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write this in the dying days of summer, I' ve just read that mail-order
PC vendor Gateway is retreating
fiom Asia and may also exit from
Europe later this year. I' ve also read
that former handheld darlings, Palm and Handspring, are
just shadows of what they were a year ago, at least asfar as
stock values are concerned. And on it goes.
From a businessperspective, the outlook remains grim.
But researchand development goes on, and technology
users expect that there will be another next big thing.
Figuring out where it wifi come &om is the challenge. One
place to look is th'e Intel Developers Forum. Since 1999,
the company has handed out Intel Innovative PC Awards

to companieswhose products makePCseasier to use.

Somewould arguethat you can't use"PC" and"easyto
use"in the same sentence,and there are dayswhen even
TClvsmost seasoned pmduct testers would agree. So we
tend to appmach claims of such innovation warily. You
can check out the winners on Intel's site (www.intel.com),
but I was generally underwhelmed by what I read.
Forexample,among the noteworthy features ofone of
the winners was "an easy-to-find on/off switch." Well,

duh. Another notebook's standby and hibernation features were deemed to be praiseworthy.Several years ago, I
had a 486 notebook &om the same manufacturer that had

bulletproof hibernationsowhat's the big deal?

To befair. there were someinteresting implementations

anyone working in digital video.

I became a true believer of FireWire when I took a DV
camcorderon vacation thissummer. On returning home,
I simply connected a cable between the FireWire ports of
the camcorder and a DV iMac,fired up the iMovie software (included with the omputer), and was editing the
video minutes later it really was that simple (the artistry
of movie making itself is, of course, another matter).
The irony of proclaiming the novelty of FireWire in
2001 will not be lost on our Mac readers, who can rightly
point out that FireWire has been a standard feature on a
couple of generations of Macs, and that it's Apple's technology in the first place. But I digress...
One PC that didn't make it on the Innovative PC
Awards list, but which was presented as a concept design
at the Developers Forum was the Taishan, jointly devel-

oped by Intel and Legend Holdings. This concept PC

addressesa concern that has been discussed in our Letters
column for the past few issuesnoisy computers.
The announcement of the Taishan was actually sent to
us by Seagate. whose contribution to the project is the
hard drive. Seagate says its Barracuda ATA IV drives are
equipped with fluid dynamic bearing motors, which
make them "virtually silent." The Taishan also usescooling fans that are designed to operate quietly.
Overall. the concept design includes a few other interesting advancements, such as USB 2.0 and a notebook
computer-like low-power sleep mode, making it available
more quickly than if it were shut completely off.
No FbeWire in the Taishan, though, and this illustrates
the dilemmas and potential traps facing mainstream PC
designers. If you are building for volume, USB 2.0 is the

few vendors besidesApple that provides FireWire support

out of the box. It makes sense for Sony to do so, sinus the
port complements what is already found on Sony camcorders. For PC makers without that vested interest, however, going after this limited market may not be worth it.
But FireWire is just one example you can find other

sub-groups of PC userswith specialized needsfor sound

or video or storage waiting to be served. PC makers may
want to dismiss niche customers, but they may discover
that tomorrow's PC game is nothing but niche customers.

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And speaking of trying to figure out what the customer
wants: in the fall, we assesswhat we' ve accompfished at
TheComputer Paper during the year, and begin to develop next year's game plan. Asking readers what they think
has been a central part of that planning for manyyears.
We heldsome focus groups a few weeks ago,and you may
have noticed invitations to fifi out a readership questionnaire, which can be found on our Web site (www.canada-

computes,mm).
I would also invite you to email me directly with suggestions for themes, issues, or specific topics you'd like to
see covered on the pagesof The Cmuputer Paper next year.
We can't be afi things to afi people, but I think we' ve
maintained a pretty goodtrack record of covering topics

many ofyou find useful andinteresting. Readersgiving us

a gentle prod in one direction or the other has been an
important part of our planning, so let us know what

you' rethinking.
Enjoy the issue
David Tanaka, Editor

way togo.Most peripherals

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uses built-in wireless networking, FireWire ports and
tool-less casesand expansion slots. These appeal to small
subsets of computer users, but if you fit the profile, you' ll
like the innovation. Tool-lesscases, for example, mean

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screws every time. And FireWire is the essential port for

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hardware still in demand (e.g., Pentium

timely considering the vast numbers of

systems, monitors, RAM, network cards,

computers which become obsolete so

floppy drives, etc.). I offer this suggestion

quickly these days.

mention. Thereare dozens (if not hundreds)

of computer collectors who display their
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garages,and they often soliritadditionsto
theircollecfions. Perhaps these computer

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ere's been a lot of concern this year

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sales.But while the basicdesktop box

may be slightly passkjust now, there's a

Canada, the Perfection 2450. should be

shipping in October using USB 2.0 (and

whole new frontier opening up. The

excitement is shilling to how these beige
boxes connect to each other or to

IEEE 1394) to deliver images with resolutions of up to 2,400x4,800 dots per inch.

Thenomenclature hasbeen
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peripheral devices.
Four new connectivity technologies are
just coming into their own, bringing new
capabilities to the familiar personal com-

puter. They are IEEE 1394 (FireWhe).

VSB 2.0, IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), and
Bluetooth.
Two of these options are wireless and
two are not. Two are aimed at traditional

"desktop computing" applications, while

Although the shift from USB 1.1 to USB

the other two are coming from a con-

2.0 looks like a no-brainer, there is some

potential for confusion during the transi-

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towards that "convergence" we keep hearing about. Below is an easyway to categorize these four connectivity options.

tion. The USB hnplementers Forum has

taken steps to forestall this. The nomendamre has been amended, with USB 1.1

now officially referred to as USB Basic

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F ireWire Bluetooth

the two standards, USB 2.0 being distinguished by a red Sashbearing the words
Hi-Speed. Use of theselogos will require

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stacks up.

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"From a marketing perspective, it's brilliant," sums up Pamela Schure, desktop
marketing manager with Adaptec Inc.
(wwwathptec.corn) Schure predicts that consumers will perceive USB 2.0 as the
inevitable upgrade from the ubiquitous
USB 1.1 interface.
And why not? USB is now built into
every PC and Macintosh. Just about all
new peripherals support it, from printers
to digital cameras, and from LAlq

adaptersto CD-R burners.

Don Cameron, marketing communications manager with Epson Canada
(www.eps
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cheapest inkjet printer, selling for $69, is a

VSB-only device.
The problem with USB 1.1 is that it' s
just not quite fast enon@. with a "raw"
speed of 12 Mbps (megabits per second),

which must be shared between all the

installed peripherals.
Belkin Components (www
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addressed this issue to some extent with
its USB 4-Port PCI Card with QuadraBus

Technology (US$59.95), which provides

four independent USB channels, all capable of operating simultaneously at the full
12 Mbps capacity. This looks like a great

enough to brew up their own drivers.

Belkin was also promising a solution by
the end of summer.
Microsoft cited the lack of USB 2.0
devices for testing as the reason for the
delay.However, beta drivers were seeing
limited distribution in August, and final
drivers should be available by the time
However, the ultimate solution is a new
this article appears in print.
specification. USB 2.0. which was olfirialMicrosoft has stated that it won't be
supporting USB 2.0 on versions of
ly announced back in April 2000 with
explicit s upport f r o m Mi crosol't Windows prior to Windows Me. However.
(waw.mi
eroso(tcs), Compaq (wwwcompaq.ca).
card vendors are expected to SB this void,
Hewlett-Packard (wwwhp.cs), Lucent
so you should, ultimately, be able to run
USB 2.0 on any system that now handles
(wwwluceatm), Philips (wwwphillpssom), and
NEC (www.ames). USB 2.0 ofFers a data
USB 1.1.
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ager
at Intel (www.intel.rs) and current chairtimes faster than USB 1.1.
Equally important, the isochronous
man of the USB Implementers Forum,
reports that all Intel motherboards since
transfer rate jumps from about I Mbps to
24 Mbps. That's the speed available for
earlythisyearhave had spaceforaUSB 2.0
chip, although the first boards with this
timing-critical information, such as
streaming audio or video.
chip in place probably won't actually

interim solution for anyone using numerous USB devices.

USB2.0off
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timesfasterthan USB 1.1.

compliance testing, which should have the

side efFect of eliminating the occasional
glitches seen with VSB 1.1. such ashaving

one device disappear when you plug

another one in.
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users will need to be aware of during the
transition. First, USB 1.1 devices will
work on VSB 2.0 ports; however, they
won't see any performance benefi
t.
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work just fine with USB 2.0, many existing cables are not really up to the original
standard. (This may be one reason all USB
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cards. However, adoption was somewhat
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However, strong support from consumer
electronics manufacturers seems to guarantee that the standard will become

increasingly signi6cant.
Confusion over the name certainly
doesn't help. The technology wasoriginal-

ly developed byApple (wwwapple.a) under

the name FireWire. but then released as a
more general standard by the IEEE
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Engineers lnc.). Meanwhile, Sony adopted

it under the name i.Link a name that
has, reportedly, become popular in Japan.
Confusion and overlap with USB 2.0 is
a more serious issue. Both standards allow

(i.e., without powering anything down

when adding a new device). Both allow
daisy-chaining of multiple devices on a
single port.

plug-and-play with hot-pluggable connection and disconnection of peripherals

Digital video is the onekey

desktop application that's likely to stay with IEEE 1394c

Until about two years ago, USB was
pitched as a low-speed, low-cost connection, and it was widely believed that IEEE
1394 would dominate wlfere higher
thmughput was required. However, the
USB hnplementers Forum endowed USB
2.0 with specs that clearly overlap thoseof
IEEE 1394.
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application that's likely to stay with IREE
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peer-to-peer. with no computer in the
loop. And, most importantly. the major
camcorder manufacturers really like it
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be real, but opinions vary as to its significance. For example, Adaptec'sSchure conBrms that VSB 2.0 will probably be faster
when accessing a single disk drive, but
that for two or more drives, "FireWire
blows USB 2.0 away."
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Corp., doesn't feel as strongly, stating that
"there's no noticeable difference in use."
IEEE 1394 boosters also suggest that
USB 2.0 places amuch heavier load on the
computer'
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Ziller dismissesthis view, stating that USB
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percent of the processor's capacity. "With

And while VSB is on practically every

PC (and Mac) motherboard, IEEE 1394 is
making headway there too. For example,
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motherboards with IEEE 1394 built in,
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manufacturers, selling for as little as

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which will extend the standard first to 800
Mbps, then to 135 Gbps, and eventually to
3.2 Gbps using optical fiber. The 1394
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summer, but it seems unlikely we' ll see
significant retail product before ne)G year.
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rently costs substantially more

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in extreme situations. It seems that
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operateat once. (Of course, heavy users

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802.11a (because it comes from a project

that actually began first). IEEE 802.11a
not only works in a different range of frequencies. in the 5 GHz band. it's also up to
five timesfaster, topping out at 54 Mbps.
Scott
McL aughlin, ne t working
spokesperson at Intel, predicts that IEEE
802.11a products should start appearing
beforethe end of the year.However, he
recommends that users with average
throughput requirements don't need to
hold out. "If you don't need the high performance of 802.11a, 802.lib is going to
be fine," he says. "There's going to be a life

for both products."

Fortunately, the transition from one
standard to the other should be fairly
painless, a "phased network migration"
much like the recent move I'rom 10 Mbps
to 100 lvfirps Ethernet. It will be easy to
mix the two standards, pmviding extra
performance where it's most needed.
Expect to see "dual mode" access points,
which will connect roaming devices using
either version.
And, in fact. the upcoming transition to
802.11a doesn't seem to be holding back
adoption of 802.11b. For example, Eric
Johnson, wireless practice executive with
IBM Global Services, reports that IBM's
new lab building in Markham, Onto

which houses more than 1,200

employees,was designed from
the ground up to be completely
wireless.
Johnson also n otes t hat
Starbucks has been implementing 802.11 on a test basis in its
coffee shops, making them more
anractive to business people on
the go. Clearly, the day of ubiquitous networking is not far offi

Sluafoogt
Of all the new connectivity technologies, the oddest by far is
Bluetooth. It's intended for an
entirely new kind of application:
the Personal Area Network
(PAN), a sort of aura of connectivity that follows you wherever

you go.
Bluetooth allows up to eight
devices (potentially seven slaves
and a master) within a 10 m
radius to form a "piconet.n These
can be linked together into everchanging "scatternets."
Although both Bluetooth and
IEEE 802.11 are wireless. there' s
surprisingly little overlap in their
applications. IEEE 802.11 provides a persistent connection and

What about HomeRF?

integrated and production volumes escalating.
The HcmeRFWorking Group Inc. (www.hcmerf.crg) also touts the technology's extra support

ight now, IEEE802.11 seems poised to

sweep the field in wireless networking.

However,it should Rot be forgotten that

there'
s still another competing standard out
there. Until recently, HomeRF has been the
predominantbasis for consumer-focused networking products.

for streaming applications and ability to cany

multi
ple voice connections. These features
couldcertainly give HomeRF an edge forhomeoriented convergence applications... if any

The tide has largely turned against HomeRF.

actually materialize soon enough to matter.

In the business world, IEEE 802.11 is already

dose toa sure thing. That'
s going tc drive

However,given the current rate ofadoption on

these technologies, this seems unlikely.
On the downside, HomeRF is still relatively
slow. For example, Intel's AnyPoint Wireless
Home Networkruns atjust 1.6 Mbps. HomeRF
2.0is on the way, with 10 Mbps speed, and

costsdown in theconsumermarketas welL It's

alsogoing to make 802.11 desirable from the
point of view of compatibility.

more promised, but this may be too little, too

HomeRFproducts currently enjoy

apriceadvantage,butthatgap
is doomed to narrowquickly.

late.
Bottom line: fora self-contained home net-

work, HomeRFremains a perfectly valid solution. However, from a longer-term perspective,

A significant turnin
g pointcame in March,

itmight be betterto splurge a bit more to get

profes
sional IEEE 802.11 equipment,oreven to

viith Intel's decision to rely on IEEE 802.11 for

the future of its WLAN line. The company will

continue to sell and support its existing
AnyPointHomeRF products, but Intel clearly

wait for lower-priced consumer products based

thinksthe future belongs to 802.11.

HomeRFcould be one kilerproduct away from

a comeback,if only in its intended consumer-

on the 802.11 standard.

Of course,things can change quickly, and

HcmeRF products currently enjoy a price

advantage,but that gap is doomed to narrow

orientedniche.We'llknow soon enough.

Frank Lank

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the intended applications. For instance,
according to Michael McAvoy. HP category business manager for consumer printing, the Desk)et 995c has a rated print
speed of 17 pages per minute (ppm) in
black via USB and l 6.5 ppm via Bluetooth.
As of this summer, Bluetooth devices
were stil l p r etty s carce: E ricsson
(http//wwwerirsson,com/) the company that
started the whole movement unveiled a
the T36, a phone that uses Bluetooth to
communicate with the wireless headset,
and IBM released a Bluetooth PC Card for
its notebooks.
As of mid-August, the oificial Bluetooth
Web site (www.bluetoath.com) listed almost
30 pages of products, but most were
Bluetooth adapters, support software, or
developer tools. (In case you' re wondering, the site also explains that the name
Bluetooth derives from King Harald
Blatand, literally "blue tooth," who unified
Denmark and Norway.)
This dearth of retail products is probably just the calm before the storm. The
momentum behind Bluetooth is such that
widespread adoption seems a certainty.
With real-world devices being announced
later this year, it looks like 2002 should be
the year we all get bit by Bluetooth. CI

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bulk transfer ol data between computers;

Bluetooth is ag about quick, on-the-fly
conversations between smart devices.
Where the applications for IEEE 802. l l
are fairly obvious, Bluetooth is a wildcard.
Ask three people about the potential for
Bluetooth, and you' ll be reminded of the
old fable about the blind men and the elephant.Cellphone makers have one view;
PC users another; consumer electronics
types yet another.
A perfect example of a Bluetooth application would be a cordless headphone for
your cell phone or portable MP3 player.
But how about a vending machine that
cancharge acan ofpop to your cellphone
account>
There are more mundane computing
applications as well. For starters, Blue
tooth will almost certainly replace existing

infrared (IR) technology. In October,

Hewlett-Packard will ship its grat Bluetoothenabled printer, the DeskJet 995c. This
would make it much easier to wirelessly
send Blas to a printer &om a notebook or
handheld than the previous IR ports.
Yet another type of applicahon for
Bluetooth might be to finally eliminate
that tangle of wires behind your PC.
Mouse. keyboard, and other simple devices
could easily connect via Bluetooth.

Hands on IEEE 1394 (FireWire)

DFW-500FtreWire Adapter Card
From: D-UnkSystemsInc.
www.dlink.ca
Eskmated price': $60

ity.The ZR25NC is pock-marked with

cleverly concealed interface jacks: external power, 5-Video in/out, combination
analogueAV in/out and headphone jack,

DVpics AFW<300DV

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1394 cards includes some simple videoediting software. You set the software to
recordand the camcorder to playback,

From:CanonCanada
Estimatedstreet price: 51,299

FEE 1394 has been around longer

mat.About four minutes ofvideo ate up

looked at in this report, so there' s

over 800 NB of space, so figure on buying a hig hard drive if you get serious

quitea mass of products available to

choosefrom. We picked three brand-name
IEEE1394 PG cardsto try out.

The good news is that they all installed

painlessly a n d w o rked s moothly.
However, we did find some distinctions
that are worth watching out lbr.
The DFW-500 FireWire Adapter Card
from D-Link Systems Inc. and DVpics
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effortlessly on our Windows 2000 test
systems,without even the usual plugand-play routine. Insert the card, and
whenthe system is powered up, the new
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Windows Device Manager listing, without
displ
aying so much as a dialogue box to
tet( you about it.
The big application for IEEE 1394 is
digitalvideo, so thaYs what we used to
test the cards. We obtained a 2825NC
Digital Video Camcorder from Canon

sition effects, and a convenient fourtrack display showing individual timelines

for video, audio, music and titles.
The Adaptec DVpics fared even hetter,
bundlingin a copy of VideoWave 4 SE,
from Toronto-based MGI Software Carp.

It's much friendlier and better looking

than Video Studio, with an even hetter

repertoire of effects and editing functions

.Its one drawbackisthe use ofseparate views for various tasks, which is
less intuitive than a Video Studio's single
multi-tmck view.
Betide placed close behind with the
slightly older VideoWave III SE. However,
basic operation was similar.

There were a couple of minor glitches

along the way. On the slower of our two
test systems, a 450 MHz Pentium III,
videoseemed to come through a bitjerkitrack.
On theother hand, when wa first con-

hell and whistle you could ask for: a

Pentium III,the video image would break

choice of viewiinder and flip-out LCD

monitorscreen, VCR-style playback controls, a memory card slot for still images,

up intermittently. Wenever tracked down

the cause, but rebooting and jiggling all
the wires cured the problem. After that,
videoand audio came through clearas a

nected up the faster system, a 1 GHz

belL
Cuttingout unwanted bits ofvideo and

adding titles is a fairly straightforward

rosyone. Partofthatfuture isconnectiv-

ingly devoid of familiar controls such as

pulldown menus or toolbars. Once we figured it out, Video Studio transferred
video effortlessly from t h e Canon
ZR25NC. Editing was quite powerful as
well, with a good range of titles and tran-

erand with a bitmore noise on the sound

ham sandwich.
Ifthisisthe future ofvideo,it's avery

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aboutthis sort ofthing.

The D-Link DFW-500 card included
Ulead Video Studio, which packs a fair bit

end" of ourIEEE 1394 connection.

The ZR25MC is a truly sexy piece of
equipment.It features just about every

and much more, alltucked into a pabnB

fortransfening video,each oftheIEEE

than the other technologies we

on thesame two Texas Instruments chips.

and both offering three external ports.
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product, even while maintaining a street

price at least 30 percent more expensive

than its major rivals, Carel WordPerfoct
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Micmsoft does charge a premium list

price to consumers, it has, until the recent
price spgie to corporations, offered steep

discounts to organizational buyers that

were at or below competitors' prices.
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features and reliability. In our last review,
we found Microsoft Oflice 2000 and Corel
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equal in baseline features but with
Microsoft offering a slightly wider array of
extra programs and utilities.
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beta of Office XP, but I'iom what we have
seen, it dearly continues its lead in ohering extra program goodies, such as
Publisher. language translation services,
and optical character recognition (OC(t)
faciTities.

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better in key suite programs, such as presentations with PowerPoint (bugs killed
an otherwise (unct(onagy superior Corel
Presentations) and Fxcel (although, to my
astonishment, Corel's Quattro Pro
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has no counterpart on Corel's hide other
than the greatly improved Web output
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dominating but ahvays having some
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documents but also the underlying
schema for new XML document types.
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expounds a theme for the latest version.
Coral is emphasizing the fact that user
feedback inspired 70 percent of the changes
to WordPerfect Oifice 2002. Microsoft is
underlining three themes in Office XP: an
enhanced personal experience due to ease
of use and greater discoverabiTity; a better
collaborative experience with other OIBce
XP users;and astronger organizational and
a ministrative experience.
This latter point is really targeting system
administrators who have to install and
maintain anywhere &om dozens to thousands of Oifice XP licences. Office XP not
only helps automate the installation, on
Windows2000 servers, it helpsautomatically repair anydamage done to a dient's OIBce
XP installation while quickly updating or
adding newserviceson an onMemandbasis.
WordPerfect Olfice 2002 mimics this
same on-demand loading of services and
some of the recovery capabilities. But the
clear innovation in office suites has been
in the areas of discoverabiTity plus integration and collaboration.

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lot attention to the out of box experience
of products. This indicates how easy it is
to install and get started using software or
hardware.
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meaning. how easy it is to remember how
to use, especially given all the new features,
utilities, tools, and options. Microsoft calls
this discoverability and, interestingly,

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Corel's suite is leading in thisarea.

Corel has polished its PerfectExperts, a
series of task panes on the left side of the
screen that guide users, step by step,
through many of the common tasks they
need to accomplish in WordPerfect,

Microsoft has had context-sensitive

property toolbars and right-mouse dick
menus in Office and even task panes in its
Publisher 2000 and earlier products. But,
for whatever reason, it has not defivered
these capabilities uniformly across its

Quattro Pro, Presentations, or whatever.

Office suite programs. For exam

ple,

PerfectExperts areeasyto turn off and on,

and with screen resolutions of 1,024x768 or
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me with my task If I then want to format
the footnote text, I can right-click in the
footnote area for a context-sensitive menu
that offers me an option for formattingthis is mysecond level of help support.
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major object they are working on (switching from spreadsheet to chart in Quattro
Pro or free text to table in Wordperfect,
for example) the property bar quickly, and
almost unnoticed, offers a whole new set
of buttons and pulldown menus with the
menu options for the right-mouse click
button changing, too.
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Help menu. What Corel has done very
wefi is to spread the help system out
across context-sensitive menus, task
panes, and property bars. Now, when I
suspect the command is somewhere
buried in the menu system, I feel much
more confident that I will be able to discoverquickly where the command or
option I need is with WordPerfect Oflice.

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use. both suites have improved, with
Corel's long history of excellence earning
it a distinct advantage. But in the areas of
integration and Web support the results
are decidedly more mixetL Suite integration has steadily improved (including
common menu and toolbar layout, task
panes,common spelland grammar check,
and shared graphics), but communication
between suites and external programs is
still quite variable as is the ability to deliver results to the Web and other platforms.
Both companies have missed an oppor-

Once Xp also has MSN Messenger

Integration, group schedules, WebDAV
archiving, and versioning plus free/busy
sharing through Outlook and Microsoft
Exchange. The downside is that with the
notable exception of WebDAV, all of these
are proprietary, with sharing/integration
solely among Microsoft servers.
In the area of delivering output to the
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Olfice XP.For example, Coral Presentations
offers more Web output options than
PowerPoint. including four layout choices
(thumbnail page control and frameenhanced layout are my favourites); five
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pane, and redundant in the case of the
presentation options task pane).
Clearly Oflice XP task panes lack the
experience and polish of the WordPerfect
OIBce PerfectExperts. While I still get lost
in Oflice XP, I rarely lose my way in
WordPerfect OIBce.
Both suites have some unique yet nifty
features: in Word, it's the word count popup; in WordPerfect it's the synonym/correction pulldown on the property bar and
the back arrow that returns the cursor to
each succeeding insertion point. But for
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their fiie formats to XML with public document t yp e d e finitions (DTDs).
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Visio and Excel, and Coral certainly has
the expertise in WordPerfect and Quattro
Pro. This failure to convert to XML file
formats is one factor in lowering our
overall ratings of both suites.
Unfortunately, Web integration is also
quite mixetL On the positive side, Olfice
XP offers new SharePoint Team Services,
which provide a convenient intranet or
Web-based site (it must be on a Window
2000 server with SharePoint Team services extensions) for sharing not only group
Office documents but also group events,
discussions, surveys, and other team
schedules and information.
These SharePoint sites can be edited in
Front Page 2002 to provide a distinctive
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page size and common elementslike title.

numbering, and other features;and, in general,very fi
ne controloverhow your presentation wig appear online. As well, the
Wizard is reliable and easy to use.
In contrast, Office XP's PowerPoint
offers limited control over Web output,
with
no t hing ma tching Co r el
Presentations. Ditto for Quattro Pro over
Excel in Web page output (Excel does,
however, have more XML options), and
on through the suites with Corel offering
more Web output options and delivering
HTML that is shorter and cleaner than its
Office XP counterparts.
However, neither suite can match a thirdparty utility called Click-to-Convert fiom
Inzone Software (wwwdiddocoaverttom),
which produces consistently high quality
HTML output posing as aprinter option in
any Windows program.

Cellahssahen
Cogaboration has always been important
in organizations. But now, with more people working in spoataneous, project-oriented teams, the need is even greater. As
we have seen, Microsoft provides links to
SharePoint Team Service and SharePoint

Server. Userscanalso find similar services

fitr fee or for a feeonline.
Microsoft also offers tight links to

Exchange, including messaging, public

storage/archiving, and workfiows. In the
latter two cases, caution is recommended
as theseservices are subject to upcoming
.NET and other Web Services changes.
However, by putting the infrastructure for
a meeting or a Web discussion right into
Office XP's menus and t oolbars,
Microsoft has certainly moved a step
ahead in easing collaboration and sharing.
But both suites offer a fairly robust set
of collaboration services. Both allow users
to share a spreadsheet, document. or database table (but not slideshows) for collaborative review, for comparingfiles or editing a common file.
These review facilities inc)ude having a
user list of who can accessthe document
and with what privileges. The owner of
the document can review all the changes
and has several options for accepting and

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orelDraw Essentials is a mixed

message. On one hand, users are
getting nearly all the goods fiom
the CorelDraw Suite (but based on
Version 9, one generation behind the
flagship product Coral Draw 10).
Corel has a deserved reputation of
making its graphics programs easy to
learn and easy to use. It has pioneered
such innovations as context-sensitive
right-mouse clicks and a property bar
that changes the instant you select a new
tool. Corel's dockable, hidable, and

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rejecting proposed changes. Microsoft

tools do a better job of displaying confficts
and this is nicely tied in with its team messaging and online collaboration services.
Both vendors offer their own tools and
hooks for third-party archiving, version
control, and content-management programs. But in this arena, despite its pmprietary leanings, Office XP offers more
tmn 2nd group collaboration features
and convenience than Corel Office. CI

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Adobe's Photoshop Elements

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new helper dialogues, Hints

CorelDraw Essentials users are not shortchanged on features. The major missing
pieces are VBA macro support and the latest Corel Draw 10 feature set.

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competitors.
And the thoughtfulness of the menu
and toolbar flyouts make working with
Corel graphic programs a very productive
exercise. Time and again we' ve given
Corel top marks for ease of use.
But, on the other hand, Corel has made
only small efforts t o i n tegrate the
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Corel PhotoPaint. The two programs
stand alone and essentially exchange
images at the 6le import level. In addition,
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to draw vector curves.

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Pro (also priced around $150), which

both have vector drawing commands as
well as vector shape creations tools built
right into their photo bitmap programs.
And in addition t o having vector
shapes, both pmgrams make it easy to

enhance the shapes or make them interact

with underlaying or overlaying bitmap

objects. This integration of vector and
bitmap graphics, so their use is nearly
transparent to graphic designers and
photo manipulators alike, is a major trend

CorelDraw Essentials has

no suh support tools. The
closest are some of the automated help examples and the
Help tutors and Quick Tours.
But, unlike Adobe's Hints,
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sensitive or always open in
task panes and windows. For
the legion of new digital camera users and
graphic newbies, CorelDraw Essentials
doesn't go as far to unlock all the goodies
available.

in 2D graphics.

%lays in Catuloraa Essealids

Unfortunately, Corel continues to dawdle with this, so users cannot get the neat
cutout shapes or stylings of vectors as easily as users of Adobe or iasc products can.
Coral is remiss on a second count.
Adobe, Iasc, and Ulead are starting to beat
Corel at its own game: ease of learning
and ease of use. Coral pioneered the field
with tutor and coach features. Corel's
PerfectExpert has been imitated with task
panes in the new version of Microsoft

But what a set of goodies. Coral Essentials

is ahead of all the other mid-price programs for features. It has all of the masking, brush, and layer/object tools of Corel
PhotoPaint, and all of the drawing, transformation, and text-manipulation tools of
CorelDraw albeit one version behind.
In addition, users get two powerful utilities in Corel Capture and Cumulus Canto
LE, the album features of which are great
for digital camera and Web users who

Coral Essentials is distinctly a good

news/bad news story that, fortunately, is
weighted more heavily towards the good
news.
On the good side: users have access to
almost all ol the features of Core!Draw 9
and PhotoPaint 9; the implementation

bene6ts from bug 6xes (really only a few)

and notably faster performance; and the
combination of better speed, power of a
full graphics suite, and a price of $150
makes it good value.
On the bad side: new digital camera and
Web graphics users won't 6nd the learning tools that other software vendors are
implementing. But r emember, both
CorelDraw and Photopaint start &om a
position of strength, being the easiest of
the top-of-the-line programs to use.
In sum, if you are a new graphics user

looking for good training wheds, you

might want to try pmducts &om Adobe,
Iasc, or Ulead.

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n late August, Apple quietly released

System 9.2.1 on its Web sit
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downloadable update. The update

clocks in at a rather large 82 MB, and far
thosewith dial-up connections itmay just

be too large a download. Over high-speed

DSL or cable connections however, the
downloadtakes about 10 to 15 minutes.If
you don't have the time or ability to download it, Apple will sell you 9.2.1 on CD for

$19.95 plus shipping and handling.

Theupdate doesn't add a lot in the way
of features but it does improve stability

when used as the Classic layer in 05 X

10.0.4.It also marks the largest cleanup
Apple has done in years, with abaost every
extensionupdated, and the networking in
particular has been revmtten for increased

stability.
The update also includes new ATI and
nVidia drivers that improve 3Dperformance
an those cards. Mac OS 9.2.1 marks the

first 9.x revision to require a G3 processor

or betterto run. Just as 8.5 was the first

05 to require a PowerPC(much to the dis-

Intel hits 2 GHZ

As usual, Intel and
AMD have been
busy this month.
Here's what's new

he race to the I GHz mark was a

hot contest. wit h b ot h I n tel
(www.intel.com) and Advanced Micro

Devices (wwwamd.com) gunning for the

prize. AMD eventually squeaked past Intel
To be first over the line, but then settled
back into a slower pace, with smaller

speed increasesalong the way.

By comparison, Intel has been going
full guns with its Pentium 4 line, heading
to 1.5 GHz, 1.7 GHz, 1.8 GHz. and now
hitting a whopping 2 GHz. At the time of
writing, AMD was still topping out at
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processor.
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models,such as the 75/85/9500 series.
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third parties plan to release patches for
their upgrade cards that will allow the
updateto instalL We recommend that the
update is most important to those with
newer machines, or those running 05 X.

low-key.
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0.18-micron manufacturing process used

for previous models in the Pentium 4 line.
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the time of writing.
The anal article in this series will cover
upgrading, &om system requirements and
setup to customizing your conaguration.
By the time Windows XP is released on
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you need to make your decision.

There is a dramatic change

inthe modelofwhat
theStartMenu represents
and how it works.
As these visual enhancements require
more screen real estate and colour depth,
the minimutn resolution is now 800x600,
and the minimum colour depth is 16-bit.
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(and that's a good thing).
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or internet Explorer windows you may
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always useful. For example, in the XP
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the real controls. Of course, you can reset
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files in the folder. For example, a folder
with music files ripped from a CD has
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Afier you have ripped an audio CD onto
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It's equally easy to copy yow own documents or other files. Right-dick to send
folders or 6les to a temporary folder, and
then put a blank CD in the drive. Thetem-

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Even though the new Windows Media

and is too fuU of ads to have my unquali6ed support, there is a lot to like. It ripe
CDs into WMA format, downloads track
info, and is a generally functional media
device. Since it automatically creates folders, adds album art thumbnails and gen-

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heels of a July 31 announcement that the
company's Dresden fabrication plant had
shipped 10 million Athlon processor dies.
With an industry that is 'often very fick-

le in its tastes, both milestones are worth

noting, especially considering the fact that
before the introduction of the Athlon,

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The 1.1 GHz Athlon 4 is being intro-

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now work in 6.1. Also, the 6.1 release is

more crash resistant, and allows increased
user customization of the interlace.

modelwith 256 MB RAM and a 20 GB drive

is now $4,599, down from $5,199.
The new prices make the Powergook G4

Apple has deci

ded to try to boost
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much moreappeal
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effective immediately at all authorized

Appledealers.At the same time, however,
it has stopped the free CD-RWpromo. So, if

0 theemailside,many majorbugs have

beenfixed and the new ciientincludes support for multiple POP and INAP accounts,
mailrules on both POP and INAP, and the
ability to look up addresses in a company
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didseem much improved over 6.0 and even
a bitfasterthan 4.7.8,butasto whetherit

do somethingwith the specs soon or risk

fail
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free CD-RWdrive promo is over, Apple must
ensurethe next-generaffon G4 Powergook
has an internal CD burning option like the
new igook.And while they are at it, the
video card in the Powergook G4 is now
morethan 18 months old, an eternity in
the computer industry.A new model could

you need to burn CDs, the money you now

save purchasing a Powergook will have to

be spent ori a CDburner.

Atthe low end ofthe Powergook 64 line,
the 400 NHz model with 128 MB RAN and
a 10 68 drive has been reduced to $3,399
from$3,899.Atthe high end,the 500 MHz

NB Would you like to be able to just

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05 X 10.1 willhave been released and we
will be able to tell you all about it.
However, Apple may choose to push the
stated release date of "sometime in
September" right up to our deadline so
we' ll have to see. Also on the horizon is the
Apple Expo in Paris. which opens with a
keynoteby Steve 3obs on Sept. 26.Apple

announced will once again return to the old

prices. In the meantime, if the current
Powergooks have what you need, now is a
greattime to buy.

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them? This site aims to be a grassroots esourceforinformation about the basics of
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XML central to cross-media publishing vision
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The acquisitions are part of the longterm stratelt Coral's chief executive and
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Corel's second quarter results for 2001

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Revenues this year represent an 11 percent
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people have today are multiple produc-

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In describing the acquistion phase of the
strategy, gurney says. "what we wanted to
do was not only have our applications
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customers the abtTtty to create content

that would fit on the Web.

"While we have added more Internet
support to our applications so you can
publish documents to the Web, what was
lacking was the ability to publish those
documents to the Web in such a way that
it would be optimized for the Web."
Corel calls this cross-media publishing:
exporting content created in any one of
Corel's programs to other formats without losing any richness or complexity.
This means the same content can be
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device,orWeb-enabled cellularphone.
At the same time. the content can also
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Corelsaysthe best way to achieve this is
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HoTMetal has become one of the best
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XML (editor] and Draw can understand
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strategy."
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and Corel watcher. says the SoftQuad

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to Microgralx's enterprise process management 4vision, thereby building another tool for its cross-media publishing
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Connectivity information sites

n the course of our research on the state of connectivity,

we cameacross many Web-based resources.Following are
some ofthe most usefuL

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USB ImplementersForum Inc.:Indudes FAQ and excellent

Web-basedmessage board forproblem solving.

www.usb.org
AboutPer
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www.everylhingusb.com

IEEE1394
AppleComputer:Informationfrom the company thatdevelopedthis technology (and recently won an Emmy award for

it).
www.firewire.cor
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IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.):

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copyofthe 1394 spec wilirun you about US$160.

wwwzayanfetom/p)394b.
FireWire Watch: Operated by Real Progress LLC,
this is a good
listing of all types of FireWire products.
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Wireless Ethef net Compatibility Alliance: Members include
3Com, Cisco, IBM, InteL and Microsoft. Site includes severalgood FAQs, a glossary,and a selection ofwhite papers.
www.wbg.org

Wireless LAN Association (WLANA): This is a more generic

trade association. The site features an excellent collection of
papers, especially on IEEE 802.11.
wwwwiana.com
Wireless-Nets Ltd.: This site, run by Jim Geier, consultant
and author of books on wireless networking, offers a large

collection of articles, a glossary, and a free newsletter.

wwwwireless-nets.com.

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and FireWire amn't direct competitors?)
www.13941il.ofg

P1394B (Gigabit 1394): Site has more information than any

sane person would want about the next-generation 1394

spec.

AVI clips using a CD-Rburner... or shell out for

a DVD recordable drive.
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the costs ofallthese components tend
to add up (the 60-minute DV video cassettes
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that this technoiogy has arrived, allowing anyone toset up the equivalent ofa professional

videoediting studioatavery manageable pri

ce,

The Official Bluetooth Website: This site is the place to go

for definitive information. Includes technical papers, press

releases, product lists, and even an elaborate multimedia

biography of King Harald Distend.

www.bluelooih.corn
'Bluetooth SIG: A bare-bones support site forSIG member
companies.
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applications. However, both transfer and editing
demanda fairbitof computing power.We'd recommend thatanyone planning to do a lot of
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and a 60 GB hard drive... and Rgure on adding
another hard drive at the earliest opportunity.
Note that you'll also want a video output
deviceof some sort. PC graphics cards such as
the All-in-Wonder series from ATI Technologies
Inc. include video output, and would make it
easy to record your finished creations on a conventional VCR. Alternatively, you could store

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and without particular technical know-how.

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seducti
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totally lossless editing. and you' ve got the

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ASPs offer small businesses the IT toolsets enjoyed by larger

enterprises without the high capital and maintenance costs

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online metrics.

market has become increasingly aware of

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the small business sector over the last 12

months or so.
"First-generation applications were
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developa Web page,and build transactional capabiTities,u Gibs says. "Now you
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actualsolution."

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European and advertising and marketing

analyst, said that many consumer brand
ownersam being put off using the Netas
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Plains Siebel's Front Office (sales and
marketing, customer and field service.
and call centre services), Microsoft
Exchange platform, Microsoft Office 2000
applications. and hnpressa BizGear Web
design and hosting platform.
CUents can choose which applications
they need immediately, then add applica-

IBM Canada Ltd. (www.ibm.corn) in

tions and services as they grow. This

Toronto.
"It allows them access to fairly sophisticated applications that, in most cases. if
they were to buy them, install them, and
run them would be prohibitive. With an
ASP, it is easier for them to deploy these
kinds of sophisticated applications while
getting the same competitive advantage
out of the tools that the larger companies
get."

allows them to better manage IT costs and

more efFectively plan long-term IT infrastructure needs, Bush says.
Ascenda users can set permissions for
various services, so someone in sales. for
example, might be aUowed access to pmductivity and CRM applications, but not
Web design or hosting applications.'
Ascends's long-term goal is to become
something of a portal, offering business
information, news, and services that can
be customized by users. As an example, in
subseqvent versions of the Ascends solution, small business users could have
instant accessto email without having to
go into the email application.
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phone service "reads" email using text-tospeech technology.

Companiespay a monthly feeof$14.95
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The phone and cable companies continue their campaigns
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race yourself: Bell Canada and
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Triple Play in 50 households in the Ajax
and Pickering regions of Ontario, it' s
worth considering now.
First and foremost, consider why you
might want a convergent device. For
instance, if you really want to be able to
do everything from the comfort of your
easy chair, then the Combogox makes
sense.
But if home networking is a nut you
want to crack, then the Triple Play is a better bet.
Then there's cost to consider. I'm not
talking about the actual device cost: that
hasn'tbeen revealed yet by either com-

tionality is
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Glenn Ward
Be8 Canada
ice to your television.
Throw in a wireless keyboard and a
remote control, and you' re completely
wired to the world.
The ComboBox lets you watch TV
while waiting for email, engaging in a chat
room session. or standing by for instant
massaging. Bell is also equipping it with a
browser, sothat you can surf the Web at
ease.
And if you have a TV with picture-inpicture, you can watch and surf at the
same time.
As well, the unit includes a 40 GB
I'ersonal Video Recorder ( PVR). (It's based
on the EchoStar 721. EchoStar supplies
Fxpressvu with ag its home satellite
receivers.) The PVR is a neat device. It' s
essentially a hard disk-based sddeo recorder
that provides the full range of VCR-style
functions, but doesn't need the tape.
"I think the PVR functionality is key to
selling people on the Combogox," says
Glenn Ward, BeU Canada'svice-president
of comergent technologies."Just introducing a box with DT H ( d irect to
home)/Internet would be much Jess
attractive.

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For its part, Rogers' Triple Play docs
everything the Combogox does except
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However, its architecture is much different. Based on Ucentric Systens's tcchtlology (wwwuucentric,cum), the Triple Play
ls actually a server. Just put it in the base-

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telephone, TV connections, and even
Internet appliances. Triple Play routes signals to ag of them.
"The Triple Play server works across the
existing pipes of your PC, TV, and telephone," explains Michael Lee, Rogers'
vice-president and general manager of
interactive services."It's ag about no new
wires."
It's also about home networking, which
is where the Triple Play outshines the
ComboBox.
With the server housed in the base-

pany.
But if you' re a cable TV subscriber, be
aware that choosing the ComboBox will
require you to sign up for both Bell
Expressvu (with the attendant dish
antenna) and Bell Sympatico.
In reverse, if you' re a Bell Expressvu or
Sympatico subscriber (or both), you' ll
have to sign up for cable TV and cable
Internet access to make your Triple Play
work
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not (at least not yct; Lee says it could be
upgraded to include one in future).
Meanwhile, Triple Play is designed to port
MP3 tiles directly t o y ou r s tereo;
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Then there's network reliability. Based
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Meanwhile, RogersOHome is improving thanks to system upgrades; with any
luck, thproblems that dogged its network are largely a thing of the past.
This said, it would be wise to revisit this
issue closer to your purchase date. A good
p lace t o g e t us e r f e edback o n
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Rogers@Home Users' Association Web
site (wwwlhua.org).

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weeks searching for a bargain, check us out first.

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are banking on convergent devices to hold
their tuif in the brave new e-world... and,
if possible, to help them seize customers
from each other.
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on your TV, or a server in your basement,
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ITASCA, IiL New research investigating
the impact of cefi phone use on automobile
safety found that motorists can double

their chances of missing tmffic signals by

chattingon the phone while they drive.
The study, conducted by researchers at
the University of Utah, also found that the

deleterious effect of mobile phones on the

roadwas the same even when test subjects
used hands-free devices.

"...initiatives that restrict

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hands-free devicesare not
likely to reduce interference

fromthephoneconversation,
becausethe interference is, in
thiscase,due to centralatten-

tional processes."

is publishing the study's findings in the current issue of itsInjury Insights newsletter.
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of Psychofogicof Science. enlisted 64 undergraduate students who were randomly

assigned to oneof four groups

radio listeners, audio-book listeners, handheld cell
phone chatters, and hands-free phone
users.
The test subjects manned a joystick with
a thumb-pressed "brake" and were asked to

respond to simulated traffic lights on a

computer screen.
Those talking with passengers or listening to radio or audio books showed almost

no degradation in their performance, the

researchers reported.
However,although the number ofmissed

signals waslow evenfor cell-phone users, it

was double that of a control group that
facedno distractions.
In addition. the researchers said, cell

needs more research to help us fully under-

phone,change a CO,orlook ata map while

stand the public policy implications of the

growinguse of cellphones and otherelectronic devicessuch as global positioning
systems, faxes and computersin moving

driving," he said.
John Moffat
, chairman of the National

vehicles."
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Univer
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didn'
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let off the hook other sources of driver distraction.

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driver safety.
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cerned
thatthe focus on technology is overriding

educationisthe key to addressing the issue

of driver distraction," said Tom Wheeler,
president and chief executiveofficer of the
Cellular Telecommunications and Internet
Associ
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engagesin,besides the task ofdriving,has
the potential to distract."
"We must remind drivers that their primary responsibility is to drive safely and we
musteducate them on how to recognize

when it's appropnate to use a wireless

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on of Governors' Highway Safety
Representatives (NAGHSR). also said he

the fact that many crashes can be attributed to traditional distractions and not cell
phones,"Moffat said in a prepared statement. "The fact is that actions such as

changing a CD, eating and reading while

driving still contribute to many crashes
even though much of the media attention

has been on cell phones."

According to the National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA), driver distracti

on isestimated to be a factorin 25 to

50 percent of highway collisions.

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phoneusers were often slower to respond

to the signalsthatthey did not miss.

What'smore,the study, conducted using

simulated driving conditions, found that
ceU phones appear to cause more distraction firr a driver than listening to radio or
an audiobook, or having a conversation

with a passenger.
"Thisstudy adds new datatotheongoing
national debate on driver distractions and

their causes," Alan McMillan, president of

the Nati
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www.nscorg), said it a prepared statement.
"It underscores the importance of reiterating that a driver's primary obligation is to
operate his or her motor vehicle safety."
The NCS, a private U.s. non-pmfit outlit,

Because drivers using hands-free ceU

phones performed just as poorly, the
researchers wrote: "Our data suggest that
legislative initiatives that restrict handhelddevices but permit hands-free devices
are not likely to reduce interference from
the phone conversation, because the interference is, in this case, due to central
attenti
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"We suggest that the cellularphone use

disrupts performance by diverting attention
to an engaging cognitive context other
than the one immediately associated with
driving," they wrote.
The NSCs McMillan said the industry

Motorolaconnectskeyboard to phone
Motorola (wwwmotorob.ca) has released a keyboard
to enhance the functionality of its i85s and i50sx

Web-enabled phones. The lightweight portable keyboard, called the Motorola igoard, is the size of

standard taptop keyboard.

Designed and manufactured by Think Outside

(wwwthinkoulside.corn), it has funcuon keys optimized

for Internet-ready phone operations, including
accessing wirelessWebservices, launching applications, activating the speakerphone,
turning offthe phone,and adjusting the volume.
The igoard is currentiy available for US599.95 through Nextel in the U.s. At press
time, there was no information on its availability in Canada.

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signsagreement with UN
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Global Internet

policy Initiative (wwwgipiprojectorg)a

coalition of U.S.- and European-based
mediaand consumer groups working to
bridge the digital divide has inked a

cooperative agreement to offer policy guidance to developing nations through the

UnitedNations DevelopmentProgram.
In July, Washington, D.C.-based Center
for Democracy and Technology (COT) and
Intemews,a Brusseis-based Internews nonprofit, formed GIPI as a way to help developing countries enact policies that narrow
the "digital divide," a phenomenon characterized by the limited access to communications technologies among the worid's
poorer citizens.
GIPIhas announced thatit hassigned a
memorandumof understanding with the UN
Development Program, a global development project with offices in more than 100
countries.
CDT deputy director Jim Dempsey said

theagreement lends GIPI a huge measure

of cmdibNity in the eyesofothernations.
"Thismeans that GIPI can avoid being
seen as another U.S.-based organization

promoting American values. but rather as

one that comes in partnership with a truly
inter
nationalbody," Dempsey said.
In that regard,the group hopes to edu-

cate and advise governm

ent policymakers
and grassroots advocates on a range of
Internet policy issues, including universal
service, privacy, technical standards,
bcensing, digital signatures, content con-

troi
s and the domain name system.
The upstart coalition has hired 10 fulltime "country c oordinators" mostly
lawyers
who are familiar with the laws
and languages of the countries in which
theyare stationed.
The group receives funding from a number of high-tech companies, including AOL
Time Warner and Microsoft, as well as the

Soros Foundati
on and the Markle
Foundati
on, many of the same organizations that have funded the multination
Digital Opportunities Task Force, or "DOT
Force" for short.
In June, the DOT Force released the
results of a 12-month study, which
acknowledgedthat at least a third of the
world'
s population never has even made a

phonecall,much less used orseen a computer. In addition, few developing nations

have the infrastructure or govern

m
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mar-

ket liberalization policies needed to attract

private investors.
Dempsey said the announcement has
already generated interest from several
nationsin South America. He added that

GIPI is gearing up for even more interest

from othergovernments in the months
ahead.
"We are also looking at a number of partnerships with nonprofit and for-profit
organizations that will allow us to respond
to requests," he said,adding thatthe group
also has fostered pro-bono relationships
with several leading law firms.
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e-commerce law
stirs controversy
LONDON The British government's
ongoing plans to implement the
European Union's E-Commerce Directive
are ruffling some feathers,
Eversince the EU approved the directivein May;the U.K,Department ofTmde
and Industry (DTI) has been developing
it krr the British statute books. The
directive seeks to define liability limits
forInternetcarriersand otherintermediaries.
In early August,the DTI issued a pub;
iic consultation paper on the proposed
' U.K. legislation, asking. for replies by
Nov. 2, to give the British government
time to implement it by Jan. Ig. 2002.
That is the deadiine set by the EU for
enforcement of the laws,
Problems are arising because of the
wording of the consultation document,
with some Internet service providers
(ISPs) expressing concern about their
liability for illegal content.
ISPs are especiaUy worried about
chaptersix of the consultation document, entitled "Liability of Intermediary
Service Providers," which says that camers cannot monitor the data relayed by
.

theInternet user.
Although the consultation document
saysthat "claims fordamages cannot be
directed against the provider for any
form of hability," and that "the provider

cannot be subject to prosecution in a

criminal case," the proposed (egislation
"does not exclude the possibigty of an
action for injunctive relief.'
Peter Sommer, an IT security analyst
and risk expert, and a fello'w of the
London School of Economics, said the
government has stated ISPS are n'
ot
liable under the proposed legislation,

unless they trave'been put orr notice to

that'effect.
"Some ISPs are concerned tiiat the
wording of the proposed legislation is
not clear enough," he said.
"We're getting back to the issue of
whether an ISP"ts responsibie'for the
actionsof a subscriber with regard to

libel and files of a pornographic'nature,'".

he added.
Sommer said that his interpretation of
the proposed legishtion is that there is
still plenty of time to,clarify how the
proposals will be interpreted before the

consuitation period ends

"Since we have u'ritil November to get
issues like these sorted out, the situa-,
tion is a long way from being a fait

accompli," he said.
The DTI has posted a copy ofits consultation document on its Web site
atwww.dt
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thatnumber contains some good news.

Nielsen/NetRatings' second quarter Giobal Internet

Trends Report shows an increase of 30 million people online
since the first quarter of 2001, reaching a projected 459

million people globauy.

ThereportmeasuresInternetpopulations of30 nations in
North America, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, and
Latin America. The firm claims it now measures 93 percent

oftheonline universe,afteradding Argenfina,India,South

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U.s.and Canada lost ground to the rest ofthe world.The
combinedregion comprises 40 percent ofthe online population now, compared to 41 percent last quarter.

gling at the moment is there are opportunities," Tmvyn

Rhall, managing director of A.C. Nielsen International
Research,told Newsbytes."A lotdepends on the marketing.
The Internet is still growing around the world, it is still

goingto dri
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available in the report.

Another discovery in the survey is that, for the first time,

it became clearthatin some nations home is notthe main

place people access the Internet. Previous Nielsen/
NetRatingsquarterly surveys havealwaysborne outtheidea
thatmost people access the Internet at home (though
broadband is typically accessed in the workplace). That
remains true in most nations.

Europe and the Middle East-Africa region maintained similar numbers from the first quarter, accounting for 27 percent
of the worid's Internet popo(ation. However, the Asia/PaciTic
Rim madeslightgains,totaling 22 percentofthe Internet's
audience, (up from 20 percent last quarter), while Latin
Americaremains almost unchanged atfourpercent.
In anotherfinding, the reportindicatesthatthe highest

ratesofcomputerownership in the home are in some ofthe

smallestdeveloped countries.About 65 percentofhomes in
SouthKorea,Sweden, and Austmlia contain at leastone PC,
the report indicates.
Meanwhile, some Western European markets fall weli
behindthose numbers.In Germany, 48 percent of homes

haveat least one PC,while in the U.K.the number is 46

percent. France follows with only 34 percent.
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But it is not true in Latin America, for instance, where

nearly nine million people or 51'percent of the Internet

populations in Brazil, Argentina and Mexicouse the Net

outsidetheirhomes.Thatcompares with Europe,the Middle

Eastand Africa,where 33 percentofpeople accessthe Web

outside their own houses, and in the Asia-Pacific nations,
where the figure is 23 percent.

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on theInternet. Rhall suggests that the real gmwth in

online population in future surveys will be seen in Asia.
"Europe's catching up," Rhall said. "But Asia has India,

China,some ofthese huge populations.You've only got to

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Slim reference helps new users delve more deeply into GIMP
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It was with a big smile, then, that I

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any years ago a friend introduced

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for a variety of reasons. none of which I
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situation has changed for the better, with
a larger selection of browsers available for
this platform than ever before.
Which is best?Well, while it's hard to
reliably test stability (a site that wig

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browser, ease of con6guration, and basically see what
browser gives the best overall
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n the last article in this series, we
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of your PHP installation, utilizing its
include statement to create standard
headers and footers for the Web pages on
your site. and learning how to create a

dynamic.ever-changing display using a

"search" button on a search engine or sub- ensure that all of the required 6elds are
mitting your address information in an
complete before being submitted and will
online e-commerce application, forms are
indicate to the user that the information
the basis for a truly interactive Web. PHP
has been sent to the Webmaster. When the
considerably eases this process by includ- form is submitted, the Webmaster is sent
ing a number of simple functions an email containing the details the user
designed to easily processthe results from
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a standard HTML form.
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broadband service and July, after
increasing their bandwidth. New broadband users viewed 5.5 billion pages in
July after switching from d ial-up
accounts, said Sean Kaldor, vice-president
of analytical services at N i elsen/
NetRatings. That compares to 2.4 billion
page views just six months before, in the
surfers' low-bandwidth days.
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random function. This article looks at

how you can easily create forms using
PHP combined with JavaScript.
Forms help make Web pages truly
"interactive," allowing the user to make
choices or submit information to a Web

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is that only a few lines of codeare neces-

percentmore pages,
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One of the more commontypesof form

functions you'6 see on the Web are forms
that allow a user to input information
about themselves and submit it to the
Webmaster. A good form of this type will

sary to handle this process,and the code is

very simple to understand.
First of all, we need a simple form that
we will processwith ow PHP code. It will
contain a number of required elements,

site. Whether it is simply clicking a

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So, amazingly, Netscape is fastest, but
only just. Skipstone, based on the Mozilla
engine, loaded quickly in comparison to
its other Mozilla-based counterparts.
Konqueror and Mozilla took more than
three times as long to load as Netscape,
which is not a good sign.

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8. Let the battle commence.

Load times
On higher spec machines these would be
much faster, but on a lower spec machine
load time is a good indication of how
bloated the software is. This is far from a
scientific test, but gives you an idea of how
long, comparatively, you'B have to wait to
start browsing.
I ran each browser three times, then
worked out the average.
Please note that I decided not to go so
far as tenths of a second. Also, the time is
nat just for loading, it reflects how long it
takesbefore you can do anything constructive in the browser.

While looks aren't that important, if

you' re going to be staring at a piece of
software for hours at a time, it should be
visually appealing and not i nduce a
migraine.
Opera: Clean and simple interface. A
big minus is the huge advertising logo at
the top right. Opera is not a free product,
but you can use a free version that has a
sponsor logo at the top. This can be a little annoying, but it is not too intrusive.
O perahas various interfacestylesyou can
choose, but overall the look stays the
same. Not bad to look at, but certainly
won't win any design prizes.
Konqueror: Clean, simple and boring.
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the corner looks very nice, but adds nothing to your browsing experience.
Mozilla: You have a choice. You can
either have it look like the familiar
Netscape or the modern interface. The
modern inter
face looks gorgeous. Sleek
and stylish, Mozilla wins in the looks
department. The interface is both usable
and easy on the eye. It's also a lovely
change to see something other than grey.
Galeon:Nasty.Looks cheap and tacky.
Probably the worst looking of the bunch.
Won't induce a headache, but looks horrible. One thing it does have in its favour,
though, is the interface takes up a minimal amount of screen real estate.
Skipstone: The icons on the toolbar
could use some sprucing up, but this is
sleek and simple. No soothing blues here,
only the familiar grey.
Netscape: Classic whether that is a
good or a bad thing is a personal choice.
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same over the years, with a few functional
changes. It is Netscape, what more can
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The winner: Mozilla, hands down. It' s
terrific that someone decided to take the
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For this test, I took a 370 KB page from
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would skew the results.
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option is located under the File menu
instead of the Edit menu. This is a bad
design choice. Furthermore, when the
preferences dialogue is loaded, it is not
immediately apparent where the option to
toggle JavaScript is. It is actually under the
Applications section for some reason,
under the plugin tab. Iflogical, given
Javascrlpt is actually built into Opera, so
is not a plugin.
Konqueror: No apparent on-screen
option to turn off images and JavaScript,
so the logical choice is to head to the settings menu. Open the con6guration dialogue, choose to configure the browser,
the options for JavaScript are immediately apparent, as are the options to disable
image loading. One exceptionally nice
feature of Konqueror is the ability to have
JavaScript on. but to disable popups,
which means no annoying popup advertisements. Sweet!
Mozilla and Netscape: Both browsers
behave virtually identically. Delve into the
Edit menu and choose preferences. Not
really apparent that the option to turn off

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The winner: Netscape Navigator.

Opera is the clear loser here, taking
almost twice as long as the other browsers.
It would appear the developers need to
put some serious work into the rendering
engine as the performance was absolutely
horrendous. taking almost four times as
long as Netscape.
It's also interesting to see that Skipstone
and Galeon, both based on the Mozilla
rendering engine, were faster than Mozilla
itself. Skipstone was a little flaky. On the
6rst anempt to open the 6le it locked up,
but acted as if it was opening the flie. I had
no choice but to klfl the dient and try
again after a few minutes.

Ease ofuse
In this category. I will carry out two simple configuration tasks: turning off image
loading, as well as turning JavaScript off
and on.
Opera: To turn images off and on, there
is a button at the bottom of each browser
window. To turn JavaScript off you have

The final verditt

It was a close call, but of the browsers
tried, Galeon appears to be the best
choice. Its not the fastest loading, it doesn't render pages quicker than the other

browsers. nor does it look very nice.

The fact is though, of the browsers
tried, it offers what I feel is the best trade
off between features and performance.
Opera is OK. It's my current browser of
choice, but one area not covered in my
tests is the fact that Opera, unlike the
other browsers, uses its own proprietary
format for bookmarks, which means that
if I want to move to another browser, I
will have a tough time importing my list
of I'avourites.
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since I last tried it a year or so ago. It looks
lovely, but is slow. Given that Galeon and
Skipstone use the Mozilla rendering
engine, it would seem that the choice of
interface for Mozilla, while pleasing,istoo
slow.
Netscape was surprisingly quick to load
and render pages, but it just doesn't perform that great when browsing. Plus its
instabiTity is widely known. Netscape also

has flaws like not displaying CSS

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olf should be considered advanced, but
still.
Galeorc Head to the Settings menu and
you' ll 6nd everything. A simple menu
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The way it should be. Top marks here.
Skipstonw Head to Preferences, then
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the interface is tenible, the performance was fast and
slick, and the ease of changing the options was second to
none. As someone who rarely turns on JavaScript or
images when browsing. but needs them for several sites,
it's great to see someone design a bmwser with that in

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Skipstone was the biggest disappointment. It performed well in some of the tests, but has a few flaws, such
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only browser to crash during the testing.
Overafl, the browser scene in Linux is looking very
good, and we flnally have a choice. After the testing, if I
had to recommend a browser, it would be a very dose call
between Galeon and Opera, with Galeon squeaking out a

the 5 megapixel camera is the first of its kind for the consumer aiar-

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The DSC-F707 has numerous manual and automatic controls,

CarlZeiss optics,and an advanced automatic flash system.

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infrared imageswhen there is no light).

victory.

Opera is slick, but its page rendering is nothing short of

horrendous. Galeon performed well in all tests, and. aesthetics aside, it's a good choice.
An honourable mention should go to Konqueror. Of
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for enabling you to kill popups a feature I hope is introduced in more browsers.
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fast-track arbitration, which is used to settle disputes over the ownership of

Internet domain names, suggests that the
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of outfits that want to wrest addresses
kom so-called cybersquatters.
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(UDRP) by Internet addressing authorities almost two years ago. critics have
pointed out that trademark holders who

Geneva-basedWorld Inte)lectue) Property

launch complaints under the policy win

of the time.
Two o t her a r bitration o u tfits,
EResolution of M ontreal, and CPR
Institute for Dispute Resolution in New

in an overwhelming majority of cases.

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Geist says the methods used to select the
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who loses.

Organization (WIPO), whose Arbitration

and Mediation Center has handled 58
percent of ICANN's UDRP caseload, rules
in favour of the trademark holders 82,2
percent of the time.
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name holder) exercises an option to have

three panelists, the complainant selects
one, the respondent selects one, and the
service provider assigns the third, often
with suggestions kom both sides.

Forum (NAF) has processedmost of the

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ofdecisionsmade by NAFpaneli
stsshowsthat...thebusiest
panelistshaveabove-average
recordsoff finding in favourof
trademarkholders.

remaining cases34 percent in all and

renders decisions favourable to' the com-

plaining trademark holders 82.9 percent

York, have been assigned just eightper-

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names

cent of cases between them. with complainants winning 63.4 percent of the
time at EResolution and 59.1 percent at
CPR.
Geist said it's not surprising that the

and Numbers (ICANN) to help sort out

conflicts over the rights to wordsusedin

trackrecords ofWIPO and NAF attract

the more UDRP business, since. under

.corn, .net and .org domains, hasseen rulings in nearly 3,400 disputes involving
more than 6,000 addresses.
Geist and five students at the University
of Ottawa Law School,where he teaches,
examined all UDRP cases decided as of

ICANN rules, it's the trademark holder

Sing the complaint who gets to choose
the dispute resolution provider.
But Geist said his analysis also suggests
that when staff at WIPO and NAF are
solely responsible for choosing the individual arbitrators who will hear their
cases, trademark holders are even more
likely to win.
The study points out that an arbitrator
(known as a panelist under the UDRP) is
selected by a service provider such as
WIPO or NAF alone when the complainant (the trademark holder) requests

The UDRP,originally established bythe

July 7. Their study confirms suspicions

that the two organizations whose arbitrators write the lion's share of decisions are
also most likely to rule in favour of the
trademark holdersusually larger companieswho instigate the complaints.
The study, called Fair.corn? An
Examination of the Allegations o

fSystemic

just one panelist. When the complainant

or the respondent (the current domain-

Geist said that in the lower-cost singlepanelist casesmore than 90 percent of

all cases complainants win 82.3 percent
of the time across all providers, and 85.4
percent of the time with NAF, and 84.4
percent of the time with WIPO.

However. when three panelists are on

the job, complaints have won just 60.3
percent of the time, the study says. At
WIPO, complainants are winning just 64
percent of the time under three panelists,
while at NAF that number is even lower,
51.9 percent
What's more. Geist said, a close examination of decisions made by NAF panelists shows that just six individuals were
responsible for 53 percent of that organi-

Meanwhile, Geist said. some NAF arbi-

trators who are widely seen as "respondent-friendly" have yet to be assigned to

even one lone-panelist case.
The study showed that the busiestarbitrator at NAP is James Cannondy, who
has found in favour of complainants in
95.7 percent of the 140 cases in which he
was the only panelist. That's six wins for
respondents,

Carolyn MarksJohnson haspresided as

sole panelist on 106 cases, finding in
favour of the complainants in all but three
The third, fourth and fikh-busiest NAP
arbitrators James Buchele,
R alph
Yachnin and Harold Kalina also are

complainant-kiendly more than 90 percent of the time.

On the other end of the scale, Geist
said, are WIPO-stabled arbitrators such as
G. Gervaise Davis known for a lengthy
battle against the animal rights group

PETA onbehalf of an individual who held

the PETA.org domain and Milton
Mueller, a Syracuse University professor
who wrote a UDRP critique titled Rough
Justice.
Neither Davis or Mueller have ever
been assigned by WIPO to work as a sole
panelist, but have been chosen 20 times by
respondentsin WIPO cases and in cases
decided by other providers, such as
NAF to serve on three-member pands.

zation's 966 single-panel casesup to July

"That Davisand Mueller would bepop-

7. And the busiest NAF panelists have

above-average records of finding in favour
of trademark holders.

ular among respondents... comes as little

surprise," Geist writes. "The complainant
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Word fields

ne of the least understood features

of Microsoft Word is its field
codes. These are not, as you may
have assumed, related only to Mail Merge.
In fact, they can be used for lots of other
purposes. This month, we' ll lift the lid on
Word's field codes and show you some fun
and useful things you can do with them.
You' re sure to find a use for some of these
field codes in your own documents.

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some variable text will appear. For example, if you want to place
the current date in a document you can use the Date field.
Because it changes every day, a field code or placemarker is used
rather than the actual date so it wiU update when the date
changes. Word allows you to choose whether you want to see the
field code in your document or its result and you can easily switch

bers) use:

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holidays that you specify. Place the holiAbtomabrslly numbering bibeti is easy to usingWorri's SEQfield mrie.

between the two.

ond date format in the list, enable the Update Automatically

checkbox and click OK. This inserts a Date field but this time the
date is probably formatted a Un(e differently. You' ll see the format
specified in the field code itself when you display it (Alt + F9).
Many of the items on the Insert menu are actually Word field
codes.
You can also insert a Word field code if you choose Insert, Field,
then select the field code from the list. To try this, choose Insert,
Field, then from the Categories list choose Date and Time, and
from the Field Names list choose Date. Now click Options and
choose the General Switches tab. Here are the available options

To see a field code at work, press Alt + Shift + D to insert a Date

field in your document. This will allow you to see the current date
or the Date field code. You can switch between the two by pressing Alt + F9 (this is a toggle shortcut key and switches between
displaying aa the field codes in a document and displaying their
results). The field code will look something like:
(DATEI@ "dd-MMM-yy")

Inserling Sdd codes

There are many ways to insert most of the available Word fields
in your document. You' ve just seen the shortcut option. You can
also insert a date by using Insert, Date and Time, select the sec

Continued on page 104

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Strings in Java
By JacquesSnrveyer
tring manipulations are important
to every programming language, but
especially so for Java. Because Java
has become the language of the Internet,
it is now used for assembling and disassembling IP and other communication
protocol packets; parsing HTTP, FTP,
HTML, XML tags, etc.
ln general, doing elaborate String
manipulations is inevitably a large chunk
of Java applications. So getting to know
the Java String manipulation capabilities
is important. And for a variety of reasons,
Strings are one of the most idiosyncratic

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returna random integer between any two
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of Java language syntax.

If you are a C or C++ programmer,
repeat the following 100 times: "the String
class is not equivalent to a char( J array."
In fact, first on our list of commonly
used String functions is copyValueOf(),
which transforms a char[) array to String.
Perhaps it is best to repeat the definition
of String directly from the Sun Java API
reference: "The String class is used to create and manipulate fixed length text
Strings."
The key here is that a String is of fixed
length and any change to its length by
operations like trim, substring, and concatenation work by creating a brand new

days across a row or down a column and

name this range Holidays. A function like

this will give you the number of workdays

for the month of October (taking into
account holidays that fall in that month):
=NETWORKDAYS(DATEVALUE(
"1/10/2001"),DATE
VANE("31/10/2001"),Holidays)

Eff
edive rates
If you' re receiving 4.75 percent interest per
annum and the amount is compounded

quarterly, the rate you' reactually receiving

is higher. To calculate how much higher,
use the EFFECT function to calculate the
effect
ive interestrate:
HFFECT(4.754b,4)

The end oi the month

String. The old String is marked as null,

discarded and made available for garbage

collection.
TTtis, therefore, is the fundamental performance trade-oS' associated with using
Strings: if your String operations involve
lots o f co ncatenations, c haracter/
subString insertions, or deletions you may
want to use the sister class StringBuffer
along with String to do your advanced
text manipulations. If you are just parsing
the String and not changing it, you can
easily stay within the String class.
Unfortunately, Sun i n i t s w isdom
declared in the Java API that both String
Continued on page100

The EOMONTH function returnsthe last day

ofthe month. It's syntax is date (the date
to measure from), and months (a positive
or negative value representing months
ahead or prior to the date). So, the last day
of this month will always be:
=EOMONTH(TOD
AYO,O)

Pain-free looknps
Lookupsaren'tthe easiest Excelfunctions
to create.Ifyou need one, tiy the LookUp
WizardAdd-in.Choose Tools,Add-ins,then
select the Wizard. Now choose Tools,
Wizard,
and LookUp,then step through the
Wizard to create the lookup function.

On-Iha-Syconversions
The CON
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and StringBuffer are to be final. This
means neither class may be inherited or
extended. Nonetheless, I haveseen implementations of a Text class that, in efiect,
copies StringBuffer code then adds String
plus additional functionality to form an
alternative to the String and StringBuffer
classes.
I leave this as an exercise to the ambitiousreader to create a superior superset
of the Stringclass (it is not easy).
String is a predefined, specialized dass
in Java and not a primitive type like
Boolean. int, or double. String is specialized because it has anumber of added features other classesdo not have in Java.
First, the plus operator is overloaded for
Strings in Java and indicates concatenation. It is one of the few cases in java in
which operator overloading is allowed. In
fact, operator overloading is one of the
C++ functions this writer wishesJavahad
retained (and is part of Microsoft's new
Java-derived languageGtt, or CSharp). In
addition, the assignment operator actsas
a constructor for Strings. The following
two statements are equivalent:

Hello
World

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As noted in the introduction, Java programmers find they are constantly
required to parse Strings or even files of
commands or information in text form.
We have written a simple parser that illustrates the usage of some of the common
String functions.
Our program gets to show off how
some of theseString functions are typically used to parse a line of text. Here is the
code:

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// ptoken=pafsetoken tells I things:
// where it siaits in the line -pstart
// where it ends inthe line - pend
// and whattype of token it is;
// currently just 'o'= operator
// 's' = for string
// but n=number,
k=keyword,v=uari
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other possibilities

Note:Iho refeuloee tnaanmsirius;thusformsurinsxharAt(o) "thb isnwsnins.

The second idiosyncrasy of Strings is

that they use the same rules asarrays. The
following code helps to explain:

//Note alsothat all arraysstart at index 0

System.outpiintln(bb[ii] + " stariswith a " +

bb(iij.charAt(0));
//Finally notethat the first character of a String
starts at 0also

public classsti(
public static voidmain(StringalgsP)(
//Note bbbelow is anarrayof sfrings
String bbjj = ("Hefio", "World");
for (int ii= 0; iic 2; ii++)

Suing filstString ="Hello * + "World";

StringsecondStr = newString("Hello World");

ptokeno(

//Ihe Constructor is simply inibalized

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the following before exiting:

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ptype= s;

npi.pstart= ist;

public sfsfic int psrseNext(String instr, int istart,

[stop= instr.substring(ist).indexOf(" "); //checkfor

blanks
jstop= (jstop <0)?iend: jstop+ isl;
npi.pend= (jslop < jmin)?[slop: jmin;
npi.ptype= 's'; returnnpi.pend;

StringPops,ptokennp0[
//This isour Parsemethod. First, findstart of next
token
int iend= instr.iengthQ;
int ist = is(art;
//The loopbelow ignoresleading blanksin string
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remainingstring
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break out command lines and markup
language messages into their constituent
parts. Sometiines the chunk from the
command line is also stored with the
token.
Note we call on String methods only six
times in RU of the Parse token code.
However. there is a fair amount of code
required to set up the right parameters to
be passed to the String methods. Let' s
look at each:

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opsarray,but we are getting the length of

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of instr starting at the position or character pointed to be ist.

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starting at the position or character point-

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substring,orreturn -1 ifthere is notany.

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test.
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representedby this token.

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instr
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which the String opsiiil is found in the

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the key methods and routines work. We
shall return to String mainpulation in
later tutorials simply because it arises so
often in programming with Java.
Check the section on Strings in Ivor
Horton's book Beginning Java 2 for more
detailed explanation of exactly how
Strings are constructecL EJ

Again, this is a double caiL

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three panelists might approach their task
more studiously than does a lone judge.
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has won only five of the (3 cases in which
Davis appeared as a panelist and Davis has
dissented in three of those (five) decisions.
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disappears.
To see how this works,
open a new Word docu-

for this particular fidd. You can now

choose the date format &om the list dis-

played and dick Add to Field to indude it

to your Beld code, then dick OK, and OK

again.
Another option for inserting Beld codes
is to type them yourself. While it may look

document up so the ticket

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here's a simple example that
creates six tickets on a single
page. Begin with a new Word

ment and click where

some text is to appear.
Now choose Insert, Field,
then choose Document
A utomation f r o m t h e
Categories li s t and
M acmButton from th e
Field names list. In the
text area at the foot of the

document and chooseTable,

another, the MacmButton. This Beld is

Insert, Table, then set the

number of columns to two
and the number of rows to
six and dick OK. Drag the
dividing line between the
dialogue, t yp e th i s:
columns to the left so that

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right column the ticket itself.
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marked [Gick hereand Ape
the table down till it sits just
wuntnnt
the address). Before you test
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inside the bottom margin of
tins. save the file, then
the page (use the vertical
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ruler to see where the margin
t he Beld code text disappear as it is
ment) as shaded on the screen so they
en ds). Select the tableby clicking insideit
replaced by the text you type.
stand out, you can do this by choosing
a n dchoosing Table, Select, Table, then
Using Click Here 6elds in your tem- Tools, Options, View, then &om the Field Ta ble, AutoFit, and Distribute Rows

great for creating Cfick Here blocks in

yourdocuments.For example. if you're

pbtesallows youto mark key areas for the

document user to type into. It aho allows

creating a template for others to use, you

can insert a Click Here block with some
explanatory text to indicate what data
should be inserted at that point. When the
user has read the information and they
click the block, their text replaces the

you to indude explanatory text inside the

markers to help users understand what is
required at specified points in a document.
If you want to show the Click Here
Raids (and any other Selds in the docu-

like you can simply type them inside a set

of curly brackets, this isn't the case. You
must use Word's shortcut key combination Contml + F9 to insert a set of Beld

code markers, then you can type your

field code inside thesemarkers. To create a
date Se)d code, press Contml + F9 then
type DATE(@ mlrN(d.W". Move away fmm
the code and, if the date doesn't appear,
select the entire code and press F9 (this
shortcut key updates the selected Geld).

ClickIlarebbck
Now that you' ve seen how to insert a Beld

code and use of oneSeld code, let's look at

Shading dropdown list select Always, and Evenly.

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one of the two rotated text options.
To enter the numbering into the 6rst
cell, click in the top-left cell (the first stub)
where the numbering is to go and choose
Insert then Field. From the Categories list
select Numbering, and from the Field
names list choose SEQ. In the text area
below, type the word Ticket after the word
SEQ, then dick Options, and choose the
Field Specific Switches tab. Click the ir
field and click Add to Field. After the ir in
the text area at the bottom of the dialogue, type the starting number for your
tickets (for example, 10,000) and click OK
twice. The word Ticket is the name you're
giving to your autonumbering sequence
and their switch sets the starting number
for the sequence.
Now to add the same number to the
ticket itself, click in the top-right cell
where the number is to appear and choose
Insert then Field. From the Categorieslist
choose Numbering and fiom the Field
nameslist choose SEQ. In the text area
below, type the word Ticketafter the word
SEQ, then click Options and choose the
Field Sperific Switches tab. Click the ic
field, click Add to Fidd, then click OK.
and OK again. Notice that you use the
name Ticket to continue the pre-existing
autonumbering sequence and the ic field
simply copies the next closest auto
sequencenumber so you get the same
number twice.
Into the secondcell on the left you' ll use
similar steps to add a field that wiB contain SEQ Ticket and in the second cell on
the right you'6 repeat the steps that you
used to create the cell above. When the
cells in the seond mw are complete, you
can copy the entire row by selecting both
cells and choosing Copy. Now select the
third row and choose Paste. Continue to
Copy and Paste until you' vecreated all the
tickets you need (or as many asyou think
reasonable to plae in a single document).
Remember to copy the data from the second row and below (don't copy the top
row of the table as it contains the seed
number for the ticket sequence).

If your numbers aren't updating, don' t

worry. When you' ve finished copying,
select the entire document by choosing
Edit. Select All, andpress F9 to update all
the 6eld codes.

RightMick selecfionhox
The final use we have for Word's field
codes is a selection list you can create to
allow your user to insert text from a list
that you' veset up for them. It's a neat tool
that uses Word's AutoText field and it is
fairly simple to create.
Choose Insert, Field, and from the
Categories list select Links and references
and from the Field names list choose
Autotextlist. Inthe text box af'ter the word
Autotextlist type the word "staN"(include
double quotes). Click Options, choose the
Field Specific Switches tab, choose theis
switches, and clik Add to Field. In the
text area below, after the is entry. type
staNist"inside quotes (this is a style name,
which we' ll set up shortly).
Now, to set the screen tip so it prompts
the user, choose the tt switch and click
Add to Field. In the text area below. after
the tt entry, type"Rightclick snd selects person
from the list" inside quotes and click OK
twice. Your field code should look like
this:
AUTOTE
NTLIST"slaW' its 'stsfgisf(t "Right dickaad

select apersonfrom theI<

To create the list of names, start a new
line in your document and type each
name, one per line. pressing Enter
between each one. Select the list of names
and, in the Style box on the Formatting
toolbar,type stsNist as the new style name
and pressEnter. Click the Show/Hide button on the toolbar so you display the
paragraphmarkers in the document and,
without selecting the paragraph marker,
select the first person's name and choose
Insert, AutoText, New, then click OK (or

simply pressAlt + F3).

Repeat this and add an AutoText entry
for each person in your list. You can now
remove the names from the doument
leaving just the Beld code in place. Save

T R AIN I NG w

Skuldt 'tipsF
abulousNxul functions

your document.
To test the 6eld code, hold your mouse
over it and wait until the screen tip
appears displaying the Help text you
typed following the it switch. Now rightlick and you' ll see the list of names
appear. Choose a name from the list and it
will appear in place of the word Staff in
the document.
Now that you have the list of names,
you can create the dropdown list at any
time in the future by simply inserting the
ield code in any new document.If you
f
plan to use this list regularly you can create the field code itself as an AutoText
entry by creating it, selecting it, and
choosing Insert. AutoText, then New. Type
a name for the entry (Staff is a good
choice) and click OK.Now you can create
the field code at any time by typing Stag

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unitof measureto another.Forexample;
to convert32 degrees Fah'
renheitto its
Ceisim equivalent, use this function
Konven(32,"F","C). There are plenty of
conversions it can help with. Look in
Help to see what onversioris it will per.
form and how to specify each unit of

measure.

I Thesecondlargest value
Use 'lARGE to extract the nth largest
value from a list. Using MRCE(A2A2002)

returns the second largestvalue,change

the 2 to a 1forthe largestand to a 3 for
the third largest,'etc..

Squaresandexponents
To square a' number, raise it to the power

and pressing F3 (you can use this same

of two, so two squared wili be calculat-

method to make any field code an

AutoText entry).
There are plenty more Word fields you
can use that will help you automate your
documents and you' ll find some useful
information about them in Word's Help
feature. CI

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To firid the square root of a; number, use

the SORT function. The square root of
144:can be obtained using '=SORT(ter).
You can also raise the number to the
power of one half to find the square root
so =tot" 6/2) works just the same. And it

extendseasilyto cube rootsand beyond.

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