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romances that have blossomed from Internet email not yet anyway.
email exchanges. And it's no longer newsworthy that new parents email baby pictures and 2S years in the telesphere
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often observed that Canadians have long been
fixated on communication. And, as a country,
we are early adopters of new communications
technologies. Whether it's Internet access,
cashless Interac cards or cable TV, we seem to
just lap this stuff up.
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email. And of course, it can also be used to or more enemy ships at one time. the 65OO
browse the Internet. Of particular interest to never flinched in it's responsiveness. And
this reviewer was the bundled MegaPhone soft- when you couple the built-in 3D suhwoofer
ware. It turns your Power Mac into a digital with a pair of external speakers you get awetelephone manager and answering machine.
some, bone-jarring sound capabilities.
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organizers you use, and is an indispensable reservations I have about this system is the
tool if you spend a lot of your time on the non-upgradeable CPU and video RAM. If you
telephone.
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ously interested in these options then I would all work and no play, makes]ack a dull boy.
suggest you purchase the next model down in
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Canon Ink Cartrige Color ................................ 19
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QT. Ultra DMA 4.3/6.4G ................ 345/455
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Sound Blaster PnP 16/32 Bit ............. 59/109
Sound Blaster AWE 64 ..........................114
SB Discovery Kit (AWE 64 &24x) ........ 339
Speakers 100/320/300W ................ 18/48/69
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Micphone Portable/Gooseneck................ 3/9
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Fujitsu KB 8725/4725 ......................... 25/55
MS Mouse 2B/3B(intel li mouse) ..........29/55
MS Nature Keyboard .................................74
Mouse 3B/Mitsumi .................................... 8
Genius Internet Mouse............................... 18
Logitech Mouse 2B/3B/PS2 ............... 14/22
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3COM 3C905-TX IOOMb PCI ................ 88
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market network computers running NCI's NC Desktop client
software and sell them through
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Seachange secures
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Mississauga's SeaChange Corp.
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In October, SeaChange was
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ment on-screen is a secondary function to eventually printing the document out on paper or as an overhead transparency,
Trellix does, however, support
export to th e H TML (hypertext
markup language) standard used to
create Web pages, and Bricklin suggests Trellix will thus be an ideal
way for creating online documents
that can be viewed on the Web or
over a corporate intranet.
"When Bob Frankston and I created VisiCalc, we realized how
important it was to let users build
calculations which suited t heir
needs. That meant allowing the user
to lay out numbers, create labels,
etc., without adhering to some predetermined outline we had arbitrarily imposed," he recalls. "This made
working with numbers accessible to
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simple or complex with the payroll
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Time Keeping
Translate clock in/out times into
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Labour Dislribution
Charge labour to jobs, phases or
sub phases,control job costs,
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costs.
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once which sets Trellix apart from the traditional office applications like Microsoft Office
or Lotus SmartSuite," suggest Bricklin. "As we
developed the product we incorporated recommendations from a variety of expertsincluding neuropsychologists on the way
people process information. We conducted
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and dozens of people of all ages and backgrounds using successive versions of the
product."
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a watershed in the computer industry.
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Canadian payrollsoftware
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install; they are multi-user and usually on a
network. As a result of their flexibility they
require a skilled payroll professional for set up
and operation.
AccPac For Windows
AccPac For Windows is a complex and flexible
product with unlimited earnings and deductions and the ability to retain payroll history
for 99 years. Earni ng, benefits and deductions are user definable and the set up is so
simple you can easily calculate the most complex amount.
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and locations. Complex deductions and benefits can be defined with a spreadsheet-typeformula to facilitate calculations within the program. Tax can be calculated using the graduated method, the bonus method and the lump
sum method.
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divisions, each with individual general ledger
earnings and benefit costing. Rate grids are
available for groups of employees assigned to
the same wage scale. Earnings can be entered
from timecards, imported or generated by the
system. The program comes with a complete
set of standard reports or custom report formats can be set up using the report writer. The
payroll run can be cancelled, corrected and
reprocessed even after cheques have been
printed. Avanti payroll has full lob costing
capabilities and large general ledger account
numbers. You can file submissions to CEC and
T4s to Revenue Canada on diskette. Direct
deposit is a standard feature of the program.
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easy.
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Reading and Math. Like the other curricufumFrom: Microsoft Carrada
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their wares. The other aspects of the show
are the keynotes speeches, conference and mation from the Interne, intranets, LANs,
tutorial sessions, where professionals pay
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conference, Adobe's chief updates to PageMaker 6.5 that will provide
executive officer Johri support for i
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having color management in the Web browser such events, Gates resorted to the popular
(and used online shopping for sweaters as his "dog and pony show" technique of parading
example) and claimed that Microsoft is assum- out a stream of leading solution providers. For
ing that natural (continuous) speech input wi)I his one-two punch, Gates chose Adobe chief
be the way most of us communicate with our John Wamock and Macromedia boss Bud
computers in a few years.
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keynote address. As might be expected, Gates'
ideas reflected many of Microsoft's directions
and products, such as WebTV, Internet
Explorer and the forthcoming version 5.0 of
Windows NT. However, rather than merely
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about the events in the weeks before the
show Jobs attempted to explain why Apple
had put th e l argest Mac cloner (Power
Jobs explained, in a passionate speech frequently marked by profanity, how the deals
Apple had made with Power Computing,
Motorola and IBM were not good business
deals and how their exiting the Mac clone
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(over 50 pecent), and said he believed in
what Jobs was doing. Quark's Gill got all
choked up as he uttered his words of support. And then Jobs played twice the new
Apple "Think Different" ad and described
how things were indeed going to be different
at the new Apple.
How do you get to talk to Jobs (other
than emailing him at Pixar!)? Careful planning worked for your faithful reporter, who
managed to speak personally to Apple's chief
at the Seybold conference. Getting up early,
standing in line for the Jobs keynote on Oct.
and Microsoft's very first application to support Object Linking and Embedding had just
been released.
Now, of course, there is scarcely a company on the show floor that doesn't have an
Internet tie-in in some form, except Quark
which, perhaps not coincidentally, is at this
writing still selling as its current product
version 3.3x of QuarkXPress. Discounting a
few bug-fixes, this is the same version the
company was selling at the 1993 show, and
the s t i l l -unreleased v ersion 4 . 0 of
QuarkXPress does not include Web-authoring support, either, although several thirdparty products I saw on the show floor
added Web-page output features to Xpress,
Extensis'
Cybe r Press,
Astr o b yte's
BeyondPress 2.0, Terry Morse Software's
Myrmidon 2.0, and HexMac's HexWeb XT
all deliver HTML output from Xpress. Of the
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BeyondPress 2.0, a l though M y r midon,
which is designed as a Mac-only printer driver, is perhaps the easiest to use and most
widely compatible.
BeyondPress handles tables, fonts, style
sheets, TrueDoc and more quite elegantly
(although not always accurately) and, best of
all, it can output HTML documents of any
length automatically from XPress pagesincluding graphics.
For more info on these and other Web
publishing products, see the report on Web
A uthoring T o ol s a t our Web sit e :
http: //www.tcp.ca/gsb/net,
Of all the vendors at Seybold, the one
that had changed the most since the 1993
show was undoubtedly a company that in
1993 had been known as HSC and had, in
the interim, bought up several other companies including Specular I n t ernational,
Fractal Design, and Real Time Geometry. It
then fused its product lines with its own
Metatools
o fferings,
yi eldi n g
MetaCreations. At t hi s show, Metatools
titles like Painter 5.0, Ray Dream Designer
5.0, Kai's Photo Soap and KPT Bryce 3D were
wowing crowds not only with their elegant
feature sets, but also with their low prices.
Soap, for example, is only US$49.
Without a doubt, MetaCreations' offerings are some of the most "artistic" graphics
tools on the market. A good example is KPT
Bryce 3D, a 3D landscape modeling and rendering program that, for the first time, supports animation. (Check out the demo versions of Bryce for Windows .or Mac at
http: //www.metacreations.corn.)
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Kitchens, known as "Brycequeen" to her fans,
was autographing copies of her new book on
Bryce 2. Like the first edition, Kitchens' Real
World Bryce 2offers deep technical info in an
entertaining and easy to understand way.
Details that are glossed over in the official
Bryce manual, such as the "deep texture editor," get plenty of pages inReal World Bryce 2.
It's from Peachpit Press.
For those who don't consider themselves
artists or publishers per se, the most promising
package on the floor was undoubtedly Ipublish
2.0 from Design Intelligence. This package, for
Windows 95/NT, makes it extremely easy to set
up stylish looking printed and/or Web-based
documents. Ipublish is the easiest to use publishing tool I' ve ever used. Of course, its
extreme ease means that it has more limited
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army horses and all of life-sized terra cotta
statues found buried near Xian in China. The
thing I remember that impressed him mostand now me too is that every single figure
was cast as an individual... di(ferent faces,
postures, dress, etc., and that goes for the
horses too!
At the time I had the impression this was
only just discovered in 1984. But, thanks to
The First Emperor of China CD-ROM, I now
know that the site was accidentally discovered
in 1974 by some peasants digging a well.
Of course, an army of archaeologists soon
Sacred and Secular: The Aerial
descended on the site to unearth the rest of
photography of Marilyn Bridges
these thousands of figures and eventually,
From: The VoyagerCompany
identify the phenomenon as the tomb of
Platforms: dual format {PC andMac)
China's first emperor, Quin Shi Huang Di,
Estimated price: $54.95
who reigned briefly from 221 to 206 BC. The
Here we have a
figures have since been relocated to the spevery nice collection cially inaugurated Qin Museum of Warriors
of aerial i m ages and Horses.
that photographer
As you might have already anticipated,
. Marilyn Bridges has this disc contains lots of photos, scholarly
created of p laces essays and background information regardshe obviously coning this incredible find along with a video
" siders as sacredtour of the museum and film footage of the
and secular. Her original excavation. But, as CD-ROMs can
accompanying nar- accommodate plenty of material, you' ll also
ration explains the find several extras here like bibliographic
w hy o f e ach i n text, maps, a timeline of contemporary his*'
accordance to her
tory and even a glossary of Chinese terms
own sensibilities. with the appropriate characters and audio
And the pictures are excellent indeed.
pronunciation.
Invariably shot from low altitudes in the
Further to that latter item but functionlight of early morning or late evening, each ing more a curiosity than a practical tool 1' ll
picture in this collection is stark and para- wager in the majority of cases The First
doxically luscious at the same time. All are Emperor of China comes with a bilingual
high contrast and beautifully textured in
English/Chinese soundtrack. As well, you get
black and w h i te a deliberate choice a compact aerial tour of The Great Wall of
explained by Bridges in t h e n a rration: China.
"Color is not archival," she says. "It fades in
Like most coffee table books, the speciten to 20 years and I want to make some- ficity of The First Emperor of China is not
thing that lasts...."
going to attract a wide general audience.
Unfortunately, the only way to convey a However, the terra cotta army itself is so
sense of the photos without being able ta unique and impressive, l don't think anyshow them is to compare them to the more one would balk at finding this fascinating
familiar work of Ansel Adams bleak, fasci- mylar document inside their Christmas
nating and often demanding of a response.
stocking.
I would heartily endorse this disc to
those who share Bridges' vestigial sense of Comic Book Confidential
the sacred, but I would more broadly recom- From: The Voyager Company
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META tags, in order to.lure to the defendant's Web site those Internet users searching for the plaintiff's Web site or for information about the plaintiff. The lawsuit settled in August 1997 with 'the defendant
consenting to a judgment requiring it to
remove the plaintiff's trademarks from its
Web site's META tags, and agreeing to take
steps to correcterroneous search engine
information.
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META tag misuse is a high-tech form of oldfashioned misleading advertising, In many
ways it is a cyberspace version of the wellknown "bait and switch" selling technique.
Unscrupulous sellers using that technique
advertise desirable products as bait to get customers in the door, and then attempt to fasttalk those customers into switching to other
products instead. One unique aspect of META
tag misuse is the fact that the codes are usually invisible to the misled search engine users.
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excuse the deliberately misleading objective
of META tag misuse.
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decision regarding META tag misuse. There
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of Canadian laws regarding trade-marks,
misleading advertising, and unfair competition. Cl
Oppedahl Br Larson
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firm (specializing in i ntellectual property
law) claimed that the defendants (providers
of Internet-related services) unlawfully used
the firm's trademarked name in META tags
on the defendants' Web pages. The law firm
alleged that the defendants intended to
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declined 30 percent since the same r eserves to buy a range of new highas insurance, encryption, anti-virus,
quarter last year, to $1.7 billion in
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physical security, power backup,
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health and safety protection, and
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the last year. Compaq's sales grew 54 products and services that make it a i t i ve computer makers in the world, p o wer to run the latest business softpercent, to $6.5 billion in thisquar- t r u e "enterprise" solution provider. vir t ually nobody is making much warebutplayingmultimediagames
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record $591 million.
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