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Gord Goble reviews best of '98 software,hardware
The 1998 holiday buyer's guide

Computer-aided fitness: a testimonial
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The gift that keeps surfing: online services
108
Techno toys
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Girl-friendly software ideas
110
Barbie camera, Lego robot are toys with a difference
Gifts for the notebooker

Software gifts for growing minds
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I'm dreaming of a silicon Christmas
60
Full-featured multimedia systems-for the whole family
A little something for your mouse
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Family systems survey
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NEWS R REVIEWS
The search for bigger PCsound
AltaVista naturally upgraded
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Sony embracesconvergence
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What's New
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Microsoft revamps creativity line
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Miniaturization big at Tokyo expo
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1 GB PCCard storage in production
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CBT addressesprofessional needs
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Learning tailored to user preferences
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Gemini CBT developers share love of l
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LAN Line: Heterogeneity a fact of network life
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Needed: single view for e-messages
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Are businessemail apps coping with digital deluge?
Letters ,
ISPCon 98 report
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Tone of conference reflects vitality of ISP industry
MP3: The next audio frontier?
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Top 10 Beatles' Web sites
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A nearly complete guide to dHTML
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On the Go: Overseasphone adventures
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Lawyer outlines digital property rights
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Canadian payroll software
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TCP looks at drive copying utilities
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SOHO: Prosand cons of extending credit
Canadian payroll software survey
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Sonlab PC audio kits offer range of price, performance
The last best computer Christmas?
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cation that the drive can'tfind tire disk's zero track.

In Canada, an lomega spokesperson says
lauded by practically every technology writer around.
ceased operations.Even though some

stores still have some stock, good luck getting disks and current drivers, let alone
support, as time goes on.
2. I was surprised that there was no reference
to the Zip drive "click of death" controversy. Regardless of what you believe the
scope of the problem to be, I believe it at
least deserves a mention. The jury is still
out on the reliability of this drive.
3. As for the SparQ, I have personal experience with just how unreliable this drive
is I am on my fourth unit, as the first
t hree failed. I f y o u c h eck ou t t h e
alt.syquest newsgroup, you will see that
my experience is far from unique. Also, it
appears that there is a good chance that
Syquest will be in the same boat as Avatar
in the very near future, I wish the author
that, "If a customer hears anabnormal, repetitive
And speaking of the SparQ
had done a bit more digging before calling

the SparQ a "better choice."
John Meadows
clicking noise, Iomega technical service can walk

the customer through a diagnostic process to
dete
rmineifthe clicking noiseis associated with a
fimctioning problem." As well, Iomega has a service depot in Canada (Adtech)that honors the Zip
wananty and has, "when necessary and appropriate, replaced out-of-warranty drives.
The best place to read more about the COD
and even download a free utility that will test
your Zip or Jazdrive is the Unofficial Click of
I was disappointed in the way Rod Lamirand

so easily glossed over the virtues of Syquest's
SparQ drive in the October 1998 "Taking your
data offline" piece.
His comment suggesting that it be included in "high side of the price scale" category is
a disservice to your readers. The figure used in
the article for the cost of the drive was $300.
One ad in the same issue offers it for $255. I
bought my internal EIDE version at the April
Death Homepage(blip://wwwthirdeyesp.corn).
Computer Fest for even less than that. The 1
Regarding your comments about SyQuest, yes, it GB cartridges can be had for as low as $42.
has had a serious nai on its stock and could ulti- The cost per MB here is an incredible $0.04.
niately fail although the company is doing well with
I think these numbers compare quite
its i Mac SparQ USBand other products. This doesn' t favorably to the $450-$800 quoted for CD
alter the fact that tire perip/reral is excellent and recorders or the drive and media costs for
becoming widely supported. I visited the newsgroirp Sharks, Zips, SuperDisks, HiFDs, Syjets,
you ment
ioned and othersand fi
nd no more com- DynaMOs, Jaz, Orbs, tapes or whatever else is
plaints than with any other removable storage out there now. As for performance, wow.
device.The SparQ has been and continues to be Average seek time is 12 ms, and the maximum
Rod Lamirand replies: It is true Avatar has unfortmiately gone out of business even tlrough they
liad an excellent product that received good press.
It is still (are(ear at this time if anyone will try to
carry the product forward.
And yes, the "click of death" (COD) issue is
important to consimiers. Iomega has recently
aimounced it is willi>ig to consider replacing or
repairing Zip drives, even those no longer under
warranty, on an individual basis in response to
what has been called the click of death.
lt is my understanding that COD is a tenn
beingused to describe a nuinberof differentscenarios tliat result in the read heads seeking the cartridge's initial track. The noiseitselfis only an indi-
data transfer rate is 6.9 MBps. Aside from the

limitless storage, applications run as fast off
the SparQ drive as the computer's hard drive.
It might sound like I'm very pleased with
my SparQ drive. Well, Rod was right about
one thing, big, fast and removable, it is where
all the excitement is.
Matthew Rapus
Creat advice
I just caught the CBC show with Graeme
Bennett and wanted to give him a congratulations on his demeanor and advice.(Editor's note:
Graeme is a regidar giiest on tlie CBC AM noon to
2 p.m. prograni in the Vancouver listening area.)I
have been working in computers since 1968
and have been in the technical end for the past
12 years and I think this man is great for the
industry as a whole. I don't sell systems but do
advise some folks as to what might suit their
needs and I would and will recommendTCPas
a great place to get advice. Thanks again.

Shayne Smith
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with the phone, for example, is "delete mes-
By Ceof Wheelwright
Microsoft product will suffer any such probet's see now: Microsoft has so far made a lems, but it is an issue that will undoubtedly
bid to include software in your comput- come to light quickly if they exist.
A feature that seems to be immediately
e r, your c h ildren's toys ( with i t s
Actimates range), your car (with the AutoPC quite useful is the Call Manager's voice mail
developed in conjunction with Clarion), your system, which allows you to create individual
watch (the product it developed in conjunc- voice mailboxes for family members, business
tion with Timex) and on your television (with calls and any other group of individuals you
specify, as well as store thousands of messages

on your hard disk. Messagescan be retrieved
RNlcrosoft CordlessPhone System

From: Microsoft Canada
http: //www.microsoft.corn
Suggested retail price: $289
WebTV). What's next?

Turns out it's the humble telephone. At
the beginning of October, Microsoft Canada

announced the introduction of the company's
first telephone: the $289 Microsoft Cordless
Phone System. It's a 900 MHz phone that
hooks up to your PC and uses Caller ID technology to your handle calls and phone messages.
And, not surprisingly, PC-based software is
what Microsoft uses to do this. The software
creates what Microsoft calls an Enhanced
Caller ID system that lets you create "personalized greetings for different callers and block
unwanted callers, while letting high-priority
callers ring through." In addition, it includes
a Caller ID Announce feature that lets you
via the Microsoft handset or from any outside

phone. The software also automatically logs
all incoming and outgoing calls on the PC.
To use the Microsoft

Cordless Phone System
software, you' ll need a
PC with at least a 90
MHz Pentium CPU
running Windows 95
or 98
The Microsoft Cordless Phone System

includes a 40-channel, 900 MHz cordless
handset, a charging cradle that can be placed
anywhere in the home and a base station that
connects to the phone line and the PC serial
hear who's calling through the handset speak- port. The unit also features a hold button, a
er before you pick up the phone.
redial button, volume control, an out-ofWell, you may already have all that just by range alert and a low-battery warning.
virtue of having a Caller ID box on your teleTo use the Microsoft Cordless Phone
phone line, a good memory for numbers and System software, you' ll need a PC with at least
a basic answering machine. So Microsoft has a 90 MHz Pentium CPU running Windows 95
strengthened its proposition with something or 98. The PC must have an available serial
it calls Call Manager Voice Command. No port, 16 MB of available RAM (32 MB recomprizes for guessing what this does it lets you mended), 30 MB to 100 MB of hard disk space,
placecalls and check messages by speaking a CD-ROM drive, a 256-color monitor and
simple commands into the cordless handset.
adapter, and a 16-bit Windows-compatible
Merely saying, "call Hughie," will immedi- sound card with a microphone and speakers
or headphones.
have previously stored as Hughie's number.
To use Voice Command, Caller ID or voice
One thing to note here is Microsoft's claim messaging, the PC must be tumed on and be
that the voice-recognition technology used in running the Call Manager software. To use
its Cordless Phone System can correctly recog- Caller ID features, the user must subscribe to
nize voices from different users without Caller ID service from their local telephone
"training" the system's voice-command func- company. 0
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millions of Canadians' to-do lists. No matter
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elsewhere, and look for the biggest bang for what got into our guide this year was overall
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t could be argued that the sheer amount of

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After stepping on the bathroom scales one
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computer industry I had consistently gained
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these activities, with an included feature for
printing out monthly and weekly schedules.
I don't have any exercise equipment nor do
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Over the next four months, I lost 47
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I intend to move on to a second title in
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encouragement and positive reinforcement
throughout the process.
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my endlessly available walking companion.
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and evening walks, even when I'm feeling
lazy and the weather is lousy.
So there you have it: fitness synergy, consisting of the Active Trainer software program, a Pentium 200 MHz PC, a laser printer
for printing my schedules, love and encouragement from my family, and a tireless pooch
for a companion, equals a fitter lifestyle.
I still have a fairly serious substance abuse
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By Jean Allen-Ilteson
arbie Photo Designer with D i gital
Cainera and the Lego Technics robotics
system with external sensors and a RCX
programmable controller are of superior quality and their technology is beyond even the
high end of kids' toys, While they are to be
played with, calling them "toys" is an understaternent.
You need deep pockets I' or both of these
items, yet they are bargains considering their
sophistication. I put my 12-year-old to bed at
11 p.m. still trembling with excitement after
three hours of studying, building and testing
his first "robot." The I I-year~id girl and her
mother who tested the Barbie Digital Camera
were equafly pleased with its technical quali-
1.5 million pixels lactuaf size}.
ty and fun value.

Barbie Photo Designer:
Dlllltal Camera 8r CD-ROM
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For. Windows 95
System requirements: PCwith 90 MHzPentium CPU,
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may be taken indoors or out and no flash is
necessary. In this respect, it performs exactly as
advertised. To view the photos, simply connect the camera to your computer via the supplied serial cable and download pictures.
Children are drawn to cameras but par-
Now put your eyeballs back in.
ents often avoid giving them to children

because of the cost of film and developing.
With a digital camera, both parents and children are satisfied there are no film and
developing costs, and the pics are viewable
immed
iately,which really appeals to kids.
Younger girls, aged six to 10, who are

Barbie fans will enjoy being able to use their
photos with Barbie crafts. They can create
The Fuji
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can deliver the high quality i magery
of I.5 million pixels, easily
Barbie postcards, a personalized scrapbook, or

develop an animated Barbie movie using their
merge images of brilliant quagty into documents, presentations,
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photo subjects. A real benefit is that it encour-
ages girls to view thecomputer as a tool that

they can manipulate with other objects such
as cameras to create fun activities and projects.
The downside of this exciting tool is its limited target market. Where is the camera for
boys? What about girls who have grown a little
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too old for Barbie, as the 11-year-old tester

has? She loved the camera and how it worked
but didn't want to be associated with what she
perceived'as a younger girls' toy.
As well, the resolution of images taken
with the camera is fairly mediocre compared
to~ok(Re digital cameras (what do you expect
fckO$99);
Tbg orl-screen controls are all icons so girls
in the'six to seven year age group won't need
special reading skills to get the most out of
their camera. However, learning what the
symbols mean does take some time. Parents
should expect to spend some time with their
children helping them learn how to use the
camera and software.
There are some additional bonuses with
this package. The camera comes with a timer
so girls can set up the camera to take pictures
of themselves. And just like "adult" imaging
software, Barbie Photo Designer allows girls to
play with special effects and filters. Photos can
be printed on color inkjet or laser printers.
Parents may also preselect the amount of
space reserved on the PC for pictures so the
entire hard drive will not be filled with the
creations of your budding Annie Liebowitz.
The software includes an excellent help
function with suggestions by Barbie on taking
pictures. Altogether a rather fuJR and inexpensive introduction to picture taking and using
the computer as a creative tool.
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RoboSports, which will allow kids to create

robots that can shoot hoops, flick pucks, and
kids. Suddenly, the $299 price tag becomes
FIRST (hllp://www.usfirst,org), a non-profit dart through an obstacle course; and Extreme
reasonable for the level of technology and robotics competition in the U,S. that attracts Creatures, which will provide the parts to
value in hands-on training for future engi- entries from hundreds of high schools, is spon- build "animals" whose movements and
neers, programmers and designers.
soring a competition for middle school kids behavior mimics those of nearly any member
of the animal kingdom. The original sets are
In fact, Mindstorms was developed by using Mindstorms as the basic components.
LEGO over 10 years with Massachusetts
So what can kids do with their robot7 They required to use the expansion sets.
LEGO has also created a Web site just for
Institute of Technology (MIT), whose world can create everything from a light-sensitive
renowned Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edII/) intruder alarm to a robotic rover that can follow kids to share their Mindstorm ideas, which
includes Web page design, chat rooms, mesconducts advanced research into a broad range a trail, avoid obstacles or even pick up a can.
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of information technologies including artificial
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The robots designed will be unique creations because, unlike LEGO for younger kids,
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According to LEGO president Kyeld Kirk
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on em races conver ence

Sy Jeff Evans
ony is a name most people are familiar
with, but not necessarily in connection
with computers. They are probably more
familiar with this pioneering technology manufacturer for its premium products in professional and consumer video and audio markets,
and in name brand consumer electronics.
Sony invented the first portable transistor
radio, the first portable video tape camera system, the f i rst v i deocassette player, the
Walkman portable cassette tape player, and
the first commercial compact disc player. Sony
has been an innovator in product design and
miniaturization of consumer electronics.
In the computer field, Sony is known for
components and peripherals: the Trinitron
cathode ray tube (CRT) and monitor lines;
digital cameras, including the Mavica models
which use floppy disks for storage; CD-ROM,
floppy, and mass storage drives; and digital
media supplies.
Although Sony has a long history as a PC
vendor in Asian markets, it has only recently
been linked with consumer PCs in North
America. In Canada, its high-end video audio
integrated operation (VAIO) line of consumer
PCs was expanded in July to include notebooks.
Why Jump into a dogfight?

Many observers wonder why Sony, at such a
late date, would jump into the notoriously
ruthless, low-margin consumer PC market.
After all, competition has become fiercer than
ever recently, as prices for entry-level PCs
plunge under $1,000. Only a handful of companies Compaq, IBM, Dell, NEC/Packard
Bell and Toshiba account for about 60 percent of the entire market.
Why doesn't Sony just stick to selling
monitors, drives, cameras, and other, more
profitable parts of the computing puzzle? The
answer is Sony believes it has something
unique to offer as video, audio, telecom, and
computers move to a common digital format a process known as convergence.
The mother of aii miniaturization
Founded in the economic ruins of post-war
Japan in1946, the company that became Sony
displayed a strong interest early on in commercializing the latest technologies in the form
of high-quality, leading-edge electronics products. Sony's original team of technicians adapted magnetic tape technology (acquired during
the Second World War from Imperial Japan's
technology partner, the Third Reich) into
Japan's first magnetic tape recording system.
Soon after the invention in America of the
. exotic new transistor, Sony paid cash for the
Japanese license and created a high quality
transistor radio. Sony thereby created a whole
new market for portable consumer electronics
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the way for a new, peaceful, role in the postwar facility and its advanced research lab, I saw not Seen in this light, the YAIO experiment makes
world, as an economic samurai, conquering only the latest computer products, but next a lot more sense. For anyone interested in the
year's products in development, and radical best in audio, video, mass data storage, digital
world markets with quality and creativity.
Sony's goal for the 21st century is to create new technologies struggling to be born.
photography, miniaturization, and usability,
Sony has pioneered the integration of dig- Sony is the farthest thing from a copycat nonot just components, but solutions for the converged digital world it foresees. On a recent ital video with PCs, and intends to leverage its name brand. 0
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editing unit, the Digital photo Station pA-200, $2,495 to $7,995.
allows users to edit, store and print digital
The Phaser 740L is a "color-capable"' unit,
images using a conventional television set as a which means that for $2,495 the customer
monitor. The new system eliminates the need buys a monochrome printer that can be
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wireless keyboard. The unit will be released in
Japan in mid-November. International release
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Users can create an album file and edit color, they essentially create the Phaser 740,
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paper, allowing for full-tabloid bleeds. The
$7,995 printer Is aimed mainly at the graphic
arts proofing market, with a second market
being business users who need large-format
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Tektronix rolls oat four color prlssters

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group printing," Pat O' Brien, Tektronix's vice- page, according the company.
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percent of monochrome printer buyers say years, The 15 year-old color printing division
they' ll move to color printers within five accounts for about 35 percent of the compayears. However, the biggest barrier to switch- ny's business. The company also makes video
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customers also want color printers that are has won eight Emmy Awards) and measurefaster, higher resolution and able to print on ment equipment such as oscilloscopes and TV
tabloid-size (11x17 in.) paper. They also want testing tools. DT
better economy, in terms of lower cost per
Tektronix, Tel: 800-835-6100
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phone answering machines and speaker- appropriate software bond both modems for a
According to the company, by providing a phones, which are important facilities in the higher transfer rate.
Rockwell, htlpJ/www,rss.rockwelLcom
USB modem system, its chipsets not only sup- retail modem market.
that doesn't require an external power supply.
New Marble Mouse ambldesrtrous

In addition, the finn says its USB modem
port V,90, KS6fiex and all other industry-stanFREMONT, Calif. (NB)
Logitech has introW3C recommends OOM Level 'I
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modulations,
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duced the newest member of its rodent famiwill further add functionality to the modem MINNEAPOUS (NB) The World Wide Web
ly, the Marble Mouse. The flrm says the device industry-standard voice and fax capabilities.
Rockwell says its USBmodem chipset fam- and create new applications for it, One appli- Consortium (W3C) has reportedly released
ily includes support for features such as DSVD
(digital simultaneous voice and data), tele-
cation would be to add the Rockwell USB

modem as asecond modem, and through the
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Coteeh
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416-977-8778
MPX Data System

100 Wingold Ave.
416-7854656
Perfect Electronics
315 Oueen St. W.
combines the best features of a mouse and a
416-598-2831
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OTA Computer Center

326 College St.
handed and for left-handed users.
416-922-1177
"Marble Mouse works with the convenience of a trackbaII and uses our patented
marble optical technology, which, givessuperior precision, reduced wear, excellent motion
and eliminates the need for regular cleaning,"
Artie Computer Distribution

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a logitech spokespersonsaid.
Regular mouse users who are ambidex-
ICCT Computers
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centre and b uttons t o e ach side. The
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spokesperson described Marble Mouse as a

"comfortable, ergonomically designed device"
which, when used, reduces hand and wrist
movement and lowers the potential for repetitive motion stress, a potentially disabling risk
associated with use of PCs.
Greytech Computers
110 - 550 Aidan Rd,
905-470-1425
ABC Computers
16 - 7170 Warden Ave.
905-947-0595
Logitech's patented Marble optical technology senses user hand movements in a

manner similar to the way the human eye
works and then sends this information to the
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available PS/2 or serial port (PS/2 to serial port
adapter needed for serial port use). It will sell

for an estimated street price of US$39.95.
Logitech, http: //www.logitech.corn
USB added to V.90 chlpset

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (NB) Rockwell
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Reliability:
Features:
Semiconductor Systems has zipped ahead to
pole position in the modem chip marketplace

by adding support for USB (universal serial
bus) technology in its range of V.90 chipsets.
The move illustrates the growing impor-
tance vendors are placing on USBcompliance,

According to Rockwell, the enhanced V.90
chipsets can be used to create retail modem
products that plug directly into the increas-
ingly popular and easy-to-access USB port,

which is now included in the majority of new
PCs.
Rockwell says that, by combining its full-
featured data/fax/voice chipset with USB's

ease of use, OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) will be able to create modems that
take advantage of USB's plug-n-play flexibility

"outside the PC." This will eliminate all the
guesswork about which serial port or IRQ

(interrupt request) to use.
Unlike a legacy serial modem, Rockwell's
USB modem is billed as a bus-powered device
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Signa Computer Systems

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416-755-1590
ABC Computers
4810 Sheppard Ave. E.
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As a leader in display technology, Daytek
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patible with CDs (this was problematic in For this month's test, ALC Micro has sent us
some cases with first-generation DVD drives), an A Open custom system wi th a ton of goodswith any other field, the holiday gift Even though they add a bit to the cost of the ies in it.
season is a very busy time of year for systems, DVD drives are a great choice for two
the computer industry, with people reasons. They seem to be the optical storage Highlights
buying software, add-on gadgets, and even choice of the n'ear future, and they won't ren350 MHz Pentium il processor
complete systems, This month, our test lab der all your current CD-ROMs obsolete.
Contains both an 6 MB
AGPvideo card and a 12
offers a few suggestions for those looking to
MB Voodoo2 card. both from AOpen.
purchase a complete system to put under the The testing
The sound card is the recent Sound Blaster 128
tree on Christmas morning.
Because the focus of this month's lab was a
PCI card, and the Aitec Lansing speakers offer
In most of our tests, we emphasize perfor- computer for the whole family, we took the
excellent reproduction.
mance. For this month's roundup, however, emphasis off of pure performance. Because of Contains DVD for the optical drive and VCD
Power
we wanted to look each system as a whole that, we have eliminated the usual Editor' s
Player for DVDmovie playback.
instead of just focusing on speed. In that spir- Choice award for performance, although we 56Kbps PCI modem.
it we requested systems aimed at the family, still ran th'e usual benchmark test on the Monitor is the 17-inch Acer 76e, which has a
including monitor, for $2,500 or less.
machines. Performance still factored in to the
great display quality.
The variety of machines in this roundup is remaining awards, although to a much lesser System comes with the Logitech wheel mouse,
interesting. As expected, all of the systems we extent than usual.
and aspecialmicrophoneheadset.
received shipped with a modem, and options
Benchmarking was done using BAPCo's The software package included is designed to
for getting connected to the Internet. All SysMark32 software, with monitor resolution
complementthe Voodoo2,and has a numberof
came with a set of speakers. Also as expected, set to 800x600, with a 16-bit color depth. The
game demos, including Flight II, JSF,
there was a variety of p rocessors, with
remainder of the testing involved setting up
Commandos, Stratosphere. SpecOps, Myth,
Pentium II, AMD's K6-2, and the Celeron the complete system to see how everything
Turok, Tomb Raider 1 and 2, ForsakenandFinal
chips represented= and the G3 in the iMac.
worked together as a whole package.
Fantasy VII. Also included is the AOpenBonus
What was surprising this time out were
Now, on to the systems!
disc, which has Norton Anti-Virus,
the choices made for monitors and optical
storage. The majority of systems in this Al.g Micro
Armed with a DVD drive, this system is
roundup came 17-inch monitors, instead of Model: AOpenTBC-M350
ready for the next wave, being able to handle
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the 15-inch models we expected to see, Also Street price:$2,499

notable was the split between the more traditional CD-ROM and the newer (and more
expensive) DVD-ROM format for optical stor-
full-motion video playback and large-capacity

data storage. The video and sound components in this system are well-suited to take
age.
This is not to say consumers should be
wary of systems shipped with a DVD drive;
quite the opposite. For those unfamiliar with
the technology, it's similar to CD-ROM technology, but allows 11iore data up to 17 GBto be stored on a single disc of the same size.
Because of the similarit of the technologies, the latest DVD drives are backwards com-
both CD-ROMs and DVDs. It is well-suited for
advantage of the multimedia possibilities
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Software-wise, the TBC-M350 seems to
have too much of an emphasis on gaming to
appeal to all families, but for the family with
older children who love to take on monsters,
the game pack offers a great sampler that
shows off the systems capabilities.
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Talk about photogr aphic development!
0 quantum leaphas been taken in the way

people take pictures vvith Kodak digital
cameras. You need the high quality, ease of

use, affordability and reliability of Kodak.
True, ourbusiness is pictures. But we are
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Setup of the machiisneincredibly easy:flip open
Model: IMac
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It is very compact: the 15-inch display and the

computer part are all incorporated into a unit no
board instead of to theside of the computer, leavIng one oftheside panel USBports freefor another device.
the door on the side of the unit, attach the keyboard, attach the mouse, attach the power cord to
the back of the machine, plug into the wall, and
Touted as the savior of the Madntosh line,
the IMac is certainly an impressive little

unit, and may be ju st t he perfect
Christmas present for the family that stll Highlights
lovesthe Mac.
It's a Mac!
The keyboard has a USB

port on either side, allow-
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without having toopenthe sidepanel. Alternately,
Only onepowercord!
The IMac comes with both a 56Kbps internal
modemanda10/1008ase-TEthernetconnector,
tomakethemachineInternet-readybothathome
you' redone.
The front of the display has a 4Mbps infrared port.
and at the office.
Software bundleincludes:AppleWorks(formerly
ClarisWorks), FAXstf,Kai'sPhotoSoapSE,MDK,
Quicken Deluxe 98, Williams-SonomaGuide to
GoodCooking,andInternetoptions.
Even though wecan'tbenchmark Macs
with our current software, it's always nice to
see Apple products in the test lab, if only to

offer an alternative to the PC world. The iMac
is definitely a notable difference from the
other computers we saw this month: compact,
colorful and remarkably easy to set up.

Additionally, the iMac comes with a ton of
extra features that make it a truly remarkable
machine: an infrared port, built-in modem

and 10/100Base-T Internet. When you condense the whole package into a package the
size of a traditional 15-inch monitor, it's even
more impressive. When all of this is available

at a street price of $1,899 including a generous
software bundle, it becomes a steal of a deaL
There are a few d own sides to t h e.
machine, however. Because of its compact all-
inwne nature, the iMac has very little room

for upgrading inside, other than the RAM.
There isn't even a floppy drive inside the

m achine! Anything to b e added to t h e
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device, which could potentially clutter up the
desktop. At present, the number of USB
devices is fairiy limited, but there is a potential
explosion around the corner. Because of that,

it's hard to say whether going with a USB
model for all connected devices is a shrewd

move or a miscalculation.
The biggest downside for some will be the

aesthetics of the machine. In a row of PC
clones, the design of the iMac certainly stands
out, with its transparent, white and turquoise
plastic case. Someare worried that it's a bit too

hip for its own good, and won't look quite so
hip three years down the road. Apple is likely
hoping the design of the iMac will become to
computers what the Volkswagen Beetle is to
cars. Detractors, on the other hand, may have
their vote on it becoming the AMC Pacer of
computers. Again, time will telL
The bottom line for the iMac? For Macheads and beginners, the features, pflce and
simplidty make this a great machine for the
whole family for Christmas. People more com-
fortable in the PC world may not be convinced,

but this one will certainly catch their eye.
Compaq
Model: Presario5050
Suggest retail price: $2,517
PERIPHERAL INC.
Compaq continues to impress with its

Presrnio line. The 5050 is a sleek-looking
machme with a number of nice features.
Highlights
Uses a 333 MHz
Celeron processor, but with
128KB ofLevel-2 cacheto boost performance.
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enabled, with specialkeysfor speakerandCD

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thelanguage used by the computertofTench
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IncludesAT1'sDVDsoftware, Corel WordPerfect

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if not, will be available ondemand.
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sound may
want to consider abetter set.
For most, the iNet Pro is a great machine
to have: good software bundle, a DVD drive,

Although the system performance is lower greatsound, and more. Some people may be
than many of the other systems tested this concerned about the use of the Celeron chip,
Software with this system includes Norton AntiVirus, Lotus SmartSuite and PCDoctor.
While not necessarily a machine oriented

to the whole family, the Aptiva E2U makes a
good starting point. As shipped, with reasonable performance, a built-in modem, and
Lotus SmartSuite included, the E2U makes a
better case for purchase as a home office

machine. With extra bays for expansion and
USB connectivity, there's room for more hardware to be added to down the road. With the
month, and the price is at the top of our range,
but with 128KB of cache on the newer
theJBM-623001 system hasagoodselection of Celerons, performance is much better. With

features that make it worth consideration. The the lower price and the longer labor warranty,
most interesting option is the choice of a
even Celeron detractors may find the machine
56Kbps modem or a network card
with many
an attractive alternative.
It's worth noting that the iNet Pro was
more areas now wired for cable modem technology, it's nice to have the choice to purchase unable to finish the benchmarking tests
a system that is cable-modem ready. With the because of problems in the database portion of
rest of the features (especially a kickin' sound the tests (which uses the program Paradox).
system), this is an impressive machine.
This kind of problem can crop up for any number of reasons, including a slight incompatibilLCF Advanced Technology
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the benchmarking suite, conflict between the
scripts and resident software on the machine,
Definitely an eye-catching system, the

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comes with a good monitor, and features a
great software bundle. While it's not the most
high-performance machine of the bunch (and
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number of attractive features.
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interesting-looking systems of the month,
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Highlights
300 MHz Pentium II processor.
17-inch Daytek monitor has good picture quality.
Sound is courtesy of theonboardSoundBlaster card.
With theCambridge Soundworks PCWorks speakem

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Highlights
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333 MHz Celeron chip with 128KBcache, and128
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Sound Blaster 128, and Soundlmage multimedia
35 0 MHz Pentium II processor.
Cablesarecolor-coordinated, for easiersetup.

6.4 GBhard drive.
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speakers(with subwoofer), providegreatsound.
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400 MHz Pentium II chip helto
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Multimediaspeakersinclude 3Dsurround setting.
Good collection of components,
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The system includes the Microsoft Natural keyboard, and the PS/2 IntelliMouse.
It comes with the Microsoft Sidewinder GamePad.
Software includes the Microsoft Office 97 Small
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BusinessEdition, andMicrosoft Encarta 99.
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MGI PhotoSuite, Quicken Basic 98, BDE

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scores turned in. The performance is largely

owing to the 400 MHz Pentium ll inside the
system, which makes this a great starter system
for power users who want a basic system to
card, with a whopping 16 MB of memory.

The sound card is the brand newSound Blaster
Live! Card, which offers true 3D sound, and the
Altec Lansing speaker system (with subwoofer)
TK-IDM Technology
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Suggested retail price: $1,880
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open/close switch, which could be problematic.
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(Encarla 98, 3DMovie Maker, Golf, Cinemania,
system offers a good alternative for the family on a budget.
Highlights
350 MHz Pentium II processor
The system features aDVD-ROM,for data needs in
throw additional components into. For those
the future, and for multimedia andmovie playback.
The 17-inch Cybervision monitor is excellent.
users, there is a lot of room to expand, with
Works,Money,InteractiveCOsampler, andScenes),
extra slots on the back, and extra bays up front.
Prody Parrot, Foresaken,Unreal, Mighty Math,
System includes GVC
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For most families, the system would probably
Strategy Challengesvol.1, Imagination Express(Rain
modem.
The QDI motherboard has asecurity feature,
be overkill, but performance fans will love it.
Forest andCastle), andScienceHouse.
which allows the user to lock the whole system,
Smartmachine
Priced at the top end of our range this month,
including the power switch.
Model: Viper M350
the Viper M350 packs in a lot of value. This con- Software includes PCcillin anti-virus software, and Highlights
Very competitive price.
figuration may be overkill for a lot of families, but
MS HomeReference Plus (Encarta 98, Virtual
if there's aserious gamer iri the family, this might
Globe, Bookshelf 9&, Entertainment Pack 98, and With the inclusion of the AMDK6-2 CPUand its
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the Sound Blaster Live cards are excellent choices System performancewas excellent.
entry into our lab test this month has an
3D multimedia market.
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impressive selection of multimedia compo- for high-intensity 3D games, and the speakers Price point is quite good.
nents, with i
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and monitor are perfect for taking advantage of
although usersmaywant to consider an upgrade
them. That's not to say that that's all the system
The CompuPartner system this month shows
on both, to take full advantage of multimedia.
has going for it: the software bundle has alot for why STD systems are favorites around the lab, 6.4 GB hard drive.
everyone, including both office and children' s balancing price, features and performance. With Case is horizontal, which allows the user to set the
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new products from American
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Pacific Rim.
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audio recording. The Cl also has
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storage.Sony's data Stick was a cameras were also in abundance the serious effects of Asia's econotable new entry in this prod- at the show, with particularly
notnic crisis, its computer indusuct category.
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accessories for increasing the most radical new super-compact Powerbooks. Appie was unique there should be a profusion of
productivity and power of these notebook was the Sony VAIO Cl in h aving c asually d r essed, powerful, relatively inexpensive,
miniaturized info gadgets.
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operating system seems to have a size of Toshiba's Portege hand- ucts. By contrast, the booths of drive towards a f u ndamental
very strong following in Japan, held computer.
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Gifts for the notebooker

By Ross Macdonald
ne of the less appreciated aspects of
the computer revolution is how much
easier it has made Christmas shopping. Anybody you know with acomputer
either needs or wants something, largely in
response to the industry's perpetual release of
newer, faster, cheaper versions of just about
everything that has gone before.
Those who know desktop owners are particularly fortunate in this regard because
there's always a newer sound card, faster
modem or cheaper chip to chase after. But
much under-appreciated are the portable
owners those intrepid souls who have committed a lot more money and a lot more trust
to a far less modular machine.
However, third-party manufacturers are
gradually realizing the market potential of
add-ons for portables and have come up with
a number of products in a variety of price
ranges specifically suited to the computer on
the go. A caveat, however, must stand that
there are very few "stocking stuffers" of note
to be had, so the giftor will be necessarily indicating more than a passing fiscal regard for
the giftee.
I'ollowing is a scattershot list of goodly
suggestions suitable to, if not specifically created for, notebook computers. It should be
noted that where specific brands, products or
prices are mentioned, they serve only to indicate the "kinds" of i t ems available and
approximate costs. They are not intended to
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Carrying case ($2S-$200)
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Of course, it's doubtful that the perfect
case will ever be found for each individualoutside of custom construction but many
manufacturers offer a variety of quality, sizes,
materials and movable interior dividers to
accommodate even the most persnickety
computerist on the go.
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and will fit exceptionally well into most carrying cases. It includes an IrDA (infrared)
interface, and a universa! power adapter for
use anywhere in the world.
Options include a sheet feeder (which,
unfortunately, nearly doubles the dime'nsions
of the machine) and a lithium ion battery
pack. Another handy option that fits this and
other Canon portable printers is the IS-12
color scanning cartridge ( )150), which fits
into the ink cartridge housing and turns the
printer into a reasonable (but not terrific)
sheet feed scanner.
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will be recommended by the price tag to only
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not much bigger and occasionally smallerthan the notebook computer itself.
The newest entry into this category is the
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The most logical place to begin, perhaps, is

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intended already has one. However, there is
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among cases that makes this a very good gift.
The primary consideration for a good case
is padding. Despite the care normally taken by
notebook owners, there always seems to be
some banging and jarring going on. Many
c heaper cases paradoxically stint on t h e
padding, which should completely encompass all sides of the computer inside. Although
soft-sided cases are the current fashion, rigid
cases are also available.
Next, make sure the capacity and pocket
configuration suit the intended user's needs.
Many carry cases have only room for the computer and a few disks, while many notebookers might also have extra equipment to take
along like storage devices, mini scanners,
portable printers, etc., which, unfortunately,
means a plethora of power bricks, a cobweb of
cables and a battalion of battery packs must
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work and play applications, but they are generally of more dimension and weight than
anyone would want to cart around. The only
drawbacks to portable versions at this point is
that they cost a bit more and are necessarily
sheet-fed (originals have to be fed in individually) as opposed to the larger footprint flatbed
configuration.
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Canon printers have the option of purchasing
a special tiny scanner cartridge that will convert their printer into a reasonable scanner.
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respected as a thoroughfare for demanding actually yours.
input and output tasks, because it's regarded
as too slow. Microsolutions, however, claims PC Cards ($100-$$00)
to have gotten around these limitations As with storage devices, these credit card-sized
through both hardware and software develop- addwns perform a variety of functions that let
ment so speed and efficiency are maximized. the portable owner squeeze more out of their
Limitations of the port aside, parallel connec- machines. The most common PC Cards are
tion has the great advantage of being quick, undoubtedly modems, which many users pureasy and universal to all computers.
chase for upgrading to newer, faster technoloAlso available for those with older porta- gies. Also available in PC Card format are netbles are CD-ROM players with little sound sys- work cards, SCSI interface cards, sound cards,
even recordable CD-ROM drives that connect tems built in that can connect either by spe- at usually high prices.
to the notebook in a variety of ways.
cial cards or, in the case of Microsolutions,
Very new t o t h e m a rket from A DS
The most popular of these is what's known through the parallel port. These $300-plus Technology is a card that adds two USB (unias a high-speed/high-capacity floppy replace- devices add ful l m u l t imedia capability. versal serial bus) ports to notebooks for $110.
ments, the most common being the lomega's However, notebooks made in the last two or USB is a relatively new interface system but
Zip and Imation's SuperDisk drive. These are three years already support multimedia.
expectations are high that most add-ons of
very handy for storing and backing up large
Due to the variety of devices and interfaces the future will use it. There are very specific
files and directories but with limitations to available, it is advisable to covertly determine compatibility issues defined for this card,
capacity and speed. Sony also announced a before hand which configuration of which however, so you' ll have to check against the
200 MB floppy replacement (which is incom- device your giftee will most appreciate.
machine you' re buying it for.
patible with both the Zip and SuperDisk forOne of the more appreciated PC Cards to
mats), and it may soon be available in stores, Security system ($3$-$'I$0)
hit the market are those designed to connect
Such devices can connect to the computer Notebook security systems approach the prob- joysticks and game pads
an interface virtualin several ways, and may be sold as distinct lem of theft and/or access in a variety of ways, ly ignored by notebook manufacturers but
models depending on the kind of connection the most common being a lock and cable sys- demanded by g
arners. New Media Corp, is a
they use (parallel port, PC Card adapter, SCSI). tem to make it at least difficult to liberate the major PC Card manufacturer and provides a
This is a serious consideration for the pur- machine from its resting place. These are good example in its GamePort joystick conchaser make sure you buy the device that cheap and easy to apply.
nector for $100.
will work with your giftee's system.
On a more sophisticated level you' ll find
One company, called Microsolutions, has devices like the DefCon Security System from IIlscellaneons
introduced a whole line of readily available Targus/Port Inc., which cables a beeper-sized External numeric keypad: For the accounexternal devices including: floppy drives, hard motion alarm to the computer or carrying tant, $50-plus.
drives. 8 GB tape drives, CD recordable drives, case. If it is moved, it screams. Also on the
External speakers: Most notebook builtand even a PD drive adata storage technolomarket are marking systems that let you apply in speaker systems are abominable. Amplified
gy with a lot of potential that never really identiflers that can only be detected with a UV portable speakers are cheap and readiiy availcaught on.
light (usually included in the kit). However, if able and sound is dramatically better, $20All the Microsolutions devices connect you' re using one of these, you' re computer plus.
through a computer's parallel port which is has already left the building. They' re only useContnrued onpage 67
For those who can't take advantage of that,

Visioneer has produced the Strobe a beautiful little color sheet-fed scanner no bigger
around than your wrist and only 30.5 cm (12
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Externalstorage device ($200-$$00)

These are also big ticket items, but extremely
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From: Davidson/Fisher Price
Tel: 800-545-7677, http: //www.education.corn
For: Windows, Macintosh
Price. $29
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Iweasurlng the benefits of CST
If you are lucky, your training needs may be grams. But these companies should not rule
met by a reasonably priced, off-the-shelf prod- out CBTuntil they have considered exactly
CBT addresses professional needs

Continued frompage 69
benefit of using CBT in t h e w orkplace.
Probabiy one of the most common arguments
in favor of CBTis a variation on the following:
people remember 20 percent of what they see,
40 percent of what they hear and see, and 70
percent of what they see, hear, and do. More
detailed studies have illustrated that the return
on investment (ROI) for a company using CBT
goes beyond enhanced learning retention.
Investing in CST
But consider the investment. Upfront, development of custom CBT will likely be more
expensive than a couple of training sessions
on a specialized topic led by an outside expert.
www.tcp.ca
what their training needs are and have taken

a critical look at the potential benefits.
CBT is available anytime you need it. It
can be delivered on demand, putting you and
your employees in control of your own time
and learning processes. It also provides a consistent presentation of learning materials,
training session, or pay travel expenses or exposing every user in every training session
dassroom fees to accommodate employee to the same learning environment and quality
learning needs, so the costs per user remains of information. A good CBT application will
alsoallow you to measure thereturn on your
stable each time the application is used.
Small- and medium-sized companies may training investment through tests or other
find their CBT options are restricted by their feedback mechanisms, Or, if you are like
budgets. They may be limited to off-the-shelf Newbridge Networks Corp., you get right
products or customizable programs, and may down to the bottom line to determine what
uct from a local computer store. If you cannot
fulfill yourtraining needs in this manner, the
primary costs for your CBT will be incurred
during development. Costs to maintain and
deliver the training are minor in comparison.
tA/ith CBT, there is no need to prepare new
materials, hire or train an instructor for each
Training is a high priority at Newbridge, and

the company decided to measure this considerable i n vestment i n it s emp l oyees.
Newbridge determined that each employee
contributes, on average, almost $300 worth of
goods for every hour on the job. Conversely,
every hour an employee is off the job for
training, the company lost the same amount.
Newbridge adopted CBT for some of its
technical training and discovered employees
were learning more in less time. And for
Newbridge, less training time means more
productive time. The company expects to
recover the upfront expense of implementing

the CBT in two years. Still, not all businesses
are as quick to jump on the CBT bandwagon.
not be able to afford fully customized pro- CBT can do for your company.
Computer-based training has been a slow
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young, most of the companies are less than 10
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number of employees. And while the industry
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business with a new technology or product,
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among potential users that the new technology was effective, efficient and the best use of
training resources.
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workforce, as well as a history of recognizing
the value of training its employees. A recent
Industry Canada study pointed to the health
has seen many CBT companies fail since she services, banking, environmental, printing
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hope I made aconvincing argument on
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column (viewable online at http: //www. to a port on the switch shares 10 Mbps with
tcp.ca). In the case of a new local access net- the other users on that particular hub.
work (LAN), it's a simple decision to choose That's still an improvement over sharing the
Fast Ethernet over Ethernet as the somewhat
higher cost is offset by the dramatic performance boost. In the more common scenario,
where a substantial
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since we' re concentrating o n
ge n eric
capabilities.
Switch 1: This is
an eight-port, dualspeed switch with 10
Mbps and 100 Mbps

on every port. This
can handle a large
number of users, since each port can connect to an individual user or a hub. On the
other hand, in an office of seven users, each
user can be connected directly, and receive

dedicated bandwidth corresponding to the
speed of his/her NIC. Over time, as older

computers are retired, more of the ports will
be configured at the higher speed, and the
total bandwidth of the LAN will increase. To
accommodate growth in t h e n umber of
users, Fast Ethernet hubs can be added. It
will be a long time before this switch needs
to be replaced.
Switch 2: This has eight 10 Mbps ports
and two 10/100 ports. It has an uplink button on the eighth 10 Mbps port and anoth-
a very large network. Unfortunately, unless er uplink button to one of the 10/100 ports.
the architecture was changed, users would These buttons toggle between normal and
continue to share the same 10 Mbps of band-'
wi'dth. Although I visit offices with 30 and
uplink mode, the latter being used to con-
make your network bandwidth-hungry.

Switches are a very good way of improving the efficiency of networks and adding
bandwidth. Switches can have as few as two
ports, and as many as 24 (or more). Ports
can be 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 10/100. Dualspeed ports can be configured to operate at
trusive upgrade that is done entirely in the

wiring closet. No desktop visits required. 0
nect to another hub. One way this could be
more users that are quite happy sharing 10 used is to connect the server or servers to
Mbps, many modern applications are band- the fast ports, and users to the slow ports,
width-intensive. Depending on actual habits directly or via a hub connection. This model
and needs,10 Mbps can be inadequate foras is less expensive than Switch 1, but still
few as three users, even if only mainstream gives a boost to performance that will be
business applications are being used. It does- obvious to everyone. No visits to the desktop are required. This is a speedy and unobn't require desktop videoconferencing to
Issle Rablnovltch ls aToronto-basedcomputer consultant and technology journalist. Hewelcomes

comments andquestions at
drlan@irtechnogroup.corn.
CBT addresses professlonai needs

munications sectors as the best candidates for
the future growth of CBT. Many of these
industries experience rapid and continuous
change in the products and services they offer,
requiring constant skills upgrades.
Still, organizations are hesitant to jump
on the CBT bandwagon. This is particularly
true of government and educational institutions. Organizational politics and traditional
views on training hinder efforts to implement
CBT. Many companies and government
departments are still trying to support fullblown t r aining d epartments, i ncluding
instructors, on e v er-decreasing budgets.
Adolphe relates three main r oadblocks
Gemini encountered with-potential clients
even aslate as the early 1990s:
the lack of infrastructure required to support CBT;
th e paradigm shift required to move to
CBT;
and the need for a fundamental understanding of what CBT meant.
Adolphe believes standardization within
her industry may help demystify CBT for
everyone.
Standard Issue
Standardization of the CBT architecture or
delivery platform is an increasing concern to
many developers and content providers. By
creating standard formats for text, graphics,
audio, video, animation and simulation,
changes in course content can be made at any
time b y
an y o n e w i t h ou t di f f i culty.
Standardization also becomes a business issue
for CBT companies looking to expand overseas

to European or other markets, where ISO stan-
dards may be more widely recognized and

implemented, and creating products to ISO
standards may be required to conduct business.
This is just one product and design issue
CBT companies will need to address as the

industry grows. Another is the creation of a
truly valuable learning tool. Many companies
sacrifice learning techniques and the more
educational aspects of content development

and rely more heavily on the glamorous technical tools and the programming perspective.
"When multimedia took off three years
ago,everyone jumped on that bandwagon as
we all know and the majority of them are
not around today," says Adolphe. "They
were only doing the multimedia part and the
glitz, and they weren't thinking about the
effectiveness and the pedagogy and the

instructional design."
She adds that they didn't consider "how
important the content is; they were more
interested in the entertainment end of it.",
The result is a poorly designed product that
has bells and whistles yet ends up being
more frustrating then helpful.
Clearly CBT is not the be all and end all
of training, and most CBT developers will
admit there are t raining areas certain
human and managerial skills for examplethat probably benefit from more traditional
methods. But when it is designed thoughtfully, it is a powerful training tool. According
to Adolphe, effective CBT incorporates many
different learning principles. She states that
"90 percent of an interface should already be

familiar to the user [because] it's very important that the learner concentrates on the
content and doesn't spend all their time try-
ing to learn, yet another, new interface."

The software should provide feedback
that's specific to the learner's interactions. It
should provide a large variety of question

types, not just be limited to true and false or
multiple choice. There should be short
answers, graphical tests, matching, or other
questions. Adolphe suggests that the best
content for any type of learning tends to be
in a t h ree-tier hierarchy, which simply
means that there are three different levels of
content, possibly: Topic, Module, and
be provided in different ways to accommodate different learning styles. And, the whole
thing must be adaptive to each individual's
learning strengths and weaknesses.
Learning is not simple. There are so many
variables that can reduce its effectiveness,
and that costs a company when it is training
people to help them grow and to help your
business grow. CBT gives you an opportunity
Concept. There should also be examples and to reduce those variables and to create an
supplemental instruction that lead people interactive learning environment available
on to more information. Concepts need to on demand.In the knowledge-based econo-
my of the future, this may be your company's greatest asset. So, as you enter the future
of professional development, remember that
the old saying still rings true: "Tell me and
I' ll forget. Teach me and I' ll remember.

Involve me and I' ll learn." 0
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Needed: single view for e-messages

Online newsletter subscriptions, letters from friends, business correspondence and the always-dreaded
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incoming faxes, "snail mail" letters, voicemail and pager messages.
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A single view
One of the great problems facing users of fax,
voicemail and email is that they all "reside" in
different places. Just the simple act of checking
whether you have voicemail, faxes or email can
require three distinct actions on your part.
To combat that problem, sofiware developers over the last several years have promoted
the idea that you should try and maintain a
"single view" of your all incoming messages
that couldbe sorted, searched and managed
easily and consistently. The first widespread
solution for doing this came with the inclusion
in Windows 95 of Microsoft's Exchange "client"
software for handling incoming and outgoing
faxes and email messages.
Although this bundled Exchange client was
somewhat hard to use, had poor internet mail
connectivity and quite limited fax handling
capabilities, it was the first major commitment
to put all those message-handling capabilities
into one place.
By this time, other companies began to see
the potential of an eall-in-once approach.
One of the most significant developments
in this area was by Symantec, which had
launched a version of its WinFax, fax send-andreceive software that could be integrated with
Exchange. Included with this product was an
KTX Flatbed Scanner

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e live in a connected society, but it

sometimes seems that we have
become so connected we are in danger of disconnecting from the meaningsense
or relative importance of any individual message or piece of communication. And that' s
why it has become more important than ever
that we use the very technology that allows us
to receive so many messages to take control of
those messages before they take control of us.
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pplication called TalkWorks that also allowed

you to run a PC-based telephone answering system that would store messages on your disk.
Again, this was an innovative solution but
somewhat limited in what it could achieve. In
addition, it wasn't ideal for use in a corporate
environment where dedicated fax and voicemail systems were not integrated with the PC.
The flip side of this issue was that having
message sources spread out over several different technologies and devices could be something of a safety measure for corporations, lf
you move all of your voicemail, email and fax

communications to being something that
"lives" on the LAN, then two things happen.

The first is that the volume of data traffic
over the LAN can increase dramatically when
you start moving voice and fax information

around it a serious issue if you are "bandwidth-challenged." Secondly, if you move all
your fax and voicemail functions to the LAN
and it fails at any time, you will have lost all
messaging systems.
At any rate, there are a number of tools
now available that will help you take a more
consistent and managed approach to message

handling. CI
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give them credit. Unless you grant credit

or accept credit cards, you could lose out
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Meeting or beating competitors:If your
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sells on a cash-only basis. Of course, there are
Otherwise, you will be limiting your sales
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to pay cash.
your own situation to determine whether the
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the disadvantages.
average sale. Customers with credit
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greater amount per purchase, and are
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businesses:lt is a natural tendency for
easier and more convenient for customers
people to shop around for the best barto purchase over the phone.
gains. Many people who buy on credit
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the WAP Gateway plus a WAPservice developers'
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new products allow for development of massContinued on pageS9
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software line from Purple Moon. A quick
Current Purple Moon offerings include:
online search took us to the company's Web the Rockett series of games, which are
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audience for girl-friendly software.
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pany spent a couple of years doing market
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benefits and deductions for small- to medium-
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sized businesses, and non-profit payrolls.
This year, we have looked at two categories

suitable for small businesses: stand-alone systems coming in at less than $1,000, and integrated accounting systems.In the first catego
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human resource information, ease of use and
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RAM, color monitor, and Windows 95.
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cards and quick payroll runs to replace manual cheques, recurring time cards and online N.E.L.P. Payroll for WIndows
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tures. An optional "customizer" module is Since we reviewed a beta version, some of the
available for importing and exporting data features were not available for testing (the
and writing macros.
help function, for example) but we liked what
he products in t h i s c ategory are
Data can be selectively exported and job- we saw. Timeward entry is easy and cost splitdesigrred for small- to medium-sized cost information generated. It supports direct ting between jobs or departments is very
businesses and not-for-profit organiza- deposits a feature employees will like. We straightforward. Employee year-to-date infortions with up to 500 employees. All calcu- liked the employee-pay history feature that mation and history are accessible from both
late some earnings and benefits and track allows you to display a paycheque record and the employee buttons.and the timecard butaccruals.
access each detailed record. The reporting fea- ton. Planned reporting is very complete. We
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and context sensitive. Features include unlimited earnings and deductions, departments,
recurring time cards and a direct-deposit interface. Error correction is extremely easy and
calculated deductions can be manually overwritten. Cheque information can be viewed
on screen and edited. Personnel management
features include vacation, review and promotion tracking. This program would be a good
choice at a reasonable price for small- to medium-sized business that don't require job costing features.
KIS Payroll for Windows
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menu, and through a feature called the
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setup, the steps of a payroll run, and the procedures that should be completed before the
next payroll run. Earnings and deductions features are called up with a simple mouse click
on the selected options.
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screens to enter vacation pay or other nonperiodic earnings. A payroll may be recalculated, amounts can b e o v erridden and
cheques can be printed as often as necessary
for the payroll to be correct.
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to select reports and audit trails for viewing on
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Quadlux Inc., officials said the oven is

designed to cook food that has the taste and
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keyboard for Christmas can check out Web
computers.
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sites of many manufacturers and distributors,
announced in June, and an under-US$200 Quadlux said, as the oven wasdesigned to pre-
by press time, will include security software, a like the home page of the Xtreme Peripheral
flatbed scanner announced in September.

Storm recently licensed some patented technology t o c o m peting scanner v endor
V isioneer, the patents for which i t h a d
acquired from Logitech. Company officials
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decided it was the firm's best chance to
"achieve financial stability going forward."
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smart card, and a smart card reader installed

in a notebook PCMCIA Type II slot.
"Protecting sensitive data with a mobile
workforce is a great concern for many companies
today," said Kevin R. Barry, general manager of
IBM's PC options and peripherals. He described
the system as "virtually tamper-proof."
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smart card and then enters a four-digit personal identification number (PIN) to access
Processor-based oven unveiled

FREMONT, Calif. (NB) Just when you
thought the microprocessor industry was no
pare previously uncooked meals, not reheat

frozen dinners.
The firm said that its FlashBake technology
has been used in the commercial sector since
1993 but that the Wolf/FlashBake 120 will be
the first countertop model that can plug into
any standard 120-volt outlet. It will also be
available in wall-mounted models, Quadlux
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the oven will appeal to professionals that prefer the taste of traditionally prepared meals but
who do not have the time necessary to cook.
line of products. Xtreme distributes its products, including CRT and flat-panel displays,
CD-ROM drives and keyboards, through distributors and resellers across the country. The
company offers a three-year warranty on monitors and a one-year warranty on peripherals.

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the machine. To disable access, the user LOS ANGELES, Calif. (NB) While the British
removes the smart card, which puts a secure Acorn PC nevercaptured much of the U.S.
Quadlux spokesmen said the oven is pre- screen saver onto the display and disables all market, many musicians kept one on hand for
use with a single program written for itSibelius musical notation software. Now
Sibelius has been ported to Windows.
and cookfrom above and below, depending
A Mac version is planned for introduction
on the food or cooking mode chosen.
in early 1999 and a children's version should
According to the firm, the oven can bake,
appear in late 1999, according to Saverio
broil, steam, grill, roast and saute. Cooking
Mancina, who acts as marketing partner in
with light also provides flexibility to brown,
North America.
caramelize and sear foods with no preheating
Named for Finnish composer Jean Sibelius,
required, Quadlux said.
the software was written by twin brothers Ben
The oven will be available through the
FiashBake Web site.
device uses Gemplus GemSafe technology and Jonathan Finn, who both compose music
longer heating up, one Silicon Valley developT he suggested retail p r ice f o r t h e and RSA cryptographic technology. It includes and write software. They chose to write for the
er has raised the temperature again with the Wolf/FlashBake 120 is US$1,500 to US$1,700, support for Security Dynamic's SoftID, digital Acorn because it was the fastest platform they
Wolf/FlashBake 120 oven, which utilizes a Quadlux spokesmen said.
signature capability, a security luggage tag, could find at the time. The two wanted to
remove some of the "manual grind" from the
microprocessor-controlled halogen light to
FlashBake,Tel; &00-THE-OVEN
and Norton's anti-virus protection program.
http: //www.flashbake.corn
The IBM Smart Card Security Kit has an process of composing music.
cook food faster than in a conventional oven.
The program quickly became a favorite
among musical types both amateur and professional, According t o
Ma n c ina, San
Francisco Symphony director Michael Tilson
Thomas has kept an Acorn machine on his
desk ever since he found the program.
The software bears a fairly hefty price for a
desktop machine
US$499. Academic and
theological users qualify for a discount to
US$299. Asked if it might not make sense to
drop the price to more consumer-friendly and
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programmed to apply energy at different
times during the cooking cycle to penetrate
input devices until an authorized card is reinserted and validated by the PIN.
Joe Preisser, IBM's product manager for the
kit, acknowledged that the kit would, in
effect, remove one PC Card slot from a laptop,
since the smart card must be in place in the
slot, to u s e t h e c o mputer t o o p erate.
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must create. When you boot to the floppy the conflicts. (PowerQuest makes a product,
program loads a mouse driver so you can eas- Disklmage that allows for multiple drive
ily navigate the graphical interface. Three copies. It can be purchased for personal or
choices are offered on the screen: drive infor- business use.)
A limitation of DriveCopy is that it will
mation, drive copy, and partition copy.
In my tests the program successfully
allow a user to copy a hard drive using
copied from my 2.1 GB drive to a 3.2GB drive. Netware, Linux, UNIX and other systems but
However, it was necessary to exit the program, will not expand the partition to fit a larger
reboot and scan the C: drive to get rid of a few drive and is not supported by PowerQuest
lost clusters (the most common reason for lost technical support. Overall, this is a simple,
clusters is turning off your computer without easy-to-use, and stable utility that I recomexisting Windows). I would have thought mend.
DriveCopy could have automatically correct
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times but without doing any harm).
The benefit here is that you could use the
image file as a backup copy of the operating
system. You can save an image across multiple
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than your drive. Obviously, you would lose any
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made. It is even possible to save the image file
to CD-ROM if you have a CD-ROM burner.

With new computers able to boot to CD-ROM,
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the floppy disk for another applet.
When DriveCopy copies a partition from
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By Douglas Alder
magazine and ISPCon. He is opinionated, easy to categorize the vendors, but ISPCon was future administration is done from a Web
sometimes cantankerous, and controveisialmore of a challenge. Witli more than 200 browser on another computer.
attended the r ecent I n ternet Service frequently taking contrary points of view on exhibitors spread over 55,000 square feet, the
Cobalt (http://www.cobaltnet.corn) has done a
Providers Conference (ISPCon) in San Jose, the direction of the ISP industry that, in hind- " show floor wasimpressive. The booths were: big nice job of hiding the complexities of Linux
Calif., which has always been different from sight, are often right on the money, A former and well-marked, but exactly what was being and Apache behind,its administration tools.
broader Internet shows that draw much of their engineer, he can swap acronyms with the best,-.- sold or promoted was often a mystery. The most From the demo I saw, it certainly looked like
audience from Internet users. ISPCon is solely of them and his nitty-gritty information keeps mysterious displays were for services to ISPs.
an effort-reducing combination. While users
Hardware, and software were easy to iden- can buy cheaper computers as servers, the
for the people who build the network for the the magazine on the required reading list for
managers and techies alike.
tify. Pricing was harder to extract, because it is ;. Cobalt offers a nice package using open source
Internet the Internet service providers (ISPs), business
often based on some variable determined by ;..",,.software with a slick configuration utility. The
From an informal survey at the opening
the ~alesrep.
session, about two thirds of the 5,000-plus , The hunted
beauty of its package is that there is no addiattendees represented true ISPs. Around 5 per- :- Although ISP representatives came from all
Some of. the products were quite esoteric. tional software to buy.
cent indicated they had entered the ISP indus- .--over the world, only about 15 percent were One example was a company called. iAtlas,
Another hot box that should appeal to
from outsidh the U.S.
try in the last year.
(http;//www.iatlas.corn), which sells what it calls ISPs was from Transcend (hitp://www.transcendForced to deal with dicey software, flaky "traditional business data" combined with modems,corn), The Box offers voice, data and
The host
routers, constantly changing modem stan- information gleaned from InterNIC and other Internet in and up to 24 ports in a small red
Every trade show is made of three groups of dards, and technology that is really too new to Internet sources and compiles them. This is box for about $200 per port. This type of prodparticipants: the host, the hunted, and the work very well, ISPs manage to keep most of then sold to ISPs and other industries.
uct is also available from 3COM and other
hunters. Often the host of a trade show or the connections open.
vehdors, but usually starts at a higher range,
conference is some grey corporate entity.
The big dream of many ISPs is the legendary Hot boxes
with a minimum of 96 or more ports.
ISPCon is quite different and is sponsored buy out, and many came to hear about cashing One booth had ISPs lusting after its slickly
by Boardwatch magazine (htip://www.board- out. The most popular sessions at the confer-- designed, translucent, rack-mounted Internet Integrated massaging
watch.corn). It was recently purchased by ence were about evaluating ISP businesses or servers. The Cobalt RaQ microserver, runs One conference buzzword was integrated mesMeckler Media (http: //www,mecklermedia.corn), .- Bnding capital to buy out other ISPs. A number Linux and Apache Web servers and sells for saging, which allows faxes, voice mail, and
publisher of internet World. Boardwatchwas . of people I spoke with mentioned their growing under. US$1,000 with a 2 GB hard drive and 16 text messages to be channeled to a users'
launched in 1987 to cover what.was then the fear of the aggressive competition coming from MB of RAM.
email account. From there, it can be read with
computer bulletin board industry. As the cable and telephone companies. Some said they
This was particularly attractive for small any Web browser or pushed out to pagers or
industry rebuilt itself into the ISP business, feared that the years of rapid growth might be businesses or startup ISPs that want to put up cell phones that support text displays.
the magazine grew to become the bible of that coming to a close for smaller companies .
a self-contained Internet presence complete
Farther up the food chain, some vendors
industry in North America.
with Web site, email and ftp. These units don' t offered text to speech, so a user could call in
Editor, and the conference's master of cer- The hunters
require a monitor. Users configure an IP
from any telephone and have their mail read
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Sort out trademarks
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Many ISPs fear the advent of DSL because
the leader in international trademark and they are being crowded out of offering it to users
copyright services, has created a Web site to by a technical requirement. DSL only can travel
help sort out trademark problems associated 6 km or less from the central telephone office.
with domain names. It offers a free service for
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puter stores soon. Because they are an end-toestablish a Web presence. It ties the InterNIC end solution, DSL 'modems are most likely to
domain name registration database to a data- be supplied by the ISP or telephone company
base of international trademarks. Users can providing the DSL service. Phone companies
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DSL because the required investment in
improvements cuts into lucrative contracts
The sessions
with business customers.
This year, ISPCon had 226 sessions that
In Canada, DSL will be offered in two main
addressed concerns in a few distinct categories: flavors, one priced under $100 for consumers,
technical and standards-based challenges; mar- and one for business users starting at around
keting topics, such as how to increase profits $400, according to Perm Gill, vice-president of
from the same customer base; increasing com- Cyberus Online (http: //www,cyberus.corn}. DSL can
pany growth; how to sell an ISP; and the ongo- reach download speeds of up to 7 Mbps. The
ing threat from cable and telephone compa- consumer offering will be limited to 2 Mbps.
nies this year in the form of digital subscriber Business offerings will be staged at 2, 4 and 7
lines (DSL) and Internet provided by cable.
Mbps, ranging up to around $800 a month.
called WebEasy. The package wis like a lowend version of Fusion NetObjects. For around
US$50, customers get a wizard-driven program
that quickly puts out attractive Web sites.
WebTrends (http: //www.webtrends.corn) seems
to make one of the more popular Web site log
analyzing programs, Most Web servers have a
log program that tells administrators a variety
of information about who visits their Web
sites, where they come from, and what pages
they view. WebTrends reads-the log and for- DS1.
The buzz on Llnux
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reports, complete with graphs and charts.
ing higher-speed connections to the Internet.
lays claim to being the only operating system
Originally designed for video on demand, that is actually gaining market share against
E-commerce simplified
DSL is based on silicon technology, digital sig- the Microsoft behemoth.
Another theme of the show was e-commerce. A nal processing algorithms, and existing copWritten originally by L inus Torvalds,
number of software vendors have created pack- per wire telephone lines. It is similar to, but Linux is a free UMX-based operating system
ages that simplify this process. Most products much faster than, ISDN or 56Kbps modems.
that runs on many platforms. It has been
focused on the low end of the e-commerce
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music industry allows it.
some require you to create a separate WAV

file from a CD before compression, while
others do it directly. Some use slightly more
efficient algorithms to create the MP3 file,
while others allow you to set parameters, like
the sample rate, to produce a better sound.
For only
These programs vary in sophistication-
What ls an MP3?
MP3 is the popular name for a layer-3 MPEG
file. It uses a very efficient algorithm to compress an audio file td about 10 percent of its
normal size. A typical full-stereo song on a
given music CD requires roughly 10 MB of
space per minute of music, meaning a typical
four to five minute pop song is about 40 to
50 MB.
The very size of these files is a major disincentive for anybody who wants to copy a
music track and send it to a friend even
with a56Kbps modem and a good connection, it will take a long time to transmit. But
what if you could send the same file to your
friend in one tenth of the time?
For things like mono recordings or spoken-word recordings (which, typically do not
have to be heard at the same fidelity as a
These programs
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music), the compression can go even further,
fitting an hour-long show onto a space that
could fit onto a few floppy diskettes.
Given their small size, decent sound
quality and the relative cheapness of CD
recorders, it is quite possible to get well over
100 MP3 format pop songs or about 10
album's worth of material onto a single
CD-R disc.
This is the sort of thing that makes many
record companies cringe.
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It is relatively easy to make your own MP3
files from your CD collection. Simply download the appropriate software from the Net,
put your CD in your CD-ROM drive, and by
the time you go and get a cup of coffee,
These programs are known as "rippers"

because they are capable of "ripping off" the
sound from a CD.
Because of the wide availability of rippers, MP3 has spawned a large following on
the Net, as audio pirates make requests for
songs and exchange them on Usenet newsgroups, private ftp sites and Web sites.
Several album's worth of material are posted
across various newsgroups every single day.
Even a casual glance will reveal a wide selection of material to choose from; everything
from old radio shows to '50s rockabilly tunes
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of the group's latest album a full week before
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elieve it or not, mid-winter is the peak

Internet browsing season. ISPs and
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months. Why? Well it's obvious that indoor
play time is preferred to outdoor playtime
when you have to wear four layers of clothes
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few months.
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Also available: Windows NTversion
An excellent alternative to a screensaver,
Corkboard is a screen saver, desktop memo
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the desktop into a realistic corkboard. You can
post objects, sticky notes, calendars, to-do
lists, thumb tacks, and various decorations, all
of which can'be customized. Corkboard has
some limited network capabilities, allowing
you to pull "pranks" on other Corkboard users
on your network.
Make your PC look like a Mac? Declare your Filename: k95 154.exe
love of Star Wars for all your co-workers to Byte size: 2,582,252
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Filename: incoplyr.zip
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to organize leagues, assign players to teams,
create your season's schedule in addition to
Home page: http: //bigmeg.net/incognto/
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MP3s have definitely taken off amongst a
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local record store anytime soon.
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the Rio, the first completely solid-state MP3

player to be sold in North America. Carrying
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the go and because all of the MP3s are
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alkaline battery.
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preventing Diamond Multimedia from selling or distributing the Rio. In a preliminary
ruling, the court said the Rio violates the
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Hilary Rosen, president of RIAA, said the
Rio was "destined to undermine the creation
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working together with companies that make
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so that everyone benefits.m
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Collins ruled that the Rio MP3 player was
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RIAA, and therefore did not fall under the
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this allows Diamond Multimedia to sell the
Rio freely in the U.S., its main target market.
On the heels of the court ruling, Samsung
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done on the format itself. There are already
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MP4 and a competing
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By Keith Schengili-Roberts
Web page with simple scripting elements, you

can get them to move and disappear as well.
ne of the longest standing concerns

about Web page design has to do with
where something is positioned on a
W eb page.
How many timeshave you been in
a situation where you have wanted to add
some image or text to a specific point on a
Web page, and found this seemingly simple
task trying your patience?
Over time Web designers have tried such
tricks as transparent images and indented
unordered list tags in order to get something
exactly where they wanted it to be. A solution
to this problem may finally be at hand with
Cascading Style Sheet positioning (CSS-P).
CSS-P was initially devised as an extension
to the existing Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) specification devised by the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), and has more recently been
adopted within the successor CSS2specification.
All of the acronyms aside, CSS-P may be the
solution Web page designers have long been
waiting for. What's more, because you can place
something exactly where it should appear on a
="fred.gif" STYLE="position:absolute;
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left:250; top:100">
look whereyou are positioned

You can position elements in CSS using the
position element. The position element has
three modifiers: absolute, relative, and static.
All of these modifiers can use the standard
measurement values associated with typical
CSS elements: centimeters (cm), inches (in),
This means that the top-left corner of the

image fred.gif is positioned 250 pixels to the
right and 100 pixels down from the top of the
browser window.
With the relative modifier you can specify
millimeters (mm), picas (pc), pixels (px), and where you want an onscreen element in relapoints (pt). Because of the specific nature of tion to a previously specified absolute referthe positioning element with reference to a ence. If I want to place some text adjacent to
computer screen, the default measurement the previously specified image, I could use the
value is pixels.
following code:
The absolute modifier is the easiest to
understand and is typically used the most. <8 STYLE
="position:relative; left:110; top:20">Check
When you use position absolute, your ele- out the imageaboveand to the left!</8>
ment is positioned absolutely with reference
to the top-left corner of the computer screen.
This sentence is positioned 110 pixels to the
In other words, the top-left of your browser left and 20 pixels down from the lower-right
window represents the coordinates 0,0, and comer of the image. The image (or any other
you position your element with reference to onscreen element for that matter) is though of
that value, If you want to position an image to as beingin a box. The sentence box isposiappear 25 pixels over and 100 down, you tioned away from the bottom-right corner of
the previously positioned item. In essence, the
relatively placed sentence considers the bottomright of the image as its 0,0 co-ordinate, and
positions itself relative to those co-ordinates.
These two examples might imply that you
always have to position items to the left and
down from any previous element on the Web
page. While you can't use right or bottom to
position an element, you can use negative values. If you want to position a caption underneath the image, you could use this code
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The static modifier is the default value for
the position element, and it essentially goes
back to the no)mal flow of where things
would normally appear on a page. There are
only rare occasions when it is used as it cannot be modified, and the following two lines
of code work in an identical manner:
Back to the normal
flow! 
<l>Back to the normal flow! 
If you insert this line of code and view it in

Netscape Navigator 4.x, it will appear to the
immediate left of the image, and not as you
might think, to the left of the previous sentence that was relatively positioned underneath the image.
The nice thing about the position attribute
is that it has been adopted for use since the 4.0
versions of b ot h I n t ernet Explorer and
Netscape Navigator. The only real drawback is
that not everyone is using the most recent versions of these browsers. Since positioning can
be a crucial structural part of a Web page, at
the moment it is recommended that you go
easy on using the position element.
The fact that you can make things disappear by using negative positioning means that
it should be possible to make things suddenly
appear by changing the value of the positioning element to correspond to an onscreen
position. The only problem with this is that
Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer use
different JavaScript handles; this means that
you have to program a JavaScript program
Check
knowing that users will be using a specific
out the imageabove!
browser. In most cases, this is not an option,
so what do you do?
It is possible to use negative values with
Simple. Detect which browser is being used,
the absolute modifier, to position elements so then point to the proper code sequence suitthey only partially appear or are completely able to that browser to animate a previously
off of the screen (until you call for them, hidden element. But that's for next time.... 0
which comes later).
It is worth noting that the relative modifi- Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes your comments,
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the entry to remove from the scrollable list more difficult to add because you must select
degree symbol (') is "degree," plus F3, etc. To and select Delete and then OK.
the image's code rather than the image itself,
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Insert, AutoText and select New. In the Create most simple replacements. The naming con- Tools, QuickWords, type the abbreviation and
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f you' ve already browsed through the
Holiday Gift Guide in this issue, you may
have concluded that we at The Computer
Paper are hopeless technological optimists,
blissfully unaware of any aspect of computing
that is less than delightful. In fact, we do
believe personal computing and that shiny
new World Wide Web are,on balance, much
more of a good thing than a bad thing. That' s
why we like to work here.
THE
.: LAST BYTE
250 million parts of our vaunted global technological infrastructure are likely to fail all at
once, in the middle of winter.
The Canadian share of that crash could be
two to four million failing devices. If the
breakdowns are limited to Tamagotchi cyberpets and StairMasters exercise equipment,
we' ll get by without too much pain. If the
dead systems include nuclear power plants,
natural gas networks, office buildings and
communications satellites, we could be in for
a disaster of very large proportions.
It's too late?

The date recommended by many experts for
having Y2K readiness programs in place is Jan.
1, 1999. That allows for a year of tweaking and
JEFF EVANS
perfecting to make systems that are Y2K ready
in theory, ready in reality.
The information technology (IT) departHowever, we are also aware of the limits of
technology, and the dangers of regarding a ments of the Canadian federal government,
tool for learning as computers can be as a the
big
substitute for wisdom. This may be the last national
winter for some time in which we can all relax
and enjoy the lavish gifts high technology has
:-
haven't even begun to plan how do deal with

it. We' re already out of time,
like the blood fiasco, times 1,000
To find an analogy to what's about to happen,
we have to look to other times in history
when institutions were overwhelmed by
something completely unexpected, and outside of their previous experience.
In recent Canadian history, the Red Cross
tainted blood scandal is an instructive example. The Canadian Red
Cross, a benevolent but stodgy
and slow moving institution,
was blindsided by the sudden
appearance of deadiy, initially
u ndetectable viruses in t h e
blood donor population.
It's much the same with
YZK. Power utilities, for exam-
ple, are generally moving quickly to fi x
t h eir computerized
Next year's holiday season

will have a giant, increas-
ingly scary shadow hang-
include some suppliers of Y2K-unready technology, he has little interest, or time, to

devote to owning everyone else's Millennium
problems.
- =-illI-
It's my party and I' ll cry lf I wartt to
ing over it. At the risk of

being a Grinch, I want to
share some bad news

with you, to think about
b efore the start of t h e
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tVIts81i8 -
So here's the deal. In the tainted blood scandal,

there was one other big group that declined to
get involved in a timely way. That group was
us. John and Jane Q. Public.

It was left to the victims of the tainted
blood, their poor families, and their hungry
lawyers, to try to get the Red Cross and various
governments to make amends after it was too
late.
This time, with the Y2K problem, we' ve all
new year.
Pride Uoeth before...
the INlllennlum BuoV
The personal computer industry has
consumed in the year had plenty of warning. If I am being unduly

2000. However, if you ask your alarmist about this, I' ll abjectly apologize for
provincial governmen, or power playing Chicken Little, in the February 2000
never been as vibrant, vigorous or seductive
as it is now. Those of use who"ve been around

PCs for a while are stunned by the incredible
power of the under-$1,500 home PC system.
The offerings of the PC industry this holiday
season are unprecedented in their richness,
relative ease of use and low cost,
Yet, looming over this marvelous picture is
a future with a real, yet unknown danger.
Since my last piece on the Year 2000 (YZK)
problem the so-called Millennium bug I' ve
become a good deal more convinced that it
could put a big chill on next year's holiday
season. It seems in the last couple of months
that the more digging I do, the scarier the pic-
ture that emerges.

While the mainstream computer business
has potentially big problems related to the
amazed at the number of people from all

walks of life who look briefly concerned, and
then say something to the effect of, "Well, Bill
Gates is working on something to fix the Year
2000 bug, isn't he?"
So, when the chairman of Microsoft was in
Toronto for some meetings in October, I asked
him if he was involved, or interested in getting involved, in any joint government/industry alliance to tackle the Y2K problem in
embedded systems. Gates looked at me for a
moment and then, a bit wearily, stated his
position. He and Microsoft are very concerned
about the Y2K problem as it directly affects
the Microsoft products used by Microsoft customers. Microsoft is working very hard to
identify and deal with Y2K problems in time
to beat the upcoming deadline.
Gates is not about to march into other
companies and tell them how to deal with
their YZK issues. In short, given the fact that
Gates is being vigorously prosecuted by the
billing systems, so customers U.S. Justice Department and many state govcan still be charged for power ernment, and harassed by competitors who
brought to so many of us. This may be the

last, best holiday season of this millennium.
ri s m a s>
banksand most ma jorcorporationsaregener- utility for a list of embedded devices in the

ally well along in their Y2K preparations for
PC and mainframe computing systems. The
provincial and municipal governments,mos
t
medium-sized businesses and some small
power grid, the number that are not YZK

ready, and when they will be replaced, here
are the answers you' ll get:
Everything is under control.
businessesare gearing up their efforts and may We' ll get back to you.
be mostly ready in time.
We don't know.
However, in wide-ranging conversations Wh at YZK problem?
since July, none of the "experts" I' ve talked to
In general, in fundamental power,gas and
in these organizations want anything to do telecom networksY2K preparations are either
with the embedded systems problem. I'm sure in their early stages, or have not even been
there are some people out there who are work- started.
ing on it, but the embedded systems problem
is at least IO times as big as the "standard" It ain't me, babe
Y2K problem with desktop PCs and main- When I start whining about Y2K to coworkers,
frame systems, and most o rganizations relatives and passersby in the street, I was
edition of this column if there is a column

published in January 2000, that is.
In the meantime, I pian to erijoy this holi-
day season with my family, and look forward

to playing with all the computer toys I' ve had
to review for this issue. I expect that in 1999
I'm going to be as big a nuisance as I can on the
YZK topic, until I see some reason not to be.
I urge you all to do the same: phone, fax,
email and harangue your local member of parliament, your provincial premier and the
prime minister until you start getting some
answers that make sense, As Tiny Tim said in
the Dickens classic A Chnstmas Carol, "God
bless us, each and every one." We' ll need all
the help we can get. 0
Y2K bug, it seems they are manageable. The

much bigger problem is all of the other parts
of our modem world that use inicroprocessor

technology in embedded forms. Embedded
systems are typically circuit boards or even
individual chips, and there are billions of
them buried in such things as coffee makers,
cruise missiles and medical machinery all over
the world.
According to recent articles quoting expert

opinions in respected publications such asThe
Economist,as many as five percent of the four

to five billion embedded microprocessor
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