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a brand new car can do. A 10-yearold stereo
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question we field cable channels. But have you tried to run the
in, the editorial latest operating system or use the latest muld epartment i s
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just two camps. There are the early adopters,
who buy the latest computer technology,
regardlessof the price, and then there"severybody else.
Most of us areeverybody else. Wewant or

The general manager of a leading PC manufacturer tald me recentlythat there'6 a correction in the personal computer market every
several years, and that we are now in one of
those correction phases. If you read the technology news, you' ll find reports that companies are holding lots of unsold inventory, nd

times just can't afford it. So we play a strate-

and PC designs hit the retail shelves.

Whether you take an optimistic or pessimistic view, the fact is that some significant

that prices will continue to fall.

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out that their processors have the additional

benefit of using the non-proprietary Slot 7

design. IBM and Compaq are two leading
computer manufacturers that are using AMD
and Cyrix processors in some of their personal computer models. I recentiiy saw IBM

advertising its Ambra Ispirati 300 series,

based on the Cyrix Z00 MHz MediaGX chip,
for $999.
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But even $1,000 is a lot of money for many

consumers, a fact recognized by Acer, the
largest computer maker in Taiwan. Acer has
announced the X Computer or XCwhich is
a PC-like computing appliance that will be
limited in function or expandability compared to a personal computer, but also much
less expensive than a PC. Prices for these will
beginataround $300,and we may seeexamples of them some time this year, according

being so low. If you are a pessimist, you

might conclude that now is not a good time
to buy, because manufacturers are merely to Acer.
Acer's chief executive officer, Stan Shih,
dumping technology that will be obsolete the
need a more powerful system, but we some- moment the next generations of processors predicts that within 10 years, XC devices will
gicgame, trying to pick the sweetest time to
buy
not to soon, because the price will be
toa high; but not too late, because we' ll be
stuck with technology that's too ancient.
As an item of mass consumption, the

computer occupies an unusual niche.

Looking at its physical characteristics, it is

easy to throw the computer in with TV sets,

stereos and other consumer electronics
devices, or hard goods in general. However, if
we consider the useful life span of a typical
computer system, we' re talking about a duration more characteristic of perishable goods.

When readers ask if now is the right time to

buy, what they' re really trying to figure out is

appliances envisioned by Acer include the KC

{Kids Computer), GC (Game Computer), EC
visions of what the personal computer will (Education Computer) and INC (Internet
look like by the end of the year,
Computer).
In March, Intel announced its roadmap to
To come full circle, The Computer Paper
computing's future. Intel is splitting the PC will probably still get a lot of people asking
into
t h r e e pe r formance s t reams: when's the best time to buy a computer, and
Enthusiast/Professional PCs, Performance the editors will continue to give fuzzy
PCs, and Basic PCs,
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not for older technology, but for less techCPU makersremains to be seen. AMD and nology.
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I always enjoy reading your TCP Test Labs

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you didn't give any hard numbers on the cost

per page to print with each printer The cost

printing on any printer.

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both the PP 10v and the 4508 take standard

I also noted that when you discussed the SIMMs,and have good expandability, I'd say
articles as it helps me to get a quick grasp and cost of consumables for printers in general, you were correct in your choice of the Fujttsu

cle by Steve Halinda on laser printers under af a printer really comes in the cost of the
$1000 since I' ve had my eye on a couple for consumables; for instance, even though the
my own office. Generally, it was a very good Okipage 4W is very cheap to purchase, it' s
article.
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I would like to comment that often in the the Fujitsu PP10v.
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printer business is like the razor blade business in that they really made the money on
the consumables, not the printers. Maybe
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cost of operating them since that is the real
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existence of W3C, and the fart that HTMI. verification engines exist.
However, she missed out the fact that
W3C has "products" out there which are very
helpful with Web design. The "old" experimental Web browser "arena" and the newer
browser "amaya" are both available on a vari-

ety of platforms (and as source code), and they

both do a fair job of judging the legality/compliance of any existing Web document. Not
bad for something that is free.
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Content rules!
Wendy Boulding's article "Writing for the Web"
in the April edition is the most intelligent story

you have ever run. Content that is, the comfortable couch. When a Web site has no text
thoughts expressed in the text is the only rea- I move on, because there are millions that do.
son that would make me interested in a Web site.
Bert Staddon
Your series "Weaving your own Web site"
and most of the other stories you run, pre- DT replies: I wouhl rgue tluit good contentand
sume fatuously that pictures and clever good design are preferable to either lone. Howr~n; I
tricks can make a Web site worth visiting.
think I .see
your point that ojteii, flashy design is used
If I wanted to admire graphics and special to substitirtefor a lack of substance. Thi s is true of
effects I would buy a television set and a more ll mass media', notjiist what we see on the Wi'b.

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So many businessesuse this device to
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office" that it can turn off business. When I
get an answering machine instead of a human
voice my first instinct is to call another company that answers the telephone. A receptionist is expensive and does not necessarily
improve the situation when the people she jor
he] is covering for are not around.
God bless the receptionists and the office
administrators because they are the backbone
of 'most business communications systems.
Digital Equipment was labeled in a computer magazine as having an unacceptable
response-to-customer-call time in a customer
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get a busy signal at least they know you are at
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At our small company we use mobile telephones. We do no t h ave an answering
machine because our business plan states
"When a customer calls we will answer...".
If you are unable to handle the calls,
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and email to off-set the load,
Another item in your article talks about
advancedcontact management and communications utilities. These products are marvelous
if you have the time to learn how to use them.
Anyone who thinks they can put these programs to productive use right out of the box is
fooling themselves. Definitely get them and
definitely work at developing your user skills
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to learn them. They are one of the perseverance tests sent by a greater being to find out
early in the game if you have "the r'ight stuff."
I see publications such as The (:r>wpvter
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but still functioned sufficiently to display
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"Not too long after he reported his notebook missing, Songin learned the local bomb
squad was alerted to a suspicious, unattended
box,n said Morgan Khalili, a spokesperson of
NEC. After sending a robot to X-ray the contents, the bomb squad determined the box
contained a device with cables and wires.
In such cases, devices are exploded with
enough force to detonate any potential bomb,
but, hopefully, not enough to destroy the contents, reported NEC. Instead of a bomb, the
squad found what remained of Songin's Versa
notebook and some peripherals. The speakers,
CD-ROM drive, and battery pack were damaged, as were the top panel and screen of the
notebook.
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allowed him to send an email to NEC's customer service division. nyou make one rugged
machine," he wrote. "I did not see much harm
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ready, but i nstead the password screen
appeared. A quick check showed that all the
tiles and software were undamaged and fully
operational."
The theft is still under investigation at this
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The personal computer is the numberone tool for administrators and small
business owners.
SO percent of respondents have email,
but only two-thirds of them think it has a
postive effect on productivity.

pay-once concept for photo images

Photo Collective lnc. in Fast Selkirk, Man., has
released a nine-volume set of photographic
images on CD-ROM. According to Merc
Gallant, director of Photo Collective, this is as
much a labor of love as it is a commercial venture. A professional photojournalist by trade,

never heard of a notebook surviving a bomb

blast and we are proud of the Versa's durabiltiy, but we certainly don't recommend this
as a way for people to test their notebooks,"
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frustration rules the workplace: Avery
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mains. Connection speeds of at l east I
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than ISDN. The new technology, branded the
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easier, Nortel says, and will provide a simple
interface to a whole range of devices.
Nortel spokeswoman Michelle Murray says
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England. The upgraded DPL 1000 version is
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HANOVER, Germany (NB) CeBIT Computer

(CIM) and Automated Data Capture (ADC)

Faire, Germany's annual seven-day computer came in fourth position with four football staand technology show, has always seemed dium-sized halls and 864 exhibitors up from
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ogy, and talking about plans for new chips in unveiled a US$999 videoconferencing unit disk), but extends the technology into the
the coming year. Merced is a new 64-bit tech- that plugs into a standard TV and supports read/write arena for the first time. In the
nology that will allow intel to move on up to dialup modem and ISDN (integrated service demos, officials from the six companies
the upcoming 0.18 micron technology, digital network) connections. The unit sup- showed digital bitmap files being written to
expected at the end of this year, and a great ports all the major videoconferencing stan- disk in real time, and then read back into the
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2000. Intel officials say they can push the standard TV set, the unit connects to all exist- gigabytes (GB) of removable data storage
technology as high as 400 MHz in a Pentium ing videoconferencing room and PC systems, c apacity. Each DVD+RW drive will u se
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CATA recruits European workers
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to Canada. CATA officials estimate Canadian spreadsheet; Starlmpress, a graphics and pre- lomega Zip drive unit with a difference a
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is not producing enough people with the right a trio of I nternet connectivity apps; and
known as the MicroZip. Launching the 100
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ccordingto one of the world's most v i r us infections currently being reported unknown flaws in the most commonly used
knowledgeable c o m puter vi r u s a r e n't even the result of deliberate human office software suite.
e xperts, a majority of the computer a c t i on. T hey ar e b e ing g enerated b y .
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different computer virus types known to
exist, they currently account for over 80
percent of reported computer virus incidents. In other words, macro viruses are
more infectious than m or e t r aditional
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Viruses spontaneously mutating

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MS Word and M S Excel documents
exchanged over corporate networks or the
Internet every day. Once a Word macro
virus, for example, is introduced onto a network as part of an infected document, it can
copy itself rapidly to large numbers of documents on computers of users all over the
network who read the infected file, if no
virus checking software is operating.
However, Nachenberg claims that what
is even more interesting (or alarming) is
that 70 percent of macro viruses being sent
by computer end users to SARC for study
appearto have been spontaneously generated, or "mutated" from originally harmless
macros, rather than being the deliberate
product of nasty virus-writing humans.
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either spoiled and unusable, or the minor
change is unnoticeable.
However, out of the many millions of
Word documents containing macros that
are created each day, a tiny number of
"viable," infectious macro viruses are being
spontaneously, randomly generated. It's a
little like the old saying ttht if you had a

that have been spontaneously changed,

rather than deliberately reprogrammed by
humans. He claims the problem doesn' t
appear to exist on documents created within MS Office 97, although macro viruses in
Office 95 documents survive conversion
into Office 97 format. Short of Microsoft
recognizing and fixing it, the problem may

only go away as computer users all around

the world move away from MS Office 95 to

the Office 97 version.
We asked Microsoft Canada about this,
and Anne McKeon, product manager for
huge number of monkeys typing endlessly desktop applications responded: "From
away on keyboards, by the laws of chance, what I' ve been able to garner from our technicians, two legitimate macros can combine
eventually one of them would write the
in
a Word document, causing it to break,
works of Shakespeare.
The global scale of MS Word macro cre- and causing a virus to occur. It is very, very
unlikely to occur, almost never... more typation allows for a lot of random experimenting. Nachenberg claims that although ically the resulting macro would break, and
be inactive."
Microsoft denies any flaw in Office 95 is
Another source close t o M i c rosoft
associated with t h i s p h enomenon, the
SARC lab has many examples of macros explained it to us in th e following way:
"Say theuser has a set a macros from PC
Docs with AutoClose macros. Now they
become infected with the CAP virus, which
includes a macro called AutoClose. They
now have a set of macros that will exhibit
virus like behaviors, but is neither the CAP
virus in t otal, nor t h e o riginal, benign
macros. This does not occur in Microsoft
Office 97 because there is a fail on the copy
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biological analogy is cross-breeding, rather
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mutated. In sum, where viruses are comprised of sets of more than one macro, they
may be combined on macro copy with
existing macros [either viruses or benign

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macros "mating," randomly combining
their virus code to form a third, different
virus. This "mating" behavior takes place
when a macro virus attempts to copy itself
onto the macro file of a document that has
already been infected by another macro
virus. The infecting computer virus inserts a
copy of its code into the other macro, sometimes creating a new macro with elements
of both viruses. Again, as with the spontaneous mutant viruses described above, the
new combination of instructions caused by
virus "mating" may be non-viable, but in a
few cases, the combined macro virus is capable of replicating itself.
These examples of unintended conseq uences of technology, if t h ey can b e
proven to have actually occurred, are worth
considering with some care. If computer
code shows the ability, out of trillions of
examples, to spontaneously create even a
few new, functioning programs without
direct human intervention, what does this
say aboutthe possible consequences of biotechnology, where we are creating billions
of new genetic combinations through automated gene splicing processes, some involving "trans-genic" combinations of human,
plant, bacterial and animal genetic code? Cl

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. DESKTOP VIDEO EDITING

Not quite ready for prime-,:tin:

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on computers.
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digital video,
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little snippets

of QuickTime
or .AVI anima-

tions, was generally poor,

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lowly PC.

to 'have beeri'.taking:lessons: even average@video (DV) tapjj o rinat. offers a high,.;

Pentium PCS-'and I'ov eiMacs have acquired q uality video recording m'ediurn to seri-"

.. the sh'eer processing muscle:to play ba'ck video @:. ous vldge':enthusiasts and; commercial
-,. decent qua)ity; B+n more remarkably;with some::producers, at a reasonable price (under

' '.- fairly sunpie a4Mri hardware and software, at)... 5'3,000fora DVcamcorderwitha FireWire
" ordihar'y 1'Ccatt do a verycr'edible iob'of creating' connection). fhe importance of this can' t
and editing consumer quality digityl:v)deo. At a be overestimated; before 6 mm DV, wouldcertairt-.level'mfa'dditional'cost.and'complexity, a be video creatoss either had to put up with
PC,or'a Mac can be configured to produce corn"-" progrestive loss of video quality at each stage

p
ln the next few years, advances in-computer

mercial, salable quality video.

of the production and editing process, or else

spend upwards of $60,000 on a digital Betacam

and telecom technology will make digital video camera, and additional thousands of dollars on
as mui)( a part of computing as word processing compatible video editing decks. with 6 mm Dv,
or CD quality audio is today. At the same time,
the move to netv, 'alf-digita) video formats will

however, it's possible to shoot and edit video at a

very high level of quality, with minimum loss of

bring a much higher quality of sound and image data during the editing process.
to video in the home.

The other big innovation is the FireWlre standard for a computer interface with video equipment. With FireWire, cameras, editing decks and
other video equipment can be easily linked to
computers, allowing high speed transfer of video
data and editing commands in both directions.
The combination of 6 rnm DV tape and FireWire,
when added to the general progress in the power
of the PC, finally allows the mainstream PC user
to effectively create all-digital, high quaffty video
at an affordable cost.

For
video con-

sumers who also

have personal computers, today's simplest digi-

tal video options include software that plays

back various formats of digital video (such as
AVI, Quick l'irne, and MPEG, CD-ROM and DVD
drives, as well as low cost video capture cards
(such as the ATl All ln Wonder Pro or Matrox
Mystique Rainbow Runner series), that allow
video to be captured digitally from an analog
tape, or camcorder or other source. Entry-level
beings.
desktop video editing software, such as MGI's
Yet, most TV viewers are unaware of how
Video Wave, can be used to edit digitized
poor and unprogressive the television technolosequences together and add titles and effects.
The
PC
vs.
the
black
bott
gy of the mass market is compared to what it
Professional video editing has traditionaBy been The resulting digital home videos can be viewed
could be.
The average broadcast or cable TV signal, or done with the aid of specialized electronic equip- on a computer, saved to disk, sent (slowly) over
VHS tape, offers only a tiny, low quality fraction ment: "black boxes" that only do a limited range the World Wide Web, or re-recorded onto analog
of the original image and sound information that of tasks, such as generating letters for titles, or videotape.
At the more serious video hobbyist/prosumer
was produced on "broadcast quality" video edit- storing a still frame of captured video, or reading
ing equipment. The video we see at the consumer time code, or doing switching and effects level, higher quality video equipment (SVHS or
level is a degraded shadow of the original high- between multip)e video sources. Video editing HI-8 camcorders, VCRs with editing options,
black boxes are expensive, but they are also reli- state of the art PCs with pro-level editing softresolution video.
ware such as Adobe Premiere) allow for more
Consumer video today is an analog medium, able and efficient.
A PC-based editing system is called a "desktop sophisticated analog and digital video creation.
consisting of low quality wave form signals,
which must be viewed in a linear way, as a tape video" system because it is based on a generic The consumer market is huge, providing a temptunreels while the viewer watches. Interactivity in desktop PC, with all the PC's low price and flexi- ing opportunity for developers of low cost deskanalog video is limited to a viewer rewinding or bility features, but also all of the PC's notorious top video editing products. However, individual
fast forwarding through a tape, or clicking vices (a tendency to crash, corruptible hard dri- consumers have limited budgets and limited
between the available channels on cable TV, hop- ves, non-standardization, high maintenance patience for complex, hard-to-use technology.
requirements). In spite of the PC's limitationsall 1'his means that entry-level desktop video soluing to find something more interesting.
Any basic improvement in the image and levels of video production are now heading tions must employ chea p,easy to use, commodisound quality of video (we are not talking about towards a PC-centric model, relegating the black ty components.
the intellectual, social or artistic quality, alas) and box to an ever smaller role,.
The corporate/industrial
the ability of the user to quickly interact with
video rnartet
and control video depends on moving from The video food chain
19SOsanalog video technology to a 21st century It's useful to look at the video market as a pyra- At a higher level of cost and quality is the main
digital video standard. Today's PC users, if they mid divided into three segmentsaccording to area of commercial video production, one which
wish, can get involved in this sea change in user needs and affordable technology. One can is almost invisible to most mainstream video
then look at computerized digital video creation consumers. This is sometimes called the corpovideo, for both fun and profit.
rate or industrial video market, It involves comoptions in each of those segments.
At the base of the video pyramid is the con- mercial video production, which is most often
Living ln a digital world
sumer market, with very large numbers of people never broadcast or distributed on cable or
ef 6 nsrn OY tape ansi BreWlre
A few critical, major advances in the technolog'y who are simple viewers of analog video, as well as through video stores.
Examples are corporate sales and training
allowing computers and video to happily coexist, video hobbyists with camcorders, and "prohave taken place just in the last year and a half. sumers" (people interested in creating and edit- video, educational and technical video, "event
First, on the video side, a 6 mm digital video tape ing video of nearly commercial quality, for edu- videogrqphy," (such as wedding video), scientific,

The television planet

1'elevision is generally admitted to be the most

powerful communications medium on the planet. While the World Wide Web is a phenomenon
that may overtake and merge with TV, it so far
only involves a couple hundred million users.
Television is watched daily by billions of human

standard was adopted by a consortium of the cational, artistic or recreational purposes) with security, real estate, insurance, and industrial
main video equipment producers, induding camcorders and videocassette recorders with edit- video. Corporate video creators have largerbuding capabilities.
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business using digital video technology,
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from consumer level equipment to corporate video level.
2. In a few years, corporate video technol-

At the consumer level, a basic desktop video

editing system would be a Pentium-based
PC (at least Pentium 166 MHz with MMX,
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monitor), plus a video source (an S-VHS or
Hi-8 camcorder or SVHS tape deck), a
recording videocassette deck, and a TV monitor, plus necessary cables. A second video
source tape deck, a preview monitor and
some sort of removable mass storage device
(such as a Zip or]az drive), would be useful
additions for a more flexible setup.

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PC users.
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Examples of current corporate level digiThe minitower was fast, and had just
tal video systems would include a high per- enough RAM and hard drive capacity for our
formance tower PC configured for heavy needs. With RAM prices at an historic low,
duty use (ample internal power supply, two adding an extra 32 to 96 MB of RAM (for an
or more high powered internal fans, hard
$120 to $360) would be a good choice.
drive array, and a mid-range video capture
As far as consumer level video capture
board such as Pinnacle/Miro or Truevision), cards go, you can't do much better in terms
6 mm digital video camcorders and tape o f price/performance than an ATI All I n
decks, and professional time code-based Wonder Pro. For under $300, it provides
editing software.
good quality video capture, as well as analog
video output, and many other video feaThe broadcast production
tures. MGI's VideoWave is an excellent
and post production market
entry-level program that is easy to learn,
At the top of the video pyramid is the high- flexible, and capable of creating great transiest quality segment, and also the smallest: tions, titles, animations and effects.
the broadcast quality production and postThe 200 MHz-based system was from
production industry. Would-be consumer IPC, although other comparable machines
and corporate digital video creators should (the price was under $3,000 for all the comunderstand the technology of b roadcast puter hardware and software) would give
quality video, for two reasons:
s imilar performance. It took only a f ew
1. Whatever the final form a video produc- hours to add the ATI card and the software,
tion is distributed in (VHS tape, or MPEG connect the computer to the video equipCD-ROM or DVD-ROM, or QulckTime ment, and learn the basics of the VideoWave
movie clip on the Web) that final result program, before we were recording video
will look best if the original production sequences to tape, editing them and saving
has been done as close as possible to pro- them to disk in QuickTime or .AVI format.
fessional broadcast standards.
As an entry-level digital video learning sys2. Broadcast quality video production has tem, and for home video fun, this sort of
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In many cases, mid-range desktop video
incapable of the precision needed for corpo- editing systems will be set up to do 'offline'
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editing, producing a detailed preview of the
Also, the quality of source video from finished job on the user's PC, and generatVHS video equipment is low, so the image ing an edit 'decision list for use in creating
quality of the final edited video output was the finished product in a rented post-prosimilarly limited. As well, the effects, anima- duction edit suite. In other cases, as long as
tions and titles created with the VideoWave your system can handle time code, you can
software took anywhere from several seconds push a mid-range system to produce comto several minutes to render with the IPC's mercial quality final product either on SVHS
200 MHz MMX Pentium chip. And the PC's or DV tape, or recorded to a CD-R (a recordhard drive quickly filled up with digital able compact disc) or a cartridge.
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Two big limitations of mid-range syswere created with the IPC system were very tems are that they typically can't do digital
well suited for display on the Web, for inclu- transitions and effects in real time, and
sion in multimedia presentations or interac- they don't i n c l ude a d i g i tal B etacam
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quality.
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is a higher quality, higher expense area of

video, where the quality of the final product has to be "good enough" to charge
money for, though less high quality than
network broadcast video production. Many
corporations, government agencies, event
video producers and schools will have a
mid-range desktop video facility in-house,
renting time on outside high-end edit suites
only if needed.
Typically, a mid-range desktop video
editing system will cost between $6,000 to$25,000, depending on choice of third-party
computer hardware and video equipment.
In this price range, you can get a higher end
video capture card, such as a Pinnacle or
Fast Video product, which start around
$1,000; and hardware to control video decks
via a FireWire connection. As well, you can
go "all-digital" with the addition of a 6 mm
DV palmcorder with a FireWire attachment,
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PC is too likely to crash on-air an unacceptable risk. As well, high-end commercial
productions demand "real time" rendering
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So how do you know which is right for
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monitor is easier on the eyes and a pleasure to you? Well, the truth is that each technology
work with. But when you look at some of the has its own desirable characteristics. For
f you' ve been paying attention to the vari- 15-inch gems we review this month, you' ll example, an aperture grille can display
ous advertisements from the many com- certainly have some tough choices to make brighter images with richer, more saturated
puter vendors, you' ll have noticed that the about whether to go for something larger, or colors. For this reason, aperture grille displays
new entry-level size for a computer monitor is stick with something that not only costs less are popular with folks working in the desktop
15 inches. Slowly but surely, the old 14-inch but will do the job more than adequately.
publishing industry.
models are fading from the scene
something
The advantage of shadow mask displays is
that should've happened ages ago.
Choosing the right tube
that they offer greater precision when creating
But as the saying goes, better late than Shopping for a monitor doesn't have to be a the images you see on the screen. They use a
never, right? Well, yes and no. You see, now difficult task, but neither should it be regard- flat-square design that makes what you see on
that 15-inch monitors are the norm, some ed as "just another purchase." There's much the screen look more realistic.
manufacturers we' ve tried to get monitors more to choosing a monitor than its screen
Monitors that employ shadow mask techfrom for this month's survey asked us: "are size and price, The first thing you should nology are popular with CAD/CAM engineers
you sure vou want to review 1S-inch models?" decide on is what type of CRT technology you because of their flatter display screens, not to
After convincing them that we did, most want to invest in. The acronym CRT is short mention the fact that they don't have the two
decided to send us an evaluation unit, albeit for cathode ray tube, which is basically a vac- damper wires characteristic of aperture grille
hesitantly. They were more interested in hav- uum tube in a glass casing with all the air designs. To a CAD professional who works at
ing us look at their 17-inch line (which we sucked out. It is this tube that is used to dis- high resolutions, a faint line running across
will in the August issue).
play the images that you see, so picking the the screen can be incredibly annoying since it
The folks who manufacture monitors right one should be a top priority. There are can make it difficult to distinguish between
assume that people who are currently in the two main types of CRT technology, known as the drawing on the screen and the wires
market for a new monitor are looking to aperture grille and shadow mask.
themselves.
replace an aging 14-inch unit. Considering
An aperture grille is made up of many
But generally speaking, if you just want a
how prices have dropped drastically over the wires running up and down on the inside of decent monitor, either of these technologies
past couple of years on larger displays, the the glass tube. This "grille" is used to channel will do just fine. The type of CRT technology
manufacturers are also assuming t h at the electron beams inside the monitor so that is really more of a personal preference than
upgraders will be looking at 17-inch units. the appropriate phosphors are hit. To ensure anything else.
You can get a fairly decent 17-inch model for that these wires stay put, two wires running
just over $500, while a more advanced model horizontally, known as damper wires, are Sonsbersied by death says?
would run you roughly $750. Even the top of used.
A common misconception in the world of
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In aperture grille monitors, these two
monitors is that they give off harmful radia$1,000 mark, so it's hard for some monitor wires are visible as two faint gray lines near tion, and as a result, many people are uncommakers to understand why anyone would the top and bottom thirds of the screen. fortable working at computer terminals for
want to upgrade from a 14- to a 15-inch dis- Aperture grille technologies are available from extended periods of time. The fact is that a
play.
Sony (known as Trinitron), from Mitsubishi monitor manufactured in the last couple of
The obvious reason is cost. While it's true (DiamondTron), an d
fr o m Vi e wSonic years is so well shielded internally, that you' re
that the prices of larger screen displays have (Sonic Tron).
more likely to get higher doses of radiation
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The other type of tube is known as shad- from a 100-Watt light bulb. That's not to say
years, so too, have the 15-inch models. They ow mask. A shadow mask is a metal or ceram- that anything made a few years ago is harmcan now be found for as low as $27S for a ic plate with many holes used to direct the ful, but rather, that today, even tighter meabasic unit, or just under $500 for the creme de electron beam to the proper location on the sures have been taken to ensure that monitors
la creme.
screen. Monitor manufacturers often use the are as safe as possible.
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Two of the strictest standards that regulate
ting on their desks taking up space. They' d made from lnvar is considered a higher quali- the electromagnetic emissions of monitors
rather spend $350 on a decent 15-inch moni- ty product. Invar is basically a special ceramic come from Sweden,and are known as the
tor rather then $750 for something that many alloy that can better withstand deformations
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nonetheless very convenient for every-day use
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excelent
l beam convergence
no image rotation
Analysis
T he 5) 11) from Daewoo is on e o f t h e
lower-prices models in this survey, but its performance places it in the same league as some
of its more expensive counterparts.

IVIAG lnnovision DXSOOT

From: MAG Innovisiori
Tel: 905-890-9465
http: //www.maginnovision.corn

excellent image quality in all resolutions

excellent focus maintained even at 1,280x1,024
excell
entbeam convergence
refresh rate of 85 Hz at 1,024x768
super-fine dot pitch of 0.26 mm
priced near the top of the class

Highlights
refresh rate up to 85 Hz at 1,024x768
super-fine dot pitch of 0.25, best in entire roundup
excellent image quality
very good focus maintained up to 1,28ox1,D24
no image rotation
higher price than most in the survey

Highlights
very good image quality
refresh rate up to 75 Hz at 1,D24x768
relatively inexpensive
high power consumption at 110 W (max.)
corner focus degrades considerably at 1,280x1,024
no on-screen display (OSD)

ADDTRONIC

S PEC I A L
Intel Pentium II 233
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RamMemory
4.3GB Hard Drive U-DMA ~d+
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2 Year
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NEC monitors have a reputation for performing extremely well, although they don' t
come cheap. The MultisyncESOO upholds

Narkham Store
170 Esna Park Drive, Suite 9
TeL 905-513-0146 Fax: 905-513-9532

330 Steeles
Avenue West, Unit B4
TeL 905-764-1011 Fax: 905-764-7421

Analysis

COMPUTER INC.

Thornhill Store

From:NEC
Technologies
Tel: 800-632-4636
http: //www.nec.corn

The new DXSOOT from MAG Innovision has

everything you could ask for in a high-quality monitor. Although priced higher than
most of its competitors, it is without a doubt
an excellent monitor.

Mitsuhishi DiamondScan 1$VX

Daytek's popular 1S31D doesn't have all the From: Mitsubishi Electric Canada
bells and whistles of its competitors, but it does Tel: 905-475-7728
offer great image quality and costs only $275. http: //www.mitsubishi.corn

NEC MultiSync E$00

Analysis

Analysis

MarkhamGrandOpening

At roughly $300, this Magitronic unit provides decent overall performance, although
it has limited image manipulation capabilities, not to mention no on-screen display. lts
reasonably low price will appeal to anyone
looking to upgrade an aging 14-inch unit.

Magitronlc C-SV1$00PS
From: Liuski International
Tel: 800-665-5487
http: //www.magitronic.corn

Highlights

very good imagequality in both high-resolution settings

low power consumption
supports only trapezoid and pincushion settings, no
color tempurature
low price

Analysis

excellent image quality even at 1,280x1,024

excellent corner focus at 1,024x768
supports color temperature settings
no image rotation or parallelogram settings
Analysis
Mitsubishi monitors are known for their
excellent picture quality and ability to maintain image focus even at extreme resolutions.
Although the Diamondscan 15VX is priced
higher than most of its competitors, its overall
performance will not disappoint you.

Daytek DT-1$31D
From: Daytek Canada
Tel: 800-329-8351
http: //www.daytek.corn

Highlig
hts

Highlights

Paoosonic1.44M....,
WD 3.1G
U-DMA ......
WD 4.3G
U-DMA ......
WD 6.4G
U-DMA......
Quantum3.2GST(DMA)
Quantum4.3GST(DMA)
Quantum6AGST(DMA)
Quantum
8.4G.......
Seagato
2.1G........

$28.00
$225.00
$249.00
$350.00
$235.00
$260.00
$330.00
$450.00
$189.00

SONY
200ES17" 12800.25 .... $790.00
SONY
200PS17" 12800.25 .... $1030.00
Viewsooic15" G653........... $379.00
Viewsonic17" GT775......... $ 950.00

USR56KInt w/ Voice(OEM.).... $145.00

Acer 33.6K
with Voice......... $ 65.00
Acer 56K
Iot. with Voice......., $ 05.60
impression
33.6F/MN(Iot)...... $59.00

EthernetCardPCISurecom
5PortlOB-THUB......
8PortlOB-THUB......
16 Port 1DB- THUB.....

$30.00
$55.00
$60.00
$ t05.00

Daytek14" 1024.28.........
Doytek
15".28.............
Daytek
17".28/.26.........
Acor 15" 1280.28
56C.......
Shamrock
14"/15" .28 .......
S hammck
17" .26......... . .
Shamrock
17" 160031200.26/.25
Acer 17"
76E0.28/..........
781E 0.26..........
SAMSUN
G15" (E)...........
SONY
100ES15" 0.25........

$180.00
$260.00
$400/490
$275.00
$195/269
$505.00
$640/689
$445.00
$540.00
$315.00
$435.00

Desk
Top,250WLED.......... $ 42.00
MiniTower,250W LED.........$30.00
Mid-Tower,
25DWLED/AlX...... $42/105
Full-Tower,
250W1AlX........ $125.00

Pent. M.B.Intel 1X
with 512K
P/L (MMX) with Audio. $115.00
GigabytePent M.B.TX2512K... $159.00
AsusP2L97(ATX)............ $205.00
AsusP2L97(S)(ATX).......... $335.00
AsusTX-97w/512K.MMX...... $185.00
Aristo 440IXPMT0ATXM.B,... $155.00

Carina NaturalStyle...
Carina Bilingual104...
Koytronic104Keys/95..
Mitsumi 104
K.B......

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$30.0D
$17.00
$28.00
$77ll0

CreativeLabDVDEncore DXR2... $390.00

Toshiba
32X........... . . ... $105.00
Panasoni24X..............
c
$ 85.0D
Acer 32X/36X........... . ... $ 89/115
Acer (6206)6W
2R......,..... $465.00

SB-16 PnP
.......... . . . . ... $ 49.00
SB-AWE
64(OEM)............. $ 95.00
Acer AW
E32 .......... . . . .., $ 35.DO
Aiogic 1816
SoundCard....... $ 21.00

HP Deskjo692C.............
t
$318.00
HP Los
er)otDP/6MP ..........$975/12DD
HP Scanje5100C............
t
$379.00
HP 722C.......... . . . . . . . .. $ 425.00
HP Laserjet 6L .............. $520.00
HP 670C............... . ... $ 280.00
HP 1000CXI
600DPI........... $520.00
Brot
herLaser730DX/760DXPlus .$430/540
BrotherMFC7000
Multi-Function
Centre........... $840.00
Canon
4300................ $ 240.00
Canon
BIC-250........... ... $ 185.00
Canon
B)C-4200 SE.......... $255.00
Epson
Stylus 400(720 x720)... $255.00
EpsonStylus600(1440)....... $342.00
Epson
Stylus 800(1440)....... $400.00
Scanmaker
(Microtek) 600dpiE6. $300.00
Scenmaker
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Acer Scanner310S300dpi FB... $169.00
Acer Scanner310P300dpi FB... $145AIO
Acor Scanner
610P600dpi FB... $22550

ATI AII-in-Wonder
Pro4MB(4GP). $319.00
ATI TV
Tuner ISA/NTSC /AMC... $105.00
ATI3D Expression4MBw/MPEG..$95.00
ATI 3D+PC2TV4MB.......... $125.00
ATI3D ProTubro4MB/DMB .....$165/225
ATI Xport@P(ay4MB(AGP) (OME). $218.00
ATI Xpert I Work4MB(AGP) (OME). $105.00
DiamondStealth Viper
V330 with 4MB
(AGP),....,... $215.00
DiamondMonster4MB(OEM)... $215.00
Diamond
Viper4ire 1000Pro(RED $255.00
S3 Trio 641MBPCI 1-2MB ..... $30.00
S3 Verge
24MB............. $ 45.00
MatrmMilennium64M/DMB(OEM). $215/315
ZIP Drive100MBint. (IDE)...... $ 120.00
SyquestSparQ1.6GBInt/Ext ... $265.0D
Seagote3.2GBInt w/ Tope/Ext .. $239/290
HPColoradoT30801.6GBIntw/rape $ 255.00
LS-120
Folppy Drive............ $145.0D
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that reputation and would satisfy even the
most demanding user, but performance like
thisdoesn'tcome cheap.

Panasonlc PanaSync Pro P$0

From: Panasonic
Tel: 905-824-501
0
http: //www.panasonic.corn

Highlights

Analysis

maximum refresh rate of 85 Hz at 1,280x1,024

superb image quality in ail resolutions
excell
entbeam convergence
built-in speakers
built-in earphone andmicrophone jacks
supports color temperature settings and image
rotation
focus at 1,280x1,024 degradesslightly around corners

Analysis
A good mix of features and competitive price
makes this I'hilips monitor a great candidate
for anyone looking at upgrading to a good ISinch model with a few extras to boot.

Samsung SyncMaster $00b

From: SamsungElectronics
Tel: 800-882-4955
httpy/www.samsung.corn

Highlights

Highlights
impressive image quality and focus
refresh rate of 85 Hz at 1,024x768
very competitive price
excellent five year parts and labor warranty

$535

CQMPUTER

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pitch an'd impressiv'e overaR design.
Although It's not cheap the premium you
~iy for this monitdr is worth'every periny.
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::,-:.1,024x768,,and 65:Hz at lgSOxi,024; this
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'monitor offers not- only exceiient Image

' quality but an impressive assortment .of

-;.,;image manipulation controls as we11 as a:,
"five-year parts and labor warranty.' if you
'. wint a bit of everything for next to noth',-.-'ing, this is. the one you' ve been waiting for.
'Oval'all: Panasonk PanaSyncPro P$0:,..
It seRs for just over'$4IID, has very go@i pic.

Highlights
very good overall image quality
uses a 0.27 inm dot pitch
impressive maximum refresh of87 Hzat 1,024x768
full range of image manipulation including color temperature and picture tilt
competitive price on a well-known brand

$505

PENTIUMMULTIMEDIA
INTELP20D MMX, 32M EDO

ture quality and a wide variety of ways to

manipulate your screen image. With it' s
0.27 dot pitch and:maximum refresh rate,

of up to 180 Hz, the PanaSync ProPSOgives

you the performance you require without
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Sound Card: 16Bit PluggPlay,Speaker: 60W

ATI 3D, PC-TV

4M.....
$115 Epson 400/600C ..... $245/335
MAIN BOARDS
HP DJ 670/722C..... $265/395
A-TREND
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,$88 $OUI4D CARDS
ATC-5000 430TX,....
$108 3 D,PnP..... , . . .
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$158 Yamaha719,
3D....
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Panasonic 15 ........... $350 ASUS
TXP4512K......
$143 S3, PCI, 3D. 328it ..
.$44
Sony .25 15 ...,.. . . . . . , $459 ASUS
TX97E512K.....
$175 Sound
Blastr16,...
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$208 SB,AWE 64......
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96801M........ , $29
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$175
9685 3DPCI2M/4M ....$45/65 5 6k Int./Ext....... . . . $75/155 2 .1 Maxtor..... . .
$185
9685 30 2M PC-TV........ $68 33.6 USR,lnt......, .. ,. $115 2.5GB WD........
$203
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X-Play AGP
4M/8M.... $210/270
PRINTERB
4.3GBQuan/WD...... $268/265
ATI3D XPR 2M/4M...... $85/99 Cannon 250/4300 ..., $178/245 6.4GBQuantum.......... $349
MONIYOR$
SVGA14/15/1 7... $1 69/229/429
Daytek14/15/17 .. $199/249/489
Acer 14/15/17..., $199/255/460
KDS 14/15/17.... $1 99/269/539

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From: Sceptre Technologies
Tel: 800-788-2878
http: //www.sceptre.corn

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1'he PanaSync Pro line of monitors by

I'anasonic is known for its superior image
quality, flexible control settings and good
price/performance ratio. With a 0.27 mm dot
pitch and 14-inch viewable screen, the PSO Highlights
leaves little to be desired.
refresh rates up to 160 Hzpossible
excellent rate of 85 Hz at 1,024x768
excellent picture quality and focus weil maintained
Phllips 10$$
no image rofation support
From: Philips Canada
price could be somewhatmore competitive
Tel: 800-387-0564
http://www.philips.corn
Analysis
1'he new SyncMaster 500b from Samsung is a
great overall performer with some impressive
technical specifications. However, at just over
$400, it may place it out of reach for those on
a tight budget.

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When it comes to making top quality monitors at very competitive prices, Sceptre has all
the angles covered. The DS4 offers excellent
performance, an incredible five-year parts and
labor warranty and sells for unde~ $300. What
more could you want?

good dot pitch of 0.27 mm

maximum refresh rate up to 180Hzat lower resolutions
refresh of 75 Hz at 1,024x768
low power consumption at 85W
supports wide variety of image manipulation settings
not cheap, but reasonably priced considering its
great performance

Markham, ON LSR 5V6

Tel: (905) 415-9079
Fax: (905) 415-9081

The P655 is part of ViewSonic's IS-inch

Professional Series of monitors, and boasts a
very solid picture quality thanks to its 87 Hz
refresh rate at 1,024x768. If you should need
to use it for brief periods at 1,280x1,024, the
picture quality is still great, and can be viewed
at a better-than-average 66 Hz refresh. The
P655 allows you to customize practically every
aspect of the screen image, and has four preset
color temperatures as well as giving the user
the option of producing their own. An excel, lent choice if you' re looking for great quality
from a name you can trust.

8.4GB Maxtor...,. . . . . . . $465

CD-ROM 4 FD
24X/32X..... . . . . . . . $85/105
16X/24X (SCSI)....... $1 35/1 55
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ATX Mid
Tower ...... . . . . . $75

Super Mini....... . . , . . . . $39

Mid Tower......... . . . . . . $49
ACCE$$ORIE$
104-ky Win95...... . . . . . . $18
Logitech Mouse...... . . . . . $13

EDO Ram8M/16M ......$20/32

SDRAM 32M/64M .....
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Max. power consumption W
Picture quality at 1,024x768
Picture quality at 1,280x1,024
Corner focus at 1,024x768
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On-screen display
Convergence
image manipulation capabilities
Pincushion controls
Trapezoid pattern
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to 6.4 GB. At the time, a 3 GB hard drive was fora "typical" install, or 450MB for a complete
the norm, and the beasts with 6.4 GB capaci- installation. The same holds true for some of
ties were the latest craze. Although we haven't t h e most popular applications. The latest vergone much beyond the 6.4 GB sizes of yester- sion of CorelDraw, for example, requires over
year, there are a new batch of drives out there 250 MB, and that's not even a full installation.
that once again push the limits of today's Then we have Microsoft Office 97 Professional,
which craves a total of 207 MB if you choose to
BIOSes with storage totaling 8.4 GB.
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made intheunderlyingtechnologyofthesedri- O r h o w Wing Commander II "hogged" an
ves. For instance, Seagate has recently started entire 35 MB? Well forget the good old days,
shipping its new line of high performance Ultra- and start planning for the not-too-distant
ATA drives with spindle rates of 7,200 RPM future where your average application will
using fluid dynamic bearing motors. Up until require 1 or 2 GB if you want decent perfornow, hard drives have used ball bearings. The mance. Oh yes, it' ll happen folks it's just a
new fluid bearing design allows the drive to m a t ter of time. Thisofcourse is all good news
operatemorequietly, more reliablyandallowsit to the drive manufacturers because the ever
growing demand for
to be much more resistant to shock.
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transistor is an electronic switch that either
allows or prevents the flow of electrical current). These transistors function so incredibly
quickly that the components that make up
hard drives pale in comparison.
Hard drives are made of much bigger,
bulkier parts such as motors, mechanical arms
and spinning platters. The laws of physics pre-

vent these parts from functioning anywhere

close to the speed they would have to in order
to match the operations of a CPU. You can
have the fastest CPU in the world, but if the
work you' re doing depends more on data
being read to and from your hard drive, the
CPU will just be idling by waiting .for your
hard drive to try and catch up.
Anytime you start an application, before
Conti nned on page49

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P~-Will It ever be fast enough?

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way to build a really fast PC, they' ll more than
likely tell you to add a fast processor running
at several hundred MHz. Although the processor speed certainly plays an important role in
any system, one should never underestimate
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We' ll talk about what makes one drive perform better than another, but first it's worth
mentioning that no matter how fast your
drive may be, it will never be fast enough.
Why? Because to your processor, your hard

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but memory modules, we' ll have to live with

the fact that our hard drives act as a major
bottieneck in overall system performance. (In

your Cl'U can begin processing the instructions, it must first have the appropriate data
delivered to it from the hard drive. The hard
drive has to find the information, which it
then sends off into RAM before the CPU can
begin doing its work. If you happen to be
loading a really big application, you may find
yourself waiting a couple of minutes before
you can even do anything useful. So unless
they start making hard drives out of nothing

case you were wondering, these drives made There are a number of factors involved in makup of RAM already exist, and are known as
solid state drives, but they cost several thousand dollars for a fraction of the size of today' s
desktop h ar d d i s ks. M a xtor r e cently
announced a I GB solid state drive with a
US$39,000 price tag.)
In the meantime, you might as well try to
find the fastest hard drive you can afford,
because your shiny new 333 MHz Pentium II

What makes a 4Irlve fast7

ing a fast drive, but there are basically two
things you should look for when shopping for
a fast hard drive: low access time, and high spin
rate. These two properties combine to deliver a
fast data transfer rate, which is what you want.
Okay, now let's explain using plain English
what these terms mean. First we have the
drive's access time, commonly known as the
average access time, measured in milliseconds.

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it by 60, which gives is 90 revolutions per second. To get a single revolution, we invert this
number (I over 90) and get 11.11 ms. Now we
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be confused by what you see on the spec.
sheets for the drives. There are two types of
data transfer rates. One is known as the disk

transfer rate, the other is called the host trans- at 5,400 RPM, other factors being equal.
fer rate. The disk transfer rate is the rate at
The host transfer rate tells us how quickly
which data is moved to and from the hard the CPU can get the needed information from
drive. Most benchmarking programs will- the drive's controller. This number is more the.
report this number because it's an actual mea- oretical than practical, but it goes like this. Your
surement ofhow much data can be moved
drive will operate in one of several available
across the drive in a period of time. As we said "modes." These are commonly referred to as
earlier, the transfer rate is directly proportional PIO (Programmed Input/Output) Modes 0
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full cluster even though they probably aren' t
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have thousands of little files scattered across
your drive, can you image the amount of space
you' re wasting that you' re not even aware of?
This is why we now have alternatives to
this outdated FAT system. The most appealing
system of all is the NTFS file system used by
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Hard drive manufacturers almost always refer
to I MB as being one million bytes. If you buy
a 6.4 GB hard drive, the drive manufacturer
says you are getting 6,400,000,000 bytes total
capacity. The problem is that your software
may not agree with these numbers.
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Base-10 numbering system in order to count

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a computer, I GB is known as 1,073,741,824
bytes, whereas a drive manufacturer will teil
you it's only 1,000,000,000 bytes. So when
some software tells you that your 6.4 GB drive
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grams to measure the performance of hard drives. Each program, as can be expected, gave
d ifferent results fo r t h e various tests.
Measurements were made on various methods
of data transfer, such as sequential and random. Each benchmark program provides a
report on some form of access time measurement, although they don't always match the
numbers specified by the manufacturer. All in
all, they each tell a tale of just how quickly a
particular drive can perform a given function.
Just to make things interesting, we decided to
do a little test of our own something quite simple, but also very useful because it goes beyond
the benchmarks and provides you with an everyday scenario. The test consisted of two parts.
First, we generated a 31,9 MB file and copied it
from one directory on the drive to another and
timed the process from start to finish. This is a
real-world test of a sequential read because the
file we were copying was contiguous.
Our second test consisted of copying two
directories from one part of the drive to
another. These two directories were filled with
308 files and 17 subdirectories, totaling 31.9
MB. We chose this as the total size to demonstrate how copying the same number of
megabytes using two very different scenarios
can turn out so differently. This test is an
example of a random read/write task.
A full defragmentation of each drive was
performed prior to these tests to give each drive
exactly the same testing conditions. No thirdparty caching programs were used. We used
partition sizes of 1 GB throughout the entire
testing process. All of the tests were were performed under DOS 6.22 with a clean boot (no
config.sys or autoexec.bat files loaded). All tests

were conducted on a Pentium II 300 MHz

machine with 128 MB of SDRAM. Each hard
drive was configured for Master mode and all
tests were executed three times, with the final
average being shown in the comparison chart.

The contenders

Maxtor's DiamondMax line has just gotten bigger with the addition of several drives, one of
which is this 8.4 GB monster. With a spindle
rate of 5,400 RPM and the lowest reported
access time of 9 ms among its competitors, this
drive would be a great addition to your system
for both storage space and performance.

Fu)ltsu 6.4 4 B
From: Fujitsu of Canada
Tel: 800-263-8716
http: //www.iujitsu.ca

Quantum Fireball SE 8.4 CB

From: Quantum Corporation
Tel: 800-624-5545
http: //www.quantum.corn

Highlights:
spindle rate of 5,400 RPM
good size buffer of 256KB
performed very well on our tests
rated at 500,000 MTBF
(mean time between failure)
at 37 dBA, it was one of the loudest drives tested.

Highlights
great for storage needs thanks to its 8.4 GB capacity
good overall performance
at 32 dBA, one of the quieter drives tested
good accesstimeof9.5 ms
buffer size of 128KB is smallest in survey

Analysis:
With this new 6.4 GB Ultra-DMA model,
Fujitsu has designed a great successor to last
year's award-winning 5.2 GB drive. It has a
good average seek time of 10 ms and is one of
the lowest priced drives in its category.

Analysis

INaxtor DlamondlNax 8.4 CB

From: Maxtor Corporation
Tel: 800-262-9867
http: //www.maxtor.corn

Highlights
excellent storage capacity at 8.4 GB
Iow access time of only 9 ms wasbest in survey
achieved good performance
fairly loud at 36 dBA

Asus LX W/AGP Mainboard

32 MB EDO Ram

32 MB SDRam

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2 MB Video Card

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PEN. 200MMX....$859
PEN. 233MII/IX....$919
AIND K6 200........$829
AMD K6 233........$$69
CYRIX M2 200.. $779
CYRIX M2 233....$829

PII 233............$1439
PH 266............$1569
PII 300............$1819
PH 333............$1939
PII 350............$2069

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Highlights
an unheard of spindle rate of 7,200 for IDE drive
huge buffer of 512KB for maximum performance
uses fluid-bearing motor technology
low access time of 9.5 ms
at 29 dBA, it's the quietest drive around
more expensive than other 6.4 GB drives but well
worth the cost

Analysis
Unbelievable specs on this new screamer from
Seagate! With its 7,200 spindle rate, low access time
and large buffer, this drive could easily be mistaken
for an Ultra-SCSI model but it's the very latest IDE
technology Seagate has to offer. Get this baby if you
want the best IDE drive money can buy!

From: Samsung Electronics

Tel: 905-542-3535
http: //www.samsung.corn

Western Digital Caviar 6.4 CB

From:We
stern Digital

Highlights
latest in the Samsung hard drive line

Networking

Toshiba 32.............99 14" SVGA ..........179

Panasonic 24..........85 15" SVGA .........239
Acer 24..................85 15" SONY .........A45
Sound Blasiir 16....49 17" ACEL.........A70
Sound Blaster 64....95 17" Viewsonic ....640

3COM 10/100 NIC....95 HP 592C.............319

Hard Disk

Modem

Intel 10/100 NIC .......85 HP $90CXL.......615

DLink 10/100 NIC.....75 HP 1000CXL.....669

Dl.ink ISA NIC.........29 Canon 4300........259
Acer IOBT NIC.........33 Epson 400..........265
Opti 16Bit .............25 19" Viewsonic...1250 Intel 100 12 Hub........Call Epson 600...........345
I SOW Speakers.....39 21" Viewsonic ..1560 3Com 100 12 Hub......Call Epson 800...........475
DLInk 100 8 Hub.......call HP 6L Laser........529
80W Spakers .......19
Motherboard
OKIDATA 4W....299
Asus P2L97........199

Asus TX97........175 USR 33.6 Int.........109

Samsung 2.6........189 Aristo TX...........105

Satnstmg 32.......229 Gigabyte TX.......139
Fujitsu 2.6 ..........219
Fujitsu 3.2 .........229

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From: SeagateTechnology
Tel: 408-438-6550
http: //www.seagate.corn

USR 56K Int........159

USR 56k Ext........229

Acer 33.6 In@........65

Acer 56k Int..........95
Jaton 33.6 Int........60

Quantum 3.2 ......249 Iomelt Int Zip ....115

Quanttnn 4.3 ......269 Iomega Int Jaz ....385
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Quantum 6A ......339 Iomelt Ext Jaz....510
Quantum $.4 ......A99 Iomega Ditto ......175 HP 5100C..............375
PII 400............$2499
WD 3.2..............245 LS 120 Drive......125 Acerscan 310P......135
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Samsung missed our hard drive survey last

year becausethe company's largest drive at
that time would not meet our criteria. Things
sure havechanged thisyear!Samsung's new
6.4 GB Ultra-DMA model boasts high spindle
rates, low access times and a huge buffer of
512KB. Thanks to that combination, it did
really well on our benchmark tests.

Samsung 6.4 CB

Intel TX %/512 I Mainboard

Analysis

Quantum Corporation has just given the rest

of the large-capacity drive makers a run for
their money with t hi s new Fireball SE.
Although it uses a smaller buffer than any of
its competitors, it still managed to finish our
tests with some admirable scores. Great if you
need lots
ofstorage space and you want to go
with a good name.

Mid-range Systems Highland

Systems

24X CD Rom
16 Bit Sound Card

great performance overall

large 512KB buffer matched only by Seagate

Analysis

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Trident ................35
83 Trio 1 MB.......35

S3 Virie 2MB......55

ATI xPlay........205
ATI2MB ...........75
ATI 4 MB............95

Millenium 4MB.209
Mystique 4MB....139
Viper V330 4MB...229
Stealth II 4MB.......139

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Tel: 905-566-4702
http: //www.wdc.corn

Canadians receptive

Editor's Choices

Highlights

Performance:

good overall performance

buffer size of 256 KB helps performance
low access time of 9.5 ms
excellent packaging with accessories and superb
documentation

Seagate MedalistPro
6530A
There's no doubt which::~ E~~@
of these drives deserves
our performance award.
Sporting the very latest
cutting edge technology, Seagate has created a true masterpiece with its new
Medalist Pro 6530A.

Analysis
The very latest addition to the Caviar series
is this 6.4 GB AC36400. It offers a faster
spindle rate of S,400 RPM when compared
to last year's 4 GB model we tested, plus it
has a lower access time and good overall
performance. The retail box is top-notch,
c ontaining everything yo u n ee d f r o m
mounting screws, an IDE cable and an
excellent user's manual. You' ll have to pay a
bit more than for the OEM bare drive version, but if you' re a novice it's more than
worth the extra cost.

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Overall: Fujltsu 6.4 GB

Picking up where it left off with last year' s
award winner, this new 6.4 GB model
from Fujftsu has it all. On our tests it did
admirably well, it has a great 'design and
costs only $360. You can't go wrong:with
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among 1,500 Canadians shows a signif- survey this size are said to be accurate to withicant number are receptive to innova- in plus or minus 2.5 percent, 19 times out of
tive telecommunications applications, espe- 20. The margin of error is known to be larger
cially when it comes to wireless Internet within specific regions and for other subgroups of the population.
access.
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The study, sponsored by Toronto-based
professional services providers Ernst 6r Young (37 percent) Canadians use wireless services
and conducted by the Angus Reid Group indi- for either business or personal use. More than
cates that 30 percent of Canadians are very six in ten (62 percent) do not use wireless telelikely to switch to wireless phone service and p h one services. Those who use wireless ser25 percent are somewhat likely as an alterna- vices only for personal purposes outnumber
tive to their existing landline service, if the those who use it for solely business purposes
price is the same. Conversely, 24 percent are (14 percent versus 6 percent), with 17 percent
"not very likely" to replace their existing land- indicating they use wireless telephones for
line service with wireless service, and 19 per- both business and personal use.
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cent are "not at all likely."
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who heads upthe firm's wireless industryini- to the landline market who offered rates
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sumer interest in wireless telephone service
with only 23 percent saying "very likely."
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less service, 37 percent saying "very likely," the new t echnology. "It i s c l ear t h at
Canadians have a very large appetite for innocompared to 24 percent for females.
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resentative cross-section of Canadian adults wireless Internet access have strong latent
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. DESKTOP VIDEO EDITING

Desktop video
who's who

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cheap.
Second hand Amigas are still widely avail-'

ere is a brief guide to some of the

important historical influences in

able, as well as a range of peripherals such as

desktop video technology, plus many video capture cards and 2D animation and

of the most significant current product ven-

video effects software. The famous NewTek

Video Toaster, an add-in desktop video editing
card with software, is still available to enable
Amigas to be used for high-quality titling,
switching, special effects and 3D animation
(see NewTek, below).
An Ontario company, Randomize, still

dors:
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the EdltDrold

HP PhotoSmart Scanner

The grand daddy of desktop video editing was

a device film)naker George Lucas had built
after the success of the first Star Wars movie,
The EditDroid was an attempt to make film
editing simpler and more automated by creating a low-resolution copy of every frame of a
film and putting it on a enon-linearn editing
system, along with the frame number of the
original film segment.
This would allow an editor to quickly
splice together and view film sequences, trying out different editing versions, and generating a list of which pieces of film had to be
physically spliced together, including transitionssuch aswipes and fades tha twould have
to be created on an optical effects camera systern. The basic concept of EditDroid was inspiration for PCediting systems, using videotape
instead of fi]m, and desktop computers
instead of a custom-made electronic editing
station.

Get your favourite pictures, slides or negativesinto

yourPC with thiseasy-to-usescanner.Features
300 dpi for prints and 2400 dpi for slideslnegatives

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has made no announcements regarding the

revival of this well liked but unlucky desktop
video platform.
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cheap learning system, but as it becomes
more obsolete, it is less and less viable for seri-

ous production, except in the hands of experienced Amiga veterans.

Apple
Next to the Amiga, the
Apple Mac was the other
pioneer in desktop video.

A lthough Apple d i d
invent the QutckTime
digital video and animation standard, and produced some nAVumodels
of the Mac that had built-in video digitizing
and output capability, digital video editing on
the Mac is accomplished with third-party
hardware and software.
A company called Avid created one of the
first computer-based editing systems on the
Mac, opening the door to professional-level
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mid-range desktop video market. The Amiga

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MMXwptimized digital video products.

As well, Intel has a two-pronged chip
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and decoding by 1999.
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beginning an era of of multi-gigahertz personal computing, and a new wave of 64-bit hardware and software development. By the year
2000, Merced and other more advanced 64-bit
processors will be the standard tools for creat;
ing high-quality desktop video with unprecedented ease.

ooffline o editing on a personal computer. The

Mac is still an excellent choice for desktop
video, though the company's slide in market
share and profitability has affected the confidence of many critical third-party developers,

and starved Apple's research budget, reducing

the level of innovation by a company that has
traditionally been the pacesetter in personal
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and display them on a Mac, along with full
time code information. The Avid system
would then generate an edit decision list file
that allowed automation of t h e editing
process on a traditional post-production edit
suite.
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more powerful, Avid developed a spectrum of
solutions that included full post-production
systems, which directly edit final broadcastquality video or even edited film. With an
Avid MCXpress digital video editing package
installed, a current model PowerMac can be
turned into an "offline" desktop video edit
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Toronto-based MGI Inc. was formed by a consortium of veteran Canadian computer industry professionals, from companies such as ATI,
AST and Delrina. Its mandate was to develop
the best graphics and video software on the
personal computer market.
MGI's first desktop video product was
VideoWave, a brilliantly designed, $1'00 desktop video editing and effects program.
VideoWave
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Pentium PC.
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support for time code, for example). However,
it is a key tool to bringing desktop video editing (video publishing, in MGI's terminology)
to the mass market, according to MGI founder
Anthony da Christofaro.
Montreal-based Discrete Logic, a maker of
high-end UNIX and NT video and graphics
software (including the Flame compositing
and effects program) just paid $153 million to
buy MGI. Discrete's interest in the company
was sparked by a common view of the future
of digital video. They both expect explosive
growth in the creation, publishing and consumption of digital video, via DVD, the
Internet, satellite, cable and b roadcast.
Discrete hopes to merge its high-end, professional video and film technology with MGI's
mass market distribution channels and expertise in making powerful software easy to use.
The medium for this marriage of the two
extremes of the video spectrum will be the
new, exceptionally powerful PC technology of

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remov a ble mass storg age w i t h its Jaz and
Zip cartridge drives,
lomega has entered the digital video market
with Buz, a bundle of hardware and software
that allows users to convert a PC into a very
capable entry-level desktop video editing system. Buz multimedia producer, with a street
price of about $300, consists of a video capture device, an Ultra SCSI controller with data
transmission speeds up to 20 MB/sec., and a
Buz Box multimedia connection, for attaching external devices to the PC. Buz comes
with a bundle of software, including MGI
VideoWave SE Plus for video publishing,
PictureWorks' H otShots a n d lo m ega's
Recordlt software.
We saw the Buz multimedia producer in
action during last summer's PC Expo in New
York, but were unable to get a review unit in
to the lab in time for this issue. The final bundle has started shipping in the U.S., and may
be shipping in Canada by the time you read
this, lomega's interest in digital video is quite
logical: the ravenous demands for mass storage that video presents is an ideal opportunity to sell more Jaz or Zip drives and cartridges.
The Buz can produce and edit up to 720x480
resolution, 30 frame per second (fps), 24-bit
color digital video, and output it either as
NTSC (television) analog video, or save it as a
the next few years.
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Intel
According to Intel Canada spokesperson Doug
Cooper, video is a central concern to Intel's
computer microprocessor strategy. The MMX
technology introduced to the Pentium processor family two years ago allows for much

Fest iwultimedla Inc.

Based in Germany, this digital video vendor
makes powerful mid-range desktop video editing products, and has been a pioneer creating
professional-level 6 mm DV editing systems.
Fast's DV Master was the first system with

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built-in Sony camera compatibility and a
FireWire connection. Other I'ast products
include the AV Master, an older analog video
capture card, and the Video Machine, a modular desktop video editing system,
Digital Renaissance
1'his Toronto-based company has developed
T.A.G., an interactive video software tool
technology designed to allow digital video
content to be accessed easily and flexibly
over the Internet. Microsoft has invested in
Digital Renaissance, believing T.A,G. could
be a keycomponentin the delivery of interactive "rich content" on the Web.
Digital Processing Systems
Another Toronto-based digital video innovator, DPS began as a low-volume designer and
maker of specialized video editing cornponents such as rack mounted time base correctors. When the NewTek Video Toaster was

nearing release, DPS built a time base corrector card to fit in a slot on the Amiga. To its
surprise, it sold thousands of these TBCs to
rabid Amigoids, and funneled the proceeds
into the development of an apparently end-

ware, and I'remiere is a very powerful, flexible, but slightly tricky to master editing
package.
The Mac version features a Waveform
Monitor and Vector Scope display that
allows users to verify the quality of the video
being captured from a video digitizer to disk.
Premiere also has a I'ime Base Corrector
(TBC) feature that ensures accurate frame
Digital lava, inc.
This company has created the Video Visor, a rates on incoming or outgoing video.
Premiere has many features to help autovideo productivity software tool that allows
a PC user to play back, convert, and "encap- mate record keeping and batch processing,
sulate" digital video modules for easy inte- is compatible with time code, and can gengration of video with other data types such erate an edit decision list for use in control'I'he Video ling a final edit. It can also be used to edit
as URl.s, documents and i
Visor is intended to allow digital video con- video or animations for interactive multitent to be published over internal networks media on CD-ROMs. Premiere has powerful
preview, titling and animation features,
or the internet.
stylesheets, and can optimize frame rates
and color palettes for video intended for the
Pinnacle/mire
Pinnacle systems recently acquired the miro Internet.
Adobe has another video software packline of digital video capture and editing
products to add to its own line of desktop age, AfterFffects, that is a dedicated special
video products, including a real-time editing effects/compositing program, widely used
system (named ReelTime), the high-end for corporate, broadcast and even feature
Aladdin 3f) post-production effects system, film effects. After Fffects is a high end product, fairly difficult to learn, and comes with
and the Deko character generator.
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intended to achieve the same dominance in to stage a comeback with new products such
desktop video as it did in I'C imaging with as the Targa2000 ltTX (real time effects, a
I'hotoshop. A version of I'remiere is often two-board set that promises broadcast qualibundled with mid-range digital video hard- ty video output and real time video processless stream of excellent digital video hardware.
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Basic concepts in video and video editing

n order to understand what desktop video
editing is, it's useful to define a few basic
terms:

Real time: Commonly refers to the ability of

digital video editing- system to "render" edits,
titles and effects almost instantly, or in "real
Desktop video: Video production with the time," at the speed that the final video will be
aid of standard desktop computers, usually watched. Slower, older desktop video editing
modified with the addition of third-party systems may take anywhere from several secvideo hardware (such as video capture cards) onds to many minutes, to hours to digitally
and software (such as video editing programs). render a particularly complicated editing effect.
The most powerful and expensive "black
box"
editing and effects devices and high-powDigital video: Video based on digital data
streams, rather than analog waveforms. ered PC workstations claim to produce final
Examples of digital videotape formats are 6 mm edited digital video sequences in "real time,"
Digital Video tape o r D i gital Betacam. with no waiting. In reality, however, most proQuickrime, Ml'EG and .AVI are examples of fessionals will admit that even high-end digital
computer-based digital video formats. VHS and editing systems, if overloaded with too many
Videodisk are examples of analog video formats. simultaneous demands (mixing many video
sources, creating very fancy transitions, titles
Video editing: The combination of video and special effects) will bog down and no
imagery from two or more video sources longer truly produce video in real time.
Video industry professionals ruefully admit
(such as video feeds from two video tape
decks, or a camcorder and a tape deck) into a that as digital editing tools have become more
new version that contains elements of sound powerful, video producers demand more fancy
and image from all the original source videos effects, further driving up the computing
combined together, typically to tell a story. requirements of video production.
Editing is essential to make a coherent story
from snippets of video taken at different Online/offllne: An offline video editing
times. A variety of transitions (such as fades system is one that allows a video editor to
and wipes), titles or special effects may be plan and preview the creation of an edited
used to help tell the story more effectively, video sequence, and to record all the editing
decisions in an edit decision list. Then, once
quickly, or dramatically.
all the choices have been made on the offline
Time code: Broadcast quality videotapes con- system, the final edit can be done on a more
tain a "stripe" of digital information that iden- powerful editing system.
The reason for doing initial edit planning
tifies every frame of video on a tape by its preon
an
offline system is mainly to save money.
cise location on the tape, to the exact hour,
minute and frame (video has approximately 30 Renting time in a full-fledged edit suite is very
frames and 60 fields per second). Time code is costly, while an off line facility requires a fracread by professional-level editing equipment, tion of the hourly expense. Efficient video proand pro-level desktop video systems. It allows ducers will do as much preliminary work
for precise synchronization of sound and offline as possible, and try to move into the
image to be maintained, and for "frame-accu- final edit stage only when they have a very
rate" control of editing. Any desktop video sys- good idea of what they want as a final product.
For example, an offline version of the Avid
tem that doesn't support time code is generally
considered sub-professional, and is much more desktop video editing system, which allows
difficult to use for precise editing of videotape. small scale preview of video, and the creation of
a detailed edit decision list, costs about $28,000.
Edit decision iist: Time code allows a video A full scale Avid production editing suite that
editor to compile a list of the tape segments can create the final, broadcast quality version of
that are to be edited together into a final a video can cost over $100,000. Small video provideo sequence. Each segment is identified by ducers (as in a corporate communications or
its time code location on a tape. An edit deci- training department) often own an offline editsion list (EDI.) is a record of the location and ing system for preparatory work, and rent time
length of the snippets of video that are to be in a final edit suite only as needed.
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uickTime 3.0
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QuickTime
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party player, such as the excellent MacAmp or
WinAmp for Mac or Windows, respectively, to
listen to'MP3 audio files. For video, Apple
uickTime 3.0 for the Macintosh and worked with a company called Sorenson to
32-bit Windows PCs is now available come up with the Apple-Sorenson Codec, a
in freely downloadable and US$29.95 successor to the venerable Cinepak codec. At
"Pro" rmats from Apple's QuickTime Web the QuickTime 3.0 i n troduction, Apple
site (http: //www.quicktime.apple.corn). It brings showed a full-screen movie playing excellent
feature parity and the authoring APIs of
quality images and sound, requiring only
Apple's multimedia environment to the PC 60KB/sec. of bandwidth. (Note, however, that
for the first time. The Pro version for sale the freeware version of QT3 is incapable of
from Apple's Web site provides an easy to use full-screen mode.) Apple says QuickTime 3.0's
(i.e., limited) video editor and additional advanced compression capabilities will be the
authoring and playback features (described at basis of a forthcoming compression standard
http: //www.apple.corn/quicktime/upgrade/), includ- dubbed MPEG-4.
In addition, Apple licensed Qualcomm's
ing several that were previously part of the
freeware version such as looping and full- PureVoice a high quality codec optimized
screen playback.
for voice, which is also built into many PCS
Mac downloaders may miss additional digital phones. QT3 also supports the popular
videoconferencing standard H.263. Best of all,
options the previous Windows versions of
QuickTime never had, such as the now "Pro- QuickTirne streams without requiring a speonly"Save Movie feature. Indeed, as a grow- cial proprietary server (another poke at
ing number of Mac Web sites are complain- RealNetworks). A QT file runs off any HTTP
ing, Apple has basically crippled its freeware server anytime you want to stream it.
Other notable QuickTime 3.0 Pro features
version of MoviePlayer and is making you pay
for functionality that the old version provid- are the new translators that are provided to
ed for free (and still does, if you saved a copy). import AVI files and save movies in DVC (digFortunately, there are some very cool fea- ital video camera) format.
A full description of its capabilities is at
tures in the new release that will help the
complainers to get over the snags weil, http: //www.quicktime.apple.corn/qt30/whitepaper/.
In addition to AVI import, QuickTime 3.0
maybe. Read on....
QuickTime 3.0 i n troduces streaming supports the playback of AVI movies (this is
(including streaming support for audio, video particularly useful on the Mac, which does
and VR panoramas). Indeed, at his Macworld not otherwise have this capability without
Expo keynote in January 1998, Apple chief third-party translators), however many AVls
executive officer, Steve Jobs, characterized (typically, those created using recent Indeo
RealNetworks' RealVideo/RealAudio stream- codecs) display a white screen with the vering technologies as QuickTime's major com- s ion o f M o v i ePlayer t hat s h ip s w i t h
QuickTime 3.0.
petitor.
The solution i s t o i n stall M i crosoft
Internet Explorer 4.0. With it, you get two
New and improved codecs
QuickTime 3.0 provides both Macs and extensions, Indeo Video v. 3.22.24.09, and
Intel Raw Video v. 1.10.20.02. With these
Windows systems with direct support for
digital video format files the data that extensions active, AVIs play wonderfully!
comes out of a FireWire jack. (QuickTime
also provides support for the not-especially Extensible architecture
useful MacPaint format and gives Windows QuickTime's architecture is extensible, as
users access to the originally Mac-only PICT Apple showed a few years ago when it transp arently added PhotoCD support to t h e
format.)
MacOS via a little QuickTime magic. Astarte
Because digital audio and especiallyvideo files can be very large (3.5 MB/sec. for MPEG exporter is a third-party extension to
the digital video format), Apple has licensed Apple's Q uickTime a r c h itecture f o r
some new and improved codecs to better han- Macintosh that adds MPEG export to any
dle high-quality movies and sound. For audio program that uses QuickTime's standard
playback, Apple licensed music technology export function, such as the Pro version of
from QDesign and Roland's Sound Canvas MoviePlayer. A demo version for PPC Macs is
synthesizer sound library and General MIDI currently downloadable for free at www.macextensions for QuickTime 3.0. However, we shop.corn.
Apple's Windows implementation of
compared Apple's software wavetable synthesis with that of Roland's Virtual Sound Canvas Resource forks is a l ittle peculiar. When
VSC-55 for Windows.,and Yamaha's SYGZO QuickTime makes a preview of, say, a JPEG
SoftSvnth, and Apple's was by far the worst file, it creates a RES file wherever the original
sounding of the three. But it's better than no file happened to be. Thus, your PC soon
becomes littered with these files and gives
soft synth at all.
Unfortunately, you' ll still need a third- Windows users twice as many opportunities
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Users of the free (or Vro) release can use
Apple's free MakeEffectMovie utility (go to

to break file links. Windows 95/NT with

Internet Explorer 4.0, or Windows 98, by comparison, transparently make previews of jPEG,
GIF, HTML, DOC and other file types in any
window you choose without leaving droppings all over the place.
Like version 2.5 on the Mac, the new
QuickTime release can import a text file and
turn it into a movie, with smooth anti-aliased
text. However, if the Windows version can do
this, we couldn't figure out how. ('I'he infor-

Itp://ftp.apple.corn/Quicktime/developers/makeellect
movie.zip for Windows, or Itp://Itp.apple.corn
/Quicktime/developers/makeelfectmovie.sea.hqx for

Mac) to create some cool effects, such as realistic fire, clouds, and animated displacement
maps. The animated fire effect, in particular,
looks great.
But keep a copy of your old MoviePlayer or
be prepared to pay US$30 to see what this
mation posted at http: //www.apple.corn/quick upgrade can really do. (The $30 buys you a
time/authors/texttrak.html doesn't work with the serial number to enter into the QuickTime 3.0
Windows version.) It barfed with a "Not a control panel's registration dialog.) Apple's
Movie file" error message when we fed it a text W eb site h a s f u l l d o c umentation f o r
file. An Apple conspiracy to get Windows MoviePlayer 3.0 that reveals which features
are missing from the freeware release.
users more fond of Macs?
Like the version 2.5 supplied with Mac
We had better luck importing a MIDI file
(but the cool feature that allows you to import OS 8, QuickTime 3.0 supports MPEG-I (this
text as Karaoke lyrics isn't enabled in the free- feature is not supported on 6 8K-based
Macs), allowing QuickTime enabled comware version); Nor would 3.0 allow us to
change our MIDI file's instrumentation yet puters to play back video CDs and downanother feature that was previously possible in loaded MVFG-1 movies. Ironically, this is
version 2.5 and is now missing entirely from the first version that brings feature parity to
the Windows version, but Mac users benefit
the freeware version of 3.0.
more from the ability to finally import AVI,
WAV, TIFI', Targa and BMP files into stanOnly for paying customers
Perhaps the coolest new feature freeware dard QuickTime apps. Flic files are also supusers will never see, though, is found in the ported.
Our initial tests of QuickTime 3.0 on a
Pro version's MovieVlayer Save dialog. Here,
you can apply animated filter effects such as Mac revealed no compatibility problems
film grain (complete with animated dust and with leading applications such as Adobe
scratches, although the scratches are annoy- Vremiere or After Effects, but further exploingly fake looking), emboss, edge detection ration revealed that Premiere 4.2 could not
a nd many o t h e r e f fects. ( Check o u t exploit its AVI import feature. This was easihttp: //www.adrenal! ne.ca /www/chartsseandqt3.html ly fixed, however. We simply opened the AVI
in an old version of Apple's MoviePlayer and
for more information.)

saved the file in MOV format to work around Windows 9$ glitch

this issue.
On one of our Windows 95 test machines,
Things weren't as smooth when we tested we were unable to run the Setup program
Premiere for Windows. Disturbingly, neither from the Desktop directory (it complained,
decompress%s - notenough TEMP space
I 'remiere 4.2 nor b etas x21 o r x 3 1 o f 'can't
on
dri
ve...' a bogus message, considering
Premiere 5.0 worked with QuickTime 3.0
(and our most recent beta of Premiere 5.0 the hundreds of megabytes of free disk
didn't work with QuickTime 2.12, either!) space we had on our system). We worked
While we' re sure one or both of these issues a round this m i nor bug by moving t h e
will be fixed by the time Premiere 5.0 ships executable to our C drive's root directory,
later this year, it seems a bit odd that QT3 where the installer worked as expected.
doesn't work with the current 4.2 version of Under Windows 98, the installer worked
normally from any directory we tried.
Premiere. (Adobe says it p l ans to s h ip
Performance of MoviePlayer and the
Premiere 5.0 with QT3.) In further tests on
o u r W e b b r o wsers
our Windows system, we discovered that loading speed o f
Ulead's MediaStudio Pro 5.0, too, was unable declined after installing QT3, however.
After installing, IE 4.01 and Communicator
to import QuickTime movies with QT3
installed, complaining that QuickTime could 4.04 started loading very slowly, presumably due to the new QuickTime plug-ins
not be initialized correctly, And is it worth
mentioning that Premiere 4.2, running the provided.
Back on the Mac, we also noted that
old 2.12 version of QuickTime, couldn' t
import a QT3 movie either or that, inexplic- Premiere could not load certain movies, such
ably, the PICT file included with QT3 can' t as the "Get QuickTime Pro" advertisement
be opened by computers running older ver- that ships with QT3. Additionally, MacFixit
sions of QT? Worse, we couidn't even open reports that some Photoshop users have sufthese I'ICT files on a computer running fered frequent crashes after upgrading.
The most obnoxious feature of QT3,
Photoshop 4.01 and QT3 to convert them to
a format our QuickTime 2.5-using cohorts however, is the fact that one of Apple's
licensing options allows developers to avoid
could read. Yikes.
In further tests on our Windows system, a hefty $1 per copy licensing fee by includwe discovered that Ulead's MediaStudio Pro ing what Ric Ford of www.macintouch.corn
5.0 was also unable to import QuickTime calls "a virus-like, continual recreation of an
movies with QT3 installed, complaining that unwanted file on every user's desktop." Nice.
We'd urge caution' with this upgrade,
QT could not be initialized correctly. And is it
especially
if you use a program that may
worth mentioning that Premiere 4.2, running
the old 2.12 version of QuickTime, couldn' t h ave problems w it h t h i s v e r sion o f
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Hot quite ready for prime time
Continued frowpage32

The biggest, most challenging bottleneck

is bandwidth for video distribution across
networks. This is a problem that is out of
for pursuing quality on even an inexpensive computer technology's control, in that the
distribution networks telecommunications
PC system.
and cablecompanies have to spend many
billions of dollars over the next five to ten
The future
There are several remaining bottlenecks to years to replace the existing network infradoing really good digital video editing and structure.
On the positive side, improved compresdistributing the resulting video via an inexsion technology will allow better quality
pensive personal computer.
It's still hard to do "real time" process- video to be pushed down even the narrowest pipes. At the recent MacWorld show, an
ing of transitions and effects even with a
fairly expensive custom video effects card, upstart company named Sorenson demonsuch as a Pinnacle, DPS or Fast Video prod- strated highly compressed15 fps (frames
uct. More powerful graphics chipsets on per second), full screen audio and video
video cards will bring better price/perfor- transmitting at speeds as slow as 11 Kbps.
The final obstacle to delivering high
mance in this area. The power of the basic
Intel CPUs in PCs will continue to double quality video created on a PC to the mass
audience will be the need to replace current
every 18 months or sooner, which will
bring "real time" rendering, encoding and VCRs and TVs with new products that can
decoding of digital video to any PC in a few show either high resolution digital video, or
traditional NTSC analog video. TV makers
years.
Mass storage is also becoming cheap have two main options: upgrade cathode
enough to allow any PC the hard drive and ray tube (CRT) technology to show nonbackup capacity to store several hours of interlaced, high frequency digital video sigMPEG2 video. A FireWire compatible inter- nals, or begin to make flat panel displays for
face will begin to appear on Intel mother- t he c onsumer T V s e t m a r ket. B o t h
boards within a year, according to Intel, approaches are likely to be seen in the next
making it much easier to attach digital video few years.
Intel, Microsoft and many of the moniequipment to a PC than currently. Direct,
s tandardized support for v i deo i n W e b tor makers are betting that there will be a
browsers and operating systems will make it market for the big screen family room Web
much easier to access and share video. DVD TV, which combines Web browsing with TV
drives will be standard in PCs, allowing and DVD viewing. Other manufacturers
video to be published and distributed to such as Samsung believe there will be a market for personal monitors, from-14-inch to
most computer users on DVD media.

21-inch units, which will serve both computer and TV viewing needs.

port if you have bought most of your system from a mail order house. The downside of affordable products such as the
ATI All in Wonder Pro or the Iomega Buz
Doing it
is that a high-end video system integraThe temptation for anyone looking at gettor can't afford to offer much support on
ting into desktop video is to go the cheapest
route possible, just upgrading an ordinary
a $300 product.
PC with a capture board and some software, 3. When it comes to selecting a PC for use
as a desktop video editing system, bigger
along the lines of the IPC/All ln Wonder Pro
system we tried, or system based on a simiand higher capacity is better. Many desktop video beginners start out by stuffing
lar quality of video capture card, such as a
the lomega Buz. This is fine for the home
a minitower clone PC with extra hard
drives, removable storage devices, extra
video enthusiast, but not enough on which
to base a business.
RAM, networking cards, video cards and
According to many desktop video specables, and then wonder why system percialists we talked to, there are several basic
formance starts to degrade, drives start
skipping, and components begin to fail.
pitfalls you should avoid if you want to sucIt's known as overheating and insufficeed as a professional or semi-professional
cient
electrical power supply.
desktop video editor:
A more suitable desktop video editing PC
1. Remember, it's still video, even if comis based on a large, rugged, full-tower
puters are involved. There is both techchassis, with an oversized power supply
nique and art in knowing how to use
and multiple fans for cooling. Ideally,
lighting and sound recording equiponly half of the drive bays should be
ment, and how to handle and operate
actually occupied with drives. The empty
video equipment. Th e o l d s a y ing,
"garbage in, garbage out" is especially
spaces allow ventilation t o c i rculate
applicable to desktop video. Take video
freely around all the components.
training from a local community college 4. The ideal desktop video system is an allor art school, or use instructional tapes
digital one, since the amount of image
and books to guide your learning of good
quality loss at each stage of editing is
severe with analog tape, especially lower
video technique.
2. Cheap is not always good. Buying a
quality formats such as VHS, or S-VHS.
Even if you can't afford an all digital sysbrand name product with local service
tem at first, try to plan to eventually
and support and a good warranty will
integrating time code compatibility and
save money and time in the long run. It
6 mm DV input and output into your
is very difficult to get a specialist desktop
video vendor to provide you with supbusiness plan. 0

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From boat anchor to video editing suite

A video professional's tale of transformation
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hen I first began considering PCbased video editing, I o wned a

humble 286 VC with WordPerfect
4.2 word processing software, It had a 40 MB
hard driveand 640 KB of RAM. Running on
DOS, my 286 didn't have or require a mouse.
How did I upgrade this into a full-blown nonlinear editor of professional quality video?
Here is my story.
I bought my iirst copy of Adobe Premiere
(version 4.0 for Windows 3.xx) when I was a
student and able to purchase a fully featured
version at an educational price (proof of fulltime attendance at a recognized educational
institution is required) at the campus bookstore for about 50 percent off the regular price.
The systems requirements on the Premiere
box stated that a 256-color video adapter
(video card or graphics card) and a VGA monitor were the bare minimum needed to display
video images. Having only a CGA monitor, I
replaced it with a VGA monitor. I later discovered a cheaper upgrade option would have
been an I'.GA monitor. While borrowing my
brother's EGA unit, I learned that FGA monitors only display 16 shades of gray that fill in
for color, but they do display video imagessomething a CGA monitor will not do.

I also discovered that my 286 VC just didn't have the muscle to deliver movies in Video
for Windows (AVI) or Quicktime the most
common file formats used to store video
images and sounds. For this, I needed to
upgrade both the motherboard and the CVU.
I went through three upgrades along the
path to full-motion video capability. First I
asked my local computer value-added retailer
to upgrade the 286 motherboard to a 386. As
the RAM on the 286 hoard wouldn't fit a 38(i
motherboard, an upgrade to 30-pin SIMMs
was also needed,
With four I MB SIMMS in place, my 386
machine (actually I borrowed my brother' s
again) could run Premiere 4.0 on Windows 3,1
if I got my hands on a 256-colour VGA video
card. Premiere simply refused to run on any
video adapter with less than 256-color VGA.
Unfortunately, neither my 286 computer nor
my brother's 386 rnachine had a such a card.
So we upgraded to a I MB video card.
We did get video on our humble 386 VC
using sample digital video files (AVI) from the
Adobe I'remiere 4.0, but I could hear the hard
drive grinding away, even with 8 MB of RAM.
In terms of practical application, the 386
VC was way too limited by its slow processing
time and small hard drive. My 386 system was
able to crank out multimedia-quality video

suitable for small windows on a VGA monitor,

but any output onto VHS or better quality
videotape was out of the question.
I then tried a 486 board and got much
faster results. However, with the MI919 motherboard and AMD 486-DX120 CI'U, I needed
72-pin ItAM modules, so I could not use the
30-pin SIMMs from the 386.
A RAM upgrade gives the biggest bang for
the buck, and 32 MB is a working minimum
foi video editing on a Windows 95 platform.
Bearing in mind that I eventually wanted to
Inax out to the 128 MB my motherboard
would support, and since the 486 had four
memory slots, I initially bought two 32 MB
SIMMs, I was told that my 486 could have
worked with a single SIMM, but I was thinking
of future upgrades, which included a Pentium
MMX motherboard.
I now had a 486 DX120 with 64 MB of
RAM. It was at this point that I purchased a
miro DC 30 video capture board. It worked
fairly well with the 486 VC but once too often
I got the daunting blue screen with an error
message informing me of a system error. It
turned out there was some incompatibility
with early implementations of VCI and the
DC30 capture board.
My retailer recommended a new motherboard, so I replaced the 486 board with an

Acer APST motherboard. It had four PCI slots

and could take either the now-common EDO
RAM or the newer SDRAM.
Running with a 133 MHz Pentium CVU,
I' ve had flawless performance in video editing
ever since, The Pentium upgrade happened
about a year after I purchased the 486 upgrade.
During this period, the price RAM dropped by
more than 50 percent from about $750 to'
$350 for 64 MB of RAM so I bought another
64 MB to max out my Pentium.
Other upgrades included a Stealth 3D-3000
video card, large hard drives and and a true
video monitor. I chose the Stealth 3000 with 4
MB because its predecessors are often seen in
configurations for video and 3D graphics workstations. It is also relatively inexpensive.
I eventually installed both a 4 GB Western
Digital and a 6.4 GB Quantum, The cost of the
EIDF. drives totaling more than 10 GB of storage
was about equal to a 4 GB SCSI A/V hard drive.
EIDE drives are also adequate for 5-video quality.
Because the color system of a computer
monitor is different from that of a monitor
specifically designed for video presentation,
we invested in a Sony Trinitron video monitor
as our goal was to create S-video quality video.
(For those creating multimedia movies for
viewing on a computer monitor, there would
be no need for a video monitor.) 0

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to its traditional sales of audio equipment to
the music production community.
Many software developers offer free seminars in order to build up interest and make
a sales pitch to videomakers and other visual artists. Adobe Systems, the maker of the
ubiquitous Premiere software for editing
video and film, offers the Digital Video seminar series for video production on the PC
and Mac.
Hardware m a n ufacturers s uc h
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video capture boards, may also offer free
seminars and demonstrations. Even though
some of their products may cost more than
you want to spend, the seminars are still
worth attending since they can give you an
idea of the configurations that work in a
desktop video system.
Video editing software
The video capture board and the video editing software are the two most critical components in a PC-based video production system. The video capture board gets the video
into your computer from your camcorder or
video cassette deck (and back out again, if
the board supports that function). Once the
video is stored on th e computer's hard
drive(s), the video editing software can be
used to cut and paste or otherwise modify
the raw video footage into a movie, TV commercial, multimedia presentation or a format suitable for the Internet.
The minimum system requirements of
your video editor should guide you in what
is the best PC configuration. But what video
editing software should you buy? The most
frequently mentioned brand name in video
editing is Adobe System's Premiere.
Adobe products are well-respected in the
publishing and printing world. It produces
both Adobe Photoshop (image editing) and
PageMaker (desktop publishing) software,
which are widely used by amateurs and professionals in a variety of organizations from
university research centres to professional
graphic design studios.
Invariably, magazine reviews have given
Premiere top scores. Interviews with or articles by professionals in magazines like
Digital V i deo ro u t i n ely a c k n owledge
Premiere as a professional-featured video
editor. Yes, there are far superior video editing applications than Premiere, but come
close to its widespread use and affordability.
For about $750 for Adobe Premiere, the
amateur videomaker can be assured he or
she is using the same software that has been
used by professionals to produce TV commercials and components of major feature
films.
MCXpress and Media Composer by Avid
are the Mercedes and Cadillac of video editors and are the editors of choice for professional video editors, if they have the budget.
The less expensive of the two is MCXpress,
priced at a paltry $6,999 and this is just for
the software alone. (I have seen this price
tag drop to about $3,500 during special
sales).
Choosing between the Avid systems and
Adobe's Premiere is a no-brainer if you are
on a tight budget. However, if you have the
money, you' ll want the Avid product. It is

the one the pros choose: approximately

one-quarter of prime time TV shows are

edited on Avid Composer.
Ulead's Media Studio Pro has also been
getting good reviews, especially its most
recent version 5.0. But it has yet to become
as popular as Premiere and has yet to score
higher than Premiere in any of the reviews
I' ve read.
A more reasonable middle ground might
be In-sync's Speed Razor video editing application. Priced at under $2,000, it can be a
good alternative to the Adobe or Ulead
products. It is more efficient than Premiere
in that Premiere requires an extra block of
hard drive space in order to make the final
movie.

Video capture boards

You should hold off on buying video editing
software until after you' ve bought a video
capture card. The reason is that video capture cards are often bundled with a popular
video editing software. In my opinion, the
miro DC30 video capture card bundled with
Adobe Premiere software is currently the
best combination in the prosumer video/PC
market.
Recently, the miro DC30 was superseded
by the miro DC30 Plus. It has the best specifications I have seen in th e $1,000 to
$1,300 price range. It can deliver 7 MB/sec.
sustained transfer data rate. This allows the
DC30 to capture and record in very highresolution (704x480). In practice, sustained
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obtained on my regular DC30 card, without
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scored the miro boards very high in comparison to other capture cards.
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133 MHz or faster Pentium processor
at least 32 MB RAM
at least 1 GB free hard drive space
a video adapter card listed at the miro
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effort. So by moving to that we thought it
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respects but one thing it probably hurt us the
most on was that now we had no one that
would specifically look after Canadian issues.
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weren't able to look after that.

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75

Small Business Computing

Chris Rlelsnette
Conti
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TCP: Tell us about your product lines aud your

strategies to move thenr.

TCP: Because Canada ls roughly the size of

Symantec: As acompany over the years we people and computers more reliable
how do
havebeen focused on a number ofbusinesses, you prevent crashes, how do you recover from
not necessarily aligned. We needed to make crashes, what have you, Norton Utilities,

California?
Symantec:Right, I haven't done the numbers
but I would venture a guess that Future Shop
is a similar percentage of the Canadian market
as CompUSA is in the U.S., at least in relative
importance it is. So, having a focus here
allows us to focus on these kind of issues. We
need to be closer to our Canadian customers.
The other thing that I would add is that,
the largest IT [information technology) customer in Canada is the federal governm
ent,
and in order to be successful it is important to
have someone in places like Ottawa, Toronto
or Vancouver. People like to deal with local
people. We will continue to be a part of jthe
Americasl region and leverage the resources
where appropriate for marketing, customer

sure that all the wood was behind one arrow.

So we looked at all our products and which
ones were part of our core strategy and we
came up with two key business units.

The first is security and assistance. That

business unit is focused on how you make

more productive: PCAnywhere, Act, WlnFax,

are three very deep products.

Norton AntiVirus is a big piece of lsecurity

and assistance} and Norton Utilities is anoth-

er major player there, But if you look at the

Norton AntiVirus, CrashGuard, products like

that.
The second is remote productivity solutions. How do we make people and computers

product line, what we have been really successful with is working with the power user,
the computer savvy user, Where we haven' t
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Mr>nnette on Syrnrrntec's reasons for

renewing its corporate presence in Canruto
service, and tech support, there is no need for
us to duplicate that unless there are some specific components that are needed for some
reason.

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Synsantec: We are fairly dose to being in
place already. The Toronto office ... is a pretty
significant development facility with 250 plus
employees.
TCP: What are you doing with 250 peoplein that
office?
Symantec Developing WinFax, we do some
customer service.
TCP: You do your primary dcvclopnrent here?
Symantec: Right, absolutely. The Norton
group is in Santa Monica, the Delrina group is
where it originally was, So we continue to do
the development for WinFax here, as well,
new products that are coming out of that
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support people, a number of resources. So,
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Small Business Computing

Chris 'Nonnette

TCP: You are, or course, aware of a stand alone WinFax, PC Anywhere, Act. These three prod- its infancy. But everyone would look down
product tliat dues a similar fiuiction.
ucts individually carry their market. And if the road and say, that it is probably a very big

Contimied fmm page7$

Symantec: Oil Change is the product that you overlay the products and look at the users business down the road. Right now of the Java
really had a product focus is in the novice CyberMedia offers at this point. We' ve taken and the needs that they have. They all tend to development tool market we probably have
user. And that is a huge market. So, as a major
initiative for us, will start to deliver product
solutions to that market.

it, I think, a little bit further and there is a sixmonth free subscription with Crash Guard, an

be remote users. They are involved in either

important component.

have a number of needs and I think that we We compete against Microsoft and Borland
have a very good understanding of what those and a number of people.
needs are. Over the next couple of years you
The market will change in the coming
will see from us, solutions directly targeted at years. But what we have today is a really good,
those customers needs, telecommuting,
respected development tool for Java developers.
mobile professional, etc.
However, its because of the nature of the market, we handle that as a completely separate
TCP: I wnnt to ask a question aboirt WinFax. business unit. They have their own dedicated
Woulrln't.you sriy WinFax luis its share of prob- sales, their own dedicated marketing people.
lenis? Peuple often cumplain that WinFax is
brrggy.
TCP: Could you suin up the goal of Symantec
Symantec: I would say that when we first Cannrla?
came out with the Windows 95 version of Symantec: It all comes out of one primary
WinFax, there were so many issues we had goal for us, and that is to invest in growth
with that one. I think we have addressed each oppoitunity and I think we were underinvestof them as we moved forward and today ed in Canada. It absolutely represents a
WinFax 8.0 is an extremely good, stable prod- growth opportunity for us and that's what
uct. In fact, that's the product that, in the brings us back.
beginning of '97 we looked at a plan and said,
"What is WinFax going to do by way of sales TCP: Tup revernre prodrrcing product?
for us?" We picked a number and said it was Symantec:NAV [Norton AntiVirusj.
here, we blew that number out by so far, it was
so far, absolutely way over projection. So it is TCP: Products with the most /ropes. Wlrere's the
dark horse liere?
a very, very good product for us today.
Symantec: Gosh all kinds, I look down the
TCP: Tell me about your Internet tools.
road and I see all kinds of them. I think Crash
Symantec: That would be the third business Guard. I think we have the biggest belief in its
unit and that one we handle a little bit differ- ability to grow. I' ve seen the predictions and
ent in that Internet tools specifically Java it's a huge number. The consumer business is
tools today is a business that is very much in a big area for us. 0

Uninstall Deluxe is a very new entry into

the market for us. We shipped it late in the
year and already it is the number one uninstaller on the market. It will do the classic
uninstall scan my computer take off applications I don't want, clean up my registry. But
one thing that it has that nomine else has:

TCP:Like Henltliy PC.

Symantec: Well, Healthy PC was a product
where we stepped into it a little bit, and had
some issues with how we positioned that
product. But I think the best example are

Norton Crash Guard Deluxe and Norton

what we will do is put your computer back

solid product. Crash Guard came from a com- exactly the way it was rather than close to the

Uninstall Deluxe. Crash Guard is absolutely a

way it was!

ponent of Norton Utilities and the idea there

was that the number one thing that people
complained about was crashes. Crash Guard
Deluxe has what we call AntiFreeze. If your
product freezes it will help you unfreeze that
application. It used to be you only had the
o ption of "End task." Now you can hi t
antifreeze and continue.
Another important feature is Live Update,
which will scan your computer, look at what
you have in the way of hardware or software
and ... then go to our Web site, see what
patches are available, download them and
install them. We take it one step further and
actually do some quality insurance testing on
those patches. So even if the patch is for
WordPerfect, we go through it to make sure
that, in general, the patch works and isn' t
something that is going to blow up your
computer.

TCP: l nnd other experienced users l know have a

prublem with utilities. And oneplace in

particulnr

that we rerrlly have some cuncerns is rwirrstnllers.

Becnrrse they nre low-level prograins that tiy to dn
a lot of tliings, they are very invasive. Also,
because of the coniplexity of coiirputers and the
infinite nuniber of rnnclrine coufigurntions out
tirere, the shnring of library files, etc., they seem to
cause as mony problemsas they solve. So, fur the
most part, tliis is a categorywe rlon't have much

confidence in.
Symantec: I would encourage you to take a
close look a Uninstaller Deluxe. We haven' t
really done a good job of explaining the really great things this product can do.
On the other side, remote productivity
solutions, that is a very important business to
us. If you look at products there we have

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Custom reports can be prepared using Crystal
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sales orders and quotes directly from Simply.
Simply stores einail addresses and Web site
information for customers and vendors.
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inventory items on the fly. This feature speeds
up data entry. You can prepare and use recurring entries in the general, purchase, sales, payroll, transfers and adjustments journals.
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can accept credit cards as a method of payment
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You will like the feature that allows you to
adjust purchase and sales invoices and payroll
cheques automatically. You simply select the
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differences, then makes all the reversing and
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You can select the option to use negative
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net profits as a percentage of revenue by
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From: Business Vision Management Systems Inc,
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tion should be delivered quickly to the user,
on-screen. The product certainly meets its
objective. You can view graphs in the general
ledger to compare last year's net change of an
account with this year's net change and compare balances by fiscal period. You can quickly make inquiries from any account balance to

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plans. The autoforecast feature uses the current year-to-date performance to project

future performance using linear projection.

You can consolidate multiple companies.
Additional modules include job costing and
purchase ordering. Inventory has been
enhanced to include bills of materials, 20
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view transactions in the general ledger inquiry
function you can reconstruct the entire journal entry for any transaction on-screen. An
automatic posting feature can be turned on or
off. When on, all information in the general
ledger is displayed in real time
When off, you can review and revise the
journal entries before posting to the general
ledger. All transactions are date sensitive and
there is no period end close function to be
concerned with. Business Vision allows you to
locate a journal entry from any source and
reverse it automatically.
With this system, you can keep up to two
years of sales history. Unlimited notes can be
attached to customer details and supplier details.
Multiple modules can be open at any one time.
For example you could access both the inventory item and the supplier screen at the same time.
Order entry tracks quotes arid orders and converts them to invoices. Back orders are tracked
and when the goods are received the back order
is converted to an invoice.
The Canadian payroll module is very simple to set up. It uses a time card entry system
for hourly employees and can automatically
create time cards for salaried employees. The
time cards can be reused for the next pay period. Supplementary time cards are available for
special or extra pay runs.
Encore is designed for retail, service and
distribution businesses. The product has a
strong point-of-sale module, which can be
linked to a cash drawer, invoice printer and
bar code reader. You can access information
on the inventory file and the customer file
from the point-of-sale screen. During entry of
the part number, the system displays the
description, price and tax codes on the screen.
When the quantity is entered the system
determines if a discount applies. When the
entry is complete a payment method window
appearsand the system calculateschange due,
if any, and prints a receipt. Inventory control,
accounts receivable and the general ledger are
updated automatically for the sale.
If you want to try Business Vision Encore,
a demo can be downloaded from the Web site.
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warehouse tracking. BV 2000 has extended
browse features and unlimited networking.
Integrated Office Accounting
From: MTWSolutions Online Inc.
201-204 3075 14th Ave., Markham, ON,L3R OG9
Tel: 905-940-3395
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Office. It is fully customizable and a source
code version is available. You can use the
Wizard to help you through the setup steps
and later to find and correct problems.
You can enter a sales invoice and receive
payment at the same time. The order entry
module lets you prepare quotes, orders~nd
invoices using inventory items, kits and work
orders. Customers can be added on the fly.
Orders can be automatically included in the
UPS Maxiship shipping system.
The inventory module allows you to
maintain inventory at different warehouse
locations. You can record serial numbers
when an i t e m i s o r dered, shipped or
returned. Accounts payable and payroll are
fully integrated with the simple purchasing,
job cost, work order and estimating system.
You can define the company's fixed assets
and calculate depreciation but this module
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Tel: 403-413-61 92
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Prices: $995 (general ledger, accounts receivable,
accounts payable, bank management and utilities)
$1,000 single-user sales order
$1,000 work order
$495-$995 payroll
$495 5-user licence
CAN Account is a fully integrated, mid-range
product with strong inventory, work order
and job cost features. You can purchase the
base version and contract Cyberlutions to customize the software to best fit your needs. It is
easy to set up and use. There are good browse
and find features to locate customers and vendors and the copy feature makes it easy to
enter repetitive data. The general ledger
account structure with it s t wo-character
department code lacks flexibility. The yearend close feature and lack of general ledger
detail retention are weaknesses.
The accounts receivable, accounts payable
and payroll are chock full of advanced features.
You can track quantities on hand, allocated,
back ordered and on order. You can have
unlimited price levels, warehouse and bin locations making this a very strong inventory
product. You can build assemblies from individual parts and track serial numbers on sales.
Commissions are based on inventory.
Services can be included as part of an assembly.
You can integrate purchase orders with accounts
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Preparing for the worst

Weird weather brings disaster planning to the fore
BY GEOF W H E ELWRIGHT

s your computer prepared for a natural disaster? The possibility of calamity is not as
remote as you might think, Millions of
Canadians in Quebec and Ontario found that
out the hard way this past winter during the
brutish ice storms that left some areas without
power for weeks.
Cleaning up from that mess not only
involved putting homes and lives back together although these were the obvious priorities it also meant restoring data and proper
operation to computer systems that suffered
either physical damage or data corruption as a
result of the storms.
Some companies were able to restore
their systems from recent backup tapes,
Others without backup copies learned, the
hard way, that the real value in your computer system lies not in the computer hardware and software which can be easily
replaced when you get a cheque from your
i nsurance company but in th e d ata i t
holds. If you lose your data, and you don' t

have securely stored, properly made backup

copies of it, no insurance company can compensate you for the time and trouble that it
takes to recreate that data.

This bitter lesson i s b eing l earned

throughout the world as the weather oddity
called El Nino brings "weird weather" to all
parts of the globe. In the eight weeks following the bitter ice storms in Fastern Canada,
for example, both California and Florida suffered strong rain and wind storms that
brought flooding and hurricane-force winds.
California alone suffered more than US$300
million in damage, while the strong winds
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and businesses.
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operation and lose all the data you have collected about which clients ordered what.
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little while, would have a huge impact on
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couldn't have predicted the ice storms that hit

so many residents of Eastern Canada and the

Some users may be thanking Iomega for United States.
setting up this awareness/marketing scheme,
One interesting addition to the campaign
as the first tour it h eld to p romote the came in the beginning of this year when
DisasterProof Your Business idea included TrippLite Power Protection (makers of the
"severe winter weather" cities such as Isobar line of surge suppressors) and
Minneapolis/St.Paul, Chicago, D etroit, Symantec Corp. joined the tour, providing
Boston, and New York,
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threat and viruses. While there was obvious
self-interest for all three companies to band
together, they do represent a credible packagin a protected area like a safe deposit box.
ing of tools that could help small businesses,
3. Guard against infected software programs
in particular, safeguarding data.
or possible virus downloads off the
In Quebec's ice storm, for example, some

backup solution.
Storage manufacturer Iomega recently
Ingallinera says there are five majortips
launched a campaign called "DisasterProof (some of which admittedly involve buying
Your Business" that is designed to eliminate product from lomega or one of its competimost of the major holes that users typically tors) to achieve the goal of "disaster-proofing"
have in their disaster prevention systems (and your business. They are:
sell a truckload of Iomega's Ditto tape backup 1. Save your entire system~perating syssystems while doitrg so).
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tridge each day.
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a loss," says Albert Ingallinera, Ditto product
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Given the need to create awareness for small
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off its DisasterProof Your Business PRcampaign in December 1997." lomega is focusing the campaign on its Ditto family of tape

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computer users reported that it was not the initial power outage that trashed their hard disks
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"lomega visited these cities before the action, It should be mentioned that these
severe weather hit so that small businesses actions only pertain to backup. To deal with

had an opportunity to protect themselves concerns about theft of your computer, for
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eliminating the need to send an entirely new
database and reducing synchronization time.
Btllldlng a Web base of clients
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A seasoned veteran of the contact management applications wars, meanwhile, has
opted to use the enticement of free Web space
and promotion as a key integration strategy
with its products. Last year, Vancouver-based
Maximizer Technologies Inc. announced the
development of a service that is free to all
users of the company's Maximizer 97is contact management system for Windows 9S.
Known as Maximizer MARKETbuilder, it is
both a Web site creation tool and a Web page
hosting service that is free to all registered
users of the company's product. The resulting
site is hosted and promoted through the com-

porate network) contact management databases, yet do not require users to lug around
bulky laptop computers.

Contact management,the Internet

and handheld compnters

In fact, it is quickly becoming evident that

integration with PDAs could be just as important as providing email and internet integration within contact management products.
Certainly it is a big push for many producers
of contact management applications, many of
whom have put considerable energy into
strategies for integration with PDAs.
As mentioned earlier Pivotal, for example,
announced in October that its Relationship
Web Client would support Windows CF. 2.0,
Relationship Web Client provides Internet
pany's BusinessNet (http: //biznet.maximizer.corn), and intranet access to Pivotal's Relationship
which acts as a online business page directory client/server application through the built-in
of its customers.
Pocket Internet Explorer Web browser that
A visit to the site recently, however, sug- comes with Windows CF. 2.0 systems.
gested Maximizer still has some way to go in
Pivotal says corporations equipped with
getting participation of its users, only 244 of ltelationship Web Client for Windows CE 2.0
whom were actually using the site to host can let their remote sales people, field markettheir Web pages. A brief tour through the site ing and support representatives access and
also suggested that many were small or home- update customer and prospect information, as
based businesses who were hosting pages well as run queries and reports via the Internet.
there because it was the most inexpensive way
The company pledgesthat changes made
to establish some sort of Web presence.
to t h e en t e rprise d a tabase through
For corporate users, the cost of actually Relationship Web Client will be instantly availhosting the site and the requirement that able to I.AN-based (local area network-based)
the site have a "proper domain name" (as users and automatically sent to mobile users.
opposed to being hosted on someone else' s
site) would dwarf any savings that might be Where is it going7
achieved from being hosted on ItusinessNet.
These two trends Web/Internet integration
Yet Maximizer remains a strong seller in and PDA synchronization suggest contact
the corporate market, largely because it has management software is changing forever.
been quick to spot the opportunities for inte- Any corporation that is serious about using
grating with sales force automation tools. this technology will no ionger be able to get
These include Microsoft's Outlook 97 infor- by on old versions of ACT!, Sidekick or
mation management/communications suite, GoldMine if they really want to get the most
the 3Com Palm Pilot personal digital assistant out of the tools that are available to them.
(PDA) and, most recently, PDAs based on
Web and intranet integration makes a lot
Microsoft's Windows CE 2.0 operating system. of sense - and tying that in with use of PDA
Integration with these handheld systems versions of the contact management applicaallows corporations to achieve many of the tion makes even more sense. A well-equipped,
same advantages of the Web-based client connected sales force would appear to have an
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you are to make a profit, and to mininegotiated these factors. You normally receive
mize or eliminate bad debts.
a business loan commitment letter detailing
Yo ur judgment in supplying information. Be this. If not, ask for one. No decision to accept
sensible with the number of documents the financing should be made until all this
you provide at the outset. You do not want information is provided and understood. You
to overwhelm the loans officer with materi- may wish to ask your accountant and lawyer to
al. For example, if the amount request is assist you in the loan application in advance
small, an introductory page and summary of and to review the bank's approval. If you are
your business plan provide a good enough not completely satisfied with the loan package,
basic loan submission, though you should check out the competition. Also remember
have all the other documents prepared and that everything is negotiable. Look on the
available in case they are requested.
loan/security offer from the bank as the start Your personal appearance. You should pre- ing point for negotiated improvements to
sent yourself in a manner that projects self improve the package to your benefit.
confidence and success.
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time for approval. The lender needs a reason- Th at your loan application is for a worthable time to assess your proposal. Also, the
while purpose and the funds are sufficient
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to accomplish your business objectives.
level within the financial institution.
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commitment t o m ake your b usiness
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viable, and the management skills or
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access to those skills to make it profin your file. Note your positive and negaitable.
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mal operational activities of the business
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represent the new flagships in NEC's
long-lived fleet of portable computers.
And the reason both can be discussed together is that the only difference between the two
is the brains the former is based on an Intel
Pentium 233 MHz MMX CPU with the latter
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Versa 6230/6260
From: Packard Bell NECinc.
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Tel: 905-564-1122
Estimated street price: $4,949 to $6,149

The reason for the wide price range listed

above is that the price rises incrementally
with the various configurations of each
machine. What I' ve listed represents the bottom end of the 6230 series and top end of the
6260. And I should mention that the 6230s
had just enjoyed an impressive price reduction at time of writing due to the introduction
of the 6260s.
Most likely, the very first thing you' ll
notice about these machines is the 13.3-inch
active matrix color display that seems to fill
the lid edge to edge. The image size almost
exactly matches that of my 15-inch desktop
monitor. These machines support XGA

(1,024x768 resolution) and include 2 MB FDO

DRAM video memory.
As I' ve used NEC portables for a considerable time, the look and feel of the 6230 I
received was both familiar and comfortable,
yet newcomers to the brand ought not to find
anything otherwise. The keyboard has sufficient travel and feedback and there's none of
that annoying "flex and give" that characterizes keyboards of other portables. I'm not
overly impressed by the shrinkage of the
arrow keys to half size, but they are in the
standard inverted "T" configuration in the
expected place (bottom right of the keyboard),
and since I don't use them very often anyway,
their size doesn't bother me overmuch.
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by means of the one of those touchpad panels christened the VersaGlide in this casethat take some getting used to but work
admirably once the initial unfamiliarity is
overcome. I prefer the trackball arrangement
of previous models, but I' ve noticed the
touchpad is rapidly becoming the portable
industry standard likely because it suits the
demands of portable computing (i.e., it's flat
and has no moving parts).
This, however, brings me to the first criticism I have of the Versas, and just about any
other current machine employing the same
device the touchpad is awkwardly placed in
front of the keyboard forcing one and all to
reach unnaturally forward in order to actually
t ype. Even more annoying is t hat t h e
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lightning fast typing thumbs immediately
shifts the cursor to another screen location.
Needless to say, that becomes intensely frustrating as I have to continually stop for quick
corrections. Software utilities are provided for
customizing just about every aspect of the
VersaGlide except for touch sensitivity. I am
assured by touchpad veterans of many brands,
however, that this inconvenience eventually
passes as the machine subliminally seduces the
user into conforming to its postural demands.
But back on the plus side, NEC seems to
have thought of just about everything else

when it comes to making a portable that will

truly function as a desktop substitute. All
machines in both series feature PCI bus architecture, NeoMagic 128-bit graphics accelerator,
512 KB I.evel-2 pipeline burst cache, 32-bit
Cardbus support plus a universal serial bus
(USB) port and a front-mounted 4 Mbps, IrDAcompliant fast infrared port (FIR), along with all
the other standard input/output interfaces. All
models are fully PC 97-compliant, which
means they' ll be able to take full advantage of
any of the new features of future Microsoft
operating systems like Windows 98 and NT 5.0.
Facilities for multimedia include a 20x
CD-ROM drive, full motion and full screen
MPEG-1 video, Zoomed Video support in one
of the two Type II PCMCIA slots and integrated 16-bit stereo sound with that 3D spatializer technology that still fails to reach
beyond Z.SD to my ears. The tiny built-in 1.5
Watt speakers are quite obviously stressed by
any amount of volume but the half-watt
external sound output is excellent whether
into headphones or an external speaker set. A
n ice touch too i s t h e i n clusion of a n
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your TV as a monitor (NTSC is the format our
North American TVs, while PAL is the overseas standard).
These Versas use the newer Li-ION batteries, which are supposed to circumvent all the
recharging, charge memory and deterioration
of Ni-Cad and NiMH batteries, but the jury is
still out on whether this is actually the case as
they haven't been in popular use for very
long. So far, though, I can say that the battery
in my6230 chargesatthe same speed whether
the computer is in use or not and I' ve been
getting a full 2.S hours out of it without using
the power management utilities that come
bundled with the machine.
Like several earlier generations of Versas,
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allows for the insertion and removal of several
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called Agate Tioman, which at least lets you do
it without powering down the computer.
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several optional accessories including a second battery or second hard drive, LS-120 drives and lomega Zip drives. We can only look
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far, the're's been no word from NEC on that.
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docking port replicators and docking stations airplane and a u t omobile p ower
adapters, extra batteries and chargers, extra
AC adapters, a floppy disk connector kit (so
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drives running at the same time) and even a
dedicated monitor stand for hooking up to
an external display. Of course, additional
RAM is offered but, as usual, at a premium
price.
Also, these Versa models can be purchased
hot-loaded as either Windows 9S or Windows
NT models. Also included are a number of
programs, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader,
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Guide, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and a
free sample of PRODIGY. In addition, a very
useful application found here is something
called CompuTrace which, once activated,
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ruthless recipient decides to log on to the
Internet.
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so you can restore any of this stuff in the face
of accidents or if you simply elect to clean
some of it off your hard drive because it doesn't suit your present needs.
As mentioned at the outset, the 6230 and
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price. The bottom end is the 6230 with a 233
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market and almost single-handedly (if you' ll existing Pilot design that provides a sleeker
pardon the pun) created a market for pen- design, more memory, better connectivity and
based, keyboardless, handheld computers. greater flexibility than before. The real quesOne testament to this success is that more tion is whether all these features will be
than one million units have shipped so far enough to compete with the Microsoft-backed
and a vast library of third-party add-ons and Palm PC announced inNovember and due to
software is now available. So you can be sure start shipping by this summer. It puts the
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infrared (IR) beaming capabilities, increased memory, a new
operating system (Palm OS
3.0) and a price of $549.
One of these featuresinfrared support is being
i mplemented in a w a y
that has been done by
other handheld computer
manufacturers for years.
(I have yet to see it

implemented by
anyone in a way
that i s h u g ely
effective.) 3Com
boasts that with
its IR capability,

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you and other

that you can u p load operating system

changes into it without having to change
physical memory chips or replace the
memory card. The new design also adds
some other network-based synchronization
options including the ability to use the
"HotSync" data function over either the
Internet or a corporate intranet.
Perhaps aware that its existing applications may look insufficient compared to the
ones Microsoft has promised for the Palm PC-

Palm III-equipped friends and business colleaguescan share records and applications
wirelessly by simply "beaming" information
into one another's Palm III organizer "at the
touch of a button."
Sharp and Psion have variously promoted the same idea, including the idea of wirelessly transferring business cards, on different occasions with l i mited success. But
maybe this time it will be different. 3Com
has a much broader base of users in North
America than either of the other two companies. So perhaps this huge, enthusiastic
population of PalmPilot users will have
enough power to make the dream of casual
infrared point-to-point data transfer dream
a reality.
One new feature of the Palm III that is,
without a doubt, a huge bonus is the 2 MB
of RAM. Having this vast amount of memory meant I was able to easily move the 674
messages from the Outlook 97 Inbox on my
desktop PC to the Palm III and still have
quite enough memory left over to use the

bundling a "Bonus Pack" of applications

f rom MacMillan D i gital P ublishing. I t
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Web channel manager, drawing application,
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information managers (PIMs) including
Symantec ACT! and Microsoft Outlook 97,
and a bunch of games.
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III lies in its ability to handle email, address
book and diary planning functions extremely

tions.
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although not one that you will likely use
for a while, is the flash memory upgradability of the operating system, meaning

replies to email messages while travelling during the day and then sending them by pressing the HotSync button on the Palm III cradle is still a convenience that no other handheld can match. 9

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entry-level tablet
the eraser function.
Wacom's latest addition to its product
raphics tablets are a good idea. As lineup is the PenPartner, which measures a
someone who has been compulsively diminutive 18x18 cm (7x7 in.) smaller than
drawing and writing since childhood, I your average mousepad
and has an active
believe this very strongly; anything that feels area of 11x13 cm (4x5 in.). Wacom considers
more like a pen or pencil is a good thing.
the PenPartner a consumer-level tablet, compared to its close relative, the professionallevel ArtPad II. While the PenPartner's packaging and included software (Corel Print and
Photo House, 150 TrueType fonts, and thousands of included graphics) reflect this,
almost everything about the PenPartner is
superior to its older cousin. One noticeable
d ifference: unlike t h e A r tPad I I , t h e
PenPartner does not require an external
power adapter, a fact my over-burdened
power bar appreciates.
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the option of connecting the PenPartner to a
PenPartner
serial port, bus port, or keyboard port. This is
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For: Windows 95/NT
as the graphics tablet. As with previous modEstimated street price: $140
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substitute; unlike previous models, it can be
connected at the same time as a mouse with
I first realized this as a young adolescent, n o confl icts.
w hen I
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last two enhancements are minor: the
Commodore 64. Although crude by today's PenPartner is thinner by a barely perceptible
standards, it made me acutely aware that 2 . 5 mm
, and has a thin plastic overlay that
mice, trackballs, and joysticks are not the way does double duty by protecting the tablet surto go for computer artistry. (If you' re one of f ace wh ile holding any images for tracing.
t he few who can draw well with a mouse, I
Astonishingly enough, all of this comes at
salute you. I don't have
a reduced price: the
the talent or patience.)
P enPartner sells f o r
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about $50 less than the
seen the advent of presArtPad II.
sure-sensitive t ablets
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t ies m i gh t w o n d er
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after all, there must be
more natural feel when
something wrong with
using tablets. A prest he thing i f i t d o e s
sure-sensitive t a b l et
more and costs less.
detects how hard the
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cordless stylus feels more like a real pen or p e rsona
I preference.' Also, the PenPartner
pencil, since there's no cord trying to drag the has a resolution of 1,000 lines per inch (ipi),
top of the stylus down.
compared to the ArtPad's 2,540 Ipi not
Wacom's tablets have been my favorite t h a t I would have noticed if it hadn't been
tablets to date, and they range in size from a w r i tten on the box. (Skeptics: These may
compact Ilx13 cm (4x5 in.) drawing surface not be m ajor flaws, but they were the best I
to a desk-gobbling 46x64 cm (18x25 in.). I' ve could d o.)
always felt they were aesthetically an d
Credit should be given where credit is
ergonomically appealing, and a few years ago due: Wacorn has taken a great product and
the company added a vital component to its m a de itbetter for 75 percent of the price. I
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case, pressing down harder controls the
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Saskatoon'9 Develcon promotes

new image and products
Develcon Electronics Ltd. o f Saskatoon
unveiled three new network access products
and a redesigned corporate identity at CeBIT.
The new products included: Athena Access, a
multimedia branch-office access device for
local-area network, legacy, and voice traffic;
Orbitor 5000, the latest in Develcon's line of
Orbitor routers; and Orbitor 500 FRAD, a
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Contact: Develcon, http: //www.develcon.corn
Unwired Planet unveils ROlcrobrowser
Unwired Planet showed off, for the first
time, a prototype of its microbrowser technology, overlaying the wireless application
protocol (WAP) system that is being developed by the company, in close conjunction
with most of the industry's major cellular
phone companies. Microbrowser has parallels with Java technology, since the programming code is claimed to be versatile
enough to be ported between several GSM
(global system for mobile communications)
handset m i croprocessor environments,
ranging from proprietary, through to RISC
chips. Moreover, since WAP is itself an open
standard, this means any GSM handset vendor worth its salt will move heaven and
earth t o e n sure t ha t i t s h a r divare is
Microbrowser and WAP compliant if it
doesn' t, it will be a bit like producing a PDA
(personal digital assistant) without a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association) card slot. The
company claims several mobile phone makers and others in the wireless industry are
working towards a j oint standard with
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access the Internet via a GSM handset with a
slightly larger than average screen.
Contact: Unwired Planet, http: //www.uplanet.corn

is fully Zip drive compatible and will allow

users to easily and quickly increase their
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files. The MicroZIP drive does not need
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Single-click digital picture transfer

software demonstrated
Pixology unveiled a Windows 95 application
that can move a picture from a digital camera
to a document with one click of a mouse.
Known as Piccolo, the software enables users
to view, move, print and share digital pictures
whatever the format, according to its developer. (Pixology is the new trading name for
NBA Quality Systems.) Piccolo solves the
problem of dealing with the way different
digital cameras store pictures on PCMCIA
(personal computer memory card international) cards, say company officials. This flexibility is an evolution from Pixology's knowledge and experience of more than 70 different makes of digital camera and how each
stores pictures on various PCMCIA cards. The
company claims that any new card formats
can and will be incorporated into the software and be available as plug-ins from its
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Intel's Grove taps successor

S Y PATRICK M C K E N N A
SANTA CLAIM, Calif. (NB) Tittlemagazine's
1997 Man of the Year, Holocaust survivor and
cancer fighter Andy Grove, says he will continue working full-time at Intel on broad strategic
industry issues, but has handed his chief executive officer (CFO) title to Craig Barrett. On
May 20, Intel's board will elect Barrett, currently president and chief operating officer, to lead
Intel as the company's CEO.
The announcement comes one year after
another Intel executive shuffle, For many
years, Intel, unlike most corporations, conducted executive matters through a triumvirate of Grove, 61, Barrett, 58, and Intel cofounder Gordon Moore, 69. Last year, Moore
became chairmanemeritusand has since been
less involved with day-to-day operations.
In the May, 1997, shuffle, Intel also named
Barrett president, and named then-President
and CEO Grove as chairman of the board.
After the May 20 this year, Barrett will step
into the strongest, single leadership role at
Intel, a major change for the world's largest
chipmaker.
Computer industry analyst, Tim Bajarin,
says, "I'heannouncement...comes as no surprise. They jlntelj have been hinting to analysts for a couple of years that they were
grooming Barrett for this role." Bajarin also
said he does not expect to see Intel hire a new
chief operating officer. "They may bring in

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to see a new executive at this time," added
Bajarin.
Concerning Grove, Bajarin said, "Grove
will still be a very important part of the visionary role at Intel. If anyone can keep the paranoid theme going, it is Grove." Grove was a
co-founder of Intel in 1968. He was named
president 1979, and in 1987 he became chief
executive officer. In various interviews over
the years, he admitted he was not in favor of
Intel's decision to fabricate microprocessors
many years ago when the company's revenues
came from memory chip fabrication. He
became a computer industry leader and
visionary as Intel shifted operations from
memory to microprocessor fabrication.
"Barrett is a very intelligent and bright
guy," says Michael Murphy, computer industry analyst and publisher of the Ca!/for/tin
Teclntoloify Stock Letter."He is totally plugged
into the company and we have expected this
announcement for some time. Craig has
conducted most of Intel's communication to
the financial community and he is very
respected."
Barrett, a native of San Francisco, attended Stanford University from 1957 to 1964
where he received bachelor and masters
degrees in science, and a doctorate in materials science. He then joined Stanford's materials science and engineering faculty. In 1974,
joined Intel and was named a vice-president

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Along with executive changes, Intel also
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never ending effort to get the information comes with a good collection of software. Like
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The 7200 printer from Lexmark Canada
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supply and computer retail chains and a number of smaller computer outlets. Generally, the
prices between stores did not vary much, while
the prices between products varied widely.

that makes it possible to print directly to the

printer from any video source.

The good bad and ugly
of bundledsoftware
The first thing you will notice is that every

I was able to find inkjet paper products one of these printers comes with software to
and print. This may or may not be helpful,
included paper, film, transparencies, iron-ons, depending on how much experience you
banners and even cloth. gn this review, we do have with graphics and layout programs.
When you use a typical graphics program,
not include inexpensive photocopy or laser
The printers
Four manufacturers each loaned me one of
their inkjet printer models, along with
between three and seven types of inkjet paper.

sheet of specially coated paper from your

existing program will include re-sizing the

image to fit. You will also likely have to do
Paper samples were also provided by Polaroid, some manipulating to get the picture cenKodak and Xerox, who market papers that are tered. This may not be a problem if you have
some graphics experience, but if you just want
advertised to work on all printers.
Some of the companies sent inkjets that to make some nice pictures of the weekend
specia!ize in printing photographic images, family gathering, this will slow your "instant"
while others sent their general-purpose print- gratification.
These and other pesky details are mostly
er. The printers ranged in price from $279 to
$550. These two factors make a direct com- dispensed with when you use one of the proparison between the printers unfair, and I'd grams that comes with the printer. That is
like to clarify that this is not an inkjet printer because they are written precisely to do what
you want to do, with a printer whose exact
review, but a paper review.
Canon sent over its BJC-4300 printer a capabilities are known. These programs even
know what paper you are expected to use.
four-color model that currently sells for
around $279. It comes with color cartridges This means a much better experience.
The second thing you wil l n o t ice is
but you need the optional photo cartridges to
that
each program lists the paper options
get photographic-quality output. The printer
can evenbecome a low-end scanner ifyou (of the same brand as the printer) that are

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recommended for that printer. Thus, if you

buy an Epson printer you will see paper
options such as: Plain I'aper, Epson Photo
Paper, Epson Photo Quality Paper, Epson
Photo Quality Glossy I'aper, Epson Glossy
Film, and other somewhat cryptic names. The
fact that you have so much choice is good.
The problem is, if you buy Epson Photo
Quality Paper and you are trying to print to
your Hewlett-Packard printer, you will have to
figure out for yourself whether the Epson
paper is closest to Hl' Premium Inkjet, HP
Deluxe Photo Paper, HP Premium Photo Paper
or one of the many others. The only way you
are going to find out if Deluxe is of higher
quality than Premium (it'5 not) is by trying
both and evaluating the results. With a 20sheet package of this paper selling for around
$20, you don't want to waste too many sheets
on this kind of experimentation.
One constant area of difficulty is establishing proper border margins for a print. Because
inkjets can only print so close to the margins
of a piece of paper, it is sometime a problem
getting a nice even margin. On 4x6 in. stock, it
is especially difficult to print out an image that
is centered with a thin, even margin.
Even getting the picture close to the right
size for a g i ve n p aper t akes practice.
Obviously, printing a test page is essential.
Surprisingly some of the included software
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image is printed. If you don't remember to
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can quickly waste a lot of expensive paper.
An innovative and useful product is the
Epson 4x6 in. I'hoto Paper with removable
edges. You simply print to the paper as usual,
then fold and remove the perforated marginvoila you have a 4x6 in. with no margins just
like the ones from the photofinisher.
On 8.5xl1 in. stock, achieving a nice margin is much easier for all the printers, but few
people are likely to want all their pictures
blown up to such a large size, especially when
the paper is so dear.

The papers
Basically, plain paper is not white enough, nor
smooth enough, for printing high-resolution
images. Inkjet printers throw little drops of ink
onto the page. Now that inkjet printer-manufacturers have found ways to make very small
and very precise dots with three, four or even six
different colors, they need two things from the
paper itself. They need the paper to be white,
because inkjets are additive (they add colors on
top of the base white). For a bright image the

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through each printer. My main test image was
a color photograph, but I also tried printing a
few black and white photos as well.
My first overall observation you get what
you pay for. Contrary to some advertisements,
none of these printers show their best on

plain paper. Fven if you are printing plain,

black, text, premium inkjet paper will produce
much better results.
My secondoverall observation is that the
photographic-quality inkjet papers are very
light-sensitive. They come in sealed plastic
and should be kept that way. This, combined
with the nature of the inks used in these
printers, means the image does not have a
long life compared to a photographic print.
(So/ne printer and paper /Nakers have told ns the
i/nage lifeof /i/kj et prints is /neasnred in /no//ths,
ctnnparedthe decadesthatcan beexpected ofphot//traphi c prints. Eil.)
Another weakness of the paper products is
that they often become too wet and wrinkle
ever so slightly, especially if the ink coverage
is high. As well, there is great variation in
both brightness and color.

Photo paper results

When using what the companies generally
refer to as photo paper, the overall quality of

images improves quickly, but the differences

in the resulting image remains wide. It was
here that I discovered the most interesting
relationships between papers and printers.
The Epson Stylus printer consistently produced better results with Epson Photo Paper
than with anything else. The best all round
papers were the Kodak Papers and the Epson
Quality Glossy. In general the film-style photo
paper is most similar to a regular photographic print. Very good output here also came
from Polaroid's Inkjet Photo Paper.
Overall, the sharpest images were produced by the thin, synthetic products like
Epson Glossy Film and the Lexmark sample I
received. These pictures don't feel like regularly processed photographs they are too light
and slippery. But the image is very, very good.
Epson Glossy Film also produced the best
result on all the printers once you figure out
which type of paper to tell the software to use.

In conclusion
The inkjet papers, as opposed to the heavier
photographic paper-style products, are great
for text and color but not photographic
quality images, In this case you really can
use anybody's paper. Results will vary and
you get what you pay for but there is no
white must be as bright as possible. Secondly,
need to use the products that your printer
they need a smooth surface that does not absorb manual recommend.
On the other hand, if you are trying to get
too much ink. Too much absorption causes the
separate dots to bleed into each other, as well as the absolute best photographic image from
using up the ink rather quickly.
your inkjet you will have more success if you
There are three ways printer papers are do use the products made for your printer.
manufactured to achieve these goals (we' ll
As for the brands in general, Xerox makes
use the term paper here for convenience, good general use inkjet printer products.
although many of these are plastic or com- Kodak makes very good high-end inkjet
posites of several materials). One way is to printer products. This is a good bet if you are
coat one side of the paper with a solution going to stray from printer manufacturer's
comprised partly of clay. Another is to make paper. Canon and Hewlett-Packard make
the "paper" out of synthetic material, so that good print products that work well with
it resembles a piece of thin, slippery plastic. their own printers. Epson printers will work
Lastly, the output product can be made out of with other paper but not as well as with their
a resin-coated stock that is much like regular own. This may be due to the different techphotographic paper but without the photo- nology that they use to put the ink on the
sensitive chemical layer.
page. With so many other inkjet printers and
papers on the market, you will need to
The test results
experiment to see which paper or film goes
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ike many other writers who work at

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distinct areas: a) the office, where the
computer resides, and b) everywhere else.
Theoretically, all activity in the house should
be broken down into two categories: a) work,
which takes place in the office, and b) everything else, which takes place everywhere else.
This theory would work well if it weren't for
two problems: sometimes I'd rather compute
from the'comfort of the sofa.

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The simple (but expensive) solution would

be to buy a laptop. AITech, however, would
rather I saved a little money and bought its

PC/TV AirLink instead, which lets me use my

computer from anywhere in the house.
Here's how it works: the AirLink hardware
includes a radio transmitter and receiver, an and the reduced screen size (to keep
infrared receiver, and a wireless keyboard with from losing some of the image in the
a built-in joystick mouse. The radio transmit- TV'soverscanned area,Ihad to setthe
ter is plugged into the sound card and VGA vertical resolution to 440 lines more
card. The infrared receiver is connected to the on that later), there wasn't much
keyboard and serial ports, and is, in turn, room left for viewing the site.
Then there were the problems with
plugged into the transmitter. The radio receiver is connected to any TV within 90 m (300 the nature of interlaced NTSC, North America' s
ft.) or 30 m (100 ft.) if walls are in the way. television standard. First, even a 640x440 TV
After installing the driver and setting the image is nowhere near as sharp as a basic
screen resolution to 640x480, the computer's 640x480 VGA screen, so more extended surfing
audio and video are beamed to the TV, and would have required us to increase the font size,
costing us more screen real estate. Second, the
everything is ready to go.
After installing the hardware, Vicky (my image is interlaced, which results in a jittering
fiancee) and I decided to see if computing is effect along the edges of high<ontrast areasmore fun in the living room. The answer is an sites with black text on a white background, for
example. Being a longtime Amiga user, Pm used
unequivocal maybe.
After getting comfortable on the couch, we to interlace jitter; Vicky, like most people, found
fired up Netscape for a little casual surfing-and it uncomfortable to watch after a few minutes.
we were immediately reminded of why I usually have my desktop monitor set to a resolu- Text challenged,graphk$ rich
tion of 800x600. Between Netscape's toolbars This was a problem common to every appli-

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ideal for such things as "Ivlom and Dad
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the couch," or "parents [helping] with homework without crowding the children." The
office may not be as comfortable as the living
roombut it's preferable to having your eyes
feel like they' re being assaulted.
Graphics are a completely different story.
We tested the AirLink with D reamWorks
Interactive's The Neverhood and Berkeley
Softworks' You Don't Know Jack, displayed some
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least a dozen QuickT)me movies. In a) I cases, the
images were clear and looked just as good as on
a computer monitor sometimes better.
Better than a monitor? It seems implausible, but there are several good reasons for
this. While NTSC is lousy for sharply defined,
high-contrast colors, it's fine for continuoustone images. In fact, some images that would
be noticeably pixellized on a c o mputer
screen come out looking smoother on a television. One reason is the NTSC signal, which
causes adjacent pixels and lines to blur
together sort of like built-in anti-aliasing.
The larger screen and the distance (people
usually sit around 1,8 m or 6 ft. away from
a television, compared to .6 m or 2 ft.away from a monitor) also help considerably.
A)Tech seems to have figured this out
already; the "family f r iendly" software
included with the Airl.ink stresses large, clear
gra phic visuals.
Where the AirLink excelled was in playing
games. Playing a quirky game like The
Neverhood is far more entertaining in the living room, and a television's sound quality is
just fine. Even better was You Don't Know
jack, which is designed to be a party game.
The idea of a party game being played in an
office or computer room always seemed odd
to me; the PC/TV is much more sensible.
it's hard to decide if the AirLink is useful
or not; every positive point seems matched by
a negative one. For instance, the AirLink
setup is designed to let you use the computer
directly or from the television without having
to rewire anything. However, the keyboard is
similar to that of a laptop, in that the layout
is rearranged to fit a smaller space. While I'm
willing to sacrifice some usability for the con-

venience of working in the living room, I'd

rather use my regular keyboard in the office.
The same app)ies to the built-in mouse. It' s
easy to disconnect the PC/TV and plug in my
regular mouse and keyboard, but why should
I have to fiddle around the back of my computer on a regular basis'! Similarly, the VGA
pass-through allows me to use either the telers monitor.
vision o r the com p u ter

Unfortunately, the pass-through causes the

monitor's image to be intolerably fuzzy.
Most aggravating is the TV's screen cutoff.
Unlike a computer monitor, television overscans that is, the image spills past the visible
edges of the screen. People who produce
material for TV know to work within the "safe
area" in the middle of the screen, but computer programmers don' t. A)Tech includes a
utility that cuts the vertical resolution to 440
lines, but this isn't perfect; some programs
(such as You Don't Know Jack) don't work at
the reduced screen size, Fven if they do,
there's still the horizontal overseen problem.
The AirLink does have a bonus feature: the
transmitter can accept any composite input for
broadcast. This means it can be used to transmit
images from video cameras, other televisions, or
VCRs. While I have no doubt that some will
f'ind this beneficial, the inability to control the
input device dampens my enthusiasm.
In all, the AirLink is not a bad device, and
I suspect some people will find it entertaining
and maybe even useful. But it's definitely not
for everyone. il

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he short answer to the question posed
in the title of this article, is a qualified
yes, browser accelerators work. I can' t
guarantee that an accelerator will allow you to
blaze along on the Internet; however, even a
change from the pace of a snail to that of a
tortoise is welcome. Your gain in surfing speed
will depend on the speed of your CPU and
modem, the amount of RAM and hard drive
space you have available for caching, and your
browsing habits.
One of the biggest complaints about the
Internet is the time it takes to download Web
pages. Browser accelerators are software utilities designed not to cure, but to ease that
problem by speeding things up for most people, most of the time. These useful utilities
haven't been around that long, so they are
called by various terms: Web, Net, Internet, or
browser accelerators. The latter term is catching on, so that's what I' ll call them.
It all started about two years ago. Some

bright person realized that while surfing on

the Internet, the modem isn't used most of
the time. This is because after downloading a
page, one usually pauses to check the content
of that page. The time the modem is idle is
greater than the time it is used. So, why not
put the modem's idle time to good use? Thus,
the idea of a browser accelerator was born.
What the first accelerator did, and most of
them continue to do, was to download the
links on the page during the time the page was
being read by the Web surfer. The idea was to
anticipate where the surfer wanted to visit next.
Therefore, after the surfer clicked on a link, the
page would immediately appear. The down-

loading of pages before viewing is referred to as

pre-fetching, pre-loading, or looking-ahead.
As you can see, the degree of speed you
gain depends on whether you linger on a page
long enough for the accelerator to pre-fetch
page links. It also depends on your surfing
habits. If you abruptly move from Web site to
Web site with no regard to links, you won' t
notice any speed gain.
So far, it sounds good, doesn't it? Well, it
is, for us, the users. But for Internet service
providers (ISPs), it's another matter. Just imagine if everyone started using accelerators. By
eliminating m odem i d l e t i m e , s ervice
providers would become many times busier

than they now are. Potentially, it could cause

real headaches. In fact, in the early days, some
ISPs refused to allow accelerators to access
their servers. However, software developers
have been working with service providers to
remedy the problem, not by eliminating it,
but by at least reducing it.
An interesting problem for Web site owners
will be how to give an accurate estimate of how

many peoplesee theirads.W hy? Becausemany

of the pages that are pre-fetched are never viewed.
That is, your accelerator may have downloaded
10 links, but you may actually visit only one or
two. Furthermore, an accelerator may download
thesame page each time a banner ad changes,

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thereby producing a false number of page
hits. To complicate it even further, one of the
accelerators
WebEarly will even pre-fetch
pages without the ads, if you wish. The benefits to us as surfers, can become a problem for
Web site owners.
Computer novices may be unaware of the
importance of emptying their browser cache
from time to time. And if they use an accelerator, they may have two caches! Over time,
they can develop large caches without realizing why their hard disk space is dwindling.
Now that we have a little background
information, we' re ready to take a look at the
available accelerators. Tests of these products
w ere conducted on a c o mputer with a
Pentium 166 MHz processor with 64 MB of
RAM. Finally, I need to say something about
p rices. A l t hough S u r f Ex p ress a n d
NetAccelerator should be readily available,
most of the accelerators have to be ordered
over the Internet and paid for in U.S. dollars.
To be consistent, I have indicated all prices in
U.S. dollars. If the product is available in
Canada, the general rule is the U.S. suggested
retail price is the same as the Canadian actual
retail price. For example, the U.S. suggested
retail price of NetAccelerator is $29.95, the
same price that it generally sells for in Canada.

PeakJet v1.56
From: PeakSoit Corporation
100-3614 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA,98225
Tel: 888-377-7325 or 360-752-1100
http: //www.peak,corn/
Platform: Intel-based PCor 100percent compatible
OS: Windows 95/NT (Macversion is in the works)
Min. browser required: Netscape 2.0, Microsoft
Internet Explorer 3.0
Min. requirements: 486 CPU, 16 MBRAM, 14 MBhard
disk space
Price: US$29.95
Pros: Fast, inexpensive, free trial version available
Con: May crash if used with WebTurbo or certain other
utilities

settings of your browser. If you experience a

crash while the accelerator is operating, you
may have to manually reset your browser's
proxy settings before you can access the
Internet without the accelerator. It may be as
simple as going to your browser's ORTIONs
menu, selecting coNNEcrioN and disabling the
AccEss THE INTERNETUslNG A Noxv sERvER.

Despite experiencing some crashes with

PeakJet, we had no problems logging on to the
Internet without its use. Apparently, PeakJet
has somehow solved the problem of proxy settings. For extra safety, Peakjet is not incorporated into the browser, but sits on the desktop.
You start up PeakJet and it in turn starts up
your browser acting as its proxy server. When
your Internet session is over, you close down
Peakjet first. It then closes your browser,
This is the program that started all the fuss releasing it from PeakJet's control. You are
about browser accelerators. It was so aggres- now free to restart your browser and surf the
sive in downloading all links related to a page Net without the use of PeakJet if you choose.
Frankly, I was impressed by the perforthat modems were running continuously,
which lead it being banned by some ISPs. mance and reliability of Peakjet and would
PeakJet has added many improvements to recommend it. It allows you to adjust the
reduce the ire of ISPs. Now, instead of indis- memory and disk cache size. I tried using
criminately downloading every link it can Peakjet with WebTurbo (reviewed later), hopfind, it tempers its aggression by trying to
ing to sizzle across the Web. Unfortunately,
learn the habits of the user and thus pre-fetch the speed was too much to handle and after
only those links most likely to be called.
about 10 minutes of use, my system crashed. I
Most accelerators act as proxy servers. That can't say the combination of WebTurbo and
is, your browser sends its request to the accel- PeakJet will crash every systemso you may
erator instead of directly to the Internet. If the want to give it a try. I had no problem using
requested page is already in the accelerator's WebTurbo with the other accelerators, which
cache, it is instantly opened, If not, the accel- were not as fast as PeakJet.
erator retrieves it from the Web and adds it to
S ince PeakJet does not c o m e w i t h
its cache for future use. Because accelerators metasearching capability, what do you do if
act as a proxy, they have to change the proxy you want to do metasearches? Simple. Make

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NetAccelerator
From: IMSI
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Tel: 800-833-8082, 415-257-3000

http:
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Platform: Intel-based PC or 100 percent compatible
OS: Windows 95
Min. browser required: NetscapeNavigator 3.0,
Internet Explorer 3.0
Min. requirements: BMBof RAM, 2MBof hard drive space
Price: US$29.95 (standard), US$49.95 (deluxe)
Pros: Inexpensive, offers AOLsupport, extremely safe
to use, free trial version available. Comeswith
metasearch and other Internet utilities
Cons: Slow with no options for adjustments

NetAccelerator is sold i n t w o e d i tions:

Standard and Deluxe. The difference lies in
the bonus Internet utilities that accompany
e ach version. Both include a ut ility f o r
metasearching. The marketing departments of
the various accelerator publishers like to
attach a number to the gain in speed you will
experience when using their product. The
numbers vary wildly, from a modest 2x to an
apparently red-hot 36x increase. My advice is
to ignore the numbers since each company
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IMSI's claim of an 11-fold increase in speed
with this product, 1 found it to be the slowest
of those tested. Unlike most of the other prefetching accelerators, it has no options for
adjustments. You must use its default settings.
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Pentium 166 MHz processor. Your computer has a classy look and performs like a well-develmay be faster or slower, so when I say an accel- oped program, not like a beta version.
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behavior is there is no way to turn it off.
you.)
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gy to study your browsing habits and better After right-clicking on the icon and selecting
predict where you are likely to go next. The CLose NetSonic disappears from view. But if you
longer you use it, the better it knows you. So, start surfing again, lo and behold, it's back
over time, you should experience a slight again. Even removing it from the StartUp menu
increase in performance. You can adjust the and rebooting doesn't get rid of it. Like a
disk and memory cache size as well as the stealthy ninja, it appears out of nowhere whennumber of look-aheads (pre-fetches) it will do. ever you start surfing! However, it's installation
and removal is almost instantaneous, so it's not
a serious problem, if a problem at all. Besides
NetSonic v. Beta 754.1
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Tel: 425-836-3000
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Platform: Intel-based PC or100 percent compatible
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OS: Windows 95/NT 4.0
small (10 MB), large (30 MB), or a custom size.
Min. browser required: NetscapeNavigator 3.0, AOL
You can also tell NetSonic to pre-fetch all links
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Min. requirements: 8 MB of RAM(16 MB recommendFinally, you can choose between maximum
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eration, it refreshes its cache (checks for
Price: Free (Beta version)
changes) less often than in standard acceleraPros: It's free (beta version), offers options for adjust- tion. 1 find NetSonic's speed gain to be modment,
and supports AOL 3.0 and CompuServe 3.02
erate; that is, between fast and slow.
Cons: Can't turn it off

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Speed Surfer v.3.2
From: Kiss Software Corp.
4000-5000 Birch St., W. Tower, Newport Beach, CA
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Tel: 888-454-7726 or 714-979-KISS
http: //www.kissco.corn
Platform: Intel-based PC or 100 percent compatible
OS: Windows 3.1/Windows 95
Min. browser required: Netscape Navigator 2.0,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
Min. requirements: 8 MB of RAM, 5 MBhard disk
space,486 CPU (Pentium 100 MHz recommended),a
direct Internet connection (SLIP/PPP)
Price: US$29.95 (or download for US$19.95)
Pro: Supports Windows 3.1, free trial version available
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Although Speed Surfer is slow in pre-fetching pages, once they are loaded, one click on
a link and you are instantly there, so it has its
uses. (Also, as a reminder, 1'm working with a

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From: Innovative Software GmbH
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Tel: +49-69-236929 Fax: +49-69-236930
http: //www.isg.de
Platform: Intel-based PC or100 percent compatible
OS: Windows 95/NT 3.51 or higher
Min. browser required: NetscapeNavigator 2.0,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
Min. requirements: 4 MB of RAM, 5 MB
hard drive
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Price: US$29
Pros: Can run in online and off-line modes, free trial
version available
Cons: Need to manually set proxy settings

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ln other words, you can view all the pages in
its cache while offline. What's more, if you
forgot the exact URL of the page you wish to
view, you can use Java BOOSTER's search tool
to quickly find whatever part of the name you
remember. Also, when pre-fetching, Java
BOOSTFR will add complete Java applets to its
cache, whether compressed or not, so you can
view everything off-line. When surfing, it
doesn't pre-fetch all the links, just the links of
pages you have visited.
This is the only program of those tested
that doesn't change your browser's proxy setting automatically. You' ll have to do it manually. Once this is done, you won't be able to
access the Web without using Java BOOSTER,
unless you change the proxy setting again.
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From: GOTOSoftware
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Tel: +33-3-20-66-55-00
http: //www.webearly.corn
Platform: Intel-based PC or 100 percent compatible
OS: Windows 95/NT 4.0
Min. browser required: NetscapeNavigator 2.0,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, also works also with
Mosaic 3.0, and Opera 3.0
Min. requirements: 486, 4 MBRAM, 3 MBhard drive

space
Price: US$24.95
Pros: Supports Opera 3.0 and Mosaic 3.0 browsers,
captures URLsand email address, can pre-fetch pages
without the ads, has a complete range of user settings
available, and a free trial version is available
Con:Uses moreW indows system resources than
other accelerators

The Opera browser is growing in popularity

because of the small amount of resources it
requires and its speed. Opera 3.0 users will
want to note that WebEarly supports their
browser of choice. Ditto for Mosaic 3.0 users.
As you surf with WebEarly, it automatically captures the URLs and email addresses of
every site you visit. Do you want to visit a site
you' ve been to before, but you can't remember the full address? Just type any part of the
address you recall into your browser, and
WebEarly will load the page from its cache for
you. lf more than one URL shares the same
text you typed in your browser, WebEarly will
take you to its database and let you choose the
correct page. Click on any address in its email
database and your email program is immediately launched.
WebEarly offers several options. Of
course, you don't have to set anything since
it has default settings, but you may want to
personalize it to your taste, or experiment
with the sittings to see what works best for
you. Settings include four push buttons to
control look-ahead (pre-fetch) limits and
separate toggle switches for automatic email
and URL capture. You can also enable or disable pre-fetching of 11 file types, such as
GIF, Jl'EG, ZIP, AV1 an MOY. If the choice
isn't broad enough, you can even add your
own selections, You can also elect to have
ads appear or not and turn on or off prefetching of advertised links. WebEarly's
speed is moderate.

Blaze Web Performance Pack 1.5.2

From: Ascent Solutions Inc. (ASi)
9009 Springboro Pike, Miamisburg, OH, 45342
Tel: 937-847-2374
http: //www.xspeed.corn/
Platform: Intel-based PC or 100 percent compatible
OS:Windows 95/NT 4.0
Min, browser required: NetscapeNavigator 3.0,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
M in.
requirements:66 MH z486 CPU, BMB RAM, 6.5

MB harddisk space

Web Early

Price: US$34.95
Pros: HasURLorganizer with metasearching, can update
metasearchengines, and afree trial version is available

Blaze Web Performance Pack

Surf Express
Got It!

This high performance package is designed to

The next four accelerators reviewed offer a lot

help solve three problems facing Internet

surfers:

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1. How to travel faster on the Net?
2. How to find the information we' re looking
for?
3. How to organize and store the data we' ve
retrieved?

to the latest version, 1.1,1, by downloading the

upgrade at the Connectix Web site.
Rather than the indiscriminate pre-fetching
of endless links associated with a Web page, Surf
Express pre-loads, compresses, and stores in its
cache only those sites that you actually visit.
Blaze WPP achievesspeed by pre-fetching
As you browse the Net, Surf Express works
plus. The "plus" is compression and encapsula- in the background, checking to see if your
tion. If a page is composed of 65 objects, instead favorite pages have changed. When it detects
of connecting 65 times to pre-fetch a page, changes, it refreshes the cache. Sites that you
Blaze encapsulates all, or most, of the objects frequently visit load instantly, but new sites
into a single file, which it then compresses. This load at the normal rate. All the data in the
method places less of a load on ISPs by reducing cache is indexed for instant recall. For
the number of connections Blaze makes.
instance, if you visited an interesting site
Finding information is simplified by Blaze's dealing with pizza, want to return to it, but
metasearching powers. It simultaneously search- haven't the foggiest idea of the name of the
es the Web with the major search engines. You site, just open Surf Express' FindCache. After

can search by key word or phases. To narrow doing so, type in "pizza," and every page in
your search, you can include AND, OR, NOT,
and parenthetical groupings. As new search
engines appear, or as changes occur to present
search engines, updated interface scripts will be
available for downloading from Blaze's Web site.
The program's Organizer module stores all
of your data. When opened, a narrow window
on the left displays all of your folders in the
manner that you are accustomed to seeing in
Internet Explorer. You can name and rename
folders and create subdirectories. When a
folder is open, its contents appear in a large
scrolling window in the upper right corner.
The contents are the URLs found by a search.
Clicking on a URL displays details about the
page in a large scrolling window in the lower
right. Double clicking on a URL launches the
browser and opens that page.
Over time you may develop an extensive
database and forget which folder contains the
URL you wish to visit. No problem. Just enter
a key word and Blaze's powerful search tool
will quickly find it for you.
Possible adjustments include the amount
and type of pre-fetching (read-aheads) and
memory and disk cache size. You can improve
the performance of Blaze further by using it
with WebTurbo. I found Blaze's speed to be
moderate, but its powerful features pull it
ahead of others in its speed class. Moreover,
when version 2.0 is released in August, its
speed should rival or surpass the fastest competitor.

the cache that contains that word will appear

in a list. Double-click on a URL to open it.
Other than Java BOOSTER, this is the only
accelerator that doesn't automatically restore
the browsers proxy settings when closed.
Therefore, you won't be able to access the
Internet unless you start Surf Express before the
browser opens. Or unless you manually change
the proxy settings of the opened browser.
Surf Express can be fast for pages you often
visit, but slow for first-time sites, so it averages
out to a moderate speed increase.

Cot Itl v. 3.0.1

From: Go AheadSoftware, Inc.
8652 154th Ave. NE,Redmond, WA,98052
Tel: 425-882-1900
http://www.goahead.corn/gotit/
Platform: Intel-based PCor 100percent compatible
OS: Windows 95/NT
Min. browser required; NetscapeNavigator 2.0,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
Min. requirements: 486 with 8 MBRAM, 10 MBdisk
space for caching, and extra 2 MBRAM,and 2 MB
disk space is neededfor Got It!'s intelligent agent
Price: US$29.95, US$19.95 for downloadedversion
Pros: Speedand low price

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want to zip along the info highway, there' s
probably no better way to travel. It may not
have all the bells and whistles of some of the
competition, but it focuses its attention where
Surf Express v. 1.1.1.
it matters. Ease of use and speed. True, it doesFrom: Connectix Corporation
n't have its own metasearch utility, but you
2955Campus Or.,San Mateo,CA,94403
don't need one if you have WebTurbo.
Tel: 800-950-5880 Fax: 650-571-0850
Don't be misled by its low price, Got It! is
http: //www.connectix.corn
packed with high technology. It reviews the
Platform: intel-based PC or 100 percent compatible, or sites you visit, monitors the frequency of the
PowerM
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visits, and checks when they were last
OS: Windows 95/NT4.0, or Mac OS7.5 or higher
refreshed. Armed with this data, it calculates
(includes Mac OS8.0)
the relative importance of each site. When
Min. browser required: NetscapeNavigator 3.0,
the cache grows too large, the least important
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
data is deleted. When surfing, it pre-fetches
Min, Windows requirements: 486, BMB RAM(16 recpage links and refreshes the cache in the backommended), TCP/IP-based Internet connection, 12 MB ground. Thecache contains a catalogue of
hard drive space
pages, enabling you to browse off-line.
Min. Mac requirements: 16 MBRAM, TCP/IP-based
Got It! is safe to use as it automatically
Internet connection, 12MBavailable hard drive space.
resets the browser's proxy settings on closing.
Retail price: US$49.99
Even in the event of a crash, Got It! will
Pros: Mac version available, and cache indexed for
restore the settings after rebooting. Totally
searching and instant retrieval
automated, it is easy to use yet offers ample
Cons: Trial version unavailable, and doesn't restore
adjustments and customization for those who
proxy settings when closed
want to maintain control.

If you plan to buy or have already bought Surf

adds to your browser and it i mmediately

WebTurbo v.2.02
opens the WebTurbo window on the left side
From: NetMetrics Corporation
of the browser. The window can be adjusted
101 California St., 5th Floor, SanFrancisco, CA, 94111 and saved. In the window, a command line
Tel: 415-248-2333 Fax: 41
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twice, and WebTurbo performs its magic.
Platform: Intel-based PCor100 percent compatible
Instead of pre-fetching pages, it displays
OS: Windows 95/NT 4.0 (Mac PowerPC
version to be
an outline of the page including contents and
available soon)
links. Clicking on a link displays its contents
Min. browser required: NetscapeNavigator 3.0,
in outline form as well. The beauty of this is
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
that it is much faster to create outlines than it
Min. requirements:BMBof RAM,800x600 screen resolution is to download pages. Use the outline to find
Price: Free
exactly where you wish to go, double click
Pros: Metasearching, free (supported by advertising), and the page loads without the need to load
can be used with other accelerators, and saves search- all the intermediary pages.
es and URLoutlines.
The most exciting aspect of WebTurbo is that
it can be used in combination with a pre-fetching accelerator for maximum speed and conveWebTurbo takes a different approach. It does- nience. Much care has been devoted to developn't pre-fetch pages at all, but uses its own
ing WebTurbo, making it extraordinarily useful.
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Instead of entering a URL in the command
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By that I mean, it will search the Web with

up to seven (your choice) of the top search OS: Windows 95

engines simultaneously. You can even refine Min. browserrequired: Internet Explorer 2.0,Netscape
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example, I typed in MOVIES, pressed Enter;

Navigator 2.0
Min. requirements: Pentium 75 MHz,16MBRAM, two
modems (14.4 Kbps or faster), two telephone lines, a
standard ISP connection
Price: US$49.95
Pro: Can be combined with browser accelerators
Con: No support for AOLand CompuServeyei

typed in BOGART, pressed Tab (to indicate it

is to refine the search of MOVIES), pressed
Enter; typed in 1944, pressed Tab, pressed
Enter twice and it searched the Web. One of
the pages in the results it brought back was
about the movie To Have and Have Not,
which was made i n 1 9 44, and starred Web Overdrive offers another software soluHumphrey Bogart. WebTurbo can keep the t ion. It a l l ows you t o w o r k w i t h t w o
results of up to ten searches or URL outlines modems simultaneously. The software

open at the same time, and they can also be needs no special hardwareor support from
saved for later use. How does the program an ISP. It is compatible with existing equipsound so far? Just in case there are any ment and service providers. However, a few
doubts in y our m i nd, le t m e b e c lear: providers, such as AOL and CompuServe
WebTurbo is a must-have!
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Conclusions

In an attempt to make this discussion on

accelerators as thorough as possible, I am
including a brief list of utilities that will allow

1. Trial versions of most of the software

some readers to speed up Internet access by

tweaking their system. Tweaking further
improves the performance of browser accelerators. But the utilities need a certain degree of

knowledge for use. To avoid creating problems, novices should not tinker with these
programs. Because this information is not
helpful to everyone, I am listing, without
comment, the software, its cost, and location.

C om p l e t e

We all have different browsing habits

and preferences. Therefore, try before

you buy!
2. If you are a Windows 3.1 user, Speed

Surfer is the program for you.

3. If you are an AOL 3.0 subscriber, choose
NetAccelerator or NetSonic. I recommend

NetSonic
besides, it's free.
4. If you are a CompuServe 3.02 subscriber,
use NetSonic.

MTU-Speed Pro 4.0S

Price: US$10.00
http: //www.mls.u-net.corn/

5. If you are a Mosaic 3.0 user, try WebEarly.

Netscape Accelerator32-bit 4.0

Trial version

6. Opera 3.0 users can use WebEarly.

Price: (US$49.95)
http: //www.accelerationsw.corn

7. PowerMacintosh users can

u s e Surf

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Price: Free
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8. Netscape Navigator 2.0 users can

choose from Java BOOSTER, Speed
Surfer, WebEarly, and Got It! I recom-

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Price: US$15

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the top-of-the-line G3 when it was introduced
last fall. (Note: On March 17, 1998 Apple
introduced 300 MHz G3s). The G3 line is supplemented by two desktop models running at
266 MHz and 233 MHz, and the 250 MHz
Power Book 63.
These are third-generation systems from
Apple that bring with them innovations in
microprocessor design and system architecture.
These new machines offer more than twice the
performance of second-generation PowerMacs
using 250 MHz PowerVC 604e processors. How
is this possible given that the new CPU runs at
about the same clock speed as the 604e'?

these latches, grab a convenient handle, and

lift to rotate the hinged assembly 90 degrees,
Inside and easily accessible is the logic board
with wires and ribbon cables tucked neatly out of
the way. The drive bays are simply accessed by

for take-off when they' re turned on.

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also designed a new slot designated for what is
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drives. Interestingly, the CPU and backside cache that comes vdth standard S-video and composrequire a heat sink with no fan because of their ite video connectors, as well as an audio port.
unusually low heat dissipation. Consequently, It is capable of capturing at playing back video
the G3 models don't sound like a 747 readying at 30 fps (frames per second) in a 320x240-

pixel window. The card allows you to hook up

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digital video editing. Professionals would be
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such as the miroMotion DC30 Plus or the
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One of the ways Apple has been able to radically trim costs was to greatly simplify its designs,

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Microprocessor Report a respected industry
publication named the VPC 750 microprocessor of the year because of its outstanding performance, very small die size, low
price, and miserly power consumption. To further enhance performance, IBM and Motorola
engineers worked in concert with Apple to
implement hardware features designed for
optimal execution of the Mac OS.
But the reason for the dramatic leap in performance goes beyond the new PPC 750 CPU
alone. High performance in the G3 line also
has a lot to do with how well other parts of the
system supply instructions to the microprocessor. It doesn't do any good to have a fast CPU
if it spends most of its time waiting for data. A
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RAM with its own dedicated bus to the PVC
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Various benchmarks highlight the outstanding performance capabilities of t he
Power Macintosh 63/266. To date, the G3s
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Pentium ll. (BYTEMark is the cross-platform
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performance)
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and therefore its product offerings. With the

exception of its notebook line, Apple has unified
its circuit board design to span the entire range
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entire range of offerings from notebooks to
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HANOVER, Germany (NB)I Nokia took the wraps off two
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weighs just 98 g
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The bad news is that users will have to wait
until the third quarter of 1998 to buy a unit,
according to officials.
According to Frank Nuovo, Nokia's
chief designer, the company wanted create a phone that was advanced, and beautiful. "Even more importantly, we wanted
to design a phone that would make people
instinctively reach out and say, 'I like this,'
a design that would communicate style

and enduring quality," he gushed.

The 8810 is a fully featured mobile
phone with a user interface with call profiles and caller grouping functions, Nokia
says. Although small in size and weight,
the 8810 still comes with a large display
and comfortable keypad.
The phone really starts to look interesting, when you look beyond the external view for the tiny size, the phone
offers real world standby times of 133
hours and 170-minute talk times. As if all
this wasn't enough, the handset supports
three codec standards: half rate, full rate
and enhanced full rate.
Like certain earlier Nokia GSM handsets,
the 8810 is IRDA (Infra Red Data Association)
compatible, and has a plethora of features,
including support for 32 languages, 35 ringing tones, calculator, calendar, and three
games:Snake, Logicand Memory.
Comm unicator getsfacellft
The Communicator 9000 GSM clamshell,
meanwhile, gets its second major facelift that
sees the weight fall to 249 g, and users get
their most asked-for request
a backlit screen.
According to Nokia, Web browsing on
the unit has been enhanced to support
graphics, and there is also an optional multimedia card for extra data storage. Nokia
also claims that the new 9000 has several
new features, including a multiview calendar, contacts database and text file viewer
that are all Windows 95 compatible.

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TUCOWS SHAREWARE

PDAcentral home for handheld apps

Revision date: April 28, 1997
Filename: TGtelnet.zip
Byte size: 11,211
Home page: http: //www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/
Licence type: Freeware
Since TopGun Telnet connects to a remote
computer using a VT100 environment, it
allows full telnet capabilities such as email,
editing files and more. It gives you full
access to remote computers that support
Tel net.

BY SCOTT S W E D O RSKI

Com has announced its iatest upgrade to

the PalmPilot/IBM WorkPad electronic
organizer, the Palm III. This new personal digital assistant (PDA) offers infrared sharing, increased memory (now 2 MB), built-in
email compatibility with Microsoft Exchange,
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browser similar to Internet Explorer 4.0. This verfrom HTML.
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Home page: http: //www.smartcddesoft.corn
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Cost: $59.95
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email right from the drop down menu. The
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TORONTO EDITION

- CD REVIEWS

Canadian sky simulator wins award

rw o a w o ar

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man has gone before" from the comfort of your own computer chair.

Starry Night Deluxe 2.0 by Sienna Software is

a marvelous, photorealistic sky simulator that
allows you to position yourself anywhere in
the solar system within a 14,700-year time
period, then view those events with extraordi-

nary accuracy. With a few well-placed points

and clicks you can watch Phobos set from
Mars, fly through the Cassini division in
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Retail price: $118 (special pricing for resellers, educa-

tors, andusergroups)
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on PowerMac, breathtaking photoreaiism, accurate
simulations, catalogue of 19 million celestial objects,
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LiveSky Internet interface, Quicktime movie recording
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An accessible guide to Macbeth

B Y ROSS M A C D O N A L D

oot mon! Between the golf history CDROM I recently reviewed and this look
at Shakespeare's venerable "Scottish
play," my surname has suddenly become
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aimed at teens (12 to 17 year olds according

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literary works were waggishly enucleated in
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similar sensibility here has resulted in an
excellent disc that offers the nine-minute
"cartoon" of Macbeth, and lots of alternate
departments that elucidate the play and its
historic context.
The life of William Shakespeare, the origins of Scottish clans, the real lives of some
of the characters portrayed in Macbethand
all manner of other sprattle, are presented in
more than 30 amusing vignettes. These can
be approached from different angles determined by whether you want to see the
whole "play," be guided through it, or look
at individual aspects and topics at random.
To keep things simple the main choices are
appropriately called Self Guide, Watch Me
and Guide Me.
The only departure from the overall excellence of this disc is the unnecessary inclusion
of the complete text of Macbet/Ipropersomething most people likely still have on
their bookshelf as an unpleasant remnant of
high school English class. But, if you' ve
already shed all your old high school texts, or
a re considering m o unting y o u r o w n
Shakespearean festival, you have the option
of printing the entire play. But be prepared
with ample paper and ink because the end
product will be about 80 pages long.
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you up to date on news, rumors and tidbits
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the near future). Once you' ve chosen a

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