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retically more than 15 times faster than a

56Kbps modem, it is far short of the multimegabit per second data rates ADSL is capable of again theoretically. For example, last
fall, TCPssenior editor Graeme Bennett tested BCTel's Multimedia Gateway ADSL service, which offers download speeds of up to
4 Mbps. Theoretically, ADSL offers speeds of

coupled with a

Internet service, it
provides instant Internet
a ccess from anywhere in t h e
home. (The caveat is that if you have a
portable that you use on a network at work,
you may have problems setting the portable
up to 6 Mbps downloading (the Internet to up on the HomeFree network.)
After setting up H omeFree and the
you) and 640 Kbps uploading (you to the
Internet).
Sympatico HSE service, I was able to wander
Despite the fact that Bell's Sympatico HSE freely about our three-level townhouse with
falls far short of 6 Mbps, in actual use, we' re a portable computer and access the Internet,
network cabling, or having to plug a modem finding the HSE service to be fast enough for print remotely, transfer files between cominto the phone line.
what we want to do on the Internet. For puters, and install software across the wireexample, we' ve downloaded files of around 2 less LAN using the CD-ROM drive on anothMB on several occasions in less than a er computer.
minute. And although we' ve not made any
There have been other small conveBell Symiaatlco High Speed Edition
attempt to quantify this, the speed seems niences as well. When we came across a
Internet accessservice
Kit prices: $49.95 (Ior desktop PC) to $199.95
available most of the time. With the cable movie on TV that we didn't know anything
modem service we'd previously subscribed about, we simply picked up the notebook
(for portables, includes installation)
AII kits include Ethernet card and cabling.
to, but could no longer get when we moved PC, ran an Internet search on the movie title
HSE subscription: $39.95 per month
to a different neighborhood, Internet access and found a synopsis, the cast list and sever1 Mbps modem rental: $14.95 per month
would sometimes slow to a crawl.
al reviews. As I was listening to some music
Diamond Rlnltimedia Homefree
That's not to say the Sympatico HSE has by a '70s folk singer, a search on the Internet
wireless network irit
been troublefree. There seem to be times revealed a complete discography, the singer's
Estimated price: $300-$350 (Ior two wireless
when browser performance slows as it tries to biography and a list of other artists who have

ur home computing experience has

taken a turn for the better since we
installed Bell's Sympatico High Speed
Internet service and Diamond Multimedia's
HomeFree wireless LAN. When our main
computer, located in a third-floor spare bedroom, is occupied which is almost alwaysI can take my portable and wander to any
room in the house and still have access to
the network and the Internet. All this is
accomplished without being tethered to any

the telephone
wall jack to the

high-speed

modem,

and

Ethernet cable goes from

the modem to the network card in

the PC. Once you' ve plugged in the AC

adapter and powered up the modem, the
physical preparation is done.
The supplied Ethernet card comes with
drivers on a diskette. Windows 98 recognized
the card and installed the driver after

prompting us to insert the driver floppy.

Sympatico comes with a software installation
kit, which installs Netscape Navigator and
makes the proper settings to allow access to
the Internet through the 1 Mbps modem.
However, since we were using Windows
98, we chose not to use the installation kit.
Instead, following the instructions provided
by Sympatico, we made just one change to
the Internet Explorer settings (over-riding
the automatic server configuration setting by
providing a specific URL for the HSE server),
and we were online.

When we tried to make a phone call

while surfing the Net, we detected a moderate level of line noise. But this was eliminat-

network cardsandsoftware), US$99(eachextra

find the Sympatico Bellglobal server. And covered his songs. And I didn't even have to ed by plugging in the line filter included in

PCI or ISA card), US$129.95 (each extra PCCard)

during the first three weeks with HSE, we

experienced one day in mid-March where
the service seemed to shut down altogether.
There are two systems that make this A call to the Sympatico help desk confirmed
happen: a high-speed Internet service and a our suspicions that the service was experiwireless network. Although we are talking encing "technical difficulties."
about specific products in this article, you
On the whole, however, once you' ve
should be able to achieve the same end with experienced a high-speed Internet service, it' s
similar products and services from other
difficult to go back to dial-up. With both DSL
companies.
and cable modems, you do not have to dial
Bell's Sympatico High Speed Edition up each time you want to access the Internet.
(HSE) wa s in t r oduced i n Tor o n t o, You are online each time you launch a browsOttawa/Hull, Montreal and Quebec City in
er or email software. That convenience is
December 1998. It is an ADSL (asymmetrical hard to beat. With speed, there is a definite
digital subscriber line) technology, using the issue with actual performance versus adverphone wire already present in homes as a tised performance, but when the bandwidth

get off the couch. This is home computing as

it should be.
Both t he Di a m on d Mul t i m edia
HomeFree system and the Sympatico high
speed Internet access service were moderately easy to instalL If you can install a modem,
network card or sound card, these products
s hould not s tump y ou. I s e t u p t h e
Sympatico service first, and then about a
week later, the HomeFree LAN.

Because ADSL uses a different frequency

Sympatico sent me a do-it-yourself desktop kit, which retails for $49.95. It includes
an ISA network card, a 1 Mbps DSL modem
(with a separate power supply, which is also
i ncluded), a t elephone line f i lter a n d
Ethernet and telephone cable. Setting up
involved installing the network card and the
drivers, and routing the cables to the correct
ports. The 1 Mbps modem has an Ethernet

conduit for high speed data communication. is there, it is a pleasure to use.

band, a person can access the Internet with
the ADSL modem and have aconversation
on a regular telephone handset at the same
time, using a single phone line.
The Sympatico HSE was met with some
criticism when it was launched, mainly
because of Bell's decision to use "one-meg"
DSL modems, which cap the download
bandwidth at 1 Mbps. Although this is theo-

Diamond Multimedia's HomeFree wireless network makes my list of top 10 nifty

products of 1999, but with an important
caveat. In a nutshell, HomeFree creates a
wireless LAN, connecting the computers you
have in your home without the need to drop
special Ethernet cabling. It also allows you to

set up one of the computers as an Internet

server, thereby giving all the other comput-

HSE kit.

Setting lap HomeFree

Once we had the Sympatico HSE working, we
turned to the Diamond Multimedia product.
We were quite interested in this because the
advertising literature said HomeFree also
included software that allowed Internet
access for multiple computers using just a
single connection to the Interne.

Setting upSyrnpatico HSE

Sympatico offers four starter kits: Two do-ityourself kits (for desktop or portable com-

puters), and the same hardware options that

a Bell technician will install for you for $50
more.

ers on the LAN access to the Internet. When jack and a phone jack. Phone wire goes from

Diamond Multimedia offers a couple of

variations of the HomeFree kit: one includes
an ISA and a PCI network card for use in two
desktop computers, while another includes
an ISA network card and a PC Card (PCMContinued on page 26

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Hitachi DYDEE IDE Int. (Drive Only)
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The installation procedure is straightforCIA) wireless network card for use in portable ward but quite specific. If you want other
computers. This is the one we received.
computers on the wireless network to share
The cards themselves look like network Internet access, you must choose which comcards, except for the small protruding stub in puter will act as the Internet server and
place of a cable port. The cards use a 2.4 GHz install the HomeFree software on it first. The
radio frequency signal and spread-spectrum installation program installs the wireless card
frequency hopping I'or security. The devices driver and asks you which network card you
will work at separations of up to 45 m (150 ft.), want to use to access the internet (we rnerewill communicate through walls and floors,

ly selected the one connected to the DSL

modem). You then install the wireless card copied the HomeFree installation files to a 20
drivers and HomeFree software on the rest of MB memory card, and installed the software
the machines that comprise the LAN.
from the memory card inserted into the
An old 486 ThinkPad Butterfly subnotebook we have seemed to be an ideal client for
this network. It is a little underpowered, has

no CD-ROM drive
and a broken fl
oppydrive computer on the network, all of the computso adding new software is problematic. ers have to be on and in a "polling" state
However, it is light, compact, has a decent
screen and otherwise works fine. Using
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network settings for the company LAN.
This proved to be much more complicated. I did eventually get it to work, and while
the wireless LAN portion seems stable,
Internet access from this machine is sporadic. A Diamond Multimedia spokesperson
said HomeFree is aimed specifically at the
home coinputing market, and was designed
with the assumption that home computers
are not on an existing network. When we
filed this story, we were still trying to isolate
the reason why Internet access was an intermittent service over the wireless LAN.

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HomeFree LAN.
Once the installation was complete, I
took the Butterfly to the second level, then
to the first level, of our house, and was quite
impressed to see that both the LAN and
I nternet were still accessible from t h e
portable. I took the opportunity to add
Microsoft Works 4.5 to the floppy-less, CDless portable by accessing the desktop PC's
CD drive over the wireless LAN, Yes, it was
slow, but it worked.

would benefit from high-speed Internet ser-

you can have as many as 16 computers on a

One might think HomeFree could be a good

solution for a telecommuter, who carts a
notebook computer to and from work, and

when a new computer is added, so that it too

will be uniquely identified. Diamond says

Once Iuc4y,twice cursed

Butterfly's PC Card slot.

In order for the network software to recognize and give unique identifiers to each

Is It worth It?
Wireless access to the Internet and to other
computers on a LAN has proven to be the
height of convenience. I personally feel it is
worth the premium price. The Sympatico

HSE service costs about $SS per month:

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$40 in most parts of the county where cable
modem service is available.
However, the Sympatico HSE has not
been rolled out consistently across the country. The one we tested is being offered by Bell
Canada in Ontario and Quebec. Although all
the regional telcos offer the Sympatico
brand, not all offer a residential high-speed

Internetservice.
The HomeFree system is also somewhat

r.

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and at 1 Mbps, slowerthan an Ethernet LAN. As a comparison
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puter at home was a dear sign that it

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more than 150 m (500 ft.) apart. The systems opening two browsers on one system and
use software, an Ethernet-like PCI card for simultaneously downloading files.
each computer, and telephone wires to connect the card to the wall.
llaw I testerl
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HOIIIBFree

and tethered, and the house alarmedwiring to our homes by drilling holes and which I advise everyone to do!). My teleare finding themsehm with two or more crawling though the dark recesses.After all,
phone line is not the best
I know, because I
computers in the home. Once you have the crawl space or attic is supposed to be for installed much of it.
more than one computer it only makessense things that crawl.
When I moved into this old starter house
to network them. '%e benefits are many:
sharing a printer or removable storage
device, moving files back and forth, multiplayer games, even surfing the Internet from

RF systems work by having a small trans- there was only one phone line jack I spent an
mitter/receiver on t h e n e twork cards afternoon that first summer in the dark, spi-

attached to your computers. The signals can der-filled recesses

of my crawlspace, stapling

Nomefree Phonenne Desktop Pac

pass through walls and floors and have a

two mmputas using one modem and one range of about 50 m (165 ft.). Home netInternet service provider (5P) account.
working systems that use the electrical

telephone wire to the beams and then snahng

it up tllough hastily ddlled holes. The wire

Paths to the monntalntop

There are many ways to reach the top of a
mountain. Similarly there are a number of
technologies you can use to network your
home. Recentwork by the HomeRF Working
Group and the Home Phoneline Networking
Alliance (HomePNA) have resulted in home

three little outlet mnnectors, or whatever they

are called, but needed a fourth so I used an old
rusty one I found. And yet both systems The HomeFree Phoneline Desktop Pac from
Diamond Multimedia Systems consists of
world perfectly with this wiring.
As a further challenge I tried running my two identical PCI cards, software and a coumini-LANs through two 7.5 m (25 ft.) tele- ple of telephone cords. Diamond also sells a
phone wire extension cords. That way I
Single Pac with ]ust one card for connecting
could test different phone plugs without additional computers. The m i nimum
having to physically move either computer requirements for a HomeFree LAN are
Lastly, I also tried the systems
by simply mn- 486/33-based systems running Windows 95
ning the telephone wire from one machine or 98, with 8 MB RAM, 10 MB free hard drive
to the other without going through the space, a free PCI card slot in each machine
phone lines. In the end I found no degrada- and a CD-ROM drive, of course.
tion of transfer speed in any configuration.
Before you install the cards you must
I also transferred files from machine to dedde which machine is going to be your
machine while mahng a phone calland Internet Sharing machine. This means that
found there to be no loss of transfer speed. you cannot access the Internet from the secOf course, a 1 Mbps transfer speed is not very ond machine unless the designated Internet
fast, but it is suffident for the needs of most Sharing machine is on (or you wouldn't be
home PC users. I listened for any sounds dur- ableto access the modem). Once you have
ing the call and could hear none. I also made this decision, you install the softvrare

was in I'act meant for usein a home alarm syswiring in your home plug into a regular elec- tem but it was free so I used it. I picked up
trical outlet to send and receive data from
any other point between you and the transformer that likely sits on a telephone pole on
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HomeFree Phoneline, from D i amond

Multimedia, are products that use your stanThe HomeRF Worhng Group has more dard telephone lines to connect up to 25
than 60 members, including IBM, Intel, PCs. The pmducts are both based on the
Microsoft, Epson, Diamond and many other HomePNA network standard, although only
computer product manufacturers whose the Best Data product carries the HomePNAnames would be familiar to readers of The compatible logo.
Computer Paper.HomeRF has been worhng
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accessprotocol), which would heilp ensure all

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LAN (local area network) of up to 25 devices played various multiplayer games without on the Internet Sharing machine first.
that can run concurrently with telephone any problems. Finally, I ran the browserson
Installation and setup went fine after the

be able to communicate with each other.

voice or fax calls with no noticeable effect. both machines at the same time using one usual "little tiny things that stop you dead"
There has also been ongoing develop- The HomePNA daims the technology will modem and found surf speeds to be normal. problems were fixed. In this case, the little
ment of products that use the household

work in 99 percent of North American

electrical wiring as a data conduit.

homes. Computers on the LAN may not be I suspect the results would be the same as

I didn't do simultaneous file downloads but

tiny things were:

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included program makes it plain simple.
I was afraid that the Internet connection
l. I won't bore you with the details, but I

was going to be difficult but I was wrong.

nize the card as "a non-Plug and Play

m ultimedia card" r ather t ha n t h e
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in another slot solved this glitch. It
could be that whoever installed it the

on the other computer, and if you have

Connect Automatically checked off, your
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first time (OK it was me) might not have
set it all the way in.
sharing:
You can only have up to three machines
Once over these hurdles, the setup was

access the Internet this way before you

easy, and within a couple of minutes I could

have topurchase an upgraded WinGate

licence.

suddenly pull files from one machine to the

other. The experience was a real pleasure. No When you are sitting at the Internet
this wasn't a 10 or 100 Mbps LAN, but with
Sharing PC and someone is surfing from
no fuss and little hassle I retrieve things from
my old machine without using floppies, Zip
or Jaz disks. And not having to setup another modem or printer that is cool.

You do have to assign your hard drives

the other PC, you can click on a small

icon in the tray, and watch the addresses
they are visiting.

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the WinGate software tries to logon to
the Net on boot. If I deselect Connect

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Home PC Link Kit

From: Best Oata Products Inc.
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Also quick out of the gate with its home networking product is Best Data. Best's Home PC
Link Kit costs more than the Diamond product but offers more as well. In many ways the
products are the same. They both use the
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this, and the Diamond product box does not
actually have the HomePNA logo on it, but
that is the whole point of creating a standard.
Both products use the WinGate software to
automate the setup of Net sharing. Both

allow you to access devices, such as a

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technology that it claims will enable reliable
data communications over aH types of power
lines. Speed, however, is only 115KbpsOne useful solution comes
in the form of a about twice what you get from a standard
network based on the existing wiring in your 56Kbps modem and about 100 times slower
home for both the telephone line as well as than a network connection.
your household electrical wiring. Using the
If you want to be able to go out and buy
electrical system, in particular, means you can a network based on your existing in-home
instantly create a network in almost any electrical systems, you' ll need to look at the
home. Although this idea is not new, it does third supplier we mentioned, Intelogis Inc.,
look like it has finally come of age, both in which produces something called the
terms of performanceand easeof use.
PassPort Plug-In Network,
It is a system for rreating a network for
VensIors step op to the socket
existing in-home electrical wiring that is on
A number of competing players have moved sale now (at a price of US$149.99 after a
into this market, including U.S.-based Enikia, U5$50 rebate) and claims speeds of up to 10
Adaptive Networks and Intelogis. Enikia is Mbps. It comes with adapters to connect two
probably the most ambitious of the three computers and one printer. (The company
and was one of the first to promise fuH net- sells additional PassPort PC and PassPort
working speeds of 10 Mbps over the AC Printer Plug-In adapters for US$79.99 and
wiring in the home.
US$59.99 respectively.) .
Enikia is a m ember of th e H ome
To install the PassPort Plug-In Network,
Application Programming Interface (Home you just plug some adapters into your elecAPI) Working Group. Home API is made up trical outlets, then connect those to either a
of computer and electronics coinpanies that printer or a computer via the paraffel port.
are working together to develop a common You then install Intelogis' network software
programming interface for computer control on any PCs that are connected to the netof home devices.
work and you should be ready to print, share
Home API claims to ease the development files or any other resources.
of home-automation software and facihtates
While we were not able to get hold of
the accessibility of home devices by multi- these units in time for this review of electrivendor applications. The group says its goal is cal outlet network options, it is fair to say
to accelerate the d
and deploy- that the configuration of the solution seems
ment of computer-controfied home devices to offer a lot to many home users. To start
including consumer electronics, security, with, it doesn't require the use of a network
lighting and temperature control systems.
card (thus eliminating the nasty business of
"We envision wired and wireless networks opening up your computer, finding a free
coexisting in a house and &is allows people slot and getting Windows 95 or 98 to recogto use dedicated wiring, phone line, wireless, nize the card) or any network hubs. AH those
or Enikia's power-line solution, based on the tasks are handled by the electronics in the
capabilities they want in their network," PassPort Plug-In Network boxes and the bunenthuses Enikia co-founder Bob DiHon. "It' s dled software. The bundled software also
exdting to have very different devices appear includes utilities that allow you to share a
as if they are seamlessly connected."
single Internet connection (particularly useWell, Enikia sounds great
but the comful in a house where you have a dedicated
pany has yet to ship its products and Home Internet connection from a cable modem).
API is still little inore than a goal and a set of
specifications.
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Networks, although it currently offers a more by home networking Continued orr page
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removable storage drives or scanners, from

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Where the product differ is that the Best

I didn't have any trouble with my external modem and the Diamond product but
56Kbps V.90 modem on one of the cards. Best says this could be an issue.
Data Home PC Link Kit includes a built-in

There are two benefits to this:

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2. Because the software knows what kind of

Diamond product).
The ability to use Home PC Link with NT
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sion. (The manual actually recommends

using Windows 98.) Also, like the Diamond
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still have one user connecting to AOL while

another surfs outside of that service.
Also, both products may have difficulty
the yet-to-be-released NT 5.0). This could be with programsthat try to access the Internet
very useful if other expected events take place, directly, outside of Windows. Some financial
namely the introduction of a new 10 Mbps programs also access online services directly
HomePNA standard. If this happens, and it is and may not work from the secondary comexpected to this year, the potential for video puter.
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56k Voice/faxmodemBuilt-in
1.44 Floppy n 24x CD-ROM Built-in

Intel 440GX 100mhz bus, slot 2, ATX

128MB Pe100 SDRAM DIMM
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9.1GB U2W scsi HD Quantum
i740 3D SMB AGP video card
19" ATX tower case
40x CDROM
56k voice/fax modem USR Sportstcr
Fujitsu 104 Keyboard
Intel 100BT NIC
MicrosoII Intellimousew/pad

Intel Pll -233/266/300 CPU, 512k L2 cache

32MB RAM ( 64MB...+$SO,128M.$260 )
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TFT Active True color, 1024x768
3D sound, Micmphoncdt speakersbuilt-in

Active True color TFT, Touch Pad, PS/2 port

2 PCMCIA slots ( TWO Type ll or OneType ill)
USB, infra, Parallel, serial, Ext SVGA
3D sound, Micmphone n speakersbuilt-in
NiMH Battery, ( with Lt-lon Banmy ... +$90 )

USB, luDa, Parallel, serial, Ext. SVGA port

2 PCMCIA slots,
Battery NiMH, (with Li-lon Battery ..... +$90)

AC-adpter (110-220v),

AC adapter (110-220 autoswitch),

FREE carrying case dc
Win'98 full vcr. with cd
All drivers preloadandwith cd

FREE carrying case

Intel Xeon 450mhz/512k.........$3500

Intel Xeon 450mhz/IMB.........$5690
Intel Xeon 450mhz /2M...........$7820
Intel Xeon Dual 450/5121L.......$5190
Intel Xeon Dual 450/I M..........$9090
wtttt Dual 9.1G SCSI ..............+$590
with RAID UW scsi ctrl ..........+$650
with RAID W2% scsi ctrl........+$9SD

MSWin'98 full ver. w/ CD and license

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12.1" TFf 3DII-300mhr/ 3DII-333....$1980/I990

12.1" TFT 3DII-366mhx/ 3DII400......,$20SQ/2150
133" TFf 3BII-300mhz / 3DII-333...MI50/2180
133" TFI' 3DII466mhz/ 3DII400 ....$2230/2330
with Car adapter ................+$9S
with IOBT comb card ......+$80
with lo/lOQ BT card ........+$110
with 56k gz ID/I DD Lan ...+$330

with ATX Redundant Power ...+$450

HP8000/800QN/8000DN....................$3 I 80/3540/4190

HP8100/8 lOON/8100DN........................$3860/4180/4690
HP Colorl
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HP ColorLaser 8SQQ/8SDQN/8SDDDN..$8690/9780/12890
HP OJ 635C color printer/copy/scan/fax.................$680
HP laser 3100Xi printer/copy/scan/fsx.8p...........$l090
Color Plotter/ HP accessories ..........www.ATIC.CA

Hitarchi DVDS / Toshiba DVD3,.........,.,.$150/160

Creative DVD3 Encore x5 kit.(mtail)................$315

Seagate TR- 4-SG int./ext .....................$290/380

Seagate DAT 44G 4mm int/cxt ...,.................$96Q/1150

Toshiba DVD2 / Black DVD3 drive ...Sl20/250

Toshiba DVD3 kit (w/deccrder, disks...,).......,$330

SONY DAT SOQDi4mm4G4G drive..............,....$990

HP DAT G 90mm / 44G l25mm ...$890/l050
Vipower PCMClA Reader iut fcr desktop ...............$90
ZIP 100M int eide /parallel.......,.....,.......,......$100/165
Z1P lDQM scsi int/extf USB ........,............$165/210/210
Zlp Plus scsi int. / paralleL..........................,...$240/24

SOUND CARD
SoeadBlaster l6 /AWE6...,......,........,$35/52
SB PCI t28 / PCI 256Value /Live..................,$65/8M6Q
Diamond Mx300 / TurtleBesch .... $129/$169

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Creative 36x /Toshiba32x .Eide / EPO 40x.... $65/75/65
Acer Qx I EPO48x / Black Tcshiba 32x....$65/80/1QQ
36x scsi Pioneer/SONY/foshiba/.............Sl ID/l30/140
Backpack 16xparallel slinunedwith sound...........$290

Lexmark

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Stylus 440/640/740 .............$160/255/360

Stylus 800 (l440dpi)/850 (PC/Mac)..........,..$420/528
Photo Stylus 700 720x720.............................$530

Brother

HP 7200i eide Rewriter Retail l 6x4x2x.............$295

HP glQQi /gl lei eidc Rewriter 24xx2x...$380/385
Sony CRX100 kit / CRX200 kit..................$395/495
Ysmaha 4416sscsi l 6x4x4xia / kit /E..$430/470/430
Plextor l2xgx4x int/ext ..............$530/660
Plextor 20x8xx int/ext .............$620/730
writesble cd-disk /Soay ............,...St.ge/2.5
Rewritesble cd-disk/Sony.......................$16/20

HL1020/l 040DX/105QDX....................$370/44D/530

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ATX IS'/19"/23" case &power......................$55/60/95
InWin ATX case l 7" / 24'* gcpower.........,.........$80/100
Clio-ll ATX 19" I Server 2-in- I Redundant.........$80/550
Landmark 19" ATX-200 /ATX-299 plastic..........$85/l20
Mouse /'Logitech 2B / Logitech 3B (PS2)...,....$8/12/18
MS Intel liMousePs/2 / USB.................................$35/80
LogitechMouseMan 3B /MouseMan+.........,......$30/70

Logitech MarblemousePs2 /USB ........, ...............$85/95

Logitcch Internet KB / cordless
mouseckKB.....$75/l 39
104KB /Fujitsu8725 / Fujitsu 4725................$12/19/60
MS Natural / TouchPad KB...............................$4Q/65
MS natural USB / USB keyboard.........,....,.......,.$75/30
Scsi cable/ Wide scsi cable.............,........$10/IS
over 4 devices cable (scsi/UW scsi)........,...................$35
Ext. Scsi cable / 25p-HDSOp/25P-HD68p...$25/40 /40

ext. Scsi cable (any pin to Centronics ).....$40

Rock mounting IDE/SCSI drawer..............$22/2
R ock m o u n t i n g V W - sc s i . . . . $ 5 0
Printer cables 6ft/tOIt/25ft......................$5/10/tg
Modem cabies/Laplink cables....................$10/15
CcrelDraw 8 /Winpaxpro v.8................,.........$360/138
Antivirus Norton/MaCafee..................................$69/69
Partision Magic V3 / Norton Utilities...,.............$85/100
Simply SpeakingGold / Simply Accocmting............$169

Zip disk / laz disk IG / Jsz 2G....................$15/110/165

lAZ traveler SCSl to Parallel adapter....,...,...,........$60
ORB 2.2G int EIDE / Sylct 1.5 scsi iut.............$290/330
ORB 2.2G disk/ Sylet1.5 disk .........................$65/ 98
Trsven TRl/TR3/TR4................................$25/3S/40
Lsl 20 superdrive int. I disk ......................,..........$120/48
DAT disk DDS-2 / DDS-3 ...................................$25/40

Yamaha M28 w/Sub kit / MT10..............$tl5/180

Akcc ACS44/4S. t/48/ADA305........$95/ I 25/195/240
Creative MicrcWorks /PCWorks 4point......$340/140
Mcriophone / Headset......................,.......,........$8/I5

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Coral WP Stit 8 .................,.............,.........460
MS Ogice Pro 97 cct .......,.................,..............43QD
NI 4.o Sewer to caen I Wcxttstatiorc ....--- $99W200

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KP620QC (USB) / 6250C ,...,.,...........$510/590
HP Dac-Feeder I T spsreacy fcr 6100C..............$615/820
UMax 1220p / 1220/ USB........................$175/270/315
Acer clot Oat ssuaerparallel 620P/6208...............$160/280
Vigcr Flat bed color .............,.....,.......,..............,......$110
Epsca636/636pm...............................,......,.........$730/1630
AGFA Suspscsa1212P/ 12 12S...............................$1 78/290
Canon scan 320p/628p .............................$160/230

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Miro DC 30 Plus ....................................SII90
Kodak DC220 ZOOM / DC260 Digital......$790/1190
Zoltrix Capture card andCamera ..........................$190

TV connection ( TV -Tuner).................,........,....,.$120
Logitcc VC / Home /pro..........................g 10/150/I
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PCMCIA lOBT Etherne comb ......................................$90
Xircom I ODBT...,....,.............................................$210
Xircom IODBT + 56k fax modem realpott .....................$490
3COM 10/IOOBT PCMCIA ( 3CXFE575BT) cardbus..$220
3COM 3 7 5 7 4 - T X 10 / 1 0 0 L A N l 6 b i t . . . . $ 2 10
3COM 1DBT (3CXE589DT)/1 DB Com (3CXES89DC)...$190/260
3COM 3 C CM I 56 B 5 6 K g l o ba l m o dem . . . . $320
3COM 56K V90 Fax modem w/ Cellu support (3CXM556).$325
3COM 56K with 10/I DOBT LAN ........................................$440
3COM 52900 128k ISDN PC card U int......,. ..................$530

3COM52903 128k ISDN PC card S/T int...............................$475

Intel Etherexpree Pro lOOBT PCMCIA 16bit.......$220
Intel EtherExpress Pro Plus 10/100 PCMCIA ...$370
Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 with 56k v.90 modem ...$490

Batteries, Sound Cards, Backup, SCSI

t6 bit tSA comb tOBT / 32bit PCI comb..............S20/ZS

32 bic PCI te/100BT Ethernet...............................$35
0-Link DE-SSOCT te/lODBT ...........,...........$35

Intel Pct Pro to/teo / Server Pro.....,..................S80/t35

3COM PCI 3C90D comb teBT..............................$120
SsaC t2088T PCI / 8416 tSA/8432 PCI .$34/D/605

GNTSOQQsubwooferkit / Eastern 40l6 ......$60/78

OL8W 600dpi laser.....................................$370

9pin 320/321/390/39 1 ........................$450/610/480/63D
2pin 520/521/590/59 l.......................$540/730/62Q/900

Zip 250 Parallel/ USB ....,........................$275/27S

JAZ 2G scsi int/ext .................................,....,.$450/520

3COM PCI 3C905 looBT.............,...,......,.......,......$80

Tnner Tacan cvn'trcn .,.....,...,...,.............,.......$36

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HP T5000 / ext 2.5G-SG .....,....,...................3250/380

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Canon, eWinbook, NetbookScepter, and other clones ........

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HP DI 34DC/69SCrrt2C................;.........,..$385/220/360
HP 8&OC/ 89SC / I i2QC...............................$380/530/655
HP 2000C /200DCN ........,..................,..........Sl l80/1670
HPI 1 00gppm2M/2100 SP2M ......................... $595/l030
HP4000 /4QQQT/4000N /4OOOTN..$1600/1850/2090/2350
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4030CDS C11300/64M/4.0G/ I 3.3" DSN/Win98
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cxt. parallel CD-ROM 36x / with power .......................$195
ext scsi 36x CD-ROM with case .,.........................$210
24x Bantam Ultra light CD-ROM parallel ....................$350
24x Bantam CD-ROM with sound Parallel ...................$430
32x Backpack cd-rom parallel / with sound ............$300/360
NewMcdia sound / game port......,......,.........,........,..$280/80
NcwMcdia SCSI D b2 5
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Nogatcch PCM CI A T V tu n e r . . . . .,.. . ....,.....$385
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Universal cascCUN I / Lcathcr case CLN l...............$80/105
Platinum Lcathcr case CPLC I / Travclcr CL86......$210/198
Koskin case CKN2/Convcrtiablc case CCB1..............$80/70
Encore Air Leather case CELI A ...................................$200
Battery NiMH / Li-ion for Nctbook........................st to/180
Battery for Toshiba/IBM/Compaq/Sharp/Canon......Preorder

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NT Worksmtion 4.0 / license.......,......,....,..szte/$6D

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can bemore than one ServerCapable computer, but at any given time all Internet

of the protocols are installed and configured

The initial release of ActionLink cannot
automatically. It is not necessary to get your use high-speed Internet connections like

with an Internet service provider gSP), then

it is possible to install additional software to
enable the sharing of the modem, phone
line, and account. I decided to defer that
until I tested the basic network connectivity.

access requests are routed through the same hands dirty with TCP/IP intricacies.
computer.
I went to th e computer without the
A computer running Windows NT must modem, and clicked on my Web browser. After
be designated as Server Capable. This can about 30 seconds, I had Internet access. If the
cause problems if the computer doesn't have other computer had been online to the ISP, the
a modem. I discovered this issue the hard access would have been immediate. Two users
Up and running
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.time, and as long as no large file downloads are
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jack sharing." I wanted to be sure that a computer could share a jack with a phone, at the technical expertise on the part of the user. All expected with the modem being used.
same time. This approach to networking

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Latest ina progression of LANs

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would lose a lot of appeal for me if two

phone jacks were required in a given room,
one for the computer and one for the phone.
In fact, that is not the case. The NIC connects to the jack directly, and the phone connects to the NIC. A modem, internal or
external, can be added to the mix. I made a
phone call while copying some files between
the two computers, and didn't have a problem with either task.
The second area I checked was speed, The
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bandwidth media, including up to 200 channels of analog television, digital video and

s mid-1999 approaches, high-speed music, Internet service, and local online

DSI. Internet services that use regular
hone lines are Anally being rolled out

community channels, delivered to both the

home PC and home TV, but limited to a
by many phone companies across Canada. fixed location.
These services offer from 15 to more than 50
times the download speed of a traditional tele- Think globally, act locally
phone modemconnection theexactcapad- Shaw has invested more than $200 million in

ty varies from one phone system to another. the last five years to upgrade and enhance its
The cable companies, which had seized technical facilities, with the result, it claims,

the high bandwidth high ground with their

that it is the leading provider of a complete

cable modem Internet services, are being challenged to shew why consumers should continue to go with cable Internet services when
a completehigh-speed Internet package is
now being offered as part of regular phone

"wired home" service in Canada. Shaw repre-

service, Shaw Cablesystems, with o ver

700,000 subscriher households across Canada,
has risen to the challenge with a wide range of
new or enhanced services, induding digital
cable TV (DCT), the ShawTV community

As part of its announcements in midMarch, Shaw invited the Mayor of the town

sentatives claim the company has done a better job of going "the last mile" to the individual home subscriber than any other high-

speed Internet service provider in Canada.

ef Vaughan, Lorna Jackson, to preside over

the launch of ShawTV, a 24-hour commurIity online service in the greater Toronto
information channel, an d u p graded region. ShawTV is leveraging the subscriber
loyalty that has been cultivated through
Shaw@Homecable modem services.

years of community programming produced

Inside the tilass house
At a special press briefing at the Shaw
Cabiesystems main offices in Richmond Hill,
just north of Toronto, TCP was shown a
large, modern network data centre devoted

by its local cable stations with an interactive,

online version.

Shaw has allocated resources to allow subscribers to contact the ShawTV service via
email or phone, and put local community
to high-speed transmission of a wide spec- announcements on the Shaw Web page, The
trum of information services. The Richmond result is a degree of true community interacHill facility is the heart of Shaw's Canadian tivity, arId an up-to-the-minute community
operation, which currently irIeludes about information channel for Shaw subscribers.
100,000 Internet customers, and about
40,000 DCT customers, with thousands of PIUltal teleVhlen and beyond
In the majority of Shaw subscriber areas, for
new subscribers being added every month.

Using a huge concentration of high- $10.95 per month, or by purchasing a $299

speed servers, satellite lirIksand high band- digital cable terminal, home subscribers can
width fibre optic lines, Shaw is determined to add digital television (DTV) capability to
Stay On the leading e4ge Of the infOrmation
wave. It even hopes to challenge the phone
companies on their home turf of voice telephony with a competitive IP telephony service to be launched sometime in the future.

CableInternet services share some fea-

their cable service. DTV offers higher video

resolution and better digital audio quality
than conventional television or radio, and
also allows for p r emium p ay-per-view
movies on demand, and other special interactive services.
As the first Canadian cable service to pro-

tures with telecom company services such as

Sympatice, or general online services such as vide DTV, Shaw is offering a range and qualAmerIca Online (AOL), but they have their ity of services that neither the telephone
own peculiar and unique characteristics. For companies nor the direct to home (DTH)
example, cable companies can only offer satellite TV services can match. Shaw repretheir services in the districts where they have sentatives told TCPthat, in contradiction to

been granted a cable licence

in effect, they
are local cable TV monopolies.

the common public perception of cable TV

companies as uncaring monopolies, Shaw

As well, the cable modem services are realizes it is in a tough three-way race with
the telcos and satellite operators. It is spend-

totally "home-based" if you are a traveling

professional who wishes to dial in for email
from a hotel or office far from home, you

ing substantial amounts of money not just

for shiny new gadgetry, but for better tech-

would have to subscribe to a second online nical and customer support, and for comservice to handle your "roaming" connectivity needs (Shaw represerItatives claim that
they will institute a North America-wide
roaming connectivity option later this yearj.

munity-based information services, in the

belief that it will gain and keep its increasing
number of subscribers by offering the most
complete, pleasant and economical services

This then, is the tradeoff offered by cable to the wired homes of Canada. 9
Internet providers: the richest mix of high

Shaw Cablesystems, http Jiwww.shaw.ca

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guage skills needed to connect PCs together."

Epigram has earned some credibility in

the field. It demonstrated 10T phone line
connections last fall, at t h e Las Vegas

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"We said we were going to complete a spec

back in '98 and we did it with 1 Mbps technology. We said we were going to test the
spec across the U.S. in real home environments and we did."
Lucent, working with Epigram, hopes to

Lucent says the new agreement "blends tors. We recognize that a successful proposal
Lucent's system-on-a-chip, communications
semiconductor, and home networking expertise with Epigram's expertise in VLSI [very
large scale integration] architecture and
high-speed data communications over new

requires the backing of more than one com-

pany."
The HomePNA called for specification

submissions early in February and more

alliances like Lucent and Epigram may be in

Comdex computer show. It also supplies the submit its proposed version of the 10 Mbps media."
the offing. HomePNA wants to publish the
chipsets used by many system-level vendors. HomePNA specification sometime next quarEpigram's Jeff Thermond, president and final 2.0 specification in the second half of
In addition to 3Com, its investors indude ter. The two firms cross-licensed significant chief executive officer, commented, "We this year. CI
Texas Instruments, the NetGear division of portions of their technologies as part of the
Nortel, and Panasonic.
deal, according to Stein, partly in order to
Also, Cisco Systems, working on a refer- accelerate the development process.
ence design that some analysts think will
become a standard for bringing outside
broadband connections into homes, used
Epigram c h ipsets a t
the Co n s umer
Electronics Show (CES) for a consumer network rollout, Stein says.
HomePNA has put a high priority on the
10 Mbps upgrade. Cyrus Namazi, who heads
the HomePNA from his day job at AMD, said
the rapid growth of the organization mem-

bership companies rose to over 60 earlier this

year indicates the industry's high interest
in the technology.
"Actually, we' re right on target with what
we set out to do when we launched the
alliance back in June, last year," said Namazi.

ActionTec eases home networking

Continuedfrom page 49
I started with a two-node LAN, using two
Intel EtherExpress cards and thin coax
cable that w ere p art o f a Mi c r osoft
Windows for Workgroups Starter Kit. I' ve
added additional computers and an eightport 10Base-T hub with a BNC connector
over the years. I have computers on my
LAN connecting with 10Base-T or thin
coax, as appropriate. I can add any of a
number of industry standard devices to
expand my LAN, such as additional hubs
and switches, if I want to add computers or
bandwidth. However, adding computers to
the network in distant rooms presents a
cabling challenge.
The ActionLink Kits for two PCs can be
purchased for low as US$72. I would expect
Canadian prices to be in the $120 range.
Let's compare that with the cost of a
two-node Ethernet L AN : a fo u r -port
Ethernet hub is about $75; Category 5
cabling is in the vicinity of $1 per foot;
brand-name 10/100 Ethernet cards start at
'around $40 each; and Internet access sharing software is an additional purchase since
it is not part of the Windows OS (the next
Windows 98 upgrade betas have included
this feature, however), so let's say $60. The
total is over $200.
It's clear that an Ethernet LAN, of the 10
or 100 Mbps variety, is faster than an
ActionLink LAN. It is also more expensive,
particularly with long cable runs, and more

difficult to setup, particularly with Internet

access sharing. Then there's the question of
unsightly cabling. It will cost you hundreds
of dollars if you hire a cabling professional
to make it disappear.
The trade-off is clear. If you must have 10
or 100 Mbps performance, and you want to
share your cable or DSL modem, the traditional choice makes a lot of sense. If you can
a ccept the 1 M b p s bandwidth o f a n
ActionLink LAN, and you want to share

your 56Kbps connection to the Internet,

you gain an integrated, and easy-to-install
solution for home networking that's priced
to sell. 0

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with something to sell. (As a business-to-

business process, eaommerce is achieving

high levels of integration with a corporation's other accounting and procurement
systems, and we will not deal with that subject in this article.)
As a consumer, you may find that you
increasingly treat portions of the Web as a
combination shopping mall and mail-order
catalogue. Last year, Evans Research Corp., a
Toronto technology market research firm,

items were music, financial

products, travel, tickets for
events and clothing.
An Evans spokesperson
said he hadn't analyzed
the most current data,
but you just have to
look around to see the
unmistakable signs of
growth. From the recent
stock frenzy surrounding
the online auction site
bid.corn, to the visibility of
sites such as amazon.corn,
there's a lot of attention being paid
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three percent said they bought goods weekly.

billing arrangements among the regional tel-

cos make eCharge available across Canada.

Another eCharge spokesman, Erica Beyer,
says the B.C. chapter of The Canadian Cancer
Society has also signed on to the eCharge service. Surfers can make donations to the society online, and have the amount show up on
their phone bill. She says in the U.S., groups
like the American Red Cross and other health
organizations are eyeing the service as a way
to reduce the high cost of processing small
Just biii me
One of the latest wrinkles to make online donations, such as $5 personal cheques. She
buying easier for you was announced by says another type of service they see fitting
BCT.Telus (the merged B.C. and Alberta well with eCharge is magazine subscriptions.
Presently the eCharge works with
telco) and eCharge Corp., which is based in
Vancouver and Seattle, Wash. The two com- Internet services that use a telephone dial-up
panies have launched a service that allows connection. The company states that supInternet shoppers to bill their online pur- port for cable modems, ADSL and ISDN conchases to their telephone account. According nections is scheduled for later this year.

to the company, if you choose tobuy aprod-

uct or service on an eCharge-supported site, Service collectlves

you are diverted by eCharge software to a 1- For retailers trying to set up a virtual store900 number, where a transaction takes place. front or catalogue outlet, there seems to be
You are then reconnected to the Web site, an often-confusing array of services available.
and the charge for the product shows up on One trend-is the rise of service collectives' groups of companies with diverse skills comyour next phone bill.
BCTTelus says the eCharge service was ing together under an umbrella company to
rolled out in Canada at the World Ski and offer an end-to-end e-commerce package to
Snowboard Festival held in
Wh i stler/ the retailer. The retailer has a single point of
Blackcomb in B.C. on April 9-18. By going to contact, reducing the need to become

released results of its residential Internet user

study. It found that 56 percent of respondents in its study said they had purchased
goods or services on the Internet. Of those
who did buy over the Internet, 39 percent http://www.wssf.corn, customers could order
said they made purchases monthly, and ticket packages for the event.

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wants to see $1,000 charges on their phone

bill." He said for the snowboard festival, a
two-ticket package sold for as much as $120,
and this was probably at the upper end of
what people are willing to see appear on
their phone bill. Although the service is
being launched by BCT.Telus, reciprocal

eCharge spokesman Geoff Davenport

The items most frequently purchased told TCP that although there is no technical

online were computer software, computers limit to the size of the transaction, there is a
and peripherals, and books. Other popular psychological zone of comfort: "No one

involved in all of the steps in the e-commerce

chain, from designing a Web site and online
catalogue to obtaining a merchant credit card

account. A couple of Canadian servicecollectives that have come on the scene are the,
eMerge Alliance, and nGage.

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far-reaching in scope, capability and purpose that it is part of every
sector of the commercial world from manufacturing to banking to
distribution to retail operations. It is the future and it is arriving fast.
By Geof Wheelwright

the traditional electronic data interchange

(EDI) applications of the past.

efore diving too far into the ocean of

new electronic commerce (e-commerce) developments, it is worth taking a step back and looking at how we got
here. The truth is that each industry sector
arrived at e-commerce from an entirely different direction, and yet they have all converged at a single point in time: right now.
Banks started on the road to ewommerce
in the late 1970s with research into what
was then known as the EITS (electronic
funds transfer system). The arrival of automated teller machines (ATMs) was the first
step down this road a road that eventually
led to the creation of Interac in Canada and
similar "debit card" services worldwide.
By 1994, most banks were offering some
form of telephone banking service, and
eventually began offering "PC banking" via
dedicated phones shortly thereafter. With
the explosive growth of the Internet and the
World Wide Web, however, banks quickly
came to realize they would have to do better
than that to survive in a rapidly changing
world. This represented a big challenge as'
banks were not renowned for being particu-

larly good at changing quickly.

In just three years, however, we have
seen all major Canadian banks make enthusiastic jumps to the Web. They now offe bill
payment, transfer between accounts and
even some limited form of investment in
securities online.
Retail outlets, led by upstart companies
that didn't exist a few years ago, have also
made a fast transition, although not always
a smooth one. For many, it has meant not
only hanging out a shingle in cyberspace
but also redesigning their entire business
process to handle online business efficiently.
Manufacturing companies, distribution
firms and others that are typically one step
removed from the retail business have also
embraced ewommerce in the form of "business-to-business" electronic transactions
that have become a natural outgrowth of

E-commerce enci you

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Launched in February at Internet World
Canada in Toronto, the eMerge Alliance members are Inex Corp., Lasso Communications,
Valu-Net Corp. and Citibank Canada. Inex
offers Web storefront creation and management tools, lasso specializes in marketing and
branding, Valu-Net has credit card payment
software, and Citibank offers the credit card
transactions infrastructure.
Winnipeg-based n Gage
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Commerce's service was rolled out just over a
year ago by MIS Advanced, a division of

Once you get customeFs online,

how do you Ietthem to come hack?

Customer loyalty in the world of ecommerce is something of an oxymoron. After
all, when you only have a virtual store to
impress and entertain your customers, how
do you keep them loyal?
You can't offer free coffee, doughnuts or
have a sidewalk sale in the traditional sense.

And you' re probably already working on

about: US$6 billion that has taken a sharp

turrt toward multimedia and electronic

publishing in the last decade,;+.," ';;..-Whi1i..several rif the company's clients

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businesses-including

keting, selling and self-service is the buzz in

the CRM industry today," says Tim Bajarin,
major U.S, newspapers
TIM's director of
president of C a l ifornia-based Creative
marketing, Ed Manning, says the compaStrategies Inc.
ny's "online profit solutions" can be beneHe suggests that products such as the
ficial to smaller enterprises.':":;.:
recently announced Pivotal eRelationship
Manmng says TIM is "the first fully
software from N o rt h V a ncouver-based
integrated Internet suite designed to help
Pivotal Software can help develop and track
.bring, buyers and seIlers togethec" The
electronic customer relationships. "It is a
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ries, and Web site builders supports streamway it seamlessly integrates the Web with
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the existing CRM model, and especially

because of the way it brings selling partners

online to interactively collaborate in the
CRM process," he adds,
Pivotal says its eRelationship software is
a "next-generation" electronic CRM application suite that consists of two integrated
Web applications. Pivotal says this allows
companies to build "Internet relationship
hubs" for conducting online marketing,
sales and customer service with enterprise
Web customers, sales and service partners,

pretty thin margins to stay competitive, so

it's going to be hard to keep customers loyal
just by cutting prices.
It's easy to say you' ll use the Web to track
your customers' preferences and respond to
them, but your customers may object to
that and your competition will be doing it
anyway.So how do you make a difference?
A lot of companies are beginning to look
for answers to these questions as the "second
wave" of exommerce gets under way. The and prospects.
first wave has been dominated by pioneers
The first of these applications is known
such as Amazon.corn, CDnow, e-Bay, e*trade as Pivotal eRelationship PartnerHub, which
and others who respectively opened up the Pivotal boasts will provide a company's sales
market for online retail sales of books, music and service partners with personalized
CDs, auction items and securities.
access to selling, marketing, and customer
These companies won customer loyalty information that allows them to collaborate
because customers didn't have a lot of other over the Internet.
choices. They also won the confidence of
Meanwhile, Pivotal claims that the secthe general public by reliably and srcurely ond application Pivotal eRelationship
allowing consumers to use credit cards to CustomerHub will allow companies to
make online purchases. In other words, they extend Web sites with interactive capabilionly had to do their jobs to keep customers. ties for what it calls "one-to-one marketing
In this second wave, however, it is too and customer self-service."
late to merely be first in the market. And
According to Pivotal Software president
even if you were first in the market, you and chief executive Norm Francis, this kind
now have competition and a lot of it.
of software can heip business partners and
So a number of companies are now look- their customers conduct "personalized busiing at the idea of "developing a relation- ness" online. "[It is] where a myriad of front
ship" with their online customers as a way office activities are unified to result in oneto achieve loyalty during the second wave. to-one marketing, sefiing and customer serAnd they are turning to customer relation- vice," he says. "Put simply, the first compaship management (CRM) software as one nies that exploit the potential of I nternet
way of helping establish that relationship.
relationship hubs will have an unparalieled
"Using the Internet for interactive mar- competitive advantage." 0
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc, Like the solution to their customers without having
eMerge AlliancenGage Is a service collective of to become experts in financial transaction
companies specializing in transaction process- processing, secure credit card payments, etc.
ing, accounting, and secure credit card proIn February, Vancouver-based Multiactive
cessing as well as Web site design and hosting. Technologies and nGageannounced an agreeLast summer, nGage announced ment under which Multiactive will build the
Commerce Express, browser-based cata- nGage transaction system into its ecBuilder
logue-building software that allows a busi- Pro. ecBuilder Pro is Web site and catalogue
ness to create and manage an online cata- creation software developed by Multiactive. 0
logue with as many as 10,000 items.
eCharge, htIIK/Iwww.echarge.corn
nGage has also developed some interesteMerge, http;/lwww.lasso.net/mirrors/emerge/
ing partner programs, For example, the
Multlactlve Technologies,
Certified Agent Program offers a way for
httpi/www.multiaciive.cont
Web site designers to offer a full ewommerce
nGago, htIIzl/www.ngage.net

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'; photography, maps, and session-tracking

,: information. Following are some of the
suite's elements: - i.".,;.:.,

':"~V'CIassi8ed IQ: Clients using this service

,. send in.ad text, which Classified ICI.parses
and make's:searchable. TIM says the resulting
ads support email, hotlinks, photos, video
and archiving, and can be searched using
Classified IQ's multi-level search engine,
,:,.',:.Encore Site Builder: The only thing
required to create sites with this product is

a Web browseraccording to TIM, Through

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

active sites are searchable on several levels.

In a matter of days, TIM says it can also
create osstomized branded templates for
clients to give each site in an online directory or community a c o mmon l ook.
Encore sites support maps, linksemail,

photos,.video and 360-degree immersive

photography. They incorporate multiple
levels of security, and generate reports.
:">,". Directory Express: This service creates
online directories, catalogues and other
listings, which can then be linked to automatically created Web sites. For example, a
client can create a wedding directory using

this service, and site visitors could search

for services thI.y need, such as. musicians,
After typing in their criteria, a list of performers matching it is generated, From the
, list, the directory visitor can then click on
' the name of a band, link to its site, and
explore its photos, audio and video clips.
They can also book the band through the

:; Web site,. Sy assigning-a password.to the

' band (or err'any busiriess in such a directory), It cari'modify, rebuild or enhance the
site itself. bsting entries and site modifica, tion are done online in'.real time. Because

sites are buIlt."automaticalIy," maintaining

a directory or listing service is simplified.

:--.-,"::TIM's Web site indudes a tour" of

" these: and.' other services-Iri; the.:suite,

::. includbg those tailored:to,. particular mar; gets such as. real estate.
Megan Johnston
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software companies, for example, can now

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choice for peernetworking, but most peernetworks these days use some version of
Windows. Every version of Windows since
Windows for Workgieups in 1992 has had
appropriate solution for offices with a small peer-networking capabilities, which may be a
number of computers, but even then, a ded- partial explanation for its popularity. A peer

when there is no diskette in that drive can

lead to problems.
When a computer that i s sharing

resources is down, the entire LAN can slow

down because the other computers that are

mapped to its shared resources will keep

making automatic attempts to reconnect. A
partial solution to this problem is to select

the properties of Client for Microsoft

Networks, and to choose Quick Logon
instead of Logon and Restore Network
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on to the LAN, but your mapped drives are
net reconnected until you use them. The

network can consist of any combination of

icated server leads to better results.
Why write about peer networks at all'P The computers running Windows for Workgroups,

alternative choice means that Windows

reason issimple, and practical. There are a lot

of them around, and they won't goaway. SoI
may as well try to offer someuseful advice.
In a situation where computers are in
short supply, and dedicating one to the serv-

ves that may not be active, which may lead

Windows 95/98, and WindowsNT. However,

makes repeated attempts to reconnect to dri-

to keep things simple, assume Windows 9x is to a very sluggish computer.

Sacking up data is a vital task in any busibeing used in the following examples.
Microsoft's NetBEUI protocol is a good ng situation. When the data is stored in
choice for a small netwerk, peer or dedicated several places rather than one, the task
er function is not fkasibie, there's no alterna- senrer. It's a fast protocol, with no configura- becomes mere difficul. Depending on users
tive. This often happens in the home, where tion settings. TCP/IP, on the other hand, is to backup their local drives doesn't work.
there are two or three computers, but fewer highly configurable. In a small network, You may use a carrot, a stick, or both, but in

printers and modem/phone line combina- that's not a good thing. There are other postions for accessing the Internet. There are sibilities, but none worth discussing for the
some attractive new products for home net- purposes of this article.
As for security options, there's only one
working, as the main feature steries in this
that can be implemented on a Windows 9x
issue of TCP point out.
In a business setting, it is harder to accept peer LAN: share-level security. This means
the compremises of a peer network In the each shared resourcescan be protected with
past year, I' veencountered only one scenario a password. Unfortunately, th password is
where a network without a dedicated server the same for all users, soonly one user needs
made sense. Accounting firms send out a to disclose his or her passwordfor the whole
team of professionals to conduct external network to be breached.
Perhaps the biggest problem with a peer
audits. Very small businesses
might be visited by a single individual, but usually several network is unpredictability, and there is no
accountants arrive with their portable com- straightforward way to address it, If you want
to access Ales in a shared directory on
puters, and set up shop for days orweeks.
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tants I'm familiar with has found it useful to isn' t, you can turn it on yourself, but you' ll

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password, you"il have to access

the files in that
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puters have Ethernet cards. A small hub, can then take them back to your computer on
10Base-T cables, and a little configuration, a diskette, but I wouldn't call that networking.
and the local area network ~
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Unpredictability raises its head again in
running within minutes. Each of the com- other ways. A usermay forget that his or her
puters is a chent. One of the computers computer is performing server functions and
shares its printer (also brought by the team), shut it down. Data loss is one potential result
and one of the computers (possibly the same of doing this, but frustration and loss of time
are certainties. Something as trivial as the
one) shares a data folder.
Lantastic used to be a popular software local user dicking on the Floppy A icon

about responsiveness.
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but they are not available immediately.
On the other hand, it is easy to track how medium. For successful Web sites, this
need to do much advertising to get their many people go to a Web site through a sim- should make advertising sales a lot easier.
"shrink-wrapped" product through tradi- names in frontof the cyberpublic, compa- ple "visit counter." This gives advertisers a Web site publishers can show that their sites
tional retail channels, but the cost of deliver- nies entering an increasingly established very real sense of how many people they generated a specific amount of traffic to a
ing the allAigital product via the Web site is online marketplace will need every possible reach in a particular week, day or hour. They customer's Web site.
This may, in turn, lead to an even mere
far lower. So it makes agreat deal of sensefor promotion tool to get their voices heard.
can also track how many of those visits
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cally attractive online consumer. While

online pioneers such as Amazon.corn don' t

promoters of suchproducts to make asmany

resulted in users "clicking through" to the

advertiser's Website,
And gethng "dick-through" traffic from pop- Another strong appeal of online ads is the
Through the use of simple identifying
ular online magazine sites is a good way of ability to easily measure their effectiveness. technology, such as"cookies" (which store a
achieving that.
Demonstrating the value of print-based small, digital ID on your hard disk when you
For companiesselling a non4igital prod- advertising is very tough. It involves ana- visit a site and pass that ID back to the site
direct-delivery sales via the Web as they can.

Statistics

valuable proposition being required ef Web

publishers by advertisers. In addition to
tracking how many customers click through
to their site directly from an online publica.
tion, advertisers may also want to figure oix

how much they spend when they get there

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style" shopping, the attraction of online ads including of audited circulation figures, return visits and the identity of those visitors. browsers to your online store, but quite
will increasingly be to get the attention also and reader surveys, Not only is there a lot of
In short, Web advertisers can measure the another to bring people who can and wil
termed "mind share"~f the demographi- work involved in gathering these numbers, effectiveness of their online advertising in a spend money. 0

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TECH ENTERPRISE gp

M AY 1999

icroso t unvei s ass ort site

Microsoft wants to go shopping with you. The world's largest software company
announced plans in March to offer a service it claims should eliminate many
of the current inconveniences of shopping on the World Wide Web.
By Ceef Wheelwright

Microsoft Passport is known as "singleclick" shopping. After signing in at a "portal"

SAN FRANC5CO
At the moment, every site, such as the MSN (Microsoft Network)
time you enter an online shop and decide to Web site, you can then shop ataffiliated Web
buy something, you have to provide a long sites that support the technology.
Passport holders who begin shopping at
laundry list of personal details to complete
the purchase. For each of the purchasesyou the MSN site will also have the help of a virmake at each site, you need to key in the
details of how you will be paying for your
purchase (i.e., your credit card information),
as well as your address, telephone number,
postal code and information on your preferred method of delivery.
Microsoft has come up with a technology
that it says will allow consumers to shop
without having to repeatedly key in all that
information. It's essentially an "electronic
wallet" in cyberspace.
This is not a new idea for Microsoft, as cofounder and chief executive Bill Gates has promoted such a concept for much of the past
decade. But this particular implementation of
the electronic wallet idea could be quite useful.
Through a ne w service known as
Microsoft Passport, you' ll be able to have this
electronic wallet~long with all your credit
card information and delivery preferencestravel with you from site to site as you shop.
You' ll feel a little like the Queen, who
reputedly never carries cash with her, allowing members of her staff to deal with such
vulgar transactions on her behalf.

as American consumers
probably in late
summer or early fall.
Nickerson says reaction from Canadian
retailers so far hasbeen strongly positive. "It
is fairly new and so far we have only been
working with a few-select folks, but there is
this desire by all the Canadian retailers we
talk to [to get involved]," he says. "Certainly
there is a recognition that e~mmerce in
Canada is catching on and we are catching
up to the U.S." 0

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Passport and Compare.net services are only

a small part of a much larger effort by
Microsoft to become the key player in electronic commerce (e-commerce). The central
element of this strategy is an commerce
framework Microsoft is calling "BizTalk,"
which allows companies to conduct transactions with one another, integrate applications and exchange transaction information.
"The Internet has forever changed the
way business is conducted," Gates said at the
announcement. "With these tools, our hope
is that the electronic commerce opportunity
is opened up for everyone. You don't have to
be a big corporation with a well-known

However, the high frequency and the long

duration that files stay on the primary storage medium make this storage opportunity
significant," he said.
IDC found that the type of file that is
downloaded varies by site type. Email and
application software are most commonly
downloaded at commercial sites. At consumer sites, however, graphics files, still pictures or images, and clip art are most frequently downloaded.
IDC also found that for secondary storage
media, the accumulation of data contributes
the most to t h e storage opportunity.
However, the opportunity also varies according to site type. Commercial respondents

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Study finds Net downloading

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the Compaq Armada, which improves this tery life and allows me to get to work the
even further by giving you a second battery instant I switch it on. I also, however, typiin a carrying handle), this is not a bad alter- cally carry a notebook computer to use as
native.
my "main system," which I keep in my
The second option toachieve a "near- hotel room for doing any heavy-duty comzero" ESR is a "suspend-to-disk" mode. This puting work (such as downloading photos
simply saves (on your hard disk) a snapshot from my digital camera). The notebook
GEOF IHEEllh/RIGH7
of everything you were working on at the computer stays plugged into the wall so it is
moment you suspended the notebook. instantly ready to use when I return from a
The same is true with the average note- When you restart the machine, it reads that meeting and want to transfer notes from my
book computer that runs Microsoft Windows snapshot information and puts you back Psion or upload photos from the digital
98. You switch it on and you wait and wait where you were before you suspended the camera.
and wait. It's about as much fun, and is as computer.
Now, if I were willing to merely plunk
productive, as watching paint dry.
The advantage of this latter approach is down a whole bunch of money for one of
I am fed up with notebook computers that it allows the computer to be completely the more expensive notebook computers
that have an ESR of five minutes or more. I switched off and draws no battery power with long battery life and reliable suspend
want my documents and I want them now! while in suspend mode. On the other hand, mode, perhaps I could abandon this rather
It doesn't seem like a lot to ask, In fact, you the computer takes longer to resume opera- contorted approach to high-tech travel. But I
can already enjoy instant access to your files tion (thereby giving you a higher ESR).
doubt it. I have been caught out too many
if you use a notebook computer with a
An alternative to t h e t w o stand-by times in situations where the single machine
"stand-by" or "resume" mode (although options is to use a handheld computer such I have brought with me fails for some reason
these never seem to work quite as reliably as as the Psion Series 5, a Palm Pilot or one of or another, and I am left scrambling to find
you would expect).
the many systems based on Microsoft's another way to send my data.
There are two ways to achieve this mode. Windows CE operating system. All of these
So while it is nice to have a system with a
The first is simply to put the computer's machines have an ESR of almost zero, yet low ESR, it is not the only factor that goes
screen, hard disk and other components into they are under-powered compared to the into judging a mobile solution. Reliability
a "sleep" mode and just trickle enough typical Windows 98-based notebook com- and robustness also have to play a role, parpower through the computer to keep the puter.
ticularly when you are hauling a computer
memory intact so you can instantly resume
That is why I end up carrying at least all over the world. Inevitably it, or the bag it
working on documents. If you have a note- two computers when I travel. I always take is packed in, will get dropped at some point
book computer with long battery life (such as the Psion Series 5 because it offers long bat- or another. But that's another story 0

you, I am going to do it now. I am going

to saddle you with a new acronym one I
created myself purely for the purposes of
explaining a key principle of mobile com-

puting.
The acronym is ESR (effective speed of
resumption) and it simply refers to the
amount of time that passes from when you

flip open the lid of your moible computer to

when you can actually start working on a
given file.

I want my documents
and I want them now!
It doesn't seem like
a lot to ask
In some ways, this issue reminds me of
the days of black and white television, I am
old enough to remember a time before everyone had an "instant on" color TV in their
home, If you wanted to watch a show on one
of these old monochrome TVs, you had to
"warm up the set" before you could actually
see anything.

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ASUS V3400 RIVA TNT 16M TV&ut.........219 Acer 56K V.90 eci Voice/Fax Modem.......... 59
3Dfx VooDooll eci 12M + Game Pack.........169 USR 56K V.90 Int Modem eci/isA.........86/119
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Intel P-166 / 200mmx / 233mmx.....879 / 85 I 69 ATI 3D Xpression eci 4M...........................59 Acer 100mbpsPciEthernet Card......,.....,...32
Intel Celeron 300A (+BH6 Combo)........., ...call ATI Xpert 98 aaekz SM...............................78 D4.ink100mbps EthernetCard........,..........32
Intel Ceteron 333/366/400.....1 15/149/215 ATI Xpert 99 AGP&z
SM................,...........119 3COM 3C905BTX 100&10mbps eci..............89
Intel Pll-333 ......................................,...229
ATI Xpert 128 aeau 16IN..........................159 PCMCIA 56K Modem / Network Card....118/ 89
Intel Pg-350/400/450.............259/399/679 ATI Xpert.Play98 8M Ace/ Pcl Pc&Tv............105 Ethernet Hub5/8 I 16port.............49/69/135
Intel Pill-450 /500...........................709/999 ATI All-In-WonderPro SM aeer eci .... . ..21 9 RJ45/ RG58 Cable 10/20/50 ft......7/10/19
AMD KSII-300/ 350 ........................109/129 ATI Rage Fury Aaekz 32M eczrv................238
AMD KSIIQOOI 450 ........................179/ 299
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ATI Rage INagnum aam 32M .....,.............219
AMD K6lll~ 10 0 mhz............................439G200 Mlllenlum aae SM ..........................149 15" /17" /19" NI LR Monitor......199/319/589
IBM/Cyrix M2 300/333......................,.69/79 G200 INystique AGP 8M e .......................179
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Creative Banshee 16IN AGP
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72pin EDO 25 4 8
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Sceptrem P75A/s& D73A ............479/479
Diamond
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ViewSonic st E771 /.2& G773 ...........399/639
1 68 in SDRAM toouitz 58 1 0 5 2 0 9 57 9 Diamond "iper V5508M/16M aei',....99/169
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Video Caf.cure Card+ TV Tuner Ntsc............89
Logitech Guickcam home USB V-Camera....119 Optiquest sr Q71 / z& V73........, .......369/459
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Pentium 51 2K (AT) + 4M Video + 3D Sound 92
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Pentium Super 7 ( AT) AGP 100mhz............99 16bit psai 3D Sound Card............................17 Hansol s& V701P/s&V701A........395/335
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ASUS PSABa(AT) Super 7 AGP+3D Sound 135 Sound Biaster 16 PnP / AWE 64 ...........33/ 53 Acerview ss 99C/ MAG m XJ810.....749/709
ASUS PSA (ATX) Super 7 AGP...,.....,....135 Sound Blaster PCI 64/ PCI 128...,.........45/ 59 VieWSOniC SS 6790/Op&quest S& V95 849/749
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BX AGP (AT) + 8M AGP+ 3D Sound .........129 Speakers 4/100/140/320w....9/15/16/29
Epson Stylus 440 / 640 / 740......189 / 269 /369
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SCSI Card / UIII& / UW / U2W 65/ 75/ 159/ 359
SCSI Adapter DB25F/MiniDin 50M............19
230w AT/250w ATX Power Supplier C5/45
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By Craeme Benssett

fter two public beta versions, the offi-

cial release of Internet Explorer 5.0

(IES) is now available. We' re testing it
now, and so far it seems quite stable and
speedy (86 percent faster than Netscape

Navigator 4.5 at accessing cached pages), but

the large size of the required files makes it a
challenging download for users with slow

Internet connections. A minimum installation can take as little as 7.5 MB of disk space,
however, the full feature-set requires over
100 MB. On one of our Windows 95 systems,
the installer told us it needed 9,1376 KB free
on drive C to continue a "typical" installation. Obtaining the CD-ROM from Microsoft
is a better plan for modem users.

InternetExplorer $.0
From: Microsoft, http:I/www.microsoftcom
Pros: Faster. Improved Search Assistant helps find
email addresses, Webpagesandother types of data.
History list can now be sorted (automatically disregards the "www" prefix). Auiocomplete feature types
in Web addresses and fills in forms. Allows multiple
connection configurations, maldng it easier for users
with multiple Internet service provideis to conneci.
0piional Web view of FTPpages.
Cons: Conflicts with some video drivers. No 128-bit
version currently available However, the standard
40-bit version does include Server Gated
Ciyptography (SGC)technology, which allows international customers to conduct 128-bit transactions
with banks and financial institutions around the
woifd. Netscape Navigator 4.51 browser is slightly
faster at loading pages with mixed text and graphics.

Synchronizing with IE$

When testing this browser, one of the first
things we tried was opening another user's
desktop (some 3,200 km away, via TCP/IP) as
an Active Desktop window, using IES. In our
test, we opened the Desktop folder of a
Macintosh computer on our PC and browsed
text, Adobe Photoshop and JPEG files.
By rightwlicking on a file (or even a folder) on the remote computer, we were able to
place an Active Desktop object onto our

Windows Active Desktop, containing the

contents of the remote machine's window.
Interestingly, even though the files were not
named in standard PC conventions (as Mac

can drop by Microsoft's Web site for an

overview of these features.
The FTP functions of IES have been greatly improved over those of IE4 or earlier

ten to music or newscasts from a variety of

sollrces.
One feature from the beta did not make
the final version of IES: a "junk mail" filter.
users seldom do), IES correctly recognized releases. For example, where IE4 would com- The filter was to be included in Outlook
them. Double-clicking an Adobe Illustrator plain that "the server returned extended Express S but had to be removed after a
file yielded the Save or Open dialogue. By information" in cases where a password was California electronic greeting card company
selecting Open, we were delighted to see that required, IES provides a dialogue to enter the obtained an injunction against Microsoft,
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CorelDraw 8 (our system is set up to open password-protected directory was copied to being able to access its product.
Illustrator files with this software) embedded an IE4 user's desktop as an Active Desktop
IES can be downloaded for free from the
right inside the IES window! We could then item, the operation would fail with a "not Microsoft Web site. Microsoft strongly recview, save, print and edit the graphics fiies at supported" error. IE5 can handle this, and ommends uninstalling IES before upgrading
will from "inside" the Web browser.
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computer,
sooner or
later it will
run out.

Never mind trying to play one of the newer

games, as the minimum install on some of them
runs into tens of megabytes, and full install can easily take up .5 GB. If you have an older drive and an
interest in some of the new games, a new hard drive
would certainly be the way to go.
The variety of hard drives available now can be a
bit mind boggling. Drives are available with a number of different interfaces, and a number of different
speed ratings. What should you look for'?
Although some people prefer drives with a SCSI .
interface because of the increase in transfer speed,
the IDE format is, by far, more popular. This is
because ofIDE's ease of use there's no need to
install a controller card, as the IDE interfaces are
built into all motherboards. IDE drives also tend to
be much cheaper than their SCSI counterparts of
similar capacity. Lastly, although SCSI drives were
previously available in much larger capacities than
IDE, IDE has closed the gap so there's little difference between them in terms of size at the top end.
The most common speeds of drives at the
moment are 5,400 rpm and 7,200 rpm. For generai
consumer use, 5,400 rpm is still most common, but
some users are starting to crave the extra performance boost from the 7,200 rpm drives. If you are
A hard decision?
A more long-term solution is to install a new hard planning to run a lot of hard-disk intensive applicadrive. Computer systems that are a few years old , tions you may well benefit from a 7,200 rpm drive,
have hard drives that seem laughably small when but you should take care about the ventilation of
compared to drives currently on the market. After your system. These faster drives generate quite a lot
all, a I GB drive was pretty big news just a few years of heat, and if they' re placed into a system with
inadequate ventilation, the extra heat could shorten
back, but what could you fit on it now?
If you' re upgrading to Windows 98, the operat- the life of the hard drive and other components
ing system will take a big chunk of that right off the inside the computer. Users opting for a 7,200 rpm
bat. Then there are word processing programs, some drive may want to consider investing in an addiother utilities, the swap file and by that point you' ve tional cooling fan, just to be on the safe side.
Of coursededding on a size is also important.
almost topped it up.
ut of space again? It's really not much of a
mystery why this happens. As technology
improves and manufacturers are able to
make larger storage solutions, the hardware and
software that uses the storage also becomes more
demanding. Driver files get bigger, more utilities are
required to keep everything running properly, and
new software expands as features are added and
improved.
Although games tend to be the greediest users of
storage space, everyone seems to be getting into the
act now. Windows 98 can take up to 355 MB of hard
disk space for a full installation!
When you finally do run out of space on your
computer, there are a few different ways to deal with
the situation. The first is the most brutal: manual
deletion of files. Every one of us probably has a ton
of files sitting on the hard drive that have been
abandoned for a long period. Cleaning up files this
way can be satisfying in much the same way as
cleaning an apartment with a mop and a bucket of
soapy water: it feels good for a short period, but you
know things are going to go back to the way they
were, again. It is a short-term solution, at best.

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While you can certainly get a smaller drive '

for a f airly good price, the d i fference
between the smallest drives currently available and a larger one is not that huge. Going
for a new drive that is "just enough" extra
space may be a bad long-term solution, as
you may find yourself in exactly the' same
position within a year.

units of blank media may be enough to

hard drive. Further down the road when

more ilies start to clog up the drive, it's as
simple as buying another removable disk
Repeat as necessary.
Another important benefit of removable
storage is the ability to take large amounts of
At the lowered, the difference between information with you and access it on
a 4 GB driveand a 6 GB drive may be only another computer equipped with the same
S20 to S30,A 10 GB drive may be less than type of drive. If you' ve ever tried to move 10
twice the price of an entry-level 3 GB drive. MB of files from one place to the other using
That extra investment may seem excessive at nothing but floppies, you know how frusfirst, but it ran certainly pay off down the
trating it can be. With a higher-capacity
road.
solution, huge numbers of files can be
moved in one shot.

Can you handle it7

One thing to keep in mind when picking out
a hard drive is whether your computer can
handle a big drive snag-free. Two problems
can surface with the new larger hard drives:
operating system and BIOS limitations.
Operating systems using an older file system (which would include DOS, Windows
3.x, early versions of Windows 95 and some
installatioris of Windows NT1 limit partition
sizes to 2 GB. For a 10 GB drive, this would
mean dividing the drive into five smaller sections, which is a bit inconvenient. Newer
operating systems like Windows 98, later versions of Windows 95 and NT (when using
the NTFS file system) are able to use today' s
larger hard drives as one single partition.
Older BIOSes had caps on the maximum
size of hard drive they would recognize, and
even some recent BIOSes can't recognize drives larger than 8 GB. Many new hard drives
ship with software that can help update the
BIOS, but for some machines, it may be necessary to upgrade the BIOS at the hardware
level.
With all those factors taken into account,
a new hard drive may be a great upgrade for
your system, and one that will last for a few
years.

'Removing' the problem

Another solution to the out-of-space problem is removable storage. By now, everyone
knows about the trusty old floppy disk, but
many of us might want to look at highercapacity removable storage for a few reasons.
Unlike a hard drive, removable solutions can
be virtually boundless. With a 10 GB hard
drive, you' ll eventually run out of space if
you keep adding files. With a removable
solution, though, all you need is more of the
removable media (provided the file sizes
aren't larger than the size of the media) to
keep saving files.
Overall, a removable solution is more
expensive than a new hard drive with the
same capacity. Consider that a 10 GB hard
drive may cost $300. An external Jaz 2 drive
with 10 GB of storage space, on the other
hand, could be over $1,500. With those
numbers, why would you want to bother
with a removable solution?

There are a couple of reasons, actually.

Many users who are running out of space are
doing so because of saved data files, Take the
case of a user whti doesn't see the need for
installing a lot of additional software but
could use space to save digital camera pictures, for example. This person may not really find it worthwhile to buy a huge hard
drive and go though the hassle of installing

remove all of the files taking up space on the

Zlp, %taper and all that )ax

One of the problems you will face when
adding a removable storage solution to a system is deciding the form it will take. Many
removable storage drives come in both internal and external versions, and those versions
may require yo u t o c h o ose between
IDE/SCSI, or SCSI/parallel/USB. What's the
best choice?

Each has its pros and cons. IDE devices

require the user to open up the case and do
some configuration with cables and jumpers,
but at that point the computer generally recognizes the new drive and it can be used
immediately.
SCSI, on the other hand, requires the user
to either have a functional SCSI chain on the
computer or be prepared to install a new card
and do some troubleshooting. On the other
hand, SCSI allows drive chaining beyond the
limit IDE imposes, and the controller cards
often support both internal and external drives simultaneously.
On the external side, SCSI has had the
advantage for a while now, in terms of chaining devices together, ease of use and speed,
but that position is being challenged by USB
{universal serial bus) devices. USB has a high
transfer rate, and theoretically allows 127
devices to be attached. The ability to plug
and unplug the devices while the computer
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FAT32 file system as one large partition, and
two parts. The first addresses fixed disks, for then had Windows 98 installed.
Benchmarking was done with Ziff-Davis'
those users looking for an upgrade of their
existing disk to something larger. Though WinBench99 disk test software. (Thesetests
there are hard drives available in lower were performed withorif independent verification
capacities, we asked for drives between 10 by ZiffDavis, and Ziff'-Davis makes no repreand 13 GB, for a reasonable balance between .sentations or warranties as to their results.
WinBench is aregistered trademark of Ziff Davis
size and overall cost.
Drives were tested on a 300 MHz Pentium Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. It can be
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size was picked arbitrarily, just to get an idea
of the differences in transfer times between
drives, when file sizes get larger. The directory was constructed to match the single file in
size, to illustrate the difference some drives
exhibit when copying individual files (sometimes it's substantial).

over a period of time, and gives transfer rates

near the beginning and end of the test period. The test also checks the average time to
access the disk, and a separate test determines how much of the system's CPU power
is being used up in writing to the hard drive.
The second part of the tests was set up for
the removable storage side. We asked vendors to supply us with removable storage
solutions aimed at the consumer market.
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Pentium II system. We checked write speeds
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can expect drives with a 7,200 rpm spindle

speed to have higher performance and to
generate more heat. The drives we' ve had a
chance to look at, however, are still good performers, and the slower spindle speed means
they' re also easier on the pocketbook, Here' s
what we looked at:
Fulltsu Plceblrd 13 INPD3108AT
Suggested retail price: $300

MAY 1999

the great Fujitsu name, most users should be the DiamondMax line, which includes disks
pretty happy with one o f t h ese drives of more than 1? GB, The 91303D6 is smaller,
onboard.
at 13 GB, but still offers plenty of space and
performance.
Highlights
The 13 GB model in the DiamondMax
10.8 GB capacity offers plenty of space for appli- 4320 line is a nice choice for a user looking
cations and files.
to upgrade, as it has lots of space, is quite
Transfer speed was reasonably fast on our test
speedy, and gnomes in at a fairly reasonable
platform: 6,670Kbps at the beginning, and 7,230 price overall. While it doesn't have the best
Kbps at the end.
overall transfer rate of the drives tested this
Disk access time under Windows 98 was 16.3
month, the price may make this one more
attractive to a number of users.
Drive uses Self-Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) to detect
Highlights
At just over 13 GB, the drive has lots of space for
problems before they destroy data,
Warranty period for the drive is three years.
applicatians and files.
Data transfer was speedy: starting at 8.180Kbps
INaxter DlamendlNax 4320
and finishing at 8,170Kbps.
Disk access time under Windows 98 was 16 ms.
series 91303D6
Suggested retail price: $329
The drive uses S.M.A.R.T. technology far maximum data protection,
The warranty period for the drive is three years.

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Transfer speed was consistently high: starting at

8,640Kbpsandfinishing upat8,670Kbps.
Disk access time under Windows 98 was 15.3
ms.
The drive makes use of S.M.A.R.T. technology to
warn user of potential drive failure.
The warranty period is three years.

Quantum Fireball Cit 13.0

Suggested retail price: $399

Well-known for a wide range of technologies

spanning from storage to notebooks, Fujitsu
has introduced a number of new models in
its Picobird 13 hard drive series, which now
goes up to 17.3 GB. This one comes in at 10.8
GB.
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13 series, the performance is good, and
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This drive offered speedy transfer times
and quick seek times under Windows 98.
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choice for users who need a lot of storage
space, too. If you are looking for extra speed
while sticking with a 5,400 rpm drive, the
extra cost may be well worth it.
tf tghlights
The 12.7 GBoffeis a lot af space for applications
and files.

(Thanks to Samtack Computer far providing us with a

drive for evaluation. Samtack can be contacted at Tel:
905-940-1880, or httpi/wwwsamtack.corn)

Samsung Splnpelnt SV'l296A

Suggested retail price: $319
Samsung recently refreshed its entire hard drive
line, with a new nanung structure, and new
technology. This model is one of the newer
high capacity drives in the Spinpoint V series.
This drive has a lot of capacity and good
performance, all at a reasonable price. A lot
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larger size of the drive very appealing. It is
of people are bound to find it a very attrac- d e finitely worth a look.
tive option.

Western Digital has introduced a number of

new members in the Caviar line. This particular drive is compatible with the new UATA/66 standard, which facilitates faster performance. Time restrictions prevented us

Users shouldexpect increasedperformance

when using a computer system that is fully UATA/66 compliant.

The drive uses S.M.A.R.T. technology for maximum data protection.
The warranty period for the drive is three years.

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around a common design, removable storage

devices are all over the map in terms of medium and method of storage, capacity, and
speed. Thus it is difficult to come up with a

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The drive has both S.M.kR.T. technology and

for both applications and files.

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7,850Kbpsand finishing up at7,840Kbps.

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users of potential hard drive problems.
Warranty period for the drive Is three years.

Seagate Medalist 13il40

Suggestedretail price: $335(canverted from US$)
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on an older system. Users with a fully com- a wide array of removable storage devices,
pliant U-ATA/66 system should expect from tape drives that were slow, unreliable and
held barely 40 MB, through magnetowptical
increased performance.
Even on a system using the U-ATA/33
standard, the Caviar 313000 performs quite
well. Although it's not the fastest drive under
older systems, it's still quick, and users who
have full U-ATA/66 support will find this
drive's compatibility a great selling point.

drives of various capacities, to our current mix

of CD writers and Zip drives.

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that is attractive to a wider variety of users.
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lomega has made quite a name for itself in

the removable storage business, partly owing
to the success of the l GB Jaz drive. Now, the

Jaz drive returns in a 2 GB version.

Although the media may be a little too
pricey for the Jaz 2GB to really catch on with

home users, people involved in content creation will continue to find the Jaz to be 8

very useful tool. The larger size and backward

compatibility make it a worthwhile investment for Jaz users looking to store slightly
larger files.
Highlights
Ultra SCSI connection means the computer
should recognize the drive immediately upon
bootup, when attached to an existing SCSIchain.

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which is especially convenient for those in muNmedia production.
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SCSI card speeds transfer times up even more.
Transfer rates
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Large directory: 2:40 (Win98), 2:35 (NT)

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Estimated street price: $239
Estimated cost of media: $20 (or less)

(it is expected in Windows 2000).

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Large directory: 2:50 (Win98)
lamella Zip 2$Q Parallel
Estimated street price: $319
Estimated cost of media: $30 (subject to change)
A bit more of a departure, this new version of
the Zip takes the same form factor, but ups
the removable disk capacity to 250 MB.
Presently, the Zip 250 is available in parallel
and SCSI versions; we looked at the parallel
version.
For users of the Zip 100, this is the next
worthwhile step up. While it will take a
while for 250 MB disks to become widely
used (meaning, in the short term, it won"t be

As one of the companies responsible for LS120's creation, Panasonic does the actual
manufacturing of the 120 MB drives. Thus,
the Panasonic version is identical to the
Imation drive reviewed above, including
specs and transfer rates.
Users looking for a high-capacity removable solution that can replace the floppy
drive would also be well served by the LS-120
drive coming out under the Panasonic name.
Panasonlc if-D1Q1 DVD4lAM
Suggested retail price: $1,149
Estimated cost of media: $M (5.2 GB), $39 (2.6 GB)

cartridges or loose discs.

At present, the dnve will read CD,CD-R, CD-RW,
DVD-ROM,DVO video and PO discs.
At present, the 2.6 GBoutput is only compatible
with a small number of other DVDplayers.
At the time of testing, NT drivers were not available, but were planned for imminent release.
Mac drivers were available from a third-party

source.
Transfer rates

Large file: 2:45 (Win98)

Large directory: 5:20 (Win98)

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Suggested retail price: US$149 (station)
Estimated cost of media: US$249 (2 GB),

US$349 (4GB), US$449(6 GB),US$899(8 GB)

Combined cost Shtion is oniy US$100 when
purchased with removable media.

as easy to swap disks), the drive will also handle the 100 MB disks, too. This is a worthy
successor to the Zip 100.

High
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Parallel connection means it can be attached to

most computers without requiring extra cards.
Larger disk size comes in handy for today's higher-capacity multimedia needs.
Parallel port versions Bnay
cause conflicts with
other parallel devices, especially under Windows
NT users mayneed to troubleshoot.
New 250MB disks should notdamage
old 100
MB drives; 250 MB disks eject instantly when
inserted into Zip 100 drives.
The parallel version of the drive reported slower
transfer times. Where speed is a concern, users
should opt for the SCSIversion.
Transfer rates
Large file: 7:05 (Win98), 6:50 (NT)
an external storage solution. The speed is Large directory: 7:20 (both Win98 and NT)
slightly better than the older SCSI model,
and much faster than the parallel version, so Panasonic SuperDislr l$-120 2x
even Windows users may find a lot to like Suggested retail price: $175
about this new incarnatio.
Estimated cost of media: $25, $150 (10-pack)
While the Jaz has certainly contributed to
Iomega's success, it's the Zip drive that has
been the company's bread and butter. At 100
MB, the Zip has offered reasonably large
removable storage, at a reasonable cost.
Previous versions of the Zip have been internal, and external via SCSI and parallel connections. Now, the 100 MB Zip drive is being
introduced in a USB flavor, with coloring to
match the first generation of Apple's IMac.
For users of the previous models of the
Zip drive, this version isn't a radical departure, although lt is a great offering for those
who have recently bought an iMac and want

Highlights
The drive attaches easiiy to both the iMac and to
Win95/98 machines that have USBenabled.
Installation of the drive is quick and easy, and
after initial installation of drivers, the drive can
be attached and removed from a system without
the need to reboot.
The 100 MB disks are identical to previous
versions of the Zip 100, making it completely
compatible.
At present, Windows NTdoesn't support USB

Since its introduction, CD-RW (rewrltable)

has become reasonably popular. It's only natural that a rewritable DVD solution would

follow. While not yet capable of the full 17

GB that a DVD-ROM can contain, DVD-RAM
is working its way up, with drives capable of
writing 2.6 GB on each side of a blank DVDRAM.
The LF-D101 is certainly an impressive
bit of technology, offering storage sizes comparable to some of the higher-end magnetooptical solutions, but at a fraction of the cost.
The ability of the drive to read discs of so
many other formats is a plus too. The major
sticking point with the technology at this
point is that .there is the potential for a
shakeup In the DVD-rewritable field, as not
all the standards have been agreed upon yet.
Although users are likely to be satisfied with
the performance of this drive by itself, future
incompatibility may be an issue.

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other removable solutions. In fact, t he
MobileDrive technology Is actually standard
hard drive technology, and the station is
essentially a hard drive dock that will accept
specially configured hard drives.
Overall, this option may be a bit too
expensive for most people. Still, some users
may find this to be the perfect solution; the
ability to boot from these large hard drives
makes it possible to share a single computer
between several users in an office environment, without compromising security. It' s
also a big plus to be able to use larger car-

The driveconnects via internal SCSI.

tridges when they become available, without

Media currentiy ships inside cartridges: 5.2 GB

media is fixed inside the cartridges, but the
2.6GB discs can be removed and used in other
players that are compatible with the format.
The loading mechanism will accept either

having to upgrade the station.

Highlights
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process resembles a comedy routine, with
people craning their necks, squinting, and
bobbing their heads up and down trying
hard to get a dear view and make sense of
what's going on.
Anyone who has been in this situation
has probably thought there must be a better
way. In fact there are several: if the presenter
carries a second, larger monitor along, or
uses one at the presentee's office, then the
presenter can view the laptop screen comfortably, while the audience looks at the
monitor. However, the size probleln persists unless a very large monitor screen is
available, it's still hard for an audience of
more than a couple of people to see what"s
going on. Wouldn't it be nice if one could
carry a second, giant coinputer screen, that
weighed no more than a notebook PC'?
the hetter mousetrap
As it happens, a nearly perfect solution to the
mobile presentation challenge has evolved
over the last few years. Multimedia notebooks have become lighter, cheaper, and
designed to offer better graphics display
capability, either on a large, bright, wideangle active matrix screen, or via RGB output
to a large display device. At the same time,
LCD projectors have radically dropped in
weight, and increased in brightness and ability to display very high resolution graphics,
as well as full motion video. As a result, both
the long-suffering presenter and his or her
audiences can now enjoy audio-video presentations that rival a full-blown home theatre setup in quality, but from a system that

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regular video from a VHS
video cassette player. Audio
from the included speakers
on the LCD projectors was
adequate for small 'meeting
room purposes, though for a
larger venue, or for a presentation where good quality
audio is important, it would
be worthwhile to bring a set
of external, powered stereo

speakers.
Durability
PowerPoint presentation on his notebook,
the audience, ranged around a large boardroom table, was able to comfortably view a
1.8 m (6 ft.) wide projection of the presentation at the end of th e room. Everyone
involved was able to concentrate on communication, rather than struggle with the medium being used.
To test the viability of this method, TCP
asked for and received test units of lightweight, slim notebook PCs from NEC,
Toshiba and Fujitsu, and ultralight LCD projectors from NEC and Epson. We tested the
notebook/projector combinations over a
two-month period, taking them with us
wherever we went, and testing their effectiveness. Here were the results:

We had no problems with

breakdowns, light bulb failures, or any other defects or weaknesses
with the LCD projectors. The latest LCD
projectors seem to be quite robust, well
developed products, and have benefited
from the several generations of LCD projector designs that preceded them. We did
have an occasional problem with a strip
along the bottom of the image area being
cut off by the NEC projector, but easily
fixed it by resizing the window on the PC.
Admittedly, we were careful in handling
these units. They always traveled in padded
containers, and for reasons of avoiding
either breakage or theft, we seldom let
theln out of our sight.

Bonus feature
An LCD projector is the equivalent of a truly
Pertablllty
giant monitor. it can create a good quality
The lightweight multimedia notebooks we projected image with a viewable diagonal
tested were the new, metal-lid, slim models, dimension in excess of 2.25 m (90 in.).
with removable drives, or in the case of the
This is truly "home theatre" size and
Fujitsu, a removable "slice" that contained a quality, but in a unit so light and portable,
floppy drive or CD-ROM drive. The stripped that it can easily be moved around the office,
presentation weight of t hese notebooks, home, or clients' offices.
including battery, ranged from 2.2S to 2.7 kg
There is only one, non-trivial barrier to
(5-6 lb.). The LCD projectors weighed TCP recommending an ultra-portable LCD
between 3.6 and 5 kg (8 and 11 lb.).
projector to every computer user.
Including padded carrying bags, or a little
wheeled airline trolley for the NEC projector, Mcber shock
the total weight of the digital traveling ciicus While a highly portable, multimedia-presenwas between 8.1 and 10.8 kg (18 and 24 lb.). tation~pable notebook PC carries a slight
This is a significant load, but using the trol- premium in its pricetag, it is still only around
ley to reduce back strain it was eminently $3,S00 to $4,000. Lightweight, high intensiportable.
ty LCD projectors, on the other hand, range
in price from $8,500 to $13,000, with the
Display quality
really lightweight models clustered at the
Both the LCD projectors provided very
high end of the price scale. This cost is high

weighs only about 9 kg (20 lb.) and can be bright, crisp projected SVGA or better dis- enough to ensure only those with a real busitaken anywhere.
plays (resolutions of at least 1,024x768). The ness case for ultra-portable presentations will
This was powerfully conveyed when
models we used were current tof f - t he-line
Epson representatives came to show off some units with ferociously hot and bright light
new products at the TCPoffices a couple of sources that threw images of up to 1.8 m (6
months back They brought one of the latest, ft.), which were very viewable in moderate
lightweight LCD projectors, and a slim, light- interior light conditions.
weight multimedia notebook.
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but demands to be the master on the chain it is
connected to. This could cause problems, or
force the user to substantially reconfigure their
system.
Because the read/write heads are in the removable media instead of in the station, it means
there is no size cap on the media. As larger hard
drives are introduced, larger MobileDrive disks
will be available.
The MobileDrive can be set up as the boot disk,
allowing the samecomputer to be booted up
into different operating systems, depending on
which drive is inserted at startup.
Because they' reself-contained hard drives, these
cartridges are far more expensive than other
removable solutions.
The biggest advantage is speed; performance is
similar to fixed drives inside the machine; users
can run applications from the MobileDrive without bottlenecking, including games!
Transfer rates
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Hard drives:
Quantum FireballCR 13.0
Although all of the drives are worth consideration, the performance of the Fireball CR
stood out. Transfer speeds were high, and
access time and CPU utilization were both
low. For power users, this one is an excellent
choice.

Removable storage:
Fulitsu DynalNO 640 SE

In a strong pack of contestants, the Fulitsu

gets the nod for a few reasons. Magnetooptical technology is often very expensive,
and the Fulitsu drive brings it to users for a
much nicer price. In addition, the speed is
good, and magneto-optical media is held up
as one of the most reliable around. Users
uncomfortable with SCSI may want to take a
pass, but friends of SCSI will likely find this
a very powerful addition to their system. 0

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Removable storage: make mine solid

By sean carrssthers

Both formats are solid state (no spinning the digital camera market makes these fordisks or other moving parts), relatively small, mats worth watching.
and have become widely used in the digital

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storage solutions that are currently

SmartMedia and CompactFlash.

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SmartMedia. An interesting option is some-

thing called Flash Path, a floppy-disk sized

camera and handheld PC fields. While not a

adapter into which SmartMedia cards are

are comparatively slow), the emergence of using it can also be slimmed down.

inserted. The adapter can then be slipped

into a standard floppy disk drive (after
installing the proper drivers) and the data
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Palette delivers this functionality but goes

a step further by labeling each step you

your imageyou can come back and edit mouse button. The polygon and magnetic
your text at any time by double-clicking on lasso tools, appropriately, do not exhibit
ith the exception of M i crosoft perform and displaying it as a sequence. To the appropriate text layer in t h e l ayer this behavior. It's too bad that magnetic
Office, no other software package move backwards and forward through your palette. Even special layer effects such as capability wasn't added to the rectangular
has established a market domi- work history you simply ciick on its label drop shadows, bevels, lighting and trans- marquee tool as well, as there are occasions
nance like Adobe Photoshop. It is estimated and the image instantly appearsin the formation are preserved if you decide to where this could come in handy,
that well over 80 percent of graphics profes- state it was at that point in your workf low. edit them later on in your project.
One of the most requested features that
sionals use Photoshop as one of their prima- You can finally kiss goodbye those times
Smarter selection tools have also made has become a reality is the support of spotry production tools.
when you feared making changes toan a debut in Version S. New are the magnet- color channels. Now it's possible to add
image without making a progressive series ic lasso and pen that automatically detect Pantone (or any other specialty colors),
of revision backups.
high-contrast edges in a selection process. metallic inks and varnishes to your prePhotoshop $.0
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Cons: Image file history is only retained during one

work session
Photoshop's dominance is not by accident, Since the late 1980s, Adobe has pur-

sued an aggressive upgrade schedule that

avoid surprises, there are a few limitations different lasso tools. The conventional
of this feature you should be aware of.
lasso still annoyingly snaps back to its oriFirst, history operations are only gin when you take your finger off the
recorded between the time you open and
close an image during a session, Second,
there will be a limitation to the nurftber of
history operations that can be recorded.
This is dependent on how much RAM you
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Customers who work with high-end

scanners that support the capture of 48-

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By using this new method, you actual-

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Another time-saving feature is the ability
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When Actions a native Photoshop
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but bite the bullet and d o i t a n yway.
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In addition to the new features I' ve
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Photoshop 5 users will have to spend
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In previous versions of Photoshop, its
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This baseline worked fine as long as you
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ColorSync, Apple's system-level color
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supports industry-standard ICC profiles.
Those who don't have the benefit of system-level color calibration can attempt to
get reasonable color-matching by generating a homemade ICC profile for t h eir
monitor using Adobe's gamma control
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If you need to get quickly up to speed
on what the new color architecture means
to you and your workflow, you should
r efer to t h e P h o toshop m anual a n d
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excellent third-party Web sites and reference books on this topic.
The bottom line
Photoshop has earned its leadership position by introducing many technical and
user interface advancements over t h e
years. Version 5 continues its tradition as
the premier image manipulation tool for

photographers and graphic artists.

Photoshop 5 is chock full of useful
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information overload. The multiple undo
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However, this method failed miserably

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CUPERTINO, Calif. (NB) Apple Computer
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modern foundation with services designed for
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graphical output (albeit not yet approaching outset and requires some dedication before
the impressive results it is capable of are

programs).

forthcoming. Once along that road, however, your own once you are familiar with
home and desktop publishers will be amazed
at the difference between the graphics handled in PhotoDraw 2000 and those manipu-

Though largely positive in my com-

ments about previous releases in the

Microsoft Graphics Studio line of i mage
manipulation software, my one consistent
criticism has been the lack of sophistication
that results in end products that consistently
look home made.

lated in other consumer-level packages.

PhotoDraw 2000 can import photos and
graphics from any digital source (scanner,

PhotoDraw 2000.
A key to getting the most out of this
package lies in its ties to Microsoft Office.
You don't need to have Office installed on,
your machine to use this program, but if;
you do, PhotoDraw 2000 will be added to

digital camera, video input, and clip art), and the main directory as a a user-changeable
in a number of alternative file formats,
including AutoCad 2D, CorelDraw, GIF,
JPEG, and even Macintosh PICT. Once

PhotoDravr 2000
From: Microsoft Canada Ltd.
320 Matheson Blvd. W. Mississauga, ONL5R3R1
Tel: 905-568-0434, http: //www.microsoft.corn
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default. This allows you to easily and "intel-

ligently" import (including simply dragging.

and dropping) PhotoDraw 2000 graphics

you' ve acquired the image, you have consid- into any Office application. If desired,

My lament has been the dearth of imaging software to occupy the very wide chasm
between the wealth of " consumer level"

the confines of these primary tools, it is more

than tempting to start creating entirely on

the standards of Adobe's professional $1,000

hotooraW200

erable control over it before using it in just

about any form you want. A bonus is that
PhotoDraw 2000 allows you to work on text
with the same tools and at the same time as
you manipulate your photos and graphics.
As you might expect from a Microsoft
product, there are plenty of templates and
wizards to make handling graphics easier and

packages from a number of publishers and lr: c.'0;9:.: w ir;::q.:<. wn(i'i.' M.;woe>l; ni<.;c;
the highly professional packages from the
Unfortunately wizards notwithstandlikes of Corel and Adobe. Here, however,
Microsoft has helped bridge that gap with a ing as the features and flexibility of a soft-

faster. Among the dozens of included tem-

r efined product that i s a n a d j unct t o

Microsoft Office. In combination with that
parent suite of applications, PhotoDraw 2000
facilitates slick and professional looking

Cards (the greeting and email varieties), and

ware package grow, so does the learning

c urve. Unlike M i crosoft's Picture I t ! ,
Publisher and Home Publisher packages,
PhotoDraw 2000 is less than intuitive at the

images will automatically be resized and

reformatted to suit the space in the specified document. You can also use PhotoDraw
2000 to create a consistent look (colors,
fonts, layout, etc.) for Office documents
and files.
Though still a consumer-level package,
PhotoDraw 2000 will appeal to the large
number of computer users who want pol-

ished and professional looking output withand banners), Business Graphics (bulletins, out having to spend the time and money
flyers, labels, logos, and business cards), professional packages command. Among the
plates are Web Graphics (including buttons

Designer
Edges (a catalogue of borders and
outlines in various shapes and configurations). While many might never stray from

wide array of desktop graphics programs I

now have in my library, PhotoDraw 2000 is
destined to be the most often used. Kudos,
for a change; to Microsoft. CI

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from behind to the front and/or left to

data straight through to the sound cardrather than to the operating system into

like most of you have, all these years. I

An analogue sound cable also needs to
haven' t. {In fact, until recently I used an run to the back of your sound card. This is
t is rare indeed that I run out and buy a old stereo amp and two large speakers.) But because not aII sound can be sent digitally
computer product the day after I have the thing is, you see, the Microsoft system over the USB bus to your sound system. If it
could, and one day soon it will, you wouldreviewed it and sent it back Usually I dis- rocked my world.
n't even need the sound card. As it is, DVDcover that I don't really need the product or
that there are better ones out t h ere.
Sometimes I'd like to buy the product, and it

right. It is all quite impressive.

However, if you play a game that sends

ROM and CD-ROM drives cannot directly

memory and processed as digital sound it

is played as an analogue signal, so you

cable that connects to your sound card. The

tion program tests both the digital and;

output digital information to your operating can't use the 10-band equalizer, and it
system. That's the reason why your CD and doesn't sound as good. The only good
DVD-ROM drives always have an analogue thing in this situation is that the installa-'

may have been the best one I'd ever seen, but
when it comes right down to it, I just can' t
part with the cash.

problem is, even on the Digital Sound n on-digital nature of your CD o r D V D)

System 80, analogue sound doesn't compare drive. If you don't hear sound when you
test the digital ability of the player you
well to digital sound.
Microsoft Olgltal Soauul System SO
'e
The digital sound demo that comes simplyconnect the analogue cable.
From: Microsoft Canada
Microsoft expects this to change as more
300-90Matheson Blvd.W,MIssissauga,ON LSR 3R3
with this system contains three musical
Microsoft Digital Sound System 80
clips and three sound dips. The music is companies indude the ability to output digi
http J/www.microsoftcom/canada/
comprises a rather large subwoofer for the rock, classical, and jazz. The quality is tal sound data from CD and DVD drives. The
Estimated street prIce: $230
Because the information is digital company won't say how long this will take
floor, and two nicely sculpted desktop
speakers. The connections are simplicity it can, and does, run through a small pro- and it is far from dear on how all the pieces
However, I have just boxed up the itself, a power cord from the wall to the gram that acts as an equalizer. This means will c ome t o gether. Needless to s ay,
Digital Sound System 80, which is a three- subwoofer (the AC converter is hidden you can choose any one of 10 frequency Microsoft's game titles all sounded great with
speaker USB product f r o m M i c rosoft inside the car battery sized subwoofer). A bands and raise or lower its level. This tliese speakers.
The Microsoft Digital Sound System 80
USB plug also runs from the back of the means you can shape the sound to your likCanada, and sent it back Tomorrow I'm
ing.
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what
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to
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think I am new to computer sound I just (7.3x8.9x12.8 in.) speaker, which like most do with a hundred levels, but on a smaller fect, but for elegant simpflcity, an unclutreviewed a six speaker, digital Dolby system subwoofers lies unseen on the floor. A cable scale. The sound effects samples are a heli- tered desk, and kick-ass bass, it's the one. At
last month. And don't think I' ve been runs to each of the two desk-mounted copter and other examples that showcase an estimated price of $239, I will be picking
the speakers' ability to make sound come one up today. CI
using those tinny little computer speakers, speakers and that's it. Almost.
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amazing.

ec out t e noise.
TCPreviews powered speakers for high-quality computer audio
containing a 12.5 cm (5 in.) subwoofer with eardrum-friendly levels, they sounded a little game soundscapes. It fared less well in our
built-in volume, bass and bass boost con- less crisp than the Monsoon units, but were 3DMark99 "subwoofer thrasher" tests, frapping out at relatively low volumes with a
o rnatter how great your sound card trols. It also includes a wired remote vol- still excellent.
"phhhhttttt" sort of attempt at the ultra-low
ume
and
mute
control

a
nice
touch.
A
bass
control
on
the
back
of
the
subis, it's only going to sound as good
as your speakers. As we wrote in our Unlike the Henry Kloss speakers, the vol- woofer controls the relative volume of the notes that usher in the demo sequence.
Other drawbacks for some people may be
1997 feature on speakers for multimedia, ume control affects both A and B audio big cabinet's output. Our main complaint
that
this system has only one line-level audio
input
or
headwith
these
units
is
the
fact
that
the
wired
inputs. No
many users find that a simple "aux. in"
input,
and lacks remote volume control.
remote
volume
control
only
affects
one
of
phone
output
is
provided.
connection to their home stereo provides a
However, we liked the included Clear
Overall, we preferred the audio from the the two audio inputs. No microphone input
more than adequate sound system.
By Craesne gannett

m
icrophone

However, for those craving more, there are

Monsoon speakers, although they did not

a plethora of multimedia PC sound systems handle excessive volume well. A sharp, digital clipping noise and an excessivedegree of
For this update on powered speakers, distortion was dearly audible when the

on the market.

or headphone output is provided.

hang the satellite speakers from the sides of a

LCS-2632
From: Lahtec

cts/LC8-2032.html
we tested big-box powered speaker systems speakers were pushed too hard, Nevertheless, http:Itwww.labtec.corn/produ
from Sonigistix, Cambridge SoundWorks, we recommend them, as most people are Price: US$99
and Labtec. We tested all these speakers
with FutureMark's 3DMark 99 MAX, its
demo mode as much a thrasher of audio

unlikely to use these htghguality units, or

indeed any PC speakers, at such extreme volumes, anyway.

systems as it is a benchmark for graphics

MlcroWorks by Henry Ness
subsystems.
From: CambridgeSoundWorks
Price: U8$249
Monsoon MM-1OOO
From: Sonigistix Corp.
The second-best sounding speakers tested
were the MicroWorks speakers by Henry
htIPJheww.monsoonpower.corn
Pdce: US$209
Kloss (from Cambridge SoundWorks). These
Of these three "big subwoofer" systems, the small 7.5 cm {3 in.) cube satellite speakers
Monsoon delivered by far the biggest bass. and accompanying 20x20x35.5 cm {8x8x14
Its two "planar magnetic" satellite speakers in.) subwoofer come in PC beige, They
were also the most unusual {at least to sounded almost as good as the Monsoon
those unfamiliar with the company's back- units at moderate levels, and sounded better
ground in a u tomotive audio systems), at high volumes. Amplifier noise was a little
more audible at extreme volumes. However,
being more or less flat. Each of the two

Labtec's LCS-2632 is currently the top-selling

computer speaker system in the U.S. It is part
of the company's sowalled Audio F/X series
and includes 3D "spatialization" drcuitry to
enhance a stereo sound signal.

Multi-speaker support
A growing number of audio cards, such as
the Diamond MonsterSound MX300,Sound
Blaster Live! and Terratec RWS 64XL support
more than two speakers. Aswell, a number of
DVD upgrade kits support multi-speaker configurations. Thus, a multi-speaker setup is

impressive as that of t h e p r icier units

reviewed here, but its highly functional

design is likely to win over some consumers. ~~~.'<.'$$ae'searIah-ls:aIheut.'t'ejaegli+ %-'

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input jack on the back of the 20x10x35.5 cm

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on the back.

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slight angle o n a b u i l t -i n b ase. The when pushed, but merely degenerated the
Monsoon system is entirely black and
audio signal with a more typical type of

tested here that featured 3D spatialization

circuitry, designed to provide extra "depth,"
p articularly to CD audio and high~ lit y

includes a roughly 25 cm {10 in.) square "dirty" analogue distortion. At m ore

monitor.

As might be expected, the output of the ideal for the best audio experience on these
US$99 LCS-2632 was nowhere near as systems.Q

the amp/speakers did not exhibit dipping

20x10 cm {gx4 in.) speakers stands at a

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By Rod Lamirand

slots.
The graphics card has 2.5 MB of video

memory.
e Presario line of notebook computers from Compaq Canada tries
to hit a variety of price points with

It is obvious that Compaq wants to sell

this model primarily as a multimedia computer. Aside from the usual buttons you
find on a Presario, there are extra buttons to

a varying range of features. At $4,199,

187) but is good for a laptop. Informal tests

operate the DVD drive. Yes, you can use the on a 233 MHz-based IBM ThinkPad note-

the Presario 1810 is on the higher end of

this line and includes a big screen, fast
processor and an i n t e rnal D V D-ROM
drive. (We r eviewed th e e n tr y l e v el
Presario 1230 in the January issue of The
Computer Paper).

onscreen software controls, but you also

buttons. This is a nice touch.

The Presario's keyboard is also goodneither too shallow nor too soft.
W indows 9 8
co m e s
installed i n
th is
P resario, a l o n g
with the usual collec-

tion of C ompaq's

own diagnostic tools. The

system comes with a Return to

Original Configuration disk that will completely rewrite the hard drive and return the
laptop to the original condition it was in,
when you first got it. I really like this feature.
It means you can muck around and if you go
too far, you can use the disk and reinstall
your applications.

User experience

display.
The quality screen is a good feature as
you are likely to want take advantage of its
s econd-generation DVD-ROM drive t o
watch movies. I w a t ched Mask, Fifth

book produced a result of 75, while the

have the easier option of pressing play, Fujitsu notebook we tested last month, powstop, fast forward, rewind, eject, or volume ered by a 266 MHz Pentium 11 processor,

Presario 1$10
with 300 INHx Pentium ii processor
From: CompaqCanada
45 Vogell Rd., Richmond Hill, ON L48 3P6
Tel:
800-263-5868,http:ltwww.compaq.ca
Estimated retail price: $4,199

Like the other Presarios, the 1810 is a good

l ooking, sculpted machine with built i n
JBL speakers and touch pad. The 1810
sports a 300 MHz Intel Pentium II processor and a 13.3-inch TFT active matrix XGA

official rating. However, from the testing that

was successful I was able to give the 1810 an
unofficial rating of 105. That is not great
compared with a new desktop machine (my
450 MHz Pentium III-based system scored

Element and Blade Runner with the JBL

speakers and with a headset and the expe-

rience was very good.

It would have been hard to imagine a 6.4
GB UltraDMA hard drive, even in a desktop
computer, just a year ago, but the Presario
has one. The 1810 comes with a standard 64
MB of SDRAM, which is expandable to 96

Performance

I tested the Presario 1810 using Bapco's

SYSmark 98 benchmark software. For various
MB. There is also an internal floppy drive, reasons I was unable to complete all parts of
internal V.90 56Kbps modem, and PC Card the benchmark and therefore cannot give an

scored 107.

Summary
After using the Presario 1810 over a sixweek period in a number of different environments, I found it very friendly. I like the
Presario line of notebooks. They are not
cheap but n e ither are t hey CEO-only
m achines. Attention has been paid t o
details that are important to the average
consumer. Support, from the starting tutorial to the tech help and warranty, are all

good.
When you buy a machine like this you
pay a bit more for the assurance that the
company will be in existence and willing to
support its products should you need help, If
I weren't afraid of owning something that
someone could easily walk off with, I would
buy one today. If you can afford it, and especially if you want to watch, or show, DVDs
on the road, the Presario 1810 is a pretty hot
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A compendium of black history addresses a spectrum of interests

By Ross MacDonald

The Africans on Camera section likely

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is
had the highest potential appeal, but it is listed, for example, but the article outlinlargely unrealized. This assembly of all too ing his biography and deeds is long on his-

ith its move away from broad

entertainment and the demise of
its Home line of CD-ROMs, it' s
unusual to see a new release from Microsoft
that is outside of the productivity, utility or

short (two- and three-minute) "statements"

by prominent black Americans addressing

different aspects of Africans's contents

includes poet Maya Angelou speaking about

gaming categories. But here, as an adjunct to

the forced spread of Africans throughout the

the company's extremely popular Encarta

world, while United Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan summarizes Africa's past
and future. Also, curiously, included in this
small gallery of prominent individuals are

encyclopedia, we have Africans: A

Comprehensive Encyclopedia o f
History and Culture.

B l a ck

torical fact but short on profound interpretation: "Rumored to have engaged in cannibalism as well as traditional Kakwa blood
rituals, Amin came to be viewed by many
as both sadistic and irrational." This is akin
to suggesting Hitler had anger management issues.
Entries into the search engine for "tribal
wars," "internal strife" o r e ven " Black

Whoopi Goldberg and Quincy Jones, who Panthers" all came up with a similar prompt:
are at least more at ease in front of the camera than the other, arguably more credible,

Encarta Afrlcana:
ComprehensiveEncyclopedia
of Black History and Culture
From: Microsoft Canada Ltd.
320 MathesonBlvd.W .,Mlsslssauga,ON L5R 3R1
Tet 905-568-0434, http: //www.microsoft.corn
Estimated street price: $109

but decidedly more stiff, commentators.

use this two4isc set. Sharing Encarta's inter-

In Topic Treks theie are guided tours

through groups of related articles and multimedia clips oriented toward a variety of central themes like music and musicians or people and places. One trek certain to garner a
great deal of attention is Masters of the
Among the more standard features like Game, an exploration of black participation
a media gallery, interactive maps, historic in sports that includes historical accounts
sites and virtual tours of the dark conti- and the experiences of individual stars.
Overall, however, it is quickly obvious to
nent Microsoft has mixed in interesting

face, however, Africana makes it easy for both

Encarta veterans and newcomers to move
around and discover the contents of this
"comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia of
Africans and people of African descent."

menu items like Africans on Camera and anyone with a critical eye that Africans is a
Topic Treks, and has even included a listing sanitized document, tainted by its clear agenof academic credits of the 261 contributors da in favor of its topic. If Africans is to be
and 36 scholars that constitute the Africana believed, blacks and black history have been
essentially positive throughout the ages.
advisory board.

Although an Encarta title, that larger ency-

clopedia software package is not required to

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or titles that meet the filter criteria you have
set."
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team who created Africans, however. It is
roundly acknowledged that i n t ernally

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ince the "$500 computer" was first
conceived of by Oracle Corp. chief
executive Larry Ellison several years
ago, there has been a battle for the hearts

Khalifa explained that t h e c o ntinuing

decline in PC component prices not only
allowed IPC to sell a very capable PC for
$499, but added, "you know what, they
[prices] are going to continue to drop."

and they will connect automatically to the

Internet. The full costs for the EnternetPC

bundle are:

and minds of computer users. On one side Details ef the deal

are boosters of the traditional Wintei or
Mac personal computer, or PC, and on the
other, fans of the network computer, or
NC.
A "true" P C o f f e rs
choice and flexibility to its
individual user. It has disk
drives so the user can load
and delete whatever software he or she wants, and it
the system functions without being connected to a
mainfraine computer, serv-

IPC's EntemetPC is being offered in association with Internet Direct, a large independent Canadian Internet service provider

to an NC "appliance."
The "true" NC, on the other hand, is targeted at saving organizations or individuals
the costs of buying and maintaining full-featured PCs, The NC is supposed to be cheaper
because it relies on a network connection to
a server or mainframe system for access to
software, saving and loading files, and communicating via the Interne. Only an NC,
according to its supporters, could be created

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to have access to the wired world of the
future.
NC boosters claim that in order for many
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PC would have to decline to absurdly low
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Still, even after adding
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including battery, and ships with an AC from some financial heavyweights. Citigroup
adapter and a nickel metal hydride recharge- and FirstUSA will test new services, collabo-

is targeted at a range of form<entric tasks

that traditionally require manual data entry,

In brief

such as capturing names and addresses for able battery that I/OMagic says can scan rate with Novell to refine digitalme features
customer orders and insurance claims forms. "about 60 pages on a charge." The software and functionality, and work with Novell to
SpeechMachines, htipi/www.speechmachines.corn bundled with the scanner indudes MGI's create open standards for Internet identity,
Photosuite and Xerox's TextBridge Classic the firm said.
HP lntrosbusiness greeting cards
OCR software.
Digitalme uses a flexible software archiPALO ALTO, Calif. (NB) Hewlett-Packard
The parallel port scanner has an estimat- tecture and "card" metaphor to manage

Continuedfrom page $6
Fileforms over the phone
MALVERN, U.K. (NB)
Speech Machines has

taken the wraps off its CyberTranscriber Co. has added two new sets to its Printable
TalkForms service, which it says is the world' s Expressions line of greeting cards. The
first speech-to-text service for filling out
Boardroom Business Collection and the
forms over the phone.
Watercooler Business Collection target the

Amends Taylor, a spokesperson for the

company, said the CyberTranscriber service
runs on a Windows NT-driven set of servers
located at the firm's U.K. headquarters.
Because of t h e n a t ure o f the

identity. The virtual "meCards" include

tools to let consumers create, personalize
and manage their digital identities. Since
the user controls what information they

ed retail price of US$200. I/OMagis says it is

also planning versions with USB and infrared

connectivity, as well as a Mac version.

I/OMagic, httpi/www.iomagic.corn

share, they know when and by whom their

workplace and are designed to encourage

personal communication between co-work-

Novell prevlews 'dlgitalme'

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (NB)
Novell, Inc.
ers. HP sells each collection for about
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a Gre e ting C a r d has announced a digital identity system it
Replenishment Pack of 20 blank cards and says will fill the need for better control and
CyberTranscriber feature, Taylor said it does envelopes for about US$14.99.
use of personal information on the Internet.
not matter where in the world the client
Dubbed "digitalme," the system builds
HP, httpitwww.hp.corn
company is located. Smaller client compaon the firm's Novell Directory Services (NDS)
nies would have their calls routed from their
ColorlioblleScan battery-powered
as a tool to manage a user's digital identity,
own call centre to Speech Machines' server. IRVINE, Calif. (NB) I/OMagic Corp. has induding personal information and authenFor larger companies or if a client company's call centre is outside of the U.K. voice
data canbe captured and sent on to Speech

announced the release of a battery-powered

MobileScan portable color scanner.
Targeted at mobile professionals and consumers with limited desk space, the 24-bit,

tication of users. Authentication and privacy

sometimes come into conflict as methods

the software can auto-regilster a user by filling

in registration forms to establish access priv-

ileges on many World Wide Web sites. A personal proxy system intercepts the forms, fills
them in for the user and provides a completed form for review. When a user next accesses the Web site, digitalme handles the sign-in
Ultimately, says the firm, it hopes digitalme will balance the interests of consumers
who want control over their personal information, with those of firms that want to
increase customer confidence and their own
brand identities by providing personalized
channels and interfaces.
Novell, site at httpitwww.novell.corn

but both are becoming ever more important

for consumers and businesses alike, Novell

notes.
Novell, whose NDS system has been credited with turning the firm around finandally
during the past six months or so, also
announced support for its digitalme system

Novell.
To make information management easier,

automatically.

evolve for doing business on the Internet,

Machines as a voice file, Taylor said.

According t o
S p eech M achines, full-page, sheet-fed device has a maximum
CyberTranscriber is unique in combining interpolated scanning resolution of up to
data entered by speaking "free form" text 9,600x9,600 dots per inch (dpi). It has an
with data entered by keypad, and then send- optical resolution of 300x600 dpi.
ing it over the Internet for automatic upload
The device measures 4.3x5.6x28.5 cm
into a customer's database. The client service (1.7x2.2x11.2 in.) and weighs 540 g (1.2 lb.)

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MAY 1999

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camera or
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By Keith SchenglII-Roberts

hen I was about eight or nine, I

was keen on photography. There

seemed to be some special magic
at work behind the pictures I took. But I only
had the opportunity those few special times
my father let me take a picture or two on his
expensive Pentax reflex camera. This was in
an era before the simple "point and shoot"
cameras became widely available.

charge-coupled device (CCD) chip much

like that found in "real" digital camerassurrounded by a hard plastic housing with a
simple on/off switch and a shutter button. It
has enough memory to take a grand total of
six pictures at a relatively meager 160x120
pixel resolution with a color depth of 16 million colors (this is about one tenth of the
pixel resolution typical of current "megapix-

el" digital cameras).

The camera makes a series of distinctive
beeps to indicate if you have enough light for a
decent shot, when you' ve taken a picture and
to remind you that the camera is still on if you
haven't taken a picture for a few minutes. All
the prospective digital photographer has to do
is point,click and hope forasuccessful"beep."
The camera is made of a durable plastic, and is
unlikely to break in the normal course of wear
and tear a kid is likely to give it.
The software is about as easy to use as the
camera. The camera comes with a diskette
containing the TWAIN driver necessary to
download the pictures from the camera, and
a copy of Microsoft Picturelt! 99, a very easy-

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every second or so, making the JamCm a
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I ended saving up my allowance to buy a grainy you can't expect too much from a
cheap, plastic "toy" camera that enabled bud- picture that would be considered a thumbding young photographers like myself to take nail image in most applications but the
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many years ago. While its pictures are given time.
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latest PlayStation-like program was designed

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FOSTER CITY, Calif. (NB) Another software

emulator that allows PC users to play video

same name.

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games designed for S ony's popular Corp.'s Virtual Game Station as a low-cost
PlayStation console has hit the Interne. The product giving consumers access to hun-

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has declined to comment on whether or

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Sony, which has come down hard against

ing order earlier this year that would have

prevented Connectix from selling its system. But the PlayStation maker has vowed
to continue fighting emulation programs.
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Bleem.
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begin shipping its product by April 10.
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Game Station in mid-January through its
Web site, and the product is also available

at some Macintosh software and peripherals retaiiers. The gaming system allows
Mac users to play about one-third of the
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'Good' versions of the 300 MHz Celeron A are getting harder to find
Intel says the maximum operating temperature of a Celeron processor is BS degrees C.
We think that BIOS-reported ambient temperCeleron 300 at 450 MHz? Maybe
f you were one of the people who bought a atures over 45 degrees C are cause for concern.
Our PC100 brand fan and heat sink combo
Celeron 300 or 300A processor a few
months ago lucky you! There is a very cost us only $19, yet cooled a Slot I Celeron
good chance your processor can be over- sufficiently so that our Abit BX6 motherboard
clocked to speeds greater than originally in a well-ventilated case reported ambient
intended by Intel. (Please read our disclaimer.) temperatures consistently below 30 degrees C
Since the Celeron 300A is "niultiplier when running at 450 MHz. (For more detailed
descriptions of these Slot and Socket types and
locked" at a value of 4.5, you can, with a
motherboard that supports custom bus other terms, see our Computer Glossary on
speeds, clock it to 4.5x66 (the 300 MHz TCPsWeb site at http J/www.tcp.ca.)
The most elaborate cooling systems are
default), 4.5x75 (about 338 MHz), 4.5x83
(about 374 MHz) or, i f y o u ar e l ucky, called Peltier coolers and they work like little
refrigerators. Peltiers are more expensive than
4.Sx100 ablazing 4SO MHz!
Some people have even pushed their heat sink/fan combos, but they can decrease
Celerons beyond this speed a process we your CPU temperature by about 20 degrees C.
really don't recommend, due to the increased
likelihood of "electromigration."
Good news and bad news
Electromigration is a gradual deterioration If you are just thinking of getting a new
of your CPU's core that occurs when chips run processor and you are considering one of
these "overclocking-friendly" chips, there is
too hot. And just how hot do they get?
The typical temperature inside an enclo- some good news and some bad news. The
sure is usually about 40 degrees C, depending, good news is: Intel has retracted a message it
of course, on the room temperature and how posted on its Web site in mid-February that
effective your system's cooling fans are. If your it was discontinuing the 300A. A couple of
computer's BIOS supports temperature read- days later, Intel changed the message. It now
outs, you can expect to see motherboard tem- says it will continue manufacturing the
peratures of about 40-43 degrees C with a 300A, although company spokespersons say
standard cooling fan (our Socket 370 Celeron they expect a "rapid conversion" to the
came with a Jam!con chip-on fan), or about 10 PPGA version of the processor.
More good news: we' ve purchased both
degrees C cooler using a better fan and a thin
layer of thermal paste, which helps transfer SEPP (Slot 1) and PPGA (Socket 370) Celeron
heat from the chip's core to the heat sink area. chips in the last few weeks that overclock to
Our "maxed out" gaming system with two 450 MHz without problems. The bad news
SLled (scan line interleaved) Voodoo2 cards, a is: we' ve also been offered a number of chips
TNT video card, Monster Sound MX300 and that dealers are quick to caution cannot be
network card produces an ambient tempera- reliably overclocked. Here's how to tell a
ture of 44 degrees C, yet our Celeron 300A at "good" Celeron.
Our experience has been that the Socket
450Mhz still runs perfectly at its default 2.0
v'oltage.
370 or Slot chips manufactured in Ma!aysia
Note, however, that such readouts are are more suitable for overciocking than their
based on a temperature sensor mounted on Slot 1 cousins from Costa Rica. Slot I Celerons
the motherboard, not the CPU, so don't con- from Malaysia are getting hard to find, but the
sider a number your BIOS gives you to be an Socket 370 versions (which typically come
accurate representation of the chip's tempera- with a Slot 1 adapter card) are still readily
ture, which could be up to 25 degrees C high- available.
How can you tell where a Ceieron proceser (you'd need an on-chip heat probe to detersor is manufactured? Each Celeron has a stickmine this exactly).

By Graeme Bennett

er that indicates the date and place of its manufacture. On Slot 1 type processors, this is a
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A Celeron manufactured in Costa Rica will
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mounted in a socket, you' ll have to remove it
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Malaysian Celerons, however, seem to be

more reliable the Socket 370 chip we
bought on Feb. 27/99 overciocked to 450 at
the default voltage (2 volts). By contrast, a
Costa Rica Slot 1 Celeron bought a few weeks
earlier required 2.2 volts to run stably at 450
MHz. In both cases, the chips were cooled
with fans (with built-in heat sinks) and tested on an Abit BH6 motherboard considered by many the best motherboard for overclocking.
We used a thin, evenly distributed layer
of thermal paste to ensure the best possible
contact between the processor and the
fan/heat sink combo. The dealer we bought
the Celeron from gave us a small vial of this

HARDWARE

You may also find that a utility, such as

your processor is an "MMX-98 MHz processor"

Waterfall Pro from httpi%pu.sknplenet.corn/lead- you have a problem that cannot be fixed withing wintech/ can reduce temperatures. On one out borrowing a (non-Celeron) Pentium II,
of our test systems, it reduced case temperature from 46 degrees C to 38 degrees C with no

inserting it and updating the BIOS of the computer in question.

Severai popular motherboards we tested,

including an Abit BX-6, Asus P2B-S and

Legend-QDI BrillianX IV motherboard, ail

needed BIOS updates before we could use them
with Mendecin~ass Celeron processors. CI

appreciable drop in performance, and only a

100KB memory footprint.

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thermal paste when we bought the chip and you get a Celeron, drop it into your mother- ;".'~p.: PCI00DIMM memory mmhiles will Still wurjt. You:may have tibubles tryingto use 66 MHz
fan combo. (You may have to specifically board's Pentium Il~mpatible slot and subse- :=.
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request this extra item.)

Cache design boosts K6-III performance

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that the new AMD processor, which costs

ments do have an effect on the other aspects

of any application that uses floating point
instructions,

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in floating point calculations.
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re you having problems with your

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The authors do seem to have been resting

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veys or if you run a commercial Web sitepurchase items.

hile the emergence of the Web has

generally been hailed as a breakthrough in modem communications,'most Web pages typically have more in
common with billboards than with telephones. No matter how good a page looks, it
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To make the communication flow both

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tions that explain how things work. In the

guide to CGI and Perl, the "pictures" are primarily lines of code with descriptions, and
the occasional Web page that shows how the
code behaves. CGI and Perl are relatively
complex but this Visual Quicksfart Guidewhich is aimed at the beginner with little or

no programming experience
manages to
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Perl, and looks more closely at arrays, creating conditional statements and writing subroutines to perform specific functions. It also
looks at how to effectively analyze the resulting data, how to use cookies and how to

everyfamily needs a computer.)

The book reads like a long consumer

magazine column on family computing,

with the authors interspersing personal stories with comments from other parents. The
layout borrows somewhat from I D G's
Dummies series, employing numerous illustrations and screen images to help convey
information.
There is a strong belief expressed by the
authors in the educational value of home
PCs. In fact, there is a very middle class,
upward-striving ethos behind this book.
Parents in the PC Dads universe are really,
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their kids which is not a bad thing at all.
After acting as boosters for the positive
side of computing, the authors then spend
several chapters dealing with the hazards of
the new technology, including the potential
for addiction to violent games, how to protect minors from online stalkers, porn and
Continued on page 117

ways through your Web site, you eventually

have to leam about the Common Gateway track and debug errors in your code.
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language most often used to create robust,

interactive sites, This Vistral Quickstart Guide
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ground in just under 300 pages

and it does it
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have its drawbacks: what you get in breadth
you won't get in depth. But it provides a good
overview of using Perl for the Web.
If you want to leam Perl and CGI, this
book is a pretty good start, and its detailed

popular Dummies series of books. The basic appendices will be a valuable resource even
formula makes extensive use of pictures
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anada is a large country with a long and
interesting past. The Web has helped
open up that history to a wider audience, bringing to light different perspectives,
previously hidden stories, and providing more
information on well-known events or information on historical areas, If you are delving into
Canadian history, these 10 Web sites are among
the many out there that are worth a visit.

OMLIME

the auspices of Industry Canada, this site

pays tribute to Canadian veterans who
fought in World War I. It provides information not commonly found in history
books, and gives a voice to veteran's reminiscences through interviews that can be

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Though history tends to focus on great
men, this Web site proves that Canadian

history is full o f g reat women who

deserve a place in history as well. Susan
Merritt, the author of a couple of books
on women's history, created the Web site.
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An in-depth look at Cascading Style Sheets: Part 3

appear in a jumble on the page.For example,

By Kelth SchengNI-Roberts

<P>
="image.
jpg"ALIGN='LEFT">
<IMG SRC
<8 STYLE='CLEAR:
LEFI'>

try entering and then viewing the following

code in your browser.

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) tags= tmage.
jpg'ALIGN= LER >
and the differences in how they <IMG SRC
are displayed in both Netscape Navigator This textshouldappearbesidethepreviousimage.
='Image.
jpg'ALIGN='LEFT>
and Internet Explorer
with a look at the
<IMG SRC
CLEAR,COLOR and DISPLAY elements.
e continue our in4epth look at

This paragraph
shouldappear belowthe imagethat

What you will get is the Arst image

appearing to the left, some text appearing to

The CLEAR element

CLEAR belongs to the family of CSS box and
m argin elements designed to tell t h e
browser where textual elements should
appear onscreen. The CLEAR element is
used to set how the specified element will
allow other elements to "float" along its
sides, determining where the text appearing after the element should appear. In this

its right, and the next image appearing

underneath the text and to the right of the
Arst image. Not pretty. To solve this problem
you could use<BRCLEAR='ALL'> after the text

to force the second image to appear below

the Arst, eliminating the jumble onscreen.

You can now use the CLEAR element to
accomplish the same thing.
way it is not very different from the CLEAR
The CLEAR element uses the following
attribute, which is used with the BR> modifiers: LEFT,RIGHT,BOTHand NONE.LEFT
HTML tag, and it works in exactly the same tells the browser to display the text below the
='LEFT .
manner.
image when the image is set to ALIGN
RIGHT
tells
the
browser
to
display
the
text
When text follows an image, it generally
Aows immediately after it in the same verti- below the image when the image is set to
cal space occupied by the hnage. Using the ALIGN='RIGHT'.BOTH should be used when
CLEARCSSelement you can control where you have two images aligned left and right,

is left aligned.
</8>
<P
<BR CLEAR='ALL'>
='RIGHl >
<IMG SRC='image.jpg' ALIGN
<8 STYLEm
'CLEAR: RIGHT)
This paragraphshould appear belowthe imagethat
is right aligned.
</8>
<P>
="ALL'>
<BR CLEAR
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<IMG SRC
<IMG SRC="image.jpg'ALIGN='RIGHT'>
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This line oftext appearslbelow</I> thetwo images.
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<8 STYLE
This line oftext appears<l>between</I> the two

out to arrange the text and image, but the

CLEAR element provides an alternate way of

doing things.
The CLEAR
element is supported equally
weII in the latest versionsof both Netscape
Navigator and Internet Explorer. It is considered a "safe" CSS element to use.
The COLOR element
The COLOR CSS element is much easier to
understand than CLEAR
it simply sets the
color to be displayed for the HTML tag it is
associated with. It can take either a color

name (such asRED,AQUA or TEAL) or a hexadecimal color value. It works in the same way
as the COLOR attribute does with the <FONT>
tag or with a number of other HTML tags.
The following code displays HTML and CSS
code that produce the same results:
FONTCOLOR=cREO">B>Red,bold
text</8>/FONT><BR>
<FONTCOLOR='GREEN)8>Green,bold
text/8>/FONT><BR>
FONTCOLOR="BLUE"<8>Blue,boid
text/8>/FONT>

text should appear in relation to the image. and you want text to appear beneath both. images.
This can be handy when you have multiple Finally, NONE places the text between two </8
imagesappearing on a Web page,and you images aligned left and right. The following
Admittedly, much the same thing can be 8 STYLE='COLOR:RED)Red, beld text</8>BR
want to be sure your text is associated with code demonstrates all of these elements put
accomplished with lessfussusing a table layContinued on page l20
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Continued from page lyly

includes tags like <I>, <B> or <EM> that do not

begin and end a line. The LIST-ITEM makes
the associated tag appear offset as if it were
like a bulleted item in a list. Finally, the NONE
setting takes away the typical formatting
normally associated with a given HTML tag.
You might be looking at this and be

='COLOR:GREEN >Green,bold
<8 STYLE
text<iB><BR>
<8 STYLE='COLOR:BLUE">Blue,bold text<iB>
The COLOR element is supported in the
latest versions of both Netscape Navigator

="DISPLAY: INLINE'>This header<iH1>

<H1 STYLE
will appear within the sentence.

accomplish much of the same effects with

other CSS elements that would give you
more precise control. For example, CSS

provides better ways of setting margins

<H1>This header<iH1> will appearona separate line
than the rest of the sentence.

for text than that used in the first example. But this quick peek does give you an
idea of what is possible with the DISPLAY

element.
thinking to yourself "big deal," and for the
and Internet Explorer, and is considered most part you are probably right. But giving
You can also force inline elements to
There is partial support for this element
"safe" to use.
a tag the appearance normally associated appear on a separate line like a block element in Netscape Navigator 4.5 (it does not fully
with another can create some interesting would do, as the following line of code shows: support the INLINE value), and it is now
The DISPLAY element
DISPLAY belongs to the classification group of
CSS elements. This is a powerful group of

effects. For example, list elements are always

indented from the left margin, and you
could use that to your benefit, as the follow-

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

elements designed to fundamentally change ing lines of code show:

the way an HTML tag is displayed. For exam-

ple, you can make a bulleted item appear as <I STYLE='DISPLAY: LIST-ITEM">This italicized text
if it were a regular block of text, or make a

is indented in the sameway a list-item would be.<il>

blue hyperlink appear as regular text.
<P>
The DISPLAY element has four values: <I>Compare this line to the one above to seethe
BLOCK, INLINE, LIST-ITEM and NONE. BLOCK
sets effect.<il>
the specified element to appear like a blocktype taglike <P>, <H1>, or <BLOCKQUOTE>,
You can also force a header to appear
which are always on a line by themselves. within a line of regular text, as the following
Contrast this to the INLINE setting, which lines of code demonstrate:

Finally, the NONE value makes the element it is associated with disappear com-

fully supported in Internet Explorer 5.0. 0

Next time: The FLOAT and FONTCSSelements.
Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes any comments,

pletely, as the following code, when viewed, suggesti

ons orHTML tips you may have.You can
demonstrates:
email Keith at: robertskwave.
home.corn. Look for
Now youseeit,<B STYLE='DISPLAY:NONE'>now
you don' t.<iB>
DISPLAY is a rather odd CSS element,
since there are arguably better ways to

hisrecentbook on HTML, The Advanced HTML

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Advances in mobile phone, set-top box technology top news at German show
HANNOVER, Germany (NB) The world' s
biggest annual computer and technology
show opened for business again in March.

Motorola believes it can achieve that goal,

thanks to the use of better graphics and
microbrowser technology in its next generaSpanning seven days and dozens of halls tion cellular handsets.
Motorola has introduced the L7089 trilarger than a football stadium even the
press operations centre was larger than many band phone, the world's first to support GSM
exhibitions CeBIT was big. Poring over the 900, 1800 and 1900 wavebands, making it a
t rue g l o betrotter. T h e
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phone, which will be available in the summer, supshow goers, this year's show
was about 50 percent larger
ports a series of voice comthan Comdex Fall in Las
mands including dialing
numbers, replaying mesVega s.
sages and accessing voice
Some 7,341 companies
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As well as making all its
pared with last year's 7,239)
from 60 different countries
new handsets microbrowsershowed this year's revolucompatible by the end of
the y ear, Frank L l oyd,
tionary advances and prodMotorola's personal comms
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Middle East and Africa)

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Web accessfor new Motorola phones

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

end of the year, and across our entire digital

phone range in 2000," he said.
Motorola, http: //www.motorola.corn

Ultra-thin hard drive launched

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been around for almost as long as notebook

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changed that with the launch of the first 260
MB PC Card Type II hard disk card.
D espite it s c apacity, t h e T y p e I I
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the range of applications for miniature disk
drives into mobile and handheld products,
where the existing Type III drives are simply
too thick. The Type II card is based on the
technology at the heart of the 1 GB Type III
card, since it uses the same recording head

and the same disk as the Type m. Calluna

says a new mechanical and electronic design

region said, Motorola wants

to make all its phones wireless application
protocol (WAP) compliant as soon as practical. "This means that consumers can expect
to see the first Internet- browsing capabilities

has enabled 260 MB of data to be stored on a

s ingle-sided disk, allowing the f ir m t o
squeeze everything into the smaller case.
The card is expected to retail for about
US$299 when its ships this spring.
appearing on a Motorola GSM phone by the
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AMR builds on EFR by dynamically allomobile phone infrastructure and handset
A Nokia developer has revealed that the

firm is developing a new service in conjunction with IBM and Sabre, the online airline
reservations system operated by American
Airlines.
The system will be one of the first microdevice independent (GDI) language.
To
pr e v en t task
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InternetPrint incorporates a data encryption GSM/PCS mobile phone environment and
system to protect users' privacy. In addition, will effectively extend the Sabre reservation
to prevent Internet "spammers" from using system to a user's mobile phone.
InternetPrint to send out unwanted material,
As well as the more obvious booking
the software has a security option.
facility for flights, hotels, and rental cars, for
InternetPrint requires at least a 486 66 example, the mobile Sabre service will also
MHz processor-based PC running under feature pro-active information, according to
Windows 95/98 with a minimum of 16 MB the Nokia representative. For example, if a
of memory. The software ships next month flight booked through the service is delayed,
the user can be alerted by SMS (short mespriced at US$79.
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Initially, Nokia plans to offer the microTekneme box controls appliances
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Teknema has taken the wraps off an Internet for its own range of microbrowser-enabled
set-top box (STB) that interacts with a home smartphones, setting up its server interface
network to allow users to control home to work across microbrowser and SMS text
appliances from their TV sets.
messaging links.
This may sound like a couch potato's
The idea is that airlines can supply or rec-

dream, but the STB has the computer power

to control many appliances within a home
and, bearing in mind that there are PC programs around already that perform this function, the inclusion of the facility inside an
Internet STB is not as crazy as it first sounds.
For the unit, Teknema has partnered with
BPI; the Italian electronic switch maker, to

develop a system for the STB to interface

with the electrical wiring in a typical home.
The STB communicates with devices also
connected to the network using Echelon's
L ONworks t e chnology. A c cording t o

cating bandwidth to the call, dependent on

whether either party is speaking. Instead of
each digital mobile call being allocated a
fixed bandwidth, calls are allocated bandwidth based on their actual needs, and so,

when a person is speaking, the call quality

can actually exceed that of a landline phone
call.
VLSI Corp. demonstrated what it says is
the industry's first AMR vocoder for use on
GSM/PCS Phase 2+ mobile phones.
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vocoder will really come into its own as the
next-generation mobile networks start to
arrive over the next few years. VLSI says its
AMR vocoder is now being offered to cellular
handset vendors.
VLSI, http: //www.vlsi.corn

Mobile banking demonstrated

A group of four companies jointly demonstrated real banking transactions in a mobile

environment at CeBIT '99.
The companies involved in the demo
ommend their frequent flyers to buy or rent were 1822.direkt, the direct banking service;
a mobile phone and have access to the Sabre Schlumberger, the smart card firm; Brokat,
which developed the software; and Viag
reservations system while on the move.
According to Nokia, plans call for trials Interkom, which drew all the other compaamong frequent business fliers to take place nies together and used its E2 cellular network
during the summer. Although aimed at to carry the transactional data.
According to Viag officials, the transacmicrobrowser-enabled mobile phone users,
the plan is for the system to also be accessi- tional data is routed across GSM/PCS short
ble using standard SMS-enabled GSM/PCS message system text messages, encrypting
handsets, allowing users to receive updates data flowing across the link to ensure integrion their travel plans from the Sabre system ty and secrecy. The final security mechanism
used in the Viag facility is the use of transacon a regular basis.
Nokia, http J/www.nokia.corn
tion numbers and PINs for each transaction.
Viag said that by employing transaction
Sabre, httpJ/www.sabre.corn

Teknema, this allows the Internet STB to connumbers, users can retain control of and
trol various systems around the home, such as
Next-generationvocoder unveiled
. access to their account across remote conthe heating system, the lights, the security system, and the power management of a house. One of the most recent enhancements to nections.
Company officials said using a simple
Internally, the Teknema Internet TV STB digital mobile phones, the development
includes an 32-bit RISC multimedia chipset of enhanced full rate (EFR) codec technol- menu-driven handset display, users can initidesigned by ARM and manufacturedby ogy, is about to be leapfrogged by the ate account transfers and request details such
Cirrus Logic. The STB also has an integral
network interface, flicker-free TV interface, a
printer port, smartcard reader, and a wireless
remote control plus keyboard.
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Teknema, http: //www.teknema.corn

arrival

of

th i rd -g e neration as an account balance or stock prices.

codec/vocoder system known as adaptive

The scope of Viag's pilot program will be

multi rate (AMR).

EFR is a network4ependent feature that,
where available, allows users to have access
to near landline voice quality on t heir

expanded in the future to support additional

applications. The firm said, it envisages integrated services such as a mobile brokerage for
buying and selling securities, replenishing

electronic purses, and building other information services around banking transactions.
Viag said electronic banking is enjoying
growing popularity in Germany. 1822direkt, a
savings bank subsidiary, says it already carries
out over 70 percent of its transfers online.
For the CeBIT demo, Schlumberger supplied a Java-based SIM (subscriber identification module) card, the Cyberflex Simera, to
guarantee the security of mobile banking
transactions. The company also provided a
server platform (Aremis) that ensures local
independent administration and a reliable
continuous data flow over the Viag Interkom
network.
If all goes well, the four firms plan to start
trials of the mobile banking service to selected 1822.direkt subscribers later this year.
Viag Interkom, httpi/www.viaginterkom.de

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Sagem has taken the wraps off the cellular
industry's first dual-band microbrowserenabled mobile phone. The phone, the
Sagem Dual, u s e s U n w i red P l anet's
UP.Browser technology.
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mobile phone to access data on the Web, as

well as allowing a cellular carrier to migrate
users away from help and information systems that use up valuable voice channel
capacity, and over to an interactive menustyle system that uses data exchange instead.
In a demonstration at CeBIT '99, Sagem
officials showed how the dual GSM mobile
interactswith a serveraccessible across a cellular network to view and reply to email, as
well as gain access to personal organizer-style
functions.
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microbrowser technology with its existing

user interface software, the flrm gives cellular

network operators a new way to reach subscribers and add innovative services, with
seamless integration of all voice and data features.
According to Malcolm Bird, Unwired
Planet's European managing director, the
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the world.
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s it re, or has everyone forgotten the pur-

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stock ticker that only appears on screen
when they' ve left their computer.

saver inodifications. You might say that

Berkeley, of all coinpanies, is allowed to do
such a thing, since its wildly popular After
Dark screen savers helped transform a boring

Dark Games, is the latest culprit in screen

received Berkeley's latest release, the name

After Dark Games was a bit of a contradiction. However, I stopped caring after the first
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You see, I'm an old-school gamer. While I

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for the twitch games that seem so popular
these days, nor do I have the time for overwrought strategy and adventure
games. I want to get in, blow
something up or solve a puzzle,
and get out.

like games that can easily cut your computing p r oductivity d o w n to nothing.
Generating more plaintive promises of "just
one more game" than the other 10 games
combined, Roof Rats has the same addictive
arrange-the-blocks theme as Tetris, but in
reverse. Here you remove similarly colored
rooms from a building, in order to get the
people and animals stranded on the roof

There aren't many explo-

utility into marketable and entertaining eye

candy. Still, as far as I was concerned when I

sions in After Dark Games, but

for the most part the 11 games
contained on the CD-ROM keep
the mental gears turning.
Four of the games (Hula Girl,
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and arcade games. Most of your

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(including the titular rodents) safely to the

much of your adolescence playing similar ground. Some characters don't have to make
it all th e way to t h e ground; the buff
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MooShu Tiles are repackaged oldies. Foggy five stories up, but the old ladies have to be
Boxes is a digital version of an old pencil- lowered all the way down.
Roof Rats' appeal is its apparent simpliciand-paper standard: you and your opponent
(the computer, playing the enigmatic "foggy ty. But to win, or achieve any degree of succem, you have to mentally map out cause
and effect, taking in the big picture with
every mouse click. The game is easily worth

This can wear thin if, like me, you spent

the cost of the whole package.

All the games in the After Dark collection
have attractive graphics, cute animation, and
can be customized to some degree at the
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Zapper adds another wrinkle, giving players
bonus points (and extra time) for correctly
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But, without a doubt, the star attraction
of the After Dark Games collection is Roof
Rats. It is the latest in the long line of Tetris-

with relatively low system requirements (35

MB hard disk space, any old CD-ROM drive,
and a minimum 486SX or PowerMac CPU)
and the low cost, I'd say Berkeley has another winner on its hands. 0

Emru Townsend
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U.S. study predicts rapid boom in home networking

SAN FRANCISCO (NB) According t o
Gartner Group unit Dataquest home networking in the U.S. is in for a boom that
will see the industry grow to US$2 billion
in 2002. Driving the market will be fast
connections to the Internet, say Dataquest
officials.
John Armstrong, vice-president of the
networking w o r l d wid e p r o g ra m i n
Dataquest's telecommunications group,
said the forecast focused on the home portion of the U.S. small office/home office
(SOHO) market.
"Out of the approximately 100 million
households in the U.S. today, our forecast is
that in the year 2002 there will be 6.2 million
households actually networked," Armstrong
predicted. "The value of that market in the
year 2002 will be in excess of $2 billion. That' s
a rather substantial market."
He added, "That's out of a total of 33
million multi-PC households. So you can
see there's a lot of headroom there, another 27 million households that could be networked, so we expect the number of networked households will continue to grow
through the next decade."
Armstrong said networks will begin to
arrive in what amounts to "productivity
clusters" centered around PCs as people
begin to connect an assortment of external
devices to their computers. He cited print-

petencies, market presence and tough competitive nature. Intel has already targeted
home networking as an "area for success,"
noted Armstrong.
Diamond Multimedia also has a chance
at success in this arena, primarily because
of the high brand recognition it shares

with Intel and 3Com, he added. Trailing

because of lesser consumer recognition will
be Nortel's Bay Networks and Cisco, which
may prevail at the gateway but which are
less known in retail space.
Declared Armstrong, "We believe this is
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Over the n ex t s everal years, said
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become the dominant connection technology, followed b y w i r eless, traditional
Ethernet and finally power line technology.
The drive toward home networking will
pick up steam in fact, be driven by the
accelerating arrival of fast connections to
the Internet, including the different flavors
of digital subscriber line (DSL) phone connections and cable modem connections, as
voice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP), entertainment and interactive data streams converge in the home.
Armstrong also predicted that the dominant home network operating system will
be Sun's Jini, the Java-based network system announced last July, followed by
Microsoft's Universal Plug and Play technology. He said Jini will be favored because
it is platform independent, but Microsoft
will be a strong player "because of its sheer
presence."
A t h ir d o p e rating s y stem, C i sco
Network's IOS core, is likely to dominate in
the Internet gateway area, where homes
interconnect with t h e ne w h i gh-speed
Internet connections now being rolled out,
said Armstrong.
In terms of vendors, Armstrong predicted 3Com will dominate by leveraging its
current local area network (LAN) and wide
area network (WAN) strengths coupled
with its strong retail and channel presence
and high brand recognition.
Intel also will be a major player, he
added, simply because of its size, core com-

play directly into the home. If you consider the types of households with multiple
PCs in the homes, we' re talking about an
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group. You can expect to see lots of other
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ee our nee o r s ee
wit t w o new racin sims
By Cordon Coble
e computer garners certainly love

realistic and compelling fashion. With 12

ri of 3D effects found in most hlghwnd rac-

our automobile racing, as evi- sors, it sports a tmly authentic environment. erously strewn throughout. No, Superbike is
denced by the wave of racing With hauntingly photorealistic graphics that quite possibly the best looking thing on any
games being releasedover the last year or so. surpass those of Ubi Soft's superb Fl Racing number of wheels because it is rendered
While two of the most hyped new titles Simulation, it is a visual masterstroke. And unlike anything I' ve everseen.
come from the same publisher, Electronic with a demanding and complex physics
How can I describe it? I' ll just saythat it' s
Arts (EA), they' re worlds apart in terms of model, it challengeslike no other bike racing the dosest thing to TV-quahty visuals yet
manufactured. Granted, you have to exceed
quality and long-term playability.
game.
The astounding Superbike World
the recommended system requirements to
Championship, a motorcycle racing simulaexperience the full glory of the visuals while
maintaining a workable frame rate, but it's a
tion, is my personal early pick for racing
knockout show if you do. Heck, it looks good
game of the year. However, the secondgame,

NASCAR Revolution is a curious arcade-simulation mix that doesn't really work on

either level. As you' ll see, with publishers

now often acting merely as the marketing

department for whatever developers they've

signed, having a prominent and respected
name such as EA on a gamecertainly isn't a
guarantee that it will be good.

Superblte World Chatnplonshlp

From: ElectronicArts

Tel:
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Minimumsystemrequirements: 166 MHzPenium
CPU,Windows 95/98,32 M B AANI,4x CD-ROM
drive, DirecIX 6-compatiblesoundcard, 20 4 MB
DirectX &compatiblevideocard, 144 MBfree hard

Its real problems stem from the rough

real world Superbike courses and an over- ing games, though features such as light edges that surround just about every facet of
flowing roster of real riders, bikes and spon- sourcing, shadowing and tire smokearegen- the product. There's the enormous yet
mandatory 370 MB install and the monoto-

nous track loading and unloading procedure

that occurs should you venture even

momentarily to the garage for a quick

Superbike World
Championship is
with the detail turned down a real
an absolute must-have even
plus for those running the game on an older
or budget system.
for any fan
Sadly, Superbike has this annoying trait
of completely unloading/reloading each
of high-speed action track between sessions and even during
For motorcycle simulation b uffs,

Superbike is the only way to go. How complex and engrossing isthe ride?Let me put it
this way: I spent my flrst two hours playing
this game just trying to carve the perfect lap
at Italy's Monza, enjoying every subtle
moment and reminisdng fondly back to my
earliest experiences with Micr opros' Grand

momentary garage visits, but that's one of its

few flaws. Otherwise the game simply out-

mechanical adjustment. Or, how about the

classes all mototcyde and most car racing fact that human drivers can't compete under
games too. It is truly state~f-the-art.

their own name. Then there's that annoying

NASCAR Revolution

auto-pilot feature that assumestotal control

during all pace laps, pit stops, and caution
periods. I mean, the idea is to actually drive

From: ElectronicArts
Tel:800-245-4525,httpl/www.easporis.corn

the thing, isn't it?

Yet the above complaints seem to be nitpicking in comparison to the game's inordi-

233 MHzPentium CPU, Sx CMOM drive ,3D graph-

Prix H.
Minimumsystem requirements: 200 MHzPentium
I soon found that I was indeed astride a CPU, Windows95/98, 32 MBRAM,Sx CD-ROM
tenuous, nervous motorcycle, with each drive, 30 acceleratorcard with Direct 30 and/or Glide
experience differing as I moved from Honda 3.02, and high-color-capable 1 MBPCI videocard
to Ducati to Yamaha. If I accelerated too with DirectDraar-compatibledriver, 370 MBhard disk

ics acceleratoror Direct30mmpatible soundcard

quickly, there was a good chance I'd pop a space.

chugging and completely still pictures in the

midst of any moderate action. Worse still,

with 8 NIBRAM,402 MBhard diskspace.

Street price: $65

wheelie and flip, if I braked too suddenly on

Street price: $65

NASCAR's real-time gameplay suffers just as

On the other hand, we have NASCAR

much. I found that rounding the relatively

short 1.6 km (1 mile) Phoenix oval with a full
field of cars took nearly as long as driving the

diskspaceplusspaceforsavedgames.
Recommen
dedsystemrequirements: Asabovewith

publisher Intense Entertainment and developer Interactive Entertainment were able to

meanwhile, though usually semi-believable

and certainly capable of waging their own

title that explored the simulation (read: real-

istic) side of motoxycle racing. Flawed in

gamesand garnered

its fair share of critical praise.

It also unwittingly set the stage for what
must surely be considered the finest bike rac-

ments, the frame rate will slow to a series of

Your artificially intelligent opponents,

do what no one else had, namely create a

physics of other
"arcade"
more

meet the recominended system require-

Revolution, a game EA had originally pro- huge 4 km (2.5 mile) Talladega circuit with
fessed would be a cutting<dge simulation. no cats! Now that is one heck of a serious
As it turns out, Revolution is anything but. blow to the rules of virtual racing.

With last year's Superbike World Champions,

some areas and limited in terms of available

bikes, tracks and a
truly realistic ride,
Supe rbike World
Champions nevert heless took u s
s wiftly from t h e
stereotypical whips,
chains and bizarre

nate graphical demands. In short, even if you

impressive battles with one another, are

prone to major errors in judgement and may
well be caught plowing right through you
like you weren't there. A cool pit stop procedure with little crew members who scurry
. about servicing your car and the very impressive sensation of bouncing suspensions serve
to undo some of
the damage, but
they can't save

a downhill slope I'd bring

t he rear wheel up a nd
potentially take a dive over
the handlebars. But more
importantly, the subtlety
was there.

Sup erbike forces an

Sure, this quirky
ultra-smooth, unwavering study of America' s
approach and smart radng NASCAR Racing series
lines at all times, with the added bonus of
the believable crash avoidance -techniques
and uncanny behavior of the artifidally
intelligent competition. And, as a rookie
incentive, the game features not only a mul-

is fllled with some very

pretty cars, lots of

flashy 3D-accelerated

what seems to be

a game released
before its time.
If
not h i ng
else,
NA S CAR
Revolution does

effects and a whole

show just how
well
Pa p yrus
bunch of the glossy
titude of realism and difficulty options but a wrapping that has
Design Group had
this whole stock
Superbike World Championship, and it is an separate arcade modethat serves asan excel- become an EA Sports
absolute must-have for any fan of high-speed lent starting ground.
trademark Sure, the dhuits are satisfactory car racing thing down years ago with the
action.
But wait the best is yet to come. depictions of actual NASCAR tracks, with all original NASCARRacing. Into its third iteraDeveloped by the obviously adept Superbike's fabulous technical aspects are the appropriate corporate logos, colors, and tion as NASCAR Raang 1999, and now under
Milestone design house in Milan, Italy, further heightened by what must be consid- even individual track textures. And yes, the the Sierra Sports banner, it remains the game
Superbike explores the upper echelon of ered the juiciest graphics this side of a teal driving model is pretty fair
for a somewhat of choice for a realistic and involving stock
motorbike radng, and does so in the most track And I don't mean the typical potpour- less-than-realistic arcade game, that is.
car experience. 0

ing game, and quite possibly one of the

finest racing games of any kind ever to be
released. That game is the similarly titled

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MAY 1999

gg KIDS I

Picky Eater
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ost young children are already

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How to highlight and add comments to text and spreadsheets
By Helen Bradley

sheet. We' ll also discuss how to draw attention to i n formation using the computer

is month we' ll look at a number of

ways to add comments and notes to
text in a document or data in a work-

others stand out so their message won't be

missed.

equivalent of a highlighter pen and sticky

notes. And Anally we' ll look at how some
comments can be hidden and how to make

Take ontthe hlghBghter

Word 97 has a number of options to draw

attention to text. To highlight text as you

would on paper with a highlighting pen, you

need to display the Formatting toolbar and
use the Highlight option. Select the text,
then click the Highlight button to highlight
it. To use a different color, simply click the
arrow to the right of the button and select an
alternate color from the drop-down list.

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selections. For example, text that needs to be

double checked can be hghlighted in blue,

and text t hat r equires authorization or
approval can be highlighted in yellow
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Sometimes you' ll want to add a comment to
a piece of text without it appearing in the
text. For example, you may want to ask a coworker a question about something mentioned in the text or remind yourself of the
source of a quote in the text. You can do this
using the Comment option. Select the text
you want to comment on, choose Insert,
then Comment,
You' ll be taken to the Comment area
where your initials will appear with a comment number in brackets (e.g. [HBI]). You
can then add your text to the right of this
marker. Select Close to dose the comment

area and return to your document. The text

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then choose the Screen Tips checkbox and
click OK.
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pointer over the highlighted text and a small
box will appear with your name and the
comment text. If your initials or name are
incorrect, alter them by selecting Tools,
Options, User Information.
If you are reviewing a document that
contains a number of comments, you can
move from one to the next using buttons on
the Reviewing toolbar. To display this, select
View, Toolbars, Reviewing, then use the
Previous Comment and Next Comment buttons on the toolbar to move from one comment to the next through the document.
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attached to intact. Right-clicking on a comment and selecting Delete Comment from
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highlighted text and, on a separate page,
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of writing it. Just be aware that sound files
are very large so comments need to be
short and to the point. To record a voice
comment select Insert, Comment and type
a note such as "There is an audio message
here" as this will appear in the comment
box to alert you or another reader that
there's a sound message attached to the
comment.
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uctsnotably Publisher) allows you to add

icons to your documents to which notes can
be attached. To use this application select
Insert, Object, pick the Create New tab and
browse the list for Microsoft Note-It. If it is
there, click OK. When the Note-It dialogue
appears, select your choice of image, type a
caption for your note and the text to appear
when it is selected. To view the note doubleclick on it and the text will appear in a box
at the top of the Word window.

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note by selecting it, right-clicking on it,
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checkbox. Select the Wrapping tab, then
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Record button (it has a red dot on it) and

record your message. To stop recording
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square on it). Click the close button on
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down, then click Close to return to your
document.
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over the comment you will see the note
indicating that there is a sound file embedded. Right-click and select Edit Comment
from the shortcut menu and double-click
on the sound file to replay the message.

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A small Microsoft add-in called Note-It
(which is shipped with some Microsoft pml-

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Excel has a comment option you can use to
add information to a worksheet cell. This can
be used to explain the contents of a cell or to
make a note about something that needs
checking or updating. To add a comment to
a cell, click the cell and select Insert, then
Comment. A small yellow box will then
appear on the screen with your name in it.
Type your text into the box (it will scroll if
there is not enough room,

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sound object dialogue appears, click the

Hiding text
Using Hidden text is an alternative to
adding comments. You might use this to
include speaker notes when preparing documents for a presentation. In this case, the
text you want to be hidden would be formatted by choosing Format, Font, and the
Font tab, then selecting the Hidden checkbox. The text will be hidden unless you ask
for it to be visible by selecting Tools,
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Hidden Text checkbox.
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