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leaving active duty at The Computer Paper.I
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years ago and am taking some Mme off to trav- quantify how far and fast these improvements
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leave, will have faster processors. How fast will
Human technology advances at an incredible they be by then? Will
pace, espedafly whenyou combinepeople, pas- Intel have moved entirely
sion and profit. This type of focus usually comes to R5C chips, running at
because people are interested in the area and GigaHertz clock speeds
there is money to be made there.
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left high-school and hit the road for Europe. At many of the faster chips
the thne I bought what was avaflabl~ large are being strangled in
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erafly hundreds of styles and brands to choose on the motherboard. Will
this traffic lam be deared
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Larger and faster hard drives are obviously in
packs beyond day packs now have a waist strap.
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your shoulders. We ended up choosing what are the time we reenter Earth's technology orbit in
called travel packs, which allow you to hide the two years? What will we do to fill up 100 GB drifact that they are backpacks at afl. By zipping ves?
away the straps on the bag, you can check into
Backup and storage is a dynamic issue today
that fancy hotel and not be sneered at by the and no doubt will continue to be hotly contestbell hop.
ed in the foreseeable future. Today multiple forClhnbing, hhg and travelling have been mats battle for supremacy. We have Zip drives,
boom areas in recent years. The combination of MO drives, Jaz drives, 120 MB floppy chives,
technology, a popular activity and a chance to DVD drives, DLT tape, DAT Tape etc. Which
make more profit fueled major innovations and companieswiifi be the winners in the future, and
made the whole thing massively more enjoyable wfll back up capacity keep up with hard drive
and functional for many.
capacity?
I am looking forward to ourtwo-year travel
As we leave, a 17-inch monitor is stfifl a luxbreak from computers to get this same kind of ury item, with 1S-inch monitors being the price
perspective on another aea I enjoy. It seems and fotmat leaders. In two yeas, will larger
that two years in the. computer industry is equal monitors, obviously preierable for their readabilto 2S yeas in most other industries. Although ity, be the norm? Where will the price points lie?
we wfll
bepaddng an Apple Newton tostay con- Perhaps 21-Inch fiat panel displays wlR be reanected to email wherever possible, we will be sonably priced in two years and the industry will
away from desktop machines. There is a whole have moved there.

Evolvlnlg software
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more difficult. The big trends are towards usability and featuritis on existing softwae. Will Word
ll take 500 MB to install and 300 MB of RAM to
load?
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the incredible improvements in the underlying
power and capacity of the hardware. Voice input
to the computer is, one such area. Even in the
last six months, IBM, Dragon
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perforxn various tasks. Where wfll
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we function in?

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know if a 200 MMK OverDrive gives the same

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regular intervals in the industry, producing the
so-cafled killer applications.
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as hadware changes. Someone imagines somethingthathasneverbeen done beforeon a computer, writes an innovative application and afl of
a sudden, everyone is doing it on their computer. Word processors, spreadsheets, desktop pub-

hshing, the Internet are afl examples of kfller

apps. What will the next one be? What will we
be doing in two years, that no one imagined
today? I look forward to finding out. In the
meanthne, I have some paddng to do.
As I said last month, it has been a great ride.
Thanks to afl for your kind letters and good
wishes.
Enjoy the issue

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LETTERS
Continwedfram page 6
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is, in my opinion, far more objective. It feels like
talking to a knowledgeable non-commission
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Finally, I wish you have a good trip and a
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Just read your editorial in the September

Prairie Edition, and I wanted to wish you and
your family a happy, safe journey...
Rob Bright

Your columns ranged from palmtop computing

to Sihkism and yet aH seemed applicable.
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I am sad to see you go. This truly the end of

an era. Each month I would read your editorial
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While I have read TCP for years, I did not

keep up with the corporate growth and development.
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As a connnercial property landlord, I haveprobably dealt with office leases since Douglas Gray
was in short pants. I hate to teH you this but the
fact of the matter is, he simply doesn't know
what he is talking about (see "Lease options for
office space, August '97 issue).
What he calls a net lease is known in the
trade as a gross lease What he caHs a net lease
plus taxes is generally refened to as a gross lease
with a (tax) escalator dause, though there can be
minor variations in, that terin,
Long ago the terms net, net-net and net-netnet (triple net) were aH in use with slightly different but weH-defined meanings, never to be
confused with gross.
What Mr. Gray refers to as a triple net lease
is correct as far as. it goes, but his definition is
incomplete and misleading. In addition to the
items mentioned by Gray, operating costs usually include water, electricity (for common areas),
gas, window washing (exterior, possibly interior
as well), snow removal, waste disposal and janitor service (for common areas).
Of more importance, however, is the fact
that "operating costs" may be defined more-orleis as I have outlined but MAY be defined to
indude property taxes. Thus, it is important for
the prospective lessee to know how the term is
defined vvhen given a Bgure figure for operating
costs.
Alvin Nemetz, Vancouver
DG replies. First I'd like to address the cantextinil
background af my column. Itis intended ta be a very
general
overview laraise the reader's awarenessof
specltlc issues sathat they can be discussed with prafesslanal advtsers, Iris nat mtended rabe a camprehensi ve or definitive exp/anation.
Now ro cammenr on Mr. merz's points. Mr.
Nemetz implies that the terminology thar I used was
incorrect
orarchaic.Narsa.Itiscomm on usage in
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name usedtadescr
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region,bur the concept behind thedescription is the
same. There are different terms for thesameconcept.
As I neticed that Mr. Nemetz comes frain B C., I
would respectfuliy refer him ta the 1997 Property
Management Pre-Licensing Course Manual.This
program is approved by the RealEstare Council of
B.C. and taught by the Professional Program,
Faculty of Commerce andBusiness Adnnnlslratlon
at Uj).C. In particular, I would refer him la pages
16.5and 16.6 on Gross and Net Leases.The teminalagy anddescript'runsI used m the column are cantainedin that current manual.
With respectta Mr. metz's comment about a
triple nel lease, unfortunately his explanation relating to property taxesls misleading. Ifhe refersta the
explanation ln the manual voted above, operating
costsalways includes property taxes, contrary tn his
statement lhat it may include property taxes. The
whale premise of atriple ner lease from the perspective of the landlord is ta pass all casts onto the the
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The BioMouse, despite its name, is not a

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NEWS

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SIGGRAPH 97:

the world's one truly

cool computer show
BY JEFF EVANS

of the Pasty Pudgy 'Puter People so common

at other computer shows (I was one of the few

omputer shows often take on a per- from that category).

sonality that is determined partly by

play in the exhibitors' booths, partly by the

Instead, it was as though every art school,

design studio, and animation department in
North Americahad been picked up and

attendees in th e aisles, expressing their

tipped over, and their arty, sleek, fashionable

lifestyles and goals by their dress and the

products they prefer to spend time poking
and prodding at, and partly by the dty in
which the show is being held, which con-

GenX populations dumped en masse into the

LA. SIGGRAPH show. This was not your
usual computer crowd. Interesting hair. Lots
of pierdng. Tattoos. Not a pocket protector or
propeller beanie to be seen.
What has happened in the years I' ve been

the nature of the technology on dis-

tributes to the ambiance and the after-hours

festivities and socializing.
So, for example, a retail show like a
Computer Fest in various Canadian cities
tends to have a lively, informal, "low rent"
feel. It has something of the air of a flea mar-

ket: lots of hustling, mounds of product for

sale, and a broad cross section of humanity,
ranging from skateboarders, to retirees, to
basement-dwelling computer nerds in need
of a bath, all looking for an unbelievable deal

on a printer or a memory upgrade.

A professional networking technology
show like Interop is populated by the "suit"

class
serious business people, not much
interested in glitz and fun, buyers and sellers
all very earnest about the bottom line.
The E3 entertainment software show is
almost the coolest computer show, but not
quite. It's flashy and noisy, but it has an edge
of greed and desperation behind the fun.
Everybody is searching for the state of the art

in gaming, and pursues fun from the point of

view of making a killing by latching on to the
next big thing.
For my money, only the SIGGRAPH show
currently has the right mix of elements to be
considered truly cool. SIGGRAPH stands for

the Spedal Interest Group (SIG) for graphics

(GRAPH) of the Association for Computing
Machinery. In the early '80s, the annual SIGGRAPH conference was a tiny, specialized
show for the unlimited-budget governmen,
university and corporate departments using

supercomputers to do image processing on spy

away from SIGGRAPH is that computer technology has flowed through the entire commercial art and d esign community and
become the standard artistic medium. The

newest generation of artists have grown up

with personal computer graphics at home.
Talking to many of them at the show, I found
that this generation of artists is the first that
truly mixes creativity with a high comfort
level with computers.

These images are the creations of Plxar and Industrial Light and Magic
two companies that were looking for animator talent at the recent SIGGRAPH
show in Los Angeles.

market, and many companies were headhunting for talent among the crowds of
attendees at this year's SIGGRAPH. Several
computer graphics studios had hiring booths
at the show, with lineups of hopefuls picking
up application forms and getting advice on
what kind of demo reel to submit.

amazing animations done in the last year

were screened before appreciative but expert
and picky audiences. There is some amazing
3D-simulation technology corning to market,
which allows users to combine 3D models
with photos of real environments to create

stunningly realistic 3D environments.

The triumph of Microsoft

I shamelessly eavesdropped on advice
The technology on display was as elegant as being offered to hopeful animator wannabes

There is a lot of character animation being

done, but much of it has the slippery, untex-

the computer kids demonstrating and view-

tured look of old-fashioned clay animation.

at the Pixar and Industrial Light and Magic

ing it. Effortless, amazing imagery, of space booths:

"We' re looking for people with good artisships and supernova, werewolves and imaginary cities, flashed across giant screens, trumpeting the digital magic from traditional
graphics giants like Silicon Graphics, Sun,
and Digital Equipment, However, the majority of the exhibits seemed to be based on high-

powered workstations and servers using

Windows NT.

A real-.time motion capture system, which

allows an actor to animate a 3D character by

wearing a sensor rig on a body harness, was
running on a D igital Alpha/Windows NT
workstation costing about $12,000, whereas a
year ago it needed a high-end Silicon Graphics
machine costing over five times as much.
Back in 1990, MS DOS/Windows, Amiga
and Mac personal computers were a tiny, lowend niche at SIGGRAPH. In 1997, though the

She potential of truly lifelike 3D character

tic skills, and strong familiarity with

animation was hinted at in some amazing

and gory footage from a new horror movie,

Softlmage and Alias PowerAnimator."

An American Werewolfin Paris.

"We want to see a short videotape that

shows storytelling skill, the ability to

mated werewolf interacts with filmed envi-

express emotion and character, and that

surprises us and knocks our socks off."
"We want to see professional-level work,
' not student exercises or rotating logos."
"Good luck!"

Bottom line on snagging a top computer

graphics job? If you have the mix of artistic/storytelling talent, computer technical
skill and fanatic commitment of someone
like Canada's Steve Williams (Terminator 2,
The Mask, The Abyss, and Spawn), there are

jobs begging. If not, you'have some homesatellite images, or jet flghter training simulaAmiga was gone and the Mac presence was work to do. Good luck, indeed. It's a jungle
tions, or scientific modeling of climate data.
modest, Windows was obviously giving UMX, out there.
It was "sort-of" cool back then, what with the traditional operating system of high-end
The Walt Disney Company had a large
CIA spooks and NASA scientists wandering graphics, a serious run for Its money. If the and informative booth at the show featuring
around, but it was only when Hollywood trend continues, NT may seriously dent sales a surprising display of just how common
developed an appetite for computer-generat- of UNIX workstations in the leading-edge computer animation and effects are in both
ed special effects, and the artistic communrty
graphics market over the next year or two.
animated and live-action productions from
If I were a Silicon Graphics or Sun share- the Mouse Factory. Since the inclusion of
began tneldfng in a serious way with computholder, I'd be concerned. Of all the traditional some 3D clockworks in its 1980s featureThe
ers, that SIGGRAPH reached a critical mass of
true coolness.
big players in computer graphics hardware, Great MouseDetective, Disney has been a
Digital appears to have been the most adapt- leader .in discreetly weaving 3D computerThe invasion of the beautiful people
able. It has developed a very deep partnership generated imagery into its traditionally lush,
I hadn't been to a SIGGRAPH since about with Mcrosoft, and rolled out a new line of hand-drawn character animation. Disney has
1990, when it still had a high pocket-protec- high-end NT graphic workstations and multi- also found that computer-generated beasts
tor crowd quotient (lots of greasy haired, processor rendering servers at this year's show. are ideal for replacing trained animals in live
Grateful Dead worshipping UMX freaks), so
action sequences.
when I got to this year's show, held in the Psestt Wanna )ob
downtown Los Angeles convention centre, I
at Industrial light and INaglc?
The eclecticElectric Theatre
was shocked at the transformation. There There's a drought of top level talent in the At the traditional annual Electric Theatre at
were almost no suits in sight. There were few overheated computer graphics production SIGGRAPH, dozens of film clips of the most

In the sequences shown, a computer anironments (jumping out of a fountain, and

shaking its fur), and live actors (attacking a

crowd of passengers on a subway car) in an

unusually realistic fashion. All the muscles,
fur, water (and blood) are rendered with lavish amounts of computing time.
One interesting aspect of this year's theatre was that although simple technical brilliance sparked polite applause, the audience'".
enthusiasm was reserved for outstandingly

funny and/or violent sequences. Funny I canunderstand cheering for, but violence? I think

computer animators need to get out more

than once a year.
Certain trends seemed clear. The personal
computer is rapidly moving up in the professional graphics food chain, crowding the
high-end UNIX platforms into a smaller share
of the market. The creation of 3D graphics,
and their integration with film or video
footage (or interactive games and online virtual reality) is becoming a low-cost commodity. And, most interestingly, what remains in
shortest supply is human imagination, to
take these wonderful new tools and tell
worthwhile stories with them. 0
Contacts:
Plxar Animation Studios, Tel: 510-236-4000.
I(eb site: http:I/www.pixar.corn
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Siggraph
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IGGRAPH is to computer graphics what

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mast important global showcase for new
"mainstream" business technology: the

products, and the greatest opportunity for

revolutionary new praducts to get maximum
exposure, At this year's show, several new
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Play's T
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Mania allows objects and graphics to be the shipment of its new 3Space Publisher
manipulated on a P C i n 3 D s p ace. Interactive 3D Suite, "an integrated design
"Compositing" refers to the ability to mix
different visual elements,' for example 2D or
3D animations, with live-action footage.
MediaMania employs a process of struc-

and animation appgcation set, which makes it

easy for users to create attention grabbing 3D
visuals for Web pages, CD-ROM titles, screen
savers, and desktop publishing." The suite

turing scenes from layers of elements, which

allows usersto save graphics in a wide variety

can be text, vector graphics, sffll or moving

of popular file formats, or output types,

images. The program is compatible with including animated GIF, VRML, 3D ActiveX,
Photoshop plug-ins for a wide range of spe- and 3D Java applets, The suite is available for

cial effects, as well as high-quality keying, Windows 95 nd Windows NT for US$249.

transparency and anti-aliasing, all in resolu.tions up to 2,000x2,000 pixels.
Contact: TGS,Tel: 619-457-5359.
Web site: http: //www.tge.corn

Contact: A demo
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Web site, http: //www.aiet.corn or the German multimedia forum on CompuServe (GDMEDIAMANIA).
Klnetht 3D Studio INAX IQ
Kinetix, a division of Autodesk inc., the publishers of AutoCAD software, introduced the
latest version of 3D Studio MAX for the PC.
Over the past several years, the 3D Studio line
of 3D modeling, rendering and animation
software has become perhaps the most widely used professional-level animation software
for Windows, and somewhat to Autodesk's
surprise, the company's fastest growing

Hotldlnl for NT, new 2.0 version

Toronto-based Side Effects Software, publishers of the Houdini 2.0 animation tools program, announced that a Windows version of
the new program was being developed for

Windows NT. When complete, Houdini 2.0

for Windows NT is expected to hive the same
feature set as the new UNIX version, including advanced 3D modeling, high-speed rendering, lighting, compositing and animation.
Contact: Side Effects Software, Tel: 41
6-504-9876.
Web site: httpl/www.sidefx.corn

source of revenue.
The new version of 3D Studio MAX R2
claims over 1,000 new features or enhancements, including NURBS modeling for more

mating flames, sparks, smoke, liquids and hair.

After years of development, Play Inc. has 3D Studio MAX R2 has a retail price beginrung
begun shipping genuine mass production at US$3,495, and an upgrade pdce of US$795,

accept a large number of digital or analog

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using custom chipsets on
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and used to impart natural movement and
rhythms to animated 3D objects and charac-

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painterly and sculptural effects to achieve
astonishing results. Alas, flesh is UNIX-only,
and pricey for now.
Contact: Digits 'n Art, Tel: 514-844-8448.
Email: info@DnAsoft.corn
Web site: httpl/www.DnAsoft.corn
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real-time animation
The pioneers in real-time motion capture and
act to the Windows NT warld, vvith a version

processor systems, a of its motion capture body harness hardware

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VIDEOCONF ERENCING

Peekaboo, I C U, Can U C Me.

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Desktop videoconferencing examined

B Y JEFF E V A N S
here are times when I'd really like to

have an h onest-to-goodness videophone, like in the movie Total Recall,or

2N)1: A Space Odyssey. A phone with a video
screen that you just pick up, dial and use.
Then, I figure I could do interviews without the hassle of really being there: I could
still get the other person's facial gestures and

body language without enduring hours or

days of traveling. I could see my Number-5
brother, the rock band manager, when he' s
on the road in Europe, My wife could see that

I actually am calling from the office to say I' ll

be late... hrnm, well, maybe not

Real soon new

The p r o blem

The Colclen Eye PC

Vlaleacnnferenclng i(le (PCVK)

Videoconferencing software, we dicked on

the program kon. Our camera's image

This very inexpensive, compact kit, distributed in Canada by Mero Technologies, is a

very pared down product, consisting of a

appeared on screen, and we focused it by

turning the focus ring. We had to tape down
the camera to keep it frem falling over. The
videoconferencing program allowed us to set
the display size, zoom in and out, and select
color or black and white display, and adjust
brightness, white balance and sharpness,
To connect to another video conferencing

0.25-inch CCD (charged-coupled. device)

camera that attaches to a PC's parallel port,

feeding a stream of digital camera data directly into the PC without the usual video capture or interface card. The PCVK requires at
least a Pentium 75 MHz PC running Windows system user with the Xtx program, we and
3.1 or Windows our other party both had to have an Internet
95, 8 MB RAM,
account and a dial-up networking or Winsock
12 MB of hard
program. We talked by voice phone to set the

,
driv e space, VGA time for the call (we could have used email)
I
graphics, and a
and used a SLIP connection. When we started
2 8.8Kbps o r up the XtX software, we saw a "Self" window
,

faster modem.
The kit itself

s ~ consists of a tiny

pop up on screen, showing the view from our

camera, This view was also transmitted over
the modem when we placed a call to a previously notified redpient, using the Call button
on the Self Window.
There are a bunch of extra control options

with the videophone is that it

really isn't here
yet. An appliance
that is a phonew ith - a - v i d e o -

nector for the parailel port, one for the

keyboard port, one for the keyboard

in the Self window, including a Stop (pause)

screen, as cheap

cable), extra adapter cables, headphone

and easy to use as

as an AVI file), and a Whiteboard option.

and mike, VideoCasper software on three

a
vo i ce-only
phone, and with
image and sound

When we connected with the other party, we

floppy diskettes, and a very slim manual.

The camera has a resolution of
320x240 pixels (80,000 pixels), and

began receiving a video image from her via a

Contact window, on screen next to our Self

quality like a TV set, still isn't available from

the local phone company. But, it's getting

there, fairly quickly.

Over the last decade, companies such as

PictureTel have boiled videoconferencing systems down from the size of a refrigerator to a
desktop applianceor a computer add-on system. However, you still can't get a video
phone solution that matches a traditional
phone or TV for convenience. You either have
to pay quite a bit of money, or invest a fair
amount of sweat equity in getting a personal
video and voice pipeline into your home or
office, and getting it to work.
ls anyone osrt there?
ln addition, there is the major hassle of: who
can you talk to? A videophone only becomes
truly useful when everyone else you want to
talk to has one. We still haven't reached the
critical mass for the videophone becoming a
mass market product
However, for all sorts of more specialized

uses (distance learning, corporate conferencing, remote medical consultation, hobbyist

tinkering), 1997 has seen a remarkable drop
in the cost and complexity of videoconferencing systems for the PC.
We' ve tested several different PC videoconferencing systems, including the PC
Videoconferencing Kit (PCVK) from Golden
Eye, and the ComputerEyes/PCI add-on kit
from Digital Vision, as well as the Canadian
made IPC VCFX 5200M, a complete PC system that comes with a videoconferencing system preinstalled.

CCD camera and

a three-pronged
cable (one con-

draws its power from the PC. It has a manual

focus lens, and is designed to send a stream of
images through the cemputer at rates ranging
from four to 12 frames per second (with full
resolution at the lower rate, and 160x120 resolution at the higher rate), The camera producespicture data in the Video for Windows
fermat, selectable for 8-bit grayscale, or 16- or
24-bit color.
We tested the PCVK on a 133 MHz
Pentium with 1 6 M B o f RAM, running
Windows 95. Setup under Windows 3.1
might have been more complex, as the setup
proceduresare differentand depend on
whether the printer port supports ECP highspeed mode. With the PC power tumed off,
installation consisted of inserting the haifinch connector into the PC's parallel port
(there is no pass-through to allow you to continue to use a, parallel printer), and connecting the mini DIN male connector to the PC's
keyboard port, and the mini DIN female connector to the keyboard's cable (for non-IBMstyle keyboards, there are two adapter plugs
included).
The PC was powered on, and the Video
Casper software was loaded onto the hard
drive. In Windows 95, in the Setup dialog, we
selected Settings from the Start menu, and
then selected the Control PaneL We clicked
on the Multimedia option, and the Advanced
tab, double clicked on Video Capture Devices,
and then on the Pcam Driver. The Auto port
address was selected, and in our case, worked.
The Auto setting for the port transmission
mode also worked.

To load the PCVK's XtX Internet

button, a Recording button (that saves videe

window, The Contact window also has controls for r ecording, pausing and o ther
options.
The PCVK is an inexpensive and fairly elegantly designed entry-level videoconferenc-

We installed all the

included software:
the
Ci n e M aker
framegrabbing and

movie program,
and

the

ComputerEyes
image processing
software. This part
of the installation
was very straightforward.

The CU-SeeMe
ware is a very professional package,
with a much more
helpful and complete manual than the PCVK. When we
installed it on our PC and started up the program, a Setup Assistant screen popped up and
stepped us through five basic procedures. We

began by entering name, address and email,

then registering with an online directory service (optional, but very useful if you want to

talk to any significant number of other CUSeeMe videoconferendng users

it's a kind of
private videophonebook). Then we defined

our network connection, set transmission

and reception rates, selected the video and
audie input devices, and adjusted the micro-

phone and speaker settings.

To cormect to the Internet, we had to dial
in to our Internet service provider (ISP) before

ing product, but it is not particularly easy to starting up CU-SeeMe. We dialed the IP
install or use. Performance is acceptable, address to the White Pine Cafe, a CU4eeMe
though slow,
site that provides a painless way to test out
the system. CU-SeeMe supports multiple
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video windows, though the inore and larger
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the windows, the slower the frame rate of any
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display cards. The
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made, with an external power supply

and a clip-on, self-adhesive mounting

individual one. We found we could block our

own video-out signal if we wanted, allowing
us to lurk facelessly on the site.
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capture card. The ComputerEyes/PCI card
was inserted in a spare PCI card slot and
screwed firmly into place. It was detected en
boot up by W indows 95, and we were
prompted to insert the driver disk, and

a variety of proprietary CU-SeeMe codecs

stepped through the installation procedure.

(COmpressor/DECompressor) or data formats, including White Pine M-JPEG, White

Pine H.263, White Pine Color and Cornell

CU-SeeMe gray.
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VDOPhone also has an online directory

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we could have someone close by to talk to.
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picture perfect, the sound portion of the software still leaves much to be desired. By the
hme, says Neale, that you want to talk to
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rendexvlew.corn
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The result of all that communication and

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month. That's when Web-scape launched rendezviewcom, which packages a lot of easily
available technology into an entirely palat-

before finding out that they' re in Venezuela,

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CU-SeeMe and the interpersonal connections

them. A single window on the screen holds

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common protocol. CU-SeeMe provides the

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many flavors as ice cream. That's a
good thing, but it makes selecting one
difficult. Espy
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management software companies are
absolutely certain that their product can do it
all their advertisements loudly promise this
to be.
But just because a program can do something doesn't mean that it is good at it, or
that it is the best tool for a parhcular job. As
a matter ef fact, as computer hardware
becomes more powerful and software makers
add more features, you get to a po.'at where
you can do ahnost anything from any program but not necessarily do it well,
Confounding this situation is the fact
that no ene is sure any longer what exactly
constitutes a document. A typed message?
What about somethinghand-written?
Something on a piece of paper? What about
your word-processor files? Then add Web
pages, pictures, faxes, email and other things

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you will be putting pressure on other cornpanies to make their products available online.
This would allow you to test everything
before you buy. That would make software
companies focus on functionality and
putting valuable, free addwns on their Web
sites, rather than brighter colors and snappier words on their boxes.
Thc off8tlhgs

In the corporate world, where a company can

have many thousands of documents to track,
there are a number of highwnd solutions.
One such company, DOCS Open Inc., a subsidiary of PC Docs Group International lnc.,
has a system that allows for the storage and
management of hundreds of thousands of

documents, The company's motto, "anythat they generally scan a piece of paper, save thing, anywhere, anytime," is accurate but
The common ground for these products is

the resulting image and create a database for

later retrievaL
Most can also import text, hypertext
markup language (HTML) files, fax, image or
other files. Some use optical character recognition. (OCR) to turn scanned text back into
editable text. Others are strongest in a particular area, such as images or text. Whatever
their individual strengths and weaknesses
they are like afi things, in that their degree of
specialization is at once a strength and a
weakness.
Box covers aside, no single program can
do it all. A strength in text-based document
management, for example, often means a

weakness in image manipulafion or image

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things. Look for product reviews like this one.

But don't just come here, we only look at
the programs for a couple of days or weeks.
Try the programs! Three of the programs here
(PaperMaster,
askSam and Pagis Pro) can be
downloaded from the Web for free for a limited time! If you find one you like and buy it,

Save options. On the other hand, if you don' t

need to keep documents with images, such a
program would be better suited to your application than a broad and shallow one.
Why don't software makers just make
something that does it all? Although they
claim otherwise, they don't because the prod-

uct would be a huge, slow and expensive.

This would be a tough sell in a price sensitive,
aggressive, continually evolving market.
The trick of document management is
really doing your homework. A great place to
start is at the companies' Web pages, But
don't stop there, they will only say good

the solution is expensive. That's why its

client list i ncludes governments, multi-

national corporations and even spy agencies!

Another player in this market is Open
Text Corporation. With the sudden explosion
of intranets on business local area networks
(LANs), Open Text has introduced Open Text
lntranet, which is another complete, enterprise-wide, document and information management system.
A third product we reviewed last year,
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which is a sophisticated document management program aimed at g overnment and
business users. The product is a client/server
network program specializing in speed and
security for clients such as legal companies
and corporate offices. All three of these products are excellent in their environment but
inappropriate for a small business or personal user.

The following seven programs are aII docurnent management solutiens for standalone
or network environments. They are not
exhaustive of the available software, only re presentative ef w hat a rrived for r eview.
Proprietary software that is not for sale as a

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MANAGING YOUR PAPER GLUT

OocMment management
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with a scanner), is not reviewed.
Different program support various scan-

Zydeco for Goldmine, Zydeco for Microsoft

Office (3.1, 95 and 97) and Zydeco Desktop.
Like the other programs here, Zydeco
makes an electronic representation of the files

ners, however, support for edge-fed (a,k.a. it organizes for viewing. Once digitized, either
sheet-fed or personal scanners) has increased by scanning or importing, documents or
across the board, in particular, support for the

PaperPort scanner. The products are not similar enough for a Review's Choice Award.

tant files as email using only 15KB for most

images. The program comes with a series of
wizards and an adequate online help system.

for Office 97 takes all data inside Word, Excel,

Access and Outlook and organizes it into one

Where Zydeco shines is when combined

with a program such as ACT! or Goldmine.

shuffled, annotated, or otherwise manipulated. Zydeco is aimed at both the serious individual with a lot of documents and the small-

Now, sending a fax or letter to one or more

people is truly simple. The fax or letter is simply sent to the individual or group from
directly within the contact manager. Zydeco

images can be annotated with sticky notes,

edited, printed, emailed or searched. Other
features include the ability to send the resul-

database record that can be easily sdarched,

to medium-sized business.
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The test machine was a Pentium 2IX)

MMX with plenty of RAM and a Logitech

PageScan Color edge-fed scanner.

The Paperleea ONce
From: Computhiok Inc.
Estimated street price: $89,95

Compucon makes live video communication easy and affordable

The Paperless Office is a 32-bit relational database, Windows 95 or NT program that takes a
little getting used to but is very powerful.
Rather than one u n ified i nterface, The

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Index/Quality Control Desk, Doc Archival
Desk, and others to perform its functions.
This means a new user may be a little con-

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order in which each part of the process takes
place, However, it also means that jobs and

functions are grouped and processed together,

which ran be an advantage when there is a Iot
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The Paperless Office has a decent interface

but not a great one. Where the product is
good is in handling scanned item. T he
process is fast and logical and well priced,
Backup Management is also very good with

strong compression and a large number of

different storage options, including write-able
CDs and RAID devices (these are Redundant
Array of Independent Drive solutions that, in
a nutshell, write data to multiple drives as a
form of security via redundancy).

Where the product needs improvement is

in its text import area, where many different
text documents were not recognized. The
Paperless Office is a good choice for a small
business.

any people are now using their Pc to

talk face to face with family, friends,
co-workers and business partners. It is

now soeasy,thanks in partto Compuon's

leadingedge systems.

over the internet or traditional phone lines if

the other party is using a H.324 compliance
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in real-time and send it to a person's email

address for them to view and reply.

No longer is cost a limit. When you puchase your
Every new COMPUCONVCseries comes with an next Compucon PC, our
easy to use video conferencing kit. This allows
you to send live video, orFI!ne and real-time,

video conferencing system

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feels, to let you know if online chatting will

and white version

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Pine's CUSeeMe as its standard for desktop QuickCam (or other video input device:
QuickCams are just the easiest and cheapest

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shocked to hear his 15-year-old daughter had

making the full commitment, by checking it

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dezview.cornservice is free. There's agoodrea-

password, for special interest groups. As an

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demo, however, because it shuts itself down

with different types of conversation going on,

after 15 minutes.

initially broken down by regions Laterwhen the participants arrive. in droves as

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tions possible for people in many areas.

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videoconferendng; Four11 Corp. is working

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of the CU-SeeMe component. Microsoft's
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expected
the rooms will be divided still further into areas like, "Vancouver straight"
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Pagls Pro 97
From: Xerox Canada Ltd.
Estimated street price: $199
Pagis Pro 97 is a Windows 95/NT program that

is aimed squarely at the small andhome office

market. It is also a very good looking program,
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Alto Research Centre {a.ka. PARC, whose
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this program has an intuitive and friendly
interface, The program instaHs a floating toolbar and a side-mounted taskbar. Drag and drop
support is extensive throughout the program.
The menus, dialogue boxes and drop-down

options are dear and informative.

This is a nice program to work in. Due to

the program's use of Xerox's very weH respected OCR program, TextBridge Pro, the character

MatchBars are three little bars beside each

listed document. The prloritized results visuaHy indicate where they match the search
words because the MatchBars are darker it'
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Even better, the program searches for document files it recognizes on your system,
including HTML, TXT, DOC and others, and
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the single user or the small or home office
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PageKeeper Windows 2.1
Menoiectvrer: CaereCorporation.
Estimated street price: $239
PageKeeper for Windows 2.1 is a Windows
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recognition is excellent. Pagis Pro is based on a released almost two years ago and is in the
PARC development called PerfectScan, which process of being upgraded (the upgrade should

works to improve image quality in scans that

include text, as weH as to minimize file sizes.
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documents that have been through an OCR
program. When the database of files is
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whole hard drive has been catalogued

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PageKeeper, the work horse; and PKDirect, a

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PageKeeper will also import certain email
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and/or MAPI compliant, such as Mcrosoft

Mail or cc:Mail. PageKeeper is good program

be out sometime in December). The product is in need of a new release.

the same as in our last look at document management and thus the review Is similar.
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ment program that wiH scan, OCR, import, other programs here it doesn't have built-in
index, and organize your data. This is a good scanning ability. It doesn't take an image and
product, which is not surprising because it is turn it into a bitmap or raster file. What it
made by
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From: DocuMagix inc.
Estimated street price: 8199
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Windows 3.1 or higher. It does a very capable

and decent job of managing your scanned or

plectronic files. Where this program is strong
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A look at software for making your digital art collection picture perfect
B Y EMR U T O W N S E N D

PC owners. The fact remains, however, that

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scope of these products. While some did little
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clip art collections for those that don't like

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realized I had to buy my seventh 135 MB

packrat, there seems to be an increased prevalence in photo album-style software. This is

no doubt being spurred by the boom in the
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increased emphasis on computer systems

syc2uest cartridge to accommodate my aKhfve.

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EZ-Viewer 1.0

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paper onto which the negative strips of a roll
of film have been printed at their actual size

From: Gait Tephnology.

Price: USS29-939 (depending on package)

(rather than being blown up}. Because the

photos are not individually cropped, the
number of each shot on the edge of the negative appears on the contact sheet, making it
easy to communicate which prints need to be
reproduced.
This method of visually indexing images
(also referred to as thumbnails) is by far the
most popular in computer software, and

many titles along these lines can be found at

low prices. Best of all, many of these titles
(and all the ones listed here) are shareware, so
there are plenty of opportunities to find out
which package works best for you, and to ferret out new packages online.
EZ-Viewer is mainly for viewing single
images, and LVIew Pro and Paint Shop Pro are
image-manipulation programs that happen
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is the only title of the four that is designed

speciTically for image and multimedia cataloging.

EZ-Viewer represents the minimum of
what's available. Select a directory on your
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ViewSonic G771/ 17PS................. +$700/ 90Q
Sony 100SX / 200SX..................... +$480/ 880
IwierosoftEncarta'97 home pack,........... +$70
Creative 33.6 YoiceFaxModem int........... +$80
USR Sprtr Voice 33.6/56k Voice Int.. $125/185
IO Zip 100M ide/Parallel ................ +$145/1 90
Brother 730DX...$420 HP 6L laser......, +$520
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17" ATX tower case w/ ATX power
104K Fujitsu keyboard
MicroSoft mouse / Logitech MouseMan

Dual PII 233mhz (two CPUs).......$2800

Dual Pll 266mhz (two CPUs).......$3080
Dual PII 300mhz (tvvo CPUs).......$4300
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ATI XpertPlay 4M /8M.............+$100/200

Sound Blaster AWE 64 / 4M........+$120/240
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ViewSonic 17PS / PT775 ..........+$900/1000
NEC E700 / P750.......................+$900/1100
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Coxai I Oft/2011/50ft............ $10/13/25
Hub 9port /16port ............. ...$90/180
Hub 100BT 12port............. ,......$560
Novell Users 5/1Q ...............$9QO/1200
NT 4.0 Server 5 /10 ..............$880/1280
NT Workstation 4.0 / license...$240/60
UPS 280/450/600...............$155/200/340
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1.44 Fujitsu floppy
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( USR Spt 33.6/56K Voice .................+$125/185
( Ultra-IDE: 3.2G/4.3G/6.4G..........+$50/$140/240
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Intel PD440FX /with Sound.....$3001350
Tyan Dual P6 / Dual PII ATX.....$380/440
Asus 430TX 512k .AT/ATX......$195/235
Asus 440LX / Scsi ATX .............$350/480
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Shuttle575A TX512k,75-233,.........$145
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QuantumST?.I/3.2G...........$245/285
QuantumST4.3/6.4G...........$350/465
WD1.2/2.1/2.56...........$210/245/265
WD3.1/4.0/4.3G............$280/355/360
Seagate Matelist 2.1/2.5.. ...$245/265
Quantum SCSI 2.1 3.2G.......$310/400
Quantum SCSI ST4.3/6.4....$450/600
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Vieu/sonicG771................$700

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Viewsonic PT775.......,....$1030
Intel Pentium 200 MlMX..$320
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Intel P6 180/200........................$300/660
Intel Pentiurnll-233/266...........$720/895
Intel Pentiumll 300mhz..................$1495
Intel Pentium Pro 200/S/2k..............$990
AMD KS 100/133/166...........$80/115/140
AMD K6 MMX166 / 200 ........$195/285
AMD K6-MMX233.........................$430
IBM 6x86 166+/200+..................$95/110
Cyrix 6xMX166/200/233.....$145/100/415

Acer16bit /32bit sound card.....$30/50

SoundBlaster 16/Awe64........$60/120
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Panasonic Sx/4x /ctrl/sft......$760
HP 6020i/e/EP.........$470/680/680
Yamaha 400 in/ex .........$650/780
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Yamaha M15/Subw MT10...$80/115
Altec 52/45/55/500...$99/115/200/360
Altec 48.......................................$190
Labtec 3210 ................................$110
McrioPhone/Headset..................$5/10

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Essensial bundale...................$125
Corel WP Suit 7 / Suit 8 .....$80/99
DVD disk w/ fashion songs.........$8
10 CD with loest games .............$30

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220CDS P133/16M/1.3G/10x/12.1" DSN(new) $2480
440CDS P133MMX/

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CL 5446 IM /2M....................$28/38
S3 Virge 3D 2M /4M..............$50/65
ATI 3D 2M / 4M ...................$68/105
ATI 3D PC2TV 2M/4M.......$110/145
ATI ProTurbo PC2TV 4/8....$170/270
ATI all-inWonder.2/4M .......$280/320
ATI Xpertworks 2M/4M...$140/190
ATI Xpert@play 4M/8M.....$260/370
Mystique220 2M/4M...........$135/150
Millinnium-II 4M/8M..........$250/370
Monster 3D 4M oem/retail..$210/280
Stingray 128 with 6M.................$310

HP 5S I 5P / 4C..........$280/450/850
HP 6100C..................................$950
Microtek R3/E6................$290/480
Microtek E6.Pro/ 3...........$680/1690
UMAX 6000S/P................,........$290

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ZIP 100M int/para..................$150/195
Zip 100M scsi/
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JAZ 1G scsi Intl Ext...............$390/500
Sy Jet1.5 scsi Int/ext/Para..$433/570/495
Zip disk / Jaz disk ...................$17/11S
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CasioPC Camera...,.....................$530
Kodak DCSO/120 Camera..$790/1200
USR Video Fun kit......................$299
QuickCom color...........................$320

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MAG DX15T /D700T.................$440/840
NEC A500/M500/K500........$455/510/510
NEC XV15+/XV17+..................$490/870
NEC M700/P750.......................$960/1100
Sony 100SX/SF...........................$495/595
Sony 200SX/SF.........................$890/980
Sony 17SE2T/20SK2T.............$1050/2050
Sumsang 17 Gli/700P..................$780/920
ViewSonic15GS/17GS(G771)....$395/700
Viewsonic 17PS/PT775............$890/1020
Viewsonic PS10/815...............$1830/1970
Optiquest V665/V775..............,..$660/750
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72pin 32 / 64M.............,.....,..$138/415
Parity 72pin 4 / 8 /16M..........$38/65/90
Parity 72pin 32 / 64M.............$170/580
30pin IM /4M ............................$9/25
DIMM 16 / 32M........................$90/150
DIMM 64 / 128M ...................$290/820
SDRAM (10ns) 16/32M ..........$93/160
ECC DIMM 32 / 64M............$170 /470
ECC DIMM 128M ........................$900
SDRAM-ECC(10ns)16I32M...$115/198
MAC DIMM 16M/32M............$90/150
SO DIMM 8/16/32M..........$90/150/220
SOJ Video RAM IM.......................$10
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Toshiba PC-DVD kit............$660

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HP 400C/820C/870C.........$240/34S/510
HP 6L / 6P /6MP..............$520/950/1190
HP 5 /SN /SM....,.........$1370/1480/2390
HP Color 5 / Color SM.........$5480/8990
HP 4V /SSi ..........................$2370/3490
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Canon BJC250/4300.............$215/290
Canon B JC4550......................$550

Brother
Brother HL730DX/760DX....$430/550
Brother HL1260/1660..........$1100/1390

Epson

Stylus 400 (720dpi)........................$260

Stylus 600/800 (1440dpi)........$370/480
PhotoStylus 700.......................$650

Lex mark
Inkjet 2050...................................$320
Optra N 4/16M,..............$3850/4880
Optra Lx N+/Net...............$3250/3550

SCSI 1520 /1522,.......................$90/96

PCI SCSI 2902/2910...............$145/1 85
PCI SCSI2940 /2940UW........$230/270
PCI 3985 2-chanel scsi...................$800
Scsi cable/ Wide scsi cable.........$10/20
Rock mounting IDE/SCSI...........$30/35
Printer cables.6ft /10fl...................$5/10
Modem cables ..........,......................$13
Laplink cables..................................$30
Mouse/Logitech 2B.......................$8/15
Logitech 3B /MS V2.1A..................$32
AT13/15/19/23"case.......$40/45/65/115
ATX 17'/23".............................$95/120
104KB/Fujitsu8725I4725......$18/26/60
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goes only halfway; it stores a reference file
in the same directory it browses, drastically reducing the time required for future
browsing. As mentioned before, EZViewer has to rebuild its thumbnails every
time.
Automatic functions: Nothing is more
tedious than having to select dozens of
directories and/or images manually. All of
these programs let you select all the files
in a directory (or of a specific type) with
one or two mouse clicks; Jasc Media
Center is the only one that will also search
down through subdirectories.
File-type smarts: When you work with
images from other people and other computers, you quickly become aware that
they speak a different language from PC
users. Whereas our graphics programs
tend to automatically tag images with the
appropriate extension (,TIF, GIF, .JPG,
etc.), this is not necessarily true on Macs
or Amigas.
Some files may have different extensions
(such as, TIFF or .JPEG), or they inight not
have any extensions at all. While people
in the Mac world are used to files being
identified by their actual content, bear in
mind that most Windows programs can
only make an assumption based on the
extension.
Fortunately, all the programs here (with
the exception of EZ-Viewer) can deal with

this intelligently as long as you reinember

to dick on "All Files" when given the
option of searching for particular file
types.
Picture manipulation: There are times
you want to find an image to do some sort
of work on it~ o nverting it to a different
format, fixing the colors, or adding a third
eye to a less-than-favorite relative, for
example. As LView Pro and Paint Shop Pro
are really image-editing programs, they
both let you access and work directly on
the original image. Media Center must be
configured to use an external imageMiting program, EZ-Viewer has no editing
capabilities.
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will give you some information on the
file's properties, LView Pro gives you the
file size, type, and dimensions, while
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form and the function of the traditional family photo album,
In a way, this family-friendliness means
these programs are both more and less
advanced than their contact-sheet counterparts. For instance, the.imageMiting functions in NewSoft's Presto! PhotoAlbum are
very basic, but since the program is designed
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streamlined and elegant.
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place them in calendars, diaries, or cards or
you cancreateyour own layouts.Afterselecting a format and a directory for your images,
the pictures can be dragged and dropped into
place, then prettified with borders, drop shadows, ornaments, and background textures, all
of which are considered objects that can be
resized, rotated, and relocated easily.
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By contrast, GM Imaging's PhotoRecall is
definitely intended for archiving pictures.
While you are allowed some frivolity in
choosing the motif of a photo album, a cork
board, or a film strip, the most flexibility you
have in still-image presentation is how many
images you can fiton a page.
Although the focus of these programs is
different, here's a rundown based on the same
features mentioned earlier:
A wide variety of image formats: Beiirg
aimed at the home user, both of these pro, grams not only load image files, but also
access TWAIN devices (such as scanners),
PhotoCDs and digital cameras directly.
Otherwise, both programs handle TIFFs,
JPEGs, BMPs, and PCX files, as well as
newer formats such as FlashPix. (Presto!
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Removable-media smarts: In order to
open a PhotoRecali album, the disc from
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within the album, which consumes more
disk space.
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Ditto 3.2G Tape Iut/Ext.........$269/289
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scanner sohware we prefer is called PaperPort.
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Hewlett-Packard, Agfa, Microtek and others,
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I'IeotoSmart Scanner
Fmm: Hewlett-Packard
Pros: Combination print, slide and negative scanner at
an aggressive price. SCSI interface, automatic scanning features.
Cons: No Mac support Not appropriate for OCR
tasks.
Estimated street price: $700
While we haven't run this unit through our
usual battery of torture tests (Hewlett-Packard
was not able to show us the unit connected to
a computer), we have seen enough to know
that it looks like a great value for those interested in a scanner suitable for capturing
images from slides, negatives or standard
photographic prints up to Sx7-inch in size.
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PhotoSmart line of products, which also
includes a PhotoSmart color image printer .
($700) and a -not especially impressive
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are not planned.
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the images we saw produced by it were of
goad quality. When an image is scanned, software is automatically launched to remove re/
eye, crop, or rotate the image right from within the scanner driver,
Most exceptional to us, however, was the
unit's aggressive price. At around $700
(including a very basic ISA-bus SCSI interface), this unit compares favorably with highly regarded slide scanners from Polaroid and
Nikon costing considerably more. (It's worth
mentioning that most flatbed scanners with a
so-called"transparency adapter" produce dismal r e sults fr o m sc a n ned s l i des.)
Remembering that you usually get what yau
pay for, we'd recommend checking out the
HP PhotoSmart Scanner if you are in the market for a slide scanner.
Scanlet 6100
From: Hewlett-Packard
Pros: Automatic scanning button, PaperPort software,
HP support, excellent compatibility.

Cons: SCSIcarddefault configuration conflicts with

some sound cards.
Price: US$799

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Scanning solutions
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includes a button on the front of the scanner

that, when pressed, invokes an automatic
scan very handy. Instead of the DeskScan
software included with previous generations
of HP scanners, the 6100 includes an easier to
use, but l e s s p o werful, d r iver c a lled
PictureScan. According to HP, the older
DeskScan software is not supported on the
6100,

h ands-on time with as we'd like is t h e

Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6100. However,
because HP holds such a dominant position
in the market, and its products are generally
well-regarded, it is likely that you' ll be seeing
a 6100 in a store near you soon.
The 6100, like HP's recent SP model,

As it has with the 4S and 4C series units,

HP has included the PaperPort software from
Visioneer with the 6100. This software is very,
very good as an automatic image manager. By
simply dragging a page of scanned text to
your word processor's icon gn PaperPort's
"desktop," PaperPort automatically handles
the conversion of the scan into text via
OCR neat! Similarly, other utilities make it

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easy to fax, print or edit photos and other

scanned images.
HP scanners include a feature called
AccuPage, which increases their accuracy in
OCR tasks' by re-evaluating and adjusting
contrast and brightness values on a line-byline basis as the image is scanned. However,
AccuPage scans are somewhat slower we
usually leave it turned off.
It is worth mentioning that HewlettPackard scanners are one of the only brands
of scanners due to have built-in support in
the forthcoming "Memphis" version of the
Windows operating system, officially known
as Windows 98. This forthcoming OS will
reportedly support the push-button feature of
the 6100 and SP, making scanning a nearly
effortless process under that OS. This level of
support only underscores HP's dominant
position in the marketplace, and virtually
assures that the graphics or OCR software
package you buy will support HP'sproducts.
In conclusion, HP scanners enjoy wide
distribution and good application and OSlevel compatibility. The PaperPort software
(also available separately for other scanners)
adds value to this package.

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our complaints with its predecessor, the original SnapScan, previously. reviewed in The
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map" function in A dobe Illustrator or
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engine, the words in the text file are searchable and when the link is clicked, up pops the
GIF. While this is perhaps not as elegant as
Acrobat's all-in-one resolution-independent
graphics and text file format, the smaller files
make it an attractive alternativ.
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process documents for intranet perusal. A
batch-processing option can convert up to
20,000 documents without intervention.
Those considering Acrobat Capture 2.0,
which unlike the viewing tools is available
only for Windows 95 and NT, should be
awa~e that Adobe has instituted a new policy
where the program's original US$895 purchase price only allows you to use it to create

20,000 pages. A parallel-port dongle bundled

with the package decrements with each use;
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Astra 600$
From: UMAX (www.umax.corn)
Pros: 30-bit color (300x600 optical resolution), good
image fidelity, inexpensive.Excellent MagicScansoftware.
Cons: Light stays on when idle. No terminator power.
Price: $319
The Astra is one of the most highly regarded
flatbed scanners in its price range. Coming as
it does from a company that makes Macintosh
clones, it is not surprising that the unit is available in both Mac and PC configurations.
However, as with all inexpensive scanners,
there are some rather blunted corner. Some
users have reported that their units are noisy.
Others have reported a white film on the glass
that can be removed by (carefully) disassembling the unit and cleaning it. Still others
have noted that the unit's SCSI connectors
lack proper termination. 0

Contacts:
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Technical specs for the 600S areavailable at
http: //www.envisions.corn/pages/astra600s specs.htm
l. A Parallel version is also available (600P), but not as
highly recommended.
StormTechnology,Tel:800-275-5734,
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128MB RAM, 4.5 GBUltra SCSI
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Pentium Pro 200mhz, 32 mb ECC

EDO, Pentium 200 Mhz, 128mb Ram
integrated Cirrus Logic with 1mb Dram, (4x32mb) 12 sockets available, ECC
Hot Swaps Models, 27GBMaximum
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drives Standard Software
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*Lease $351/month
for 48 months

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Hp Printers 8 Scannet'3

HP Yectra XU 6/200

HP Deskjet 340 Portable......, ..$407

HP Deskjet400c ..... . . . . . . . . . .$255
HP Deskjet 692C...... . . . . . . . , .$379
HP Deskjet 870CXI ....... . . . . . .$531
HP Deskjet 100QC
(prints 11x17) ..$656
HP Laserjet5 .... . . . . . . . . . . . .$1371
HP Laserjet6P ..... . . . . . . . . , ..$971
HP Color Laserjet 5 ..... . . . . . .$5176
HP Scanjet 5S. .... . . . , . . . . . . .$268
HP Scanjet 5P...... . . . . . . . . . . .$389
HP Scanjet 4C...... . . . . . . . . . . .$914

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..$977
Design Jet 330 Printer ...... . . . . . .$2467
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Printer ....., ..$13199

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S35P233 MMX4&NIB, 5.46B,24X CD,17MMonitor .....$5020
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P200MMX4.2 GB,32MB, 1&XCD,15" INonitor.....$3355

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Fujilsu 3.5GB IDE ....... . , . . . . . . . . . . . .$320
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P/200MMX AsusVX M/8 & Boxed CPU ....$561
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Floppy Drive, Mini Tower, SVGAcard, 14" SVGA
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the workload capacity expected of
the printer. If your oNce consists

of only a handful of people, then

you may want to look at something in the entry-level category
rather than the models reviewed
this month.
It makes little sense to spend
several thousand dollars on a
printer capable of 20 ppm when
only the office accountant will
be using it regularly to print a
few pages at a time, while two or
three other people wiII print only
the occasional memo. A network
printer will be put to much better
use in an environment where
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any given time.

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machine capable of printing

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in an office. This month, we look
When t h e n um b e r o f
at several laser printers designed employees in an office is in the
for small- to medium-sized workrange of 15 to 25, you' ll want to
groups. They have print speeds look at something along the lines
ranging from 12 to 20 pages per of 16 to 20 ppm. Of course, these
minute (ppm), offer a variety of
numbers are better suited to an
different features, and, for the
office where it's likely several
most part, cost w el l u n d er people will want to use the printer at the some point in the day,
$3,000.
or where the average print job
will be more than just a few
VOui Prleiter needs
You' ll want to consider several pages at a time.
things when shopping for an
Depending on the type of
office printer. This report features business, if the employee count
printers that are network-ready r eaches more than 25 in t h e
right out of the box, or can be
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equipped with a network of some
sort, adding a printer to that network is a good strategy.
Using a printer switch box

one printer to share the printing

load.

More than lust a merrsory

Much like a computer, a printer
also requires a certain amount of

RAM in order to do its job more

efficiently. And just like a computer, the more RAM your printer has, the faster it can do its job.
There are, of course, certain limits to this. The amount of RAM
you put into your printer will
only go so far towards getting
things done more quickly.
For example, if you' ve just

finished typing up a two-page

business letter and sent it to the
printer, the job will get done just

as easily on a machine equipped

with 1 MB as it would on one
with 20 MB. This is an example
of not making use of the printer' s
total memory.

printer, though, and make certain that RAM upgrades can be

made using industry standard
72-pin SIMMs, There are still a
few manufacturers out there who

are using proprietary modules

that you h'ave to buy directly

from them. If that's the case, you
can expect the prices to be anywhere from tIMee to eight times
higher.
If the printer you decide on
comes with a small amount of~
RAM (1 or 2 MB) we definitely

recommend buying a 16 MB
memory module, which can currently be found for as little as
$80.

So how do you decide how

much memory wiII meet your

How flexible la It?

needs? Once again, you have to

Another important considera-

do a bit of research, and determ ine what m ost p r in t j o b s

around the office consist of. Are
they mostly email messages,
memos, and simple letters that
are on average two to three pages
in length? Or do the print jobs

tion for many businesses is the

expandabihty of the printer. This

includes being able to aild additional paper trays, support for a
variety of paper sizes and differ-

ent media,or even a duplexing

(i.e., printing on both sides of the

include graphics and large-page paper) option. Most of'the printprintouts on paper sizes such as
11x17 inches (tabloid size)? How

ers on the market today are capable of printing on a wide assort-

about monthly 100-plus page

ment of paper sizes and media

printouts from a database? These

are the types of t h ings that
should be determined before
deciding on how much memory
to buy for the printer.
On the other hand, some

types, but always be sure to check

first. The more flexible the printer is, the more it can do to meet
your varied needs.

people prefer to play it safe and

plan ahead. Perhaps your needs
don't justify buying 20 MS today,
but what about in the foreseeable
future? Many printer manufacturers have been designing printers that accept RAM upgrades
using traditional SIMM memory
modules. These are the same
thing you would find in nearly

all computers today, and are easily available from every vendor.
And considering that RAM prices
are at an all-time low, stocking
up may be a smart idea even
though your needs may not
demand it at the present time.

Be careful when choosing a

Every printer on the market,

today is capable of printing on
ordinary S,Sx11-inch (standard
letter size) sheets of paper, and
for most of us this is all we need.
Of course, your own needs may

differ slightly, or completely

from everyone else' s. You may
want a machine that can easily
handle envelopes of different
sizes, transparencies, legal-size

paper, or perhaps even tabloid

size. Depending on how much
the-printer will be used, you' ll
want to h ave the option of
adding one or more additional

paper trays.
Most printers come standard
with one input tray capable of
Corrtirnred on page74

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Network printers
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holding 250 sheets. In some offices,.that
'amount may last only a few days. Having an
additional tray would mean less time spent
adding paper, and fewer of those annoying.
"Out of Paper" messages, with their equally

annoying beeps.
You may even consider a duplexing unit.

This will allow you to print on both sides of a

sheet of paper without having to manually
take it out and put it back into the printer.
This is a great option for keeping paper waste
down, as well as cutting paper costs.
Other options that may be of interest are
the types of networks supported by the vendor. The popular options are Ethernet, Token
Ring, and AppleTalk. Although these are sup-

0 ur ou r

ported by many printers, it does not mean

you get them all out of the box. In some
cases, you have to pay for a network card
option, which must be installed into the
printer.
Printer maintenance
Purchasing a printer and setting it up in the
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process. Over time, you' ll have to replace

consumables such as toner cartridges and
image drums.
Although most printers today have the
toner and image drum all in one package,
there are still a few out there that are housed
separately. Toner cartridges come in all shapes
and sizes, and as a result, some will last longer
than others, Each printer requires a specific
type of toner and drum cartridge. Don' t
expect to buy these things in bulk and then
use the same one for different printers it' s
not that simple. Lexmark printers require certain cartridges, as do Hewlett-Packard printers, and so on. It's all a matter of physical fityou can't expect a size six shoe to fit on a size
12 foot.
Toner cartridges and drums are rated for a
maximum number of pages they are capable
of printing. If the toner and drum are contained in a single package, then you only have
to worry about replacing one thing. However,
if your printer uses separate cartridges for
toner and the drum, then you' ll have to
replace each one when its time comes.
An image drum is almost always rated for
a higher page. count than its toner counterpart. For example the toner cartridge might
yield 5,000 pages before it needs to be
changed, while the drum in that very same
printer will be good for 30,000 pages. You
may often find yourself changing the toner
several times before you change the drum
even once. This, of course, depends entirely
on the model of printer and the print yield on
both the toner and drum.
Speaking of page counts, before deciding
on a printer, make sure that it will be able to
accommodate your printing workload. Each
printer has a "recommended duty cycle." This
is, quite simply, the number of pages your
printer can handle in one month, according to
the manufacturer. A good printer will have a
duty cycle of more than 20,000 pages a month.
If you know you' ll be printing more pages per
month than the printer's duty cycle, look for
one that can handle a greater workload.
Of course, this doesn't mean the printer
will fall apart if you print a few sheets more
than the duty cycle, but it gives you a rough
idea of what the printer's heaviest workload
capacity is.

So is it better to have the toner and drum in

one package, or to have them completely separate? The main issue is cost.
A simple toner cartridge that does not
include a drum can cost as little as $80
because all you' re paying for is toner. On
other printers that have the drum and toner
in one casing replacement can cost quite a bit
more.
But even with all-in-one toner/image

drums, costs can vary widely. For example, a

in Pri nter Solutions from:

couple of printers in our office use one cartridge for both toner and image drum. When
the toner runs out, a replacement costs $399
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run you may find it creates more trouble than
its worth. The first thing is to buy refurbished
toner cartridges. These are used cartridges
that have been refilled with new t oner,
cleaned up and sold again. Essentially, it' s
recycling great for the environment, but not
always great for your printouts.

Our experience over the past couple of

years has shown that although they may be
somewhat cheaper, refurbished cartridges
don't tend to last as long as new ones, and in
some cases, the image quality is not all that
great because of the used image drum.
The other option is to have your toner
cartridge refilled. There are several places that
will do this for you for a cost that varies

slightlybut it's always cheaper than buying a

new cartridge.
However, it should be noted that some
printer manufacturers aren't happy about this
process. Some will even void your warranty if
damage occurs to your printer as a result of a
refilled toner cartridge.
And, while on the topic of warranties,
make sure the warranty offered by your print-

er manufacturer is something you' ll be content with. A f e w e ven o ffer overnight

exchanges if anything should go wrong with
the unit. This can be especially handy where
there is only one printer for the entire oNce
and it is greatly- relied upon. You may even
want to look into purchasing an extended
warranty just to be on the safe side.

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We asked manufacturers to send us printers

with speeds ranging from 12 to,16 ppm that
are networkable, either out of the box or via
an optional network interface card. We also
requested printers under $3,000. In the end,
w e ended up with a v ery good mix o f
machines, each with qualities that would
make it a great addition to any small or medium-sized office. We compared print speeds,
output quality, and ease of setting up the
units right out of the box.
Brother
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16Mb EDO RAM

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3600.00
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Up to 128MB RAM
16X CD-ROM

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14.1" TFTLCD Coming Soon!

duplexing unit is available for a suggested list

price of $999, known as the DX-1600. Flash
memory and HDD cards can also be added to
save anything from macros to fonts to printer data. Toner cartridge life is rated for 6,000
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The HL-1660 from Brother is among the

newest in its line, and offers a good mix of
standard features and several expansion
options.
It's powered by a MIPS R3000 processor,
which runs at 20 MHz, and is rated at 17 ppm
on letter:size paper, with a maxiinum output
resolution of 1,200x600 dots per inch (dpi),
The standard RAM complement is 4 MB,
which is further expandable to an impressive
66 MB u sing standard 72-pin SIMMs.
Standard interface options include a parallel
port, as well as serial and modular I/O ports.
Optional interfaces are available for Ethernet,
Token Ring and AppleTalk networks.
The NC-1200 network caid from Brother
has an estimated street price of $439 and
offers 10BaseT Ethernet connectivity. Other
options on this model include a lower cassette, which holds an additional 500 sheets,

page coverage.
The HL-1660 has an estimated street price
of $1,799 and offers a one-year Exchange

Express courier replacement warranty, which

entitles you to an exchange within 24 hours

of notifying Brother of a problem with your

unit. This is a great printer overall that can be

had for around $2,300 including a network

card.
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16MB EDO RAM
PCI/ISA Mother Board
Built-in EIDE Ctrl, 512k Pipeline Cache
PCI 64bit Video Card
2.1GB Hard Drive
1.44MB Floppy Drive
15m Mid-tower Case, 230W PS
104 Win'95 Keyboard, Mouse
One month free internet

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$1 4 6 9

Intel Pentium II 233 CPU, 512k Cache

32MB EDO RAM
Pentium II Mother Board
S33D Virge Video Card
2.1GB Hard Drive
1.44MB Floppy Drive
19m ATX Case, 250W PS
104 Win'95 Keyboard, Mouse
16xCD ROM
One month free internet

$1839

Intel
Pentium-Pro 200 CPU, 256k Cache
32MB EDO RAM
2.1GB Hard Drive
Intel Pro ATX Mother Board
Built-in EIDE Ctrl
S33D Virge Video Card
1.44MB Floppy Drive
19" ATX Case, 250W PS
104 Win'95 Keyboard, Mouse
One month free internet

Pu-266 02079
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Everex P133 CD - $2299

12.1 "DSTN/16M/1.3G/10xCD/16bitSnd/W95
SHARP P100
-$1975
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TOSHIBA 430CDT P120 CD-
$3425
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11.3 TFT/16MB/1.3GB/10xCD/Win95
SCEPTRE 3900 P100/P133 $2290/$2520
11.3 "DSTN/16MB/1.0GB/Win95
SCEPTRE 4000CD P133/P150 -$4390/$4590
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12.1 TFT/24MB/1.0GB/6xCD/Win95
MTI JETBOOK CD P100-$2390
10.3 "DSTN/&MB/I.OGB/4xCD/16Snd/Win95
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$3065
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Memory

Motherboard

-$9/$22
Pentium Motherboard VX 512k MMX - $109 30p 1MB/4MB72p
4MB/SMB
EDO

-$21/$38
Gigabyte VX/HX 512k MMX-$139/152
Gigabyte Pro ATX--$259 72p 16MB/32MB EDO $69/$139
Gigabyte Pentium II 686KX ATX-$359 16&p SDRAM 16MB /32MB--- -$97/$182
Asus VX97 512k MMXVideo Card
$139
Asus T2P4 HX 512k MMX/ ATX $189/$219 Cirus Logic 5446 PCI 1M
-- - - - - $ 29
Asus TX97 512k MMX/ ATX-- $215/$235 S3 3D Virge 2M/4M
$52/$78
Asus Pro6NPS /ATX$314/$345 Trident 3D /TV IM - - -$59
Asus P-11 KN97 ATX - - - - $355 ATI 3D X+ 2M/4M wMPEG --- - $85/$112
Intel Marl 2 ATX MMX - -- $169 ATI 3D X+ 2M/4M wMPEG, PC2TV $105/$130
---- -$189
Intel Venus Pro ATX-
ATI 3D Pro Turbo 4M/SM, PC2TV -- $178/$241
Intel Poland Pentium 11 w/Audio ATX-$369 ATI 3D All-inWonder 2M/4M$300/$327
ABIT SMSA/SMS VX
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Intel Pentium P-133 CPU

16MB EDO RAM
PCI/ISA Mother Board, 512k Pipeline
Burst Cache, Built-in EIDE Ctrl
PCI 64bit Video Card
2.1GB Hard Drive
1.44MB F! oppy Drive
15" Mid-tower Case, 230W PS
104 Win'95 Kdyboard, Mouse
15" SVGA Monitor
16x CD ROM, 33.6 fax/modem
16Bit Sound Card
60W Speakers
One month free internet
P-166/200 $1185/1217
P-166 MMX
$1227
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$1372
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$1226
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Acer 56k Fax Data int wNoice
$129
GVC PCMCIA 33.6
--- - $ 259
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$25
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Speaker 7W/60W/120W
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Stereo Sound Card

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$219/$358
Acula 140/15"/17m
$21 5/305/580 HP Deskjet 820Cxi/870C---
Epson Stylus 400/600 - --
-$298/$389
Pentium 233 M MX

$551 Daytdk 14 9/15"/17"

-- $215/305/580
-$589
Pentium Pro 180 /200 (256k) -$340/$687 Proview 14 9/15 "/17"
$215/305/580 Brother 760DX Laser
- -$549/$999
Pentium II 233/266 -
-- - -$782/$1030
MAG DX15T .25 -- -$449 HP 6L/6P Laser
-$838
Pentium Il 300 -
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JAZ/Zip/TAPE/CD
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Optiquest
15"
V655-$399
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WD 1.6G/ 2.1G EIDE
-$240/$25S
Yamaha 2x/4xCDWriter ext-$965
WD 2.5G/3.1G EIDE
-$279/$315
CDROM
W D 4.0G EIDE - - -- - $ 102 Panasonic 2x/4x CDRec. Kit w/sf/ctrl -$540
-$399 16x BTC
-$580
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--
$185/$2&0
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$390/$523
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-$119 Conner 800M/3.2G int.
---$155/$205/$320
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32MB SDRAM
Asus TX97 Mother Board
512k Pipeline Burst Cache
Built-in EIDE Ctrl
S3 3D Virge Video Card
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1.44M Floppy Drive
15m Mid-tower Case, 230W PS
104 Win'95 Keyboard, Mouse
1579 Optiquest V655 Monitor
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3COM 3C905TX 10/100-$120
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PCMCIA Eithernet Adapter/Comb----- - $155

Keyboard Mouse
Win'95 104 Keyboard
$20
Fujitu 8725/4725
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-- -$35
Microsoft Mouse

Case
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19" /24" w/230W PS

-- $68/$104
Desktop Case
-$59
Others
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$18/$25
Microphone
$12
Earphone w/Microphone
$20
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lent perfonnance at a very competitive price.
It boasts the fastest processor in this entire
survey, an Intel i960JD operating at 66 MHz.
Lexmark printers are best known for incredibly sharp output at true 1,200x1,200 dpi, and
the S1650 is no exception. This unit is rated at
16 ppm, and comes standard with 4 MB of

RAM, which is expandable to a whopping 132

MB using standard 72-pin SIMM modules.

control panel is easy to use, and offers a vast cannot be resolved over the phone with the
number of setup options. Toner cartridges for technical specialist, you have the choice of
the S1650 are rated at 7,500 sheets, while the
printer has a very impressive monthly duty
cycle of 65,000 pages.
The printer has an estimated street price
of $1,975, which i n d u des a o n e-year
LexExpress warranty. With this coverage, you
first call the warranty hotline. If the problem

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Quantum 1.1/ 2.5GB
189/267
Quantum 2.1/ 3.2GB ST Ultra 249/299
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W.D./Maxtor 2,5/3.2/4.3GB 259/299/389
Scag 4.5/23GB Ultra SCSI
1 1 99/3599
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HD Controller
RIDE Controller
Adaptec 1520/1522 SCSI ctrl
Adaptec 2940 SCSI ctrl
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265
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Pentium MMX System

Cyrix 166/ Intel 150/166/200

Intel MMX Pentium 166/200/233
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Intel TX MB 512K PB Cache
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16MB EDO RAM (exp.to 128M)
16MB EDO RAM (exp.to 128M)
2.0GB Hard Drive
2.5G Hard Drive
1.44MB Floppy Drive
1.44MB Floppy Drive
64bit IM PCI MPEG Video Card
S3 Verge 3D 2M MPEG Video Card
14" NI/LR SVGA Proview Monitor 15" NI/LR SVGA Proview Monitor
Win95 Keyboard
Win95 Keyboard
15" tower Case w/230W
15" tower Case w/230W
Logitec Mouse & pad
Logitec Mouse & pad

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65/130
94/ 1 69
20/4 0

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153/ 1 99/299
Intel MMX 166/200/233 205/348/519
Intel Pro 180/200
339/678
AMD K6 166/200/233 1 8 8/319/458

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Pentium VXPro w/512KPB
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Pentium TXRo w/512KPB
105
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129
Pentium Pro FX
185
GigaByte VX 512K
138
ASUS VX 512K USB port
139
ASUS HX 512K USB port
175
ASUS TX 512K AT/ATX
205 / 2 10
ASUS KN97 Pentium II ATX
328
Intel Venus FX ATX
195

PRINTERS/ Scanner
Canon BJC240/4300 Inkjet 1 9 8/285
Epson Stylus 400/600
279/389
Brother HL730DX 600dpi 6p
429
B rother HL760DX 1200dpi 6p 5 2 9
B rother HL1660 1200dpi 17p 1 3 5 5
Oki OL600e
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HP Laser Jet 6L
515
AcerScan 300F flatbed
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3.2G Hard Drive

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15" NI/LR SVGA Proview Monitor
Win95 Keyboard
15" tower Case w/230W
Logitec Mouse & pad

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CD-ROM

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$199
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219
15" Proview/AOC NI/LR
275
15" Acerview NI/LR Digital
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15" Sceptre NI/LR Digital PnP
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15" Sony/Mag 0.25dp
518/468
17" Proview/Acerview Digital
549/599
17" Sceptre speaker & Microphone
599
17" Viewsonic GS/PS
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17" Optiquest V773/V775
699/795
17" Sony 200SX
878

Toshiba/Panasonic 24x
Acer 20x/24x
Pioneer 12x
Mitsum CD Writer
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Cirrus'Logic 5446 1M/2M MPEG
TV Tuner 8r. Capture Card
Trident 9680 64bit 1M MPEG
Trident Pro 9685 64bit MPEG, TV
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Diamond Stealth 3D 4M
ATI 3D Expression 2M/4M
ATI XPERT@Work 4M
ATI XPERTPlay 4M
Matrox Millennium H 4M
Matrox Mystique 220 4M

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52
49/64
115
7&/149
199
239
287
158

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28
Acer 32Bit PCI Combo
34
Acer 32Bit PCI 10/100 Bus Master
79
Acer Ethernet Hub 9 ports
98
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119
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Acer 33.6K Voice upgradable
Acer 56K Voice FaxModem
USR 33.6K FaxModem int
USR 56K FaxModem int
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$57
79
128
117
195
249

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Wiri95 Keyboard
Fujitsu Keyboard
Logitech 2B Mouse
Switch Box for 2 Printers

18
28
16
25

CASES
13"/15" Tower Case w/230w
40/49
19" ATX Tower Case w/230w
98
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my children from gymnastics lessons.
OK, so this thing is small. It is, however,
not cheap. The list price is $3,139 (although
we have heard of it selling for as little as
$2,700 if you can get your hands on one).
Toshiba is reportedly selling every machine it

B Y GEO F W H E E L W R I G H T
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From: Toshiba of Canada
List price: $3,139
Estimated street price: $2,700
have been waiting for a machine like the
new Toshiba Libretto 50CT mini-notebook
for a long time. I have been using handheld computers of one form or another since
1985, and this machine is nothing like anything I have ever used before.
To start with, it is a full-blown Windows
95 system with a Pentium processor, a
respectable 800 MB hard disk, PC Card slot,
infrared communications capability and a
great keyboard. While it only uses the 75
MHz version of the Pentium, this comes supported by 16MB of EDO RAM, and a 6.1-inch
TFT active matrix color display. And the

whole thing weighs only 810 g (1.8 lb.).

It is also small enough to fit in your pocket. Not the small shirt pocket that might
allow for the likes of a Psion Series 3c or one
of the current crop of Windows CE machines,
but the slightly larger variety you might have
in a winter coat or a generous and giving pair
of pants. In fact, it even fit in the pocket of
this reviewer's "dress shorts" and I was thus
able to do duty at the side of the polandin
the parking lots while I was waiting to pick up

This means both text and images are bright

and clear. Even sound and video files play reasonably well as Toshiba has taken the trouble
of building stereo sound support into the
Libretto.
Of course, you aren't stuck with the hardcan bring in from Japan.
ware included with the package. Expansion
And there's little wonder. After using it for capabilities include th'e Libretto's Type II PC
only a few days, it is not hard to see how a lit- Card slot (to which we were able to successfultle machine like this could work its way into
ly add a US Robotics x2 PC Card modem), and
your affections. It does everything you would lithium ion battery socket (where you can add
expect induding r u nning p r oductivity longer life batteries than the one- to two-hour
applications, a Web browser and an email
battery that comes with the machine).
package
without complaint and reacts in
In both cases, it is likely that you' ll find
every way like the Windows 95 machine you t hese. expansion options add a lot to t h e
choice of things you can do with the machine.
probably have on your desk.
The keyboard and the screen are the two It would appear, for example, that the optional "long-life" battery with a claimed "in-use"
main areas where Toshiba has obviously had
to make concessions to the small size of the
time of between three and four hours would
system. The keyboard is still one of the best be a good first choice. We found that the basic
you' ll find in a system that is significantly
battery in use with Windows 95 and Office
97,applications only gave between 45 minsmaller than a standard notebook (between
one-half and one-third the size of the average utes and one hour's life. One limitation of the
Libretto is that you cannot charge the battery
laptop computer). Meanwhile, a small pad
mounted to the right of the screen acts as your when you are using the computer.
mouse (with left and right mouse buttons
Extra RAM can be added to the 16 MB that
mounted on the flipside of the screen). The comes on-board the machine to a maximum
of 32.MB, using user-installable 8 or 16 MB
arrangement might not suit everyone, but it
seemed to work well enough for this reviewer. EDO memory via the dedicated Toshiba
As for the 15.25 cm (6 in.) display, the
memory slot. You can also add an optional
small size of the screen is made up for by
floppy disk drive via the PC Card connection,
Toshiba's choice of active matrix technology. add an external monitor using the clip-on

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expansion
port that comes with
the machine, as well as plug in anything that
needs a parallel or serial port. In fact, the-only
major omission from the expansion options
on the Libretto seems to be a keyboard port.
Overall, the Libretto was a wonderful
machine to use and it will be sad when our
test model has to return to dreary life in the
Toshiba product evaluation pool. It is one of
those gadgets that yields a strong "I want it
now and forever" kind of feeling. The question is, do you have the spare $2,700 or so
that you would need to act on that feeling? It
appears that lots of people do and I wish I
were one of them.
One final note: This review was written
entirely on th e Libretto using Word for
Windows 97 and was then. sent into the editor via electronic mail using the aforementioned US Robotics PC Card modem, It was
also successful at sending some stories via a
cellular phone, lending new potential meaning to the phrase "away from my desk." 0
Contact:
Toshiba ofCanada,Tel:905-470-3500.
Web site: http: //www.toshiba.ca/

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HARDV/ARE

l Move over floppy, here comes SuperDisk

I Irnation'5 LS-l20 drive fares well against Zip
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The LS-120 technology was developed by

Compaq Computer Corp., Imation (a 3M division), M atsushita K otobuki E l ectronics
Industries, and O.R. Technology. While it was
announced with great fanfare more than a year
ago, consumers have only had limited exposure
to it (Compaq, for example, has offered the LS120 drive on some of its PCs). Now, Imation is
hoping to change that, and in September,
began to sell an external parallel port LS-120
drive that it calls the SuperDisk Drive.

imation SuperDisk Drive

and LS-720 diskettes
From: Imation Canada Inc.
Estimated street price: $300-$375 (drive) $25-$30
(per diskette)

hile we' ve seen dramatic increases

in RAM and hard drive capadties
throughout this decade, the floppy
has been frozen in time until now, that is.
A relatively new technology called LS-120
allows 120 MB to be stored on a diskette that
has the same dimensions as the 1.44 MB floppy. The LS-120 drive will also read and write
to 1.44 MB and 720KB diskettes.

How the 1.$-120 works

The LS-120 diskettes have optical reference
tracks permanently (i.e., a user can't inadvertently erase them) laid down on the media at
the factory. A laser servo mechanism (that' s
what the LS stands for) in the drive uses the
- tracks as a guidance system to more precisely
position the drive heads, This allows data
tracks to be written more closely together.
Compared to 135 tracks per inch on a standard 1.44 MB floppy, the LS-I20 disk has
2,490 tracks per inch.
The LS-120 drive rotates slightly faster
than a standard floppy drive, and will transfer
data at
565 KB per second, compared toabout
60 KB per second for a standard floppy. The

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LS-120 disks also use a different medium and

magnetic pigment, and more precisely engineered parts. All of these contribute to its
higher capacity and faster performance.
The LS-120 can be a bootable drive, with
the latest generaflons of a(os supplied by
Phoenix, AMI and Award, operating systems
like Windows 9S and motherboards made by
most manufacturers, able to recognize it as
such. This means PC makers could start
replacing the venerable 1.44 MB floppy drive
if demand warrants the extra cost.
For example, Panasonic Canada has an
internal LS-120 drive available only to PC
manufacturers at this point. The company
has no immediate plans to make it available
as a consumer retail product.
When LS-120 drives become readily available as internal aftermarket products, users
will be able to simply add it as another
removable drive on m ost c urrent PCs,
However, if you want to use it as a bootable

floppy replacing your 1.44 MB floppy you

may have to upgrade your alos or your motherboard unless your PC is quite new.
Hands on
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compared to its most obvious competitor,
lomega's popular parallel port Zip drive.
Physically, the Imation unit is slightly larger
than the Zip. Both use a separate AC adapter,
neither has a power switch, and both have a
parallel port pass-through, which allows you
to use the printer without having to first disconnect the drive.
To get a rough idea of the performance,
we created a test directory containing two
subdirectories and 39 files, which occupied
slightly more than 90 MB. The files sizes
ranged from 60KB to 6,500KB. We first
dragged the directory from the Windows 95
desktop to the Zip drive icon. We then
removed the Zip drive, installed the LS-120,
and repeated the procedure. (Installation was
straightforward from the supplied 1.44 MB
diskette. A drive accelerator located on the
one included LS-120 drive is also provided
for Windows 95 users.)
The Zip drive completed the file copy in
just under 22 minutes, while the LS-120 unit
was more than twice as fast, finishing the
same copy procedure in 10 minutes and a few
seconds. For the SuperDisk drive, this works
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NEWS

ReBoot redux
The first compvter-animated TV series returns to the small screen
BY KEITH %CHEN( ILI- ROBERTS

vision series, has been increasing in viewership worldwide. Episodes of the first two seasons are now shown in more than 107 distinct television markets, in more than 60
countries. The show is broadcast on YIV in
Canada, which has been a huge supporter of
the series. Claster Television syndicates the
show in the U.S., and in a somewhat ironic
twistof fate, has sold broadcast rights to a few

icture life inside a computer Now picture a vibrant city Sled with characters,
both good and bad, living inside that
same computer. Got it?
Okay, now imagine a life and death struggle being fought inside that same computer. A
hero is lost, a new defender is created, and the
battle is being lost to a megalomaniac virus, ABC stations as well. The show has g
many awards, winning three consecutive
bent on dominating the computer. And that
was how the season two finale of ReBoot Genies for best animated program and a
fourth for technical achievement.
ended.
The wait is finally over for Iongdeprived
That was more than a year ago,
fans. As Dale Taylor, the director of programMany fans of the show both here and in
the United States had thought that the sec- ming at YTV says, "ReBoot fans have been
damoring for new episodes of the awesome
ond season finale may have been the final
episode of this series, forever leaving them computer-generated animation series, and
dangling. The American network, ABC,- here at last are 16 brand new episodes."
Viewers will note a number of changes in
dropped the show from its Saturday morning
the series. Many of the changes are subtle,
lineup, and Mainframe Productions decided
such as shading effects, and circular objects
to concentrate on a new computer graphic
image-based (CGI-based) shove devleoped on appearing less polygony, but the cumulative
the popular Hasbro Transformer characters effect is quite striking.
All of this is produced on over 200 Silicon
(called Beast Wars in the States, and Beosfies
Graphics workstations using a lot of proprihere in Canada)
Despite being dropped from by ABC, etary imaging software, which enables the
people at Mainframe to accomplish the huge
ReBoof, the first~ver fully CGI rendered tele-

arnered

amount of animation rendering necessary to

meet a weekly television production schedule. According to Mairi Welman, director of
communications at Mainfraine, this raw computing power now gives them "the most rendering power in Canada and probably the
largest i n
the i n d u stry w o r l dwide.
Mainframe has produced more minutes of
CGI than all the other companies in the
industry combined." Still, depending on
what is required, it still takes between
eight and 11 weeks to produce a single
episode.
The series itself has also grown darker and
more sophisticated, while still trying to keep its
core fans happy. According to Mairi Weldon,
"REBootseason three is actually what the show
was originally intended to be, an action adventure series aimed at teens to adults."
Each episode now forms pari of a fourstory cycle, with the promise of a doozy of a
season ending. The show has also become
well-known for its inside-jokes and homages
to well-known movies and TV shows, including Evil Dead, Star Trek and James Bondthis
season.
"ReBoothas grovm up since you last saw it,

Mainframe president and chief executive officer Chris Brough. "Mainkame is able to do
what no other company in the industry can
do and so we are continuing to push the
boundaries way beyond what. people are
familiar with."
Mainframe Productions' plans do not simply erid with ReBootand Beasties.It recently
signed a deal with PlaymatesInteractive and
Shiny Entertainment to produce a new television series based on the highly popular computer action game MDK, Mainframe has also
entered into joint venture with Storyopolis to
acquire the film and TV rights for The Sign of
the Seahorse, which is a popular chiMren's
book set in the world of a coral

in terms of style and storyline," says

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that will realign the online services industry,
and is fairly close to what Wall Street and
online insiders have been talking about for
months now. America Online is acquiring
Coinpuserve Corp.'s Compuserve Interactive
Services division from WorldCom, which is
buying HRR Block's 80 percent stake 'of

Compuserve Corp. for $1.2 billion.

In exchange for Compuserve Online
Services and its 2.6 million online subscribers,
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Communications networking arm for $175
million. WorldCorn's UUNet subsidiary will
then become AOL's largest network service
provider for the next flve years, as a part of
the deal. The companies also said that
Compuserve will be run as an individual
brand.

In addition, AOL's European partner

ing joint venture, and both companies will

pump an additional $25 miluion into the venture.
All told, AOL said the total of the transaction from its end is around $425 million.
WorldCom, which is the fourth largest
long distance company in the United States,
will retain Compuserve's Network Services
division, which includes about 100,000 ports
in more than 100 countries worldwide. The
telecom concern will also gain Coinpuserve
Network Service's 1,200 corporate customers.
In general, analysts said that essentially
everyone wins with this deal. AOL's dominance is assured in the consumer online mar-

ket, and it gains access to 100,000 modems

through ANS' UUNet. WorldCom gets added

status as a global telecom entity and Internet

provider. And HRR Block, which has been trying to sell Compuserve, gains cash.
The U.S. Department of Justice and

Compuserve shareholders need to okay the

Bertelsmann AG will pay AOL an additional

$75 million to remain a partner in their exist-

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ReBoot redux
Contmuedfrom page 88

Patient ReSootfans have had to wait for

over a year for new episodes, but the wait
seems to have been worthwhile. Still, there
are many questions that still have to be

reef written by Australian writer Graeme Base.

Fans of ReBoot may also be interested in

knowing about the upcoming computer garne answered: will Bob the Guardianreturn? Will
based on the series, called Countdown to
Enzo be able to fill Bob's role as guardian in
Chaos, which is due this fall, and an IMAX
ride/movie based on the series,
, ReBoot inay have been the first fully CGI
show on television, but it certainly won't be
the l ast. I n ad d i t io n t o Mai n f rame
Productions own Beastiesseries, there's also

the meantime. Can Megabyte the evil vims be

stopped. Stay tuned to your computer, er, TV
to find out.

ReBootairs Wednesdays and Sundays on

YTV acrossCanada. Check listings in your
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Fantune Animation'sfnsektors (also shown on

YTV) and DonkeyKong Country (due out soon).

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Continuedfrom page 87
out to about 9 MB per minute, a far cry from
the 17 MB per minute rating stated in the

spec sheet, but impressive nonetheless for a

floppy.
In informal side-by-side comparisons of
the SuperDisk and a Zip drive, which Imation
conducted at a trade show earlier this year,
the company showed results similar to our
own SuperDisk vs. Zip tests but only with

largefiles, When small flles were used, the

t iine differences between the Zi p a n d
Superdrive were not significant. Imation's
technical spokesman, Ron Rundle, told us the
company is still analyzing the results, but
notes that both flle size and file type af'feet
the speed of copying. In other words, results
wiII vary.
The SuperDisk unit comes with a performance accelerator utility that allows you to

copy in the background. Using the accelerator

more than doubled the copying time
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You don't own the vehicle.

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cle.
You are basically renting the vehicle for a
' certain time period.
There could be restrictions on your use of
the vehicle, eg. outside the province or
country.
Lease costs are slightly higher than purchase costs.
Leasing expenses can be subject to increases.
Costs could include financing, administration and other fees.
You are responsible for maintaining the
vehicle, according to the maintenance
schedule set out by the leasing company.
This could cost you more money than if
you had the freedom to do what you
wanted, where and when you wanted, as
Advantages of buyin'gl
in a buy situation.
You own the vehicle and therefore do not
Th ere are many restrictions and limitahave any restrictions on use.
tions set out in the lease, that affect your
You are building up potential equity in
use and enjoyment of the vehicle.
the vehicle, eg. the value of the vehicle
You could be paying more money for
less the debt you have paid off.
greater mileage use, wear and tear and
You can use the vehicle as security to borguarantee of residual value at the end of
row money.
the lease, or penalties if you want to ter You can sell the vehicle and you keep the
minate the lease early.
money, after any loans are paid off.

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If you are using the car as a business vehicle, there are additional benefits:
The depreciation is deductible. For cars, it
is 30 percent a year on the declining balance. However, only a m aximum of
$25,000 (plus taxes) is accepted as the
capital cost of the vehicle, no matter how
much more you pay.
Interest on money that you borrow for
the car purchase is deductible, however,
there is a maximum of $300 a month, no
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If you are using the car for business pur-

poses:

De preciation is not deductible on operat-

ing leases

For further information, you can pick up

a free consumer booklet on vehicle leasing
published by th e Canadian Automobile
Dealers Association and others. It is called,
Tiiming the Lights on l.easing.You can also purchase a Canadian buy versus lease software
program that customlzes the pros and cons in
specific situations. One such program is
pay
called The Car Calculator, published by
Orangesoft.
Disadvantages of buying
You can obtain further information by
If you are using the car as a business vehicle:
You cannot deduct the full cost immedi- calling 800-647-8693 or pointing your Web
browser to http: //www.carcalculator.corn,
ately.
Also check with your provincial consumer
On ly the first $25,000 plus taxes may be
services
department for brochures and any
capitalized and depreciated for tax purlegislative lease protections for consumers
poses. The car you want or need might
that might be available. 0
cost more than that.
On ly a maximum of $300 per month for
DouglasGray, LL.B., is a Vancouver-based speakinterest is accepted by Revenue Canada.
You pay your own repairs and mainte- er, lawyer,columnist and author of 15 business

nance expenses.

booksplus a real estate investment software pra-

lu n e and effort is required to sell the vehicle. gram. His books include Home Inc.: The
Canadian Home-Based Business Guide, The
Complete Canadian Small Business Guide
Advantages of leasing
You can change to a new vehicle relative- (both by McGraw-Hill Rycrson) and Start and
Run a Profitable Consulting Business and
ly easily.
Th ere are more consistent and predictable Marketing Your Product (both by Self-Counsel
Press).
cash flow requirements.

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For Netscape, which prided itself on having a browser that was able to run on a huge
e computer industry's "Java wars"
variety of computer systems, this was actually
escalated significantly this summer as an advantage.It increased users'dependence
two of the major combatants!aunched
on the browser to actually replicate many of
all-out assaults to take the technological high
these features (such as how animation, graphground. This is a battle for the hearts and
ics and sound are handled) within the browsminds of those who use the Internet's most
er so Java-based applications could call on
popular programming language and develop- them in a standard fashion.
ment environment. It is also a key issue for
For industry leader Microsoft, however, it
those designing corporate intranets (internal
was something of a problem particularly
company Internet-style networks), as Java is since it had spent lots of time and money
the technology at the heart of many corpobuilding features into its Windows 95 operatrate "applets" that will run over an intranet.
ing system that no one would be able to fully
Since its creation less than four years ago, exploit from a Java application. It suggested
Java has been many things to many people.
that replicating them in the browser was inefTo most, it has been a way of creating applificient and amounted to an unnecessary reincations software that would run on any "Java- venting of the wheel. So Microsoft licensed
enabled" World Wide Wide browser on a vari- Java from Sun Microsystems and went about
ety of computers (including Intel-based per- "building a better Java" that would make the
sonal c o m puters r u n n in g Mi c r osoft most of Windows.
Windows, Apple Macintosh systems, and
even expensive workstations using the Unix
Would you like yours with I/Direct?
operating system).
The latest result of this strategy was launched
The problem with this idea was that it inion june 18, when the companv announced
tially meant many applications written for
what it calls J/Direct. It's a new ieature of
Java-compatible browsers (such as Netscape Microsoft's "virtual machine" for Java to be
Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer)
used with both the Microsoft Windows 95
had to be of the "lowest common denomina- and Windows NT operating systems.
tor" variety. They would often not take full
Microsoft wants developers to use J/Direct
advantage of the capabilities of the computers to call on the capabilities of these two operatthey were running on.
ing systems directly, which it says will dra-

matically expand the breadth and convenience of access to Windows-based services

available to programmers using the Java programming language. J/Direct will ship as part
of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and future
versions of Windows 95, Windows NT and
Internet Information Server.
Microsoft says this means developers can
now use the Java programming language to
build applications that were not possible or
commercially practicable before, such as
those that are "tightly integrated" with existing applications and services; multimedia
applications; and what it calls "scalable,
industrial-strength" appiicatiorTs.
"J/Direct eliminates the barrier that has
kept developers from experiencing both the
productivity benefits of the Java programming language and the power of the world' s
most commercially successful platform," said
David Cole, vice-president of Microsoft's
Internet client and collaboration division.
Or with chips?
Meanwhile, rival Sun Microsystems is not
resting on its laurels. Its latest gambit is to
produce computers that use Sun's own computer processing chips that' are "specially
tuned" to run Java-based applications.
Two days before Microsoft's J/Direct
announcement, Sun took the stand at the
high-profile PC Expo trade show in New York

to showcase the work of 30 independent software developers who are shipping products
specifically designed to run on Sun's Javaenabled Network Computers (NCs).
Sun's big push here is to get across the
idea that these applications, all written using
what it calls "100%'Pure Java" technology, are
capable of a huge variety of tasks, from development and network management tools to
connectivity software and personal productivity solutions.
Make it 1004/o pure
Possibly more imoortantly, it is -hyping its
"100% Pure Java" certification program as
one that relies only on the "documented and
specified" Java platform, unlike Microsoft's
J/Direct, which allows for additions to Java to
make the most of Windows.
Sun has argued that such alterations to Java
will destroy the ability of it to run on any Javabased browser, and could curtail the ability of
some users to choose hardware and software
other than an Intel/Microsoft combination to
run their Internet and intranet applications.
"One of the big reasons there is so much
m omentum b e h i n d Java E n t erprise
Computing is that the independent software
vendors [ISVs] know the Java platform's 'write
once, run anywhere' benefit gives them the
ability to write programs for the widest possible market," suggests Steve Tirado,

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director of the Java Systems Group at Sun
Microsystems Computer Company. "If they
are writing in 100% Pure Java, they know
their applications will run on NCs, like the
JavaStation, as well as on mainframes and
Wintel [Microsoft Windows/Inte)] systems. It
allows ISVs to focus on innovation instead of
porting [translating software to enable it to be

middleware operating system that runs on

Windows and other platforms."
Ballmer indicated in no uncertain terms
that this represents a threat to Microsoftand suggested it is also unhelpful for users.
"Today this middleware operating system of
theirs is not very complete, and really very
buggy," he claimed. "And while we love Java
very much here at Microsoft, we don't love
that middleware operating system. We' re
helping people use Java to build applications
that really target the most popular platform,
which is Windows."

used on othe'r computers]."

So the 100% Pure Java initiative is aimed
at allowing Java applications to more directly
make calls to a lot of the high-performance
operating systems functions (such as specific
graphics routines) so that they do not have to
be emulated in Java. Sun has publicly indicated it isn't too happy about all this, and has
stressed that Java should not be tied to any

Add a hint ef Apple

All of which brings us neatly to that other big
news event of the summer: the $150-mi)lion
investment by Microsoft in Apple Computer,
and the elevation of Oracle Corporation's
Larry Ellison to the Apple board. Apple was
an original signatory t o t h e N e t work

hardware or operating system platform (even

though Sun has released its own systems that

are "optimized" for Java).

"It [a 100ak Pure Java approach] has no

native methods or external dependendes," Sun

Computer concept and was very much a

explained in a June statement on the issue.

''That means the application won't be tied to
any particular hardware. The Java platform
addresses many of the issues that corporate CIOs
and MIS directors have struggled with for years:
the application backlog, security and the rising
complexity and total cost of managing persona)
computers in heterogeneous environments."

backer of the idea at its launch, yet has failed

to launch an NC product of its own.
)VBcrosoft, meanwhile, made Apple's agree-

ment to use its Internet Explorer Webbrowser as

the dehult offering on new Apple Macintosh
products a part of its investment deal.
So now there will likely be two conflicting
pressures on Apple: one from Ellison at the
board level, likely pushing the company to
honor its original commitment to the whole
NC i d ea; and the second to make vigorous use
o f t h e l i cence it has from Microsoft for
Int e rnet Explorer technology.
In fac t , Apple will bundle the Microsoft
I n t ernet Explorer browser with the Mac opera t i ng system and is committed to making it
the default browser in future operating syst e r n software releases. In addition, Apple and
Mi c rosoft have announced plans to collaborate on technology to ensure compatibility
b e t ween their respective Virtual Machines for
Java and other programming languages.
Now, m uch as Microsoft and Apple would
li k e to portray the computer industry as an
o p en and co-operative sort of place, it looksa t least to this casual observer like Apple has
s w i tched sides on the NC battleground and
th a t Ellison may find himself a lone voice on
t h e board. Oh, to be a fly on the wall at his
fi r st Apple board meeting...! 0

Hold the middleware

Now contrast this approach with that o f
Microsoft executive vice-president Steve
Ballmer. Now these aren't remarks from a
mere high-level functionary. Ballmer is "hardwired" into the company and almost since its
inception has been the aggressive marketing
voice behind it.
And right now, he wants to drive a hole in
the idea that Sun should be deciding what
goes on in the "middle layer" of the NC and
the PC by controlling Java what Ballmer

calls "middleware."
"We have to defend against the Sun middleware operating system," he told an audience of financial analysts and senior financial
journalists in late July. "Sun says they' re not
in the desktop operating system really except
for their Unix workstation business. But
embedded deep there in the bowels of good
old Java, they' re basically building their own
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Thin clients ready

enough for business?
B Y jI M

O M URA

If you are an IT professional and have

been watchingthe development of
Ideas, IdetPCs and the other parts that
make up "thin client" technology, It
may be time totake a deep breath
and pick up some brochures again.
This area ls seeing Interesting and
often fast-movingdevelopments
Ilaw it ail began
The "thin client movement"' is the result of
evolutionary thinking t hat b egan w i t h
HTML-based Web browsers. CGI programming began to expand the power of this
client-server inodel and Netscape developed
the plug-in system that gave the browser an
infinitely expandable horizon,

Then Sun released Java as a system-independent language for small jobs. It was
Oracle's Larry 8lison who looked upon Java as
the last piece in the puzzle forming a solution
to the escalating costs of PC hardware and
software, and the overall cost of information
system maintenance in the corporate world.
The pure NC model is a client computer
receiving both applications and data from a
server. The hardware can be from mixed

sources and mixed technologies because the

programs that are run locally are written in
standardJava and executed in a standard Web
browser environment, The argument of sav-

ings was clearly compelling.

the "thin client" movement is usually justified in those terms. Other than improved service from the MIS {management of informa-

tion systems) department, the biggest change

the workforce may notice is some increase in
productivity due to the reduction of extraneous noise from hard drives and fans.

Cost of ownership:real savings?

In June, the Gartner Group estimated maintenance costs for NetPCs to be US$5,197 compared to US$7,325 for PCs using Windows 95.
In unrelated talks, Bob Dies, the general manager of IBM Corp.'s NC division, relied on an
estimated US$3,900-per desktop per year saving for users of NCs ovhr PCs.
By late July, Microsoft claimed that thanks
to its "Zero Administration" initiative, the
"total cost of ownership" in pure Windows
NT 5.0 environments (NT Server 5.0 and NT
Workstation 5.0) would be reducible for PCs
by 50 percent over 1997 levels. Technologies
cited by Microsoft were network-based automatic system updates, intelligent file mirror-

ing technology, common management console and the ability for a user to roam from
machine to machine. All these technologies
are NetPC fundamentals, and some are super-

seded by NC topology,
IBM demonstrated key fundamentals of
remote administration using its LAN Client
Control Manager with a p r eproduction

NetPC in July.

From the perspective of the "PC establishment"' the reason to develop NetPCs can be
seen as simple protection of turf from the
incursion of NCs, but froin the end users' perspective, the NetPC has real justification. The
conversion to Java an NC requirementmay not be workable because of the reliance

Security costs

on, or preference for, currently popular PC

als across Canada and the United States, covering security-reiated financial losses in the
last two years, foundamong o
ther things:

applications, Conversion to pure NC might

also result in much higher network traffic and

thus, system latency would be too high to

achieve acceptable performance.

Igo war between ISCs and NetPCs

Contrary to the more grandiose pronouncements, it' s. clear that NCs and NetPCs will not
replace PCs, nor are they mutually incompatible. You can have combinations within your
organization. In larger companies, you will
probably always have a bit of everything, For
now, the arguments may have hidden the
trees in the forests,
While there are still areas of contention

and ongoing big developments, over the

summer months key standards were established and there are already some perfectly
usable pieces that can be effectively deployed.
There is no reason not to begin adding NCs

hand NetPCs to your system right now

y7
he two big driving forces for any change in
commercial activity are 'earnings and
xpenses. For most businesses, computers are
een as almost solely matters of expense and

An area of cost saving that is probably underestimated is the security advantages of thin
dients. According to a study ~eported by
Ernst Er Young in December 1996, substantial
cost is beirig incurred due to network security

problems. Its survey of senior MIS profession-

63 percent of the companies reported

losses due to viruses;
32 percent reported losses due to malidous acts by inSider;
IS percent reported losses due to malicious attacks by outsiders;
and nine percent reported losses due to

industrial espionage.
The report also notes: "Nearly 70 percent
of respondents could (or would) not estimate
the amount of their financial loss. Of those
reporting losses, 14 percent lost between

$250,000 and $1 miIBon and two percent lost

$1 million or more.... Two-thirds felt their

systems were not adequately protected from

internal and external attack." Ernst 8 Young
should have results of a similar survey look-

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of September.
The mere removal of floppy disk drives
alone can prevent inadvertent introduction
of viruses. Security enhancements, like the
use of "SruartCard" access on NCs, should
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against unauthorized intrusions. As for deliberate employee acts, the situation is more
dependent on the internal controls and the
nature of the position.

An employee who has remote access and

who is allowed to receive sensitive information can always make copies of such material
off-site. But if there is no access to programs,
then sabotage of the system by tampering
with programs should be difficult.
Another area of security concern is the
theft of hardware. Thin clients will, hopefully, be less attractive to thieves who will find
them more difficult to resell. On the other

hand, being smaller and lighter, they will be

easier to carry out the door.

NC becoming more practical
While it may already seem like its been here
forever, the "Network Computer Profile" was
announced inMay, 1996 and only became an
independent standard on Aug. S. The new
standard, called the "Network Computer
Reference Profile," will be administered under
the Open G r oup's Network Computer
Program,
When looking at current specifications,
it's interesting to see that most current NCS

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caching." But with dropping RAM costs, the
trend in desktop PCs will see standard RAM
sizes
of 32 MB and 64 MB becoming common
within the next year. In fact, without the hard
drive cost, falling RAM costs have already
made as much as 128 MB or more affordable.
S ince functionality o f N C s s h ould b e
enhanced by extra RAM even more than PCs
or NetPCs, the corning year should see strong
sales in those sizes,
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The pure NC model, promoted mainly by

Oracle and Sun, freesa company from being

locked into any specific system or hardware by

using application programs written only in the
Java latlguage. The degree to which this can be
accomplished is limited by the current state of
Java. But in fact, Java has come a long way.
Leaving aside JavaScript, there are big
efforts driving the development of Java. On
July 23, IBM delivered the San Francisco Base
software (San Francisco Foundation and
Utilities) and the San Francisco General
Ledger (San Francisco Common Business
Objects), These are pre-written, pre-tested
modules of Java-based server code upon
which they can build applications.
The San Francisco Developer's Kit 1.1.0 is
available free, either on CD-ROM or via
downloading. IBM will charge (SV'5 a percentage of r e venue generated by S an
Francisco-based applications. This is a vague
pricing policy, so it will be interesting to see
how it works in practice. (For more information see http: //www.ibm.corn/java/sanirancisco/.)
Also in August, Sybase announced plans
to ship its Java development tool by October,
and it is also working on a new version of its
PowerSite Web development tool. Likewise,
S un Microsystems and J e tForm h a ve
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Raising the morale of the virtual corporation...

B Y GEO F W H E E L W R I G H T

A number of measures appear to be part of

ow do you maintain the morale of the

virtual corporation? That's the challenge facing a growing number of
organizations that are partially staffed by people who work either from home or from
small, satellite offices that rarely see the
inside of a corporate headquarters building.
Telephones, computers, fax machines,
electronic mail, Internet access and even
internal corporate intranets can go a long
way toward replacing the traditional day-today contact that office employees enjoy with
one another. They can also make sure all
employees can, at least, have access to the
raw information that will help them do their
jobs more effectively.
But there is an intangible element, a
human factor, missing in all of this. Even if
you add other high-tech gadgets such as
videoconferencing into the mix, the nature
and level of contact between employees and
between employee and employer is not the
same.
To counteract this, employers are increasingly looking at other ways to try and build
the "team spirit" that ensures lower employee turnover, greater employee satisfaction
and a more consistent level of service to customers.

this. They include team-building social

events (where this is geographically possible),
company rallies and other strategies to make
sure the remote employee feels part of the
company as a whole and is not feeling so "out
of the loop" that they waste a lot of time
wondering what is really going on inside
their organization.
One large corporation that has spent considerable time and energy on this issue is
Xerox Corporation, and particularly its operations in Canada, where an effort known as
"fleX-place" has been under way for the past
two years.
"The workplace of tomorrow will be profoundly different than the one we work in
today with greater numbers of employees
working outside the traditional office framework from their customer location or a
number of other alternatives," says the company in a published statement explaining the
strategy. "This initiative...supports the company's stated desires to increase employee satisfaction, improve productivity and reduce
operating costs."
As part of the fleX-place plan, all sales and
service representatives and managers can use
laptop computer technology to enable them
to manage their business from their homes,
and only use the office as required. The com-

pany says that this creates an environment

where the nature of a given job is much more
individual, as each person working from
home will handle it differently.
It can also create a much more interesting
dynamic for the kinds of relationships that
sales and services employees have in their
daily life. If they are spending most of their
time either working from home or visiting
customers, the hope is that they will have a
much more "customer-centric" view of the
world and thus will be able to much more
effectively communicate the needs of the customer to their employer.
Last year, Xerox also participated with the
Ford Foundation in a U.S. study designed to
test the idea that."family friendly" practices
can also help improve business results.
According to Patricia M. Nazemetz, Xerox

says sales revenues exceeded plans and cus-

director of human resources policy and prac-

financial assistance in areas not covered by

the company's traditional benefits plan.

tice, the results were encouraging.

To see what would happen when employees had the flexibility to meet their obligations
on the job and at home, researchers worked
with three Xerox business units, experimenting with tools like flexible work schedules and
mutually agreed upon "quiet times" when all
interruptions were banned, to give workers
greater say in how work gets done.
The company says results were striking. In
the Dallas sales/service office, the company

tomer satisfaction improved as sales, service

and support people formed what they called
" cross-functional" te a m s to a d d ress
work/family conflicts and improve customer
service.
"Workers with a sense of control over
their own lives, who feel empowered, are
more efficient, productive and satisfied on
the job," Nazemetz said. "Companies that
treat employees with respect, as key members
of the team, are repaid in the dividends'of
employee motivation; productivity and commitment to quality."
In addition, the company has tried to create some new employee benefits. that meet
this goal. One of these, known as LifeCyde
Assistance, was introduced in 1993. The com-

pany says LifeCycle Assistance provides

Xerox employees who meet eligibility
requirements can receive up to $2,000 a year,
to a lifetime maximum of $10,000. This is to
be used in some combination of child care,
mortgage assistance and money toward the
purchase of health insurance for household
members not generally covered by the Xerox
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Steve Dotto is a 38-year-old father of two
who was born in British Columbia. After a
stint as an aspiring actor with the Canadian

comedy house,Second City,he returned to

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Vancouver and began work in the computer

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His light-hearted approach to demos and
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Dotto's natural television style got him a
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parlayed into the still-running, but stale,

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rounded up advertisers, such as Apple, Epson,

iStar and others, and managed to get Dotto's
Data Cafeon the air.

The show has taken off and is now filming

its fourth season. Viewers across Canada, and

in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and
other countries write, email and visit the
show's Web page (hitp:// njjjjjjj.dotto.istar.ca). The
show's success has brought more advertisers
on board and spun off a series of Dotto videos
that Canadians can purchase at major retailers.
Aside from speaking engagements and
working in television, Dotto is also the host
of a syndicated radio show that can be heard
in v arious l ocations o n t h e W e stern
Information Network. Dotto on Data is a twohour show that airs on Sunday
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Regarding the success of the television and video to create a fairly successM interactive
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New VR station will bring the show to over 2Q

cities in the U.S. as well as Toronto, Barrie,
Kitchener, Ottawa and Windsor, among others.
According to the show"s publicists, it now
has, like the Dotto series, an audience of
three million.
The variety-style show seeks to offer a seg-

lots of good how-to shows. But in computers,

mented, hour-lang program that is as much

where we need more how-to support than any-

entertainment as education. The episodes

have a quick-paced, casual style and do not
get bogged down in d etails clearly the
intended audience is the person who has had

nobody else has followed the path and put

thing, there are no other shows on the air.

That's one of the reasons we differentiated ourselves right from the beginning. We added a little schlocky humor that we used to create a

look and feel to the show in preparation for

when that competition manifests itself."
It's a good thing Dotto has a plan for the
day when competition comes along because
that competition is here now.

Enter Chalk Talk

Chalk says the biggest frustration for new

computer users is "they don't know what
they need to know." Mustering his years of
working with computers, his goal is to "fill
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high. Employee trainlpg facilities or reception
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NCs can be added as "Windows terminals" on Intel-basedWindows systems, but
the degreeof success is variable and care
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model perhaps within the next year.

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In the NC camp the latest announcements for business desktop boxes have come
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served by terminals bought in the 'Sos for this
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The law of cybsrspace

The Court's decision invalidating the

Continuedfrom page gp
the minority held that certain provisions

CDA provisions was based in part upon limi-

~ould be constitutional if applied only in

Internet technology and the anonymity of

very limited circumstances.

The majofity rejected, asMsingularly unpersuasive,u the g
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Internet conduct. Technological advances

and improved identification methods might
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speech to withstand constitutional challenge.

tations inherent in th e present state of

ornogra
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growth of the Internet. The majority held that

overnm
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sume that g

ideas than to encourage it." The majority also

noted that there were other means to protect

speech is not protected by the American First

Amendment or the Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms. Canadian iaw

Canadian free-speech rights are enshrined

in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

or that Internet conduct is immune from gov-

Canadian courts have developed their own

ernment regulation. Conduct in cyberspace is

free-speech jurisprudence,, which in some

generally subject to the same criminal and dvil

respects is more restrictive than American law.

Nevertheless, the CDA dedsion will be a useful

laws that govern conduct in the physical world.

guide and reference for Canadian courts.

Broader implications

erty law, and defamation law have been invoked

The CDA dedsion is a landmark in the develop-

by governments and individuals to regulate d evelopments i n v olving

children from harmful Internet matenals, includ-

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Adding graphics to a Web page is the easy
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graphical browsers are equipped to handle

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three formats have emerged from the score

of graphical formats around. All three arq

really handy at squishing files down to the
teeny sizes demanded by analog modems.
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an llKB PNG. That means that instead of

taking a couple of minutes for someone to

dead graphics you'd like to make.

You need a good conversion program-and
probably more than one to get the most
out of the graphics you' ve created. Some
image editors will allow you to convert
your creations to Web formats and some
won' t. But even some of the ones that can
do conversions do so half-heartedly and
won't go in for the final squish that's necessary to make really good and teeny Web
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graphics.
Because the Web is where a lot of the
action in the software industry has been in
the last few years, there is a plethora of tools
available to the would-be Web graphics creator. These range widely in price and capability. For instance, a full-featured graphics editor can set you back several hundred dollars.
On the other hand, there are many tools
available on the Net that are shareware. Some
are even free. Don't be afraid to use the new
ones as they come up or come to your attention. It's a good idea to remember that any
Web graphic you create in an appropriate format will be usable: as you get better with your
tools and learn how to get the most out of
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Assemble your tools carefully and then jump
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different or try another way. The thing to
remember about Web graphics is that there
can't really be too many set formulas. Each
image is unique and w il l p u t d i f ferent
demands on you and your tools.
Let's look at some of the tools that are

available now
Adobe Photoshop 4.0
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 95 8 NT
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Photoshop is alone in its dass of design tools:
it is most often listed by designers in the "if I
could only have one tool..." category. If you' ve
been surfing and have seen a graphic that you
admired, chances are good that at least a part
of that image was created in Photoshop.
Photoshop 4.0 is better than its predecessors
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designers who display their work on the Web,
With the new Actions palette, it's also possible to
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Aside from the new Web-specific stuff,

Photoshop remains an incredibly effective
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The other disappointing feature shouldn' t
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Adobe Illustrator has been enjoying a place in
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Draw7 is a gorgeous package: it indudes not
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Wel graphics stuff, Photo-Paint 7 is arguably better than Photoshop 4.0. In terms of Web graphics support, PhotoPaint 7 supports digital watermarking as well as Web browser color palettes
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included in the CorelDraw 7 package is

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Equilibrium, which makes the software, have would engender.
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HTML Elsewhere Pt. III: CDF
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he last time we looked at Extensible
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The <cHA5rNEL> tag defines the channel, and works much hke a <Mrlnr> tag

does in a regular HTMI. document. It has

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This particular CDF Se, for a fictitious

software company called "Funky Funky
Inc., is designed to let people subscribe to
any of three differern parts of the Web site
that notify the subscriber whenever there' s
fresh news about the company, when there is
a new version of the product to download or
to find out what the current stock price is. As
you can see, the basic structure of this CDF
file looks very much like HTML-but there
are a number of tags that don't appear in
ordinmy HTMI l ike <cHANNEL>, <ITEM> or

several attributes, hut in this case two

URLs are specifierL the main URL of
Funky
Fu n k y
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of the CD F f il e i t self { lrtrpltwwwfrrnky-

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Next comes the <TITLE> tag, which works

in much the same way as does its HTML
equivalent, though in this case it displays the
text it contains to the right of the icon in the
browser channel pane.
The <ABBTRAcT> tag provides a more full
description of what can be found at that particular place on the Web site, and Internet
Explorer displays it as a ToolTip to the right of
the icon in the browser channel pane when
the cursor is placed over the channel title.
The <LQGQ> tag works much like the
<IMG> tag, and is used to set the image to be
used to represent a channel or channel item.
'

Two images are specified: a logo (whose

That's about all there is to it as you can

see, it is very easy to turn a Web site into a
channel. It is an open format, and many
third-party software companies other than
Microsoft are buying into the scheme, and

there are already a number of popular Web

sites that have been converted over to the
channel format. If you are looking for more
information on CDF, the prime source on
the
top i c can
be
foun d
at:
http: //www.microsoft.corn/ie/ie40/. When there,
l ook fo r l i n k s t o t he "Web casting
Whitepaper" (which explains the process of
channels and webcasting in detail) and the
"CDF Specification" (which includes descriptions for all CDF tags). 0

dimensions must be 32 pixels high by 80 pixels in width), and an icon version of the logo
Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes any comments,
(which must be a 16x16 pixel image).
Finally, the <ITEM> tag is used to define
suggestions or HTML tips and tricks you mayhave.
the URL of a particular item (i.e. a Web page) . You can email Keith at: kschengi@interlog.corn. His
in the channel, which itself uses combina- bookon HTML, TheAdvancedHTML Companion
tions of other <TITLE> and <ABBTRACT> (ISBN: 0-12-623540-6), is available in bookstores.
information to provide information on that
Previous articles in the series can be found at The
item to the subscriber.
Computer Paper Website at: http: //tcp.ca/.

The law of cyberspace

Continued from page T01
ered a proposed act to restrict the use of the
Internet to distribute pornographic material
involving children. The proposed legislation
would require that al l I n t ernet service

Quebec businesses and directed in part to

Quebec consumers must comply with the
French language-use requirements of Quebec's
Charter of the French language. At least one

Web site, known as htlpy/www.microbytes.corn,has

stated its intention to challenge this policy. 0

providers be licensed, and that they check the

criminal records of their subscribers. The act
did not proceed past first reading.
Also, Quebec's Office of t he, French
Language has taken the position that all commercial advertising Web sites originating from

Bradley J. Freedman is a trial lawyer with the

Vancouver law firm Ladner Downs. His preferred
areas of practice include intellectual property law and
commercial litigation. He can bereached by email at
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comes the latest in the Bomberman series, the
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amazing time-waster of

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thing with a fuse sticking out of it. Such is the
choice of weapon for Atomic Bomberman,
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his
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Essentially, the game

to carve one through to you'. Just watching

the combatants running about hither and
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places you in control of bound to make even the most jaded gamer
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Bomberman a rounded
The kicker is that an exploding bomb
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do the same unto him.
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In case you' re getting the impression that
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too hard, but bounce off each other like gigantic pinballs and never suffer damage.
The formula cars behave like nimble little
buzzsaws, the stockers like roaring Goliaths,
and several multi-player options only add to
the appeal. Unfortunately, it's just too danged
easy to prevail against computer competition
in the formula series (I did it... easily winning
at all eight tracks in less than an hour!), and far
too difficult when running stock machines,
where the other drivers are impossibly fast.
Though Circuit Racer offers a choice of three
driver perspectives (in-car, chase, and elevated
drive-by) and a surplus of on-screen information, replays, victory celebrations and thorough
post-race statistics are not part of the deal, in

keeping with the game's no-frills approach.

Remember, Grcuit Racer was developed many
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Less realistic "arcade" titles that hit the mark
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What if you don't know a simulation from an
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Publisher: WROXPress
ISBN: 1-86100-027-8
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well-written and it clearly describes concepts and terms, there are times where
Horton goes overboard in his coverage of
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Beginning Java

E VER Y D A Y !

BY KEITH SCHENGILI-ROBERTS

someone who has already had some expo-

n the past year we have seen a plethora of

t books on the Java programming language.

This book is one of the first out of the gate

to cover the new Java Development Kit ver

Books good, bad and indifferent have

flooded the market as people interested in the
Web and professional programmers seek good
learning material that wN instruct them on
the fundamentals of the language. Beginning
Java from WROX Press is another big book (at
just over 1,000 pages) on a subject that has
been covered by innumerable other books on

the same topic.

sion 1.1, and manages to do a good job.

There's plenty of information here
perhaps
more than is absolutely necessary but it

makes a good reference for the beginning Java

programmer.
WROX Press specializes in books on programming, both for the beginning and for
more advanced programmers. Author Ivor
Horton seems to specialize in writing programming books for beginners. He has written several other books on such topics as

Windows programming using Turbo C++,

goes the other way if you' re a non-pro-

Visual C++ 4 and 5, and just plain ol' basic

C++.
Though C++ seems to be his forte, he does
well with this book on Java, beginning with

the very basics of Java programming, such as

using anays and strings, and slowly working
his way up to more complicated topics, such
as threads, networking and JDBC.
Bigger does not always mean better, in
fact, the reason for the bulk of many computer books is to increase the size of the
spine, to present a larger title to the wouldbe buyer on the bookshelf. So you can
expect a certain amount of fat to creep into
many of the larger books you see on the
computer bookshelf at your local bookstore.
This book has a little bit of that. While it' s

BY KEITH SCHENGILI-ROBERTS

Cascading Style Sheets:

Designing for the Web
Author: Hlkon Lie and Bert Boe
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-41998-X
Softcover 279 pages 1997
Price: $41

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f you are designing pages for the Web,

you' ve probably heard about Cascading

Style Sheets (CSS), and have thought about

implementing them on your site. Or maybe

Boo

you are a more advanced Webmaster who has

already hnplemented some CSS elements on
your site, but don't feel you' re getting the
most out of them, If you want to leam more
about CSS, then it's hard to go wrong with
Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web,
written by the creators of the standard.
Authors iko n Lie and Bert Bos are co-

creators of the original CSS specification and

somewhat paradoxically, the creators of the
relatively opaque documents at the World
Wide Web Consortium's Web site dealing
with CSS. But much of the documentation at

the Consortium's Web site is designed pri

marily for the benefit of the people who build

Web browsers, not Web sites. This book is tar-

earning
J

book is not really aimed at the "casual Java

programmer" who simply wants to add funky

Java programs to their Web pages

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case. Internet Explorer and Navigator at pre-

grammer, you really have to be fearless to

get past the second chapter, which deals
with floating point numbers, arithmetic calculation and operators.
This book is certainly more complete than
many others that deal with Java, and if you
are seriously interested in l
ava, and
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then this is a good book to consider. This

A11 you wanted to know about CSS

sure to Java. At other times the book also

geted at Web authors who want to better

understand and incorporate CSS elements in
their Web site.

CSS lets you do a number of things you

cannot accomplish with regular HTML,

including the ability to specify the point size

of text, add indentations to text, set margins
within a Web page, even fundamentally

sent only support certain sub-sets of the CSS

specification. As a result, you can't expect all
of their code examples to work in either (or
both) browsers. However, both Microsoft and
Netscape are members of the World Wide
Web Consortium, and will likely adopt the

full specification over time.

Another drawback is the fact that the
book does not deal with Dynamic HTML,
which relies heavily on CSS. There is an easy
explanation for this: Microsoft only developed its own specification for Dynamic
HTML after the release of this book so it is
h azily the fault of the authors, but it i s
knowledge that many Web designers are currently looking for .
Still, Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for
the Web is well written and well presented,

change the characteristics of an HTML tag. In

though it is plagued~s are many books

dealing with such a fast-moving target as

short, a Web page that uses CSS effectively

will stand out from the pack.
The book takes an exhaustive look at CSS,

HTML and Web design by forces beyond its

control. However, it is a great foundation for
CSS, and unlike many other books

providing an extensive background on its

workings and structure, and how common

on the subject, it is bound to stay on my

Webmaster's bookshelf as a handy reference

typographical and layout elements can be

expressed in CSS. The book is exceptionally

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of genuinely useful examples and code samples.

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