to flour-ish. We have said there should be a moreflexible way (of regulating the industry).There is now little scope for a political battle

The committee report said that sincemeasures like key escrow and liability of

Internet service providers for material postedon their sites, may be shelved by legislators,there remains a case for new rules to darifycertain points of e-commerce Iaw, for exam-ple darification of the status of "electronicsignatures," on documents signed electroni-cally using a scanner or electronic pen. Thereport also recommends the creation of aseparate law enforcement unit to deal withcomputer crime.

The Canadian dedsion, called "stunning"by some industry observers, dedares that theCRTC does not have a right or a reason to reg-ulate the Internet and adds that the agency,which has an emphatic handymen reputationin other broadcast matters, will never attemptto place controls on cyberspace.

CRTC chairperson Francoise Bertrandsaid: "Our message is dear. Let me repeat thatfor those of you who were worried; the CRTCwiB not regulate any portion of the Internet"

Carmel e xplains that t he w ay t h eCanadian broadcast law is presently written,regulation of Internet activities falls outsidetheir |urisdiction. "We could not even if wewanted to."

The announcement was greeted withpositive response by the Canadian Internetcommunity. Said Stephan Bartkiw, AOL

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It does take a little getting used to, howev-er, so try not to get too frustrated if, like us,you fmd the four-screen panels of the defaultdesktop setup confusing at first. We spenthours wondering why we seemed to uninten-tionally switch active screens, until we realizedthe mouse pointer "wraps around" as it movesfrom one active area to another. The multipledesktop panels look and act like the multipledesktops in Norton Desktop for Windows orthe old Central Point PC Tools desktop.

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little spreadsheet program roughly compara-ble to the spreadsheet functionality inMicrosoft Works for Windows. Gnomepad+ isa reasonably powerful hypertext markup lan-guage (HTML) editor f r om the HotDog/HomeSite/BBedit school of tag-orientededitors. There is also a time-tracker utility andgEdit, a small lightweight text editor with aspelling checker (which, we should mention,didn't insert corrected words properly intothe text) and several other "plug-in" features.

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The concept of "affordable" note-book computers seems a bit of an oxy-moron, and it is to some extent. It's a bittelling that when we set our parame-ters for this test, we set our upperlimit for "affordable" notebooks at$3,000. That is, after all, aboutthe same price that you'd payfor a top-of-the-line desk-top PC. Further, the note-book generally containsslower hardware, smallerhard drives, and othercompromises which makethe notebook seem likeless of a value than a desktop machine.

MiniaturizationWhat gives, you might ask. Cranking outnew technologies, while not easy, is still rel-atively easier when t here aren't s izerestraints. Items that are new and cuttingedge in the desktop world generally take awhile to shrink down to a size suitable forputting into a notebook computer.

The research involved in reducing com-ponents down to notebook size can be sub-stantial and tends to be reflected in the costs.Like with the desktop PC world, however,what's new (and expensive) today tricklesdown into the area of what's affordabletomorrow. Higher-end notebooks can costbetween $5,000 and $10,000, depending onhow cuttingwdge the components are. Fromthat perspective, a notebook in the $2,000 to$3,000 range starts to seem like a bargain,especially when the payoff is the freedom totake the computer anywhere you go.

Diversity rulesIt's worth noting that this month we saw afew changes in the notebook field. In therecent past, it seemed most notebooks werebuilt around either a Pentium or the newerPentium II processor. While we saw bothused in this month's batch of notebooks,AMD's K6-2 chip was used in a greater num-ber of models from a wider range of manu-facturers.

The introduction of Intel's Celeronprocessor into the notebook world hasallowed manufacturers to put even fasterchips in at a lower cost. It will be a whilebefore mobile Pentium III chips begin toappear, but the fastest of the Celeron chips

provide good to excellent performance, espe-cially when the lower cost is factored in.

Also worth noting is the move to the"three-spindle" machine, even at the lowerend of the range. A three-spindle notebook isone that contains the floppy, CD-ROM andhard drives in the case at the same time.Most earlier entry-level notebooks tended toinclude only two, which meant the user hadto choose between inserting the floppy orCD-ROM drive and had to reboot the systemwhen they switched between the two.Although the ability to hot-swap compo-nents has gained popularity, many users pre-fer a machine with all of the components inthe case simultaneously.

Another trend we noticed this month isthat more 14-inch Tpr displays are startingto drop into ttus "affordable" range. Whenwe benchmarked the machines this month,we decided to set the display resolution to800x600, which was the highest resolutioncommon to all the machines tested. Themachines that could handle the higher1,024x768 resolution were benchmarked atthat resolution, too. Oddly enough, mostmachines that could handle both resolutionsshowed l i t t le p e r formance d i f ferencebetween the two resolutions.

Know your needsSomething that continues to hold true forportable computing is the need to make surethe notebook you select suits your needs — itis harder and more expensive to upgrade anotebook than a desktop PC. Notably, makeabsolutely sure that the screen is of adequatesize and quality (especially since the boost inresolution doesn't seem to affect perfor-mance noticeably). The screen is the most

difficult and expensive item to replace — if itcan be upgraded at alL

It can pay off to invest a bit more upfront to get a notebook that suits all ofyour needs, because you may be stuckwith it problems and all. It's also worthchecking the pointer control devicebefore making a purchase. The two

m ost common t ypes are t h eTouchpad and the Trackpoint,and both technologies havetheir fans and detractors. Whileit's possible to plug a mouse

- into m ost n o tebooks, youshouldn't have to. It's better tomake sure you can comfortably

use the built-in device, so youdon't have to dangle a mouseoff the side of your portablemachine everywhere you go.

If you spend a bit of time mak-ing sure the machine meets allyour needs, you' ll be sure tocome away with a bettervalue, even if the price is abit higher.

Testing notesTesting this month was done with BAPCo'sSysmark 98 benchmarking software. Allmachines were tested using their AC poweradapters. The display resolution was set to800x600 in 16-bit color depth for all note-books. We also tested in 1024x768 resolution(also 16-bit color depth) if the machineswould support it.

Benchmarking scores generated withSysmark 98 should not be compared withscores generated with the older Sysmark 32(which we used in TCPLab Tests prior toJanuary 1999), as they are calculated usingdifferent base platforms that are not directlycomparable.

A special note about all of the specs listedbelow and in the chart: these represent thespecs of the exact models tested for thisroundup. Most of the manufacturers offermultiple variations of each of these models,allowing different sized hard drives, moreRAM, extra components (a modem, or a DVDinstead of a CD-ROM drive, for example), ordifferent operating systems. Readers areencouraged to check the manufacturers' Web 'sites to flnd out what options are availableand what configurations would be most suit-able for them. Keep in mind, though, thateach of these variations will affect the pricing.

All systems tested in this roundup includ-ed a standard floppy drive, CD-ROM drive,two PC Card slots and at least one USB port.Variations are noted where they occur.

Pricing for each of the models wasobtained from the manufacturers or theirrepresentatives. Because of the fast pace oft he market and the v o lati l ity o f t h eCanadian dollar compared to the U.S. dollar,pricing may be subject to some fluctuation.

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external housing, which is connected via a cable.This makes the case far more compact.

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At 12.1 inches, the TFT screen isn't overly ktrge,but it is good quality.

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Size and usability• At 2.54 cm (1 in.) thick, this is one of the small-

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• Because the CD-ROM and floppy drives areexternal, users who need to use either on a regu-lar basis may find the arrangement inconvenientand awkward. This configuration is better-suitedfor people who don't use removable media on aregular basis,

The TravelMate is aimed at users in search ofultraportability. Unfortunately, this sl imdesign comes at the expense of usability. Userswho need to access data on floppies er CD-ROMs on a regular basis may want to take apass on this machine, but those who use themonly occasionally may love the unit's incredi-bly small size. With the 56Kbps modem builtinto the case, it becomes even more attractivefor those who like to travel light.

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At 31.75 cm (1 2.5 in.), the 8200 is a bit widerthan a number of other notebooks, but this widthaccommodates a fuller, more usable keyboard.The 8200 is aIso thinner than most notebooks.

• The case can simultaneously contain the floppydrive, CD-ROM drive and battery, which elimi-nates component swapping.

Set up as an entry-level notebook, the 8200Powerwote nonetheless has plenty of powerand goodies. It has a large screen, two USBports (double the usual number), and one ofthe faster CPUs in this report. The one thingthat is really missing on this model is amodem, which the users can add in for a bitextra. Otherwise, this is a nice little package.

• RAM: 128 MB,• Hard drive: 4.3 GB.Multimedia• The 13.3-inch TFT screen is a bit smaller than

the 8200's, but is large enough to achieve a1,024x768 resolution with great quality.The graphic subsystem is based on ATI's 8 MBRage Pro.

• Sound is good. Users can attach headphones ora microphone.

• In addition to the standard VGA, the 8400 comeswith S-VHS output.

Size and usability• At 31.2 cm (12.3 in.) this case is one of the

widest in this review, but it accommodates amore full-sized keyboard.

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• The case simultaneously contains the floppydrive, CD-ROM drive and battery, which elimi-nates component swapping.

Created with business users in mind, the8400 has a Pentium II processor, bettergraphics (though with a sl ightly smallerscreen), and the same multimedia and USB

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using a smaller screen, smaller hard driveand a Celeron processor. The two PC cardslots have locking clips to prevent cards fromfalling out — a nice feature.

Note: Another member of Fujitsu'snotebook line, the Lifebook 360, was list-ed at $3,300 at the time of the review, butwill be subject to a price cut in the nearfuture. As it is a more full-featured model,readers may want to keep an eye on thisone, too.

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much more than casual use. As with all passivedisplays, pointer movement can cause the point-er to disappear entirely while in motion.

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the heavy side and is not as suitable for carryingas some other models in this report.

• The CD-ROM drbe, floppy drive and batteqt fitinto the case simultaneously, which eliminatescomponent swapping.

If pricing is the most important factor,then this model may be worth a look. Itm anages to pop a 333 MHz CPU under thehood, and has pretty much all of the good-ies you need for notebook use (PC cardslots, battery, and even a carrying case). Ingetting the price down to under $1,600,however, some major sacrifices had to bemade. The hard drive is one of the smallestavailable, there's not much RAM, nomodem, the screen is pretty hard to look atfor extended periods, and the whole unit ison the heavy side.

Users looking for a notebook that will bea constant traveling companion will proba-bly want to spend the extra dollars andupgrade the screen, at the very least. Thegood news is that this price point puts thepower of a full-featured notebook into thesame range as some of the higher-end hand-held units. Users thinking of a CE device maybe tempted to step up to t h is type of

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• RAM: 64 MB.• Hard drive: 4 GB.• DVD drive.Multimedia• The 14.1-inch screen is a good size and offers

clear display reproduction, It's powered by a 4MB ATI Rage LT Pro chip.

• Sound is quite good. Users can atlach head-phones or a microphone for better quality.

• DVD video playback is smooth.• In addition to standard VGA, the notebook has S-

VHS output.She and usability• At more than 3.15 kg (7 lb.), the 3100C is on the

heavy side, but is still manageable for most users.• The case fits the floppy drive, DVD drive and bat-

tery simultaneously, eliminating componentswapping.

MTI is offering some new models in i tsSmartbook line, and the 3100C is the morepowerful of the two we looked at this month.Although the processor is a Celeron and nota Pentium II, it still provides ripping perfor-mance with some of the highest benchmark-ing results this month. With the DVD driveonboard, and two USB ports, this is a greatlittle machine.

Components• Processor: 300 MHz Celeron with 128KB cache.• RAM: 64 MB.• Hard drive: 4 GB.• Internal 56Kbps modem.80ultimedla• The 12.1-inch TFT screen is small, but the quali-

ty is good.• Sound is good, and users can attach external

headphones or a microphone for better quality.Slue and usability

The VersaNote is similar in size to many othernotebooks in this report but it is a bit lighter,which many users may find to be a big plus.Note: The model we tested was 2.88 kg (6.4 lb.),although the spec sheet lists it at 2.75 (6.1.).

• The case fits the floppy drive, CD-ROM drive andbattery simultaneously, which eliminates compo-nent swapping.

machine instead.

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Estimated street price: $2,999http Jtwww.hypernotebook.cornSoftware• Operating system: Windows 98.Components• Processor. 300 MHz Mobile Pentium II.• RAM: 64 MB.• Hard drwe: 4.4 GB. This is a good size.• The CD-ROM drive can be upgraded to DVD

drive for an extra costMultimedia• The 6020 features a crisp 14.2-inch TFT screen,

with an 8 MB ATI graphics chip lurking beneath,for excellent display quality.

• The sound is good. and users can attach head-phones or a microphone for even better quality.

• in addition to the VGA, there is also an S-VHSport

Size and usability• Although lighter than the 150 model above, the

6020 is still about 3.3 kg (7.5 lb.), which may beon the heavy side for some users. For the mostpart, it's a manageable weight, though.

• The case manages to fit in the CD-ROM drive,floppy drive and battery simultaneously, whicheliminates component swapping.

At $2,999, this system sits at the upper limitof this month's "affordable" price range, butmanages to throw in a lot of the quality seenin higher-end systems. The screen is nice andlarge, everything is induded in the case, itcomes with its own carrying case, and theconstruction is sleek and sturdy. Users with afew extra dollars will probably want to havea modem installed, and may be interested inupgrading to a DVD drive. Even without

Suggested list price: $2,899http:ttwww.can. ibm.cornSoftware• Operating system: Windows 98.• Norton AntiVirus, Ring Central, system and pro-

ductivity tools,Components

Processor. 233 MHz Pentium II.• RAM: 32 MB.• Hard drive: 3.2 GB. This is on the small side.INultlmedla• The 12.1-inch screen is on the small side, but

the TFT display is good quality.• The audio is good, and users can attach external

headphones and a microphone.Slxe and usability• The battery, ffoppy and CD-ROM drives are aa

included in the case simultaneously, which elimi-nates component swapping.

• The Trackpoint is very responsive and precise,making it one of the best — if not the best-pointer control devices going.

• There are no Windows keys on the ThinkPad'skeyboard, which can make life a bit difficult forthose who are accustomed to using them formanual menu selection.

IBM's ThinkPad series has long been afavorite of customers and reviewers alike.Although the overall system performancemay be lower than that of other machines,there are a number of other things that com-pensate for it. The keyboard is one of thenicest in the notebook world, and theTrackpoint pointer control is one of the easi-est to use. There are external controls forscreen brfghtneu and volume, and every-thing seems to fit together well, making it amachine that's a pleasure to use, even whenit isn't tearing up the competition perfor-

Mll 0Ioplhoo05100C

Estimated street price: $2,095http:ttwww.mobiltech.netSoftware• Operating system: Windows 98.Components• Processor. 333 MHz Celeron with 128KB cache.• RAM: 32 NIB.• Hard drive: 4 GB.Multimedia• The 12.1-inch screen is a bit small but the quali-

ty is good. The display is running on an S3 VirgoMX graphics chip.

• Sound is good. Users can atbrch headphones ora microphone.

• In addition to the standard VGA, the notebookalso has S-VHS output.

She and usability• The 5100C is a thicker but lighter than its sib-

ling, the 3100C.• The case fits the floppy drive. CO-ROM drive and

battery simultaneous/, which eliminates compo-nent swapping.

Although the screen is on the small side„ the5100C is a good overall choice for those whodon't need a larger screen. It has a good selec-tion of components, and though it's not asspeedy as the 3100C, the performance is stillquite good. In all, it provides a good value forthose who want to save a bit of money.

mance-wise.

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Estimated street price: $2,995http:t/www.mobiltech.netSoftware• Operating system: Windows 98.• ATI DVD player software.Components• Processor. 400 MHz Celeron with 128KB cache.

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Estimated street price: $2,999http Jtwww.toshiba.caSoftware• Operating system: Windows 98.Components• Processor. 333 MHz AMD K6-2.• RAM: 64 MB.• Hard drive; 4 GB,• Internal 56 Kbps modem.Multimedia• The 14.1-inch screen is nice and big. The

NeoMagic display adapter provides the graphics.• Audio is good. Users can attach headphones or a

microphone, too.She and usability• Users who aren't fans of the Touchpad may be

more impressed by the AccuPoint pointer controlon the Satellite line. However, the AccuPoint hasa tendency to be a bit too sensitive at times,causing users to overshoot the mark.

• The left- and right-click buttons are located oneon top of another, instead of in a left-right orien-tation, which will take some getting used to.

• The machine has one Windows key, locatedalong the top row. Some users may find this abit awkward. Confrn r red on page $4

The VersaNote 270 is one of the more bud-get-oriented models in NEC's notebook line.Performance is reasonable, and it fits all thecomponents (including a modem!) inside thecase. With a 12. l - inch screen (and its800x600 maximum resolution), it may fallshort of the needs of more demanding users,but others might find that it's just the thingthey need.

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Software• Operating system: Windows 98.Components• Processor. 300 MHz Pentium.• RAM: 32 MB.• Hard drive: 4.3 GB.• Floppy and CD-ROM drives are external.• Internal 56Kbps modem.Ikeraltimedla• At maximum resolution, the 12.1-inch TFT

screen may not be adequate for a number ofusers, but the quality is quite good.

• The sound is a bit thin. The line out and micro-phone jack supplement the internal speakers.

Size and Essablllty• At just over 2.5 cm (1 in.) thick and 1.8 kg (4

lb.), the PowerSlim is the most portable machinein the round-up — by far.

• To achieve the thin size, the floppy and CD-ROMdrives have to be attached externally. The floppyis hot-swappable, but the CD-ROM is not, Userswho require access to either drive on a regularbasis may find this configuration time-consum-ing and awkward.

• The keyboard is very condensed, and some ofthe keys are on the small side.

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Suggested retail price: $2,999http: //www.trogon computer.corn(The Trogon line is distributed in Canada byMontreal-based GAON Technologies.)Software• Operating system: Windows 98.Components• Processor: 300MHz Pentium II.• RAM: 64 MB.• Hard drive: 4 GB,rkeraltlmedla

The 14,1-inch screen offers plenty of space,although the display surface has fairly noticeablepixels, lending a slightly rough quality to the display.

• The sound is quite good. Users can attachmicrophone or headphones.

• In addition to the standard VGA, there are alsoS-VHS and RCA video-out jacks on the back ofthe machine.

Size and nsablllty• The case is a bit wider than most of the models

tested this month. While it mey be a bit unwief+for some, the weight is still reasonable, and itallows a fuller keyboard, maldng the machineeasy to use.

• The case fits the floppy drive, CD-ROM drive andbattery simultaneously, which eliminates compo-nent swapping.

The Qualttas 24 is one of the notebooksavailable under the Trogon name. Thismodel has a large screen, good multimediacapability (with extra video-out ports) andtwice the number of USB ports of most of thenotebooks tested this month. The keyboardis top-notch. Although those who plan touse their notebook intensively may find thescreen a bit hard on the eyes, it should befine for more casual users.

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Suggested retail price: $2,975(price converted from US$, subject to fluctuation)http: //www.twinh cad,corn(The Twinhead line is distributed in Canada byMontreal-based GAON Technologies.)Software• Operating system: Windows 98.Components• Processor: 300 MHz Pentium II with 256KB

Level-2 fmche,RAM: 64 MB.

• Hard drive: 4.1 GB.

Although all of the notebooks we looked atthis month are designed to be mobile, thePowerSlim is the most portable, with a thindesign and the lightest weight of all the unitstested. Because of this, the screen is smaller(only 12.1 inches), and the floppy and CD-ROM drives are externaL Granted, it's notideal, but for users who don't need eitherwhile travelling, it may be the best overallsolution. Even better, the internal modemmakes it possible to keep in touch while onthe road. Demanding users may want to takea pass (the notebook tumed in the slowestbenchmarking scores this month), but forthose whose needs are minimal, this systemis compact and ready to go.

Suggested retail price: $2,495(price converted from US$ and subject to fluctuation)http: //www.twinh cad.corn(The Twinhead line is distributed in Canada byMontreal-based GAON Technologies.)

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lexmarIr puts you In the Z zoneWith a marketing message that is equating the "Z zone" withease of use, Lexmark Canada unveiled two models in its newZ line of inkjet printers at a briefing session inmid-May. The Z11, with an estimated streetprice of $149, offers the highestresolution and p age perminute (ppm) printingspeed in its class, accordingto Lexinark. It offers true1,200x1,200 dot per inch(dpi) printing resolutionand is rated at 4 ppm forblack and 2.5 ppm forcolor, both i n d r a f tmode.

Lexmark says theZ51, which has an esti-mated price of $379, isa lso the fastest in i t sclass, with a rated speedof 10 ppm black and 5ppm color, both in draftmode. It comes with par-allel and USB ports.

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Canada,and Hewlett-Packard Canada introducedphoto-quality inkjet printers that you' ll be able to

Lexmark, HP aunc 1 5 0 oto i n ' e tsw ithin a couple of weeks in May, both Lexmark

from the Z51.officials say paper han-ingle biggest problem foranufacturers. Both theincorporate a paper-feeding mechanism called

, which the company says significantly reduceser feeding problems.

TCP had the opportunity to see print sam-ples from both the Z11 and Z51, and we wereimpressed. The image quality was very good,and the fact that it was achieved, in the caseof the Z11, with a $150 printer was all themore remarkable.

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HP DeslrJet 612CLexmark Z11's $150 price point.

The DeskJet 610CL/612Cprinters will sell for around$149 (although that price is metafter the purchaser receives amail-in rebate of US$30) andup, according to HP. The 612Cprints up to 5 ppm for blacktext and up to 2.5 ppm forcolor, while the sightly slower610CL is rated at up to 4 ppmfor black text and 1 ppm forcolor. Both printers have two-cartridge designs (one for blackink, and another containing

cyan, magenta and yellow inks) and use an HP colorwpti-mizing technology called ColorSmart IL The black cartridgecan also be replaced with a photo cartridge, which providesmore subtle color rendering.

The HP DeskJet 810C/812C printers will cost around $299and up, and include both a parallel and a USB port. The seriesis rated at up to 6.5 ppm for black and 4.5 ppm for color.

This line also uses HP's PhotoREt 11 color layering tech-nology. Although we haven't seen samples from this printer,we' ve been impressed with the output from other HP print-ers that use the PhotoREt II. According to HP, the technology"blends tiny drops of ink resulting in a broad range of realis-tic colors and improved image quality."

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In addition to the mass storage driversnoted above, the CD version of Mac OS 8.6includes the following features:

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site),• Co lorSync 2.6.1 (also posted),• Mac OS Runtime for Java 2.1.2 (8.6

comes with version 2.1.1),• and G3 Firmware Update 1.1 (installs

the same firmware as version 1.0.2).

What's aheadApple says Mac OS 8.7, currently code-named Sonata, will continue the evolutiontoward Carbon API compatibility. I tincludes an enhanced version (2.0) ofApple's Sherlock "metasearch engine,"which has LDAP (lightweight directoryaccess protocol) address book support,allowing you to search for people acrossthe Internet, plus an e-commerce-orientedsearch facility that shows products, pricesand availability of products for Internetshoppers. Apple says its goal is to make theMac OS the easiest way to search for infor-m ation, people o r p r oducts on t h e

The new Sherlock features the samesort of interface stylings as Apple's recent-ly released QuickTime 4.0 player. (Theicon-heavy interface of the latter is notuniversally liked, due to the omission ofclassic Mac window controls such as mini-mize buttons.)

Also slated to appear in Sonata is therecently missing-in-action "keychain."Apple is now refashioning this feature,which was present in System 7.5, into anetwork login manager (complete with a"voiceprint login" option) that will allowdifferent users to have their own prefer-ences, desktop settings, default Webbrowser, document folders, and other set-tings. Network login features have beenpart of the Windows environment (andthe Apple education community) for years.It's good to see Apple providing this func-tionality to its base of Mac users, many ofwhom share a single computer with class-mates or family members. Ci

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t Apple's World Wide Developer Conference(WWDC) in San Jose, Calif., in mid-May,chief executive officer Steve Jobs revealed a

number of developments in Apple Computinghardware and software. Among the highlights:• Apple announced that Dragon Systems' mar-

ket-leading NaturallySpeaking speech-recog-nition software is coming to the Mac platformlater this year.

• Jobs announced a 400 MHz version of its DVD-equipped PowerBook G3 that is slightly lighter,at less than 2.7 kg (6 lb.), yet delivers better bat-tery life — up to five hours from one battery, ora whopping 10 hours from a dual-battery con-figuration.

• Apple has posted Mac OS 8.6 for free downloadby Mac OS 8.5 users.

• Qu ickTime Streaming Server software is avail-able as "open source," which means othercompanies can add it to their server platformsfor video and audiostreaming at no cost.

During the many demos in Jobs' two-hourkeynote address, several never-before-seentechnologies were unveiled. Apple announcedthat its own implementation of Open GL, a stan-dard 3D graphics API, is now available for imme-

A cool flight simulator called X-Plane, that wasalso demonstrated during the keynote, showed offsome features included of the next release of Mac OS,code-named Sonata. Sonata includes an enhanced ver-sion of Apple's Sherlock "metasearch engine." (See MacOS 8.6 review in this issue for details on Sonata andSherlock.)

Jobs also discussed ongoing developmentefforts for the client release of Mac OS X (ten),including integral support for Adobe'sporta le document format (PDF), a newPDFwd-LDAP-savvy mail client, and aFinder that is strongly reminiscent of theNeXT file browser.

The new graphics imaging engine,known as Quartz will make the Mac OS the

the new OS.

first mass-market operating system to include com-positing features pioneered at Pixar gobs' other com-pany) 15 years ago, according to Jobs. In anotherdemo, Apple showed the new graphics engine per-forming real-time soft shadows behind text typedon top of a TIFF image, with full anti-aliasing.Later, an imported PDF graphic was rotated,resized and made partially transparent, all in realtime. While very cool, we recall seeing similar fea-tures in a NeXT Dimension demonstration severalyears ago. It's also safe to expect a few complaintsabout the large size of email files with embeddedPDF enclosures, at least until broadband Internetaccess is ubiquitous.

New names for 0$ componentsAlthough Apple says its development strategy has-n't changed since last years' WWDC, Apple haschanged the names of a number of components in

Gone is the confusing Blue Box terminologythat signified classic Mac OS compatibility modein 'the Mach/BSD Unix-based OS X. Now, Applesimply calls it Classic.

Another Apple technology given a new spinis the Mac OS X application interface modelformerly known as Yellow Box, which is nowreferred to as Cocoa. (This is apparentlyunrelated to the Cocoa programming lan-guage for children Apple developed thenquietly dropped just after former chiefexecutive Gil Amelio was given the bigshoe.)

Apple says Developer Release 1 (DRl)of the Mac OS X client is available now,with DR2 expected in the fall, and afinal version due before May 2000.

No showsThere was no announcement of thelong-awaited "consumer portable"that was announced last year (it isstill promised for release this year).Nor was the rumored 1.35 kg (3 lb.)"ultraportable" PowerBook shownor mentioned.

The new PowerBook G3 that was unveiled is an incre-mental upgrade to the existing G3 models, and includesUSB connectivity, a redesigned cooling fan, and betterbattery life, all in a package that's lighter, and, Appleboasts, two to three faster than the fastest Pentium IIportables. Apple Canada says the new PowerBooks areavailable from Apple authorized resellers in the followingconfigurations:• A 333 MHz version with 512KB cache, 4 GB hard drive,

14.1-inch TIT display, 24x CD-ROM drive, Ethernet, anda 56Kbps modem has an estimated retail price of $3,699.

• A 400 MHz version with 1 MB Level-2 cache, 64 MB RAM,6 GB hard drive, 14.1-inch TFT display, 2x DVD-ROMdrive, Etherne, and a 56Kbps modem has an estimatedretail price of $5,199.

Additional build-to-order options for the new PowerBookline are not available in Canada.

QnlckTIme keynote overloadQuickTime 4.0 video, MP3 audio and live streaming featureswere prominently featured during the keynote demos.However users unable to attend the live session or its remotesatellite broadcasts may have been disappointed by the per-formance of the live Web cast of the event, streamed viaQuickTime 4.

Due to heavy server loads, the remote broadcast fre-quently broke up and, at one point stopped entirely. Thisisn't necessarily Apple's fault — it says its popular servers haveserved more than 200 terabytes of data since the Star Wars:Phantom Menace trailers were first posted.

The company took advantage of the current Star Warsmania among its target audience to show the movie previewin its entirety. It also got in a few digs at Microsoft, withanother in its series of HAL 9000 spoofs. This time, HALannounced he was based on code developed in Redmond,Wash., and, while he was more advanced than HAL 95, con-fessed that he still lacked people skills, such as those found inthe Mac OS. Predictably, this was a big hit with the crowd ofMac developers.

Jobs didn't spend much time on Mac OS 8.6, highlightingonly a few features, such as its improvements in DHCP(dynamic host configuration protocol), AppleScript,ColorSync, a faster Java interpreter (still 30 percent slowerthan the latest release of Java for Windows, Jobs admitted)and an enhanced LaserWriter driver. 0Apple's aew PowerBosk G3

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base that is managing to garner top-notchreviews despite competition from such

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I NSTAbase provides two w ays o fimporting data into the predefined graph-ics image and memo fields. Images orblocks of text can be imported by browsingand opening files or by pasting from theclipboard. If you need more than onememo field, you can combine two or morefields (each field can contain up to 100characters), but, as you can see, things getcomplicated quickly if your requirementsvary fmm the INSTAbase norm.

Querying, searching and reportingINSTAbase provides two mechanisms forsearching and querying,

Click on a radio button and one of thefirst seven fields, or the comments fields,will be searched for the string you haveentered into the Search By field. Click onthe Find First button and it will f ind anddisplay the first record that contains theSearch By string. Compared to SQL andother database queries, this is a fairly rudi-mentary searching mechanism.

In contrast, if you click on the reporttab, INSTAbase provides a better, but stilllimited, search and filtering mechanism. Ita llows any or a l l o f t h e f i e lds to besearched and/or filtered,

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But the trade-off hereis that you lose controlo f held layout on theWeb page. You have tosettle pretty much forthe INSTAbase layout

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Weavin our own We site: Part 46An in-depth look at Cascading Style Sheets Part 5

By Kelth Schenglll-Roberts

Last month, we started to look at thefont family of Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) properties. This month we' ll con-

clude our overview of this family of pmper-ties. The CSS font family consists of the fol-lowing elements: FONT-FAMILY, FONT-SIZE,FONT-STYLE, FONT-VARIANT and the parentproperty FONT, which can take on all of thefeatures of its "children." We discussed howFONT-FAMILY worked last month, so we willpick up this month with the FONT-SIZE prop-erty.

Not surprisingly, the FONT-SIZE propertyis used to set the size of the text to be dis-played. It can do this in any one of threeways: by specifying the size relative to thedefault browser font, relative to the last spec-ified font size, or with a precise size value. Inmany ways it operates in a very similar wayto the HTML tag <FONT> when its SIZEattribute is used. The FONT-SIZE CSS property,however, provides greater flexibility than itsHTML equivalent.

FONT-SIZE can take seven specific namevalues for setting the size of the font dis-played. Ranging from largest to smallest,they are: XX-LARGE, X-LARGE, LARGE, MEDIUM,SMALL, X-SMALL and XX-SMALL. These settingsare equivalent to the <FONT> tag using attrib-utes ranging from SIZE='7" to SIZE="1'. The fol-

lowing code gives you an idea of how youcan use these settings for FONT-SIZE:

<8 STYLE='FONT-SIZE: XX-iARGE'>This sentence isset in a double-extra big font size.</B><P><B STYLE='FONT-SIZE: XX-SMALL'>This sentence isset in a double-extra small font size.dB>

You can also set the font displayed to avalue that is either one size larger or smallerthan the base font size value being used. Thisworks in the same way you might set theHTML tag <BASEFONT> to a particular value,and then set the font size relative to thatvalue (i.e. by using <FONT SIZE='+1'> or <FONTSIZE='-1'>). This can be done in CSS by usingthe values LARGER and SMALLER, as in the fol-lowing example:

<8 STYLE="FONT-SIZE: LARGER">This sentence isset to one size larger than the default basevalue.<rB>

Finally, FONT-SIZE can also take on a per-centage value. The percentage value that isspecified is relative to that of the size of thebase font, where a value of 100 percentequals the size of the base font. A value of200 percent would make the font twice thesize of the default font, as can be seen in thefollowing code:

Some text displayed using the browseVs default fontsize.

<P STYLE='FONT-SIZE: 200%">This line of text is set to FONT-SIZE: 200%, so itshould be twice the size of the default font size,<JP>

The FONT-SIZE property is fairly safe touse, as it is fully supported in NetscapeNavigator and largely supported withinInternet Explorer. The only difference is thatInternet Explorer sets all of the named FONT-SIZE values one size smaller than they shouldbe, so that the value SMALL is equivalent tothe default value, when it ought to be MEDI-UM. This means that you can expect thenamed values to be displayed differentlybetween the two major browsers.

The FONT-STVlE propertyThe FONT-STYLE element is designed primari-ly to tell a font that it should be displayed initalics. It takes one of three possible namevalues: ITALIC, NORMAL and OBLIQUE. NORMALtells the browser to use the default (i.e. non-italic) setting for a font, ITALIC and OBLIQUEare equivalent, and should display a font inits italic (or "oblique" ) setting.

In essence this property is designed to sup-plant or at least augment the common italicsHTML tag (<I>), and provides the value

OBLIQUE for those fonts that do not understandthe value ITALIC. The following code showshow the three values for FONT-STYLE work

<H2 STYLE='FONT-STYLE: NORMAL'>This is a nor-mal header<IH2>

«H2 STYLE='FONT-STYLE: ITALIC'>This is an itali-cized header<IH2>

<H2 STYLE='FONT-STYLE: OBLIQUE'>This is anoblique header (which should appear the same asthe ifalicized header above)<IH2>

This property is fully supported inInternet Explorer, but only NORMAL and ITAL-IC are recognized within Netscape Navigator.This is one of those CSS properties where youreally have to wonder why anyone botheredto create it. It was likely created to round outthe various font family properties, but it ishighly unlikely to replace the <I> tag inusage, as the tag form is much easier toremember and to write than its CSS equiva-lent.

The FONT-VARIANT ElementFONT-VARIANT is a rather obscure name for aCSS property that essentially determineswhether or not a font should be displayed insmall capital letters (better known as "small

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (NB) — The Church ofJesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — more com-monly known as the Mormon Church — hasformally opened its family genealogy Website for people who use the Internet to tracethe roots in their family trees.

The Mormon Church's new site adds to analready rich landscape of genealogy informa-

said the site was generating up to seven mil-lion daily hits in its test phase, and it expects10 million to 15 million hits after the site'sformal launch.

More than 400 million names areindexed at the Web site, Mormon Churchofficials said. The church's Family HistoryDepartment helps in genealogical researchwith what it calls the world's largest collec-tion of family history records made availableto the public through a system of 3,200Family History Centres located around theworld. The Family History Department wasestablished in l&94, and has collected mil-lions of microfilms, thousands of microfichefiles and books and many other records.

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free Internet stream tlcleerVANCOUVER (NB) — Alpha Trade.corn hastaken the wraps off AlphaTicker, the firstin a series of E-Gate Java-driven applica-tions the firm plans to offer via its Web

AlphaTicker, as the name implies, is aPC-based stock ticker. However, unlike thestock ticker on Pointcast, for example, theticker program itself is coded in Java.

This means the Java window can bedragged and dropped from a Web browseronto the user's desktop.

According to the firm, users will beable to download the Java application andinstall in on their PCs. Like Pointcast, theticker can then run independently of alive Internet connection, based on themost recently downloaded set of data.Users will then be able to auto-update theticker each time they log on to the

According to Rafael De Noyo,Alpha Trade's chief technology officer, theficker is the first in a series of offerings thecompany plans to release under itsAlphaWare/E-Gate brand name.

Other A l phaWare a p plicationsplanned for later this year include wordprocessing, spreadsheet functions, andlive streaming video.

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Contact management for phonesBLUE BELL, Penn. (NB) — Phone.corn, thefirm formerly known as Unwired Planet,has announced that a third-party compa-ny, Practical Sales Tools Inc., has devel-oped a contact manager application for itsUP.Browser microbrowser for smartphones.

Phone,corn's microbrowser technolo-gy has been designed as a low graphicsfacility for accessing Web-based orintranet data across a mobile phone link.

Because the microbrowser is built intothe phone, and displays on the phone'sscreen, it allows the phone to interactwith the cellular network and retrieve, aswell as view, hypertext-based data.

The idea behind the PC-based contactmanager, known as UnwiredContact, isthat users of microbrowser-equippedmobiles can edit, create, and generallyinteract with a contact database in theiroffice, even when they are miles away.

According to Cindy Dahm, director ofalliances with Phone .corn,UnwiredContact is unusual in not requir-ing users to synchronize their mobiledatabase with the host database — instead,users view a window on the databaseusing the phone's microbrowser.UnwiredContact is a server-based applica-tion that the firm says allows handhelddevices to serve as true thin clients thatcan directly access and modify informa-tion in Symantec's ACT and SalesLogixsales information system databases storedon company Web servers.

UnwiredContact runs on a WindowsNT Web server with I5 3/4 or NetscapeServer~ permanent connection to theInternet or VPN (virtual private network)is required. The software sells forUS$4,995 for the server edition andUS$195 per user licence.Practical Sales, http Jlwww.practical-sales.corn

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resentation equip-ment manufacturerscontinue to produce

new, more refined andmuch simpler to use devices,while maintaining traditionalprice points. This has resultedin more businesses and individ-uals taking advantage of this onceelite equipment.

What follows is a rudimentary guide tothe technologies you might encounter whileshopping for presentation hardware.

I.CD overhead panelsThis projection technology is definitely deadaccording to Feizal Paroo, sales manager atSharp's Audio Visual Ltd., "Nobody's makingthem any more but, if somebody reallywants one, they can be found after some dif-ficulty." Thus they are briefly included here.

LCD (liquid crystal display) screens arethe same as those found on notebook com-puters and comprise a compound of complexmolecules sandwiched between two layers ofglass or plastic. These molecules behave likecrystals even though they form a liquid.They move and twist to block light or let itthrough according to electric charges sentfrom the edge of the screen.

But LCDs don't create "active" lightwhich is why portable computers need abacklighting system. The bulb in an over-head projector serves the same function forthe transparent LCD panel when you' re mak-ing your presentation.

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LCD projectors have the advantage ofbeing small, light and self-contained whileproducing sharper, clearer, colorful images.Of course, three-panel LCDs produce betterresults on all counts. Price-wise, single-panelmodels cost between $2,500 and $2,900,while three-panel projectors will start ataround $3,900.Just entering the market is an incarnation

of this technology called reflective LCD,which projects the image onto a reflectivechipset then through an LCD panel to addcolor before being projected out of the lens.The result is a high quality image from asmall and light machine, which has thepotential to be manufactured on a standardproduction line.

"The real benefit [to producing LCDreflective projectors in this way] is thatthere will be lots of competing vendorsbecause a feature-rich device will end upbeing a fraction of the cost of a currentdevice," says Ben Joy, senior product mar-keting manager for InFocus Systems."Single-panel LCD stuff is basically deadbecause they simply don't perform wellenough for today's consumer demands,while three-panel LCD is at its pinnacleright now — though it's hard to get thattechnology into a machine under 10 lb.[4.5 kg]. Reflective LCD will eventually

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main reason they are no longer made is thatthey offer poor image quality by currentstandards and limited brightness from theadjunct overhead projector. Overhead pro-jectors were designed to shine light onlythrough a t h i n tr ansparency sheet.Brightness is lost when that same light isbroadcast through the two sheets of glassand liquid layer of an LCD panel. Anotherdownside to LCD panels, is that you have tocount on an overhead projector being avail-able for your presentation.

Which is why self~ntained projectorshave for the most part replaced LCD over-head panels.

LCD projectorsLCD projectors come in two basic flavors:an economical single-panel and a moreexpensive three-panel configuration.Single-panel projectors work on the sameprinciple as an LCD overhead panel butwith a built-in overhead projector. Insidethe device is a tiny LCD panel (.9x1.3 in.)on which the computer-generated image iscreated before being projected through amagnifying lens by a powerful lamp. The

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t will be alright on the night. That' sthe time-honored phrase used todescribe the hopes held by those of

us who venture forth to perform infront of others. Whatever your fears,anxieties and misgivings about the per-formance you have to give, no matterhow many times you have blown yourlines in a rehearsal, these seven words keepyou going.

And that may be OK if you are a profes-sional actor, where a small measure of pre-performance jitters can be channeled intopositive nervous energy that yields a vibrantand captivating portrayal. But for those whohave to "perform" daily during formal busi-ness presentations, this notion just doesn' t

ln fact, the rehearsal for a big presenta-tion — walking through the whole shebangfor the benefit of your boss and co-work-ers — can be even more important than thefinal pre sentation to custo mers.Customers may be wil l ing to forgive aflubbed line or a missed cue, but your ownsenior executives could take a differentattitude.

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public speaker — it lies in the technology youuse to support your presentation.

In many cases, that technology is aportable LCD projector, a mobile computer,and a presentation prepared in Microsoft

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pip projectoraAnother new alternative the DLP pro-jector — employs a completely differenttechnology. DLP (digital light processing)projectors are based on a digital mlcromir-ror device (DMD) chip developed by Texas

This chip is covered by millions of micro-mirrors, which each represent an i magepixel. To form the image, the mirrors turn acertain way to reflect or deflect light asinstructed by the computer. The advantageof this technology is that, being reflectiv,the image is usually brighter while, beingchip based, it is smaller and lighter than athree-panel LCD technology. However, theentry-level price for a DLP unit is about$5,500.

James Chan, product manager for flat-panel and presentation systems forViewSonic Corporation has a clear preferencefor three-panel LCD projectors, which hesays have better color reproduction thanDLP. The latter's reflective nature causessome loss of color saturation. Feizal Parooagrees.

But Ben Joy of InFocus — an industryleader in DLP projections systems — suggeststhe color saturation of LCD projectors(which the company aho produces) is "car-toon like" because it's overdriven, "That' snot a bad thing if you' re doing computer

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Brightneaa matters"What we chose as an industry, is thatlumens are more important than cartoon-like color saturation. We' re in a race forlumens in our industry," Joy says.

Different companies describe the bright-ness of their projectors in different ways buta good tip is that brightness should beexpressed in units called ANSI lumens. Thehigher the ANSI lumen number is, thebrighter the image will be in larger and/ormore brightly lit rooms.

Though it's a measure that's difficult toimagine without visual examples, it's fair tosay that 400 ANSI lumens is adequate for anormally lit conference room with a seaflngcapacity of up to 12 people. A classroom sit-uation might require 600 ANSI lumens. Alarge, ballroom-sized conference roommight require a projector capable of 1,000ANSI lumens or more. The technology isnow approaching 2,000 ANSI lumens.

However, Paroo warns that two projec-tors touting the same ANSI lumen valuewill not necessarily provide the samebrightness or picture quality because a lotdepends on the optical design of the pro-jector: "There is a genuine difference inbrightness and quality between brandseven when they might have the same spec-ifications o n pap er," he exp l a ins."Brightness on paper doesn't necessarilyequal brightness in the real-life situation.Customers shouldn't just shop based onbrochures because a lot of times manufac-

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But, where it might seem logical to sim-ply go for the brightest possible projector,size, weight and especially cost are allaffected as these factors are maximized.That means it is best to determine whichprojector type best suits your needs andthen budget for the brightest available inthat range.

Other shopping tipsThere are many other things to considerwhen buying a projector starting with reso-lution. Determine if a projector is capableof SVGA f600x800] or XGA [1,024x768j res-olution, and which resolution you require.SVGA is sufficient for use with an oldermodel laptop computerbecause most areonly capable of this resolution anyway.

Interestingly, most SVGA projectors canperform a compression routine to repro-duce 1,024x768 resolution and a lot of pre-sentation software is resolution indepen-dent so, when you go into slideshow mode,the slides «re full screen regardless of theresolution setting. But resolution makes abig difference in price. An SVGA projectorcan run anywhere from $2,000 to $6,000,XGA projectors will l ist anywhere from$10,000 and up!

"Many customers are now upgradingfrom the SVGA to XGA projectors becausethey' ve upgraded their laptops to thosehigher resolutions too," according to Paroo.

"The reason you don't want to run thehigh-res compression routine on an SVGAlaptop is that you have to turn the screen ofthe laptop off so you can't use it as a refer-ence," says Paroo. "A lot of presenters need touse the laptop's screen as a reference — it's likea lifeline= so they' ll spend the extra money toget the capability of high-res projection withsimultaneous high-res monitoring."

The next important factor in buying aprojector is the type of presentation envi-ronment you' re working in and how muchcontrol you have over it. Calculating therequired number of ANSI lumens is easy ifyou' re going to be making all your presen-tations in the same environment. But forthose taking their show on the road, bal-ancing brightness against cost, size andweight is a m ore complex equation.However, 600 ANSI lumens is consideredplenty for most business presentation envi-ronmehts.

The weight of a projector is another seri-ous consideration, especially if you plan tomount it on a wafl or ceiling, or travel withit. If doing the latter, the frequency andmode of travel should also be consideredwhen deciding how much you are willingto tote around.

Projectors fall into three weight classes:ultraportable, which is less than 4 kg. (8.8lb.); portable, which is between 4 and 7 kg(8.8 to 15.4 lb.); and desktop projector,which is anything greater than 7 kg (15,4lb.). Some desktop projector heavyweightstip the scales at 15 kg (32 lb.).

"Sizes have gotten smaller in the pastyear," says Paroo."The sub-10 lb. fsub-4.5kg] category is where the most advance-ments have been made in terms of yieldinghigher quality output but in that l ighterweight class,"

InFocus has taken such advancements tothe extreme with its new LT-330 DragonflyDLP projector, which has XGA capabilitiesand casts 650 ANSI lumens. At 2.2 kg (4,9 lb.)this machine w i l l be t he sm a l lest(2.5x8.75x9.75 in.) and lightest available (itis due for release in June). Joy says recentimprovements in DLP technology and lampand bulb design (which reduce heat andpower requirements) have made it possibleto put all this power in such a smafl package.Unfortunately, it s e stimated price-US$7,0QQ — is not nearly as diminutive.

Brightness tipWhat you are projecting your images ontocan make a big difference in the final bright-ness of your images. A 600 ANSI lumen pro-jector will look very good even on the aver-age white wall. But Paroo says a new product,Instant Theatre, can maximize the impact ofyour projections. Instant Theatre is a smallmylar screen packaged in a tube with tele-scopic legs, like home-movie screens of yore.But at 1.35 kg (3 lb.), Instant Theatre is muchlighter and more portable.

large screen monitorsAnother presentation medium is the large-screen monitor — which can be based oncathode ray tube (CRT), LCD or gas plasmatechnologies. CRTs are, of course, the stan-dard TV-like monitors we' ve all lived with foryears — they' re just making them bigger thesedays, LCD versions are only now enteringthe large-screen category because recentimprovements in the manufacturing processhave made bigger panels more affordable.

Because of the developments in projectortechnology, monitors are gradually beingbeing phased out for use in presentations.Gas plasma monitors, however, are theexception. Despite the high cost of this tech-nology, there is growing interest in usingthese displays for presentation purposes.

Gas plasma begins with a sheet of glassonto which a f ine grid of raised ribs isapplied, according to an NEC release. A coat-ing of red, green and blue phosphor materialis deposited into the spaces on the grid. Eachset of three adjacent cells, one of each color,constitutes a pixel. A second glass plate isplaced on top of the assembly, trapping agas — helium, neon or x enon — inside.Electrodes are embedded in the glass plates.

Selectively applying voltages to the elec-trodes causes the gas inside to dischargeultraviolet light, which in turn causes thephosphor to fluoresce, sending colored lightout to the viewer. The individual cell struc-ture and selective voltage technology. enablethe plasma display to produce even illumina-tion and exceptional image quality at largescreen sizes.

The key difference between LCD and thistechnology is that gas plasma actually emitslight while LCD requires backlighting tobroadcast images.

The image produced by gas plasma isexceptional — as is the price. A large (20 inch)LCD might cost a few thousand dollars,while a similar size gas plasma panel bearsthe same price tag as many a new car($15,000 or more). As with LCD monitors,gas plasma monitors can stand alone or behung on the wafl like a painting, which is anadvantage where space is at a premium.

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While all of those features were great, thereal difference from my previous encounterswith Windows CE systems lay in the stabili-ty of the applications, and the breadth oftheir abilities. The MobilePro comes withPocket versions of Word, Excel, Outlook,Access and PowerPoint.

None of these applications offer anythinglike the number of features provided by theirdesktop counterparts, but th,ey are a lot bet-ter than earlier implementations. PocketWord, for example, now comes with built-inspell-checking, document outlining andmultiple levels of "undo." If Microsoft wouldonly put a "wordhount" feature (an essentialfeature for all freelance writers), the basic fea-ture set of this product would feel complete.

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This is a huge contrast to my notebookcomputer, which can take several minutes tostart from a "cold boot" and is often a bitflaky when I use the built-in "resume" mode.

With this latest generation of WindowsCE machines, it was also very useful to beable to swap CompactFlash memory car-tridges, allowing me to use a single cartridgeto store files from three different mobilecomputers (the MobilePro, the Jornada and aPsion Series 5) along with Epson's PhotoPC

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At any rate, I hope to be able to reportmore on my adventures with the MobileProand other new Windows CE devices in thenear future as I believe this technology mayfinally be "ready for prime time." 0

Avoiding presentation gotchasContinued from page 116errors and misplaced graphics then shinedown on an audience of hundreds of people.

In an effort to help out at a presentationabout a planned construction project, I oncemade this very mistake. In one slide, we weredue to have a number of architectural draw-ings that showed off the new building. Theonly problem was, that when we got to thatslide, PowerPoint was having real problemsdisplaying the graphic.

In a desperate attempt to get the graphic onthe screen, I opened up the raw data file inMicrosoft Photo Editor only to find that thedrawing was sideways. As the architect ner-vously worked through the prepared text thatwas to introduce this slide, I furiously tried touse the rotation tool in Photo Editor to get thedrawing moved by 90 degrees. A slow processorand limited hard disk space on the notebookcomputer, however, prevented that from hap-pening. I eventually stopped the rotation and,just as I was scrambling to try it again, the archi-tect got to the part of his presentation in whichhe needed the sIide. So I did the only thing Icould. I switchel on the projector, projected thesideways image and then picked up the projec-tor, tumed it on its side (to hoots of laughterfmm the audience) and displayed the image.

I would not recommend this strategy toanyone, but it illustrates the need for prepa-ration and rehearsal.

Notehook notesAnother thing to keep in mind is that youwill likely be giving your presentation using anotebook computer. Notebook computers arewonderful things, but they have severalunique features that you have to be aware ofwhen doing a presentation. Probably themost important of these is the fact that note-books are designed to maximize battery life.That means they will try to go into someform of suspend mode if you don't touch thekeyboard for a specified period of time (suchas the minute or two that it takes you to talkthrough a given slide). With some LCD pro-jectors, the link between the projector andthe notebook can disappear if this happens,and you may have to hit several keys in orderto re-establish it. The long and short of this isthat you should disable all power-manage-ment functions during a presentation.

One other thing you need to be carefulabout is your screen saver. If you have ascreen saver running on your notebookcomputer — particularly one that mightembarrass you if seen by hundreds of peo-ple — switch it off during your presentation.Again, this is because the screen saver couldcome on if the keyboard hasn't beentouched for a minute or two.

As with the power management func--tions, you could also set a longer delay peri-od — say an hour — for the screen saver so youwouldn't have to switch it of'f during thepresentation.

These are just a few'of the technologicalissues to consider when preparing a comput-er-powered presentation. Good luck! 0

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I attended the launch of this product atFail Comdex '98 in Las Vegas in November.Since NetWare 5.0 had already shipped inSeptember, the obvious question for theNovell presenters at Corndex was, "Why basethe Smafl Business package on NetWare 4.2,and not the latest version'?" There were sev-eral reasons given, but the most plausibleseemed to be that, because of the integrationwork and testing required, it was too early torelease a version of the suite based onNetWare 5,0. We weretold to expect it some-t ime in l 9 99. Whi lewriting this column, Iw as n o t i f ied t ha tNovell Small BusinessSuite 5.0 had enteredbeta testing, so it is rea-sonable to expect a ver-sion to ship by the endof the suinmer.

Replacing NetWare4.2 with 5.0 is not theo nly change in t h eSmall Business suite. Aninteresting, and perhapsmost significant, changeis in the name — replac-i ng N e tWare wi t hNovell. Other changesinclude the upgrading(or ju s t al te r ing,depending on y ourpoint of view) of severalappfications in the suite. Novell didn' tinclude details on price or upgrade programs,but they will be available at the Novell Website (hitp J/www.novell.corn) when announced.

NetWare va Wlnetewa NTOne of the major differences betweenNetWare and Windows NT is that the latteroffers a much better choke of server-basedapplications. Creating NetWare LoadableModules (NLMs) to run on NetWare is amore difficult programming feat than creat-ing a program with similar features to run onWindows NT Server.

Novell has decided that the long-termsolution for this problem is to support Javaapplications on NetWare 5.0. At somepoint in the future, there may be a goodchoice of such applications, but for new, ifyour needs are not met by the applicationsin NetWare for Small Business 4.2, youmust add an application server to yourLAN. Depending on the server-based appli-cations you need, that wouM mean run-ning Windows NT, Linux, or some versionof Unix. All of these platforms presentmore applications than NetWare. Onlyoffices that want to get by with a singleserver, or that don't want the complexityof supporting two server operating systems,are deterred by this option.

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GroupWise works best with a dedicatedInternet connection. That represents a high-

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Netcom Canada,one of the major ISPsserving the corporatemarket, provided mewith a paper entitledThe Danger of ETRN toexplain why it doesn' tsupport it. It describesKTRN as "an attemptto address the inabilityof the SMTP protocolto function betweendial-up connections

between two SMP servers." It goes on topoint out the performance and security"headaches" associated with EfRN,

This is one side of the story, to be sure,but I think it's wise to consider how youwould implement GroupWise before com-mitting to it.

Excellent IretelratlonNetWare for Small Business 4.2 is an excel-lent, integrated package that meets the n'requirements of most businesses with fewerthan 50 computers. If your operation is suffi-dently sophisticated that you require func-tionality not included in this suite, youshould have no problem adding an applica-tion server to your NetWare LAN to run theapplication of your choke.

Pll write more about NetWare once-I havetried out Small Business Suite 5.0, but fornow, I'd like to offer a few technical tips thatmay be useful for offices using NetWare.

One of the reasons for NetWare's speedyperformance is the way it uses RAM forcaching. Without sufflcient RAM, two differ-ent kinds of problems can arise: NetWare'sperformance declines dramatically, andworse, it can become unstable. Versions ofNetWare prior to NetWare 5.0 cannot use vir-tual memory when memory requirementsexceed physical memory. Thus, it is impor-tant to populate a NetWare server with suffi-dent RAM.

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Most readers, however, will already befamiliar with many of the menus andicons. Frr.e, Enrr, Vraw, Ruw, Wrwoow, HeLt'menus should be familiar toany WordPerfect, Excel, orNetscape users. ln our example,icons for FILs Oraw, Fir,a SAve,CvT, Corv„PAsra, Frwn, Rvw tao-GaAMs, PAvsa PaooaAM, HAr.TPaooaAIA can be seen along thetoolbar. Along with built-inwizards and custom commandcentres in some controls, theseare the heart of VB.

4. Pre)ect ExplorerThe Project Explorer helps youaccess all the forms and coding

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n response to reader requests, this monthwe' ll look at the benefits of using yourword processor's master document func-

tion when preparing large documents.A master document allows you to manage

a hrge project as a series of smaller documents.Each of the smaller or suMocuments can beedited separately, then brought together forfinal printing. Or, you can edit aII the docu-ments by opening and expanding the masterdocument. This allows you, for example, tomove text from one subdocument to another.

I' ll d iscuss master documents inMicrosoft Word 97. These features work sim-ilarly (but not exactly the same) in other ver-sions of Word. I' ve also included some briefstarter notes for master documents functionsin Corel WordPerfect and Lotus Word Pro.

One of the benefits of using master docu-ments in Word is that the styles in each sub-document will be "overridden" by the stylesin the master document. So, provided youuse the same style names in all your subdoc-uments, the formatting will be consistentw ithin the master document when i t i sassembled and printed. You can also formatthe master so page numbers flow correctlythrough the subdocuments correctly, andcmss references and footnotes are automati-cally updated within the master document.

ProvisoWhile Word 97 overcomes many of the mas-ter document problems found in earlier ver-sions of the word processor, it's by no meansfaultless. There is an extensive troubleshoot-ing section in Word 97 Help devoted to mas-ter documents.

Microsoft Knowledge Base also has anexcellent summary article that containsmuch of the information from Word Help.Microsoft will send it to you (as it will anyKnowledge Base article) if you send an emailto mshelpCemicrosoft.corn that includes thearticle number (Q180142) in the subject line.

Another article (Q164458) covers theissue of corrupt master documents and con-tains a link to a utility (mdocutl.exe) to fixthem. You can download it from http: //supportmicrosoft.corn/supporI/downioads/LNP1 52.asp.

Creatlni a master documentYou can create a master document fromscratch or by assembling a range of existingdocuments. To do this, you' ll use Word'sMaster Document view and a process whichis similar to Word's Outlining function.

To start a Master Document, create a newdocument and select View, Master Documentand type the following text using thesestyles, which you can select from the Styledropdown list on the Formatting toolbar:

format as this style:Heading 1Heading 2Heading 3Heading 3Heading 2Heading 3Heading 3Heading 2Heading 3Heading 3

ment icon.

Savln9 your documentsWhen you save your master document allthe subdocuments are automatically saved inseparate files at the same time. Word alsonames each subdocument using the first fewwords from the subdocument. For ease"'ofworking, you should save a master document(and, consequently, its subdocuments) in aseparate folder. To do this select File, Saveand locate the folder to use or select theCreate New Folder button. Give your masterdocument a name and click Save.

Now select File, Close to close your file.To see how Word displays your master docu-ment as a title with hyperlinks to each sub-document, select File, then Open. Noticethat the title is the only text that appears inthe master document — all the other text iscontained in the subdocuments.

To open a subdocument click on thehyperlink and the file will open in a separatewindow for editing. You also have the optionof opening the contents of suMocumentswithin the master document by switching tothe master document and selecting theExpand Subdocuments button.

Sharini the workOne benefit of using master documents isthat you can share the work on a projectwith other people. Each suMocument can be

The choice of styles is critical to theprocess. Heading 1 is the title of the masterdocument and Heading 2 will be the startingpoint for every suMocument that will be cre-ated. Heading 3 is the heading style for sub-headings within the suMocument.

When you are creating your own masterdocuments, stick to using these headings forthese purposes. So, there should only be oneHeading I in your document, and eachHeading 2 will become the beginning of anew subdocument. Lower level headings willbe subheadings in the subdocuments.

Remember that you can always changethe heading styles so you' re not stuck withtheir default appearance. Styles should bechanged in the masterdocument so they willoverride any style defini-tions in subdocuments.

Select all the textfrom (and including)Toolbars to the end ofthe document and selectthe Create Subdocumentbutton on the MasterDocument toolbar. Worduses the style of the firstline of text you havehighlighted as the styleto begin each subdocu-m ent. B ecause y o uselected t he wordToolbar first and its styleis Heading 2, a new sub-document will be creat-ed whenever Word In Word 97 you can erencounters a piece of useillaadocamintotext formatted with theHeading 2 style.

You' ll see each subdocument in the mas-ter document screen surrounded by a box. Inthe top left comer of the box is the subdocu-

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When you' re working on a master docu-ment with the subdocuments expanded, youmay prefer to switch to another view such asNormal view (select View, then Normal) towork on the document. This is a more famil-iar environment than the Master Documentview for most people.

Other optionsOften you' ll want to add a subdocument to amaster document. To do this, open the mas-ter document and select the ExpandSuMocuments button. Put your cursor in theplace you want the new subdocument toappear (this should be between suMocu-ments not within one) and click the InsertSubdocument button. Locate the fi le toinsert and click OK.

You can remove a subdocument from themaster document by first selecting theExpand Subdocuments button, then selectthe subdocument's icon and select theRemove Subdocument button. This removesthe subdocument and moves the text it con-tained into the master document. If youwant to delete the suMocument, select thesubdocument icon and press the Delete key.

Similarly you can move a subdocumentby clicking and dragging its Subdocumenticon to the new position in the master doc-

You can easily create indexes and tablesof contents from your master document by

opened as you would any other document byselecting File, Open and locating the fi lename and dicking Open.

Other people in your office, or elsewhere,can open and edit a subdocument withoutneeding access to the other suMocuments orthe master document.

You' ll probably find, even if you' re theonly person working on a document, that itis easier to open a single subdocument thatrequries editing than it is to open the masterdocument.

You will need to use the master docu-ment, however, when moving or copyingdata from one document to another. To dothis, open the master document and select

WOPIIPIPleCt 8WordPerfect uses the same terminology asWord, induding master documents and sub-documents. Style definitions in the masterdocument override those in the subdocu-ments. However, WordPerfect has a simplerapproach to master documents and doesn' tdisplay them in Outline format, which makesthem a little easier to work with.

opening it and selecting the ExpandSubdocuments button. To create a table ofcontents, for example, position your cursorwhere the table of contents is to appear andselect Insert, Index and Tables and select theTable of Contents tab. Select a style from thelist and click OK to create the table.

If you view your master document inMaster Document view and select theShow/Hide 'I button on the Standard tool-bar you' ll see the section breaks that appearbetween subdocuments. You can use thisview to control the final layout of your doc-ument. A section break labeled Continuousmeans the text following the section breakwill appear immediately after the break Asection break labeled New Page means thetext following the break will start on a newpage.

You can alter a section break by openingthe master document and select ExpandSubdocuments. Move the insertion point soit appears immediately after the desired sec-tion break and select File, Page Setup, andselect the Layout tab. From the Section Startdropdown list select the type of section breakyou want. From the Apply To: dropdown listselect This Section and click OK. You canchoose Continuous or New Page as well asspecifying that text following a section breakappear on an odd or even page.

Be careful if you rename or move a sub-document. Unless you do this from withinthe master document, 'Word won't knowwhere the document has been moved to andit won't be able to find the document when 'you next open the master document. If youneed to rename or move a subdocument,open the master document and click on thesubdocument you want to rename to open itin its own window. Select File, Save As andgive the file a new name or save it to a dif-ferent folder (or both). Once you' ve donethis, you can switch to the master documentand close it (make sure you save the subdoc-ument first, however).

Printing optionsAs a rule of thumb if you select Print whenyour master document is open you' ll printout a copy of what is currently visible onyour computer screen. For example, if thesubdocuments are collapsed and only thehyperlinks are viewable, then only thehyperlinks will be printed.

If you select Expand Subdocuments andyou can see the text from each of the sub-documents, the entire document and thestyles and other options such as page num-bers wfll print.

If you' re editing a subdocument in itsown window and you select Print, only thatsubdocument with styles and other docu-ment options specific to that document willprint.

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You can create a master document bysimply creating a regular WordPerfect file.Wherever you want to add a subdocumentselect File, Document, Subdocument andselect the document you want to create alink to and click Include. Repeat this for alldocuments you want to add as subdocu-

To display the text of subdocuments inyour m aster d o cument s e lect F i l e ,Document, Expand Master. Select the sub-

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documents to view and click OK. Collapsethe subdocuments by s e lecting F i le,Document, Condense Master. You' ll see adialog with all the files listed twice — once forclosing and once for saving. Select OK to saveand close all the subdocuments.

To remove a subdocument you' ll need toreveal the codes in the master document(View, Reveal Codes) and click and drag thesubdocument's code out of the Reveal Codeswindow.

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Master documents in Word Pro are treateda little differently than in WordPerfect andWord. Each subdocument is a separate divi-sion in the master document, and as eachfile uses its own SmartMaster, you can cus-tomize styles in each file. You can createindexes and tables of contents across theentire document and print with sequentialpage numbers.

To create a master document, selectCreate, Master Document. Select the Addbutton, locate a file to add to the masterdocument and click Open. Click OK whenall the files you want to include in the mas-ter document have been added. You canalso add internal divisions to your masterdocument by selecting Create, Division.Each document will be accessible by click-ing its tab. If the tabs are not visible, selectView, Set View Preferences, select the Showtab, and select the Show Divider Tabscheckbox and click OK. Every time youopen the master document Word Pro willopen all the external files (subdocuments)„and any changes you make to the masterdocument will be reflected in the subdocu-ments. 0

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Because of the quality and pervasivenessof VB and VBA, we believe they deserve bet-ter. Hence this series. So below are a list offive book resources we have selected forbeginning to advanced users.

Reading listVisual Basic 6in Plain EnglishAuthor. Brian OverlandPublisher. Overland, Nl &T BooksPrice: $86Level: Beginner to intermediate. Good intro to anumber of topics.

Beginning Visual BasicAuthor. Peter WrightPublisher. WROXPrice: $56Level: Beginner. Makes no assumptions about read-er's programming background.

Visual Basic 6 UnleashedAuthor. Rob ThayerPublisher. BarnsPrice: $58Level: Intermediate. Includes comprehensive cover-age of features.

Visual Basic 6 Black BookAuthor. Steven HolznerPublisher. CoriolisPrice: $70Level: Gradually advanced coverage of components,the Web, and databases.

The Waifs Group's Visual Basic 6 Dafahase How-ToAuthor. The Waite GroupPublisher. SamsPrice: S57Level: Oevoted to VB database bisks.PROMeTSIC WWW. PPI VCih. COm

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This recent f inding aboutToronto, if true, is significant for acouple of reasons. First, it indicatesthat we Canadians continue to bevery modest about our achieve-ments — to the extent of not evennotidng them. Second, just as webegin to sense Toronto's quietachievement, there are indicationsthat its invisible golden age may be

For the past couple of years,Toronto has enjoyed a sustainedeconomic boom that only cameafter an equally sustained econom-ic recession. "New economy" sec-tors, induding high tech, enter-tainment, financial services andtourism, have contributed mightilyto that boom. Toronto needs somefat years to try to make up for thelingering debt, cutbacks and unem-ployment assodated with the 1992

A success% Toronto is also goodnews for the rest of Canada, sincethe GTA generates a disprOportio-ate amount of the export and taxrevenues that help propel thenation's economy and fund its socialprograms. There are more than 3,400technology firm in the GTA, indud-ing thousands of Canadian firms ofall sizes, and hundreds of Canadianhead offices of multinational (most-ly American) firns.

Cone globalM uch to the annoyance of the 26million Canadians who don't livein the GTA, Toronto's legendarycollective opinion of itself as thecentre of the universe now hasmore legitimacy, at least in theCanadian technology field. Thereasons for this are many: it has aconcentration of highguality uni-versities, a deep pool of highlyskilled technical professionals,excellent transportation and tele-com infrastructure, proximity tothe eastern and central U.S. mar-kets, job opportunities for skilledmigrants from COOT and abroad,and many more.

To be fair, Toronto has also hadthe luck of becoming the technolo-gy metropolis of Canada somewhatby default. Montreal was Canada'soriginal cosmopolitan centre, butthe last 30 years of debate over®ebec's future have stymied itseconomy and growth and it appearsincapable of catching up. No matterwhat the outcome of the sepa-ratism/sovereignty issue, it seemsvery unlikely that Montreal willever again be more than a regionalcentre of modest significance incontinental high-tech terms.

Similarly, the pockets of tech-nological activity in other regionalcentres, such as Vancouver,Calgary, Ottawa and Halifax, willfind it hard to gain the critical massto challenge Toronto, much lessSilicon Valley, New York, LosAngeles, Boston and other NorthAmerican, centres. Even the

Don't tax me, don't tax thee,tax that man behind the treeOn April 27, John Roth, the chiefexecutive officer of N orthernTelecom (Nortel), one of the fewtruly global Canadian brandnames, joined a chorus of seniorCanadian business executivesclaiming that high federal andprovincial taxes and other "busi-ness unfriendly" policies wereputting pressure on Canadian tech-nology firms to leave this country.

Whenever Canadian businessesclaim government polides are forc-ing them to look outside Canada tomake investments, a natural suspi-cion is that this unhappiness stems

Kitchener/ Waterloo area west ofToronto, a hotbed of high-techactivity, tends to act as a super-sub-urb of Toronto more than an inde-pendent entity.

The most ironic aspect of therecent survey, however, was that atthe exact same time it was released,some of Canada's top technologyexecutives were warning that theymight have to pull out of Canadain order to remain globally com-petifive.

There's a new reason for COOT (Canada Outside OfToronto) to hate Hogtown: the Greater Toronto Area really

is a 'world class' high-tech centre for now, anywayfrom a desire for preferential taxbreaks, grants, and other lucrativefavors. All over the world, hugelyprofitable companies squeeze favorsout of governments as a form ofeconomic extortion. "Pay up or I' llshoot these jobs," would be oneway to characterize this strategy.

Unfortunately, in a global econ-omy full of governmentsravenousfor jo~ a t ing private investment,this tactic increasingly works like acharm for multinationals playinghardball. However, it's not all a sim-ple case of corporate welfare burnsat the trough. According to Roth, itisn't just corporations and moneythat flit around the world. It's alsohighly talented individuals.

Leadingwdge technology com-panies are absolutely dependent onthat rarest of natural resources-exceptionally creative humanthoughts. According to Roth,Nortel loses up to 500 engineerseach year to U.S. competitors,largely for economic reasons — thepay there is better and taxes lower.

The IPO frenzyOnce again, there is a mix of mediaspin and truth in this argument.While it's true that a world dassnerd can often command a highersalary and pay lower taxes in theU.S., it's also true that among thebreaks business leaders are demand-ing are tax exemptions on stockoptions. These extra financial incen-tives usually benefit senior execu-tives or shareholders, much morethan the actual creative talent.

Established companies often domore to drive away their brightyoung minds than any of the gov-emment policies they criticize.One of the biggest incentives for acrackerjack programmer or engi-neer to leave Nortel for, say, anInternet startup company is that alittle leading-edge company maybe willing to offer equity in theform of stock to the new employeewhen the company "goes public"with its initial public offering (IPO)of stock. Bigger, stodgier compa-nies, run by accountants andlawyers, look coldly on sharingownership with "the hired help."In fact, they are much more likelyto downsize and cut back

Big fish eat little fishThere is only a relative handful ofCanadian companies such asNortel that have become players ona world scale while retaining astrong Canadian identity. It's much

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Toronto is doing somethingright as far as offering an environ-ment for the creation of world-beating new technology. It wouldbe better to rationally try tounderstand how that success hasbeen achieved, before we eithersee it slip away, or futilely throwmoney at companies blamingtheir troubles on the governmentand trying to dodge their respon-

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