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Revenge on the nerdsOne of the major goals assigned to computershas been to reduce work and allow us to dothings more quickly and efficiently. All toooften, this doesn't happen.

Doing something on a computer oftentakes longer than doing things the old way.Technology has many unintended conse-quences. I have been reading a very interest-ing book that looks at why so botanytech-nologies, including comput-ers, end up backfiring on us.In Why Things Bite Back:Technology and the Revenge ofUnintended Consequences (pub-lished by Knopf), authorEdward Tenner calls this phe-nomena "revenge effects"-the unintended, ironic conse-quences of the mechanical,biological and medical formsof ingenuity that our societyis currently enthralled with.

Spine tingling experiencesIn one chapter, Tenner deals with revenge uponthe body. What had promised to make workeffortless and painless, unexpectedly attackedoffice workers' muscles, tendons and vertebrae.

He writes "Office workers turn out to be atsurprisingly high risk for back pain, even ifthey lift nothing weightier than the odd reamof paper. There are 40 times more back paincases among office workers than cumulativetrauma disorders. The Western style ofsittingmay be less healthy than the floor level livingthat prevails or once prevailed in Asia and theMiddle East. Sitting on (a chair), as opposedto standing or walking puts dangerous stress-es on the spine...,What makes the chair-bound life so hazardous — like the origin ofother chronic conditions — is elusive. Part ofthe answer is negative. A person who sits allday and gets no other regular exerdse is morelikely to suffer back muscle disorders when atlast doing something strenuous: the 'weekendwarrior syndrome.'"

This certainly matches my own experi-ence. I work in the office four days a week andspend one day working from my home, I findI can focus on longer term projects when Idon't get interrupted by all the events of theoffice. The down side of staying home is thatI often sit for hours in my chair and my backgets very sore. At the office, I am up anddown all day, talking to people in otheroffices, going to meetings, going out forlunch, etc. At home, I can plow through morework, but the cost is a sore back. My solutionis to get up and move every half hour to anhour, and to do regular stretches.

Revenge samplerThe book got me thinking of other examplesI have seen recently of this revenge effect.Some recent examples that I think of are:• Many people have had the experience of

setting out to do something simple likemake a birthday card for a friend or rela-tive on their computer, only io find them-selves struggling with it hours later. Wouldit not have been simpler just to go arid buya card from the racks of existing cards on

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greefing card store shelves?The World Wide Web was supposed tomake access to information instantaneousand easy for university and research pro-fessionals. It was such a great concept thathuge numbers of people took to the wires.Now, it is increasingly difficult to findimportant things because of the sheer vol-ume of information. Doing a search onAitaVista results in thousands of entries

being returned, which taketoo long to wade through. Ontop of th is, search resultsoverload, the v o lume o fInternet users has grown to

researchers and universitypeople are setting up theirown pr i v ate net w ork,

• Databases are wonderfulorganizing tools but, moreoften than I like, I find myselfin a situation of having to

import data that doesn't quite fit into adatabase. I then turn to my word processorand spreadsheet to edit the data. I can seea way to automate the changes by writingmacros. The problem is that setting up themacro for this one-time data manipula-tion chore often exceeds the amount oftime it would take to do the job by cuttingand pasting manually.Printing companies are racing to installdirect-to-plate technology to speed print- - '

ing, improve quality and eliminate errorsin the printing process. Installing this new-equipment costs hundreds of thousandsand even milfions of dollars, which mustbe amortized. They set up new electronicpublishing divisions as cost centres thatare supposed to pay for themselves, andeven make money. This adds a significantnew layer of cost for publishers and cus-tomers, who then decide to go back todoing things the old way, because themechanical camera method of the pasthas long been paid for by the printer andis now the low-cost option,

Reading Why Things Bite Back oftenbrought a wry smile of recognition to myface, because of the ironic outcomes of manyof the technologies. However, the book is notultimately fatalistic. The author is trying tocome to terms with the patterns of our ownfailures and develop strategies to anticipateand perhaps avoid these unfortunate conse-quences. In general, he seems to be advocat-ing that simpler is often better. Definitelyworth a read if you are looking at the big pic-ture of technology and its impact on wherewe are going.

Avenge yoatrselfI would be interested in other revenge effectsyou have come across. Email them toeditorial@tcp.ca or fax them to 604-688-4680.

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A taxing burden ln QuebecI enjoy reading TCP and appreciate itsCanadian perspective. I was anxious to seethis year's review of tax preparation softwaresince I am particularly interested in this area(as an individual Quebec taxpayer).

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More on AppleRe: Letters, February '97, I'm sympatheticwith Gary Carlos position that "the majorityisn't always right, but it's always popular."There's no doubt that i f you hop on theWintel express you' ll have no shortage ofhardware or software. However, you' ll haveno choice either. If it ain't Windows, it's noth-ing — well, not quite. The one thing about acomputer i ndustry w i t h A p p le, A tari,Commodore, AND the MS-DOS clones — ithad diversity and innovation. If Intel andMicrosoft take over personal computing,you' ll have one choice and Bill Gates willmake it for you. I don't mind Billy, I just thinkhe could use a little competition.

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Long live Mac clonesThe decision by Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio tobuy NeXT Software Inc. is the last nail inApple's coffin.

A look back at mainstream operating sys-tems provides the reason. It took Microsoftyears and $100 million to convince users toswitch over from DOS. IBM spent severalyears and billions developing OSi2 for it tobecome a niche OS — and IBM has pulledplans to port i t to i ts own processor, thePowerPC! Apple has spent years and hun-dreds of millions of dollars trying to upgradeSystem 7 only to give up and buy NeXT.

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Finally, the Macintosh market will be runby manufactures who understand the marketand will work to bring it back to prominence.Apple is dead! Long live the clones.

Jon Firth, via email

Where the SuperScrlpt?I enjoy reading your paper every month.However, it was disappointing to see that youdid not review the NEC Superscript 860 print-er as part of your review of budget printers inthe March '97 issue. The NEC 860 is a true600 dpi printer with print speeds of eightpages per minute. It has a straight paper pathalong with a number of other features, freesoftware and anovernightreplacement war-ranty. It sells for approximately $640. I havebeen using one for a few months without anycomplaints whatsoever.

Amritpal Shergill, Surrey, B,C.

DT replies: As a general nde, we invite all majormanufactrrrers to sIIbmit proCIrcts for review.

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ISDN lines.

access to a ininute of ISDN access.

Products don't make itin for a number of masons:the mamifacrnrer may not have a unit availablefor us at the right time, or may be in the middleof a model change and not have a new modelavailable or they muy simply choose nor to par-ticipate for reasons of their own.

ISDN clarlncatlon offeredISDN Internet access is a relatively new con-cept for most British Columbians. I beUevethat the media and ISPs have a responsibilityto make sure the public is properly informedabout the service and their options. The fol-lowing presents some clarifications and rebut-tals to the points make about ISDN in theFebruary "Letter from the Editor."

Our customers mininuze their costs withthe right equipment and by managing theirusage. ISDN connects within 1,500 milUsec-onds (1,5 seconds) and disconnects whenthere is no activity so there is little need for acontinuous connection. The benefit ofniatching usage to activity far outweighs thecost of a continuous connection, even for cus-tomers using ISDN to connect their own mail,Web or other Internet server. In fact, peoplewith continueus connections should expecttheir monthly ISDN line charges to increasesignificantly when BC Tel begins charging forbusiness usage as they now do on residential

Investing in a router and managing yourInternet access wiU dramatically reducemonthly usage like yours well below the 100to 200 hours a month used in your businesscase. It is a common mistake to over esthnateISDN usage bycomparing aminute of analog

Thinking ISDN means thinking digital.Digital behaves quite differently than analog.ISDN throughput reaches 128Kbps when datarequirements demand it and disconnects ifthere is no activity. We move dients on andoff the network as quickly as possible using a30 second "no-activity timewut." Your set-upof rive-minute timewuts is unnecessarilylong. Why spend five to seven minutes read-ing an interesting Web page with your lineup, when yeu can read it off-line and instant-ly reconnect when you want to move one' Yousave online time as there is no need to keepan open connection fer convenience, Also,

you do net use up time if distracted and for-get to close your connection,

A typical business customer uses 3.3 hoursof 64Kbps access a day (1.65 hours of 128Kbpsaccess} with 170 logins and averages 12 min-utes per login while a teleworker uses far lesstime. Your kids may spend the same amountof time using the Internet but their timeonline should decrease. However, many hoursspent playing enline games or visiting highlyinteractive Web sites can potentially eat uptime and home4ased consumers should be

aware of this.Your ISDN connection should be f ive

times faster than 28.8 analog access, Whenchoosing an 5DN provider it is important toconfirm you are not losing speed if your ser-vice is bundled with their other Internet traf-fic. Achieving 128Kbps access reduces yourtime online and eliminates lost productivitycommen with analog connections.

A high-quality router now costs $1,000instead of the $1,300 you quoted. This is still$500 mere than an ISDN modem, but we rec-

so you never have to make a mental one.

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As you mentioned, a router allows you tohave a 6xed IP address, giving you a path toand from the Internet. Our customers j

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often manage their own Internet services(e.g., Web, ftp and mail) and use telephonyand vide~onferencing applications. A fixedIP address also lets you run an online applica-tion and have the results sent to you withouthaving to stay online until the application isfinished, perhaps hours later.

Businesses use more ways to minimizeusage such as running their own domainname server for local look-ups or establishingan email server. Employees check their own

local server for mail instead of a remote serv-er. Further savings are achieved by having themail server send queued messages at regularintervals rather than randomly by individual

Please visit our ISDN Web site and browseour ISBN Frequently Asked Questions athttpl/www.sohoskyway.net for more informationon the benefits of ISDN.

On another matter, I was also disappoint-ed to find SOHO Skyway missing from the

February 97 edition of the ISP List. We are oneof the first BC ISPs to specialize in ISDNInternet access.

We and most other BC ISPs are listed atthe BC Internet Associations Web page(http: //www.bc}a,bc.ca) and the Dennis D. BergList o f IS Ps fo r Bri t ish C o lumbia(http//www.u)tranet.ca/-dberg/}.

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''The Brainium takes students beyond thewalls of the dassroom to explore a world ofconstantly evolving science information,where enthusiasm for learning is fostered andencouraged for teachers and students alike,"Hui says.

The Brainium Web site consists of threeparts:

the Science Magazine, which indudesprofiles of individuals working in variousscience fields (students can communicatewith those profiled and ask them abouttheir jobs and interests), games, sdencenews, Internet links and fonuns;

lenges of the next millennium, BritishColumbia and MultiActive Technologies

are heeding the words of Canadian Nobel lau-reate Michael Smith: "Make science fun."

The province has licensed The Brainium-an online interactive science tool aimed atGrade 4 to 8 students and based on provincial

the Bug Zone, which is an episodic seriesfeatunng a cast of animated bugs — led bya pair of surprisingly muscular beetle-likeco~mmanders — who encourage stu-dents to use their sdence knowledge tohelp them in their missions;

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Internet's interactive nature by allowinginput frotn teachexs and students in shapingthe content, according to MultIActive. Anexperiments section also encourages studentsto participate in projects online and helpsteachers facilitate projects with other teachersand dassrooms across the province.

Despite the exdtement surrounding thelaunch, the premier said that "one of thechallenges of the new project is equity," andthat, currently, very few schools in B.C. cantake advantage of all The Brainiurn hag tooffer. Clark said he would like to see Internetaccess extendgxi to public schools at all levelsacross B.C., and to expect an announcementregarding that in the next couple of months.

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Cool worlxfs ln%D with geyce 2for 14T • With therelease ofMetatool's Bxyce 2for Wind o ws95/NT, one of theniftiest g raphicsprograms on themarket is back, andit's even niftier. This32-bit program is a3D modeling and

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home's exisbng wiring. Home Director featuresindude:• Routine, which controls multiple lights and

appliances;• Dusk and Dawn, which sets lights to turn off

and on at chosen times;• Lifestyle, in which the program "learns" how

lights and appliances are used and thenreplays the patternto make it look like some-one's home;

• and Wake up on Ring, which activates thecomputer at scheduled times to perform aHome Director task after which it shuts itselfdowxl.

Prices for an Aptlva C with the Home Directoroption and a 15-inch monitor start at $3,799.

IBM has also introduced the Aptiva E series, alower-cost alternative to the Apbva C and 5 linesalready on the market.

The Aptiva E models use Pentium or"Pentium-dass" processors and are multimedia-ready. Prices range fromm $2,399 to $2,999,induding monitor and a software bundle.— DT

Contact: IBM, Tel: 800<65-7999

gtaewoo Introduces new multlmeelle moni-tors i Daewoo Electronics Canada has intro-duced two new multimedia monitors that includehigh-quality powered dome stereo speakers, anexternal headphone, and built-in microphone.

Bryce 2 users can create fog, water, rocks, sun- The CMC-17058 is a 17-inch model with a 16.2-light, reflections and clouds to mimic the natural inch diagonal viewing area, a maximumworld or to invent an exotic environment, 1,280x1,024 resolution at 60 Hz, and a,28 mmCreating mountains, valleys and deserts is easy dot pitch, The CMC-1509 is a 15-inch model withwith the powerful terrain sculpting tools, This 1,280x1,024 resolution at 60 Hz, and .28 mm dotnew version, with today's PCs, offers fast preview p i tch. Both monitors incorporate powered domeand rendering. It supports a wide array of 3D file speakers engineered to deliver clear sound andformats, including TrueSpace, Ray Dream, lnfini- low distortion. Suggested prices were not avail-D, 3D Studio Max, DXF/3DMF, and Posaer. able at press time.

System requirements are a fast PC (Pentiumrecommended) with Windows 95 or Windows Contact: Daewao Canada, Tel: 905-4'l5-7290.NT, 24-bit video display (16-bit minimum), 8 MBRAM (16 MB or more is strongly recommended), Co rel releeses Ihfordperfect Suite for DOS •a CD-ROM drive and 50 MB of hard-drive Althoughit'seasyfor Windows softwareuserstospace.— /E forget about DOS, there are millions of PC users

who sbII rely on that operating system environ-Contact MataTools, Tel: 805-566-6200. ment. Corel Corp hasn't forgotten. In February,Web site: http: //www.metatools.corn Carel began shipping Corel WordPerfect Suite for

DOS, a new version of the best-selBng softwareAn Aptlva to rxrn your home • IBM Canada that includes Corel WordPerfect, Corel Quattrohas introduced a Home Director opbon to its Pro and Corel Presentations.Aptiva C series. Home Director is a voicewnabled The new release is in line with Corel's cross-application that allows a user to automate and p latform approach to business computing soft-remotely control home appliances, lighting, etc. ware, which has seen the company continue tothrough optional X-10 modules that work with a develop products compatible with 16-bit and 32-

AST a n nouncesacross-the-hoardprice cuts • AS TCanada hasannounced generalprice reductions to itsentire desktop PC andserver line of betweenseven and 22 percent.

For example, the Bravo LC 5133, a 133 MHzPentium-based desktop PC with 16 MB RAM, anda 2 GB hard drive, dropped in price from $2,030to $1,660 (with a street price of under $1,500).

The reductions reflect the competitive pres-sure on prices in the computer industry in gener-al, as well as the common pattern of price cuts formodels that have been on the market for somemonths.

AST Canada recently daimed to be the num-ber one PC brand among Canadian consumers,despite problems AST has had in the UnitedStates. Korean technology company Samsung,which recently increased its control of AST, hasgiven AST the funding necessary to weather itsfinancial troubles, and has helped guarantee AST'saccess to supplies of critical components.

Contact: AST„Web sile: http://www.astcont

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bit versions of Windows, UNIX, Mac OS, andJava, as well as MS-DOS and PC-DOS. In particu-lar, Corel's policy of continuing to sell and sup-port several versions of its flagship CorelDRAWproduct, to accommodate users of older PCs, hasproven to be very popular.

"Corel has had an ongoing commitment toDOS users, and Corel WordPerfect Suite for DOS isthe first and only suite for DOS users," accordingto Corel president, Michael Cowpland.

Corel WordPerfect Suite f' or DOS wIII beoffered on CD-ROM and floppy diskette, with theCD-ROM version offering a typical wealth ofextras, such as WordPerfect 6.1 for W indows, 200digital stock photos, 125 fonts and 10,000 ciipartpictures. As well, the package will includeCore5hell 4.0c for DOS, a program integrator thatallows users to create menus of programs andcomxuands. Users can switch between programswithout having to quit one and load another — akind of DOS simulation of multitashng. As weII,the Stairv/ay Software ScreenExtender and MergeMaster improve screen display and databasetranslation and ruerging, respectively. Alsoinduded are utiBties for converting files, launch-ing programs, and creating custom printer drives.

System requirements are a 3&6 processor orbetter, 520KB of RAM, DOS 3.1x or higher, 45 MBof hard-drive space, EGA or VGA graphics, and a3.5-inch floppy or a CD-ROM dxive. The suite ispriced at US$495 (US$149 to upgrade).— /E

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Apple unveils Incre-mental o peretlngsystem str a tegywith Mac 0$7.6 •After years of slowprogress, Apple hasbegun to move morequickly with its devel-opment of improved

versions of its Mac OS. On January 7, at theMac World/Expo in San F rancisco, Appleannounced its plans to deliver enhanced versionsof its operating system to the Mac user base on aregular, semi-annual basis.

"Apple is committed to delivering to its cus-tomers advanced operabng system capabilitiesand features on a scheduled and timely basis. Thisapproach will help customers [keep] pace with therapid technological changes taking place today,"according to Ellen Hancock, Apple's chief tech-nology officer and vice-president of research anddevelopment.

The company has been widely criticized, bothby end users and industry analysts, for lengthydelays in bringing out the next-generation"Copland version of the Mac OS, while arch-competitor Microsoft raced ahead with new ver-sions of Windows and Windows NT, inspiringhosts of third-party developers to create advancednew software apphcations for the Windows plat-form, while the Mac platform shrank in market

An advance copy of Mac OS 7.6 amved at TheCoxxiputer Papei's offices in mid-February, and atfirst glance, while the user interface retains theMac's classic appearance, a number of significantareas of improvement, and many new capabili-ties, were apparent.

In particular, Mac OS 7.6 aims to providemaximum integration with the Internet and theWeb by induding the latest versions of the AppleInternet Connection Kit 1.1.1, OpenDoc 1.1.1,Open Transport 1.1.1, Open Transport PPP,TCP/IP 1.1, Apple Remote Access Client 2.1, andCyberdog. Also induded is the Mac version ofNetscape Navigator and Claris Emailer lite.

Apple claims that all the performance andreliabiffty enhancements of the System 7.5.SUpdate have been incorporated or improved,including QuickDraw GX1.1.5, Energy Saver2.0.3, and new versions of Laser Writer, DesktopPrinting, Installer, Finder, Extensions Managerutilities, and multimedia features, includingQuickTime Media Layer (QTML), Text-to4peech1.5, and QuickDraw 3D 1.6.

Mac OS 7.6 was scheduled to begin shippingin Canada on Feb. 25, and is priced at $129 (forthe CD version).— JE

Mac-to-PC compatibility enhancements lnMac OS 7.6 • Continuing the Apple policy ofmaking the Mac easier to use in a

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multi-platform environment, OS 7.6 includesenhanced PC Exchange 2.1.1, support forWindows 95 DMF format for storage devices suchas Sanestcartridges, and enhanced Ne filters viaData Viz MacLink Plus 8.1.

The CD-ROM version of Mac OS 7A consists 'of two discs; one for the operating system, andthe other for the Internet Connection Kit, plustwo Disk Tools floppies. (An 8114loppy disketteversion — especially necessary for the manyPowerBook users without CD-ROM dril lsavailable for $159.) Owners of older model Macsshould be aware that some of the elements of thenew OS are Power Mac-only compatible.However, Mac OS 7.6 should run on all compati-ble systems with 68030 or better processors, 8 MBof installed RAM (16 MB is better), an additional

8 MB of installed RAM or virtual memory, plus 70MB of free hard-drive space. The upgrade price ofthe new OS for cunent users is $99.— JE

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Thanks fov the rneznery e Microsoft Canadaand Kingston Memory Products are running aspedal promotion where users of Microsoft soft-ware can buy 32 MB of RAM from Kingston for$268.

The offer began'Feb, 24 and is good until May31. It applies only to standard RAM modules fordesktop PCs and excludes parity memory, KCCmemory and other specialized types of memory.

The offer does not indude memory for portablecomputers.— DT

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That old Apple Geng o' mine: afteg Stevecoznes "the Wssx" e Only weeks after Appleenthusiasts digested the news that Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, had joined the exec-utive committee advising Apple chief executiveofficer, GII Amelio, news came on Feb. 5 that theother co-founder of the company, Steve Wozniak,would join his old friend Jobs on the committee.

While Jobs never lost his high profile — rang-

ing from his very public ouster from Apple,through his adventures with the NeXT computer,NeXTStep operating system, and PIXAR anhna-tion company — Womiak, or "the Woz," as he wasfondly known, had enjoyed a much quieter andless public existence. After leaving Apple, he wasinvolved in a variety of activities, induding amoney losing foray into home automation tech-nology, and an Interest in the educational uses ofcomputer technology. Whae Jobs was known asthe hard driven visionary and relentless pitchmanfor Apple, Woz was the kinder, gentler, fuzziertechnologist in the badi. room, doing much of theobscure but essential product development.

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Contact Apple, Tel: 905-477-5800.Web site: http//www.apple.corn

Many lmoyes, for fesv dollars • Calabasas,Calif.-based Nova Development has announcedthe release of its latest CD-ROM clipart title, ArtExplosion 125,000 Gold Edition for both Mac and

PC platforms. Priced at $69, the Art Explosion alsooffers 23,000 digital photos and I,MQ TrueType

fonts {PastScript formats are alos induded on theMac version), as well as 12S,QQQ bitmapped andvector cbpart hnages. The PC version ships on 10discs, and the Mac version on 13. Nova says anon-screen image browser is included, along withan 850-page image catalog. Images are organizedinto categories, such as Maps, Computers,Animah, and Business and Office.— jE

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Hellseo sssrvey says half of Canadian homeshave pCs + MARKHAM, Ont. {NB) — According toa new survey by AC Neilsen Co. of Canada Ltd.,haM the homes in Canada now contain personalcomputers. The figure is up three percentagepoints from 199S's figure, the market researchmmpany said,

Darrel Ryce, a senior analyst at ACNellsen,says the figures are based on responses from 6,800households across Canada in 1996, and that theresults produced by such a sample are accuratewithin one to two percent.

He said the survey questionnaire dearly spec-ified that respondents should not indude com-

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puters brought home from work or machinesdesigned mainly for playing games, such asNintendo and Sega sets, so the number shouldreflect only real personal computers actuallyowned by households.

The Bgures do include computers that areused for home-based businesses, Ryce said.

Neilsen has mnducted the survey for ttueeyears now, and the results show a gradual andsteady increase in PC ownership, from 44 peKent in1994 to 47 percent in 199S, and 50 percent in 1996.

The survey also found that 38 percent ofhouse-holds are planning to buy personal computerssome time in the future, and 40 percent of those donot cunently have PCs. That means that about 15percent of all Canadian households do not current-ly have computers but are thinking of buyingthem. Ryce said many of those surveyed were notsure when they would make the purchases.

Neilsen found that the Toronto area has thehighest PC penetration, at 60.7 percent, and theprovince of Quebec, excluding Montreal, the low-est. The survey also found that 58 percent ofhome computers have fax capabi)ities, but onlyhalf the owners of those PCs use the fax fea-tures.— Grant Buckle

Intel demos 460 MHx processor • At theinternational Solid State Chcuits Conference inSan Fransism in early February, Intel Corporationdemonstrated a P6-based microprocessor whichoperates at 400 MHz. The processor contains 7.5million transistors, and was made using Intel's0.35 micron process. The company says it is thesame process used to make the majority of intelprocessors today.— DT

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ClarlsWovhs for lt-S • Cl aris Corp. hasannounced a new version of ClarisWorks that isahned at the Kindergarten to Grade 5 age group.Called ClarisWorks for Kids, the applicationincorporates writing, painting, and graphingmodules, according to the company.

The program includes templates that tie intotypical school activities like designing a schoolnewsletter or building a lunch nutrition counter.The program will also inchide dipart, and videoand sound Bles to allow children to build graphs„sRde shows, etc. Oaris says several educationalcontent providers will be supporting ClarisWorksfor Kids with learningmaterial.

The IBes will be compatible with ClarisWorks4.0. Claris says the product is scheduled to shipthe Mac platform this summer, and for Windows95 later this year.— DT

Contact Ciaris, Tel: 800-361-6075.Web site: http Jtwww.claiis.corn/k12

Coral offers softvvase suite to SchoolNetsubscribers • OTTAWA (NB)-Corel Corp. isoffering evaluation copies of its WordPeifect Suite7 software td all schools and libiaries registeredon SchoolNet, an educational network set up bythe Canadian government.

The suite indudes the WordPerfect wordpnxesmr, Quattio spreadsheet, Coal Presentationssoftware, Netscape'h Navigator Web browser, andother software, fonts, and clipart;Giant Buckfir

Conhict Carel, Web site: hltp Jtwww.coral.corn

Microsoft plus forl tlds l lmlts PC/olllllle accessREDMOND, Wash.{NB) — MicrosoftCorp. has releasedP)us! for Kids, a set ofchildren's applica-tions and mntrols for

parents to limit the content accessed on the

According to Microsoft, the Kids Protect Itlfeature allows parents to set up a profile for eachmember of the family. Parents decide what eachfamily member can and cannot access on the PC'shard drive. Once the profiles are set, children willnot be able to access protected data, accidentallydelete files or change computer settings. The pro-files can be adjusted by the parent as needed.

Parents can also restrict the types of Web sitesand content that can be accessed with the familyPC. The restrictions utilize Platform for InternetContent Selection glCS) technology and theRecreational Software Advisory Council {RSAC)rating system. RSAC, a non-profit organization,developed a Web site rating system based on fourparameters: language, nudity, sex, and violence.

When kids log on to Windows 95, they see acustomized desktop offering only the programsparents have designated for their use.

Plus! for Kids indudes three applicationsdesigned for three to 12 year olds: Talk It! a text-to-speech tool; Play Itl, an electronic keyboard onwhich kids can create and record their ownmusic; and Paint Iti, which indudes painting anddrawing tools, audio tools, mlor palettes, and spe-cial effects. The package also includes PicturePicker, which features more than 1,000 kid-ori-ented clipart images.

Microsoft Plusl for Kids has a suggested retailprice of US$24.95, and requires a 486DX 33 MHzor higher processor, Windows 95, 8 MB RAM, 32.MB available hard~k space, a CD-ROM drive,Super VGA, 25&mlor monitor and video card, andWindowswompatible sound card.— Bfdumt Bowers

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VIA tlchets via the Internet • VIA Rail hasIntroduced an onhne reservation system that willaRow passengers to reserve tickets through theInternet. The service is called VIA ResernetInteractive, and the company says it is availablefor aII VIA's destination in Canada.

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Canbict VIA Ilail, Web site: http JIwww.viaraii.ca

TD Access to assppovt fbulchen, NS Money ~Users of Toronto Dominion Bank's online bank-ing system, TD Access: PC, will be able to transfertheir account information directly into IntuitQuicken or Miaomft Money. TD Bank says theservice will be available later this year.

The bank says it signs up an average of 500new TD Access: PC customers a day and there isno sign of that pace slowing. To date, the servicehas more than 55,000 personal, business and bro-kerage acmunts.

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Nlendex Iixxxxxclxed In Gsxxadu • GUELPH, Ont.(NB) — The Mondex stored-value card got its offi-cial Canadian launch in February in the smailOntario city where trials have been conducted forthe past few months. Partidpatfng banks plan tohain extending Mondex service to the rest ofCanada early in 1998,

The Mondex card is a ~alled "smart caxd"-about the size of a credit card but with a built-inmicroprocessoz It can he used to pay fer goodsand services using electronic cash that is trans-ferred to the card from the bearer's bank account.With certain telephones, the Mondex caxd cantransfer cash over the telephone to and from thecustomer's hank account, says Marlene Boyaner,general manager of stored value cards with theCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

The Bank of Commerce and the Royal Bank ofCanada own Mondex in Canada and are runningthe service in Guelph, with the help of BellCanada, the regional telephone company. TheHong Kong Bank of Canada and the Credit UnionCentral of Canada are also backing Mondex inCanada.

Some other Canadian banks are supportinganother cash card called Exact, which recentlybegan trials in Kingston, Ont. Boyaner says oneadvantage of Mondex over Exact is that itallows cash transfers between cardholders,whQe Exact can only be used to pay for transac-tions. This works because Mondex relies on on-card storage rather than linking to a centralcomputer for each transadion — a fact that,Boyaner says, also makes the Mondex card more

The Mondex card can be locked with an elec-tronic code to keep it from being used if lost

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Sela clesas Cunadixixx oNce • ln a move-described as a "restructuring of i ts NorthAmerican operations in response to the evolutionof the video game industry globally," Sega ofAmerica inc. announced in early February that itwould shut down its Canadian headquarters inRichmond Hill, Ont., laying off all 13 Canadianemployees.

"Sega's hardware and software will continueto fill store shelves in Canada. Our products willbe managed by Sega of America and Canadian-based distnbutors who understand their marketintimately. We will maintain Canadian-basedpublic relations and customer service will be han-dled through the current system," according toTed Hoff, executive vici. president of marketingand sales fox ~a of America.

The company has been locked in a Bercestruggle for the video gam market with Nintendoand Sony. Over the past couple of years, two othermajor video game platform vendors, 3DO andAtari, have seen their efforts to market new video

Without this lock set, anyone can use the card asif it were cash, Boyaner says.

Initially at least, the card itself is free, as is a'cash tracker" device that is slightly larger thanthe card and„when the card ls inserted in a slot,inakes it possible to check the balance and seerecords of the last Rive transactions, as well as set-ting the electronic lock

Mondex will charge for another device, theMondex wallet, which is needed for person-to-person cash exchanges and can show records ofthe last 10 transactions. The fee for the Mondexwallet hasn't been set, Boyaner says.

About 1,800 people in Guelph now haveMondex cards, and most sizable businesses in thecity will be accegting.them, Boyaner says.— Grant

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gaming machines end in f a i lure. Sony'sPlaystation has taken significant market share inthe last year, and Nintendo has scored a huge hitin the last few months with the release of itsNintendo 64, a Silicen Graphics-based 3D car-tridge machine.

As well, computer games have experienced aresurgence ever the last few years, due to thespread of cheap, powerful multimedia hardwareon home computers. All this has meant that Sega,which for awhile was ahead of Nintendo, is hav-ing to rethink its North American business, Segahas had a high profile in Canada, in part due. tovery clever public relations and advertismg cam-paigns. With no Canadian corporate presence, itwill be interesting to see how the company faresagainst the competition in 1997.— JE

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I%Ps ebJect te phoxiecompanies'broadcastdistribution plans + OTTAWA (NB) — TwoCanadian telephone companies' hopes of tryingout broadcast distribution services seem to be nomore popular with Internet service providers(5Ps) than with cable-television operators.

Among the intervenors in regulatory hear-ings in mid-February on the applications byBCE Inc, and Telos Corp. were ISPs questioningthe size and duration of the trials and other

IStar internet Inc., one of Canada's largest5Ps, and Interlog Internet Services both raisedquestions about plans to run the trials for twoyears. Bell Canada — the local and Iong&stancephone subsidiary of Montreal-based BCE — wantsto'run two-year trials in London, Ont., andRepentigny, Que., while Edmonton-based TelusCorp., which serves Alberta, plans to run similar

txials in Calgary and Mmonton.Cable television operators had aheady told

the Ca n adian Ra d io-television andTelecommunications Common (CRTC) thatthe length of the proposed trials and the numberof customers to be signed up made them morelike commercial services than trials.

Besides echoing that complaint, the ISPsasked for access to Beii"s broadcast distributionnetwork to provide Internet access. They alsoraised questions about plans to offer telephoneand broadcast services in a single package, andabout Bell's intent not to create a sepaxate operat-ing unit to run the broadcast distribution ser-

The trial services would distribute cable tele-vision, vld~ nA emand services, audio services,and high-speed data communications throughthe phone network,

Shawn Murphy, a spokesman for Bell Canada,told Newsbytes it is not known when the CRTCwill rule on the applications, but Bell is hoping tobe able to launch its trials in June.— Grant Buckler

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is the simplest program of the threein the series. It is the information in theLearningZone that lifts it out of the eight-year-old category.

The other two discs require more studyand attention to new facts and details, Alongthe way, scientific method and experimenta-tion are added. I particularly like the virtual

ibit rooms, In all three programs, atour introduces you to how the pro-rks and an intercom tells you what toThe LearningZone is an on<creenarea with an encyclopedia, games,and quizzes. Kids will send and

email, and use a fax machine, tele-videoteleconference and a computergaliles.

is at Animalia Research Centre is setvirtual animal study/zoo display cen-

re are two problems set up as separateomputer Breakdown throws the cen-chaos. An electrical storm has

d the data on the centre's computers.ret password — which can be found

by answering questions onlocomotion, skeletal struc-ture and phyla of differentanimals — can restore thefiles.

In Danger and Defensein the Wild, players musthelp set up exhibits due toopen in less than 24hours. To do this, they

mechanisms used byanimals in thewild and thendevelop appro-priate exhibits.Neither gametakes an exces-sive amount oftime to solve, sothey would beappropriate for 12year olds to solveat school as well asat home.

must research defense island.

experiments set up in both The Green Filesand Beyond the Naked Eye to gather infor-mation to solve mysteries. Results are emailedback to the field workers who then questionincorrect answers and thank correct ones

Both give a good idea of team work in labsamong the investigator, field personnel, andlab technicians. There are offices with fax,telephones, etc., libraries with information,and labs with microscopes. While in theLearning Zone, players can access a glossaryfor definitions of technical terms and printchapters from the textbook.

The Green Files contains two'mysteries.The first, Oil Spill, requires you to look at andtest underwater ocean life so that scientists atthe spill area can compare your data onhealthy samples to those that may be dam-aged. This looks like a great game for learningbiology and ecology.

In the Gemco Disaster, you must examinethe freshwater supply from an isLand thatmay have been contaminated by a spill froma chemical company. Kids will have to deter-mine the amount of damage and prepare areport on how it may have affected life on the

Beyond the Naked Eye contains two mys-teries involving viruses, bacteria and usingscientific method. The Jungle Epidemic is atake-off of the Ebola virus scare in Africa,while the AIDS Awareness Project dealswith — what else but the AIDS virus. The vir-tual labs are great and the set up of the labs iswell done. This program is probably the mostdifficult of the three and perhaps even 14 or15 year olds will find the play challengingand the content educational.

These last two games drive home experi-mentation and the scientific method, record-ing data carefully and working in a team envi-ronment. So, perhaps the lessons taught areas much about how science works as they areabout ecology or microbiology. On this score,they will be a bonus for all teens to take themystery out of the scientific process.

These Corel titles all run on Windows3.1/Win 95 or Macintosh computers andretail for $50 each.

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rAUlrlrllsdfn ~~give it, or some of the other books by RobertLewis Stevenson described in theannotated notes, a try.

The animations, ratherthan being cute and cud-dly, have a great sense offun and humor. Along theway, icons appear„signalingthat sidebars of explanationare available. Kids can viewthe disc at their own pace andmethod, as a run through of

Whole learningDiscovery Channel's boM attempt to makeanimals and ecology palatable to older chil-dren works If you indude its Internet connec-tion to interesting sites and a report writer,which lets kids take information from theprogram's text resources and then coachesthem in creating a successful report. The pro-gram, Animal Planet, follows a "whole leam-ing"' approach. Research skills and writingskills are intertwined with the discovery andlearning process within the program.

A soaring eagle lets you drop down intoany of a number of eco-environments, such

the animation alone, or as a guidedtour. Some of the notes alsoinclude a guide to pirates, life atsea, the life and works ofStevenson, and the history of sail-ing ships .of the period and thestory's characters.

There are also maps and achronology chart. Text pagesmay be printed or copied intodocuments. The C D -ROMwould make a fun activity for

providing historical background to the bookin classroom situations.

Like the other Corel titles, these run onWindows 3.1/Win 95 or Macintosh comput-ers and sell for $50 each. 0

Contacts:Carel, Tel: 813-728-8200.Web site: hltp J/www.coreLcomDavidson, Tel: 800-545-7677.Oteeevery Channel Nnltimedla, TeL 800-678-3343.Weh site; httpi/multimedia,discovery. corn

i ,as a rain forest or desert. Each environmenthas a semi-hidden cave in which you can findmore facts on the animals that belong in thateco-system. Information is also included onbehaviors, physical characteristics, links tosimilar animals, etc.

What makes t his d i f ferent f romExplorapedia: The World of Nature is that thetext is more mature and the explorationrequires more game play or "craftiness" toextract information about what lives in a par-ticular environment. It is appropriate for 10to 14 year olds.

Animal Planet runs under Windows3.1/Win 95 and retails for $50.

Points„shaPes aneI theorernsI really like the new version of GeometrySiaster from Davidson, It boasts a full year ofgeometry imbedded in a search-mission gameformat. There are no martians to blast, justgeometry problems to be solved, There is atextbook and three reference volumes on the-orems, and postulates and a glossary.

A geoboard looks a bit like an electronicsbread board with a toolbox that lets kids drawlines and circles. Shapes automatically pro-duce perimeter, area and reference points ongraph paper. The beginning coordinates onthe paper may be centered, start from thelower left or upperright. What a great toy!

There is also a game-like complex shape inthe form of an object with possible shapes touse to construct it. It looks like elementaryproblem solving, but requires some thinkingand work to solve the problem. A calculator isalso included.

Geometry Blaster requires Windows3.1/Win 95 or a Macintosh system and retailsfor $39.95.

AneI a IIood storyIf all this math and science has your teenwishing for a nice bit of fiction to curl upwith, then Corel has just rushed to the rescuewith the release of Thumbnail Theater;Treasure Island, This is a delightful mix of ani-mation and annotation that delves into top-ics related to the story, such as where piratetreasures may be buried and explanations ofpirate loot such as pieces of eight and dou-bloons. The animation lasts nine minutes ifuninterrupted.

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It's worth mentioning that, for the bestresults, your source video should have «s littlenoise (graininess) as possible. The noisier thesource signal, the less effective the compres-sion is, and, hence, the more of your system'spredous bandwidth is used up trying tomaintain reasonable frame-rates. Thus, a

highguality camcorder would provide a bet-ter source signal than a videotape. The SVR3has both Super VHS and composite inputs.The SVHS option, with its separate chromaand luma signals provides better quality.

To address problems that have plagued PCvideo capture and playback systems in thepast, the SVR3's manual has a number of tipsand optimization suggestions. A notable one isthe option to interleave the video and audio,in order to eliminate the possibility that thevideo and audio could fall out of sync.

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multlmedre nba ~~ ~assembly. Lumiere lacks some high<nd fea-tures found in Adobe's offering, such as sup-port for EDLs and soft-shadows on title tracks,but includes tools similar to those in Premierefor creating animated transitions, mixing andediting audio and video clips, scrolling titlesand so on. Like the latest version of Premiere,Lumiere has tools for conforming digital videostreams for specific data transfer rates (ideal forCD-ROM-based or Internet digital video pro-duction chores), and, like Premiere, includesmany interesting transitions and animated fil-ter effects to spice up your videos.

The good news is Lumiere is much fasterthan Premiere at previewing one's movie-making efforts. Lumiere provides nearlyinstant previews. This is a great time-saverand is, I think, Lumiere's best feature.

The Lumiere package comes on four CD-ROMs with a collection of very nice clip-mediamovies , 100 fonts, and a v ersion ofCorelMotion 3D that is not only better thanthe one bundled with CorelDraw 6, but is bet-ter than t h e M acintosh-based original(Specular LogoMotion) on which it is based. Itstitling functions blow away those provided bythe Crystal Flying Fonts bundled with AdobePremiere 4.2 or the 3D animation features ofMacromedia's Extreme 3D — Corel Motion 3Deven performs ray-traced renderings. Thepackage also includes Corel Photo-Paint 6(reviewed in the Feb. 96 issue of TCP, also onour Web site).

Amazingly, I am finding that I like it bet-ter for simple tasks than the much pricierAdobe Premiere — although Premiere admit-

tedly has numerous high-end features thatLumiere lacks, such as VISCA and V-LANdevice control. Premiere's methods of gammacorrection, video noise reduction and moviecropping are more convenient than Corel's"brute force" methods (load the movies intoPhoto-Paint and d igitally process themthere!)„but on the other hand, Corel's inclu-sion of PhotoPaint and Corel Motion 7 — avery nice titling utility based on Specular'sLogoMotion (essentially a stripped-down ver-sion of the highly regarded Infini-D 3D pack-age) — adds up to a more sophisticated set oftitling, rotoscoping and special effects fea-tures than the Premiere bundle offers (version4.2's better built-in titler and its inclusion ofCrystal Flying Fonts LE notwithstanding).

Premiere is really dumb about systems

with two video capture cards (I have an ATI-TV and the Intel card). AII the other captureprograms can deal with switchable inputs,but Premiere apparently cannot, even if theIntel hardware is disabled in the system con-trol panel. Weird.

A few minor annoyances, such as aPreview button that doesn't toggle on and offcorrectly and a Print to Video function thatclaims it needs video clips to be compressedusing the codec that came with the capturecard — but didn't work with either of the cap-ture cards in my system, but for a 1,0 release,this one is surprisingly clean. It did not crashor misbehave at any time during my tests.

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A catastrophic breakdown of the Earth' sozone layer has doomed the planet to extracrispy status unless a lone space GRUnt(Galactic Reconnaissance Unit soldier) cansuccessfully transport to the Saturn moonTitan and return with the rare Rachellium gasthat exists on its icy surface. The Huygen lan-der probe that discovered the 'gas also man-aged to confirm the existence of life-forms onTitan. All attempts to communicate withthese aliens have met with failure so Earth' sonly hope lies with your character's ability todefeat them or gain their cooperation.

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The little fib on your resume became an exaggerationduring the interview and that's how you got the job.Fine. Time passed, sins almost forgotten, until one daywhen the word goes out the computer guru that doesthose slick corporate presentations has been head-hunted and is gone. The new guru is you!

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(What yeu sahl yeu hnew when youget the jeb)Basically, and we mean basically, a softwareprogram, called a presentation or graphic pre-sentation program, lets you choose a screen asa background. The screen is much like a slideand is often called that. You pick a slide andthen click on the slide and enter text of somesort. When you have made a title, you get anew slide and add more information or liststo it. You proceed to enter all the informationyou are tryirg to get across. At the end of theprocess you have a small electronic slideshow. You tell the program io run the slideshow and the slides you made appear oneafter another from start to finish. That's it,you have a start.

($o your eirtensive experi-ence is apparent)When overhead projects replaced flipcharts and slides, it was a good thing.However, slides were basically black andwhite drawings and very static. Then camethe liquid crystal display {LCD) panels. Thesedevices ran off the computer and were placedon an overhead projector. Light from the pro-jector came up through the LCD panel,through the suspended mirror/magnifyingglass and splashed onto a regular projectionscreen with glorious colors such as muddyblue and faded green, Unfortunately, asidefrom the weak light and dull colors, the over-head project also distorts the image, makingthe top wider than the bottom. Then cameprojection machines. At first they were vetylarge and very expensive. Today they are justvery expensive, but the quality of the outputis better than what you see in your local cin-ema. Companies such as Electrohome, Sanyo,ln Focus, Proxima, Epson and Sharp areputting out multimedia presentation projec-tors that range from $2,000 to $10,000 andaccept input from any source, including com-puter, VCR or cable. This new breed ofmachines has a luminosity and color satura-tion that is amazing. The machines usuallyhave more than one input port and can pro-ject high-resolution screens as large as 1.8 or2.4 m (6 or 8 ft.) measured diagonally.

ilie veal Ifar lf(Why you will be getting a raise ifyou re not flrecl first)That is the basic idea, but if that is all you do,you will have a very dull presentation. You see,the whole point of these programs is to giftwrap the information in as wonderful a way aspossible. The truth is, if you weren't interestedin all the little niceties you could as easily readthe information to your prospective clients asput together a demo. This is a little bit ofHollywood, after all, and you are trying to bebiased. You want to wow your audience andshow them you are master of your realm. Yourcompany does everything with aplomb! Andso, it is time for the finer points.

TransitionsTransitions are the way you get from one slideto the other. Because this is an electronicmedia you can fade out and in. You may beable to pull the screen in two or three or havelittle dots obliterate the picture.

fransitions can be any number of visualerasing or painting techniques, such as swipe,drain, checkerboard or rain. Not only can youmove interestingly from one screen to anoth-er but you can accompany the effects withsound. Bells, whooshes, footsteps or zips canliven up your presentation.

CllpartEvery decent presentation program comeswith dipart. Nothing dulls a presentationfaster than plain text or tables. Clipart can beresized in the document simply by dragging acorner of the inserted object's box.

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to help automate the creation of presenta-tions. With titles like "inform," "persuade,""teach" and "special" and even further dis-tinction such as "positive audience," "nega-tive," "neutral" or "doubting," theze is a stylefor any situation.

Each of these programs allows the user toview the slides full screen or, for ease of edit-ing, in a reduced size. As well, each has anoutline view that allows for quick and easyorganization and editing of the slides. AsWindows programs, they all allow a user todrag and drop certain types of informationonto the slide.

This is because they adhere to a specifica-tion called OLE, OLE stands for object linkingand embedding, and OLE Version 2 makes thistechnique very flexible. Don"t worry about theway it works. Just remember that you canoften shnply open two windows and dragsomething into your program. These programsallow you to add buttons so that you can leavethe presentation on a computer and have avisitor click to continue or tzy certain func-tions. This ls a good option if you want to setup an unattended kiosk.

Another feature that is becoming morecommon in these programs is the automaticprinting of audience handouts. The user canusuafly choose between printing out a minia-turized collection of the show's screens or acopy of the text-based outline. This can bedone to paper for distribution or even todiskette for later viewing.

There are a hundred other things that youwill find you can do. For example,PowerPoint allows you to stick a music CD inyour CD player and record the output for usein your presentation {of course, rememberingto avoid copyright infringement), and eachproduct has dozen of other features that youwill. come across.

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I II Pre Tarhs+PCRIV,ylss INI-IV ssylsrs sldisafor: PCI PCsPres: The ATI Pzo Turbo+PCXIV's RAGE llchip provides hardware support for Direct3Dacceleration (the earlier 3D Xpression's RAGEchip did not support hardware-acceleratedDizect3D), Its 2D and 3D drivers were gener-ally trouble-free, and the card provided goodMPEG and full-screen AVI playback.Conflgurable re'fresh rates, resolution settingsand gamma (color) contrOI. TV output set-tiny (composite and SVHS) are flexible andprovide a stable picture at 640x480 or800x600 on standard televisions or VCRs. Panand Zoom controls are provided.

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options. The card supports "overlay mode,"which allows TV or video sources to be dis-played at any size on your computer semenwith no slowdown. And it's made in Canada.Cons: 'We had to restart twice to switch dis-play modes to or from TV. Not quite as fast ascomparably priced offeriny from Matrox, etc.

Prot: Inexpensive (I' ve seen it as low asUS$449 via mail order), quiet and fast. AndBIG — S.l GB! That's an amazing price pergigabyte.Cene: Drives larger than 4,092 cylinders arenot supported by NT 4.0 {a jumper setting tolimit the drive's capacity is available) andnumerous znessages in OS/2 forums suggestthat this drive cannot easily be used at its fullcapacity with that OS, either. Using amachine with a recent Award BIOS (usingLBA mode) and running Windows 95, I expe-

rienced no such compatibility problems,although there was one minor snag: thenewly installed drive's MaxBlast formattingsoftware was apparently installed on the(then-inaccessible) hard drive and, to make along story short, I couldn't seem to access thehard drive to copy the software to a floppy.The solution was to download another copyof the software from Maxtor's Web site(hitpJhww.maxtor.corn). The software workedflawlessly and partitioned and set up thedrive in minutes.

It should be noted that HDE hard drivesare generally considemd to be less suitablethan SCSI "AV" drives (preferably of the fast-and-wide or better varieties, and configuredin redundant arrays) for professional videoapplications. Nevertheless, we experienced noobvious glitches mcording to our defragment-ed Maxtor drive. 0

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New sad lalmssgag(Ceffee seem ammo)Each of the major suites mentioned above ismaking their presentation software Webenabled. Which is to say, you can take a pm.sentatton that you have created and save it asa hypertext document~ Ne that your infor-mation systems people can put on the com-pany's Web page. Hey, you almost have a bet-ter reputation than the guy you replaced.

Ihe Baishiag leashes(Where te Ile fer help)first, your manual wiB likely have a practicepresentation. Second, the program will pmba-bly have a sample presentation. Thirdly, every-body mentioned in this article has a Web page,often with examples. Next, them are numer-ous books on working in PowerPoint,Freelance Graphics and Corel Presentation. Aswell, there are night school and weekendcourses for this type of thing. Lastly, practice.

Only when you understand what yourparticular machine and your particular soft-ware can do will you settle down enough tostart loohng at your presentations as whatthey really are.

We didn't want to scare anyone, but thetruth is there is a certain amount of artisticskill that comes into play when puttingtogether a good presentation. If you have thatskill, exceflent. If you don't have that skill,then simply remember what they say toyoung actors,"It's all about sincerity. Andonce you can fake that, you' ve got it made."

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FreeHand's ability to read and write PDF(Acrobat format) is on par with Hlustratornow Although FreeHand does not supportthe newest 3.0 Acrobat format, AcrobatDistiller 3.0 (not induded with this package,but bundled with both the Acrobat andPageMaker releases listed above) can save filesin the 2,1 format that FreeHand 7 can open.The program's ability to edit or move graph-ics that have been pasted inside" others is awelcome improvement, too.

The Mac versions of the FGS apps tend tohave slightly better drag~dWop functional-ity than their Windows siblings, and theWindows version of Extreme 3D's dependenceon the F3 and F4 keys is unfortimate, consid-ering the Mac implementation uses more sen-sible (albeit still non-standard) Control keys.But these are minor quibbles. Both platformare sohd and seemingly bug-free. I tested theFreeHand program's export to eadier versions,and printed its files to a Linotronic hnageset-ter without problems, too.

Extreme 3D 2.0 (induded along with Xres3.0 and Fontographer 4.1 in the suite, alongwith 10,000 pieces of dipart and 500 decentfonts) is an excellent update to what had pre-viously been a fairly unimpressive 1,0 releaseof this 3D program. Hardware accelerated 3Dgraphics rendering via Direct3D on theWindows version produced less visually richinteractive renderings than the sBghtly slowerinternal renderer, which it should be noteddoes not support ray-tradng. Despite this lim-itation, the renderers produce impressiveresults with such features as fog, soft shadows,plus transparency, bump, luminosity andenvironment maps. Optional support forhardware 3D acceleration means that you can,with an appropriate video card, see real-timeshaded renderings of objects whfle draggingthem or animating them. I tested the Mac ver-sion with an ATI Xdaim VR card, and the

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F reeHand's continued evolution h a sundoubtedly been the nearly constant featurewar with Adobe's flagship drawing program,Illustrator.

Arguably, FreeHand has set the pace formost of the time, but FreeHand faltered duringthe last few years to the point where manyus~ y self included — gave it up for thespeed and features of illustrator 5.0 and laterreleases. The FreeHand code languished afterthe Aldus/Adobe merger until Adobe decided(under some legal pressure, as I recall) to returnit to its oiginator — Texas-based Aitsys. Fromthere, the p rogram was l icensed toMacromedia, which has updated it andaddressed virtually aII of ib early shortcomings.

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Windows version with several cards, includ-ing the ATI 3D Xpression+PC2TV, an older 3DXpression, and a Matrox Millennium. The lat-ter two cards lacked support for hardware 3Dacceleration, but even when the card support-ed it, it was scarcely worthwhile. Direct3Dproved slightly faster but produced less accu-rate real-time renderings, at least on my testsystems. The good news is that, even usingthe internal renderer, Extreme 3D's interactiverenderer was amazingly fast. A texture-mapped, 90-frame 240x180 animation tookonly 30 seconds to export.

Xres 3.0 is a respectable photo-image edi-tor with an interface and functionality levelthat resembles a cross between Photoshop

,and Fractal Painter. In fact, Xres supportsPhotoshop plug-ins and can both save andload files in the Photoshop format, as well asseveral other common fiie types. Photoshopusers will appreciate Xres' slavish duplicationof Photoshop's look-and-feel, too — even thekeyboard shortcuts are frequently the same.The package comes with a "limited" versionof Kai's Power Tools 3.0, a collection of spe-dal effect filters that are interesting, to saythe least.

Alas: Extreme 3D's VRML and 3DMF outputoptions do not export textures and havesome other limitations. The Mac version ofFGS we received did not ship with Extreme3D 2.0. It ships with version 1.0, which runson both 680x0-based Macs (with FPU and24MB+ RAM) and PowerMacs — you mustsend in a coupon to receive the PowerMac-only 2.0 update.

How is CorelDraw 7.02To be perfectly honest,I'm a bit gtm-shy about it, after having suf-fered through minor-to-serious bugs in virtu-ally every version since 2.0. In a productionenvironment, version S.OF2 was definitelyless troublesome (and more widely usedamong many PC-using customers) than ver-sion 6.x, which Corel now acknowledges wasa tough transition, as it was the first 32-bitversion of the program and a number of prob-lem areas (OLE, font management, etc.) werecommon to many of the first generation ofWindows 95 apps — most of which were devel-oped using beta versions of Microsoft's OS.

Version 7,. also designed for 32-bitWindows, has apparently fixed longstandingbugs related to object positioning and export-ing in Adobe Dlustrator format, and I findCorel's Barista (eprint to Java" technology) tobe an interesting — albeit underdeveloped-technology. For me, however, CorelDraw'skiller feature (which it has had for a few yeats)is its ability to interpret PostScript files andturn them into editable vector graphics or ras-terized bitmaps. That, and the large numberof cool plugs filters supplied with its Photo-Paint coinponent, make it well worth keepingin one's desktop publishing toolkit.

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Elsewhere in the box you' ll find one rollof 6.35x10.16 cm (2.5x4 in.) labels and twodiskettes that hold your drivers and your soft-ware. Also included is one baby-wipe likecleaning card for your print head. CoStar willsell you packs of 10 of these cards for $9.95 if

you want more down the road, but I'm fairlyconfident that baby wipes are considerablymore economical and just as effective (butthen, I'm not a daddy).

Once plugged in and powered up, it's asimple process to install the appropriate dri-ver for your operating systein (from a choiceof Windows 95, NT and 3.x) and install thesoftware packages called AddressMate andEasy Software Suite that come bundled withthe machine.

AddressMate, as you might expect, is a

mailing database that links to your wordprocessor so you can print onewff or multiplelabels and control the layout and fonts, etc.Macros also allow you to apply addressesfrom your AddressMate database onto yourletters and envelopes as well as shift themaround to wherever you might want to putthem. The prime Rnitation here is thatAddressMate will only integrate with Ami Pro,Word for Windows or WordPerfect forWindows.

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label (e.g., a company logo) is also possiblethrough the use of templates, as long as yourimage is in bitmap (BMP), Paintbrush (PCX), ~TIPP (TIP), Targe (TGA) or WordPerfect (WPG)format. The flexibility of this program is well iindicated by the fact that the manual for the ',LabelWriter XL Plus is only 35 pages longwhile the instructions for AddressMate reacha whopping 210 pages.

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The other software package, Easy SoftwareSuite, was unavailable for review at time ofwriting but was described by CoStar as com-prising three individual components: EasyLabel, Easy Bar Code and Easy Badge. As thenomenclature indicates, these generate theirrespective titular items, but differently thanAddressMate in being quick utilities for mak-ing simple, one-off examples of each (i.e., theEasy Software Suite doesn't maintain its owndatabase, instead it's called upon for thosequick, "I need a label for bar code, or badge]now!" situations). Easy Badge generates photoID badges on the spot using any Video forWindows AVI compliant device you might

-My experience with the LabelWriter XLPlus was that it was quiet, worked well, andwas easy to handle. The labels insta!I throughtheir designated path without strenuous pres-tidigitation and the output — once I gotAddressMate Plus figured out — was of veryhigh quality.

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can do in that it accepts only 2.85x8.89 cm(1.)25x3.5 in.) standard address labels. (Theowner's manual promises other sizes forfuture availability but without indicatingwhat other sizes might be possible). However,there are a variety of things you can do withwhatever might fit into that space — they ain' tcalled "standard address labels" for nuthin'.

Connection is, as might be expected, assimple as power-to-label maker, label maker-cable-to-serial port. A nice touch is that thecable here allows you to connect to a nine-pinor 25-pin COM port by having both connec-tors spliced onto the single line, However, likeCoStar, Seiko has opted for putting the ACplug directly onto the power supply and, sim-ihrly, they' ve thrown in a roll of labels.

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The SLP for Windows software operatesthmugh a WYSIWYG (what you see is whatyou get) window interface, giving you a com-plete picture of your label on the screenbefore you send it to the hbel maker. Thoughit operates quite differently, the features andabilities of SLP are pretty well the same as the

I AddressMate package that comes with theCoStar unit. SLP will even generate the U.S.Post Offices POSTNET codes above the text onyour label to ostensibly speed delivery along.Graphics are possible here too, but it's a some-what complex process to capture, adjust andedit them.

The EZ30 is a very basic label maker at avery basic price but, thanks to the software,capable of some very sophisticated things aslong as they flt within the prescribed dimen-sions of the label. The label path is so direct Ican't even imagine having a blockage, except,perhaps, if a label gets dog~ared on its waythrough the machine. Cleaning wiII be easyenough too, as removing the top cover expos-es the innards to a Q-Tip dipped in alcohol.

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.tutes Seiko's completely new machine forgenerating labels up to the 5,39x10.16 cm(2.125x4 in.) "shipping" size. Three otherlabels are available for this machine — the2.85x8,89 cm (1.125x3.5 in.) standard addresslabel, the 3 .81x8.89 cm ( 1 .5x3.5 in .)European label, and 5.39x6.9 cm (2.125x2.75in,) diskette labels.

ware manufacturers don't take this approachas it relieves many frustrations at the outletend of things while giving you the maximumamount of flexibility because you can use anylength of power cord you want.

Regardless, the software bundled with theSmart Label Printer PRO is called, appropri-ately, SLP PRO and constitutes an enhancedversion of the SLP package that comes withthe EZ-30. Though essentially the same soft-ware, there are far more options with thisPRO version because the machine itself allows

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As with the EZ30, the box contains every-thing you need to get started — label maker,the same double ended connecting cable toyour computer, two driver and softwarediskettes, a manual that combines machineuse and software instructions in one volumeand a first roll of standard address labels.

Of course, the power supply is in theretoo, but this time it's somewhat different inthat the AC brick has the cable to the labelmaker hard wired into one end but a standardthree-prong power connector (like the one foryour computer or monitor) at the other. Seikohas thrown in a removable standard wall plugstd a 904egree bend in it, butyou now havethe option of plugging in your own standardpower cable to get the brick off the wall-oryour power bar — and put it anywhere youivant. It's an absolute wonder that BII hard-

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Kroy's entryinto this partic-ular Inarket isthe sleek andhandy K225,which, like theothers, is capa-ble of printingon a variety oflabel sizes up to5.7 cm (2.25in.) wide. Also

like the others, the labels are proprietary so,in this case, you' re looking at a choicebetween 539xl0.16 cm (2,125x4 in.) ship-ping labels, 2,8Sx8.89 cm (1.125x3.5 in.)standard labels and 5.39x6.9 cm (2.125x2.75in.) diskette labels .

In the box you get the label-makingmachine, the driver and software diskettes,connecting cable and, as usual, a roll oflabels — the shipping size in this case. Kroy,alas, falls in with just about everyone elseon sticking the plug directly onto the ACbrick so there's no flexibility here on that

Again small and quiet, Kroy's machine hasvery little to separate it from the others bothin terms of design and ability. However, Kroytoo has come up with its own version of soft-ware called On-Line Labeller that comes inboth DOS and Windows versions. It lets youdo aII the same stuff the others do, though Ifound the Microsoft mimicking interface onthis one slightly more intuitive than the oth-ers. Currently, however, the import featuresare restricted to databases generated from On-Line Labeller itself. Kroy is currently develop-

ing a Windows 95 driver that will allow youto print labels from your MaIIMerge or anyother type of database but that is not expect-ed until later this year. Registered purchaserswill be able to get a free update when it

Some of the advanced features hereinclude automatic formats for five intema-tional mai l ing systems — United States,Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and con-tinental Europe — plus surprisingly straight-

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Opening the cover does not expose theprint head so cleaning will quite literallyinvolve the tenuous laying on of screwdriversto open up the main casing. Kroy does, how-ever, provide illustrations in the manual onhow to do this, so I guess that means theydon't mind if you do.

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machine was last year's cream of the crop.However, one thing remains constant — theprofile of the buyer.

People interested in the models we arereviewing are not early adopters. They havewaited for the technologies to be tried andtested. They don't want — or simply can' tafford — all the bells and whistles offered inpremium systems. For many people, this willbe their first venture into high-tech realms, sothey are not sure what to expect. That doesn' tmean they will settle for an inferior system;they want some bang for their buck. Many ofthese systems will become the family work-horse, used for homework, accounting, recordkeeping, entertainment and communication,

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Perhaps the most significant developmentin the industry has been the acceptance ofnon-Intel based chips. While Intel Pentiumsremain the most common chips on the mar-ket, there are other cost-effective chips byCyrix and AMD that will give you similar per-formance results. Similarly, the introductionof Apple clones has given consumers newchoices. In the past, Apples were often pricedout of the range of many people. However,with the introduction of clones, the prices forMacintosh systems have fallen substantially.You may see Macintosh PowerPC machinesreviewed by the Test lab in coming issues,

The introduction of h igh-performancePentium MMX chips has pushed down the

price of older Intel, AMD, and Cyrixprocessors, making Pentium 133 MHz

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MHz systems from their lineup. The processorspeed is one element in determining how fastand powerful the system is, but on its own,the processor's speed means little.

Tharrha for the memoryJust as important as the processor is the sys-tem's memory. By temporarily storing infor-mation electronically, the system can com-municate with the processor very quiddy. Thesystem stores this in two key places, in thecache and in the RAM. Cache memory is rel-atively small and is stored very close to theprocessor. Cache is the fastest medium forpassing temporary electronic information.Highland systems have 512 KB or more oicache memory, whereas introductory modelshave 256 KB, which is adequate for most day.to-day tasks.

Over the past few months, we' ve noticedthe change from standard fast page mode(FPM) RAM to the new enhanced data ouiREDO) variety. The price difference betweenEDO RAM and the older types of RAM hatbasically disappeared. This drop is partiallythe result of the introduction of SDRAM, thelatest and fastest type (SDRAM showed up inone of the pricier systems we reviewed thismonth).

This price drop is significant, because themore RAM you can afford, the better. Themore RAM you have, the less the system hatto communicate with the hard drive. At pre.sent 16 MB of RAM is the minimum youshould accept in a new system.

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The hard driveRelative to cache and RAM, informationstored on the hard drive is accessed very slow-ly. The hard drive permanently stores aH theapplications and files you use and create.Because its operation requires a great deal ofmechanical movement, it takes a long timefor the hard drive to read and write. However,hard drives are becoming more efficient aHthe time. The speed of a hard drive is mea-sured in milliseconds (ms} for access time andkilobytes (KB) for the transfer rate. High-endhard drives use SCSI connections, whereas theones found in most homes are usuaily of theIDE type,

Hard drives these days can store upwardsof 4 GB of data, at prices stiH within mostusers' reach. For the average user, a 1.6 GBhard drive should suffice, but applicatiens arecontinually growing. Before you know it,your 1.6 GB hard drive will hold but a fewapplications. When shopping for a harddrive, look for one that has low access times(under 10 ms} and high data transfer rates(upwards of 2,500 KB/sec) which can be mea-sured using various hard-drive benchmarkingtools such as Norton's Sysinfo, @Bench andCoretest.

Vomr view om the worldNo computer is complete witheut a monitor,yet it is common for systems to be sold with-out one. While this may be inconvenient, it isnot necessarily bad. If you are going to spenda ht tie extra cash anywhere, it should be onthe monitor. Compared to other components,your monitor will last and retain its value thelongest. While a 14-inch monitor is adequatefor almost any task, opening multiple docu-ments will be more than a little frustrating.Whatever the size of the monitor you choose,make sure it has a refresh rate of at least 70 Hzin whatever resolutions you'H be using fre-quently. A monitor with a lower rate can eas-ily cause eye strain and headaches. Whenchoosing a monitor, aim for a 15-inch modelif you can afford it. Although the extra inchmay not seem like much, once you' ve workedwith a larger model, you' ll never want to goback

fw»»ltlmedlaOne component that has undergone vastimprovements over the past year is the trustyCD-ROM drive. We' ve seen them go fromspeeds of 4x around this thne last year totoday's 12x and new 16x units.

For the higher performance CD-ROM dri-ves, you'H definitely have te pay a bit more,but if you use multimedia software such asencyclopedias or CD-based games frequently,you' ll certainly appreciate the reduced CDaccess. In an entry-level system, you shouldexpect an Sx drive, not because they' rerequired by software, but because it's almostimpossible to find a store that will sell any-thing slower. Keep in mind that it is very rarefor a software package to require anythingfaster than a 4x drive, but that doesn't meanthat you won't benefit from a faster modeL

The final two components you wiH wantto consider are your sound and video cards.Your video card is in charge ef placing infor-rnation on the screen. The faster the videocard can process the information, the fastereverything runs overall because you won' tfind yourself waiting for things to be redrawn.Aim for 2 MB of RAM on the video card,

because this will offer you high color depthsand higher resolutions. Stick with brands thatyou know will be supported by popular soft-ware and whatever operating system you willbe running. Some newer video cards will offer3D acceleration, definitely an asset for manyof today's games.

When it comes to sound, mest peoplethink that they' ll save a few bucks by buying a$30 "16-bit" card. What they' re probably buy-ing themselves is a lot ef unnecessary grief andfrustration. Your sound card is only as good asthe software that uses it. Always check withseveral software titles to see if they support theparticular brand you' re considering. The samegoes for the operating system. Although thereare several cards on the market that are "com-patible," they still won't match the ease of useand quality that you'd get from buying a cardthat is fully supported by your pregrams.Don't settle for anything less than a 16-bitcard, as this wHI let you play and record CD-quality sounds in 44 kHz stereo.

Net-readyBesides audio and video cards, the only otherperipheral you may Bnd in an introductorysystem is a modem. Communicating withother systems has become a central feature incontemporary computing. Many people areupgrading from their present systems becausethey want to connect more effectively to theInternet or to work For a modem to be up tothe task, it should be operating at at least14.4Kbps. At this speed you can go beyondbasic emaH, but wiH fmd downloading filesand touring the Net awfuHy slow. To reallytake advantage of online resources, systemsshould include a 28.8Kbps modem. Keep inmind upgrading and installing a modem isone of the simplest things you can do withouttaking your modem in to the shop.

Caveat emptorBeyond the basic hardware configuration,there are a number of "soft" issues new buy-ers shouM consider. People buying an intro-ductory system are probably not very techno-logically literate. It wHI be tempting for salespeople to take advantage of their situation Acommon ploy, used by less reputable compa-nies, is to hold on to your money for severalweeks before shipping the system. Often theywill blame unexpected shortages in parts.During those precious weeks the cost for com-ponents drops and they pocket the difference.Ask them exactly when you will receive thesystem and try to get a guarantee. Even betterdon't give them the Ml amount untH youreceive the system.

Before buying from any stere, do someresearch. Even if you are buying a brand namesystem, it is advisable to check up on the storethey are seHing through. There are severalways to check up on a company. The easiest isto ask around. Who do your friends and busi-ness acquaintances recommend? Call up thecompany's service line and compare theresponse time to their sales line. There are anumber of online resources you can takeadvantage of. If you have access to theInternet — through a friend, for example-check out newsgreups devoted to computingin your area. These newsgroups will have lotsof information about people's experienceswith various stores and companies.

If you are unfamiliar with computing,make sure you buy from a company withgood after-sales support, since you may needsomeone to help you after the initial set up.

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V'ou should also look for a guarantee that lastsst least one year. The longer the guarantee,the better. Remember, while these soft issueswill cost you, the price of a good warrantysnd technical support is worth it, especially ifthe idea of popping the hood on your system!s a terrifying thought.

1'he tests!its usual, we used BAPCo to perform ourbenchmark tests on a l l t h e d i f ferentinachines. Each machine was set to use a dis-play resolution of 800x600 with a 16-bit coloriepth {65,536 colors).

liST Advantagel Adventure $7$ PlusThe Adventure 575was sluggish com-pared to the rest ofthe systems in the

! 8 survey. Whi le'some might pointto AST's use of theA MD Sx86 1 3 3MHz processor, we

ire going to blame the lack of RAM, At 8 MB,:hissystemis just not equipped to run today' sipplications„and consjdering RAM prices, it' s1ard to imagine why anyone would want toiave $50 and virtually cut their performancen half. Ihe unit failed to complete ourbenchmark suite, crashing several times dur-ng the whole process, making it impossibleio obtain a benchmark score. Aside from theack of RAM, this system is fine for the first-irne buyer who is not looking for top-notch)erformance or components. The system fea-.ures a Cirrus Logic video card with 1 MB ofIAM, an ESS 1868 sound card, a modest 810vfB Seagate hard drive, an 8x CD-RDM drive,md a 28.8Kbps faxmodem. The Adventurei75 does come with some substantial soft-vare, including The Microsoft Home Bundleind various online service kits.

Dell, as usual, fin-ished at the top ofthe heap in termsof performance, butthis time they hada little more help

; is";.~'P ~~ tha n usuaL The sys-tem came equippedwith a 166 h lHz

MMX processor {more power than we hadasked for, but this is Dell's new entry-levelmachine). It kind of makes you wonder justhow quickly things are moving. This unitincludes 16 MB of SDRAM, SoundBlaster 16sound card and a 2.1 GB hard drive fromWestern Digital. When we had first heard thatDell's new entry-level system was based on aPentium 166 MHz processor, we began towonder if Dell may have excluded manyprice-conscious shoppers. However, peoplelooking at Dell machines tend to be second-time buyers who are comfortable with directorder products. First-time buyers may feelmore comfortable with a retail outlet that canwalk them through the initial set up of theirsystems. Though Dell's products are directmarketed, they offer an excellent warrantyand technical support system,

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Technology. For under $1,300, this system isfilled with popular components such as theASUS motherboard with the 430HX chipset,an ATI Winboost video card with 2 MB ofRAM on board, a 1.2 GB Quantum Fireballhard drive and a speedy 12x CD-ROM drivefrom Mitsumi. To top things off, it managedto tie for second place with a score of 125 inour benchmark suite. If price is your primaryconcern, but you don't want to sacrifice fea-tures, this system is a great choice.

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ASUS motherboardvith the 430HX chipset and a Pentium 133processor was at the centre of it all, backed byi12KB of pipelined cache. Because the systemvas configured with 32 MB of RAM, we hado reconfigure it to use 16 MB in order to beair to all the other systems. Despite theeduction in RAM, the system still managedo score an impressive 129, making it the'astest 133 MHz system in this survey. Thenachine also has a zippy video card, a!VinFast 3D S600 with 2 MB of EDO RAM onnard, and a Quantum Fireball hard drive,ible to store 2.1 GB of data. Multimedia com-onents include a Panasonic 12x CD-ROMrive, a SoundBlaster 16 sound card and aSR 33.6Kbps voice/faxmodem. The price ofe system is $1,840 with 16 MB of RAM, andeludes Grolier's Encyclopedia 1997 edition

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MechWarrior, Pitfall, Sega's Virtua Fighter,Kung Fu, Giovanni's World of Music, MSPhone and the Microsoft Home Bundle(Encarta, Works, Golf, and Money). This wasanother machine that came equipped with 32MB of RAM, but due to time constraints, wecould not benchmark it a second time with16 MB.

Although there was adequate RAM„ themachine's overall performance was somewhatsluggish due mostly in part to the slowerMach64 video card with 1 MB of RAM andthe Fujitsu hard drive. If performance isn' tyour primary concern, this machine is anexcellent choice because of the various extrasthat are included, and the fact that it's pricedat just under $1,600 makes it all the moreattractive,

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Big Blue makes the right noisesIBM has long been a backer of voice-recogni-tion technology and has funded research intothis area for many years, In fact, it was sobullish about this technology that it wasincluded as part of the latest version of IBMOS/2 Warp (Version 4), when it was releasedlate last year.

Big Blue is not ignoring the mass marketfor speech recognition, however, and hasdeveloped a product aimed at users of theNetscape Navigator 3.0 browser running onMicrosoft Windows 95. Made available in betaform in mid-December on the IBM Web site,it is called VoiceType Connection NS Editionand promises to let people navigate theInternet by talking.

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Using what IBM calls its "text-word spot-ting" technology, it says people will actuallybe able to surf by speaking only a few of thewords in any given hotlink, thereby creatingvoice-enabled shortcuts to their favoriteWeb sites. IBM f u r ther p romises thatalthough Netscape Navigator users will see afew changes in the interface, they shouldnot notice any significant differences (otherthan the obvious addition of speech r'ecog-nition). IBM also says that people who useVoiceType Connection NS Edition will alsoget the benefit of d i rect dictation in toNetscape email or Web pages if they add anyo f IBM's d ictation p roducts (such asVoiceType Simply Speaking or the recentlyintroduced Voice Type 3.0).

Of course, the latter is really what it isa ll about. Vo iceType Connection N SEdition is really meant to function as littlemore than a very high-tech ad for IBM'sfamily of voice recognition products, andget people to believe that this technologyactually does work. The other product thatthis freebie software is designed to show offis the IBM VoiceType Developers Toolkit,which was used to create VoiceTypeConnection NS E d i t ion. IB M s aysVoiceType Connection uses somethingcalls Object Code Insertion Techniques(OCIT) to integrate the VoiceType speech-recognition technology with t h i rd-partys oftware applications t o ma k e t h e mspeech-aware.

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The company says t h e V o iceTypeConnection NS Edition works with NetscapeN avigator 3.0/3.01 running o n "mostPentium computers," which are equippedwith a recommended microphone and anindustry-standard sound card (which, accord-ing to IBM, indude either those that useCreative's Sound Biaster, or IBM's Mwavemedia processor). To run it, you' ll need a 90MHz Pentium-compatible PC r u n n ingWindows 95 with 11 MB additional hard-diskspace, a Level-2 cache of 256KB, and a rnini-mum of 5 MB of RAM above other RAMrequirements.

The b et a ve r s ion of Voice TypeConnection NS Edition is currently availableas a dow n load f r o m t he In te rnet(http: //www.software. ibm.corn/is/voicetype/vtconn/vtconn.htmi).

Motorola takes commandsIBM, however, is not the only one offering away to use voice technology to surf the Net.Motorola's Information Systems Group (ISG)put its hat in the Web speech-command ringlate last year when it showed off its SM34DFVV.34 data/fax/voice hest-based modem at theComdex Fall trade show in Las Vegas.

The demonstration showed how users couldsurf the Web by giving verbal commands to aPentiuin system configured with the modemand loaded with speech-recognition softwarefrom Lexicus, another Motorola division.

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Only thing is... it's not a fad, this is thereal thing. This is the future. In the last half of1996, no less than four national finandalinstitutions joined the three early starters tobring the total number of personal computer(PC) online banking services in Canada toseven. It doesn't take a genius to see the obvi-ous — banking via your PC is the new nextwave. Find below a short primer on the sub-ject, what it does, how it works, and a sum-mary of the various national services current-ly available,

First into the poolFor the past year and a half, a small provin-cial credit union has been quietly offeringits members the ability to access theiraccounts, pay bills, check rates and otherconvenient practices from a home comput-er. VanCity, also known as Vancouver CitySavings Credit Union, pioneered onlinebanking via the home PC or a television.Others ran pilot projects and almost every-

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one claims they were first, but VanCity wasthe first to get it up and running and keepit that way.

Its system uses software and a modem tocall a local phone number, which connects toa proprietary network. Registered users selectan account and enter a password to work ontheir accounts. This type of system remainsone of the most popular and secure and isused today by about half of the financialinstitutions in Canada that have online bank-ing. Where an individual is not within localcalling distance of their institution's network,a toll-free number is usuaBy provided. In thistype of service there are virtually no security

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A new standardThe biggest player in personal financial soft-ware is, by far, the American company Intuit„the makers of the most popular money pro-gram on the planet, Quicken. Through itswork with an electronic fund transfer compa-ny called CheckFree, it came up with a stan-dard for the exchange of financial data.Meanwhile, just outside the Emerald city(that's Seattle, not Oz, although the confu-sion is understandable), Microsofties hadbeen working on their own standard formuch the same reasons.

An agreement between these two weightysoftware Goliaths brought about a new stan-dard in late 1996 called open financialexchange (OFE). (For more on the standard,see h t tp: //www.microsoft.corn/finserv o rhttp: //www,intuit.corn .) OFE allows for personalfinancial programs, financial institutions andInternet users to exchange data, such asaccount. information, electronic cash andcredit-card transactions. But why is th isimportant, you ask The answer lies here:

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One bank to do this was the Royal Bank.It went out and found a great financial pro-grarn called Managing Your Money by MECASoftware that it liked so much it bought thecompany. It then rewrote the program to actas its front end. Now, it has a fully integratedfinancia program that indudes the ability toautomatically update your accounts from thebank's computers.

As cool as this is, it means an incredibleamount of work to adapt each program toeach institution's data format. However, withthe release of the OFE, almost any fmancialprogram can now become your interface foronline banking, assuming your institutionadheres to the standard.

Clve away the razors, sell the bladesPricing for the various banks, and the lonecredit union, range from zero to $13 amonth. This is a gross simplificationthough, because they all have different ratesbased on costs per transaction, minimumbalances, sign up fees (usually waived) andother factors.

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INvide and formatThere are occasions when you may want tooverride the existing CSS formatting schemewithin a given Web page. Style sheet divisionsare contained with the <DIV> (division) tag,which allows a Web designer to sets the rulesfor the section it encloses. The followinghypertext markup language (HTML) exampleshows how the <DIV> tag can be used to spec-ify style sheet elements for a section of a Webpage:

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The OIV tag affects everything that it con-tains within a Web page.

This text ls displayed in 10 point blue.<P STYLE="font-size: 12pt; color. green">This text Is displayed In 12 point green.

</OIV>Thh text appears after the end OIV tag,returning lt to the default display character-

Note how the <OIV> tag is used to set dis-play characteristics for the text it encloses,and how it can be overridden itself by usingan inline style sheet element (e,g,, where thedisplay font is changed to 12 point green),

Up until this point in the series, we haveonly looked at one type of property — color-which can be used within a style sheet, But asthis last HTML example code shows, it is pos-sible to combine several different elementswithin a single style sheet rule. There are over30 different properties specified by the officialCSS specification (which can be found at theWorld Wide Web's Consortium's Style SheetWeb page at http//www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/W(}-cssi,htmi), though less than half of these arecurrently recognized within Microsoftinternet Explorer,

Spanning formatsThere are occasions when you may want tooverride a style within a line or two of text. Todo this, use the <SPAN> tag, which isdesigned to endose and change the displaycharacteristics of text whose formatting char-acteristics have been defined elsewhere. Thefollowing code displays an example of the<SPAN> tag in action:

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In theory it is possible to reference severaldifferent style sheets within a single Webpage, but this feature is not yet supportedwithin Internet Explorer 3.0.

Crouplne style sheet elements andclassesWhile it is possible to spedfy individual stylesheets for each and every individual elementon a Web page, it is useful in some cases togroup elements that share the same character-istics together. This is possible under the CSSspecification, which allows the HTML authorto aMign the same formatting to multiple tags.For example, the following HTML code sets thedisplay characteristics for a number of headers:

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A space is all that is required to stringtogether tags that share the same display ele-

It is also desirable in some cases to spedfyseveral different variations for a single HTML

tag. Tags can be grouped into different class-es, which specify differen display characteris-tics when specified within the code. The fol-lowing HTML code displays how setting threedifferent dasses of the paragraph tag can bespecified and used within a Web page, tochange the color and font of the text that fol-lows it.

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Since, not all browsers support the CSSspecification, keep this in mind when design-ing your Web site. It is not a good idea toindude specific formatting elements thatmaynot make any sense within a browser thatdoes not support the CSS format, so resist thetemptation to use specific style sheet ele-ments within your Web page if it would notmake sense outside of a CSS-compliant brows-er. The following HTML code is an example ofhow you can mislead that part of your audi-ence that does not have a browser that under-stands CSS.

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into a bank. These companies have realizedthat they can pretty much give the serviceaway to gain, or keep, customers; and tosave the costs associated with your visits tothe bank (everything from the building tothe coffee) or the ATM (installation, ser-vice, repair).

It's a lhflndews worldAU of the programs used by these bankinginstitutions are Windows 3.x/95-compatibleprograms. They all expect at least a 386 (CIBCexpects a 486) but shouldn't be run on any-thing less than a 486. They all need amodem — with 9.6 Kbps or 14.4 Kbps being aminimum data transfer rate depending on thebank, These programs are srnan and not intru-

Those programs that use the Internetexpect you to have an In ternet serviceprovider (ISP) but if you don' t, they oftencontain offers and advertisements of onesort or another. Where a provided browser isused by the program to access an Internets ite, you may have a problem with theinstall program overwriting or displacingyour current ISP's software, although this ismore of a problem in Windows 95 than 3.x,To avoid this problem, make sure you arecareful during the installation of your soft-ware. When the program installs, make sureit doesn't do so to your existing browserdirectory. Also, if it asks you if you want it tobe your default provider, think about whichservice you will be accessing the most. Allthe companies have technical support andperhaps due to the newness of this kind ofservice, access to technical support seemsgood.

For Macintosh users there are, at time ofwriting, no programs available for the pri-vate networks. Citizens Sank says it is work-ing on it. The other institutions with closedsystems say nothing or make vague promis-es. On the Internet side, things are brighter.Mbanx wil l only say t o e xpect anannouncement by th e t im e t h i s s toryappears. Royal Sank and Canada Trust tellus that anyone who can access the Webwith a browser can use their banking sys-tems. This is true but they cannot downloadthe data into any Bnancial program as ofyet. Users of Quicken for the Macintoshmay be able to do so in the future but nottoday. Toronto Dominion Sank promisesMac access via the Internet soon, as doesScotiabank.

All in all it seems likely that any Interne-accessed online banking will be operating sys-tem independent soon but that proprietarysystems will not.

Crystal IeaN timeOf the seven services summarized here, twoaccess account information via the Internetonly, three via a proprietary network only,and two via either method. Which is best?That depends. New encryption tectmologyand the OFE built-in safeguards are bringingInternet security to almost the same level asthat of a closed network, while at the sametime, continent-wide, toll-free numbers arebringing private network access doser to theuniversality of Internet access.

Where are we going? Well, it seems thatthe industry is moving toward the Internet.Both technologies will undoubtedly co-existfor some time, but unless there is a seriousI'+< t404) 4OR 9141 Fox: (404) 412-'I'lo®

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breach of security it seems likely that moreand more institutions will do as the Bank ofMontreal's mbanx has done and offerInternet-only access.

As for the future, the advent of smartcards and other electronicwash techniqueshas some industry people suggesting thatyour next keyboard may have a swipe slot fora magnetic strip. Since you can transfer fundswith any of these services, why not put $20 or$50 e-dollars on your smart card before yougo out.

Remember, smart card terminals don' thave to access a network to work and thusthey can be portable, also they will never hita busy signal. Smart cards are as yet waiting inthe wings but their use in select environ-

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ments is likely, As for the future of banktellers, businesses will always need employ-ees, but it is significant to note that Canada'snewest national bank, Citizens Bank, doesnot have any branches! What it does have,however, is online banking.

ing no branches. The company offers tele-banking and home banking and states itsemphasis is on accountable, straightforwardbanking.

Based in Vancouver, Citizens Bank arguesthat it can offer excellent rates and servicedue to its low overhead. It has an excellentWeb page, which includes a demonstration ofthe service, but the online banking service ison a closed network.

The software is a refurbished version ofthe online banking software from the parentcompany, VanCity. The program is basic butperfectly dear and straightforward. It hasnone of the fancy options of a personal finan-cial program, but paying bills immediately orat a future date is as easy as checking the last

account.six months activity on your checking

Other features include: search for specificaccount information based on criteria youprovide; transfer funds between accountswithin the same account number; make pay-ments to loans and mortgages; purchase termdeposits and RI5PS; correspond via emailwith Citizens Sank; apply for a loan or mort-gage and export transaction information tosoftware packages such as Quicken, Lotus 1-2-3, Wordperfect, Microsoft Word andMicrosoft ExceL

And that's the tricky part. As with someothers, you can export data to Quicken butthat is a far different thing than having yourQnancial program automatically

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The Microso/f Way is a book thatpurports to be the real storyabout the success of Microsoft.The author of this coollymethodical business book,Randall Stross, was the firstbusiness historian to haveaccess — and more than threeyears of unrestricted access atthat — to the company's archives. What emergesis an interesting portrait of a company that hasunarguably become the dominant force in thecomputer industry. It contains numerousinsights on the processes and people at workbehind Microsoft, and not incidentally on howto aeate and maintain a competitive softwarecompany. But by dwelling on the positiveaspects of the firm, the book presents a ratherone-sided view of Microsoft.

Any book about Microsoft invites contro-versy, Microsoft is the world's leading soft-ware company, and is valued at more thanUS$75 billion. Microsoft is the focus of con-tinual aiticism from inside and outside thecomputer industry, Its programs are oftenridiculed, its success put down to brute-forcemarketing, and chairman Bill Gates is regu-larly demonized on the Internet.

Stross, however, makes a compelling argu-ment that Microsoft's success does not lie inpredatory or monopolistic marketing practices,but in its eagerness in finding and retainingintelligent employees, acting quickly on brightideas, and listening to feedback from the mar-ketplace. Stross correctly points out that the ini-tial success of the firm was as much a fluke as itwas due to shrewd business planning. WhenIBM launched the PC back in the early 1980s,neither IBM nor Microsoft reabzed the extent towhich MS-DOS would be a success.

~DOS and the release of such successfulprograms as Word and Excel carried the firmuntil the early '90s. But if Microsoft's successprior to 1990 could be attributed at least par-tially to luck, Stross leaves no doubt that its suc-cess after that date is due to anything but luck

Microsoft made a deliberate choice to hirethe brightest people. Not merely people whohad had the most success or were the mostcapable for the task, but people who weredemonstrably intelligent and who had vision.Microsoft has a number of board members andemployees who are drawn directly from theupper echelons of academia, sometimes withlittle direct experience of the software industry.

Time and again these people have providedMicrosoft with the drive to succeed and the flex-ibility to adapt to the ever<hanging softwareindustry, Mcrosoft generally treats employees

Gates realized the potential of CD-ROMtechnology years before it became a trulyviable consumer software medium. He cham-pioned the development of CD-ROMs withinthe firm, often meeting stiff opposition fromhis board of directors, One thing that is madeclear in the hook is that Chairman Bill doesnot have the free reign he is often perceivedas having. In fact, Encarta was once terminat-ed by Microsoft's board. However„a shrewdunderstanding of the marketplace and a basicunderstanding of how CD-ROM-based ency-clopedias would change the traditional ency-clopedia industry made. Encarta's successinevitable. Inevitable to those 'at Microsoft,hut not in the encyclopedia industry, asStross details in his book.

While the book is often eye opening in itscoverage of Miaosoft, and serves as a necessarycorrective to the unfair aiticism often leveled atthe finn, the book takes only a cursory look atthe Arm's failures. A slim chapter is devoted toMicrosoft Money's failure to dominate thefinancial software market. Miaosoft's chiefopponent in this battle, Intuit — the maker ofQuicken — is given fair praise for its marketingacumen and insight into consumer needs.

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Well, endless heurs of practice is one pretty good way. A respectable shortcut, however,would stiH involve serious thought and prac.tice, but fewer hours of trial and error, wititPhotoshop 4 Bible as one's teacher.

A part ef the IDG Bible series, this booklike its companions (Thelrrfranet Bible, The Pf'.Upgrade and Repair Bible, te name a few), bintended to be the ddinitive word on a particular computer subject. Of course, given th<rate of change in the computer field, frequentrevised editions are necessary — aH the betteifor a publisher's bottom line, as Microsoft hatproven.

The MacWorid Photoshop 4 Bible is madenecessary by the release of the latest versiortof Adobe Photoshop, which contains man)different features from its preceding versions,The Photoshop 4 Bible is aimed at showingPhotoshop capabilities by shewing how itdoes particular tasks. In literally hundreds oipages of examples, a rich sampling of usefulwork is shown and desaibed. Very quickly,the reader, practicing theexampleson his other computer, gets a comprehensive workingknowledge of Photoshop.

Author Deke McCleliand assumes that th<reader has a registered copy of the pregrautand an Adobe Photoshep manual, so he does.n't try to reproduce Adobe's decumentatiert(which is among the best of graphic softwaremanuals — it just doesn't have the depth elreal world examples and explanations oiMcCleHand's Bible).

Nevertheless, McCleHand does set thestage with a brief set of chapters in Part I olhis book, laying out the essentials oiPhoteshop and how to use it, and detailinghelpful shoitcuts and scripts that make usingit much more productive. In Part II, the bookcovers more of the basics, including much olthe technical background of working withcemputer graphics: color conventions, filemanagement and formats, printing issues,halftones and color separations.

In Part III, the real strength of the author'sapproach becomes apparent, as in exampleafter example he shows how to paint andprocess digital images. In Parts III throughVII, over 430 luxurious pages of digital ceok.book recipes, the reader learns hundreds oltechniques and sees the results, The finalchapter, Part VII, covers creating images foithe World Wide Web. The book finishes upwith a series of appendices„ including someinstallation help and infonuation on how tause the software on the CD-ROM that 8included with the book.

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I have to confess a personal bias againstour current passion for creating illustrationswith computer-manipulated photographs. Ofimages manipulated by Photoshop, we seeless and less of the artist's hand in the fin-ished work, and I think we are poorer for it.I'd like to see more great art coming fromartists using computers, rather than artistsmerely touching up snapshots and stockimages.

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Royal Bank's services include: an exten-sive Web page with oodles of information,Internet banking (Royal Direct Internet .Banking), PC banking (Royal Direct PCBanking}, and, like pretty much everybody,telephCitizensone baing. The Web page has agreat demo of the company's PC Banking andthe software that comes with the service isexcellent.

As mentioned, Royal Bank purchasedManaging Your Money and has made it themost integrated front end of any Canadianpersonal banking program. The softwaredownloads the bank's records of your transac-tions and tries to match up entries in yourregister. If you have not already entered infor-mation about a particular debit or deposit youneed only select "New" to update yourrecords, If the program finds an entry for $35on the 15th it will match it. Select "OK" toaccept, or if the transaction is different, sim-ply scroll until you have found the correctentry and select "Match."

In this way users have a choice betweensimply keeping a record of their accounttransactions or actually recording informa-tion before it appears on the bank's records.This is particularly useful if a payee is notpunctual about cashing the cheques you havegiven them.

The Royal Bank's two home-banking ser-vices are not interchangeable. These are sepa-rate services and it is best to use one system,not both. The primary system here is the pri-vate network system. Both methods work, butManaging Your Money is best suited to adosed network, it is not a browser. Of all thesystems currently available, Royal Direct PCBanking is the best.

netbanxingFrom: Mbanx (Bank of Montreal)Tel: 888-mbanx-11Web site: http: //www.mbanx.cornIf nothing else, the Bank of Montreal getsthe "Hip to Be Cool" award. In a blatantattempt to shed their rich and stuffy reputa-tions, many of Canada's financial institu-tions have dedded to give themselves anickname. However, only Mbanx came upwith something really interesting. It alsogets the "Best Commercial" award for thecommercial showing 300 children in a coun-try setting singing, The Times They Are AChangin'.

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little banxious). Netbanxing is 24=hour PCbanking that works with the financial soft-ware program Quicken, but not well. Toexport data to the program is di f f icult.Fortunately, mbanx has announced a dealwith Intuit that will see a greater integrationbetween the online service and Quicken.

Users of Quicken 6 will be able to auto-matically update their account informationin the program from the mbanx Web site bythe time you read this. Quicken users andmbanx customers will be able to transferaccount transaction information directly intoQuicken. This new service will reduce theneed for manual data entry and is a substan-tial improvement over cumbersome "first-generation" import/export routines that can-not take advantage of the. automated recon-ciliation and other smart features pre-wired inQuicken.

Mbanx customers who have Quicken 6 forWindows will be able to activate these onlinebanking features at no extra cost. The plantakes the service from good to great and willbring the mbanx/Intuit team dose to thelevel of ease and sophistication of the RoyalBank/Managing Your Money team. All in all,netbanxing seems to be a leader and a good

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The proprietary system is, as are all the oth-ers, able to perform the standard functionsof paying bills, transferring money betweenaccounts, reviewing t r ansactions, andchecking rates, The Net system also hasthese abilities and is free (of course youhave to have an ISP and a Canada Trustaccount).

What makes EasyWeb great is that, likethe Bank of Montreal, Canada Trust has cometo an agreement with Intuit to conform to theOFE standard. Thus users of Quicken orMicrosoft Money (which also conforms to thenew Microsoft/Intuit standard) will have amuch more automatic way to bring theiraccount information into a f inancial pro-

The Canada Trust Web site is very goodand there is a tour if you are interested intheir online banking. EasyWeb is not cur-rently available in Quebec. Because of thenewness of the standard and the agree-ments between Intuit, Canada Trust andmbanx we were unable to test the newlinks, but i f t hey perform as advertised,Canada Trust and mbanx will be catchingup to the truly integrated software/serviceof the Royal Bank.

TD Access: PCFrom: Toronto Dominion BankTel: 888-983-TDPGWeb site: http: //www.tdbank.caThe Toronto Dominion Bank has one of thelargest Web sites of any bank in the world. Ithas continually led the banking communityin online services. Its extensive site is writtenin English, French and Chinese and has morepages on it than you can count (somewhereIn Canada: P.O. Box 62516 • Cedar Hills, Surrey, BC V3V 7V6

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in excess of 30,000 we understand). So it is nosurprise that TD has an online banking ser-

However, it is a surprise that the serviceis on a private network. TD Access: PC is afull-service banking for your home PC thatincludes the expected functions as well asaccess to Green Line, TD's discount broker-age service. TD advertises that, "the futureof banking and investing is having access toyour accounts 24 hours a day, anywhereyou are. TD Access: PC will offer you secure24-hour access to your personal and busi-ness accounts, plus access to Green LineInvestor Services, Canada's largest discountbrokerage. Online, real-time access, that letsyou pay bills, transfer money betweenaccounts and view your accounts, includingyour Visa."

There are no connection fees and the soft-ware for TD Access: PC is free, until sometimein this spring. TD claims its service is the mostsecure home-banking service in N o r thAmerica and this is probably so. However,with the new security of Internet access, itlooks like TD is considering an Internet ser-vice, in which case, we suspect these claimswill suddenly go silent. TD Access: PC is avery good closed network service.

Best of the hunchThe field is moving too quickly to say withany authority where the most value lies. Thecomplexities of various pricing structures,subtleties of interface preferences, dual accessoptions and their costs, and numerous simi-lar-yet-different account functions makes anexhaustive analysis quite impossible. We

believe that many people will select a bankbased on these services, but we do not believethat many people will change banks becauseof these services. The experience of onlinebanking, however, makes it clear that there isno going back.

This is one of the most logical, usefuland convenient functions the home com-puter has ever offered and woe to any insti-tution that t r ies to take i t away onceoffered. This year will undoubtedly be theyear that onl ine banking goes ballistic.When grandma realizes she can sit in herden and pay the bills, there will be no stop-ping it. If we were to give one institutionthe nod at this time it would have to be theRoyal Bank for its truly integrated service.Look for this to change as new standards areadopted. 0

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Creating e teel chestMost serious HTML authors eventually end upwith a "tool chest" of their favorite Web-author-ing applications. Despite claims to the contraryby software manufacturers, there is no singleHTML editor or tool that handles all types ofHTML jobs equally well. Instead, there are a

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HTML "tool chest" over time, containingfavorite programs that do particular aspects ofHTML very well. A typical tool chest consists ofa number of Web editors, a few programs thatconvert existing documents to HTML, someWeb site programs and a few other miscella-neous programs.

HTML editors are a standard part of anyHTML toolkit. There are two basic types: tageditors and WYSIWYG editors. Tag editorsprovide the Web author with direct controlover the tags that go into a Web page. Themain advantage of this type of editor is thatthey are flexible: you can insert a tag any-where you want within a Web page. The maindisadvantages are that you have to alreadyknow some HTML basics to use them, andcreating individual Web pages using them is

WYSIWYG editors (actually pseudo-WYSI-WYG, as what you see is not always what youget, due to the ways different browsers displayHTML) present a display that is a roughequivalent of the text and other elements thatwould be displayed by a Web browser. Thesetypes of editors can be add-ons or simple con-version packages to existing word processingprograms like Microsoft Word or CorelWordperfect. Their main advantage is speed,because they can produce a lot of HTML pagesquickly. This arrangement is perfect if youhave a number of already existing documentsyou want to transform into Web pages. Theirmain disadvantage is they tend to be inflexi-ble, and may not easily allow you to add newtag types within an HTMI. document,

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A final wordYou now have access to the basics tools nec-essary for an HTML author's tool chest. Buttools alone do not make a good Web site, youhave to put some work into the creation,design and care of a Web site to keep peoplecoming back. Here are some simple tips tokeep in mind when creating a Web site,

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