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Bandwidth Blues We were on a quest this month, the company's technical guys and myself, We wanted to find the best way to connect our company network to the Internet and to find a new home for our Web server. The thing that set this off was the decline and fall of our ISDN line. An ISDN line is a high-speed digital line from our office to our Internet service provider's (ISP's) office. We rent it from the phone company, for about twice the cost of a regular business line. It is capable of delivering 128Kbps of bandwidth, though it rarely achieves that rated speed. Even so, it is usually quite a bit faster than a regular modem line and worth the extra charges. We have hadan ISDN line for about two years now, and in general it worked pretty well. The last three months, though, have been hell — the kind of hell that sneaks up on you, like those famous frogs in a hot water kettle. As the heat goes up, they don't notice that they aregetting cooked. One day, we woke up and realized that we were getting cooked, The line went down so often that users in the office no longer believe assurances that the line would be back up shortly. We were waiting three days to get back online. For our information intensive office, it is the equivalent of having our phone lines cut. Everyone was getting irritable. Connecting to the Internet in the best possible way is a huge challenge. Imagine, if you will, that the Internet consists of a giant Rube Goldberg contraption — a huge set of pipes that interconnect. Where you connect has all kinds of implications for how fast your connection will be. If you are lucky enough to connect close to the "big pipe" that goes out of town, your connections to other cities will be good. Often, with an ISP, you are connected to a connection to someone else's connection, to the "big pipe" that goes out of town. Really bizarre things happen with routing, even when yougeta good connection out of town. The route will sometimes shock you. To get from our office in Vancouver, to our own Web site in Vancouver, we bounced through Seattle. Going across the country to one of our sites in Montreal resulted in a trip through Hartford, Connecticut and New York City. Most ISPs are reselling their bandwidth. ISPs do this on the same principle as fitness clubs that sell thousands of memberships, when in reality they can only service a couple of hundred people at a time. They know that most peopie have good intentions to use the facility, but often do not. It is common for ISPs to have line ratios of 10 to one; that is, 100 lines for 1,000 customers. Most of the time this works well. in peal' periods, such as early evenings, users sometlnxes get some slow downs and busy signals. An important question to ask any ISP is "what is your bandwidth utilization?" Ask for charts and graphs. Ask the question a couple of times. Ask the salesperson, then ask the technical person. Differences in their responses are often revealing. We often get requests from people asking "which is the best ISP?" or "who should I go to for the best connection for my Web server, or my ISDN line?" The answer to each of these queries is different. ISPs are set up with different emphasis, and as you will see in the following discussion, it is often very difficult to discern which will provide a good service. An ISP who provides great service for dial up customers might not be the best for a company looking to serve a Web site, or put an entire network of users online. The factors that make up a great connec-

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I) their connection to the I nternet (i.e., where they plug in on the food chain); 2) their bandwidth utilization (i.e., how many times they have resold the same bandwidth); 3) and how good they are at keeping their connections alive and working ( i.e., how many high-quality tech support people they have <<<i for how marly hours a <la)I' con1bined with how well they set it up in the first place' and how overworked they are.) Not too slow S<i, our quest began. We set out for a visit to our first ISP. It did not inspire confidence. This place could probably provide great service to a couple of thousand dial u p c u stomers, but it did not seem like the best place for us. Their bandwidth utilization was claimed to be very low. We wondered at the veracity of this number given what we heard from other ISPs later. We were not confident that their tech support would be in place when we neededit.We moved on. Another company we visited offered a more professional level of service to a nn<ch larger group, close to 10,000 dial up users. The whole set up was much more polished, but their bandwidth utilization was claimed to be much higher, estimated at 85 percent. We moved on. Not too fast One more stop was at a company that seemed to have all the high-end answers. These people were alumni of high-end networking companies, and had some brilliant ideas and solutions about redundancy, setting up guaranteed bandwidth and constant monitoring of their connections through the use of scripts and pinging and pagers. The problem with this company was that we received no follow up on our request for a quote. Finally, we landed at a company that seemed to have the things we wanted. Good connectivity, good utilization and decent tech support. We balked when we got to their pricing. When we added it all up, we realized we could almost buy our own Tl c onnection (about six times the speed of an ISDN line) from the phone company for the amount that this company was asking. fust riyht? We were approached by people in our building who were planning to create a buying co-op for their own T3 line. They were proposing to bypass the telephone company altogether a'nd rent some kind of laser beam contraption that shot a beam from our office directly to the downtown nexus of the Internet, a building about a half dozen blocl s from ours. One more possibility is to actually get our own Tl, so that our bandwidth is guaranteed. This seems relatively plug and play once it is installed, but it does require more technical support on our end. This approach is also more expensive than others, but the bandwidth is all ours. This is all so confusing. The differences in the options are enormous, and the consequences ofselecting the wrong approach are significant. The jury is still out. We will keep you posted on where we end up. Enjoy the issue. Douglas Alder Publisher

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U.S.-based prnfcssional Web site design firms (Mirai Consulting, published in M«cweek,Oct. 16, 1995; Webweek,Oct. 7, 1996) Apple is the Number I computer company worldwide in user loyalty, with 87 percent of users repurchasing Macintosh computers (Computer Intelligence InfoCorp, June 18, 1996) Apple is the Number I computer in K-12 education, with 60 percent market share (Quality Fducation Data, 1996-97 Teclorolog I'orris>sir(t Forer«st). Apple is also thc Number I computer in

tial or biased information, or just plain, good old-fashioned ignorance. Misinformation is being spread concerning the state of Apple Computer; The Computer P«per'sreadership deserves better. Here are the facts: Macintosh is the Number 1 multimedia vendor in the world — for the second year in a row w it h 1 8 . 8 p e rcent m a rket s hare (h4rdtimedi«M«rket Trends,Dataquest, 1996.) Macintosh is the Number I platform for World Wide Web authnring, with 41 percent market share worldwide, and 64 percent of

college and higher educatinn institutions (Roper College Track, 1994; C omputer Intelligence InfoCnrp, 1994. More current statistics unavailable). Apple is the Number I U.S. computer vendor in Japan, and the Number 3 vendor overall in Japan (Dataquest, March 1996). Apple is the Number I computer used for color desktop publishing, with 80 percent of the market share (Griffin D i x R esearch Associates, 1996). There are roughly 14,000 applications for the Macintosh, nearly 3,000 i n n a t i ve PowerMac code. After I)nix, the Mac OS is the tnost popular platform fnr World W'idc We(i servers ((.icorgia Institute o f l ec h n ology, r eferenced in .),I«erv«rial, Nnv. 11, I99S).

Regardless of thc platform designed tn run on, 42 or the SO tnlr-selling CD-Rt)M titles worldwide were developed nn htacintnsh (Lightstone Tl>nn>psnn 199S) The Macintosh platform is used for 6S percent of postprnductinn video editing (Filin 6: I'i|leo, 199S). The Mac is used by 25.85 percent of all Internet users to access the Internet. 1 here are currently over 8 0 m i l lion Macintosh users worldwide. Most importantly, Computer Intelligence has recently reported (March 5, 1997) that the Macintosh OS actually took market share away from the X86 platform over the past year. While the Mac OS increased its market share 61.4 percent, the X86 platform actually decreasedby 5.1 percent. As a result, the Mac OS market share grew from eight percent in November 1996 to 11 percent in January 1997. As CI industry analyst Matt Sargent states,"the

Macintosh platform is anything but dead." Of course, much of this increase is the result of the emergence of Mac clones; hnwever, the decision to licence its OS was at the initiative of Apple, and is part of its long-term strategy to improve its market share position. Toward this end, Apple's efforts are obviously paying off. In addition, Mr. Firth's comment regarding Apple's acquisition of NeXT and its current OS development are puzzling. He concludes, "Apple now has an unfinished and untested OS that history has shown will take at least a year and vast financial resources to develop." What history is he referring to? Microsoft's and IBM's! A new release for the Ivlac OS is now shipping, and System 8.0 is due to ship this July. System 8.0, previously code-named Tempo, will incorporate much of the Copeland technology Mr. Firth claims Apple has given

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Revenge on the nerds I read with great interest you article about Revenge on the nerds (letter from the editor, April '97). I, too, am not convinced that technology is always the way to go. Ironically, my profession is to teach businesses how to use computer applications such as CorelDRAW. In reality, I find some instances where it's better to use the trusty, manual method. For example, I bought an accounting package two years ago, I tried to figure out the program myself and took a week to sift through the documentation (hard and soft). I then tried to customize the invoice program that came with the package. That didn't work. I got so frustrated that I sold the software through the classifieds. My accountant convinced me to give it another try, so I bought the updated version. That version now sits on my shelf collecting dust. I see no faster way than writing invoices by hand as soon as the order comes in. No need to boot up the computer, start the software, feed the invoice through the dot-matrix printer, and hope that it prints out OK. In fact, personal handwriting is, in my opinion, in vogue as most business correspondence is computerized

aren't perfect the first time, and I hate proofreading off the computer. So I have to do this process several times a night. I' ve concluded that I spent just as much time printing the essay, as proofreading it, Now I' ve looked for solutions. I' ve tried different print drivers for the Win95 format and have emailed the companies involved (Corel, Microsoft and Xerox) for a solution, but the More reveniie only answer I received was from Corel telling I am a high school student and just handed in a beautiful history paper before spring break. me that they couldn't fix my problem (guessed This paper was worth one of the biggest marks as much) and that they were forwarding the for the term so a computer w'as a must. So, I problem to someone who could (I'm assuming ' went to w ork o n m y P - 166 and Corel Xerox), As of yet, I have not received an W ordperfect Suite 7, w h il e r unning o n answer and am not expecting one (I tried solvWindows 95. Writing the paper was the easiest ing this problem last year). Though I love my computer and all of it thing I did= compared to printing it, At an office replacement sale, we picked up programs and quirks, going through this a Xerox 4045-100 Series laser printer. This process is not as funny at 4 o' clock in the morning when you find out — just after you' ve printer takes a while to warm up, but once it does, the image quality and speed are excel- turned both your printer and computer offthat you' ve missed a period in one of the footlent. However, Xerox does not make a print notes. Maybe I should go back to my 386, driver for the 4045 in Windows 95. The print hmmmmmm. driver it does inake is for Windows 3.x. So what Carl Tan, via Internet am I todo? The convoluted solution is to run Windows World Wide Wait 3.1 and another program, (because Corel requires Win95), t o pr i n t s o m ething. Until flipping through Web pages is as fast as Therefore in order to print my Wordperfect changing channels on a TV, the Internet will remain highly overrated — busy signals, downmasterpiece, I have to: loading times, connection speeds, low-quality A) Type it out in Corel. (Why? Because I'm video and audio transmissions, just to name a spoiled and I really, really like all of the few. And until these problems are rectified, the gadgets and doohickeys in Word Perfect). Internet should be called by its true name; the B) Convert it to Microsoft Word format. World Wide Wait. C) Exit Win95 to DOS mode. Vince Marin, Calgary D) Start Windows 3.1. E) Start Microsoft Word. More on litigation F) Then print the copy. While Douglas Gray provided a good general I could look past this convoluted path if I just had to print the paper once, but things overview (SOHO column: "Avoiding common and lacks a personal touch. I could go on and on about personal organizers...l use a $5 monthly school calendarneeds no batteries, and I can look at it in a glance. No need to boot up the... Yadda, yadda. Technology is great. When it works, Tom Anzai,

litigation mistakes" April '97), he did not mention an avenue for dispute resolution that is gaining increasing popularity, The concept of alternative dispute resolution is not only gaining increasing acceptance within the legal profession, but in Ontario, mediation will soon be a required precursor to most cases before they can be heard in court. Other provinces already have, or are planning, similar measures to ease the heavy burden on the courts system. Mediation and arbitration are often better suited to the early resolution of disputes involving small operations. This process normally has a lower cost than litigation and, what is often very important, is in complete privacy, since it can be shielded from the public exposure inherent in our open courts system. The rules governing the legal profession, at least in Ontario, require lawyers to advise their clients of the availability of this process. Walter Seaton, Toronto They' re not otItdated, they' re history The article on architectural software on your Web site is inaccurate. Autodesk does not have the Home Series Architecture, I spoke to them and they told me it has been long gone. The only software they have for architecture is the Kitchen, not the whole house. Please update this article. Mariane van Durden, via internet DA replies: Note that the review originally appeared in The Computer Paper (the newsprint version) in February1 995. It is not our practice to update stories in our oniiire archives. They are an archive of what was once tnie. As you can well imagine it would greatly increase the amount of work of maintaining our Web site to go back and change every storyweever wrote to ii iclude the latest sofhvare releases nnd facts.

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Finan cial Review. Affordable next-lleneratlon network scanner from H-P • One of the principal requirements of networked business enterprises is to use technology to make information accessible quickly, easily and reliably for everyone in the organization who needs it. One of the greatest challenges is to deal with information that exists on paper: order forms, correspondence, manuals, and other paper-based archival material. One of the most popular solutions is to "digitalize" the mountains of paper, so the information can be stored in and accessed from a computer database. To convert paper records into digital form, cornpanies such as Fujitsu and Canon have over the years developed high-speed scanners to scan dozens or hundreds of pages per minute, and transmit the images to a networked database. In many cases, these workhorse network scanners cost in t h e $ 15000 to $35,000 range. Hewlett-Packard (Canada) has now

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25,000 version and eight-disc 65,000 model offer good value overall, but are bit on the c onservative side when it c omes to t h e design attributes. This progressive company also bundles a The flagship 65,000 Image Pak boasts simple-to-use browser and graphic editor, 5,000 photos and 2,000 fonts, while the less which makes it possible for you to manipulate expensive one has 1,000 fonts but no photos. the images and make numerous changes before A high-quality clip art catalog (color in the pasting them into your favorite document. 65,000 Pak, black and white in the 25,000 Pak) offers a number of and decent browser complete the packages. clip ar t p a ckages Click Art also offers four other packages that are not commonly available: Art Parts under its Click Art brand name. Bundle (woodblock engravings), www.art Available in two different packages, the h... (300 Web images), Cartoons Fun Pak (500 Image Pak clip art collections are well suited i s ingle-frame c a r toons), a n d Fa m o us to users who want to keep expenses down. The 25,000 Image Pak only costs about $40, Magazine Cartoons (royalty-free, well-known while the more extensive 65„000 Pak goes for cartoons). Masterclips a reasonable $67. Super Art Paclr 3%,000 Both versions Click Art From: Softkey i deal f o r I found it awkward, however, to "search" Pdce: $40 for a specific clip art image using IMSI's builtb eginners o r At this price, the casual graphic in software, especially when you have to hunt Softkey Super Art designers who through 14 different CD-ROMs. Fortunately, Pack is exactly don't need IMSI does include a comprehensive, blackthe same price as and-white catalog of all images. sophisticated, B roder b u n d ' s e~; i Compand to high-end products, such as detailed images Click Art 25,000, but desire reasonthose offered by Image Qub, the MasteKIips colbut offers more. ably good quality lection trails behind in overall quality and origiIn t o t al , the nality, and some of the images are less than clip art that covSoftkey clip art ers a variety of mediocre. However, overall it's still a wellmecutcomes with topics, themes, and objects. The Click Art Image ed package. Besides, this is the only product to 33,000 images, including 2,500 photos, 1,200 offer such a large number of photo images and Pak competes head to head with other nudsound clips, and 2,000 fonts. Like the IMSI p riced products, such a s New Vision the famous Dover Collection of illustrations. product, Softkey also throws in 300 handwritTechnology's Task Force, which is similarly In general, the images tend to be relativeing fonts that can help make your letter look priced. ly simple and the quality is not consistent more personal and inviting. Although the Image Pak doesn't stand across the categories. But when it comes to Owned by T h e L earning Company, out as an innovative product, it strikes a giving you the widest, largest selection of images to choose from, Masterclips is a hard good middle ground between the this-is-too- Softkey takes pride in offering value-oriented products at cut-rate prices, and the Super Art act to follow. No wonder it's one of the best- much IMSI 150,000 collection and nichemarketed Image Club. Both the three-disc Pack is no exception. seiling clip art software packages. While this t h ree-disc collection has enough clip art, photos, and images to please h most beginners and casual users, keep in i mind that the images are plain, simple, and h Iih'a/i'Club'S:$13' 5 :-' p ackage Iles'-a "perfKt >~ somewhat boring, at least for my taste. If „'5oinevvrji&; behjvee'rI:th'e Exert's $2(I'.elf~ h51id -.:-::-'-4Rl4.-;~-'.~:::.='4<"~-.e ".:<$' you' re looking for clip art to use in business or '"pro@icf for you. Here are some guidhlines tokeep in rnihd. :'.'~~="-':;.::". ~z Drirj't overuse clipart. Two to fogr images pei page should be 'pIeiity for most work.;~~~,'.»' professional publications, you may f i nd ."~'0 Keep. the theme.consj~nj. Try not to,mix radically differeqt Wsjr)n styles-.orr'the same < Softkey images to be too unsophisticated (the photos, though, were of higher quality than h ' ~:.„: Vary'thesizes of the irna~ges.Shrek', expand, or' stretch clipait'to':r'lT@'eacK'Ofter-a'differerit "; the clip art images). ::.',-;' Also, I was disappointed that Softkey didn' t emphasis throughout your publication;. -,'~44.:~" '::~'~C"~~~ A ,': -:;.'.F;;..W';::-;:>~! hpria include an indexed image catalog with the packte design theme for specific 4einographics,fj;,Q'~~<, +!» <<>„>-Kntjw +ur audierice. Use anappro h age. 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PCS arrives There was also a lot of interest in the new personal communications services (PCS) digital mobfle telephones and data communications services that have recently begun operation in many Canadian markets. BC Tel Mobility, for example, showed off the new PCS telephones and data communications devices that can be used with its new digital network, which went into service in March. The company promised that users would enjoy a number of advanced features from the outset, including calling-line identification and a visual indication of when new messages have been left on their PCS voicemail service. BC Tel Mobility is further promising that

text messaging and email notification will also come soon to the new PCS system. The company is not, however, cutting off its existing cellular network from new PCS users. Recognizing that users might not be satisfied with the limited coverage that the PCS network will provide in it s i nitial stages (which ha s s t arted w it h t h e G r eater Vancouver area only), BC Tel Mobility is hoping that most customers will opt to use "dualmode" PCS/cellular phones. "The new digital phones are dual-mode," says Ted Lattimore, vice-president of marketing for BC TEL MobiBty. "So they automatically work on both our digital and regular cellular network. He adds that when used in PCS mode, the

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Cybersound Studio retails for US$99. Apple had a sizable presence at the show, and was displaying some high-end audio and ' CD-ROM mastering t o ols. P articularly impressive were the demonstrations by DigiDesign, showing off the professionalquality audio software. Its Pro Tools Ill offers up to 48 disc tracks, up to 64 channels, and a comprehensive internal digital mixing environment. For this you will need to dedicate a lot of Mac hardware, but if you are looking at setting up a professional digital recording studio, this is an option well worth investigating, The Apple Music 6( Multimedia Show was a successful (not to mention entertaining) portion of Canadian Music Week. Expect the

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Dn the exhibition floor As mentioned previously, multimedia was one of the key markets to watch this year. Much of the excitement in this area stems from the introduction of DVD (digital video disc) technology. With double sided, double layered disc storage capacity reaching a staggering 17 GB, it is easy to understand why it has crossindustry appeal.The consumer electronics market sees it as a replacement for the VCR; the computer industry (including game developers) like the storage and multimedia capabilities; and the entertainment industry see it as an excellent means to distribute movies and to enhance the quality of the movie delivered into the home. So with all these benefits, why hasn't it made a bigger splashy Two reasons are suggested: the demand Hollywood has put on DVD manufacturers to provide regional coding to prevent people from watching movies that have not yet been released in their home market; and, perhaps the bigger issue, the ability of DVD to record data. Currently only DVD players are available — units capable of recording are expected to be available by the end of this year. By the end of 1998, fully recordablejerasable DVD should be available. Another technology that was well represented throughout CeBIT was intel Pentium MMX. Every PC manufacturer's stand demonstrated the multimedia power of the MMX. The World VA'de Web commanded a overwhelming presence on the floor at CeBIT'97.

Service providers, modem manufacturers, Web designers, and consultants were in abundance. In Europe, Internet use continues to grow, but still falls behind North America. In North America, Web surfers pay a monthly charge with some extra charges tacked on if their monthly connect-time limit is exceeded. In Europe, however, users also pay per minute for the local call to their Internet service provider (ISPs) in addition to the ISP's monthly access fee. A whole new meaning to "baud"

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around $270, whereas a 3.2 GB drive will go for roughly $420. If you' re in the market for a new drive but have to watch every last dollar you spend, then you may have no choice but to go for the smaller drive. However, if storage space and performance are your primary concerns, then it's easy to see how the extra $150 will be very well spent to get an extra 2 GB of space, as well as the performance benefits that are certain with the newer model drives. The other deciding factor was the ever growing need for more space. What may have

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as 403 MB! These are only two applications, and a lthough they are certainly among t h e largest, it is definitely a sign of things to come. Remember when your applications required what was then a measly 2 MB or 3 MB to install? Well, those days are long over, and we can look forward to more of the spacehungry variety, especially with the onset of DVD-based programs just around the comer. Kind of makes you wonder, if a 650 MB CDROM-based application can require as much

as 200 MB (as in the case of MS Office 97 Pro}, what's in store for us when 4.5 GB DVD titles hit the stores? But even before the onslaught of DVD titles, we have plenty to consider with the several thousand programs currently available. Some need hardly any hard drive space, while others will try and hog nearly every last precious byte. All applications aside, the operating system you prefer will also be a determining factor in how large your hard drive will be. Good

ol' DOS was the most disk-space friendly, requiring roughly 5 MB for a complete install, including all.those useless files you' ll never in your life have any use for. Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 weren't all that different, requiring just a few MB more. Then came Windows 95, very popular today and found on many hard drives, eating up anywhere from 30 MB to 80 MB. Among the more space-hungry are Windows NT, Linux, and other flavors of Unix. â&#x20AC;˘ Needless to say, precious hard-drive space

is something you can never have too much of. Well, okay, maybe you can. if you obsess over two or three particular games and you have one of these new 6.4 GB drives containing nothing but add-on levels ... well, you get the idea, Aside from the space your applications will require, you will also want to consider how much room y our d ata w il l n eed. Depending on what you do with your cornputer on a day-to-day basis, this can be one of the most important factors in deciding on the size of drive to buy. If most of your work is centered around word processing or spreadsheet calculations, it may be a while before

you run low on space. On the other end of things, there are those who work with graphics-intensive files. ln the publishing business especially, a single file can easily run you into the tens of megabytes. And if you have to work with more than a few of these at any one time, or if an entire collection must reside on your drive at all times, you can easily imagine how quickly a gigabyte or two will be used up. Another area where drive space is of great importance is in audio and video editing, where just a few minutes worth of digital data will eat up massive amounts of space. These are only a few of the many examples-where it seems you can never have too much hard-drive space. Since the cost per megabyte is at an ail-time low, it may be worth working out a rough estimate of how much space you' ll actually need, and factoring in what we often refer to as "breathing room." There's nothing worse than going out and buying a brand new drive double the size of your current one only to find it three quarters full in under a month. With the way things are right now, we feel that a drive with a capacity of 3 GB wN not only meet most consumers' needs, but will also give them some overhead for the future. Let's face it, nobody wants to buy a new hard drive every six months, which is why we recommend

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planning ahead. And you shouldn't worry too much about spending a lot of money on a new drive only to see it advertised for half the price a few months later. Last year, 1.2 GB capacity hard drives were selling for around $350. Those same drives today are selling for $270. What this shows is that hard drive prices don't really drop significantly in a short period of time, but as new technology becomes available, the new line of drives will sell for the same price that the old line once did. The new line of drives having capacities of 3.1 GB are selling for around $400 today. By this time next year, 3.1 GB drives could very well be replaced by 5 and 6.4 GB units (today's high-end models), and will probably sell for close to the same amount of money.

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already purchased separate faxes, printers, scanners, et al. Or maybe they just weren' t offering abilities attractive enough to draw most of us toward a purchase, as the iniqui-

tous 9.6Kbps modem still shows up in some and the interminable 14.4Kbps in others. Lexmark got out of th e MFP business

entirely last spring. "The market just wasn' t what we anticipated it would be," Jim Joseph,

Lexmark's manager of media relations, explained, (Those who ovm a Lexmark MFP

needn't worry, however, Joseph said the com. pany will support its product through the warranty period, They just aren't shipping any more new units, so you won't find them

in our survey here,) But Lexmark's response to the market isn' t to be interpreted as a sign that the MFP is

modbund. As you' ll see from the following round up of what's currently offered by major manufacturers, prices are largely on the downswing while tech specs are tending rather toward the other direction. And new

x2 DownjoadsNearly Twice AsFast Introdudng x2 Technology from U.S. Robotics. A revolutionary break-

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still to be high on most avid computerists and

chased af'ter August 15, 1996 is software upgradable to x2. Or you can find the Sportster that's right for you,

smail and horne office (SOHO) operators' lists of practical things to consider.

with x2 capabilities already built in, on store shelves today.

What Is an WIFIb? A true multi-function peripheral will have five major functions: printer, scanner, copier, fax and faxmodem. Faxand faxmodem are

loading nearly hvice as fast with the dozens of Internet service providers

models continue to hit the retail shelves even as you read this. Ultimately, an MFP ought

counted as two separate devices despite being centered on the same electronics because

Either way, you can start down-

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your MFP can be used as astandalone fax and as a substitute for your traditional internal

U,S. Robotics has a long history of supporting international communica-

faxmodern card. Likewise, the separate print-

tions standards. And, while the ITU-T committee has not yet recommended

r and copier designations

both use the same printer engme but, thanks to soft ware utilities and the builtin scanner, the MFP will

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buying an inkjet printer ($350), standalone fax ($350), hand scanner ($150), personal photocopier ($400), and faxmodem card ($125) combined. The real advantage pushed at the time was economy of desk space over just plain economy. New the major MFP advantages over individual components have been maximized in saving valuable desk space, producing plain paper faxes, costing collectively less than individual components and â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in some casesproducing color output. So you' ve got pretty

good motivation to revisit the possibility of placing one of these space saving devices on your desk. Brother Models: MFC-690 (MFC890MC), MFC-1750 (1950Plus), MFC-4550 (6550MC) From: Brother International Corporation CanadaLtd. Estimated street prices: $369 (MFC-690), $429 (MFC890MC), $599 (FC-1750), $699 (MFC-1950Plus), $1,299 (MFC-4550), $1.5M (MFC-6550MC). Brother appears to be aggressively chasing the

MFP market by introducing six models over the course of 1996. And, as you can see from the prices, Brother has managed to come up with a variety of technologies so that an MFP of some sort. can be had within just about any budget. Starting at the lower end, the MFC-690 and 890MC are both based around what we might call an enhanced thermal fax engine, albeit employing Brother's Anti-Curling System ACS and ThermaPlus Paper, which feels very much like regular old bond. If you can live with that, the thermal fax will be your printer and your copier. Both models feature a 15-page document feeder, distinctive-ring detection switch, and 49 m (164 ft.) paper roll capacity, When con-

nected to your computer, both models are also CallerlD ready and 64 grey-scale capable. Other faxy features include an electronic cover-page generator, next fax reservation and remote activation. Both models are Twain compliant and offer 400 dots per inch

(dpi) scanning (interpolated).

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are working closely with them to create one. Whatever standard is eventually established, U.S. Robotics will offer

the easiest possible upgrade path.

Supported ByIndustry Leaders x2 is already being supported by major chipset makers and original equipment manufacturers, as well as online services with more than 15 million subscribers. With widespread

~AY%" scanner and a PC fax with lots of nifty features like 20-page sheet feeder, 200-page paper cassette and 256KB memory for when '

acceptance and deployment from such industry leaders as America Online, CornpuServe and NETCOM, it's easy to see why x2 is setting the pace for

that paper runs out. Telephony features include the ability to make use of your local phone company's caller-ID and distinctivering options. The MFC-1950Plus incorporates the message centre as a sixth function. Again you get the five mail boxes and fax/voice messagewndemand. The 1950Plus also comes bundled with Xerox's very good TextBridge optical character recognition (OCR) software. Finally, at the pricier end of Brother's catalogue, come the MFC-4550 and MFC6550MC. These two are laser printer-based MFPs t hat ;. mi g ht strain the

online speed.

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600x600 dpi, 6 pages per minute (ppm) laser engine, which serves as your printer and copier. The scanner is 400x400 Twain compliant and, as usual, the PC fax is in there too. Most appreciated is the software bundle called Multi-function Link PRO, which includes a simple to use viewer/editor and drag-and-

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standalone faxes and so very good at conserving that all too rare desk space. Both these machines immediately struck me as ultimately wantable, though the 800 would only be of interest to those with minimal requirements. The simple control panel that surrounds their LCD displays is easy to figure out and their "fax machine" shape means they' ll sit comfortably on most desks. Document feed and paper feed are both straight path, back-to-front with little chance

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bundled only with one software application called Desktop Manager, which acts as a control centre for the five functions of the machine. The C2500 differs greatly in that, as the name might indicate, it's based on Canon's popular BJC-4100 color inkjet printer engine. Here we have true four-color printing at resolutions up to 720x360 dpi on a variety of media, including T-shirts! The fax is a much more satisfying 14.4Kbps with 42 pages of memory and that same one-hour battery backup, The PC fax is quite simply an extension of that and the 200 dpi scanner is the same as that in the 800 model. The C2500 comes with slightly more software than the 800. The bundle includes Canon's own Creative CD-ROM, which is full of utilities, in addition to Desktop Manager v1,4 . XwfQX

Model: Document WorkCantar 25Q From: XEROX Canada Ltd XEROX will be introducing a couple of new MFPs in 1997, but does not want to reveal any information about them prematurely (read: in this survey), Its Document Vt/orkCenter 250 of last year was a very practical and economical MFP that included the impressive TextBridge OCR package. 5o, those with a loyalty to, or a hankering for, a Xerox product may wish to wait until the new models are announced sometime late this summer or contact Xerox directly for more information. Lumina Models: Lumina2096 and 2144 Enhanced From: Lumina Office Products Estimated street price: US$299 or approx. 8400 (2096), USS399 or approx. 8525 {2144l How, you might weil ask, can Lumina sell true

MFPs for these low prices when everybody else wants so very much more? The rejoinder, however, says less about covert corporate cartels than good ol' American ingenuity. The

Lumina people reasonably reasoned, you see, that most computer owners already have a printer, Chances are they' ve already been through the ringer of studying and reading and shopping and comparing to arrive at a choice that best suits their needs. Why then-

those canny Lumina people asked themselves — should we make them purchase a sec-

lighter and cheaper than any of the other true MFPs because lt's wired up to perform all the printing functions using your existing printer unit~ s l ong as you have one of the more

popular models of inkjet or laser printers {dot matrix aficionados are out of the running

here). That being the only real difference from other MFPs, the Lumina is a fully featured

plain paper fax machine, faxmodem, scanner and copier that connects to your computer through the parallel and serial ports just like any other. Optimizing the desk-saving advantages of an MFP, the Lumina is deceptively small and light with a simple control panel traversing the entire top/front panel. To the left of cen-

tre.under a hinged panel lies the 33-key Alpha section, which contains a few specialty buttons along with aII the letters of the alphabet for typing in your phone book and stuff. To the right of the machine lies the Function section of seven one-touch keys for things like Copy, Redial, Start, Stop, etc, Between those panels lies the two-line LCD above a standard telephone keypad which Lumina calls the Numeric Key section.

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home reference products. Interactive Encyclopedia Estimated street price: $55 to $60 P robably th e b e s t known of the Home Library t it l e s i s Compton's 1997 Interactive Encyclopedia. The bonus disc with this title is the Magazine gcyggQPEpjA Time Multimedia Almanac. Yes, I groaned too, a Macleans Almanac might be more useful in Canada. That being said, t hi s almanac includes the complete issues of the magazine from January 1989 to June 1995, and can be searched by person, topic or word. So, if your child is doing a research paper on the Hubble space telescope, a search for Hubble will lay out a timeline of articles on Hubble's highs and lows since its inception. Students can then independently search the Web for the current status. The CD-ROM also contains views, photos,

videos, etc., on several topics such as environmental concerns like the Exxon-Valdez disaster. There is a mini-atlas for the United States as well, with maps and all sorts of statistical information. Perhaps this could be useful for geography or history courses. n this vein, there are 2,000 historically important articles dating back to 1923. The original commentary on some events, which may be

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Encyclopedia. Compton's 1997 Interactive Encyclopedia is easy to navigate and comes with extras such 'as a planetarium and related game. The search engine is fair, but I have been spoiled by the one in th e Canadian Encyclopedia Plus. However, for an encyclopedia of international scope, this title does have reasonable cov-

erage of Canadian topics, Particularly good is the coverage of early explorers and early Canadian history and development. You can display the search box, a video and a text entry simultaneously. One of the features advertised on the box is the ability to download monthly updates for the encydopedia, lt could be a great idea, but as with many programs that supposedly link you to sites on the Internet, there are problems. With this disc, when you try to reach the Internet, it first tells you that "your selected" server is AOL (America Online). For most of us, it isn' t. You can customize that and the program will dial and connect without much fuss to your server. The only problem is that you can only get the monthly update downloads if you subscribe to AOL. This type of I nternet connectivity is c ommon with th e current crop of C D -

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e However, the most significant addition is Outlook. Outlook takes the old Schedule+ and recreates the puny personal information manager (PIM) as a new and powerful communication and organizational program. Combining the usual calendar and address lists with an email program allows Outlook to become the only place you need to go to get working, The features of this new addition are extensive and allow the user to track documents and spreadsheets either by contact or in a chronological way. As regards the Interne, it clearly brings the suite together and ties it strongly to the Net. The program is, in fact, Internet-ready. Powerful custom solutions: Yes, there are many companies and people creating tools and content for Microsoft products and they do, in fact, control most of th e market. However, there is no shortage of custom solutions for various other Windows suites. This claim is really appealing to the cautious by pointing out that there is safety in numbers and that each of the components in Office 97 can be customized as a single entity. VisuaIBasic 5 is included in the suite, and Microsoft sells a developer edition of Office 97 to allow further customization Smoother migration: This claim is based on a number of enhanced wizards that make installing and maintaining ONce on a network a bit easier. Mostly, this is about two things. One, Windows machines, in general, and Windows programs, in parhcular, are still not easy to configure. Two, Macintosh machines, in general, and Macintosh programs, in particular, are still easy to configure. Fortunately for suite makers, there is no Mac OS suite that has the depth of features of Office 97 or SmartSuite 97, Pvlicrosoft has recently hired 100 people to work on producing a Mac version of the new Office as quickly as possible.) There isn't room to mention the other hundreds of new or improved features in the suite. But I will mention a few small but neat ones. In Word 97 typing small words together, such as "inthe" automatically becomes "in the." Outlook will keep a record of all communication with a contact if you so desire, Formula AutoCorrect in Excel automatically corrects common formula mistakes.

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tions including navigation controls, fumes and animations, And lastly, Office 97 also takes advantage of t h e n e w M i c rosoft lntelliMouse pointing device, which allows users to scroll and navigate through documents with the roll of a wheel. Overall, Office 97 is a real improvement over Office 95 and shows Microsoft's commitment to its Internet strategy and to improving an already exceptional suite of programs. The

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glllaPIBIIII8 57 From:Lotus DevelopmentCanadaLtd. Estimated street price:$475for full edition. SmartSuite 97 comprises six programs: a word processor (Word Pro); a presentation program

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and a screen capture/macro program (ScreenCam). The suite is pulled together by SmartSuite Center, which runs along the top of yourscreen foreasy access.Like Office 97, SmartSuite needs a powerful multimedia machine to work well. The most recently released suite, SmartSuite 97, is a complete package that builds on the strengths of SmartSuite 95 by embradng the Internet, moving to all 32-bit code, and

increasing workgroup abilities. Lotus has been aggressively fighting for market share with trade up and cash back offers, Last autumn saw Lotus allowing Corel WP Office users to upgrade to SmartSuite 96 for a mere $99. With SmartSuite 97, Lotus is not giving anything away and there doesn't seem to be any need to. SmartSuite 97 can stand on its own legs. Here are the five reasons why Lotus thinks SmartSuite 97 is the best suite on the market today. Internet/intranetr SmartSuite 96 was the first suite to deliver specialized tools

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systems, programs, and needs as possible. SmartSuite does this but so does Office. One size does not fi t a l l : Again like Office, SmartSuite is very customizable. For WWW. tCP. CQ

example, Organizer can be bent and adjusted in so many ways that you can please almost everyone. This ability is becoming more and more common to all types of programs from browsers to graphic programs. This is apparent in the trend to floating toolbars. As well, companies need to be able to customize suites for security, productivity, or even resource reasons. Because of the component architecture of the software, this is possible; and because of the large number of third-party developers with large installed bases, this is

easy. The suite is full of great stuff that will be covered in later reviews with a tighter focus, but here is a small sampling. SmartSuite Center, which places drawers at the top of the screen for easy access to program icons and other information, includes an Internet draw-

er. If you are on a network or have a dial-up ISP (Internet service provider) from home, SmartSuite will track information you have speciaed and keep it one click away. For example, on our test machine we could check at anytime and see the expected weather over the next five days for our city; the daily listings for a few stocks that interested us (IBM, Intel and Microsoft); and see the top news stories of relevance to technology or computers. This doesn't involve starting up the browser. If you are on a dial-up connection, the program signs on for a minute when the machine is turned on and checks back at an interval of your choosing. On a network this updating is invisible. Another example of the l i ttle things might be this. When the install program had trouble recognizing our modem, and thus

couldn't call a toll-free number to register the software, it simply started up the dial up conn ection that it f o und already set up i n Windows and FTPwd the registration data. One more example: While selecting clipart for use in one of the many beautiful templates in Freelance Graphics, we saw that there was an option to get more clipart from the Web. Excellent. SmartSuite 97 is a very

suites the "very impressive" has become the "expected," No one is surprised when a program automatically fixes your spelling mistakes, points out a spreadsheet error, or connects to the Internet to complete registration. The depth of these programs is truly inspiring as well as empowering to t h ei r u sers, Accolades aside, it is time to pick a Review's Choice. For its various strengths and tight Internet integration, Lotus SmartSuite is currently the best bet for your PC productivity suite.

Internet integrated, well thought-out office suite with very strong core programs, in particular, the new 32-bit version of Lotus 1-2-3 and the excellent Word Pro.

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date, sequence number,customer,vendor and document number. It has a link to your text editor and your backup program. It can be networked with Net Bios, Novellxompatible network or Windows Workgroup setup. When you set up a new company, you can copy files from another company or enter

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concerned with. Business Vision allows you to locate a journal entry from any source and reverse it automatically. You can keep up to 99 years of history in both accounts receivable and accounts payable. Unlimited notes can be attached to customer details an d s u pplier d etails. Multiple modules can be open at any one time. For example, you could access both the inventory item and the supplier screen at the same time. Order entry tracks quotes and orders and converts them to

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invoices. Back orders are tracked, and when the goods are received the back order is converted to an invoice. Unfortunately, the system does not have a purchaseorder module. The Canadian payroll module is very simple to set up. It uses a time-card entry system for hourly employees and can automatically create time cards for salaried employees. The time cards can be reused for the next pay period. Supplementary time cards are available for special or extra pay runs. Encore is designed for retail, service and

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special requirements, it serves as a good lesson on things to consider when trying to make Web pages as universal as possible. While it remains to be seen if WebTV will catch on and claim a sizable share of the Web surfing audience, it does have its own special requireinents if you intend to w rite Web pages for that medium. Besides, with a potential audience of 95 million homes (almost wholly in the United States), this is an audience Web authors should be aware of. What is WebTV? When somebody subscribes to WebTV, what they get from the cable company that provides the service is an Internet terminal (which con-

tains a modem) and a subscription to the WebTV service. Users connect the WebTV to a standard phone line and to their television set. The user then sits back in his or her favorite chair and proceeds to surf the Net via the TV using a device similar to a remote control. Users can send and receive email, but the primary purpose of WebTV is to surf the Web, There are several tips for writing hypertext

and models of televisions for sale at a store will immediately notice that not all TVs are equal when it comes to displaying color. They have a wide range of color hues, so what may appear red on one TV may appear pink-ish on another. TVs have a wider variation in displaying color types than computer monitors, so do not expect colors to be displayed in exactly the

are equally useful when writing HTML for other browsers. It is good to consider the order in which the parts of the page display on-screen. In general, text displays faster than images, and small images load faster than larger images. So

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serve as good, general tips for Web authors. For example, it is a wise to avoid small text sizes in both the HTML or graphics (e.g. an image containing text). This is because small text is difficult to read on a television screen. Also, consider the fact that your WebTV user is probably further from the TV screen than a traditional Web surfer would be from a computer monitor. While this limits Web authors to some extent, it does make Web pages easier to read. By avoiding the use of text that is smaller than the base font size of the browser,

you can make Web pages easier to read for both WebTV and non-WebTV surfers.

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ground is easier to read than on light gray (the typical background default color for many Web browsers), it is also harsh on the eyes, and can cause eye-strain in the user. Reducing the contrast between background and text can make Web pages easier to read. When it comes to images, there are a lot of sensible suggestions that apply to WebTV but

try to place any large imagesyou have on a Web page below the part of the screen that is initially visible, so the user can read the text while the

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(including an e-text index with more entries than mine, albeit with less of a focus on fulltext English books), and has both adult and youth services. I hope to see this site and similar efforts flourish. http: //www.ipl.orgl

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General hints Whether your newsletter is for a small business, association or club, the principles of design are the same. The idea is to attractively present information and event reminders. The sad fact is that even though you have poured your heart and soul into the produc-

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Consistency pays People like consistency, so it's a good idea to publish your newsletter at regular intervals, for example, monthly. It is also important to spend some time planning the basic format, and then

contents to attract attention to the rest of the issue. Put notices, pleas for help or membership forms on the back page (try to always put something nonessential on the reverseside of any form, so that interesting articles are not lost if the reader wants to clip out the form). As a designer, you are like a police officer directing traffic You want to direct readers to the key components and encourage them to actually read as much of the material as possible. Good design, good articles and good editing will attract attention and produce a loyal following after a few issues. So choose a template or design that is relatively simple and uncluttered. Practical considerations Also consider a few paper options. Each sheet of I lx17-inch paper (tabloid size) folded in half will give you four 8.5xll-inch pages. Legal paper (8.5x14 inches) folded in half produces four 7x8.5-inch pages. You could also use standard 8.5x11-inch letter-size sheets stapled together. This all assumes that you will use a photocopier to produce multiple copies, If so, the page size limits of your photocopier will dictate your choices. But even if you decide to have your newsletter printed on an offset press, remember non-standard sizes will likely be more expensive to print, and often more expensive to mail. As a rule of thumb, you can put five 8.5xll-inch sheets of standard-weight copy paper in a standard 9.5-inch envelope without bumping up mailing costs. If you are a company, you may want to pull a few tricks to make your newsletter "jump" out of the stack of mail on someone's desk.

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as the professional products, which usually retail in excess of $500, while home products are usually less than $100. Corel's Print R Photo Shop, which has a street price of $70, only offers a few newsletter templates, but is worthwhile for manipulating photos, making flyers or cards. Press Writer, street priced at $50, from Broderbund has more templates and is designed for flyers and newsletters specifically. Microsoft Publisher 97, street priced at

$100, borders on a professional product, has loads of templates and clip art but only runs under Windows 95. However, it is easy to use. It only took my 10-year old two hours from loading to finish to write and design (using a template) a newsletter for a class project. The bonus is that the learning curve is short and the help wizards are terrific on the home products, whereas you may spend a few weeks grizzling over the lack of user-friendly features that newer home products offer. So how does a word processor differ from desktop publishing software? The former treats the file like a continuous text file. Add a paragraph and it moves everything that follows. A desktop publishing program works like a jigsaw puzzle. Each piece fits with the next but is independent. If you add a paragraph, it may extend on top of the next article. So you just resize and rearrange the puzzle pieces for a perfect fit. If you only half-fill the space, it does not affect any other text or graphic box physically. You may also want to add more clip art, photos or your own graphic creations to enhance your newsletter. The home products come with some dip art as a bonus, Or you

a service bureau to be image set on a high-resolution device (instead of printing it out on your laser printer), you should first find out what kinds of files the service bureau will handle. Most will only accept files from high-

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Putting it all together The fun part is designing and polishing your product. If you are also the editor/proofreader, you' ll have to make sure the articles you receive have no grammatical or spelling mistakes. With a newsletter, you are attempting to make your pages look more those of a newspaper or magazine, so there are some typographical conventions you should adopt. Start by searching and replacing the two spaces after each period with a single space. (Many people were trained to insert two spaces after a period in high school typing dass.) The

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Remember newsletters are vehicles of communication, not candidates for the Louvre. Graphics should add interest, rather than be distracting, Gerald Ripley, editor of a newsletter for the Westfield Heritage Village volunteers, maintains a file of 19th century drawings of tools, workers, buildings, etc. to add interest to his newsletter pages. It also sets a "tone" and underlines the "heritage" theme. When people hand you drawings with labels or legends that are handwritten or have typed labels that will not blend with the typefaces you use, remove them and reset them in a compatible typeface. There are a couple of quick and nasty ways to do this, lf the drawing is on paper and you are going to paste it directly onto the master print out, then white out the labels, print more and paste them on with non-permanent glue (available in business supply stores: it allows you to move Confilmei/on page I 18

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