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Contlimed frow page 6
well as HTTP of course). This is a common misconception, and means that many Webmasters
Unix commands debate continues
miss out on some of the most convenient and
In the February 1998 issue you carried an
simple site management tools, which are parts
exchange between Kaz Kylheku and Keith of standard Unix.
S chengili-Roberts about confusion i n t h e
For example, one can (and should) scan the
Weaving [Your Own Web Site] series. It was error log regularly to see if there is a problem
about Unix commands and Fl'P commands, in with incorrect links, and these are easily correctwhich KS-R seems to imply that the only use of ed. If one [has] several Webmasters on a site, say
Unix for a Webmaster is as a server for FI'P (as if I had an account on your server and had a
home page there, I could set up a one-line shell

script to search for the string "silvert" in the
error log, and I would get a listing of all errors
under my home page, of the form [Thu Jan I
09:57:10 1998] access to /server/htdocs/-silvert/newyears.hmtl failed for xxx.ca, reason: File
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string "hmtl" appeared. This and similar strategies provide an easy way to check one's Web site
for errors and to fix them.
I hope that once KS-R gets the difference
between Unix and FTP straightened out, he will
devote a column to the critical task of maintaining and debugging a Web site.
Bill Silvert, Dartmouth, NS
K S-Rreplies; You nre quite right grepis another
goodtool that can be used by Webmasters who have
a passing fainiliarity with Unix. The two articles are
not comprehensive whenit comesto covering off
Unix commands tliat can be used by Webmasterswhole books hnve been written about the subject. I
just tried to cover the ones I typically use everyday,
and that I figured many people who might work on
their own persona/ Website might use.
You make a good point aboutsome othercoinmands tliat can be used
I ain looking at doing a
piece in tlie near fiiture about Website rnaintennnce,
and both the grep and enorlog instances you mention nre worthyo
finclusion.(I'd nlso mentionother,
primarily non-Unix tools usedto track such things as
hits, broken links, spelling errors, etc.).
You make ngood point thanks for the comment!
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Hi! I am currently looking for a video card, but
in advertisements that i saw in the TCPsome
vendors use the term OEM, while some others
use "retail." Can you please tell the difference, if .
any on this?
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.In ymirexample,a video cnrd innnufactiirer will ship an OEM video cardto a PC manufncturer, who will includeit as part of a complete PC system. OEM products are ge'nernlly not intendedto be
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Suppliers generally (or nt least publicly) frown on
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Comdex has grown in the last four years
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This year everybody wanted to show a
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What was hot, and cool
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Creative Labs was handing out giant
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out of 5'Iar Trek. 'Ihat's what a 800 MHz
machirie will do when it has 184 MB of RAM.
I'he BC telco, I'nown, surprisingly, as BC
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ADSI. service (which also vvon an innovation
'9)t Award). tVhen a 8 I IB file downloaded in
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with a great sense of the aesthetic.
Toshiba showed a video of a woman beating ui> her laptop. 1'he loshiba computer went
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For all the glamour and glitz, there were signs
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Don Chapman, vice-president of N ovell
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architect for ))I:.(".s Alta Vista search engine,
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'I'hough it is unclear whether the international Comdex explosion will continue,
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The 103-yearold magazine's review

archives date back to 1948 and encompass
tens of thousands of albums in all genres.
Ken Schlager, who edited Billboard
Magazinefor 10 years, is now director of
strategic development and editorial director of Billboard Online, the magazine's
Internet extension, Schlager says there
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the first year of the archives.
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Netscape browser and source code

goes for free e In an attempt to retain its
browser
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Communications, took a bold step by making
its Netscape Navigator and Communicator
Standard Edition 4.0 software products free
for all users. This is a direct response to
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' pledge a year
ago to make its browser, Internet Explorer,
free to all takers.
This act is designed to remove any barrier
incorporate S.M.A.R.T. (self-monitoring

analysis and reporting technology) systems to
warn users of drive problems and allow for
timely backup of files. JE
Contact: Fujitsu Canada,Tel: 800-263-8716,
or 905-602-5454. http: //www.lujitsu.ca
Hemera optlmixes graphics for Web

Hemera Technologies Inc. of Hull, Que., start-
ed shipping NetGraphics Studio, a two-part

application that optimizes images for use on
the Internet.
The first part of the package, NetGraphics
Optimizer, is a tool that takes images in a
number of formats and optimizes them for
use on a Web page. One of its features isa vector-to-bitmap converter, that allows a user to
drag a vector art image into Optimizer and
translate it to GIF or JPEG format. The com-
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pany says users can even copy spreadsheet

cells to the Windows Clipboard, paste them
into Optimizer and create GIFs for "quick and
dirty" data tables for a Web page.
The utility allows images to have a transparent background. Or, the artist can adjust
the compression and color depth of an image
to get the best balance between the file size
and image quality. Optimizer also creates
of Netscape's browser and comm

unications
products from being adopted by individuals
at home, school or at work as their preferred
interface to the Internet.
While this plan will undoubtedly benefit
the average Web surfer, the more stunning
announcement to industry watchers was
Netscape's plan to make the source code for
the next generation of its highly popular
Netscape Communicator client softwareexpected by the end of the first quarter of
1998 available for free.
The strategy behind this is to grab greater
"mind share" in the programming community, trying to freely harness the creative energies of the thousands of programmers who
can now create enhancements and custom
versions of Netscape's programs that are tightly integrated with the browser. This would
further accelerate the developtnent and distribution of f u t ure versions of N etscape
Communicator to business customers and
individuals, thereby further seeding the market for Netscape's enterprise solutions and
Netcenter business.
Jim Barksdale, Netscape's president and
chief executive officer, said that "by giving
away the source code for future versions, we
can ignite the creative energies of the entire
Net community and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market."
Separately, Netscape announced a net loss

of US$11S.S million on revenue of $533.9
million for the year ending l?ec, 31, 1997.
The company said a poor fourth-quarter
dragged down performance for the year. The

company reported a fourth-quarter operating
loss of $20.8 million (or a total loss for the
q uarter, i n cluding c h arges o f $8 8 . 3
million). KS-R
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interlaced images, includes a nifty download called for efforts to educate investors and
New Groove, contact Frank at 403-240-5225 or mail

time calculator for modems of various speeds, identify "angels" people looking for strate- your demo to BNGBox 136f, Stn M, Cafgary, AB,T2P
a preview feature, and an anti-liaising feature gic personal investments who might back dig- 2L2 for review,
ital media companies.
The provincial government should assist Canadian Alta Vista search engine
in training digital media entrepreneurs on the launched AltaVista, one of the most popudevelopment ofbusiness cases,and look at lar search engines on the Internet, is now
tax incentives to support the industry, the
Toronto's site, Over time, the TTC is planning

to add route information and maps as well as
other information.
Check out the Olympics on the

CanadaeNagoya site J The Canadian
Contact: For the full text of the report go to

http: //www.multimediator.corn/dmeg.
Broadcasting Corp. and the Stentor. group of

regional phone carriers are covering Canada's
performance at this year's Winter Olympic
Games on the Web. The Canada@Nagoya Web
site was launched Feb. 6, and will operate
until March B.
Brave new enhanced CDs Calgary-based
Contact: Canada@
Nagano,
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httpJ/www.cbc.sympatico.ca
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other criteria. Gallery is also the front end to
the company's clip art collection included
with the package. The collection of 2,000 royalty-free photographic images, PhotoCrafts,
have been optimized for Web use. NetGallery's
images are stored in a proprietary HPI format.

The company claims it retains transparent
and semi-transparent image characteristics.
NetGraphics Studio 1.0 has a suggested
retail price of $99.99.
Melrose Ploceand Beverly Hills 90210 television

series. The first album will be calledMelicious,
and will contain a bonus CD-ROM music
video and additional goodies. The disc should
be available Q the time you read this.
Avery Dennison comes home Seeing

new opportunities in ail those inkjet printers
and creative graphics packages going into
Mal S1 CNNewlSNl lI w 44I WleaCavsh k
home environments, Avery Dennison (the

available in a special version focusing on office labels company) has launched two lines
Brave New Groove develops electronica Canada-specific content.
of products aimed at the home.
Called AltaVista Canada, the search engine
music compilations on enhanced CD. This
The Avery Personal Creations include
format allows music CDs to also have CD- has the features of the regular AltaVista, but greeting card and label blanks that work with
ROM content, which can be accessed on Mac also includes more than 10 million pages of many inkjet printers, and allow a person to
and PC computers. The company released its Canadian Web content in its index, according make custom-designed greeting cards, gift
first enhanced CD called IONIC in 1997. This to the developers.
tags, etc. One product, the White Card Variety
album is a collection of more than 60 minutes
The TAS division of Telus, Alberta's region- Pack, includes 20 cards, 16 envelopes along
al phone carrier; Digital Equipment Corp., with American Greetings card design software,
developer of the AltaVista search engine; and It' has a suggested retail price of US$17,99,
Edmonton-based Interdynamix jointly devel- while a 15-card refill (no software) costs
oped the product.DT
US$10.99.
The other line of home products is called
Contact: AitaVisfa Canada,
the Avery Kids line, aimed at 4-13 yearwlds. A
hitpilwww.aitavistacanada.corn
software application called Avery Kids
Printertainment allows kids to design stickers,
Ontario POOls government pnhlica- greeting cards, awards, ID cards, etc, on pretions o n t h e in t e r n et J Ontario's cut blanks. The Printertainment Software Kit
Management Board Secretariat has announced
MELICIO,US
anew Internet-based system forsellinggovemContact: HerneraTechnologies, Tel: 819-772-8200
ment documents under the acronym POOL

(Publications Ontario On-Line), which allo~s
http: //www.hernera.corn
customers to search for, order and pay for docOronp seeks help fornew media in
Ontario J TORONTO, Ont. ( NB) The
Digital Media Champion Group, made up of
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late January touting the importance of the
industry to the province of Ontario and calling on the government to help the industry
with financial support and policy changes.
The report also made some recommendations
to the industry itself.
By the year 2000, said the report entitled
P/oyirrg To Win: Tire Digital Me(fia bidusfry in
Ontario," the global new media industry is
expected to be worth about US$15 billion.
Ontario has the most active digital media
industry in Canada, it said.
Keith Kocho, chair of t h e champion
group, called the report "an unprecedented
effort." He said it has been about a year in
preparation and will serve as "a launch pad for
us as an industry."
The company says both the underground

music and the visual talent are primarily
Alberta-based, with some content from other
parts of Canada, the U.S. and Europe. IONIC
Brave NewGroove was estabiishad with the help of the

Youth Entrepreneurship Program being run at the
University of Calgary campus by HRDC.If you are an
electronica musician whowants promotion with Brave
EscapeInto a New World of Excltemeittl
is financing, the champion group said. So it
system at the Design Exchange in Toronto.

Hodgson demonstrated the range of publications available, and the ease with which the
catalogue can be browsed, and titles selected
and paid for online by credit card.)E
Hewlett-Packard Canada has introduced a

multifunction device that serves as a color
printer, fax machine, scanner and copier.
The OSce)et 635 will print black text at 5
ppm, color at 2 ppm. It will scan at up to 1,200
dpi and supports both 24-bit color and 256-level
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speed dialing, onboard memory that will hold
up to 65 pages, and a 14.4Kbps faxmodem.
a 10-sheet refill pack costs US$8.99.
Contact: HP Canada,Tel: 800-387-3867
Contact: Avery Dennison in Canada,

Tel: 888-462-8379
At press time, Canadian prices were not

The suggested retail price for the OfficeJet available, but the products should be avail63S is $699, which includes Corel PrintHouse able now a t m a jor c omputer retail
2.0 and Caere OmniPage LE software. DT
chains.DT
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report said, and these are the impetus for its

recommendations, The single greatest barrier
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is available at major music stores (HMV and HP's all-in-one ONce)et 4(%$ does color
Sam's), and independent outlets,DT
For the home and small office market,
represented at the launch of the report. Al

Palladini, the provincial minister of economic
development, trade, and tourism, said that
supporting the industry will bring growth and
jobs to Ontario. Isabel Bassett, provincial minister of citizenship, culture, and recreation,
said the industry will be "Canada's newest cultural ambassadors."
While it is a promising field, the digital
media industry faces some problems, the
uments through a government Web site.

Chris Hodgson, chair o f On t a rio's
Management Board of Cabinet, unveiled the
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trains, buses, streetcars, and light rapid
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"Microsoft project 98 is the most significant
release of the product to date. We' ve invested over 100 person-years of effort in rebuilding this product form the ground up, giving
project managers the tools they need to
the old and noted a host of new features,

including improved costing, scheduling and
resource management features, including
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views. The "view" features allow users to
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work info. Multiple projects can be coordi-
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Delegating and updating tasks is easy, and the Video phone from Intel Intel Corp. has
interface is very close to other Office applica- announced a video modem called the Intel
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card, a microphone, and software, The 56Kbps

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over the Internet or regular phone lines.
Other software includes image capture and

editing tools and NetCard, which lets users
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liftoff. The pen interface proved easier to use
than a traditional keyboard by astronauts
wearing space suit gloves. During the flight, a
crewmember kept a Stylistic strapped to his
thigh for easy access to W o rldmap, a
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in dynamic situations where laptops are cumbersome and inaccessible."
In particular, NASA is looking at mobile
PCs to give space crews access to critical data
in real time, and in usable graphic display
form, so more decisions can be made by the
crews rather than ground'control. JE
Contact: Fujitsu, Tel: 800-831-3183
http: //www.fpsi.fujitsu.corn
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time energy management." The company says

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Apple splns off Clarls, cuts 300 jobs

CUPFRTINO, Calif. (NB) Apple Computer,
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house. Claris now becomes a company called

Filemaker Inc., and is left with the Filemaker
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SOMEI5, N,Y. (NB) The "smart" housewhich allows different appliances and features
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IBM h a s in t r oduced H om e D i r ector
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itsu Ltd. has
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computers and will be marketed from early
February.
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DVD: oh what a feeling

DVD is set to blow your socks off! And 1998 will be the year that DVD
exploded, took off, and took over. Long promised, much fought over and
very cool, DVD is finally, really here. Whether you are a computer aficionado
or a home theatre guru DVD is in your future. You can run but you can' t
hide DVD is about to become defacto
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VD players have really amazing features. They can perform all the functions of a VCR, such as stop, play,
pause, fast forward and rewind. If the DVD title you are
viewing supports extra features you can also:
have captioning in other languages,
listen to the sound track in other languages,
listen to a voice over,
choose different camera angles,
ju m p to any point in the film,
bo o kmark segments of interest,
adjust color, brightness and other video attributes,
and even watch the film in letter-box mode (the wider format that films are shot in).
The DVD player can do all these things because the specification allows it. The point here is you must buy a DVD title
that takes advantage of these abilities.
The experience:
there's nothing like it
Stick in a movie and the screen goes blank just like the cinema.
The sound begins to grow as the usual animated logos run
across the screen.
Perhaps you have been to a movie recently and it began
with a downward shot of a movie marquee. As the camera pans
down the big letters v e hear little explosions, the sound moves
from upper left to bottom right and the marquee spells out
D'O'L*B"Y Digital. With DVD, that's what happens on your
computer, too.
It's one of those moments.

The drool factor is off the register!
Then the credits start to fade in and the film starts; andunlike anything you have ever seen on a computer beforeyou have a completely real, smooth, high-quality movie. It' s
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The lnstlfication
What makes DVD such a formidable technology is that it is not
just for showing movies.
Incidentally, DVD used to stand for digital video disc,
which makes sense when you think of it as the replacement
for laser discs or videocassettes. However, with new uses for
the technology, the "video" makes less sense, so the new spin
is that DVD stands for digital versatile disc. Some say it should
stand for nothing at all just DVD.
When you watch a movie on your PC you are really stealing a DVD from the living room home entertainment world
and bringing it into your den or workspace.
If the only purpose of having a CD-ROM were to listen to CDs
while you worked at your computer, you can bet precious few
computers would have one. As it is, practically every computer
sold today has a CD-ROM because it is useful to computing.
ln the same way, DVDs are (or will soon be) useful to computing. Think about it. Already, Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia, which came on two CD-ROMs, containing 20 to 30
video clips and hundreds of sound files, is available on a single DVD disc (which also contains the Encarta Virtual Globe
and Microsoft's Bookshelf reference library). And that disc
contains 35 percent more video, and twice the number of 360degree views, thousands of sound files (how many bird songs
are there anyway?) and a few thousand pictures to boot. What
about a DVD disc with the 16 best episodes ofMad About You?
Heck without the commercials you could probably get 18 ha! f
hour shows on one disc.
Video is one thing, games are another. Look, for example,
at the new DVD title Wing Commander IV by Electronic Arts.
The game starts out with a short movie starring Mark Hamill
and Malcolm McDowell.
During the high-quality movie, you get to make some
choices. The movie stops and you decide, should I help this guy
out, or should I just ignore him. That decision and others will
So you can watch a movie on your PC. So what? This aspect come back to help or hurt you while you are playing the game.
To be able to offer branching, full screen, video producers
of the technology isn't very practical. We used a 17-inch monitor and three speaker set, and although it was exceptional by need huge volumes of space. Fortunately, a DVD disc can have
any standards, you couldn't get the whole family around it. So, as much as 26 times the storage space of a standard 650 MB
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Jose, Calif. did not have a Generation-2 DVB reluctant to send us its DVD-ROM drive until
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Digital's PDC DVB-ROM Kit and Creative
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These DVD-ROM kits will upgrade a PCI
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gets to be "master," On the primary ribbon

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secondary ribbon, the DVD drive should be
the master, In any event, there are jumpers on

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A collaboration between Compaq, ATI, Intel

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product that, under certain situations, can
decode and play back DVD MPEG-2 data. At
the same time Apple has announced software
support for DVD in its next release of OS 8,
the Macintosh operating system. Refresh rates
for the product are slightly less than what is
achieved through hardware and there would
obviously be considerable utilization of the
allow bus mastering. You will want to read

your motherboard manual.
The DVD card has connections on it that
run to a sound card and external connections
for video and sound out. The whole operation
will take between half an hour and a couple of
The components
remote control you use for your VCR. Once
hours depending on your system and your
abilities.
Once the hardware is installed, you simply
start Windows 95 and wait for it to recognize
computer's resources. However, the develop- the new hardware. When prompted, stick in
ment could mean a powerful computer will the disc with the drivers and it is done. These
have DVD ability without added hardware are true Plug and Play devices and will be easand expense.
ily recognized. After this, you must load the
DVD player software. This software is like the
A DVD-ROM upgrade kit has two main components: a PCI card and a DVD drive. The card
inserts into a free 32-bit PCI slot, while the
drive fits into an empty bay.
The drive has the same look and dimensions as a regular CD-ROM drive, One of the
few differences is that CD drives don't usually
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into beam." Other items included are ribbons
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and it's quite remarkable to see the many
changes that can take place in such a short
time. And compared to a year ago, the
changes are even more striking.
When we did our high-end system survey
in February 1 997, t h e t o p -of-the-line
machines featured 200 MHz Pentium processors, 32MB of RAM, video cards with 2MBor
4 MB onboard, hard drives with average
capacities of 3.2 GB, and CD-ROM drives topping out at 12x speeds. Modems were pretty
much standard at 33.6Kbps with the 56Kbps
variety almost ready for market.
That set of features is now common Eor
entry-level machines. In fact, as far as the
Pentium family is concerned, the only model
that Intel will be making is the 233 MHz
MMX variety. To move up from there, you'li
have to go to the Pentium II family which
starts at 233 MHz.
What defines the high end today? At the
end of January, Intel announced its 333 MHz
Pentium II processor, and said that about a
dozen manufacturers would have computers
for sale immediately, based on the new
processor.
Compared to 333 MHz at the top end, the
systems we look at this month are powered by
entry-level Pentium II CPUs, But they have
changed from head to toe, compared to what
would have been considered entry level or
high end, for that matter a year ago.
As we' ve mentioned, the processors are
the slowest of the Pentium II family, with a
clock speed of 233 MHz. With RAM prices
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considered highend don't even qualify
for this lab test.
Is your system obsolete?

But before you experience another bout of
CPU insecurity, remember the one thing we
always try to emphasize: your computer is not
obsolete just because there are newer, fancier
products on the market.
In fact, your computer will always be good
enough as long as it meets your own needs,
and helps you get your work done. Why
spend a few thousand dollars on a new
machine every other year if the only time you
really use the thing is to work out how much
money you owe the government for that
yeas?
If you have a computer that was defined as
a high-end system a year ago, it is still a good
machine, Even the most demanding applications (games included) will run just fine with
that setup. The systems we reviewed this
month are a great choice for first time buyers,
or someone looking to upgrade an old system

or perhaps to add a second system to the
home or office.
If it seems like you' re getting a lot more for
machines
that could handle the
latest games and applications. Today it's another
story,
On the horhon
We are eagerly awaiting a few items expected
to make their appearance sometime in 1998.
One example is the new line of Pentium II
processors. As we' ve already mentioned, Intel
just announced the 333 MHz processor, and
machines based on it should be available now.
Due out later this year are 366 MHz and perhaps 400 MHz Pentium II processors. A new
chipset from Intel, the 440BX, is also expected sometime in the first halE of '98.
At long last, bus speeds of 100 MHz will be
officially supported by the processor giant,
something that is possible with today's motherboards using the 440LX chipset, although
not supported by Intel.
As far as systems as awhole are concerned,

we will be seeing the new line of 32x CD-ROM
drives making its way into nearly every com-
puter before the summer. AGP video cards are

already available from nearly every major
your money than you were a year ago, that' s
because you are. It's amazing to see what player in the market, although the operating
system support is still a few months away
total are becoming common place. Video year. And because of this, now is without a
cards with less than 4 MB onboard are uncom- doubt the best time to get a new PC or replace
mon, hard drives with capacities of 4.3 GB are an agingone. Some peopleare even buying a
standard, and 24x CD-ROM drives are avail- new PC just because the prices are so low, and
able for $100, with the new 32x family just they feel they could benefit from having two
now starting to make its way into the main- systems in the house. This holds especially
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56Kbps
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years ago it was quite difficult to afford two
pending the release of Windows 98 and NT

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that they cost nothing more than their PCI
counterparts, you may as well get one with
your new computer i n a n t icipation of
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have a'model in stock that fits our request.
part of this system, as are a USRobotics 56Kbps sor, 64 MB of RAM, and an ATI XperKe'Play
video card with 4 MB of SGRAM onboard. A
Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card and the very
and don't want to test a machine that would SonicVibes S3 PCI sound card.
W indows 98"s
eventual release.
be no longer available when the report is pubA nice touch to finish off this already great latest Acer 32x CD-ROM drive are used for
DVD drives are also expected to reach lished. Or, they may have their own private machine is the LS-120 SuperDisk drive, which multimedia functions, while a Western Digital
affordable levels later this year. Some users reasons for no t w a nting t o p a rticipate. I'ills the role af the system's primary floppy hard drive with a total capacity of 6.4 GB is
have already jumped on the bandwagon and However, we invite all national and major drive and backup drive. Priced at $2,450 and the primary storage unit. Also included in the
bought one for several hundred dollars, while regional PC makers to submit models for test- backed by a three-year parts and labor warran- system are a pair of multimedia speakers and
others are holding out for prices to come clos- ing. This month, we received and report on ty, this system is certainly worth considering, an Acer 56Kbps modem.
er to the $200 mark.
the following.
CompnPartnar
darius
The prices of CD recorder (CD-R) drives
O ne o f
th e few
Coming to us from
have also come down greatly over the past Aznra
machines to come in
TK-IDM Technology
One of the lowestyear, and are expected to drop even further
u nder $ 2,000 t h i s
in Calgary is this sysduring '98. For many, CD-R and CD-RW (CDpriced systems in this
month's
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month
was
t
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tem b e aring the
rewritable) are the backup methods of choice,
CD-R drives can be purchased for as little as
comes from Empac,
CompuPartner system
Darius name. It offers
This P e ntium
II
a good mix of hard$430 for an IDF. version, while a pack. of 10
machine has everyT he Pentium 1 1
ware and software,
blank discs are readily available for $30,
and scored fairly well
CD-RW discs are still rather expensive at
t hing y o u
w o uld
processor is backed by
on th e b e nchmark
roughly $25 each, but when you consider the
need in a complete
64 MB of high-speed
system.
SDRAM. The very popular XperK~>Play AGP tests.
fact that you can reuse them over and over, it' s
Standard issue inside the system is the
The Pentium II processor runs on a Shuttle video card from ATI is found inside this sysnot as bad. The CD-RW drives by most manufacturers are also just starting to appear, and motherboard with the 440LX chipset. Total tem, and contains 4MBof SGRAM. In thearea Pentium II 233 MHZ processor and 64 MB of
surprisingly, they don't cost much more (if RAM in the system amounts to 64 MB (as we of high-performance desktop graphics, this SDRAM. The popular Sound Blaster AWE64
anything at all) that regular CD-R drives.
requested), while the video subsystem consists card is giving the Millennium Il a run for its sound card and Panasonic 24x CD-ROM drive
Other storage methods such as LS-120 dri- of a video card with the S3 ViRGE DX chip money, and definitely aided this system in combination is used to meet multimedia
ves and Zip drives have come come down in with 2 MB onboard. A Western Digital 4,3 GB achieving its high overall score on our bench- requirements. The Cirrus Logic 5465 AGP card
with 4 MB of SGRAM onboard is a low-cost
price and are already part of some mid-range drive with Ultra-DMA support is used for stor- mark tests.
alternative if you' re looking for an AGP video
age,
while
a
24x
CD-ROM
drive
from
Creative
Multimedia
components
in
this
system
systems by manufacturers. An internal Zip
card with decent performance. A 3.2 GB hard
drive can be purchased for as little as $120, Labs handles multimedia applications. A consist of an OPTI 3D sound card and
but the newer LS-120 drives still cost at least 56Kbps Motorola VoiceSurfr is used for com- Panasonic 24x CD-ROM drive, Once again, we drive from Fujitsu is also part of the package,
$50 more. But, as history has proven over and municating with the outside world with K56 find the popular Quantum Fireball 4.3 GB as area pair of Yamaha M7 speakers and a
hard drive with UDMA support as the prima- Motorola 56Kbps voice/faxmodem.
over again, no matter what it costs today, it Flex technology.
On the software end of things, you get the
will undoubtedly cost less tomorrow.
As far as performance goes, this machine ry storage device. Rounding out the system are
won't win any speed tests due to its slower a pair of multimedia speakers and a 56Kbps Microsoft Home Collection, which includes
Works 4.0, Money Home Banking, Magic
video card, but it does maintain a good faxmodem.
Our tests
I'riced at $1,999 with a three-year parts School Bus, Greeting Workshops, Fury III and
We askedvendors to send us machines based
price/performance ratio and comes with a
and labor warranty, this CompuPartner sys- the MS Interactive CD Sampler. Priced at
on 233 MHz Pentium ll processors and 64 MB two-year parts and labor warranty.
tem is an attractive option for anyone looking $2,450, this system comes with a three-year
of RAM. All other components were left up to
the-vendor, but we specified that the overall Compncon
for a first computer or an upgrade from a cur- parts and labor warranty.
I'he second fastest sys- rent PC.
system cost should be kept to $2,500 or less,
Hits
not including a monitor.
tem in this month's surComputers b earing
W e received
a good mix of machines, each
vey comes to us from Comtronlc
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with t h ei r s t r engths a n d w e a knesses.
known at TCP Labs for
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through
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mark tests on all machines, which we configover the past couple
price/per formance
which helped it achieve
ured to run in a resolution of 1,024x76S at a
of years, and each
ratio. This m onth's
its score of 259 on the BAPCo benchmark
16-bit (65,536) color depth.
time they' ve offered
system is no excepsuite. The Pentium II 233 MHz processor and
very competitive pric- tion, and should please anyone looking for a
64 MB of SDRAM are standard components in
new Pentium II machine with all the bells and
ing and good overall system performance'
this machine. The Matrox Millennium II
whistles.
The system we review this month is no
Readers often ask us why we didn't include video card with its 8 MB ofhigh-speed WRAM
To start off, we have the Pentium 11 233
exception,
making
use
of
the
latest
technolothis machine or that manufacturer in a lab onboard can take a fair share of the giory for
test. There are a number of reasons why a the overall high score this machine was able gy the industry has to offer while keeping an MHz processor and 64 MB of RAM, as we
to accomplish. The popular Quantum Fireball impressive price/performance ratio. The sys- requested. All of t h e o ther components,
manufacturer's machine doesn't show up in
4.3 GB hard drive with UDMA support is also tem consists of a 233 MHz Pentium ll procesContituied Onpage 97
any given lab test. Manufacturers may not
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which were left up to the manufacturer, are
SPL 233, based on
top notch and leave little to be desired. For
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processor running at
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equipped with 64 MB
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of SDRAM, and pretty
this machine. The same can be said for the 4.3
much all the bells and
GB UDMA Quantum Fireball hard drive, whistles to keep any computer enthusiast
which tends to be a favorite these days among happy for quite some time. There's a 9FX
system vendors.
Reality 334 AGP video card from Number
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dia speakers. Priced at $2,199, this system comes a USRobotics Sportster 56Kbps modem for
with a two-year parts and labor warranty.
reliable communications.
Multimedia components in this system
Jaba
consist of a Goldstar 24x CD-ROM drive and
A new contender to
a sound system equipped with the Yamaha
this month's Test Lab OPL3-SAx chipset. For your home or busiis this system coming ness, NEC will include a copy of Microsoft
to us
fr o m J a b a O ffice 97 Small B usiness Edition f o r
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in increased productivity. On our benchmarks,
Markham,
Ont . the Direction SPL performed quite
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workstations
and 247, which places it in the same league as
server systems, Jaba is some of the fastest systems in this month's
also the Canadian distributor for Tyan moth- survey. With an estimated selling price of
erboards, Its products are available through $2,449 induding a 15-inch monitor, the
retail outlets in several locations all across Direction SPL 233 is one fine piece of comCanada.
puter hardware.
Jaba's very first system submitted to our
Lab wasted absolutely no time in making a Packard BelI Platinum 3000
name for itself. It was loaded with nothing
One of Packard Bell' s
but the best components, and managed to
latest in its Platinum
take first place on the benchmark tests. The
series is the model
Pentium 11 processor and 64 MB of SDRAM
3000. It didn't take
work through a Tyan 1692S motherboard.
long for us to realize
The folks at Jaba decided to go with a

video card that we' ve not yet seen in any of
the PCs that have come through the Lab: the
Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro. It contains 8 MB
t his system is t h e
of SGRAM and managed to play a key role in

propelling this machine to the very top.
Another great choice was the use of the new
Quantum Fireball 6.4 GB UDMA drive, known
for its high transfer rates and low access times.
A Sound Blaster AWE64 and Panasonic 24x
CD-ROM drive are the key multimedia components in the system.
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USRobotics 33.6Kbps faxmodem, a n ew
Panasonic LS-120 drive and a pair of 120W
speakers. Priced at $2,499 with a two-year
parts and labor warranty, this system isn't the
lowest-priced, but it sure can perform.
hen it comes to Internet service providers, Myna stands out.

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not a-phone company, not a cable company, not a
retail store. Our business IS the Internet. Providing service to
thousandsfosatisfied customers since1995, Myna is Toronto's oldest
flat-rat
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businesseach and every month. That'su7hy Toeneverask you to
commit for morethan one month at a time.Our unique no-busy
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top-notch connections every time.But wait, that's not all...
most well-rounded
PC in the entire survey and would make
an ideal family computer.
It contains a 233 MHz Pentium 11 processor, 32 MB of SDRAM that can be expanded to
256 MB, avideo card with 4 MB onboard, a
16-bit sound c ard f eaturing SRS 3-D
Amphitheater Stereo Sound and a Dolby AC-3
decoding system. A 24x CD-ROM drive and
USRobotics 56Kbps voice/faxmodem round
out the hardware portion of the system.

A unique keyboard known a s t h e
MediaSelect Keyboard is also included with
the Platinum 3000. It allows you to control
your CD, phone, and speaker volume all at
the touch of a button.

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Mycomp
computer has something for every memOne of three systems ber of t h e f a mily: M icrosoft's popular
this mont h t o be Encarta
'97
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M ycomp
ma c h i n e Level, the Microsoft Arcade 1.0, The Best
from
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a Pentium II processor Intuit Quicken SE, Greeting Workshop,
at 233 MHz, 64 MB of and MGI Photosuite SE.
S DRAM, a Ma t r o x
There is also a slew of online service softMillennium II AGP card with 4 MB of WRAM, ware thrown in for all the major services such
a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card, a Western as AOL, CompuServe, Microsoft Network,
Digital 4.3 GB UDMA hard drive and. a BTC Packard Bell Direct Internet Access, Planet
24x CD-ROM drive. To meet your communi- Oasis and Prodigy. Visit the link for the
cations needs, there is a 56Kbps faxmodem Platinum 3 00 0 a t ht t p: I/www.packardbell
from USRobotics. A pair of multimedia speak- .corn/products/97models/p13000.aspfor details.
ers is also part of the system that comes with
If this is your idea of the perfect family PC,
a three-year parts and labor warranty. Overall it can be yours for $2,699, which includes a
performance on this machine can be classified 15-inch Packard Bell monitor and comes with
as good.
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room for both S-video Out and a composite
video out. To remedy this, the kit includes a
modified S-video cable that splits into both
plug styles. If your TV uses the composite
(RCA) style jack you will need this to show
movies on it. The cable is 1.8 m (6 ft.) long
but you can get a standard S-video cable that
is longer. You will need a female-to-female
adapter, which is available from Creative
I.abs for $6 plus postage. Also on the card is
an external S/PDIF (pronounced speedif)
jack. This connection is for running sound to
a Dolby Digital device.
The Encore Player (the software that lets
you control the video) was far better than
the software that came with the other kit
reviewed here. The remote control-style controls are intuitive and aesthetic. Everything,
in fact, about the I',ncore is well done.
Creative I.abs is going to be tough to beat. It
has a second generation DVD kit that works
well, reads practically every previous C: D format, and costs only about $$00. This is a
product whose time has come.
DVD-ROM
From: Pacific Digital Corporation
2052 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA 92606
Tel: 7(4-252-1111
www.pacificdigitalcorp.corn
Estimated street price: $540
by offering a second generation device,

Pacific Digital is pulling out all the stops.
l,ike the Fncore, Pacific Digit'al's DVD-ltOM
can read almost any previous CD format
including: CD-I, CD-R, CD-RW, CD, and
CD-Audio.
Unlike the Encore, Pacific Digital uses
what is called an inlay approach, and therefore its minimum PC requirements are a little stiffer: 133 MHz Pentium PC or better, 16
MB RAM, 8 MB disk space, 32-bit PCI slot
with bus mastering capabilities, Windows
95, an SVGA monitor and a PCI display card
from an approved list,
The DVD card may work with other video
cards, but for certainty you will want to
check the list. It can be found on the comp any's Web page. Here are a few of t he
graphics cards listed:
ATI's Rage 2+ or Mach 64
Matrox's MGA
Number Nine's Imagine or Imagine 2
S3 's Vision 868, 968, Virge DX, YX, or
Trio 641I
Ts eng Labs' ET6000.
The PD DVD-ROM uses a Hitachi second
generation <(rive (GD 2000) and a CineMaster
PCI card. The CineMaster, by Quadrant
International, performs the job of taking the
encrypted and compressed data that comes
from the drive and turning it into video,
audio and/or data for your processor. (This is
the same for all DVD drives.)
Inlay vs. overlay

Matching Creative I.abs both in price and
What is different is that DVD-ROM drives
DVD and your TV

VD players cost between $250 and $1,200, compared to about $550 for an add-in
kit for your PC. Say that you now have a DVD player in your computer. It can play
movies, and has video and audio outputs on the back. Why not send the signal
from your computer to the TV or VCR in your living room) You get high-quality video
and sound at a low cost, right? Not quite!
Unless your computer and TV are side by side, you are going to have difficulties. If you
manage to get a cable to connect your DVD-ROM drive to your VCR you may still have
problems. One problem is that DVD and DVD-ROM drives don't live in the coaxial world.
If your VCR doesn't have S-video (these are sometimes called mini-DINs and have four little pins, inside), or at least RCAicomposite jacks, you are out of luck.
Once you do get the video to your VCR, you will notice that the image on the TV is awful.
You have forgotten that the DVD-ROM drive sends the CGMS signal to your VCR and
your VCR now varies the brightness of your screen. The movie is wrecked. So, what do
you do? You connect the video out from the DVD-ROM directly to a TV.
The catch: only high-end TVs have S-video and/or RCA input jacks. There's more.
One of the biggest things advertised with DVD is superior sound quality. A set-top DVD
player can give you amazing sound using the newest and highest quality sound standard Dolby Digital. Dolby Digital, also known as AC-3, is a S.l sound systetn and the one
that is used in theatres, some direct broadcast dish systems and the impending HDTV. The
term S.l means there are five channels (front right, centre, and left; rear right and left)'
and a bass channel (sub-woofer).
DVD players, but not as of yet DVD-ROM drives, can take this signal, connect to six speakers and wow you. But the player will need either a chip upgrade or a stand-alone Digital
Dolby device. There are DVD players costing well over $1,000 that have Digital Dolby
built in. If you have a device that can decode the AC-3 signal, you will need to run a second cable from your computer to it. The Digital Dolby signal can be read and sent out of
your DVD-ROM card via the SfPDIF.
However, to be used, it must then run to a standalone Dolby decoder before running to
receiver and speakers. Some new high-end computer speakers can use software to translate the AC-3 signal into very good three-speaker stereo but it still isn't what you would
get from a full-fledged DVD player with Dolby Digital and six speakers.
There are other considerations and other possibilities, including a small transmitter that
sends the data from your den to your TV through the walls. Suffice to say, if you buy
your DVD-ROM drive with the expectation of using it as a living room entertainment
device, you have considerable homework to do.Rod Lamirand
Overall, the Pacific Digital was easier to

that use the inlay method of displaying
video then send that information to your install but harder to fine tune than the
video card to display on the monitor.
Encore, The DVD-ROM drive came with a
Overlay systems like the Encore Dxr2
rather strange collection of m ovie titles
simply add the video signal to the signal
including: Diana The People's Princess,and
coming out of your graphics card and send Deadly Encounters, starring Larry Hagman!
The game Spycraft however really takes
it on the way.
This means that with an inlay system your advantage of DVD's capabilities.
This drive also has a S/PDIF plug and
monitor is still connected to your video card.
In an overlay system, your monitor is plugged both composite and S-video outs, Pacific
into the DVD card, while a separate cable Digital has recently cut its price to compete
brings the video card signal into your DVD with Creative Labs and thus has brought
card in essence the DVD card is a pass itself into real consideration as a recomthrough.
mended product.
The consequences of this are twofold.
First, in an inlay system you must have a The best choice
very good video card. Second, the inlay tech- With only two drives available for evaluanique uses a certain amount of your system tion it is difficult to discern whether overlay
resources and will even bog down under or inlay is the best route for DVD. As well,
some conditions. The benefit to this system the two kits were comparable in almost
is that you can, in theory, get a better, more every way.
We did have a small problem with the
detailed picture this way.
ln our experience, a difference in quality Pacific Digital kit. In both computer systems
between the two methods is not discernable. it would not read the video from Flectronic
Although this would seem to suggest the Arts' Wing Commander IV. And yet the
I'acific Digital board is at a disadvantage, that Creative Labs drive would. We were unable
is not the case, because the CineMaster inlay to rectify this problem although Pacific
board has an internal video connection that Digital's tech support had run this title on
can be used to make it perform in an overlay the drive without difficulty.
' mode, with certain video graphic adapters.
Either of these drives is a much better
'Ihe DVD player is competent, but, on
choice than the Generation-I drives that
both systems, often returned to the parental are still out there and run slower. For its
control level of "kids." This meant that we great player, great titles and gentler requirewould insert a DVD title that was rated as m ents, ou r r e c ommendation g oes t o
adult and the movie wouldn't play. The set- Creative Labs' Encore. Look for a flurry of
tings for the player were quite good and new Generation-2 DVD hardware in the
next few months. 0
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How we got from CD to DVD

material below a transparent protective outer
coating. These little holes are called pits,
hen the compact disc (CD) kicked while the spaces between them are called
audio cassette tapes out of record lands. The pits and lands are arranged along a
stores, it was only doing what tapes path that spirals around the CD in one long
had done to vinyl LPs and good old eight- continuous line.
track tapes. CDs were a big improvement with
A laser shines a light along the path and
more than 70 minutes of quality audio. When senses the reflected light. Where there is a pit,
the computer industry got tired of swapping no light is reflected. This represents data digi1.44 MB floppies, it only seemed natural to tally, in just that same way a magnetic on/off
look to the technology of the CD.
represents a 1 or 0 on a magnetic storage
device like your hard drive.
58ow it wor8cs
The letters DVD once stood for digital
CDs work by burninglittle holes in a layer of video disc, but now stand either for digital
versatile disc or for nothing at all depending either the top or bottom layer without interon who you talk to.
ference. This means you can put 8.5 GB of
A DVD disc works in a very similar way data on one side. That's approximately two
but with a few improvements. First, the pits hours of vide().
and lands are much smaller and closer togethThere's more. Remember, DVD discs can
er.This means you must have a more accurate be two sided. The result 17 GB of data on
and sensitive device to read these discs in one CD-size disc. That's eight hours of video
other words you need a DVD player. It also or 1,900 minutes (31 hours) of audio.
means youcan place 4,700 MB (4.7 GB) of
Thirdly, unlike CDs, DVDs need to be able
data where 650 MB once existed!
to jump from one place on the disc to another.
Secondly,DVD discs can have two layers Thus, they are organized differently and use a
that contains both content and navigaof data, one below the top layer, which is system
semi-transparent. By altering the laser, and tional information. This two-track organizathe lens that reads it, the DVD drive can read
What's to watch: DVD titles

t is estimated that there are over 6,000 DVD movies currently available. This may be true, but from our limited
research many of these titles are little more than a plain
copy of the original movie. A visit to HMV, AM) Sound, Costco
and other Vancouver stores revealed that most releases do not
have captioning, never mind the captioning in two or three
language that is possible with DVD technology. As well, most
of the titles Kid not have more than the one soundtrack.
TheMask and other new rel
eases have English, French,
and other languages
even a director's voice over. But additional camera angles are rare (clearly, it would not be easy to
get additional camera angles for an Elvis Presley movie made
in 1962, but for newer movies it would be fairly simple), and
wide screen is often not supported in these titles.

Consumers are unlikely to pay the $26 to $32 per
movie currently being asked in stores, unless the extra
capabilities of DVD are utilized. The cheapest price we
found for DVDs was at Costco, where the Director's Cnt of
f)fade Rnnr rercost $21.95. Other titles like Austin Powersand
TheRock were priced in the range of $29.95.
Games are now arriving for DVD-ROM but at a slower
pace than movies because there are fewer DVD-ROM drives
than players. If the PC is ever going to match dedicated
machines like Nintendo in quality, DVD-ROM is the way
they will do it . Flectronic Arts, the maker of Wing
Commander IV, one of the first and best DVD-ROM games,
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tion allows the publisher of a disc to embed
commands and menus within a track buffer to
point to audio, video and data content. This is
what makes it possible to have user input and
interactive story lines in DVD videos.
The name game
just as we have CD players which play CDs,
we also have DVD players which play DVDs.
In one product form, DVD players are consumer electronics devices that would eventually replace the VCR or laser disc (LD) in a
home entertainment setup.
Neither the VCR nor the laser disc player
can compete with the DVD player for video
and audio quality, or for the amount of information that can be stored. Whi)e the LD has
two hours of video on one side, the DVD can
have four and the discs themse)ves are half
the size. As weil, I.D players have only two digital audio channels. DVI') can have up to eight.
(Consumers with an investment in LDs can
relax: there are DVD players that will read LDs.)
When we use a CD to hold data for a computer we call it a CD-ROM (compact disc-read
only Memory), and call the player a CD-ROM
drive. Similarly, when we use a DVD disc to hold
computer data we call it DVD-ROM and its player, a DVD-ROM drive. This nomenclature is neither universally agreed upon nor perfectly logical but the best that there is at this time.
we look at recordable DVD drives. In the '70s,

movie studios were very worried VCks would
erode their revenue by allowing the public to
copy movies. In some ways it has. For the
most part however, the development of new
VCRs, which make copying studio videos difficult, has limited the effects of this practice.
Software companieshave been equa)ly
w orried about t h e v a r ious f l avors o f
rewritable CD-ROM drives that are now
available. CD-W (CD-ROM Writable) would
Seltttions
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allow them to copy one CD and then later
another on the same disc. This has largely
not come to pass because of the cost of such
drives; the cost of these types of discs; and,
the incompatibility of different protocols
that have developed due to standards wars.
A similar standards battle is being fought
in the world of DVD. As we said above, the
DVD standard has been agreed upon.
However, the next generation of devices are
writable DYDs (i,e., devices that give the
ability to record data on blank DVD discs).
There are a number of groups that are vying
for ownership-of the standard in order to
earn future do(lais.
DVD-R (write-once) is a standard that
was finalized in September by a group
known as the DVD Forum (which is the new
name of the DVD Consortium that created
Standards and industry factions
current DVD standards). This body had
The DVD standard has been agreed to and expected DVD development to follow that
has been slowly infiltrating the computer, of CD-ROM. Thus, there was to be a period
stereo and record stores for about a year. of time where DVD-R was introduced folHowever, there are a few areas where no lowed by a re-writable standard known as
consensus has been reached.
CD-RAM (random access memory here
Orfe is the area of DVD audio. DVD can, means re-writable). However, some developand probably will, replace CDs as the pre- ers want to skip the whole write-once step
ferred medium for the recording and distrib- and are concentrating on CD-RAM.
ution of music. It won't happen quicldy but
Meanwhile, a splinter group comprising
it will happen. The reasons are that, whether Sony, HP, Philips, Mitsubishi, Yamaha and
the music industry jumps on the bandwagon Ricoh has announced another DVD standard
or not, the number of DVD players and DVD- called DVD+RW that is re-writable and offers 3
ROM drives that will pour into the market GB of storage as compared with 2.6 GB for
will make this moot. Once a large number of CD-RAM (writable and re-writable DVD discs
people can play a DVD audio disc, the music are single layer and otherwise different than
factory-mastered products, limiting their size).
industry will have no option but to opt in.
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Still, it is possible that DVDs could stay out of
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accurate color and got down to work.
As with most jobs,.the first phase of the
project had relatively little computer involvement. The client and I got together and
bashed out the budgets, schedules and overall
concepts for the artwork. The title of the CD
was to be CelticHarp of Dreams and an important aspect of the cover artwork was to convey
a dreamlike state.
It was decided that some surrealistic
touches, like a harp floating on water and/or a
"courtyard" made in the form of a giant Celtic
knot, might be concepts worth pursuing.
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motive to encourage me to undertake the production with PageMaker. As it turned out, this
decision raised a few eyebrows, too. More on
that later.
More urgently, the data on the SyQuest
disk supplied from the service bureau was in
Macintosh HFS format and I could not read it
under Windows NT. Switching to Windows 95,
I i n stalled M a cDrive95 f ro m M e d ia4
Productions. This excellent utility allowed me
to read and write Mac media (with long filenames intact!) under Win95 with no problems.
be based on an existing piece of out-of~opy- Reality check: most graphics service

right artwork, I had the image scanned using bureaus are strongly Mac-oriented.
a high-quality drum scanner.
Although the $80 one of these high-quality images costs to acquire is nearly the total
price of one of today's cheapo flatbed scanners, such inexpensive units are not capable
of the image quality I wanted for a professional job. Indeed, even an image saved at the
highest resolution on a (Kodak) Pro Photo CD
disc is not of the quality captured by a decent
drum scanner. The service bureau where I had
the scan done saved the file onto the SyQuest
Yet another problem cropped up soon

thereafter. My client supplied the text for the
cover on a Mac floppy diskette and I could initially understand why MacDrive95 could not
read it. Bizarrely, I could not even read the
disk on my Macintosh! Can you guess the
problem?
Although it is true that a PC's floppy drive
cannot read old 800KB (GCR format) Mac
disks, this disk was a high-density 1.4 MB
removable platter I had supplied and couri- f

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Adaptec SCSI interface installed in my PC
(such interfaces are shipped with virtually all
SCSI-based PC scanners). Indeed, because I
already had a scanner connected to the PC, I
connected the SyQuest drive to the second
SCSI port on the back of the scanner, making
sure to set each device to a different SCSI ID. I
then attached the supplied "SCSI terminator"
block to the second SCSI port on the drive.
This terminator (technically, a "terminating
resistor") is necessary to prevent the signal
from bouncing back and forth in the SCSI
chain and interfering with the communication of the various devices in the chain.
Fortunately, there were no problems after
powering up. Windows 95 recognized both
the SyQuestdevice and the scanner connect-ed to the Adaptec SCSI interface (and, indeed,
the Adaptec EZ SCSI software informed me
that I could connect several more SCSI devices
if I wished.)
At this point in the procedure I was still
evaluating whether I should use Windows NT
or Win95. A few issues with NT convinced me
that it was still a little too close to the bleeding edge for my requirements. For one thing,
I did not have a copy of Adobe Type Manager
Deluxe that worked on NT. (This software has
since been released.) Although my tests of
Photoshop under Windows 95 had been fairly
uneventful, I h a d read some disturbing
reports of crashes when attempting memoryintensive Photoshop o perations u nder
Windows NT (a problem that the Mac version
is not immune to, either.). QuarkXPress 3.3
seemed to woik under my service-packenhanced NT, but several cosmetic aspects
were dodgy and it, unlike PageMaker, was still
not available as a 32-bit release (another situation since resolved with the release of
QuarkXPress 4.0). The fact that QuarkXPress
lem. It was only when I asked the client what

type of Mac she used to create the disk that
the answer became clear. The Mac, she noted,
was a "really old one."
As it turned out, she had formatted a 1.4
MB disk on a Mac that was so old, it didn' t
know 1.4 MB disks existed. In other words, it
was formatted as 800KB. I stuck a piece of tape
over the hole on the top-left side of a HD disk
that modern disk drives use to differentiate
between double-density and high-density
disks, and it became readable in my Mac. I
transferred the files to a PC-formatted disk
(which the Mac can read and write) and finally got the documents onto my PC. Whew!
Reality check: the Mac was necessary

to solve this problem and, truth be
told, my PC efforts were looking pretty dubious to me at this point.
For a border around the main image, I
scanned some Celtic knot patterns out of a
clip-art book of such designs. Because I knew

that the Celtic knot art would be greatly
altered, I was not terribly concerned with the
quality of the original scan. I used an Epson
Expression 636 scanner (which proved to be
quite a bit better than the HP ScanJet Ilcx I also
experimented with) to capture the Celtic knots
and some other incidental artwork for the
booklet that would comprise the CD cover.
In fact, scanners played yet another role
during this production. I used OmniPage OCR
(optical character recognition) software to
eliminate the task of retyping a couple of
pages of typed lyrics for which there were no
disk-based originals. These files, like the Mac
documents, were saved in MS Word format, so
that they c ould b e l a ter p l aced with
PageMaker.
As the work proceeded on the cover, I kept
several backups of the files, including copies
saved nightly onto removable SyQuest disk
for remote storage, in case of fire or theft. I
used the Layers feature of Photoshop to
assemble images with shadows and border elements that could easily be altered as per the
client's requests. For the Celtic knot border, I
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Graphics tools for Web page design

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ticated software package and thus presents the your hardware habit for a while in order to pay
new user with a hefty learning curve. The new for Photoshop. Do you really need that faster
Photoshop user can expect to invest some seri- CD-ROM drive? That shiny new modem? I didous time into really learning the program and n't think so, Save your beans and spring for the
all that it can do. Also, it ain't cheap. But it's a bigcheese of design packages. Because it takes
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Kai's Power Tools 3

Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 95/NT
System requirements Macintosh: A host application
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can't live without, there are actually very few
pieces of software that will cause you to cease
breathing if you don't own them. In fact,
there are precisely none.
But (and you knew that "but" was coming,
right?) there are a very few that are so necessary that attempting to make Internet graphics without them is like eating sushi without
chopsticks: you can do it, but your handssmell like fish.
Let's look at some of those essential and
nearly essential software packages and see
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Almost every type of list of this nature will
have Adobe Photoshop at the top and for
very good reasons. Photoshop is to a Web
designer what tofu is to a vegetarian. You can
get protein other ways, but it's a lot easier if
you like tofu. There are other ways to develop
Web graphics, but it's a lot less work if you
have Photoshop.
Photoshop does more for bitmap graphics
than just about any other. software package
going. All aspects of preparing a graphic for

the World Wide Web can be handled efficiently in Photoshop. Many scanners ship
with a plug-in for Photoshop so you can handle every angle of pre-Web production in this
program.
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Okay: this one isn't strictly essential. However,
i f you' ve already blown t h e w a d f o r
Photoshop, Kai's Power Tools 3 is a very cool
package to have around. Power Tools work
with Photoshop as well as any other bitmap
program that offers 100 percent support for
Adobe Photoshop plug-ins. Check the label of
the package you have, because it' ll tell you on

the outside of the box if this is the case. For
example, Kai's Power Tools will work with
both Jasc's PaintShop Pro and newer versions
of Corel's PhotoPaint.
Kai's Power Tools 3 puts a serious amount
of magic into your graphics for the Web, And
where Photoshop is challenging to learn, Kai's
Power Tools 3 almost creates cool effects all by
itself.
For serious Webeffect magic,

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If you really, really want to make graphics for
the Internet but really, really don't want to
shell out the big bucks for Photoshop there are
a few alternatives. You' ll encounter them
online where software gathers, at places like
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magazines like this one. And if you try them,
you' ll find that some are better than others.
And you might uncover a rare pearl in the
Photoshop imitators who aren't as good, but
who do what they do very well,
Jasc Software's PaintShop Pro is the best of
a big field. It meets all the criteria: it allows
you to m'anipulate and convert photographic
and other art files into all Web formats. It is a
complete tool set that lets you manipulate
and retouch photos, enhance and alter images
and has a full set of fun filters.
While PaintShop Pro lacks some of the
integral features that m ak e Photoshop
Photoshop, it compensates with strengths in
other areas
PaintShop Pro is very inexpensive, and since it's a less sophisticated program, the learning curve is less steep.
The bad news is that there is no Mac version, nor.is there likely to be. So Macintosh
users lose out on this one.
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System requirements: No minimum configuration
specified; must have NetscapeNavigator 3.0 or later or
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later.
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good idea. On the other hand, there are a lot
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Though there are a number of similar
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VageCharnter comes out on top for a couple of
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plug and play.
The name is slightly misleading: it's not a

paint program, it's completely dedicated to
creating GIF animations. However, that's the
only thing about the program that's a little
limiting. WebVainter performs as advertised:
you can create Web animations from clip art
or froin scratch in very little time. The interface is straightforward, the price tag is low and
the manual is comprehensive. Another nice
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I:rom the exceedingly useful little tools depart- One of these is GifWizard.
GifWizard isn't something you buy in a
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is a bad thing. Or can be when applied to the to download or learn how to use.
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Oo yoea want software with that?

Almost all of the devices mentioned below
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"Lite" versions of OCR (optical character
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a small VCR then consider a document 5o many filmless cameras have sprung up in
scanner or a photo scanner.
the last year it's impossible to keep track of
Document scanners can deal with any- them all. Prices vary wildly, but there's a lot
average computer store didn't stock them.
Now you have to be careful not to trip over thing u p t o a b o u t 8 5 i n c hes w i de. available in the under-$1,500 range.
The available resolutions on these models
the 30-bit, 600x1200 dpi scanners selling for a Anything, that is, that can fit into the slot
bit over $300.
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Scanners are largely being marketed as a scanners work on the same principle, except , 1,024x768 is only halfway to 16mm), but
means of creating a digital photo album, or they have a smaller aperture for feeding in these are more than adequate for Web pages,
forscanning documents, Ifdeskspace isata
certain lack of detail.
(The hand clutching the graphics tools on

this month's cover was taken with a Kodak
DC-210 "megapixei" camera, The picture

lacked the detail and was too soft to be used as
a straight photographic image, so effects were

added to give it a more painterly appearance.
other on-screen work, or proofing. You can get We were generally impressed with how far dig-
pictures.
ital cameras have come in a year. However, if
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won't want to give up your traditional photographic tools just yet. Ed)
The digital camera market can be clearly
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with the cameras that incorporate more traditional features such as opticai zoom, additional lenses, tripod mounts, and manual features.
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Graphics toolkit
the output file just wastes hard disk space and

slows printing.
Once rendered, I used Photoshop's Rubber
used a Photoshop plug-in collection from Stamp tool to erase the harp from the scene,
Alien Skin called Eye Candy to give it the look leaving only its reflection in the water. I then
of beveled stone. Along with this, I composit- dropped the photo of the real harp, cut out
ed a "marbleized" pattern from a lovely col- using Photoshop's color range selection tools,
lection of marble textures on CD-ROM called in its place. If I had known about it, I'd have
Marbled Paper Textures from Artbeats.
used the excellent Chromatica plug-in from
I should also mention that I worked exclu- - Chroma Graphics Inc. (Tel: 415-375-1100) to
sively in CMYK mode, to avoid any possible further ease this masking and selection
unpleasant surprises that (often!) occur when process.Even without Chromatica, however,
an RGB image is converted to CMYK color: As the end product looked quite convincing after
many of the elements of this cover were a little retouching.
hand-colored (primarily using Photoshop's
The rendered scene was then composited
Variations command upon carefully masked with the scanned imagery and the various eleselections), this was espedally important, as ments were colorized and retouched to blend
was the need to carefully calibrate my moni- smoothly.
tor for accurate color, and save the settings
Once all the Photoshop work was done, I
using Photoshop's Monitor Setup dialog.
saved the files in CMYK TIFF format for output
To develop the "dreamlike" quaiities of the and saved a copy one last time in Photoshop
scene, I did many tests of various effects, using Document (PSD) format. Saving a Photoshop
a variety of 2D and 3D tools. I eventually set- format version of the file is important, as TIFF,
tled on the idea of using MetaCreations' Bryce EPS or JPEG files do not save the Layers and
to render a scene in which, beneath a fantastic certain other attributes of the original file.
sunset, a harp was reflected in a pool of water. Thus, if I ever want to rework the file (for
Rather than create the harp from scratch, I example, to create a cassette jacket or DVD
searched the Internet and found a harp image cover), having access to the individual layers,
in one of the many collections of DXF files on pathsand saved selections may prove handy. I
the Web. As I knew that the DXF harp would also printed a color "proof of concept" sheet
be replaced, in the final scene, by a photo of a on a dye-sublimation printer, snipped the
real harp, I was using it only to generate shad- image out and inserted it into a jewel case for
ows and reflections on the 3D water.
presentation to the client. When deadlines are
I performed some small test renderings close, such details can ease tensions.
and, when I was satisfied with the look, I creBecause I'd like to be remembered as the
ated a scene at a resolution that would be Backup King, I also converted the files to JPEG
appropriate for a CD cover (roughly 5 inches format and saved a copy in that compact forsquare). Considering the 150-lpi dot screen mat on a floppy disk, too. Remarkably, my 74
my press person said would be appropriate for MB Photoshop version of the cover, when
the glossy paper we were eventually going to saved as a high-quality JPEG file, fits on a sinprint on, this worked out to a 300-dpi render- gle 1.4 MB floppy disk!
ing, using the following formula:
Finished with Photoshop, I set to work
For color work, the dots-per-inch resolu- assembling the images in PageMaker. I found
tion of your scanned images needs to be no that PageMaker's on-screen display of the
more than twice the number of lines-per-inch CMYK TIFF images to be inaccurate even
of your output device's halftone dot screen.
after ail my careful calibration. I had much
In other words, a 300 dpi scan is perfect better on-screen accuracy by returning to
for 150-lpi output. Scanning at higher resolu- Photoshop and re-saving the files as CMYK
tions is sometimes useful to reduce moire pat- EPS (encapsulated PostScript) files.
ternsand address other issues,butsuch superBy the way, it is not well known that using
sampled images should be reduced to fit this Photoshop to save a grayscale TIFF as CMYK
equation before printing. More resolution in . produces a better-balanced set of gray tones
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process that the Linotronic imagesetter at our
service bureau would soon attempt as it output
film negatives from the files. Success in Acrobat
meant likely success with the Linotronic.
As seasoned graphics pros will surely
know, I am glossing over many details that are
worth discussing, such as how to determine
how much bleeda page should have (ask!),

whether or not you should manually strip
images for booklets together (we didn' t, but
could have avoided some wasted film if we
had!), how to prepare a service bureau output
request form (carefully!), and on and on.
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it, with the output request form and a dye-sub
printout, to the service bureau the client
insisted on dealing with (mistake number
one!). I requested a matchprint (color key)
along with a set of negatives. Once the color
key had been approved by the client, we were
into the home stretch.
We had a couple of foul-ups. The first
involved a PC/Mac font substitution issue.
Although I had supplied the fonts used on the
disc along with the files (a practice I heartily
recommend), it seems the person at the service bureau didn't want to (or didn't know
how to) output a PageMaker file from a PC,
and tried to do it on a Mac.
Rather than convert the supplied PC font
using a Mac program like Macromedia's
Fontographer, he or she manually substituted
a very poor substitute font: Adobe Garamond,
which is both heavier and shorter in x-height
than the ITC equivalent. As mentioned above,
they also botched up the booklet crop marks
by attempting to avoid a $150 stripping
charge and incorrectly reformatting the accordion-folded booklet on a single page.
Thankfully, all these problems were easily
resolved by simply going to a different service
bureau. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Would this job have gone more smoothly on
a Mac? I suspect so. Was the PC up to the task?
Definitely, but remember: the client only cares
about the result. If you have problems, for
whatever reasons, they' ll be less likely to want
to do business with you in the future.
Thus, the next time a job like this comes
along, I'm picking the service bureau, or I'm
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used in game consoles, smart phones, TV set- compatible in terms of learning the interface,
top boxes, DVD players and home appliances, sharing the data, and writing applications."
as well as traditional "embedded applicaGates also talked about how the machines
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sale devices and telecommunications.
PCs, and keeps track of what's going on. They
For most users of handheld systems, how- can't have a large-screen device, but the handever, the improvements that really counted held PC works perfectly. In the financial area,
were the enhancements to Pocket Word, Goldman Sachs now has it for their New York
Pocket Excel and Pocket Internet Explorer. Stock Exchange trading. The Seattle Mariners
The addition of a new Windows CE version of take this when they go out and scout, and
PowerPoint (which can display slide presenta- keep track of all the things they want to know
tions created in PowerPoint 97 on a Windows about, prospective recruits for their team."
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Gates then recounted his Fall Comdex
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keynote, during which a major from the U.S.
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users.
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For makers of Windows CE 2.0 handheld even in a battlefield type environment. And
computers, it has given them a whole new set certainly, that and many of these other things
of tools to create systems that can begin to we didn't anticipate, but when you build a
r ival notebook computers. Support f o r
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TrueType fonts, for example, enables higher applications that emerge."
quality, and more readable type while support
Well, he would say th'at, wouldn't he'? But
for 32-bit color displays in a wide range of res- what do the rest of us think? Here'sour view
olutions will make Windows CE much easier of a couple of the new Windows CE 2.0 syson the eye. It means that manufacturers have tems we managed to test in late December
the option of using a broad range of displays and early January. You be the judge.
from gray scale up to 32-bit color.
A wider range of supported processors NEc Mobilepro 700
should also mean Windows CE 2.0 systems I have to admit that the more I use the NEC
can be more price competitive as chip makers MobilePro 700, the more I like it which is
vie for business. Windows CE now supports too bad for me, since this evaluation model
processors from ARM, M IPS, Power PC, had to be returned. At any rate, before getting
StrongARM, Su per Hand x86 by AMD, Digital,
into the pros and cons of the machine, it is
Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Motorola, NEC, Philips worth saying a few things about what it is and
and Toshiba.
how NEC is "positioning" the product.
S hortly after W i ndows CE 2. 0 w a s
To start with, it is slightly longer than
announced, manufacturers began showing most handhelds, weighs 675 g (1.5 lb.) and
their Windows CE 2.0 handheld systems. sits at the "mid-range" of the handheld PC
They were a big step up from the pioneering market with a price of $999. This price is not
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internal modem to dial an Internet service
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When NEC gets around to refining this
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14.4Kbps Travel Modem on my Psion Series
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let me send email. In common with many
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700 is the screen, which is not as clear or
crisp as some of the other Windows CE 2.0
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huge mark t for low-cost, keyboardless, handheld computers and extended the capabilities of the Windows CE
2.0 operating system to be able to
operate like a Palm Pilot. The result is
what Microsoft calls the Palm PC (a
n ame that has not endeared it t o
3Com's Palm Computing subsidiary,
which is apparently very ticked off
t hat t h e c o m puting g i an t f r o m
Redmond, Wash.,has adopted a name
so close to its own).
The Palm PC appears to be a clever
blend of the functions of the Palm
Pilot and standard Windows CE 2.0
systems. To start with, it looks a whole
lot like a Palm Pilot and, at a casual
glance, you might be forgiven for confusing the two machines. Like the
Palm Pilot, it w i l l d o h a ndwriting
recognition and allows for the use of a
docking cradle to synchronize data
between itself and a desktop PC.
But that's where the similarity stops.
Once you get beneath the covers, this
system is all Windows CE. It runs a
Note Taker application for text processing, comes with Pocket Outlook
and provides support for sound recording via an on-board microphone and
o ffers the ability t o w o r k w i t h a
modem for doing both electronic mail
and surfing the Web wit h Pocket
Internet Explorer.
For all this, however, the Palm PC is
not something you' ll actually be able
to buy from Microsoft. It is an operating system, hardware specification and
set of bundled applications Microsoft
is selling to computer hardware makers asthe company has done with the
Windows CE systems that preceded it..
At the Palm PC launch in Las Vegas in
January, seven manufacturers committed to p roducing palm computers
based on the specification, including
Philips, Samsung and Casio. At press
time, trade publications were reporting
that announcements were expected
shortly from HP and NEC.
The one thing that has become clear is
that these Palm PC units will be the
cheapest new Windows CE devices yet,
with prices for basic 4 MB systems
come in at around US$400. It is not yet
clear whether they will steal substantial market share from keyboard-based
Windows CE devices, but it is likely
that officials at 3Com will be looking
hard at what happens to their Palm
Pilot once Palm PCs start shipping in
volume.Geof Wheelwright
Two paths to Windows CE 2.0
In addition, the email functions on-board

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has included "quick-start" keys for easy access
to frequently used applications.
While it has not gone as far as including a
VGA cable inthe package, the 620LX does
Contimied frompage 60
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voice-recorder feature with a built-in microphone and voice-compression engine devel-
oped by HP.
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tions. HP says it provides up to 800x600 pixel

resolution for full-colour, full-size VGA output of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations or
Excel spreadsheets.
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Tax software a no-brainer!

spend that money on top of the cost of tax
The tax scene
x software is a no-brainer. A pencil and a
calculator is the preferred choice only for

people who: a) like reading numerical
tables in a font called Lilliputian 6 Point; b) have
an accountant in the family with the patience of
Mr. Rogers; or, c) enjoy the multi-level intrica-
cies, and hollow pleasantries, of Revenue

Canada's voice mail system. If you own a computer and don't like any of the above choices,
one of the tax programs below is for you.
programs have all become better and cheaper.

Also good news, the Web-offered programs are
challenging how we do our taxes and even
There are fewer personal tax software products how much we pay to do our taxes. It is their
on the market than before. This category has innovation in both the technology, and the
thinned as it has matured. Today's Canadian business model, that is spurring the .
tax products are rich, complex offerings that big three into offering more for less.
are well entrenched. What's left are three
The bad news Efiling remains
r etail, off-the-shelf, products and a f ew
inconsistent. The basic problem has
Internet entrepreneurs with new ideas about been thatRevenue Canada must be
tax software.
able to show legal proof that you are
The good news the three shrink-wrapped culpable if there is false information
on your return. What if someone
were' to fill out a T-1 in your name
and send it in. Well, you might be
Apology and Correction
, In last month's preview of tax software we incorrectly stated that Tax Made Easyfrom la Motte
Enterprises Inc, was no longer around. A justifiably angry Aubrey Little, president of the company, faxed us to say the company was indeed still in business and that its software would be
software simply to speed up a refund by a few

days or perhaps weeks? Well, clearly a lot of
people do because over four million did last
year. But it is not enough.
chagrined to find yourself under an
Reeamstsay
audit. However, if the form was not

signed, or if it could be proven to
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have been forged, you would not be
around for the 1997 taxation year.
liable.
Mr. Little writes:

We know Ihnt your reviewer has, over the pastfew years,
given less than favorableaccoim tsof our
produt7 because it is not Windows bnsed. Much like saying I/rat miless one's car lias nn mitomatlc
trails/nission, it should not be purchased to transport people on public hlglnvays. TAX made EASY
hns been available for 12 years with nu complaints ever from either our clients or Reveime Ccniada.
Without a rodent and glitzyscreens,it is very easy to use and colculales and prepares tax returns as
accurntely and as fast as auy. 1t is directed at a nl che in the irurlket which we want to service regardless of your reviews.
ensure authenticity for electronic

filing? They do so by only allowing registered Efilers to submit
returns. These Efiling agents.must
So how does our government
we
We apologize for this inaccuracy. Anyone interested in more information about Tax Made
Easy can contact La Motte Enterprises Inc., 4406 Shore Way, Victoria, BC, VSN 3T9, Tel/fax:
250-477-9145.
get, and keep, a form called a T183, which is simply your signature confirming authorization and
knowledge of the return being sub-
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MARCH 1998 65
The Computer Paper
S)fjfjIB,I.II. BuSiamSS Coirfj(PILIIti)fjlg

The technology resource for growing business in Canada
Davis unveils accounting

software for small businesses
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. ( NB)Davis Business Systems Ltd.,
has announced BS 1 S m all
Business, Windows 95, and NT
accounting software for small-
to medium-sized companies.
The software has multi-currency features and can handle
Canadian and f oreign taxes,
company officials said. It can
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US$99, and network versions
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Contact: Davis http: //www.dbsonline.corn
Corel adds speech

recognition to legal suite
OTTAWA (NB) Core l Corp. has
signed a d eal w i t h D r a gon
Systems to b u ndle D ragon's
N aturallySpeaking
spe e c hrecognition software with th e
W ordPerfect
Su i t e Lega l
Edition. Later, Corel plans to
integrate the speech-recognition technology into the standard edition of WordPerfect.
N aturallySpeaking, w h i ch
recognizes continuous speech,
w ill be sold a s p art o f t h e
W ordPerfect suite f o r l e g al
o ffices. C arri e B e ndsza, a
spokeswoman for Corel, said
her company will sell the suite
with NaturallySpeaking included; at the moment there are no
plans for Dragon Systems to
sell the suite, but some details
of the arrangement are still to
be worked out, she said.
C orel c h ose t o bu n d l e
NaturallySpeaking w i t h t he
legal edition of the WordPerfect
suite first because legal offices
show the greatest demand for
speech recognition, Bendsza
said.
Contact: Corel http: //www.corel.corn
Dragon Systems http: //www.dragon-
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Continued on page 74
in the wired world

B Y jEFF EVAN S
Ah, tobe
your own boss.
To work hard and
enjoy the fruits of
your labors;
to set your
own schedule;
to make your
own decisions.
How realistic is it,
to start up a small
business and make

it a success?
ccording
to
Mic r osoft
Canada, there are about a
million small businesses in
Canada, ranging from individuals
working out of their homes, to middling operations with up to several
dozen employees. As larger corporations and government institutions

have slashed their own work forces
in the "downsizing" mania of the
last decade (brought about in part,
alas, by computer technology), we
have increasingly had to look to
ourselves, rather than our elected
and appointed rulers or Canada's
equestrian class, for new jobs.
In fact, small business has
become the major creator of new
jobs in Canada. Much of this flourishing of small scale entrepreneurial
enterprise has been made possible
by personal computers, and increas-
for technology that gives the small

business person more "bang for the
buck." A vast array of new computer and telecom products and services are now available for the small
b usiness sector. How ca n y o u
ingly, by inexpensive, small scale exploit the opportunities that infornetworking technology and the
mation technology offers to succeed
internet.
at your own business?
Computer product developers

are aware of the flourishing small
business sector, and of its hunger
My beautiful digital office

Personal computers began to be
used for b u siness applications

almost as soon as they appeared in
the mid to late 1970s. Initially, PCs
were glorified electric typewriters
that didn't need correction fluid,
but with the development of rudi-
mentary spreadsheet, database and

telecom software, they soon became
much more.
Computers rapidly developed
the ability to enable even a single
The sweet, short history

of MGI Software
B Y CHUC K C A L L O Z Z I
CG: Anthony, what doesMGI stand
for?
Like a butterfly freshly

emerged from itschrysalis
and drying its wings in the
sun, MGI Software Corp.

appears poised to transform itself Into a global
leader ln PC photography
and video editing. In Just
two years, 40 million
copies ofits PhotoSulte
have been distributed
worldwide. TCP contributor,Chuck Callozzirecently talked with Anthony
DeCristofaro,president
and chiefexecutive
officerof MGI.
AD: Actually, nothing. It's just a

corporate name, with a ring to it,
such as MGM. However, we often
say that i t s t ands for M i g hty
Good Investment. [MGI is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock
Exchange.] Oren Asher, our chairman, had thename trademarked
around the world and set it aside
for some future opportunity.
CG: How was the company started?
AD: Oren and I started the company. I' ve known him nearly 15
years. One day, while showing me

his CAD [computer aided design]
program, he flipped through an
image-editing program that excit-
designed for in-house use.

However, I
' kn e w t he
image-editing segment of
the market was at a posit ion wh e r e i t cou ld
explode, so I told him that
I would use his program to
raise money and start the
company.
, Because of our previous k ~ '
track records, I was able to
f ind supporters. With t h e
financial backing in place,
I brought i n a t a l e nted
team. Because of the acquisition of Delrina by Symantec, we
were able to get great people from

Delrina. We also signed up two
i ndividuals from Corel, one t o
handle Europe and the other to
ed me. He couldn't understand handle North America. Our focus

my excitement, for he considered was global right away. We underit just a r u d imentary program stood the opportunity of PC pho-
tography in the marketplace.

We were in a n i che market
where we wanted to be because
opportunity should be entered in

a niche to take a leadership position and grow with it. That's the
strategy. More importantly, the
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truly began to be realized. The standalone
computer mainly replaced old-style office

tools, The connected computer changes the
way in which business people can interact
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opens up a world market to even the smallest
business.
The connected company

Last issue we talked about "convergence," the
coming together of traditional and new
media in an increasingly standardized digital
format. There is a kind of convergence happening in business, as well, as the human
relationships and electronic- and paper-based
business technologies of the past are going
digital, and going online.
This convergence of business onto the
networked computer is changing the nature
of work, of employer/employee relationships,
and of society itself. The networked computer
tools that used to be the domain only of the
largest corporations, using expensive mainframe computers, have come down to the
level of the desktop PC.
Gettingstarted in the New Economy

The New Economy is a term that applies to
the new categories of business that technolo-
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However, with the spread of the World
Wide Web as the universal networking technology, the phrase New Economy is also coming to apply to the general practice of business using-networked computers.
At their most extreme, networked com-
puters can be used for all the elements of a

business transaction (such as a consumer surfing a Web-based catalog, making the selection, paying for the item, and arranging its
shipment without any face-to-face contact
with the vendor). However, only a minority
of potential customers are currently online at

all, and only an even smaller minority of
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IBM has recognized that one of the most
Networked computer technology can be The worst boss in the world
active and successful categories of New
used, and is being used, in gathering informa- Many people are attracted to the prospect of Economy entrepreneurs are women, and has a
tion about potential clients' targeting the building a small business in order to be their special online consulting section for womenmost likely prospects, and efficiently automat- own bosses, in their own
I have owned small businesses.
ing marketing and selling efforts. As well, net- met highly qualified computer professionals
I'owerful marketing and selling tools are
worked computers can be used to establish who left well-paying jobs in Fortune 500 migrating down from the mainframe/enterand conduct business with corporate suppli- companies to set up Web-based services for prise field to the small businessPC server field
ers, partners, government and regulatory example, attracted as much by the opportu- with astonishing speed. This means virtually
agencies.
nity to stop wearing a suit as to make any size of company can employ "loyalty
To put it simply, the ability to use com- money.
managem
ent" and automated marketing toois
puters to help understand who your best
In fact, small business owners often find to radically extend their reach into the market
potential customers are, to tailor your offer- they work harder and take on far more risks at ever lower costs.
ings to their needs, to improve customer ser- and responsibilities than when they were
vice and satisfaction, and to identify the employees. There are no legal restrictions on Do lt yourself, or outsource?
opportunities for future growth will give any how hard you can torce yourself to work in
One way to avoid the learning curve of setbusinesses its best possible chance to succeed your own business, but at times a- small busi- ting up in-house networking and Web faciliand grow.
ness owner has to pause to realize, to his or ties is to make use of outside service providers.
her shock, that employment laws do apply to For example, Stentor, the Canada-wide
Now I can
8'ud 8 Save
with the New
Better Value
PIanI
comp
anies.
The (tesesporarlly) level playing field
one's own employees.
alliance of regional telecomm

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At the small-business level, the increase in the

p anies now o f f ers a c o as t t o c o a st
power of business PCs, the d
of The toolltit
HyperStream Switched Access systemto
easy-to-use networking solutions, and the Microsoft, unsurprisingly (or perhaps not), enable business clients remote access to highdevelopment of business on the Web are all has become the major player in extending the speed networks. This allows a business with
recent events. There are, by definition, few capability of the PC in business. In addition to two or more sites (or networked connection
veterans or experts in the use of brand new its traditional Office suite of applications, to key clients or suppliers) to rent a secure virtechnology. 'I'his means the barriers to entry which has gained a near monopoly in the tual network without having to buy and
for new businesses in the New Economy are business market, Microsoft has developed a maintain it themselves.
lower than for more established parts of the powerful but simple to use server solution, the
As is discussed below, however, small busieconomy.
MS BackOffice Small Office Server. According nesses should be careful about outsourcing.
Anyone who is willing to learn and take to Microsoft, this product allows small enter- It's convenient, but it's also expensive, and if
risks potentially has as much chance of suc- prises without in-house information technol- it becomes a substitute for developing incess in a new market as anyone else, This also ogy (Il') professionals to get up and running house expertise in the business's core activimeans opportunities for groups traditionally with sophisticated network and telecom capa- ties, the small businessperson may find conunder represented in mainstream business: bilities at a low price.
venience to be a trap,
women, ethnic minorities, recent immigrants,
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How to succeed
employed to locate customers via resources
ln a recent study of 488 chief information offisuch as online or CD-ROM business direccers in North American corporations, the
tories, trade shows, and telemarketing.
Deloitte Er 'I'ouche consulting company anaCet along Il'I cnstomers
De fine what services or goods you proOne of the critical developments in business lyzed the principal elements of success in
pose to supply: In the New Fconomy, "serimplementing
business
computing
solutions.
technology in the last five years is the rapid
vices" can include consulting, education,
spread of data warehousing and data mining Several characteristics of successful implemenentertainment, and increasingly, Web sertechnology to the mid- and small-scale enter- tation of technology were noted, and summavices,such as design and maintenance of
prise. Software that is designed to automate rized as simple rules:
Web sites, hosting of Web sites on servers,
"customer management" has moved tothe
Keep it simple: "Employ a minimal numand buying and selling online using elecWindows NT server and even to the "person- ber of technologies and platforms to rein in
tronic commerce software.
costly redundancies... avoid investing in 'fadal-workstation" level.
Au tomate your sales efforts: I.eads
can be
For example, Onyx Software, a global dish' technologies."
collected
and
tracked,
at
the
simplest
level,
Buy, don't build: "For 'back office,' adminleader in customer management solutions,
using
contact
management
software,
such
istrative
or
core
processes,
low
spenders
leverclaims Canadian businesses are flocking to its
as Symantec Act!, J anna C o ntact,
MS IlackOffice compatible customer manage- age 'off-the-shelf' software, rather than underMaximizer or Goldmine. Databases, such
ment p r oducts. Th e c o m pany notes: take custom development."
as MS Access or Claris File Maker Pro, can
"Canadian companies are really grasping the
Teach them well: Low-spending, successprovide somewhat more power. At a more
ful
companies
"allocate
almost
twice
as
much
value of total customer management. In using
sophisticated level, data mining and cusONYX Customer Centre, these companies will of their budget to training [as the average]."
tomer management software can be used.
Outsourciug is uot u silver bullt: "In
receive rapid value from its unique, closedloop solution for marketing, sales and cus- every category, high-spending companies out- Use the most appropriate marketing methods: Including your own Web sites. If many
source a higher percentage of their IT functomer service."
of your potential customers have Web access,
tions
in
some
cases
two
or
three
times
as
In traditional business practice, a smart
it may be possible to enhance your business
businessperson gets to know his or her cus- much as low-spend companies, yet do not
via a presence on the Web. A disproportiontomers, to better meet their needs and sell receive the benefits they expected." In other
ate number of the ideal demographic
effectively to them. Customer management words, learn how to use your key business
groups
well educated, affluen, 18-4S year
computing
tools
yourself,
rather
than
relying
software typically allows vast amounts of cusolds have access to the Web, and in 1997
tomer information, sometimes purchased from on outside companies.
this group began to increase its direct purdata collection services run by large corporachasing on the Web at an exponential rate.
tions (the U.S. Post Office is a famous source of ')The plan
information on the habits of the people who Building a successful small business involves
However, an effective Web site itself has to
use its service) to be analyzed, to coordinate s ome common principles whether it i s
marketing efforts to the most likely prospects. employing New Economy technology or not. be marketed. A site has to be easily findable
via search engines such as Alta Yista, and
So, for instance, a real estate firm can iden- The basic steps are:
tify neighborhoods and individuals to concen- Un d erstand the potential market: Who effectively promoted by locating "banner ads"
are your customers, and what products or for your site on other, related Web sites.
trate efforts aimed at encouraging house sales.
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Continued front page 6$
the ilnpurtant role played by Canada in soft- in the world. As far as our role representware development?
ing Canada, we are indebted to Delrina
AD: Well, we no longer can say we are 100 and Corel for gaining entry into the interbasic strategy was critical mass OEM [orig- percent Canadian because of th e I n t el national marketplace and making the road
i nal e q uipment m a n ufacturer], w h i l e i nvestment and o u r p a r t nership w i t h less difficult for others to follow.
building in parallel a strong retail channel. Mitsui Japan, the second largest company
We also heavily invested in RRD, at a
CG: Whnl about the role of/npan?
AD: The revolution of digital video cammuch higher ratio than most companies.
About 60 percent of our staff works in that
eras, digital still cameras, the consumpt ion, and th e export are all s i tting i n
area. That will change over time as we
leverage ourselves and produce more and
Japan. They are the leaders of the hardware
@ecyytlve
more products for the worldwide market.
technology that is fueling the marketplace.
Chalrmati and:.director: Oren Asher, forFinally, an important part of our stratemeily president.'(now chairman) of Ditek- So, we are there, front and centre, working
gy was to get involved with video because
relwith them. Our philosophy is to build a
Software Corp., a graphics software dev
we believe that photography and video are
product around a strategy of the industry
opment ompany he founded in 1985 that
and align ourselves with players that make
going to overlap. That is, still images from
specializes in computer-aided design and
video will be brought into photos and vice
it difficult for others to enter.
drafting {CADD)..'-',:,::::::::
versa. So, shortly after our introduction of
President, chief executive officer and direcCG: Tell me more about the PC photography
our PhotoSuite, we introduced our video
tor: Anthony 'DeCristofaro, formerly vicelnarkelplace.
editing program, VideoWave.
president and general manager of AST
AD: We have multibillion dollar companies
Canada;.'nd;:generai managei' of NKC
driving the marketplace digital camera and
CG: I agree with Oren that the product yuu
Canada before that.':," '..'":;:,'
started with was su basic thnl it was hnilnscanner manufacturers, for example. There is
pressive. Wasn't leveraging it into the must
also the role of the Internet. Photos, email
Protlhycts
wit lely used imaging software a ulagical feat?
and communicating are bringing the digital
MGI PhotoSuite tpius spin-off products
Perhnps the "M" of MCI stands for Inngic.
based on PhotoSuite; e.g., Sports Cards, world together in new ways. Film manufacturers and retailers are also playi'ng a major
AD: The magic was a product, a dream, a
market to go after, and a team of talented
part. One-hour digital service is now avail+;.,'I;.+:able. You can get a second set of prints free
people to make it all happen. Yes, we had
MGI 3DVision':: ~" r-:::;:;~';:~:;-"4<~p:,.:~
marketing savvy, but most important, we
or get them on a floppy disk. This service
MGI Calamus PublisherI'"""",;,;~<."'.;,'...-.I
had the passion to focus on PC photograwill appear in 2,000 outlets across the United
phy while everyone else was involved with
States, and we' ll see something similar in
Corihorate
the peripherals. They did not understand
Canada at a later date.
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ing market of the digital revolution.
editors to edit t heir pictures and share
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Development Notes users send and receive
email and replicate Notes and Domino
database updates to a central Notes server
via the Internet. Notes Inter-Connect is an
extension of Electric Mail's local area net-
Inc. has announced Amicus Attorney Pro,

version 3.0, for the Macintosh. The case
management software is an extension of
Gavel 6r Gown's existing Amicus Attorney
package. Working with the company's

Amicus Team software, the new release
handles shared client file information, conflict of interest searching, centralized con-
work (LAN) gateway service for Notes, the tact management, and group scheduling.
company said. It works through an ordinary telephone connection to an Internet
service provider (ISP).
Contact: The Electric Mail Co.
http: //www.electric.net
IN.Y.O.B. Premier to get OfficeLink.,
data transfer
VANCOUVER (NB) BestWare Canada Inc,
of Mississauga, Ont., announced at

Comdex/PacRim trade show in Vancouver,
that it w i l l ad d i t s M .Y.O.B. OfficeLink
data-transfer c a pabilit y
to M.Y . O .B.
Premier, the company's multi-user accounting software, early this year. OfficeLink
allows accounting data to be transferred to
Microsoft Word a n d E x cel an d C o r el
Corp.'s WordPerfect with a single mouse
click, BestWare claimed. This can be used
for, for example, generating form letters
from lists of overdue accounts generated by
the accounting package.
Contact: BestWare Canada http: //www.bestware.ca
INac softwarelays down the law

TORONTO (NB) Gavel gr Gown Software
Contact: Gavel 8 Gown http: //www.amicus.ca
INetroNetlights up Toronto network, demos dial tone

TORONTO (NB) Joining the vanguard of
local telephony competition in Canada,
Calgary-based MetroNet Communications
Group Inc. inaugurated its fibre-optic network by placing of two local telephone
calls over that network.
The calls to the Metropolitan Toronto
Board of Trade and to the cellular telephone of MetroNet's central region vicepresident and general manager, David
Pasieka were the company's first public
move toward entering the local telephone
service business, which officially opened to
competition on Jan. 1.
Pasieka said MetroNet plans to test its
local telephony services with customers in
Febru'ary, and soon afterward launch local
phone service in competition with Bell
Canada.
To provide that and other services in
Toronto, MetroNet is using a network of
.optical fibre, the downtown portion of
which runs through abandoned water pipes
I ' s'
that the city of Toronto, looking for a way

to earn some income from a unused asset,
offered to bidders. The city will earn at
least $10 million from the pipe system over
the next few years, Pasieka said.
Besides local voice service, MetroNet
provides Internet access, other data ser-
vices,
and access to long-distance services dropped from 65 to 27 percent while
Microsoft Excel jumped from 44 to 79 perLong Distance Services Inc., Sprint Canada cent.
Harvard Graphics, th e p r esentation
Inc., and Fonorola Inc. Toronto is one of
six cities where the company is operating; software package, all but fell off the radar
the o t h ers a r e C a l gary, E d m onton, and now shows three percent usage, down
V ancouver, W i n n i peg, O t t a wa, a n d from 27 percent in 1995. During the same
Montreal. Pasieka said the firm has plans to three years, Microsoft Powerpoint rocketed '
from 18 percent to a dominant 86 percent
enter four more cities this year.
of those surveyed.
In the groupware arena the battle is still
INicrosoft tops North America corjoined,
with Microsoft Exchange used by
porate desktops
32 percent of the respondents compared to
MELVILLE, N.Y. (NB) An annual. mail-in
through partnerships with ATILT Canada
survey by researchers at Olsten Corp.
31 percent who use Lotus Notes. However,
when the question was first asked in 1996,

claims to show Microsoft has all but completed its conquest of the North American Lotus Notes led by 49 to 19 percent.
A drienne Plotch, v i c e-president o f
corporate desktop. Olsten says its 1997 survey shows Windows (mostly in the form of Olsten S t a f fin g S e r v ices, a t t r i buted
Windows 95 and NT), runs on 92 percent of Microsoft's stunning market advances to
surveyed desktops, while MS Office soft- bundling its products together.
The survey is available free of charge at
ware has taken over from previous leaders
the Olsten Web site.
like WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Harvard
Graphics, and Lotus Notes.
The survey, The 1997 Olsten Foruin: Contact: Olsten http;//www.worknow.corn
Managing Workplace Technology, was taken
INobile releases database software
last September, and is based on mail-in
replies from 294 vice-presidents and senior for Psion 3
c orporate executives i n t h e U . S. a n d LONDON, England (NB) Mobile Software
has unveiled Mobile Pages, a Psion Series 3
Canada.
Some changes the survey has charted p ackage it claims allows people on t h e
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Since 1995, the number of respondents
who say they use WordPerfect for word processing fell from 61 to 21 percent, while
users of MS Word rose from 43 to 80 percent.
Use of Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software
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request more detail.
The company said Universell for the
Web can also be used for what it called
unassisted selling allowing customers to
get information such as order status and
product data from a remote client using a
browser.
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move to access subsets of appropriate business information from virtually any corporate system, independent of the applicat ion and o r iginating database, via t h e
Psion Series 3 personal digital assistant
(PDA).
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differs significantly from any other Psionrelated package in that it produces a fully
compressed and relational database allowing users to access large volumes of information very quickly.
The package is aimed at companies in a
wide variety of industries including insurance, shipping, oil and defense. The company claims it is so confident of the software
that it is offering potential users a free trial.
Under the trial offer, Mobile Pages will
generate databases from data supplied by
participating companies and then send it
back to them for evaluation. Anyone can
participate regardless of whether they own
a Psion Series 3, as the software and data
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has formally launched Visto Briefcasesoftware that provides secure access to private files from a remote location. Visto
Briefcase uses the Web to let traveling computer users retrieve files while on the road,
by using a secure Web server.
Visto Briefcase includes client software
called the Visto Assistant that, once data
has been placed on the Web site, keeps it
synchronized with that on the user's computer by uploading updates to the server
and forwarding them back to t h e cusContact: Mobile http: //www.mobilepages.corn
tomer's main computer as well, company
officials said.
Sales automation package
You can use the Visto Briefcase from any
takes to the Web
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MONTREAL (NB) MEI has augmented its equipped with a Java-enabled Web browser,
Universell sales automation software with
whether it has the Visto Assistant installed
access via the World Wide Web from any or not. The>ystem uses digital certificates
client system able to run a Web browser. The for authentication and a combination of
new release is called Universell for the Web. Secure Socket Layer and proprietary Visto
Universell for the Web takes the fea- technology for data encryption.
tures of U n iversell, a sales-automation
Visto launched a beta-test version of
product for Microsoft Windows introduced Visto Briefcase in October. The commercial
in 1996, and makes them avaIIable through version adds the proprietary encryption
the Web using HTML+ and Java applets.
technology, an improved user interface,
The software includes security provi- and support for a wider range of email syssions using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) tech- tems, as well as improving over-all perfornology, and access to information is conm ance, company offici
als said.
trolled according t o u ser p r ofiles. For
The service costs US$19.95 per month,
instance, if a certain person has the rightbut there is currently an introductory price
according to business rules maintained on of US$9.95 per month including 20 MB of
the server to see a piece of information storage. The Visto Briefcase software is
but not change it, then the information
available for downloading from the comappears on his or her screen but the update pany's Web site. Users can also try the serbutton does not.
vice for 30 days for free by registering at
MEI, said it s t e chnology also sorts the site.
information and decides what to send to
the client based on th e availability of
Contact: Visto http: //www.visto.corn
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Part II: creating a communications system policy
implementation o f
education can reduce the likelihood of com-
ties and address the ways in which the system
communications system can be used and misused. A CSP should be munications system misuse. There should also
policy (CSP) to enhance compatible with the organization's culture. It be ongoing training, periodic updates and
system benefits and reduce should reflect well on the organization and its
users, since the policy itself may be publicly
system nsks and habihties.
disclosed and subjected to judicial scrutiny.
A CSP should include appropriate explanations, so that it will contribute to a healthy
workplace environment and not create undue
stress or adversely affect morale. The CSP
The perils of communica- should be prepared with proper legal advice to
tions systems were discussed in ensure that it is consistent with applicable
the February 1998 edition of The laws and contractual obligations, including
Computer Pnper,and include: (a) liabilicollective bargaining agreements. It should
ty for, civil and criminal misconduct; (b) a also be prepared with proper technical advice.
source of embarrassing and harmful electronic evidence; (c) infringement of user privacy
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Policytopics
rights; (d) security concerns; (e) loss of confi-
B Y BRAD FREEDM A N
dentiality and solicitor-client privilege; and (f)

adverse effects on user productivity and system resources and performance.
ommunications systems can greatly
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enhance user productivity and enterprise profitability, but they can also
present substantial risks and liabilities. This
article offers suggestions for the creation and
standards and other workplace conduct rules
The following are some of the issues that

should be considered in preparing a CSP:
User Education: One of the most important functions of a CSP is to educate users
about the potential risks and liabilities associated with communications technologies, User
Policy overview
An effective CSP should educate users regarding communications system risks and liabili-
reminders.
System Vse: The CSP should prescribe
system-use rules. Such rules may be restrictive
(business-only use), liberal (unrestricted use
subject to stipulated prohibitions and noninterference with job performance), or something in between.
Policies that permit business-only uses
may reduce certain risks, but they may be, difficult to enforce and may have a negative
impact on user productivity and workplace
relations. At the very least, the CSP should
require system use to be lawful and consistent
with the organization's general reputation,
and productivity expectations.
The CSP might also prohibit specific uses,
such as (a) illegal, unethical or immoral uses;
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rized access to other users' email, data or
stipulate email content and etiquette protocols.,For example, requiring receipt confirmation for important email, restricting the
use of uAII Users" email, o r r e quiring
authentication of business-related email and
disclaimers on. non-business email. The
problem, however, is that rigid procedures
can so encumber email use as to reduce or
possibly eliminate its benefits as a produc-
communications; (g) uses that i n f ringe

copyright or o t her i ntellectual property
rights; (h) unsecured disclosure of confiden-
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that may compromise system integrity or
including adult-oriented Web sites or newsgroups; (c) defamatory, deiogatory or false

messages; (d) political activities; (e) other
commercial or business uses; (f) unautho-
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tivity tool.
Monitoring, use and disclosure:

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required to do so by law. However, unauthorized use or disclosure of private communications, including email and computer files,
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rise to civil or criminal liability,
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other aspects of the communications system policy;.

(c) if users want their Internet use or
communications to be private, they should

not use the organization's communications
system;
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from authorized system use and data monitoring and disclosure; and
(e) email may be reviewed when users
are absent from work. If such warnings are
not given, users may argue that they had a
legitimate expectation of privacy regarding
their communications system use.
Decisions regarding system-use monitoring and data review and disclosure ought to
be made by properly trained, high-level personnel for legitimate purposes and with the
benefit of proper legal advice.
n Security: Communications systems are
vulnerable to internal and external security
threats. Technology and expert advice are
available to reduce or eliminate many security threats. There are also a number of common sense security precautions; (a) master
passwords and other security-related information should have limited disclosure; (b)
user passwords should be non-obvious,

hard-to-guess, confidential, and changed on
a regular basis; (c) all computers should have
password-protected screen savers; (d) users
should log off the system at the end of the
day; and (e) system hardware should be

secured. Information technology (IT) personnel can present a security risk. They may
have access to passwords and other securityrelated information that may be misused
with serious consequences. For this reason,

there should be careful pre-hiring screening
of all I T
p e rsonnel, and r outine post-
employment procedures should be established and followed.
Confidentiality protocols: External
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email is not secure or private unless it is purpose. It might also include an email forencrypted. For this reason, it may be pru- malization protocol that requires users to
dent for a CSV to prohibit the use of unen- record and file important business-related
crypted external email-for sending or receiv- email permanently, either in electronic or
ing confidential i n formation, i ncluding
paper format.
trade secrets and solicitor-client privileged
Software m anagement: For l e gal
information, and t o r equire all external (copyright) and practical (system perforemail to be marked with a confidentiality rnance, maintenance, and support) reasons,
warning, for example "Confidential Do a CSP may prohibit the use of software that
Not Distribute or Disclose Do Not Forward is not properly licensed and approved by IT
Without P ermission o f
S e n der Please personnel.
Immediately Notify Sender if You Receive
Compliance: Users ought to be warned
this Message in Frror and then Purge the that CSP violations may result in discipline
Message."
corresponding to the gravity of the offence,
A CSP might also require that internal including summary dismissal, and restricemail containing confidential or solicitor- tions on communications system use.
client privileged information be properly
Notice and acceptance: A CSP should
labeled as " Confidential" o r "Solicitor- form part of the organization's policies and
Client Privileged" and be distributed on a
procedures manual and the communicaneed-to-know basis.
tions system user manual. A CSP should
The uncontrolled use of data encryption state that use of the system constitutes
can interfere with data access and system acceptance of the policy and agreement to
monitoring and maintenance. Accordingly, its terms. The safest course is to require all
a CSPmight also contain encryption guide- users to sign a written acknowledgement
lines, including permissible encryption
that they have read and understood the CSV
methods and when encryption should and and agree to abide by it, although in some
should not be used.
circumstances that may not be practicable.
Data retention and d estruction: A
A CSV should be well publicized. Users
CSV should include a data retention policy. should be reminded of it on a regular basis.
'I'he fundamental goal of such a policy is to On-screen reminders and non-privacy warnensure that electronic data is organized, ings can be programmed to display as part of
archived and stored in a secure tnanner that log-on procedures. Similar notices may be
provides for efficient retrieval for business communicated periodically by memoranpurposes, including legal disputes. It should dum or email.
also attempt to minimize the unnecessary
Insurance: As part of a CSP preparaaccumulation of data that serves no business tion process, it is prudent to ensure that ade-
quate insurance is in place to cover potential communications system liabilities.
impl
ementation
rise to substantial risks and liabilities. A

clear and comprehensive policy, prepared
with proper technical and legal advice, can
reduce those risks and liabilities. Every business should have a communications system
policy that educated users and establishes
guidelines for proper system use. IJ
Conclusion
Bradley J. Freedman is a trial lawyer with the

Vancouver law 1irm Ladner Downs. His preferred
areas oi practice include intellectual property law
and commercial litigation. He can be reached by
email at bfreedmancgjladner-downs.com. This article
is of a general nature. and cannot be regarded as
Modern communications systems can give
legal advice. (c) B.J. Freedman1997
Policy review
Communications systems will continue to
evolve. For this reason, CSPs and their
should be reviewed on a
periodic basis. This review process may also
provide invaluable information that can be
used to improve the system and the benefits
it provides, and to identify and reduce new
risks and liabilities.
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be shared by large numbers of users, The device, as on how fast or how well they print.
degree to which they are successful appears to
There are about five qualities you would typdepend as much on how they meet the ically look for in a network printer. Some of these
requirement of being a well-behaved network are important to standalone users as well, but the
lack of any of these qualities in a networked
printing environment becomes a much more
acute problem when many users are trying to
access and work with a given network printer.
$peed and memory capacity

No one likes to wait around I' or a printer to
spit out a long document. They like it even
less when there is a huge lineup of people
behind them who are waiting for their much
shorter documents.
There are a number of factors that go into
printer performance. The two most basic are
the "time to first page" speed and the memory capacity of the printer. A printer that prints
quickly after the print button on-screen is
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printer over an office network is that the
printer often runs out of paper.
Finding that there's no paper left in the
printer is almost as frustrating as running out
of toilet paper at the wrong moment. There
are several features that can be built into a
network printer to minimize this problem.
The first is a highwapacity paper tray that
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the printer's RAM first. It is held there in a
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the memory, making room for the next batch
of data from the network or, in the case of a
standalone configuration, the computer.
The more RAM in the printer, the more
quickly it will be able to accept all the data
from the network. This will not only help
speed up printing (since one of the performance bottlenecks in the system can be the
time it takes for data to get from network to
printer), but will also "release" the network
from the print job more quickly.
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The speed of the processor inside the printer, the effectiveness of the printer driver software and the speed of incoming print data will
all have an impact on this performance measurement. One of the other contributing factors to this aswell as overall printer speed is
the amount of memory in the printer.
lf you are printing long documents, or
even just those containing large amounts of
graphics or photography, then memory makes
the paper
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"warning light" on your car's fuel gauge, letting you know that you have to refill soon or
you' ll be out of gas.
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the system to reduce paper-related problems is
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multiple paper trays for different sizes of
network, its ability to "communicate" over a
paper. If the printer is only capable of han- network becomes almost as important as its
dling one type of paper at a time, then you ability to print. The printer must be able to
increase the risk of someone leaving legal size tell the network administrator (or whoever is
paper, for example, in the printer tray when in charge of the printer} that it needs paper,
that it needs toner, that it has a paper jam,
you want to print letter size.
If there are multiple paper input trays that that it can't handle any more print requests
allow you to dedicate a given tray for a different because its memory is full or whatever other
size or stock of paper (or even letterhead paper issues require attention.
or overhead transparency film), you will save a
In an ideal world, network administrators
lot of time changing print media. And users of should be able to get enough information from
the network printer will be a lot happier.
each printer on the network to figure out how
much paper it has, when it is next likely to need
Cost of consumables
toner, how many paper trays it has, perhaps
This requires a bit of thinking. Several differ- how many sheetshave been printed since the
ent printing technologies are available for use paper tray was last filled and even which users
on network printers and each carries with it a have been sending the most print requests.
different s e t o f cons u mable c o sts.
This kind of information not only makes
Consumables are simply items your printer the printer easier to manage, but it gives net"consumes" that have to be replaced.
work managers enough data to make intelliIn addition to paper (a consumable in all gent decisions about which printer supplies to
printers), other items would include ink car- buy and whom to talk to about excessive
tridges (on an inkjet printer), toner cartridges printing out of interesting pages discovered
and drums (on a laser printer) and solid ink while browsing the Web.
"sticks" (on a solid ink printer). The cost of
When you consider all of these issues, it
consumables is commonly measured on a "per becomes clear that buying a printer to run on
page printed basis." Although, for example, your network adds a whole raft of new conyou may pay less for an ink cartridge on an siderations to your buying decision. And that
inkjet printer, you will likely find that the is without dealing with the issue of how the
number of pages you can print with the ink printer gets connected to the network.
cartridge is far lower than the number of pages
Depending on your network, a printer can
that can be printed with a slightly more expen- either be attached to a PC on the network and
sive toner cartridge for a laser printer. That is "shared" as a resource by that PC or it can be
one of the reasons why monochrome laser a standalone resource on the network. Unless
printers still enjoy a far larger share of the net- the printer is configured as a standalone
work printer market than any other single resource, it will not be available unless the PC
printer technology. On a "per page" basis for from which it is being "shared" is also availconsumables, they still offer the lowest cost.
able to the network.
This does mean, however, that you generQualityof output
ally need a printer that comes with a network
The documents produced on your network connection, or you have to buy an add-on
printer are often going to be an integral part network connection for the printer. In addiof the "public face" of your company. You tion to making the printer more available to
therefore want the quality of this output to be the network (because availability is not tied to
as crisp, clear and readable as possible. Unlike the activity level or reliability of the PC that is
a "personal printer," which you might use to "sharing" it out onto the network), having a
to print draft documents that you can review direct network connection for the printer can
on paper, a network printer, being used to improve print speed as it means that data is
produce reports and other materials that will moving at the speed of the network connecbe sent to customers, needs to offer the high- tion and not the speed of a standard parallel
est possible quality.
or serial connection.
So take time in looking at printers that meet
Ease of network management
your network's needs and keep in mind that a
and maintenance
printer for use beside your desk
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tant as more and more printers are being than one than needs to serve the requirements
installed on networks. Once a printer is on a of a group of networked PC users. t3
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drive space, 2x CD-ROM drive, sound card,
mouse and printer.
Gene Katz and Marshail Loeb, prominent
Canadian financial personalities, offer advice
in a video format. There is really nothing
nicer than having something explained by a
person. However, because QuickTax is also a
disk product there is extensive help in standard written form.
QuickTax comes in a two-stage format. The
Head Start version was available before
Christmas. This version is complete but will not
let you file because all tax forms have not yet
been final
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register the program you automatically receive
the final filing version in February. QuickTax
will let you do up to 18 returns. There are
numerous features for which there is no room
here to discuss. Some include: the RRSP
Planner, Tax Calendar and Loan and Saving
Planner. Whether for its depth, easewf-use or
interface, extensive support, tax reference
material, or good value, QuickTax is the best.
HoeneTax Final Deluxe Version
From: Softkey Software Products Inc.
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Suggested retail price: $29.95
Running a very close second and competitive
on every count, HomeTax is a beautiful and
friendly way to do your taxes. This is a
Windows-only product that comes in 16-bit
and 32-bit versions. You can purchase it at
retail outlets or from the company's Web
page. If you are a regular client, you.can get
the price knocked down to $19.95 a great
value. The CD-ROM version reviewed here, is
excellent and does use multimedia, although
not a well as QuickTax.
When you are in the program, most help
and other information is supplied in a written
format. For true full-featured, multimedia you
need to run the separate, Multimedia Tutorial.
This is a well-done, overview of the program
and various tax information. Although this is
very professional work, an integrated format
is more useful and convenient.
This small note aside, HomeTax Deluxe is
deluxe. System requirements are the same as
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the husband or wife's return (easily turned off if
you like); to system wide improvements, such
as the program's use of browser-like frames.
Aesthetically, this is now a beautiful interface. The program uses the newest convention
of flat buttons. Also new, the use of button
bars that slide to reveal data, as is used in
Internet Fxplorer 4.0. In fact, the whole look
and feel of this program is new and slick.
But you' re wrong if you think this is a case
of beauty over brawn, HomeTax has plenty of
functions and features too. Like QuickTax
there is an RRSP applet. You can use an interview of forms method of completing up to 16
returns. The Auditor performs the expected
checkup to see if you' ve forgotten anything.
One rather interesting new feature is the pie
chart representation of any number of differentsetsofdata.Forexample, you can see a pie
showing how much of your money goes to

the province, the feds and yourself.
Another is the Watch box, which allows
you to drag any numerical box from your
return into a little window at the bottom of the
screen. Any changes that you make to your
return will be displayed in the Watch box.
HomeTax is a great program that shared
our Review's Choice award last year. We
would love to give all three ot these programs
this award. Of course, not many people would
have watched the Nagano Games if the top
three Olympians all received gold.
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is the user's overall comprehension of function. A clean and logical structure makes an
enjoyable program and CanTax has figured
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At $36.95 the program is a good bet. You
will need the basics of a multimedia machine
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individually with tabs to move between them.
In the top left corner are useful little icons.
The name of the person whose return is being
displayed in always visible, as is the final
amount owing or to be refunded.
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long you spent on a return.
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All in all a good little program, If they
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CriffTax (Mac Oniy)
This year Colin Griffiths 6r Associates Ltd, has a

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The second prong of t h e company's
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service more than a product. With it anyone,
regardless of their operating system proclivity, can enter data on the Grifffax site and
f ind ou t w h a t
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Clean, simple, and cheap.

The service was not yet up and running in
time for this review, but the information on
the GriftTax site explains the process and its
limitations; while at the same time, answering concerns about the sending and receiving
of data of the Net.
This is an i nnovative and interesting
development that is priced right and makes
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likes Microsoft's PowerPoint better than
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between applications that make it eminently
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Microsoft apparently consulted the results of
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performing [a certainj activity" and consequently tailored this package to address the
findings.
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I find that the simple yet intelligent features of Works' integrated word processor,
spreadsheet and database more than fulfill my
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mine want to tie up their computer resources
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The latest version of Works in Home

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opponents or a species that will thrive in a
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animation and "squonk" and roar while they

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BY JEAN ALLEN - I K E SO N
e Learning Co. hasreleased aslick educational title for seven- to nine-year olds
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kids choose one of four difficulty levels, the
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rescue the scientist, Dr. Pythagoras, find the

Lost City, and capture an evil monster. Players
must find and collect a series of keys, and
numerous paths with assorted creatures keep
the gameplay interesting.
Graphics are of the Saturday
toon ilk and erupt into animations with lively
songs that stnmgthen the connection to the
mystery. The adventure has players crossing
rings of fire and coping with a talking head of
carved stone toreacha key. Aswith mosteducational titles, childrenmustanswerquestions and
solve math problemsto advancein the story.
What makes The Learning Co. titles stand
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the professionalism in graphics and design.
Kids can play in two ways: adventure
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practice mode where they concentrate on just
one or two. They also have two avenues for
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My only complaints with this title are that
the geography is entirely U.S. and that the
lead detective named Joni, Dr. Pythagorus's
niece, is overly pushy and her sidekick, a boy,
is rather wimpy.
While I realize that they are trying to give
girls the idea that they can take the lead, were
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The boy actually quivers as he crosses
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taps to combat the problem of organized crime. of a court order, a situation that currently
Currently, Newsbytes notes, while general applies to voice and data (including email)
sweeps of the Web and the Usenet are allowed taps in ail EC member countries.
under EC Iaw and member country legislation,
Having the EC approve such methods, howtapping specific email messages is prohibited. In ever, would put the official stamp of approval
the UK, for example, email is classed in the same on an otherwise grey area of police procedures,
category as voice teiecoms and, as such, is pro- and would almost certainly increase the number
tected under the lntcyceptiou of Cocnusolicatious of court orders issued by legal officiais.
According to Jack Straw, who was hosting
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hosted by Jack Straw, the British Home as the EC presidency, the need for access to
Secretary, the man charged with overseeing email by police is something that is very necthe police and secret service agencies in the essary, since the police are using 19th century
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expect from an AM station. At the moment
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which provides more detailed listings of radio

stations on the Net, with full descriptions of
local radio station? Have you moved are listening to a station that can take advan- the type of content and artists played. It also
to a new city recently and wish you tage of the extra bandwidth to deliver a clear has a more definitive breakdown of radio stacould tune in your favorite station from signal. At worst, the station's signal may tion types (and includes the audio feeds from
back home'? If you have a computer sound a little murky, or warble a bit, as if you television stations), and provides users with
equipped with a sound card and a connec- were hearing the station through an aquari- interactive menus to help you choose a station
tion to the Web, why not "tune in" to the um,
of interest.
Web and extend you' re aural options?
Given the typical sound quality, why do
The number of people tuning into a parThere are now several hundred live radio broadcasters and listeners find "tuning" into ticular Internet station can be high. Gerold
stations you can find on the Web, "cyber- the Web so appealing? Variety and access are Hug o f D A SDING f ro m B aden-Baden,
casting" from C anadian, the U .S, and
the main draws for listeners
people who are Germany (http: //www.dasding.de/) says the site
around the world.
both looking for an alternative to their local is visited by more than 10,000 listeners a
day. While this is high for a Web site, it is a
you can really only expect near CDguality
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huge number by normal broadcasting standards. But audiences are highly targeted,
attracting people to music and information
they can't find anywhere else. DASDING
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marily at German teens, music that is hard
Back in the early days of the World
radio dial, and people who want to tune into One of these is 3WK (hitp://www.3wk.corn/),
distant places.
which plays music that can truly be considFor example, Paul Kinsman, the pro- ered "alternative" certainly when compared
of text and images

any sound added to a
Webpage was very much an afterthought. duction director and Webmaster of CHOZ- to most other "alternative" radio stations
These days the Web is alive with sound if FM Radio in Newfoundland (The Rock of across North America. So why did 3WK decide
you know where to look for it. With the the Rock at http: //www.ozfm.newcomm.net) has to go the online-only route? 3WK program
introduction of streaming audio to the Web found many of the station's internet lis- director, Jim Atkinson, says he "looked into
just over a year ago, it was only a matter of teners "are Newfoundlanders living away purchasing a traditionai broadcasting facility,
time before radio stations and other music from home, and from people in places like but I realized that the type of programming
organizations latched onto the idea of the
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Of these three, RealAudio is far and away
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modems, In practice, you will typically find
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the Web is on par with the sound quality you
0
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the typical Internet listener is more adventurEurope."

Why offices? The best Internet connec- ous than your typical radio listener. As
tions are usually found in the offices of cor- Atkinson says, "The Net is perfect for playing
But don't throw out your old radio set just
casters find the Web so appealing. As Andy yet radio still has some major advantages
Collins of Internet Broadcasting says, "it over the Internet. In the near future the
4 ee i
allows us to reach listeners in places they

couldn't before, such as in the office. This
gives the listener additional opportunities to
listen to their favorite station, thus increasing tile 'time spent listening' for the station."
Internet is most likely be a compliment to

the traditional radio industry, not a replacement for it. Collins, of Internet Broadcasting,
believes "Internet-only stations seem a perfect fit for special 'niche' markets [such as all
Sponsors also like the demographics of the Beatles, all investment stations, etc.], howevlisteners who are highly computer-literate, a er, listeners are still interested in the local
group that typically has more disposable news, weather and traffic conditions, which
income than the rest of the general populace. they get from the local stations." But considSo where do you find the stations on the ering the fact that real effortsare being made
Internet? There is no dial
instead you will
to improve audio quality and the increasing
find Web pages that list where the stations are. availability of fast connections for the averOn The Air (http J/www.onthaair.corn/) is one of age computer user, more people can be
the more comprehensive listings of radio sites expected to "tune into" the Interne. And
found on the Web. Here you can find radios there is increasingly plenty for you to listen
stations by location or by category, including to during the time take to research this artialternative, Christian, dassical, country, top cle, more than 100 stations were added to On
The Air's extensive listing.
40, jazz, news, oldies, rock, sports andurbanSoon people will not only be surfing on
if you can find it on the radio dial, you will
find it all, and more, on the Internet. Then the Net, they' ll also be grooving to it. 9
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South Africa, Norway, Japan, and especial-
one of the main reasons why some broad-
There are some pre-requisites before you porations where email and the Web are inte- real music= not just the Top 40 songs over
can expect to tune yourradio over the Net: a grated for use in peoples' computers, This is and over,"
sound card, a Pentium-class computer and at
least a 28.8Kbps modem connection to your
Internet service provider. Once you have all of
that you need the software to play streaming
sound sources from the Web. You will also
need to download a streaming audio player
for your computer. The three most popular
that I wanted to do would have a much larger

Web as a new broadcasting medium. Since ly Ireland" apparently Celtic music is audience on the Net," Since anybody who
the first "W" in WWW stands for "World,"
hard to find on Irish radio, He also says the tunes into an Internet station has to make
local broadcasters who can afford the tech- station is also listened to by many people some effort to do so (even if this only extends
to installing some streaming audio software),
nology can now extend their reach across "in offices all over North America and
the globe for a small fraction of what it
There is even an increasing number of

"stations" that only broadcast on the Internet.
Wide Web, "multimedia" consisted solely
plays Euro-Beat and Euro-Dance aimed prito find in many places in North America.
Hug says that "even if our foreign listeners
don't understand exactly what we' re talking
about on DASDING, they find it somehow
exciting, funny and interesting, listening to
some crazy German kids doing interesting
things on theWeb."
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Players get airborne with new ski race and flight sirns
In Front PageSports: Ski Racing, Sierra On- them in real life, they look and feel both
Line has created an immersive and fairly con- authentic and unique, with enough twists,
his month we look at two games to get vincing skiing experience that puts you on the turns, moguls and technical sections to keep
you airborne. From Sierra On-Line slopes, battling for supremacy at world-class you on the edge of your seat.
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very
Page Sports series, Front Page Sports: Ski quick, the manual is fairly thin but once you
Racing, while Eidos Interactive gets you flying strap on the skis it's a real challenge to keep
in a more traditional manner with the civilian fast and accurate enough to exceL
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strange considering the sport's inherent thrills resemble the real thing. And while I' ll admit I
and spills seemcondudve to a virtual replication. haven't had the chance (or money!) to visit
blades themselves are the only element negatively or positively influencing your showing.
World champion Picabo Street gives brief
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Looking Glass Technologies. Its own take on
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Downhill doesn't mean you can carve the

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heights. And now, Looking Glass has struck
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you' ll be facing the same quality of competi- to it, doesn't it?) is faster, prettier, and more
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TV angles during the replay.
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Off the course, Ski Racing lets you cusContinued on pagele
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Aimed at developers, the MCSD designation certifies that the holder is qualified to design and develop
custom business solutions with Microsoft development tools, technologies, and platforms, including
MS Office and MS BackOffiice.
MCSD candidates are required to pass two core
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Microsoft Certi5ed Professional (MCP)
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strated expertise with a p

Microsoft product.
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MCPs are required to pass one operating system
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MCP+Internet
MCTs are certified by Microsoft to instructionally

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Technical Education Centers and Microsoft Authorized Academic Training Program institutions. For
the requirements for this designation please contact
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You should note that the designations and the requirements for those designations change as fast as
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valid for about another nine months. Please check
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A similar designation, MCSEs with Internet credentials enhance, deploy and manage sophisticated
intranet and internet solutions that include a browser,
proxy server, host servers, database, and electronic
mailand commerce components.
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have a specialty in Internet technologies, They have
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and configureserverproducts,manage server
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Exain 70-025: Implementing OLE in Microsoft Foundation Class Applications
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Exam 70-052; Developing Applications with MS Excel 5,0 Using VBA
Exam 70-053: Internetworking Microsoft TCP/IP on MS Windows NT (3.5-3.51)
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Exam 70-065: Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0
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Exam 70-068: Implement 8r, Support MS Windows NT Server 4.0 in the Enterprise
Exam 70-069: MS Access for Windows 95 and the MS Access Developer's Toolkit
Exam 70-073; Implementing and Supporting MSWindows NT Workstation 4.02
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Exam 70-077: Implementing and Supporting MS IIS 3.0 and MS Index Server 1.1
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Exam 70-079: Implementing and Supporting MS IE 4.0 by Using the
Internet Explorer Administration Kit
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