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Kurt Swinghammer likes to create in
the comfort of his home. The Toronto-
based musician and visual artist has
divided his funky apartment into
roughly three equal parts - a graphic
studio, a music studio and a living
space. He has been practicing home
recording for about 25 years, during
which he has recorded and released
eight cassettes and four CDs. He has
also composed and recorded music for
many movies and television shows,
including the theme to CBC's Smart
Ask and Marketplace and the movie
The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati.
"My first recordings were on a tiny
reel-to-reel," he reminisced. "When I
was about 18 I borrowed a four-track
and caught the bug doing that." He
later bought a Tascam 244 four-track,
which he described as a "fantastic work
horse." "I would make elaborate pro-
ductions by sub-mixing many tracks."
He released about six or seven cassettes
in the 1980s.
For Swinghammer, MIDI gear came in
at the cusp -of the '90s along with an
ADAT system.-An ADAT system is a
modular digital recording system still
using tapes, VHS tapes, on which you
could record up to eight tracks. He had
two of them, allowing him a total of 16
tracks. That system lasted about five or
six years, according to Swinghammer.
He recorded his CD Vostok 6 (released
in. 1999) with the ADAT system.
He got an Apple Macintosh G4 and
the Pro Tools recording system in
November 2000. "I was waiting for the
price to get to the point where it did
not seem to be a ridiculous amount of
cash," he said. He recorded his latest
CD, Black Eyed Sue (released in 2001)
on this system. He is currently working
on the score for a National Film Board
documentary about Marshall McLuhan,
to be narrated by New York-based
musician/performance artist Laurie
Anderson.
Swinghammer chose the Pro Tools sys-
tem "because of how it dominates the
film world," he explained. "A feature
film I did a couple of years ago had to
be done in Pro Tools Every film project
I've done since then has been delivered
on ProTools and it makes it a lot easier
for everybody involved and saves lots
of money." Although it only allows for
24 tracks of recorded audio
(Swinghammer has the light version) he
is able to bounce and squash tracks
together just like he used to do on a
four-track porta-studio.
Besides the older synthesizers and other
electronic instruments, Swinghammer has
an old Atari computer standing promi-
nently in the midst of all his recording
gear. "I've had the Atari since 1989 or so.
I use Notator for sequencing." He bought
it brand new and is still a big fan of this
seemingly ancient computer. "It's never
crashed. A lot of people think it's obso-
lete but the program is fantastic. It does
all the sequencing that you'd ever want
to do." He explained, "I know how to use
it very well. I don't want to get some-
thing new just so I can read the manual
so I can do exactly what I'm doing right
now."
He'd had other Macs before he bought
the G4. He tried remixing his Vostok 6
album on an older Mac 8100 (the first
series of Power PC). The computer kept
getting bogged down. "That's when I
realized that computers are perishable,"
said Swinghammer, laughing.
Recording at home presents many
challenges. One is the seeming miles, of
cables involved in hooking everything
together. For Swinghammer, keeping
cables tidy is not an Issue. "It's like how
do you keep spaghetti straight on a
plate," he said, pointing to the jumble of
cables that lies below his keyboard. "I've
never dealt with it elegantly because you
always have to repatch the whole time.
Every once in a while I will tear every-
thing down and put it up again."
To avoid noise from the computer's
fan - unwanted noise being the bane
of every musician - he came up with
an ingenious solution. "People would
usually .build elaborate contraptions to
muffle the noise. I just drilled a hole
through the floor and put the computer
in the basement." The cable between
the monitor and computer is really taut.
"The computer is tucked right: under the
floor," Swinghammer said. "I was really
lucky that it worked out. If it would
have been another two inches, I would
not be able to do it."
Although his studio is filled with
seeming exotic instruments spanning
some three decades, he has a very prac-
tical view of them. "I see these instru-
ments as tools. I'm not a collector or
anything." He also does not hike a lot of
the frills, plug-ins and effects that are
available with most recording software.
"I prefer outboard gear for processing
sound like delays and such. I find that
TORONTO C O M P U T E S !
to get a good sound it will take a lot of
processing power." True to his approach
of using the computer as a hard disk
recorder, he rarely plugs his guitars
directly into the computer interface. "I'll
run it through my amp to get the sound
of the amp and the atmosphere of my
room. My guitar, amp and this room
will give a sound that's not quite like
everyone else's. If everybody has the
same plug-ins and effects, things tend
to sound the same."
Swinghammer has not been enam-
oured by the loop recording that is so
prevalent in digital recording. "I record
just like I would be using a tape deck. I
tend to go for performance because
often if you play some part from top to
bottom, you'll make some boo-boos and
it's usually these bits that-are interest-
ing," he explained. 'entioa
The worst part about digital recording
at home is the mouse, according to
Swinghammer. This is worst during the
all-crucial mixing down phase, when
all the recorded tracks are combined to
two stereo tracks. Unlike with a tradi-
tional mixer, where you can manipulate
many sliders with all your fingers, a
mouse only lets you do one at a time.
"I'm confident that by next year the
manufacturers will realize that there are 1
thousands and thousands of musicians,
like me, who are recording at home,
and will start to produce inexpensive
interfaces."
Swinghammer is a proudly independ-
ent artist and is not signed to a major
record label. As with all independent
artists, there are always problems in
getting the CDs to the stores. His Vostok
6 album was released on Ani
DiFranco's Righteous Babe records
label. His other works are available at
Maple Music (www.maplemusiccom), an
online store for Canadian artists, main-
ly independent but also featuring
albums from Cowboy Junkies, Blue
Rodeo and Gord Downie from The
. Tragically Hip.
"They carry only Canadian content
and it is a great resource," said
Swinghammer. "They sell merchandise
and get a really good response." He's
not interested in selling things through
his own Web site (www.swinghammeccom).
"I'm just not interested in licking
envelopes," he explained. There's also
the problem of taking credit cards. "It's
an elaborate process that costs money.
That's like a job. My job is to make
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By SEAN CARRUTHERS
A lot of pundits have predicted that the computer
will soon take over as the principle home entertain-
ment device, i f it hasn't already. It's pretty easy to
understand why. The emphasis of multimedia features
on the home PC — MP3 audio, DVD movie playback
and immersive gaming — are all key selling points for
new computers.
The irony is that when you buy a new PC, the stan-
dard speakers are generally fairly mediocre, even
when the soundcard is quite good. If you're planning
to use your computer for gaming or DVD playback,
it's definitely worthwhile to invest the extra money in
a reasonably good speaker set because the results can
be absolutely stunning.
For years, the standard speaker set has been a pair
of low-wattage white plastic specials, perfectly good
for general use, but not something that you'd mistake
for quality. A lot of speaker sets now include a sub-
woofer for better bass performance, and there's a
growing trend towards multi-speaker sets for surround
sound in both games and movies.
What do the numbers mean?
Many speakers available today are listed with an x.1
number (2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1), which i,ndicates the
configuration of the speakers, with the .1 always
meaning the set includes a subwoofer. A set designat-
ed 4.1 will contain four satellites (left and right front,
left and right back) and one subwoofer. These sets will
be good for the majority of games and movies.
Audiophiles and serious movie freaks may want to go
for a set designated 5.1 instead, which also adds a
front centre channel for added definition. (True freaks
may want to opt for a 6.1 or 7.1 set, but they're more
expensive and may be overkill for most computer sys-
tems, even i f you can find applications that will take
full advantage of the 6.1 or 7.1 configurations.) '
If you like your audio loud, the wattage rating is
worth paying attention to when making your choice.
Without getting into the minutiae, the basic rule is that
a higher wattage rating means a louder set and (gener-
ally speaking) cleaner reproduction -of the signal at the
same decibel level. This month we've looked at speaker
sets ranging from 48 watts through to 400. If you're
not going to be blasting the sound at full volume all
the time, a 48-watt set should be perfectly adequate. If
you aren't happy until the walls are shaking, you
should look at something with a higher rating.
This month the majority of the testing was done on a
PC containing a 1.2GHz AMD Athlon and 256MB of
DDR SDRAM. Creative Labs kindly provided us with a
SoundBlaster Audigy X-Gamer card, which ensured a
clean audio signal throughout (the card has a signal-to-
noise ratio of >100dB, the cleanest consumer-level card
currently available; see www.audigy.com for more details).
For the Yamaha set, we also cracked out the Guillemot
Maxi Sound Fortissimo, which has an optical output. (A
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number of other Yamaha-based soundcards and
Creative's Audigy Platinum also contain optical outs.)
Altec Lansing ATP 4
From:Altec Lansing Technologies Inc. Creative Inspire 5.1 5300
www.alteclansing.com
Estimated price: $240 (converted from US$150)
Altec Lansing speakers are always interesting
because they often skew slightly from traditional
design. This 4.1 set is a bit different, too, with a skin-
ny upright portion on each satellite speaker, with the
base of the speaker wrapped around a "down-firing
mid-bass driver" (meaning that the speaker points
down at the desktop, which can act as an extra res-
onator). As with many of the Altec Lansing sets, the
volume and tone controls are built into the base of the
front right speaker.
The sound on the set is quite good. At 80 watts total
output power, the set is reasonably loud for a small
workspace or room in the home. There can be a bit of
a muddy sound when you crank the volume and bass
up to the top, but we found that you can clean it up a
lot by lowering the bass level slightly, or if you're
feeling ambitious, by finding a way to raise the satel-
lite speakers slightly to bring the cones away from the
desktop a bit. The most serious issue we have with the
speakers is the digital volume/bass/treble adjustment,
which is done by spinning a knob around and around
(several times around to go from minimum to maxi-
mum). It's not that serious, though — you can get used
to it quite easily, and the speaker set sounds good
enough that you don't even think about it too much.
Creative Inspire 5.1 5300
From: Creative Labs
www.creative.com
Estimated price: 5150
Already noted for its Cambridge Soundworks divi-
sion (and its exceptional quality), Creative's decision
to release a speaker set under the Creative banner
again may seem a bit like backtracking. Face it,
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continued from page 14
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recognition, and the Cambridge
Soundworks reputation for quality may
also translate into "pricey" in the
minds of potential buyers. The
Creative-branded Inspire line is, suit-
ably, a more value-oriented line of
speakers, though the quality is still -
there. This set is an analogue 5.1 set
with 48 watts total power.
As you'd expect for a speaker set with
this rating, it's not overly loud but it's
certainly loud enough for most homes.
Cranked, the set holds up fairly well and
while there was a tiny bit of distortion
in the bass at full volume, it was fairly
minimal. The bass control is located on
the subwoofer cabinet, which means
once you set it you won't change it by
mistake when you're reaching for the
volume. (It also unfortunately means
that if your subwoofer is hidden under a
desk you may need to excavate to
change your bass setting.)
Those looking for a step up may
want to consider the 80-watt 5700 set,
which also features digital input and
Dolby capability, but that move will
cost you $450. Most will be extremely
happy with the 5300s, which are a
great value at $150, especially when
you consider the great sound quality.
Logitech Z-560
From: Logitech
www.logitech.com
Estimated price: 5300
At 400 watts total power, dropping
the Z-560 into your PC workspace may
be overkill, but it's glorious-sounding
THX-certified overkill. It's a 4.1 set,
which means no centre channel for
your DVD movies, but it's a small
omission overall - the sound is excep-
tionally clear and exceptionally loud,
and it features absolutely monster bass.
(In other words, crank this one up to
the max and you'll be looking for a
new apartment pretty quickly.)
For both music and gaming, this set
is ace, and the most amazing thing is
that it comes in at about the same
price as other sets with lower wattage
ratings. If we have a major complaint
about this set, it's that the bass can be
overwhelming - even at the lowest
setting, you can still feel the subwoofer
pumping (t)lere's a reason why there's
a metal grill on the back of the sub for
heat dissipation). You may want to set
the sub on a foam pad if you've got
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continued from page 18
neighbours that you don't want to
bother. Each of the speakers connects
to the subwoofer via wire with exposed
ends just like on a component stereo,
which means you can replace the wire
fairly easily if you want longer or bet-
ter-shielded cables. The speakers come
with mountable-metal bases, which can
be removed using the included hex
key, and reoriented.
Another minor complaint is that the
connectors to the PC are hardwired
into the back of the speaker control
pod, and the ends that connect to the
PC have a right-angle connector, which
could be a problem i f you have anoth-
er card under or above your sound
card. Those complaints are all fairly
minor, though: The sound coming out
of these speakers is nothing short of
jaw-dropping, especially if you like it
loud and booming.
Monsoon MH-505
From: Level 9 Sound Designs
www.monsoonaudio.com
Estimated price: $290 (converted from US$180)
Monsoon Audio does work in three
major categories — automotive, home
theatre and multimedia speakers. The
theatre speakers are very pricey, so the
closest most of us will come.to
Monsoon speakers is in the comput-
er/multimedia world. The MH-505 is
Monsoon's more value-oriented 5.1 set,
and it comes in at 85 watts output
power RMS (120 watts max). Like its
louder and more expensive siblings,
the Mil-505 set uses Monsoon's flat-
panel style Planar Focus Technology.
Overall, the sound is a bit flatter than
the other speakers we looked at this
month — they didn't have the same
room-shaking bass — but the sound
was exceptionally clear all the way up
to full volume. At that point, any dis-
tortion introduced into the sound will
likely be a limitation of the soundcard
—we got a bit of distortion using the
older Yamaha-based card, but the
SoundBlaster Audigy was still excep-
tionally clear. One of the nicest fea-
tures on Monsoon sets is the well-
placed mute button, allowing you to
kill the sound instantly.
Those looking for room-shaking bass
won't find what they need here, but
those looking for excellent clarity will
love this set.
Yamaha TSS-1
From:amaha Canada
Yamaha has been a mainstay in the
PC speakr world, but has mostly
focused on two-speaker sets, The TSS-1
is the company's 5.1 set and is available
in both black and white. At 48 watts
RMS, it's not one of the louder sets, but
it's one of the more versatile, featuring
both analogue and digital inputs (in
addition to the two standard 11B-inch
plugs, the back of the amplifier unit
also sports an optical connector and a
coaxial RCA-style connector, and the set
ships with the connector cables, too).
The amplifier unit is slightly more
complicated than the other sets this
month. In addition to the great big
volume knob at the bottom, there are
also smaller knobs for centre, surround
and subwoofer. There are also buttons
at the top for switching between
speaker modes (digital vs. analogue,
Dolby mode where applicable), for test-
ing the speaker position and for mut-
ing. A bit more confusing is a little
selector switch on the back of the box
for selecting the number of speakers
attached to the system, which seems to
partially duplicate the button func-
tions. The amp unit can be laid down
or stood on end and comes with a
small bracket for angling the front end
upwards, i f desired.
but it certainly does the job — i f you're ;
in a small apartment, it will be more
than adequate. When cranked, there's a
tiny bit of distortion with exceptionally I
low bass noises (we got some clipping
When playing Hoist's The Planets, espe-;
cially midway through track 7 when thel
bass notes on the organ kick in).
Switching from analogue to digital
boosts the volume level slightly and
clears up the sound substantially. At
lower volumes, the sound quality is a-
okay, and if you're not after raw power
the versatility of the inputs makes this
set a very attractive choice.
Editor's Choice
Because of the range
of wattage ratings and
because it's a mix of 4.1
and 5.1 systems, it's pret-
ty hard to say one is neces-
sarily better than the other. For those
who just want the sound at reasonable
volumes, all of them are great. The
Creative offers exceptional value, the
Altec Lansing and Monsoon sets are
very clear and the Yamaha set is
incredibly flexible. We're giving the
nod to the Logitech Z-560 set, though,
for exceptional clarity and quality,
even though it came in at about the

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automotive speakers are fairly specific www.yamaha.ca As you'd expect from a 48-watt sys- same price point as many of the other
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Online and legal music coming to Canada
By DAVID ROSEN
Next month, two online
music services will open their
digital doors in Canada,
allowing customers to listen,
download and even burn
music tracks for a fee. Unlike
some of the existing organi-
zations, which play fast and
loose with copyright agree-
ments and music licensing
laws, PressPlay and Moontaxi
will give Canadians legal (but
strictly controlled) access to
digital music.
Los Angeles-based
PressPlay, owned by music
giants Sony Corporation and
Vivendi Universal, offers sub-
scribers access to a broad cat-
alogue of music through
streaming and downloading - -
and allows "portability"
through CD-R burning.
According to the company,
the service will give cus-
tomers access to a vast online
library including music from
Sony, Vivendi Universal and
EMI Recorded Music.
Several independent labels such as Madacy,
Matador, Navarre, OWIE, Razor Et Tie,
Roadrunner, Rounder and Sanctuary have also
signed on with PressPlay, citing the need to
gain access to the same online music market
as the major record companies.
In partnership with Canada's Sympatico-
Lycos, PressPlay will offer its subscription
service to Canadians who want to listen to an
array of rock, pop, jazz, country, hip-hop and
REtB songs on demand. Rumoured to cost
$9.95 per month (the company had not final-
ized prices by press time), the Canadian ver-
sion of PressPlay will let customers access
streamed music much like digital cable sub-
scribers currently listen to music channels
over their home TV.
But the estimated $9.95 a month will just get you
access to streaming music; it won't let you download
the actual music file, nor will it allow you to burn
tracks with your PC or Mac. To get this increased
functionality, you'll have to pay an additional (and, as
yet, undisclosed) monthly fee. However, when the
PressPlay service was launched in the United States a
few months ago, four tiered price plans were
announced.
In the U.S., PressPlay's Basic Plan costs US$9.95 per
month, and allows 300 streams and 30 downloads.
The Silver Plan costs US$14.95 and lets customers
stream 500 tracks and download 50. Under the Silver
Plan, customers can also burn 10 tracks (of the 50
downloaded) onto a CD-R. The company's Gold Plan
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Moontaxi's streams "will
provide three personalized
music channels in which
individual tracks are ran-
domly presented to listen-
ers," explains van der
Plaat.
A second component of
Moontaxi's service is
called Music Locker. Here,
music lovers can pick 100
tracks from the company's
playlist and then create
virtual. CDs in which the
specific artist, track and
play order are specified.
According to van der
Plaat, you will be able to
change the content of your
Music Locker at any time.
Thus, i f you fancy listen-
ing to a (virtual) CD of
Beethoven one week and
Bach the next, you simply
change your Music Locker.
However, Moontaxi — a
company partially owned
by EMI Group — has no
immediate plans to offer
downloads. "We won't be
offering downloads for at least six
months," explains van der Plaat. "We
have to deal with the current restrictions of
the music companies. Six months from
now, the entire landscape will have proba-
bly changed and so we'll be looking at
other services."
Other labels
Of course, Sony, Vivendi Universal and
EMI Group aren't the only musical games
in town. The other two major labels — AOL
Time Warner and Bertelsmann AG — are
also involved in online music distribution.
The problem for Canadian music lovers is
that MusicNet, a company owned and con-
trolled by these two labels (and EMI
Group) has no immediate plans to move
costs US$19.95 per month, allows 750 streams, 75 north of the border.
downloads and 15 burns. PressPlay's Platinum Plan Will paid, legal online music distribution ever take
costs US$24.95 and lets customers stream 1000 music off, especially since many music lovers have already
tracks, download 100 of them and burn 20 tracks onto downloaded millions of illegal songs? It will, i f you
CD-Rs. believe a recent survey from Jupiter Media Metrix.
Citing a huge market for legal downloadable music,
Moontaxi - no counting, no downloads the market research company projected US$1.6 billion
A Toronto-based startup called Moontaxi thinks it in worldwide online music sales this year, and a
has the answer to PressPlay's complex model of whopping US$6.2 billion by 2006.
counting tracks. When Moontaxi's service launches Naturally, only time will tell i f this forecast is cor-
next month, Co-CEO Derek van der Plaat says it will rect, but many in the industry are cautiously opti-
charge only $5.99 per month for unlimited access to mistic. •
streamed music in a variety of genres. Clive Hobson, spokesman for Sympatico-Lycos
Initially launching with classical and jazz music explained, "it's a huge market ... but how the Canadian
(and adding additional genres at a later date), market will shape up, remains to be seen." •
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 Digital audio formats made easy
FEATURE

By GEOFF MARTIN MP3Pro player. This extra information

When it comes to audio formats, MP3
is still the king, at least as far as being
able to trade and download them with a
decent level o f selection. But truth be
told, MP3 doesn't offer the best com-
pression ratio out there, nor does it offer
the best audio quality. So, f o r those
seeking better compression ratios, better
audio quality or a comfort level some-
where i n between, what follows is a
brief rundown of the alternatives.
Of all t h e alternative formats o u t
there, the one that might have the best
chance o f taking t h e digital audio
throne away from MP3 is AAC (www.aac-
audio.com), which stands for Advanced
Audio Coding. The AAC format was
introduced by Dolby Laboratories at the
2001 Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, and Dolby claims that while its
AAC files sound better than MP3 files
encoded at similar bit rates, they are
also up to 30 per cent smaller, which
means faster downloading time and less
time to rip an audio CD into AAC for-
mat. Of particular interest to the record-
ing industry, the format also comes with
built-in copyright protection, where
necessary. Dolby recently introduced a
new AAC consumer encoder, which puts
the power to record files in the AAC for-
mat into the hands o f consumers, and
this encoder is built into the newest ver-
sion o f Liquid Audio software (www.liq-
uidaudio.com).
Next is the Windows Media Format, or
WMA (www.windowsmedia.com), w h i c h
was born when Microsoft was forced to
sit back and watch the start of the MP3
revolution without making a plum nick-
el from it. Not content with
its headlock on the browser
and operating system industries,
Microsoft didn't waste much time i n
developing the WMA format and is now
pushing the technology wherever it can
get a foot in the door. On the bright
side, the format boasts smaller file sizes
than MP3s with equal sound quality;
but on the dark side, the format features
copyright protection t h a t i s o f t e n
unwieldy and i t i s still incompatible
with certain operating systems (read:
Linux), as well as many portable music
players. Until some o f these issues are
worked out, all the muscle of Microsoft
won't be enough to take WMA to the
top.
Ogg Vorbis (www.ogg-votnis.com) i s
another format getting the attention of
many audiophiles, and not just because
of its unusual name. Unlike MP3, which
is a patented audio format owned by the
Fraunhofer Institute i n Germany, Ogg
Vorbis is a completely open-source, roy-
alty-free format. The royal-
ty-free consideration is a big one,
since the Fraunhofer Insitute now
wants to charge a royalty fee for all
products that use its MP3 technology —
a story that could get very messy i f the
Institute ever decides to make good on
its threats. As i t stands now, the Ogg
Vorbis format continues t o improve
thanks t o i t s grassroots developing
community, with compression rates get-
ting better while t h e audio quality
remains steady.
One of the newer formats is MP3Pro
(www.thompson-multimedia.com), another
innovation o f the Fraunhofer Institute,
in c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h T h o m s o n
Multimedia. MP3Pro files look and act
the same as a regular MP3 file, and your
regular audio player w i l l p l a y a n
MP3Pro file just like any regular MP3.
But the files are embedded with extra
high frequency information and you'll
only get the added benefits of this extra
digital info i f you play the files in an
effectively doubles the perceived audio
quality o f a digital file, which means
that a regular MP3 encoded at 128Kbps
could b e stored as a n MP3Pro f i l e
encoded a t 64Kbps. Even w i t h such
excellent savings o n storage space,
however, the MP3Pro format has suf-
fered from little o r no publicity and
poor adoption rates.
Finally, any true audiophile worth his
or her salt i s currently evangelizing
about t h e Monkey's A u d i o f o r m a t
(wiffintmorikeysaucho.com), which i s likely
the best format for people who, well,
don't like their audio "monkeyed" with.
Billed as a "lossless audio compressor,"
Monkey's Audio boasts a compression
rate of nearly 4 to 1 in some cases, with
no loss in sound data, which means that
you could decompress a Monkey's file
back into a digital copy that is identical
to the original. As the format's site sug-
gests, "think of it as a beefed-up Winzip
for your music."
Whatever choice y o u make when
you're encoding your own digital music
files, you must first accept that for now,
MP3 is still the most widely accepted
format, and so for the least headaches,
it's still the best option. It works seam-
lessly across all platforms, i t works on
nearly 100 per cent of portable players,
and it has the widest selection of songs
available for download. But for those
looking for better quality or smaller file
sizes, MP3 is quickly beginning to look
like the tyrannosaurus rex o f the audio
world: It's sitting at the top of the food
chain, but we all know it's eventually
headed for extinction.
May the best format win! •

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 Metronome Canada:
The city of music
By CHRIS TALBOT
After a decade o f gathering support,
raising funds and drafting plans, John
Harris's dream of a national music sym-
bol could make a significant leap for-
ward as early as July 2003 when con-
struction o f Metronome Canada could
begin. After ground is broken, i t will
take t w o years t o build Metronome
Canada on the waterfront at the base of
Bathurst Street in Toronto.
Being billed as the world's first music
city, Metronome will grow out o f the
Canada Malting Silo Complex and will
contain a music museum, an 800-seat
concert theatre, offices f o r the music
industry, a music education centre,
music-related stores, restaurants, a
music-themed children's playground
and a floating e x h i b i t celebrating
Yorkville Avenue o f the 196Os called
The Riverboat. I f everything goes as
planned, Metronome w i l l become a
symbol of Canadian music accomplish-
ments — past, present and future. becoming m o r e
"It's an initiative to integrate, educate, intertwined w i t h
celebrate and promote a l l facets o f technology e v e r y
Canadian music," said Harris, president year. Those involved
of Metronome Canada and the founder in the music industry
of Harris Institute f o r t h e A r t s . and those who make
Metronome's f o u r main focuses are music part o f their
business, education, performance and lives understand how
celebration, he added. much o f an impact
Since the first letters requesting sup- technology has had
port were sent out in 1993, 62 music-
related companies have become patrons
of Metronome. According t o t h e
Metronome Web site (www.meironome-
canada.com), 72 music-related companies
have expressed interest in leasing space
once it has opened.
Metronome will occupy approximate-
ly 33,750 square metres (375,000 square
feet) o f space. The grain silos a t the
Canada Malting Silo Complex will be
re-used for Metronome (they date back
to 1928 and 1944), and the rest of the
music city will be built around them.
The creation and recording of music is

Cost cutting.
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Control. The Metronome Canada Timeline
Convenience.
March 17, 1993
John Harris sends out 150 letters proposing an
Integrated music complex and receives 87 posi-
tive responses.

on music in recent years. Aside from the August 12, 1993

debate about MP3 and digital music dis-
tribution, more complex and accessible
recording and mixing software applica-
tions have become available. Digital
instruments are now the norm in much
of the music recorded today. I n some
cases, music is programmed, not per-
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Metronome Canada Foundation registered as a
non-profit corporation.
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The design for Metronome by Kuwabara Payne
McKenna Blumberg unveiled. The design goes
on to win a number of awards and is featured
at an exhibition held in Barcelona, Spain by the
Union of International Architects In 1995.
September 10, 1995
Many musk-related companies (62 of them, in
all) become founding patrons of Metronome
Canada.
October 6, 1997
Metronome Canada Foundation's application
for a 99-year lease on the Canada Malting Silo
Complex is approved.
January 11, 1999
Apublic awareness campaign Is launched.
August 20, 1999
The Metronome Canada Pavillon Is featured at
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By ANDREW MOORE-CRISPIN
So what do you do with those ISP CDs
that come in the mail or the "coasters"
that you made when you just couldn't
wait to check your e-mail while you
were burning a disc?
If you're like most people, you proba-
bly throw them out almost as quickly as
you get them, perhaps after a quick and
potentially i n j u r i o u s g a m e o f
Frisbee.
For the environmentally con-
scious consumer, having CDs
end up in a landfill is sim-
ply not an option. But what
can you do?
Canadian companies that
recycle CDs on a consumer
level a r e seemingly n o n -
existent, or they at least don't
have Web sites.
A recent study f r o m RBC
Financial Group, conducted b y Ipsos-
Reid, says that around 50 per cent o f
Canadian households have a PC. The
study also suggests that almost half of
the households with a PC also have a CD
burner.
That, combined with the multitude of
software o n C D , w h i c h eventually
becomes redundant, makes for a lot o f
CDs sitting in landfill.
Sony uses ultrasonic waves and sol-
vents to remove and recover the gold
and dyes that make CD-R discs record-
able, for reuse. The polycarbonate that
the actual disc i s made o f i s also
reclaimed, but the process is apparently
only used in the Japanese plant in the
event of a quality issue.
Dave Kundapur, continuous improve-
ment manager with Sony Music Canada
says that if a CD on the line is flawed, it
is sent out for secure disposal and recy-
cling.
Kundapur says once the aluminum
present in pressed CDs is removed, the
polycarbonate "can be reused in head-
lights, taillights and other applications
where c o l o u r i s n o t important."
However, because o f the high optical
quality standards for CD manufacturing,
the recovered materials aren't reused by
Sony Music to make CDs.
Pilot projects are going o n i n the
States, but i t might be a while before
they are widely available, Kundapur said.
He also says Sony is working toward
"cradle-to-grave" manufacturing, where
products are taken back to the factory
when finished their useful life, and
materials are reused and recycled.
Some American companies will recy-
cle CDs on the consumer level, but ship-
ping costs will be your responsibility.
GreenDisk i s o n e such company.
GreenDisk president and founder David
Beschen says they will accept all forms
of electronic media for recycling, from
floppies to CD and DVD discs from com-
panies or consumers.
Beschen says GreenDisk fills a niche
that is largely unexplored.
"If you want to recycle, that's great if
you have a million pounds of
something," he said, "but
what i f you only have
one?"
GreenDisk will accept
any quantity o f CDs
to be recycled.
Everything old
By HAROLD LASS
Until recently I had a 386, a keyboard
and some single density 3.5 inch drives
stashed in the basement. What are you
still hanging on to? According to Silicon
Valley Toxics Coalition, what you're
really stockpiling is a heap o f heavy
metals — including lead, mercury, hexa-
valent chromium, cadmium and bromi-
nated flame retardants — all highly toxic
to the environment, wildlife and human
health i f mismanaged. So, how can you
safely manage that ancient four-year-
old pile of technology?
First, here's what not to do — don't
ever bag your unwanted computer and
peripherals and put the works out for
garbage on the curb. We don't need to
contribute more toxic trash to landfills.
Environment Canada estimates that in
2005, approximately 12,000 tonnes o f
computer waste w i l l be generated i n
Toronto, of which 7,000 tonnes will be
suitable for reuse or recycling. It's up to
us to contribute to the 7,000 tonnes.
And there's a safe way t o d o i t .
Toronto, and most other municipalities,
is equipped to dispose of your unwant-
ed high tech write-offs. For Toronto
computer recycling drop-off locations
and times, visit the Toronto Recycling
Web site. They'll consign your comput-
er to hex heaven in an environmental-
ly friendly way. And i f you have any
exhausted laser printer toner cartridges,
call LaserNetworks (416-363-7404) for
pickup.
Give it away
But what's old to you may be gold to
someone else. W h y not donate your
GreenDisk started as a service for soft-
ware companies concerned f o r their
intellectual property when getting rid of
overstock o r redundant software, and
branched out into accepting recyclable
media from the consumer level as well.
Magnetic media like floppy disks are
degaussed a n d r e -sold u n d e r t h e
GreenDisk label, and optical media is
chipped up and shipped out to compa-
nies that de-metalize, and recover the
polycarbonate for use in the automobile,
appliance and computer industry.
GreenDisk also sells CD-R media i n
Canada and the U.S. The disc itself is not
made from recycled materials, but the
jewel case and other packaging is.
tired piece o f technology t o others
who'll appreciate i t ? N o t everyone
needs hefty amounts o f hard drive
space o r high speed processors. F o r
word processing, for example, even a
PC 8086, Commodore o r PET antique
will do just fine. These folks would love
to hear from you:
• Computers for Schools is looking
for organizations o r individuals t o
donate t o this program. It's Canada-
wide and they'll see to it that your com-
puter will find its way to a school where
it will be put to use.
• U of T SwapShop will pick up your
computer i f it's reusable and give it a
new home.
• reBOOT Canada will also pick up
your computer ($25 charge) or you can
drop i t o f f and they'll rebuild i t and
redistribute it to a charitable organiza-
tion i n your community. They'll even
issue you a tax receipt for the market
value o f the donated equipment they
accept.
• Possibilities Project wants Macs
and PCs, no matter how old.
Cash i t in
As admirable as recycling or donating
may be, why not try to recoup some of
the big bucks you laid out in the first
place f o r that must have computer?
Here's how:
• eBay Canada — There's probably
someone out there willing t o bid on
your once precious Pentium. Computers
are hot items on eBay. Many go for
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P r o - M e d i a T H X 4.1 S p e a k e r s 4 0 0 W M a x $ 4 9 5 Internet access with more than one you run Windows, Mac, Linux, xBSD or
P r o - M e d i a T H X 5.1 S p e a k e r s 5 0 0 W M a x $ 6 8 5 / computer, I'd recommend taking a look Unix, all you require is a graphical Web
at SMC's Barricade 7004ABR. Like browser to configure and monitor your
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the Internet. Also like many others, I
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xDSL, cable modem, ISDN and even
now have t w o computers a t home. dial-up via modem (which can also be
Polk AMR 70 2 . 1 Speakers 44W$ 9 5 Whether you have one machine for the used for fail-safe backup connections).
Polk AMR 90 4 . 1 Speakers 80W$ 1 1 5 kids and a different one for work, or Although the Barricade features four
Polk AMR 130 5.1 S p e a k e r s Digital 8 0 W $ 1 9 5 even i f you run a small home-based ports, it supports up to 253 computers
Polk AMR 150 4.1 S p e a k e r s Digital 1 1 4 W $ 2 2 5 / business, sharing your access can be a when used with additional hubs.
real boon. After looking into various
sharing solutions, I decided to go with Setup
the SMC Barricade. I found the Barricade quite easy to set
Creative Inspire 2400 2.1 Speakers 21W$ 6 5 up and get working under both Linux
Creative Inspire 4400 4.1 Speakers 41W$ 9 5 Features and W i n d o w s . U s i n g Netscape
Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 Speakers 48W$ 1 4 5 SMC promotes the Barricade as an Navigator, I configured the Barricade to
Creative Inspire 5700 5.1 Speakers Digital 7 9 W $ 4 1 5 "all-in-one networking solution f o r connect to my ISP. I entered my user
... .1 home and small-business users." This name and password, and then told it to
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thing different than what you needed MMX 233 PENTIUM H 366MHZ PENTIUM H 300MHZ
to connect to your ISP. Each computer 32MB SDRAM 96MB SDRAM 128MBSDRAM,100 ZIP
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24X CDROM $ 9 2 9 . 0 0 2 4 1 fCBDRIIOD MD $ 8 9 9 . 0 0 L ° I i GB CDROM
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(xDSL or cable modem) attaches to the 12.1" TFT SCREEN 13.3" TFT SCREEN 14.1" TFT SCREEN
rear o f the Barricade. I moved m y 90DAY WARRANTY 90DAY WARRANTY 90DAY WARRANTY
inkjet printer to the Barricade's print
server to make i t easy to print from COMPAQ/DELL INTELCELERON 500 MHZ DELL
both L i n u x a n d Windows. Under PII 2 3 3 T O P I I 2 6 6 INTEL B P 8 1 0 MOTHER BOARD PH I 5 0 0
ATX D E S K T O P C A S E
Linux, I just used the “printconf' util- 3 2 M B SDRAM PC 6 6
ATX M I C R O TOWER ATX T O W E R C A S E
1 2 8 MB SDRAM M E M O RY 128MB SDRAM
ity to configure a network printer, and 3.2GB H A R D DRIVE 2 0 G B U D M A HARD DRIVE 10GB H A R D DRIVE
under Windows I used the Barricade's CDROM DRIVE 1 . 4 4 M B FLOPPY DISK D R I V E CDROM DRIVE
1 . 4 4 M B FLOPPY AGP V I D E O
CD-ROM to install drivers, and then VIDEO CARD 4 0 X CDROM DRIVE
1 . 4 4 M B FLOPPY
VIDEO CARD
configured m y inkjet as a network SOUND & SPEAKERS 32BIT SOUND SOUND & SPEAKERS
PS/2 1 0 4 KEYS
printer. Both operating systems have KB P S / 2 M O U S E
5 6 K V. 9 0 FAX M O D E M PS/2 1 0 4 KEYS
1 2 0 WAT T SPEAKERS
no problems printing, although the USED SYSTEMS PS/2 1 0 4 K E Y S KEYBOARD
KB P S / 2 M O U S E
USED SYSTEMS
Barricade's print server communicates I N T E G R AT E D M O T H E R B O A R D P 5 / 2 M O U S E , 1 Y R PARTS WARRANTY I N T E G R AT E D M O T H E R B O A R D
VA R I O U S C O N F I G U R AT I O N S INTEGRATED V I D E O S O U N D M O D E M
only one way, so my special Windows P R I C E S S TA R T I N G F R O M :
VA R I O U S C O N F I G U R AT I O N S

print software, which allows me t o

check t h e level o f ink, n o longer
works. Note that you should immedi- 90 DAY WARRANTY
$299.00
1YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY
$904DAY6WARRANTY
9.00
ately upgrade the router's firmware to
the latest version to ensure all known D U R O N Systems Green Line Systems X P Systems
bugs are fixed. The default version 1.0 NOWNIDURON 850 GHZ -AMMATHLON K7-950 GHZ X P 1.6 GHZ
had a few minor issues, but the current MSI K 7 T T U R B O 2 M O T H E R B O A R D MSI K 7 T T U R B O 2 M O T H E R B O A R D
ATX M I D T O W E R ECS K 7 S 5 A M O T H E R B O A R D ATX M I D T O W E R
version 1.4 appears to have fixed all of 128MB SDRAM ATX M I D T O W E R 128MB SDRAM
the issues I had. Upgrading t h e 20GB HARD DRIVE 128MB SDRAM * 20GB HARD DRIVE
1 . 4 4 M B FLOPPY 20GB HARD DRIVE 1 . 4 4 M B FLOPPY
firmware is performed with your Web 3 2 M B AT I V I D E O Upgrade 1 . 4 4 M B FLOPPY Upgrade 3 2 M B AT I V I D E O Upgrade
browser after downloading the latest 52X CDROM D U R - 9 0 0 5585.00 3 2 M B AT I V I D E O K7- 1 . 0 $615.00 5 2 X CDROM XP- 1 . 8 $739.00
driver from SMC's Web site. SOUND CARD OB D U R - 9 5 0 $595.00 52X CDROM K7- 1 . 4 $700.00 S O U N D CARD OB XP- 1 . 9 $575.00
SPEAKERS 3 P I E C E SOUND CARD OB SPEAKERS 3 P I E C E XP- 2 . 0 $899.00
5 6 K V 9 0 FA X M O D E M SPEAKERS 3 P I E C E 5 6 K V 9 0 FA X M O D E M
Usage P 5 / 2 1 0 4 K E Y S KB P 5 / 2 M O U S E 5 6 K V 9 0 FA X M O D E M P 5 / 2 1 0 4 K E Y S KB P S / 2 M O U S E

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proven to be a joy. I'm happy to have do,24 r

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a strong firewall protecting my com- h. 0 1 i eD • eD• 0 0

puters against hackers a n d other ONEYEARLIMITED WARRANTY ONEYEARLIMITED WARRANTY ONEYEARLIMITED WARRANTY
unauthorized users (since they are on
24/7) and using the print server made Upgrade or Add : Gold Line Business Red Line Gaming
sharing my inkjet easy. The negatives
6 4 To 1 2 8 M B P C - 1 3 3 (UPGRADE)
1 2 8 TO 2 5 6 M B P C - 1 3 3 (UPGRADE)
$34
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PENTIUM 4 1.5 GHZ CPU PENTIUM 4 1.6 GHZ CPU
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include poor logging capabilities, no 1 2 8 TO 2 5 6 M B D D R (UPGRADE) $65
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ability to notify me i f problems arise 4 0 G B TO 4 0 G B 7 2 0 9 R P M (UPGRADE)
1 2 8 M B SDRAM MEMORY 2 5 6 M B PC- 8 0 0 RDRAM M E M O RY
$50
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imal (although the printed and PDF 2 4 X 1 0 X 3 2 LG CDRW (ADD) $135
3 2 M B AT I V I D E O U p g r a d e 3 2 M B AT I V I D E O P 4 - 1 . 7 $1225.00
SB L I V E 5 . 1 ( U P G R A D E ) ' $50
manuals are quite good). 1 7 " KDS MONITOR (ADD) $210
5 2 X LG C D R O M D R I V E P 4 - 1 . 7 $799.00 16X DVD-CDROM DRIVE P 4 - 1 . 8 $1249.00

3 2 B I T SOUND CARD P 4 - 1.8 $869.00 SOUND BLASTER LIVE 5.1 P 4 - 2 . 0 $1599.00

1 9 " CTX V S - 1 9 0 1 M O N I T O R ( A D D ) $325
5 6 K V. 9 0 P C I FA X M O D E M
Package 1 9 " VIEWSONIC P F 7 9 0 MONITOR (ADD)
AVS 5 0 0 W 5 P C S . SPEAKERS (UPGRADE)
$560
5 6 K V. 9 0 P C I FA X M O D E M
3PCS. SPEAKERS W/SUB
P 4 - 2 . 0 $ 11 4 9 . 0 0
ALTEC L A N S I N G 5 P I E C E S P E A K E R S
$60
The package retails for $139.99 and WINDOWS MILLENNIUM (ADD) $109
PS/2 1 0 4 K E Y S KEYBOARD P S / 2 M U LT I M E D I A K E Y B O A R D

includes the Barricade router (measur- WINDOWS 2 0 0 0 PRO (ADD) $215

PS/2 M O U S E PS/2 LOGITECH W H E E L MOUSE
N O N - I N T E G R AT E D V I D E O A N D S O U N D
ing 18x10x3 cm), a power adapter, a W I N D O W S XP- H O M E (ADO) $150

35-page Quick Installation Guide, a

112-page Users' Guide, an installation
W I N D O W S XP- P R O (ADD)
COREL OFFICE 2 0 0 0 ( A D D )
$225
$19
$749.00 $1175.00
CD (for setting up the print server
W H O L E S A L E W E L C O M E D
under Windows) and one Category 5
Fast Ethernet cable. More information V i s i t o u r s h o w r o o m f o r it s t o r e S p e c i a l s !

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 Digital Shots: Imaging software for you
By CHRIS TALBOT
Photography can be a fun and reward-
ing hobby, but getting out in the field
and shooting with your digital or 35mm
camera until your heart is content is
only half of the fun. Most amateur pho-
tographers' work ends when they drop a
roll of film off to be developed or when
they transfer images from their digital
cameras to their hard drives (or, better
yet, to a backup medium like CD-R).
No matter whether you shoot film or
digital, however, there is much more
you can do with your images after the
shooting ends— and it requires you to
have imaging software. All digital cam- -
eras on the market come packaged with
software to get images from the camera
to the hard drive, but they also have
software that allows users to do some
basic manipulation of the images — re-
sizing, lightening, darkening, cropping
and changing the image's resolution.
Many digital camera manufacturers
have made deals with major producers
of imaging software that allow them to
bundle limited or full versions of soft-
ware from companies like ArcSoft or
ACD with their cameras. Whether it's
basic image editing software or some-
thing more complex, the average digital
photographer will find everything need-
ed bundled with purchased cameras.
Those who want to get more from
their hobby can use the software sold
with digital cameras as a starting point,
but software on the higher end o f the
spectrum might be in order — and there
are a l o t o f packages out there (too
many to cover in only one column). I f
you are shooting o n a f i l m camera,
you'll need to purchase a scanner before
you can start manipulating photographs
on your computer.
Three popular options
Paint Shop Pro 7 by Jasc Software is a
powerful application designed a n d
priced for the consumer. Currently sell-
ing f o r a suggested retail price o f
$149.99, Paint Shop Pro can be found at
most computer software stores. The most
recent version o f the software, Paint
Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition (mark-
ing the software's first decade), was
released last year (see review in Toronto
Computes! November 2 0 0 1 i s s u e ,
archived at www.canadacomputes.com).
The software allows users to modify the
size, scale and, resolution o f the image,
change i t from RGB (red, green, blue)
colour mode t o greyscale (black-and-
white), add textures and effects, insert
text and crop the image, among other
things. What I really like about Paint
Shop Pro is the ease of use and the num-
ber o f effects that are included i n the
software. Users can add lighting effects,
sunbursts, make the image look like i t
was clipped out of an old newspaper or
change the outlining shape of the image
to, say, a pentagon (excellent for creating
the impression of a framed image).
In the past, I've used Paint Shop Pro
mainly f o r designing images for Web
sites, which i t handles superbly. There
are tools included that will help Web
masters slice up images so each slice
can be used as a separate hyperlink on
Web sites. At one time, this was a time-
consuming and frustrating process.
The printed manual included with the
software explains h o w t o use Paint
Shop Pro and how to get
the most out o f the tools
available. Written s o a
beginner c a n read a n d
understand it, the manual
also defines key terms used
in digital imaging, such as
TIFF (tagged image file for-
mat), TWAIN (an industry
standard f o r devices to
communicate with imaging
software) and AV I (audio
video interlaced).
On the high end of imag-
ing software i s Photoshop 6 . 0 from
Adobe Systems, which makes a good
claim for being the top producer of imag-
ing software. Unfortunately, Photoshop's
price is far out of range for the average
consumer. Aimed a t the professional
imaging crowd, Photoshop has a price tag
of $999.99.
The learning curve for Photoshop is
significantly higher than for consumer
software packages, b u t t h e p o w e r
behind the software itself is difficult to
compete with. Photoshop allows users to
modify images on the smallest scale. It
comes complete with a variety of tools,
palettes and effects that give users the
ability to optimize images for the Web,
change colour modes to and from RGB,
CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black)
and greyscale, lighten, darken, crop and
otherwise modify pictures.
For the consumer, Adobe released
Photoshop E l e m e n t s l a s t y e a r .
Essentially, Photoshop Elements i s a
scaled down version of Photoshop 6.01
Most o f the tools are present and
accounted for, but the ability to work in
CMYK colour mode has been taken out.
Unless y o u a r e d o i n g
work that will be printed
in CMYK (professional
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Elements should be suffi-
cient for your needs. The
suggested retail price is
$149.99.
Something to look'
forward to
In February, A d o b e
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Photoshop 7 . 0 w i l l b e
released in April. During a demonstra-
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an Adobe spokesperson showed how the
new Photoshop has been improved.
Many of the enhancements are not for
everybody, but for people who want to
retouch photographs, these tools could
save hundreds of hours.
The healing brush is the most exciting
of the new tools. Similar to the cloning
tool, the healing brush can paint colours
over top of surfaces but will not lose the
texture. For example, it will allow users
to edit out wrinkles on a person's face
(this was shown during the demonstra-
tion).
The natural media paintbrush allows
users to work with digital re-creations
of chalk, pastel and other media that
haven't had satisfactory results in imag-
ing software to date. Colour correction
is a snap with the new auto correction
tool. Faded photographs can be scanned
in and made to look like new again with
a few simple mouse clicks.
Adobe has also made the menus more
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Diskettes the 1.44 MB floppy, increases the stor- is the DVD burner. DVDs hold more data that you can read, write and re-write to
By now, you've probably experienced age capacity o f those diminutive disks (as much as 4.7 GB) and consequently it instantly and reliably. The manufac-
the agony of lost data not backed up, as to 100 MB and 250 MB - quite an cost more money - especially the re- turers of this system promise safe stor-
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data you did back up - and usually in Iomega also makes a Jaz drive that When you burn your own CD, you Their main disadvantage, though, is the
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pelling reason for the use of removable a lot. Like all specialty storage systems, disc. Instead, the disc is coated with a information because they access data
media, that's it. The simplest, cheapest they involve special hardware a n d photosensitive dye. When the dye is heat- sequentially; the drive has to search from
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Have you ever read a magazine and
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that?" If you're still reading, the answer
is probably "yes."
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own magazine? Lack o f knowledge?
Lack of talent? Too costly? Couldn't do
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Professional magazine publishing isn't
for everyone. However, amateur pub-
lishing can be an easy and cheap hobby.
Known as "fanzines" o r "zines," ama-
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that generate little to no profit (most
generate losses), but give that desired
voice to editors and writers. I n many
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text and graphics, copied and then dis-
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ByNESTOR GULA involved a complicated step-writing
system, whereby you enter the notes
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lot o f new phrases and concepts t o count. This system is good for program-
learn. This i s occasionally frustrating ming rhythms f r o m existing music
for musicians, as i t seems to be more scores o r creating very complex pat-
technical than creative. It is not called terns. The quantize function works dif-
MIDI programming for nothing. Perhaps ferently in both instances.
one o f the strangest and initially most In the real-time method, the quantize
baffling phrases is the term quantize. function corrects you i f your timing is
Basically it means, that the rhythmic off. If you set your quantize filter at one-
values - the duration of a played note eighth note, all the notes that you hit will
- of the MIDI information are rounded be moved to the nearest eighth note.
off to a set value, be it whole notes, six- Having the quantize set to one-eighth
teenth notes, dotted notes, whatever. note also means that you cannot have
Consequently, this system usually then more than eight beats in a 4/4 time bar.
"corrects" all the rhythmic information Slight syncopation and beat irregularities
in a given performance to have all the will be achieved i f you set the quantize
notes line up evenly. Let me explain threshold to a lower level such as 1/32 or
with a personal experience. 1/48. By setting the quantize level a t
My first encounters with the term 1/192 (on some machines this setting is
quantize came when I bought a drum simply labeled as turning quantize off)
machine. There were two ways to pro- my drum machine would record the pat-
gram rhythms in this machine - this is terns exactly as I entered them.
true of most drum machines. In the sim- By fooling around with the quantize
plest method, you could write a one- to threshold, you could alter the feeling of
99-bar rhythm pattern live in real time the rhythms. A high quantize setting
by tapping on the different drum keys at produced a mechanical/industrial
appropriate times. The second method rhythm with very little life or move-
ment. A low quantize setting will give a
more lively and real-sounding rhythm
pattern.
In the step-writing method, the user
enters the note according to the quan-
tized time. Let's say you want to pro-
gram one bar of a 4/4-time pattern. To
enter a 1/16 snare note on every second
1/16 beat, you would set quantize at
1/16 and program the note on every
second beat. I f you want two quarter
note high-hats to sound twice i n the
pattern, y o u must leave the pattern,
select the quantize level at one-quarter
and then re-enter the program to enter
the new information according to the
new quantize threshold. The fact that
the first snare drum was inputted a t
1/16 will not affect any new informa-
tion being programmed nor will it itself
be affected b y a change o f quantize
level.
The function of quantize is to let you
structure your notes i n a precise and
pre-ordered manner. A drawback of the
step-writing method i s that you can
only enter 1/16 notes when in the 1/16
quantize level. To enter notes of differ-
ent duration you have to set a different
quantize level. This gets to be quite con-
fusing, but the beauty o f this is that
when you do it properly you will have
all the elements o f the rhythm pattern
falling exactly where you want them to.
The drawback with the whole quantize
system of ordering notes is that it makes
the music itself lifeless by playing iden-
tical patters of seemingly equal and well
mannered notes consistently without
fail. This is what is sometimes unaffec-
tionately known as the "MIDI sound"
and w h y many traditional musicians
steer a clear path away from MIDI. It is
also why many MIDI experts seek to
find a way to make MIDI sound more
human.
A simple way to do this is to set the
quantize level o f your MIDI recording
device, w h e t h e r d r u m m a c h i n e ,
sequencer or computer program, to the
1/192 level and then record the pattern
live. If you are recording a drum pattern
that will be repeated often in a song, try
to record it as several beats long instead
of one beat. Recording several versions
of the same pattern and mixing them in
a random fashion will also get rid of the
structured quantized MIDI sound. •

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w By NESTOR GULA its components work well disposal. Music Teacher is basic and
0 0 : 0 0 : 0 2 : 2 3 together. A nice bonus is Music Planet is more of a curiosity than
Many people like all-in-one pack- that you can hook it up to a real musical tool.
ages to give them easy solutions to the USB or the game port, The MK-249C keyboard can be used as
the tasks they have t o perform. meaning that older PCs a MIDI controller, sending MIDI infor-
Although these packages are fully ear al...•• without USB ports can use mation to other MIDI devices, but you
compatible within themselves, they this package. will need to buy a power adapter for it
on. s n o r n
are n o t always the best solution +.20 • The problem Lies in that to do so. When using it hooked up to the
because there are always compro- the software is quite sim- computer, the keyboard gets its power
mises made somewhere along the ple. In Sound Studio you from either the MIDI or USB cable.
line. The Evolution Music Creator can have 256 tracks o f The Evolution Music Creator Pro 49C
Pro 49C USB software/hardware kit MIDI b u t are limited t o USB k i t is an entry-level package for
falls directly into this slot. four t r a c k s o f people who want a complete kit in one
The package works well but there box. It works fine, but I suspect that
I I I purchasers of this system will soon
are some limitations. The main fea- 1.1 1 1 1
ture of this kit is the MK-249C key- opt for a better software package
board. It has 49 regular touch-sensi- with cooler and more diverse
tive keys, 12 assignable dials for real- sounds and better recording
time effect control, an assignable slider capabilities. •
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and octave up/down keys that will take
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By GEOFF MARTIN
One of Toronto's most popular exports has been
causing quite a stir on the Net recently, as the mania-
cally devoted fans of progressive rockers Rush have
been combing Web sites for any crumb of information
about the band's upcoming album, which is to be its
first in six years.
Message boards were all aflutter when a New Jersey
deejay claimed to have the inside scoop on the band's
17th album, and told fans that it was to be called
"Vapour Trails." Not long after that, another fan post-
ed a message to the popular Rush site www.r-u-s-
h.com stating that he had received an advance copy of
the album and that he planned to post samples of the
4 6
OFans are scanning the horizon for Rush's next album
album later that day. This triggered an absolute feed-
ing frenzy from fans all over the world and within
several hours, the site's server suffered a seizure as a
result of the relentless door-knocking front Rush fans.
The site's Web master was forced to pull it offline.
Worse still, the entire episode appears to have been
a hoax, as no samples have been seen on the site to
date. Anthem Records, the band's label, have tried to
satiate the fans' unquenchable thirst for all things
Rush and recently confirmed that the reported album
title and a subsequently leaked track list were correct
and launched a mysterious Web site at www.official-
rush.com. At press time, the site featured nothing more
than a stark black background and a simple black-
and-white graphic portraying an eye looking back at
the visitor, perhaps to indicate that the band's mem-
bers have been watching its fans just as closely as
they're being watched themselves.
Anthem also announced that the first single from
the album, called "One Little Victory," would be
released to radio stations on March 29 and that the
rest of the album would hit stores on May 14.
If there are any fans so dedicated that they can't
wait that long, they can always spend their time plan-
ning for RushCon 2002, which is a Toronto conven-
tion dedicated to Rush, its fans and its music, sched-
uled to take place in July. Few pop culture icons com-
mand a following dedicated enough to inspire an
entire convention, but Rush is apparently now in the
impressive company of fellow rock band KISS and
Star Trek - you can find the proof at www.rushcon.org.
Time to get to work, Hilary
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
president Hilary Rosen is back to her constant whin-
ing about digital music piracy, claiming that the
record industry slid by up to 10 per cent in 2001,
thanks in large part to the scourge of MP3s.
Rosen revealed numbers showing that U.S. record
company shipments in 2001 had been reduced by 10.3
per cent over the previous year and that the total dol-
lar value of shipments had fallen by 4.1 per cent dur-
ing the-same period. The recording industry tracking
firm Soundscan also supported these numbers, show-
ing that sales of compact discs, the industry's most
popular format, were off by 5.8 per cent from the pre-
vious year during the year-to-date ended February 17.
Rosen acknowledged that there were likely other
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factors that affected the industry, such as critical
fourth-quarter release schedules that were thrown out
of whack in the wake of the September 11 terrorist
attacks, but she couldn't resist the urge to place the
lion's share of the blame on MP3s.
"When 23 per cent of surveyed music consumers
say they are not buying more music because they are
downloading or copying their music for free, we can-
not ignore the impact on the marketplace," Rosen said
in a statement.
Of course, it couldn't be that the music industry is
growing horrifically stale in the age of Britney Spears
and 'NSYNC, could it? One need only look to the
snooze-inducing Grammy Awards last month for the
answer - ratings for the event (which is supposed to
feature the very best the industry has to offer) were
down nearly 20 per cent over last year's totals. By
those numbers, Rosen might want to think about
encouraging record labels to groom some innovative
new talent, rather than going after people who are
downloading copies of last year's hits.
Copyright Board: Get your wallets out
There are plenty of uses for recordable CDs other
than burning illegal copies of music, but the
Copyright Board of Canada wants to start charging
you a lot more for them, under the ignorant assump-
tion that's all they're being used for.
Everyone who purchases a blank CD in Canada
today already pays a 21 cent levy on each disc, but
the Copyright Board is proposing to nearly triple that
amount for 2003-2004, raising the levy to 59 cents.
The tax is currently paid at the manufacturing and
distribution level, who then pass these costs along to
the consumer. The proceeds of the levy go to the
Canadian Private Copying Collective (www.cpcc.ca) and
are then distributed to copyright-holding Canadian
musicians.
The Copyright Board is also proposing a brand new
levy on portable MP3 players that would see a levy of
$21 per gigabyte of storage, which would raise the
price of a $599 Macintosh iPod by more than $100,
and would jack the price of a 20 GB Creative Jukebox,
which retails for about $600, by a staggering $420.
You can read the full proposal at www.cb-cda.gc.ca,
and you can read up on the fight against it and sign a
virtual petition thanks to the Canadian Storage Media
Alliance at www.sycorp.com/levy/index.htm. •
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games. Why? Because they were, without and in fact, never even leave your seat, mak-
exception, sadly lacking in quality. But, with ing for a predominately predictable view.
RENE A . I I I
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Dauntless, a Galaxy class starship o f the or signal a red alert. How do you do this?
United Federalion o f Planets. Your ship is You simply look at the bridge crew you wish
ordered to the Maelstrom, a turbulent area of to interact with, left click and issue your
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circles
By NESTOR GULA you in the wall. There are six driving
lessons that give you the basics of driv-
Many people consider stock car rac- ing a NASCAR race car. The tutorials
ing to be rather primitive and boring. put you in the car and NASCAR cham-
Despite its huge popularity in the
United States, it has never really out-
grown its southern rural roots and been
embraced by the urban masses. For
many people, even race car fans, the
prospect of racing a relatively large
American car painted like a billboard
for 805 km (500 mi.) on an oval, even
if it is at speeds of over 290 km/h (180
mph), has no appeal. They think it's
Mickey Mouse. This is probably why
there are so few NASCAR racing games
on the market, but several Formula One
games to choose from.
Following in the footsteps of the suc-
cessful NASCAR Racing 4, Sierra
Entertainment has released NASCAR
Racing 2002 Season (NR2002).
Although not a great departure from its
predecessor, this game is updated with
the full 2002 line-up that includes new
drivers, cars, paint schemes and spon-
sors. Looking through the cars on
screen I was saddened to see that my
favourite NASCAR car was missing.
This is, of course, the car sponsored by
the makers of Spam and painted to pion Darrel Waltrip explains how you
resemble a can of Spam. Seeing it hur- should run each of the 24 tracks
tle around a racetrack always made me included in this game. Going to the
smile. I have yet to watch a NASCAR testing sessions is where you'll really
race to confirm its disappearance but I hone your skills. A great addition to
feel it should have been included for this simulation is the digital steering
sentimental reasons. The game does assistance that gives you the ideal line
have a paint shop where you could to take on the track and how hard or
paint an available car to suit your soft your foot should be on the gas
fancy, but the controls and execution pedal. A couple of single races and
are quite primitive and frustrating. you'll be able to start the championship
After an hour of fiddling I gave up and mode or even go for the free multiplay-
went back to doing what this game
does best — simulating stock car racing.
Far from being easy, racing on the
er option. In the latter, you can race
against up to 42 other competitors at
Sierra's free online service.
r NASCAR Racing 2002 Season
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ling past a wall just inches away at Racing games, the developer of perhaps NR2002 lets you monitor the frame Sierra
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unbelievable speed, it takes all your one of the best racing sims ever — rate while racing (great, another thing
concentration to keep focused on the Grand Prix Legends. True to their form, to distract you from driving) so you Requirements:
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processor, 64 MB RAM, 16 MB Direct 3D com-
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Ubisoft, two new naval simulation games can link up On the plus side, the manual that
via the Internet or through an intranet and let players comes with the game is much smaller
go head to head. than the one for Silent Hunter II,
Sold separately, Silent Hunter II and Destroyer weighing in at only 72 pages. Again
Command simulate naval warfare during World War II. the instructions for the training mis-
In Destroyer Command, players take on the role of a sions are in the manual. I'd hate to be
captain of a United States Navy destroyer on the open the player who loses the manual.
seas against German, Italian and Japanese forces. "Less reading, more playing" should
Silent Hunter II puts players in command of a German be the motto of every game producer
U-boat that goes up against U.S. and British ships. out there.
In single player modes, players can run through mis- Because of a destroyer's inability to
sions or launch into a campaign, but the two games dive, players have portholes and win-
can be used in conjunction with one another in online dows in most rooms, so they don't
naval battles. have to drive blind. This makes it
much easier to change direction, see
Silent Hunter II the water splash past and notice U -
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to boats sneaking up on you. However,
command a submarine? Silent Hunter II will give you the boredom I found playing Silent
that chance. Unfortunately, piloting a German U-boat Hunter II is in Destroyer Command, as
in a simulation isn't quite the same as what is seen in well. Most of the time, you're just
the movies. As the pilot, players will find they will be piloting the boat, which isn't a very
fighting boredom a lot more than they will fight other exciting thing to do.
ships.
Imagine being cooped up in a sardine tin for months The final word
on end and being completely blind every time your Maybe I'm not enough of a fan of
ship submerges under the water. Welcome to Silent simulation games to appreciate Silent
Hunter II. While the game is easy to install, the game- Hunter II and Destroyer Command.
play is complicated. The 195-page manual is a neces- Despite the complexity and difficulty
sity. Players are advised tb read the book from cover of the games, the gameplay itself
to cover and to keep it beside their keyboards in case seems sound. Persistence and patience
of emergencies. are assets, for sure.
To SSI's credit, the game developers obviously spent Some players might be attracted to
significant amounts of time researching naval warfare, the games by the multiplayer func-
German U-boats and American and British ships. The tions. After all, human opponents are
game is visually beautiful when you're staring at always more fun to play against than
something more than kilometres of ocean, but simula- computer ones. ♦
tion games try to re-create something — and the truth
is, commanding a submarine is nothing short of dull-
ness occasionally interrupted by combat.
When I first sat down with the game, I was happy to
find some training missions listed. Unfortunately, all
more I N F O
of the instructions for the training missions are in the Destroyer Command EVE®RYO E
$59.99
manual. The training missions themselves are com- SSI/Ubisoft
pletely useless when it comes to helping players learn wwwdestroyercommand.com s4v,
to command the U-boat. I slowly discovered how to Requirements:
set a course, adjust the speed of the engine and dive Pentium II 266 MHz processor
below the waves. Unfortunately, the periscope still 64 MB of RAM
700 MB of hard disk space
confused me after I finally gave up on the training 8x CD-ROM drive
mission. Direct 3D-compliant 3D-accelerated video card
For players with a lot of patience and a lot of time with 16 MB of VRAM
DirectSound-compliant soundcard
on their hands, this game might hold some enjoyment.
Silent Hunter II
Destroyer Command 559.99
SSI/Ubisoft
Compared to Silent Hunter II on a fun level, www.silenthunterii.com
Destroyer Command has something that Silent Hunter
Requirements:
II doesn't have — suspense. Somewhere out below the Pentium II 266 MHz processor
waves, there is most likely a U-boat loading a torpedo 64 MB of RAM
with your name on it. 650 MB of hard disk space
8x CD-ROM drive
Just l i k e i n t h e case o f the U - b o a t i n S i l e n t H u n t e r DirectX 8-compliant 3D-accelerated video card
II, the controls for the U.S. Navy destroyer in with 16 MB of VRAM
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 Play along on the PGA Tour with Tiger Woods
By CHRIS TALBOT
The golfing season is just about to
start, and golfers of all calibre are itch-
ing to tee off. Although it's not quite the
same a s going o u t o n t h e course,
Electronic Arts' Tiger Woods PGA Tour
2002 might keep you occupied until the
courses open up. Besides, how else will
you ever have the chance t o play a
round with the man who made g o l f
cool?
Even though the Toronto area has
some nice golf courses, wouldn't it be
cool to play the greens at a famous club
used o n the PGA tour? The game's
course lineup includes places like Pebble
level (amateur, professional, t o u r and Golf commentators David score. Hopefully this is some-
championship), what the golfer looks Feherty and Bill Macatee add thing EA will f i x i n a future
like and what kind of equipment he car- more realism t o t h e PGA patch, but for now, it's obvi-
ries. environment through t h e i r ously annoying a lot of play-
Simple to install and easy to learn, the on-going commentaries o n ers. For now, the way to avoid
game controls f o r Tiger Woods PGA each round of a tournament. this seems to be to stay out of
Tour 2002 are keyboard- and mouse- the trees. Good luck.
driven. It will take some practice to get More Goodies Otherwise, Tiger Woods PGA
good at the game, but learning to drive, If this isn't enough for you Tour 2002 is a fun game that
chip and putt will only take a few min- and you want more control only has a fraction of the frus-
utes. I n fact, t h e game i s s o self- over your golfing environ- tration I feel every time I pick
explanatory that t h e manual hardly ment, the Course Architect up a real golf club. •
seems necessary, although the charts at tool allows players t o create a g o l f
the beginning o f the manual detailing course of their very own. Unfortunately,
all o f the game control commands are the manual offers no detail on how to
helpful. The most important commands create a course, so you have to learn by
C u l T 11111 I N F O
are listed on the back o f the game's doing. I f you want to try other courses Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 EVERYON

559.99
Beach Golf Links, Poppy Hills, Spyglass jewel case for quick reference. but don't have the time to create your Electronic Arts
Hill and The Royal Birkdale Golf Club in There are nine game modes available - own, the Course Utilities tool will allow www.ea.com/easports/platforms/ a w. or

England.
Players can compete in matches and
tournaments as professional golfers like
Tiger Woods, Justin Leonard, Brad
Faxon, Notah Begay III, Vijay Singh,
Jesper Parnevik, Colin Montgomerie and
Lee Janzen; as one of several different
amateurs; o r as a golfer they create
using the golfer creation function in the
game. When creating a golfer, the game
lets players customize things like ability
practice, stroke, tournament, S k i n s
game, shoot-out, match play, foursomes,
fourball and multiple year PGA tour sea-
sons. A caddy book option is available
to get the best tips and information on
how to make great shots. Players can
also practice their swings at the driving
range, chipping area, putting green and
practice holes. All this game needs is a
miniature golf area and i t would be
complete (that's a joke, kids).
you to import courses that other players
have made and uploaded t o Internet
sites.
One complaint that has been popping
up on the EA Sports message boards is
transparent foliage. When stuck in the
trees (and even good golfers slice once
in awhile), many players have found
that trees and bushes become transpar-
ent and you don't know they are there
until they've cost you a stroke on your
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Renegade shines in MU Itiplayer mode
By ERIK SEBELLIN
The plot o f the first-person shooter
Command E t Conquer: Renegade
revolves around two factions - the GDI
(Global Defense Initiative), an aggres-
sive arm of the UN, and the Brotherhood
of NOD, a terrorist organization bent on
world conquest. You play the game in
one of three ways. First, you can play as
Major Havok, an elite commando of the
GDI, in a scripted campaign. As Major
Havok, i t is your job to perform mis-
sions, such as rescuing civilians, blow-
ing up everything from enemy troops to
vehicles along the way.
Second, you can play Renegade multi-
player online. In this team-based game,
you choose a skin, align yourself with
the GDI or NOD and try to destroy the
other team's base. In the third option,
you a g a i n choose y o u r s k i n a n d
alliance, but this time, you play offline
against bots (computer-controlled char-
acters) for practice. •
Totell the story, Command Et Conquer
uses cinematics rendered with the i n -
game engine. Westwood has a back-
ground filming l i v e actors and this
influence shows, because not only are
the camera angles the type you would guard will run toward
find in live-action dramas (such as in a the shooter, weaving
movie), but the characters move realis- left and right to make
tically, just like real actors. himself harder to hit.
As the game unfolds, you get the Another n e g a t i v e
chance t o operate multiple vehicles, occurs when you die.
including the NOD Buggy and Flame Every time you die in
Tank, as well as the GDI Humnwee and the single player game,
Mammoth Tank. A l l the vehicles are you must wait during
easy to get and operate - you simply an immense r e l o a d our
walk up to one, hop in and use your period, whether y o u
arrow keys and mouse to steer and aim. restart the mission o r
In fact, despite the somewhat cartoon- restart from a loaded
ish, low budget feel o f the game, the game. Even worse, i f
graphics are quite fantastic. The charac- you did not have the
ters are animated beautifully, weapons forethought t o save
offer some nice effects and the vehicles • midway t h r o u g h a
look great. mission, i f you choose
Unfortunately, as w i t h the original to restart, you will do
Command Et Conquer, the enemy artifi- so from the start o f the mission -
cial intelligence (AI) is dumb as a door-
knob. For example, in other first-person
incredibly annoying if you had the mis-
fortune to get yourself killed just before
more 1 N F
Command & Conquer: Renegade T E E N .
shooters, if you snipe one of two guards, the end. 559.99
the other guard w i l l often r u n and The bad news is that the single-player Westwood Studios
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sound an alarm. In this game, however, version o f Command a Conquer:
if you snipe one of a pair of guards, the Renegade is merely a ho-hum first-per- Requirements:
other just stands there as though noth- son shooter. The good news, however, is Windows 98/2060/MEM
Pentium 11-400
ing happened. However, o n the plus that the multiplayer version is so good, 950 MB hard drive space
side, i f a guard is shot from up-close - this is destined to be one o f the best 96 MB RAM
446 MB video card with hardware acceleration
so i t sees the shooter - the surviving games of this year. •

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 InDesign lets you get into design
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By NESTOR GULA Adobe has three distinct DTP products,
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word processors and design software more-or-less the standard package. On a e m

packages also include DTP functionality. personal note, most magazines, includ-
But while even 10 years ago DIP meant ing this one, use Quark for the design d : w s w gt k r , 1 n : I

print this is not the case today. and layout. InDesign is Adobe's entry
Today, publishing means everything into this arena. The first two versions of s t d WI..1 0
r. k f 1 3 I r e 1 0
from print to Web to electronic methods InDesign, 1.0 and 1.5, did not set the
of delivering the message. Very often design world on fire, although many
the need is for the same information to graphic designers admired
appear in different formats. This need is
not exclusive to large corporations or
InDesign's i n t e g r a t i o n
with Adobe's Illustrator
Adobe
high-end business users. Small a n d and Photoshop. These two InDesign 2.0
home-based businesses and even regu- programs, e s p e c i a l l y
lar computer users have the occasional Photoshop, are effectively
need to create the same documents in standards i n the publish-
multiple formats. ing world.
Adobe's InDesign 2 . 0 was released The integration between
near the end of January in a relatively these two programs and
low-key announcement. I t should be InDesign i s enhanced i n get i t ready for print. This is a great
the image first.
noted right away that InDesign is geared this version. You can now chunk of time in our production sched-
InDesign recog-
to be used by the design professional import Photoshop f i l e s ule. InDesign has a table function built
nizes Photoshop
and is not intended for the home user. without having to flatten in. I t imports styled Word and Excel
layers a n d a n y
transparencies in tables, as well as database files, strips
them. T h i s , i n them of unnecessary and confusing for-
( S TO R E H O U R S : M O N - F R I 1 0 7 P M , S AT 1 0 - 5 P M ) turn, allows the designer great leeway in matting and puts them into a table that
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 Since i t s inception, InDesign has ability to save document's in many for- Adobe's Web design program GoLive. and has much more power and flexibil-
always had great typography tools. The mats. It will export a file to PDF (either No only is InDesign able t o save i n ity than any other DTP program I have
Paragraph Composition tool allows the Acrobat 4 o r 5) format, HTML docu- many formats but it will also open and ever used. However i t also requires a
reflowing of text to adjust the spacing ment, Postscript file, SVG (Scalable import documents from many sources. fairly state of the art computer to run it.
to get an even look for the text. Version Vector Graphic) and X M L (eXtended It will import most PDF documents and Incidentally, I tested it on a Mac iBook
2.0 has expanded support for OpenType Markup Language) document. The latter will open PageMaker 6.5 and 7.0 docu- running OSX and a Dell Dimension
fonts and even includes some o f these is the way publishing is perceived to be ments as well as documents created by 4300 with a 1.4 GHz processor.
fonts (Adobe Caslon P r o , A d o b e moving. X M L allows the tagging o f Quark XPress 3.3 and 4.1x. The latter is Unfortunately, InDesign w i l l not be
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a By SEAN CARRUTHERS
Are you resigned to the fact that your
notebook computer's audio isn't very
good, and that you'll never be able to
use it to play all your MP3 files at your
upcoming party? Upset that your home
PC has lousy onboard audio and no
slots available for a new and improved
sound card? Well, Creative Labs may
have just the deal for you!
Already famous for its SoundBlaster
line o f audio cards, Creative Labs
recently announced the Audigy series of
internal cards. The cards improved on
the multi-channel sound already offered
by the Live! series o f cards, increased
the signal-to-noise ratio to more than
100(113. Now, with the release o f the
Extigy, Creative has brought the same
quality t o your PC o r notebook i n a
design you can plug into a USB port.
Audiotron: MP3 at home
By S E A N CARRUTHERS
If you're a rabid fan of digital audio,
there comes a lioint when you have so
many MP3s that you want to start lis-
tening to them at home as well as on the
road. You've put the effort into collect-
ing them and ripping them, but you can
only upload so many to the portable
player, so why aren't you taking advan-
tage of that library?
For a lot of people, it's probably that
they don't want to sit in front of the PC
every time the urge to listen to music
strikes. Turtle Beach recognized that
quite some time ago--it introduced the
Audiotron home MP3 appliance back in
2000, and it's been going strong ever
since. It's designed like a home audio
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The Extigy looks like a little home
audio component, b u t substantially
using i t w i t h a notebook, b e fore-
warned: It's not necessarily as portable
as you'd want. It's better to leave the
smaller. It adds two optical connectors,
jacks for line in, microphone and head- Extigy and speakers o n the desktop
phone, MIDI in/out and SPDIF in. The when you take your notebook on the
box i s designed f o r use with a 5.1 road and re-hook when you return. nection on your computer. It requires a
speaker set, which is great for gaming or How does i t sound? Well, pretty processor running at least 350MHz, but
for DVD movie playback. The Extigy darned good. We tested i t o u t w i t h you'll probably want something faster if
also comes with a remote control, so Creative's Inspire 5300 5.1 speaker set, you w a n t maximum performance.
you can change tracks or adjust the vol- and the audio quality was excellent. The Minimum m e m o r y requirement i s
ume from across the room. USB 1.1 connection did an excellent job 128MB, though you can squeak by with
Even though it's smaller than a home of getting the data to the Extigy without only 64MB on a Windows 98SE system.
audio component (like an amp or cas- deterioration, and the only problem we As always, we'd recommend higher
sette deck, for example), it's still going had was with digital audio extraction specs for trouble-free performance.*
to take up some space on your desktop. from the CD player on our notebook.
Though a bracket is provided for setting (As with any other computer product,
the Extigy on the desktop vertically,
there will also be a bit of a wire tangle
you have to make sure all the rest o f
your components are up t o snuff to
more I N F O
SoundBlaster Extigy
with the power cord and the connection ensure proper operation). From: Creative Labs
to y o u r desktop and speaker set. I f The E x t i g y i s compatible w i t h httf://www.soundblasteccom
Estimated price: $250
you're adding it to a desktop PC, that's Windows 98SE, 2000, ME and XP, and
not necessarily an issue, but i f you are obviously; you'll need a USE 1.1 con-
component for a reason: It's supposed to you're concerned about security, t h e
be hooked up to your home stereo sys- Audiotron supports passwording, so you
tem so that you can enjoy your MP3 can keep out people that shouldn't be in
collection in the same place you enjoy your shared files. er currently features Shoutcast, Icecast
your CDs and records. You can hook the One thing that's been added, since the and Windows Media streams). You can
Audiotron to your home system using introduction of the Audiotron is support access these streams even when your PC
standard RCA connectors or you can use for streaming audio, allowing users to is shut down, as long as your home net-
the SPDIF digital output i f your stereo tune in to select Internet radio stations. work is still able to access the Internet.
supports it. A remote control is includ- (Those of you who got the first edition It all adds up to an excellent way to
ed. can f i n d a R O M update f o r t h e bring digital audio capabilities to your
To get the Audiotron to work, you Audiotron a t t h e Turtle Beach site, traditional home entertainment center.*
will need to connect it to at least one PC which will add this function.) You man-
that's powered on and contains a shared age your radio stations using a Web
directory f i l l e d w i t h a u d i o files. T h e interface f r o m y o u r PC, a n d t h e
Audiotron hooks to your home network Audidtron will pull down all relevant I N F
via 10/100 Ethernet or HomePNA tele- data from the Turtle Radio server. You Turtle Beach Audiotron
phone networking a n d w i l l c r a w l can choose from a number o f stations From: Voyetra Turtle Beach
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 It's not the big stuff...
Now, I have to emphasize that the fellow
who made this comment isn't your stan-
dard-issue, backward-looking Luddite.
He's well-educated and professionally
employed (an engineer, no less), and lives
in the middle of the big city. He's bright,
personable and up t o speed on what's
going on in the world. And he's not some-
one who just makes noises — he means
On a long ride with my cycling club last what he says and says what he means.
summer, the conversation turned to com- OK, I thought, this deserves a response.
puters. (We're talking a 600-km, 39-hour And w h o better t o o ff e r one t h a n
ride here, so there was a lot of time to me?Trouble was, I ' d been cycling f o r
talk) about 10 straight hours at that point, and
The subject matter was pretty general, my brain wasn't working a t its usual
mostly to-ing and fro-ing about how expansive, lightning-speed, cognitive best.
much better communication had become The only answer I could come up with
among club members now that we had a was to suggest that, if nothing else, bank-
club Web site and mailing list (wwarandon- ing was easier than it used to be in the
neursontario.ca, for those who are interest- dark old days. Remember standing i n
.ed). I was mostly listening intently, curi- those awful lineups at your local bank
ous about what everyone was saying. It branch, I asked? Remernber trying to find
caught me b y surprise when one club a time to visit the branch that was within
member opined that he didn't think com- "banker's hours"? Remember those weird
puters really made life easier for anyone. little passbooks, where all the vital infor-
It was a pretty bold statement, so I felt mation about y o u r meagre savings
obliged to follow it up. appeared i n smudged, indecipherable
"No improvement at all?" I asked. print? Isn't the world a much more effi-
"Nope," came the reply. "They've just cient and pleasant place, I asked, because
made life a lot more complicated." of the wonders of online banking?
"Nah," said my cycling friend. "It's as
bad as all the other computer technolo-
gies. Always screws me up. Never know
where I stand."
I was dumbfounded. A n d I found I
couldn't come up with any other examples
of the blessedness created by computers.
That's partly because we were approach-
ing a huge hill. Time to buckle down and
let legs and lungs and do the necessary
work.
We never got back to that conversation-
al thread. But I've wondered — and wor-
ried — about it ever since. Computer tech-
nology has changed my life in so many
ways that it staggers me to even think
about what things were like without a PC.
And I constantly wonder at how the world
I live in works so very differently because
of the presence o f computers and their
corollary technologies. Good heavens,
think o f e-mail, i f nothing else! How
about the magic even the numerically-
challenged (such as yours, truly) can do
with a spreadsheet? How about being able
to search the Web for the meaning of a
word, for stock market news, for pictures
of your mother-in-law's cat?
Over time, I realized that I hadn't been
able t o come u p w i t h a compelling
response to my friend's comment because
I'd been looking in the wrong direction.
My mistake was looking for something
big and world-changing. Of course, com-
puters have changed h o w the world
works. Socially, economically and politi-
cally, the lives of the world's citizens have
been radically affected by the advent and
use o f the computer. B u t where the
changes really matter, I think, are in the
small differences, not the big ones.
A senior citizen doesn't have to venture
out into a Winnipeg winter to do her
banking. Rabid cycling fans i n Canada
can follow the action o f a road race in
Spain in real time. New parents in Toronto
can e-mail photos of the recent arrival to
the folks in Nova Scotia. People connect
with other people, share thoughts and
feelings, make plans and simply continue
doing what they've always done. But it's
all a little faster, a little easier and there-
fore a little more satisfying.
I plan to convince my friend of this on
one of this season's long rides.
Alan Thwaits, a TC! Contributing Editor, is a freelance jour-
nalist who writes about computer, communications, and
business technologies. He can be reached at praxis@path-
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PDA-based office environment
Linfield's
Line
My Palm PDA-based office is almost
complete! W i t h the addition o f some
carefully chosen accessories, I have
taken m y personal digital assistant
(PDA) to the next level. N o t only do I
write most of my articles on my Palm, I
also research information o n t h e
Internet, print a large variety o f data,
take meeting notes, keep my company's
client database up-to-date and even
play a wide assortment of games. Just
a PDA? Ha! I n many cases, these tiny
handheld devices can replace a note-
book computer. A l t h o u g h I've joined
the Palm bandwagon, note that equiva-
lent devices for Windows PocketPCs are
also available.
Keyboard
Although you can input data manual-
ly with your stylus, in reality -the most
important addition to a PDA for enter-
ing large amounts of data is a keyboard.
There are many different types of key-
boards available and I discovered that
none offer me everything I want. S o I
ended up purchasing both Landware's _
GoType! P r o (www.landware.com) a n d
Palm's own folding Portable Keyboard.
(vwvw.palm.com). Each has their advan-
tages and disadvantages.
The GoType Pro! is better for situa-
tions where I need to HotSync (as it has
a built-in cradle) or if I want to type on
a soft surface such as my lap. The Palm
Keyboard is better in situations where I
will be working at a desk or another flat
surface for a while.
Both allow me to easily enter data into •
my word processor, spreadsheet, or the
multitude o f other applications I have
installed.
Note that even with the keyboard you
still often have to use the stylus.
Modem from your PDA? I recently bought
Although just about any modem can SiPix's Pocket Printer (www.sipix.com),
be connected to a PDA with the proper which supports printing via the Palm's
adapter, I bought Palm's own 33.3Kbps infrared port (or the serial port o f any
modem (vvww.palm.com). notebook computer).
Securely attaching to the bottom o f Although i t only prints on A6 paper
my PDA, I feel it offers the best and eas- (approximately 1/4 the size of a regular
iest method to send and receive e-mail sheet) it allows me to print my address-
and for general Web browsing. I t uses es, ToDo lists, notes and articles wher-
its own batteries and I have had no dif- ever I go.
ficulties connecting t o m y Internet Note that not all Palm applications
Service Provider (ISP) throughout support t h i s p r i n t e r b y d e f a u l t ,
Canada. U s i n g the freeware Eudora although there are commercial device
Internet Suite, I am able to text-mode drivers f o r many common business
browse t h e Internet a n d send a n d applications: Having the printer is also
receive e-mail. AvantGo keeps me u p - great f o r sharing information w i t h
to-date with information customized for coworkers when you are on business
viewing on my PDA, and Yan off lets-me trips, although be warned that it is not
access Usenet newsgroups. A n d note something t h a t can produce quality
that although I utilize e-mail, commer- output for clients.
cial fax software is available should my
needs change. Dual mode pens
When going back and forth between
Printer Palm and paper, it can be a pain switch-
Since every, office needs a printer, ing pen and stylus.
wouldn't i t be great to print directly There are many dual mode pens and

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It's no coincidence that Apple's most
recent computers are built around pow-
erful graphics machines, futuristic flat
screens and space-age industrial design.
After a l l , A p p l e introduced t h e
Macintosh, the world's first multimedia
computer, over 18 years ago. Perhaps
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"multimedia" machine at the time, but
we all knew the Mac's graphical user
interface was very different from the
command l i n e codes t h a t propelled
other computers in the market.
Only recently, however, has Apple
truly realized what it has on its hands.
Rather than a powerful computer that
can write your memos, access your e -
mail, crunch your budgets and perform
other, well, computer-related tasks, the
Mac has finally come into its own as a
hub of a new digital lifestyle. As we say
in marketing, this is a significant para-
digm shift.
Now, I ' m n o t knocking traditional
computer applications such as word
processing, e-mail o r spreadsheets. In
fact, I spend about 10 hours a day work-
ing w i t h these three very comput-
eresque applications. But Apple's new
positioning has really got me thinking
about how we use computers — and
how we will use them in the future.
Rather than typing numbers or words
into a keyboard so we can later print
them out on pulped, bleached pieces of
trees, we'll be relying a l o t more on
speech recognition to capture informa-
tion and flat screens to display it — and
reserve printing f o r important keep-
sakes.
Thus, the new iMac really grabbed my
attention. Not only is its outward design
very cool, and thus, likely to capture the
imagination o f millions o f people, i t
also has been built from the ground up
to be the centerpiece o f Apple's new
digital lifestyle metaphor. The iMac
comes bundled with a slew of software
applications such as iMovie 2 (for entry
level m o v i e production), i D V D 2
(Apple's DVD-R creation application),
iTunes 2 (MP3 music playback) and
iPhoto (digital photography storage and
organization).
Without much fanfare, Apple is mov-
ing from a traditional computer compa-
ny into something much more. I t is
moving into the future. This may sound
a trifle corny, but I think Apple is real-
ly onto the fact that Canadians are a
nation of electronic gadget lovers.
Digital lifestyle epiphany
But my digital lifestyle epiphany came
a few weeks ago when I was chatting
with two folks from Apple about iPhoto.
With its simple but elegant interface,
iPhoto makes it easy to import, edit and
print digital photos, as well as organize
and manage an entire photo collection
containing thousands o f pictures.
Perhaps the best news o f all i s that
iPhoto is available as a free download
from Apple's Web site.
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accompanied by your favourite music;
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order a custom-printed, linen-covered
hard bound book of your photos online!
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By MARA GULENS mation o n k i d s ' CD-ROMs.
They'll tell you the truth, espe-
Somehow evaluating children's books cially i f they think they sunk
seems so much easier. Aphorisms aside: money, and even more so i f
If the cover's off, that's often reason they know they scored.
Picture -
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the text. Then either buy, borrow, even Companies are realizing it's www.childrenssoftware.com/forum)
return i f necessary. worth giving players a chance where you can read what other
If it were only so easy with children's to see what their product i s kids and parents have to say.
skkek.m.
software! Not only are we forbidden to about and I suspect this will An excellent Canadian source is
crack open the package, we can't even become more popular w i t h www.learningvillage.com.
try it out, not to mention return it. Since time. Go to Learningco.com to see
a CD-ROM doesn't stand a chance in what you can do with Kid Pix Have the kids try it
heaven without a great cover, judging Deluxe. B e t t e r y e t , g o t o I f someone owns a great
according to looks isn't a good idea, vwvakidpix.com a n d try out an game you're considering buy-
either. online version. ing, try it out!
So how does one choose children's Penney imagines an even more excit- demos show you the best (fortunately, My sister-in-law was con-
software? Here are my tips, along with ing scenario, where producers would they can't show anything better!). If you vinced a game I was reviewing would be
some additional insight from Jennifer allow kids t o t r y o u t titles f o r free don't like what you see, move on. perfect for her six-year-old son. After
Penney, manager of The CD-ROM Store. online. I n this way, "parents would ten minutes, it was clear the game was
know whether the title actually engages Read reviews waaaaay too scary for this individual.
Talk to friends their kids to, f o r example, save the Besides t h e reviews i n Toronto
People who know I review kids' soft- world by solving -math problems. This Computes!, there are gazillions o f oth- Things to look out for:
ware will often ask what I recommend. would also h e l p parents determine ers. Just beware who sponsors them, 1. Age and skill appropriate.
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Your three-year-old daughter? Yo u r fact run on their home computer," she everything with a grain o f salt. With four-year age group, such as two to six
ten-year-old son? It makes a difference. says. time you'll learn whom to trust. or eight to 12, and most often they're on
Friends are the best source o f infor- Like movie trailers, computer game There are even forums (for example, continued on page 67

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By MARA GULENS
Sometimes game developers forget
what their target group i s a l l about.
Take pre-schoolers. No, they're not mas-
ter readers and writers. Yes, they like
their actions to yield quick results.
Disney's Rolie Polie Olie: The Search
for Spot gets high marks for catering to
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Rohe gets bonus points for a quick
introduction that pulls players right into
the game — sans sign-in. About time!
This definitely makes life easier for the
two- and three-year-olds I know. On the
other hand, this means the game can't
be saved, so that each time kids play,
they have to start from scratch. This
may lead t o questions like, "Didn't I
clean u p that room
last time?" o r "How
come t h e fridge i s
tipped over again?"
Once i n O l i e ' s
house, a brief intro-
duction lays out the
goal o f t h e game:
Find Spot. Now kids
can start clicking, and
Rolfe Polie Olie is a
clicker's p a r a d i s e .
Click on a lamp and it
turns off; click on the
toaster and bread flies
out; c l i c k o n t h e
fridge, the door opens
—more clicks and you
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hard t o tell where that w i l l be. For line in order to create a goofy
example, in the living room you click vehicle. K i d s have t o
on an object, Telly, to play a game; in imagine what a table
the kitchen you click on Olie's sister. looks l i k e tipped
While the movies are short and fun, sideways
they interrupt clicking because y o u
Or
can't click while in movie-mode.
This i s h a r d because w h o
wants to stop and wait while
you're having so much fun?
Unlike other popular kids'
games, this house has a layout
that makes sense — so kids should
be able to make their way around
without getting lost. I n each
room they have to right a piece of
furniture that Spot has lcnocked
over and then play a game.
Ah, the games. Somehow they
bring to mind a group of develop-
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time maybe they should look to
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or what a shower curtain looks like as
it blows in the wind. All that just to
create a spaceship from a sofa, lamp
and, garbage can! You may also tire of
Olie's "waytago," a n d "you're t h e
bestest" — but there's no way to mute
the sound.
I-- Canister Can-Can is a fairly complex
music-making program, found (but
not so easily) in the kitchen. The can-
0 0isters neatly represent musical notes,
and you can click on the tap and ket-
tle for extra sounds — but i t won't
keep kids occupied for long.
Crayon Crisscross i s perhaps t h e
most fun, basically because it's based
on something kids know from the real
world - colouring. Kids have to grab
crayons that move over the screen —
and then click on the circle they want
coloured. As the levels o f difficulty
increase, kids can even start mixing
colours — a great thing to experience
and learn at this age.
Only after kids have made their way
through all the rooms can they go to
the bathroom to play Scuba Splash —
the weirdest game of all. With bouncy
music and a weird theme, it somehow
seems, like it's here just because there
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Pappy is preparing the bath for Spot,
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Like clothing, make sure programs can
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on the situation, i.e. number of children
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