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How to break through the jargon to find deals

T h at's why they call it a personal computer

37 Thinking small

C o lor me Comdex Past, present and future at Vegas tradeshow

102 A virtual visit to Comdex 105 Gates says no to PC naysayers

S e tting up a comfortable workspace Some simple steps to safe computing

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106 Netscape keynote turns into product demo 107 Corel Ventura 7, new multimedia titles launched

Y o ur first peripherals Separating the toys from the tools

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F i rst software for your home office Knowing what you need before you buy

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Don't buy a Web TV If Statistics Canada is correct and only 10 percent of the Canadian public is logging on to the Internet from home, then the computer industry has done a rotten job of getting peopie wired, despite all the hype. At the recent Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, vendors, such as Sony, Philips, Apple and others, were lining up to sell $300 to $500 black boxes designed to get you surfing the Web with your TV. TVs aren't computer screens. I admit it, I am biased. We are a computer kind of family. In my household, TVs aren't for interactivity, they are for vegging out in front of. When my son was young he had an 8-bit Nintendo game. We used to regularly battle him for the use of the TV, because he wantedto play a game and we wanted to watch a video. They don't call computers personal computers for nothing. The whole thing about interactivity is that my interactivity is not likely to interest my wife or my kids and vice versa. Web surfing seems like an inappropriate family activity. Think about when you have to share a newspaper with someone else. How often are you turning the page when the other person wants to keep reading, or vice versa? People read at different rates and have different interests. Even beyond these basic individual differences, here is why I think you might not be happy with what you get from these little black Web TV boxes. Your first problem in surfing the Internet from your television set is screen resolution,

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Mel Gibson and Demi Moore might look great o n y our big screen TV, but the text from the Internet looks lousy on the screen resolution o f m o st television monitors. To their credit, WebTV units from Sony and Philips seemed to do a reasonable job of using large, readable fonts to keep text readable. Not all units I saw looked this good. These black box units are non-standard. Different vendors are using different operating systems and software on them. WebTV and Diba v ere two popular brands around the Comdex show floor. They seemed well supported at the show, but in the fast moving consumer electronics field, this year's hot product is often in n ext year' s , re m ainders bin and develop.JI ment ceases. Because the Internet is changing so fast, you want to know that the product you buy will be supported well into the future. With PCs, you have more of a known quantity. With Web TV units, it is a new universe and no one can guarantee at this point which units will take off. '

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Limited uplradabllty Many of the units seemed to have only limited upgradablity. Because they were designed to be very simple, you could not add memory or hard drives to most. The Apple d C~World Pippin, which was based on the Mac Operating System, was the notable exception. The problem I saw with the Pippin was that, although you can run Pippin titles on a Mac, you could not go the other way round and run Mac titles on a Pippin. I am not quite sure who dreamed

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The lack of local hard drives on Web TV appliances means that the consumer becomes dependent on an external service to store the information that they create and capture. The WebTV units I looked at from Sony and Philips would not allow you to select your own Internet service provider. Because of the proprietary interface, you had to use a specific vendor, which may or may not have competitive pricing now and in the future. Some of the wizzy new software ideas from the Internet won't work on them, Sure, if written in Java, it will probably work, but many of the cool new things on the Internet are coming from small companies using non-standard approaches. T h i ng s li ke Rea l Audio, QuickTime, VRML, etc., are ail here now for Macs, PCs and many Unix boxes, but will they be there for your little black box? Will that little black box have the memory to run them? Will you be able to add more memory? Will it cost you and arm and leg because it is proprietary memory? The biggest problem I see with these Web TV devices is that they are aimed at the Internet, which is still very much a moving target. My computer can adapt and grow as the Web changes.Ican add inexpensive RAM and hard-drive space, even upgrade my processor speeds as the need arises. It seems too early to me to create a lowest common denominator platform like these represent. We have been down this road before, and I am here to tell you it ain't worth it. I predict that, after an initial flurry of use, they will end up in the closet like the early Commodore 64 computers with many unhappy purchasers. I stand to be corrected by inassive sales of these units, but for my money, I'd buy an inexpen-

surfing the Web, but also charting spreadsheets, desktop publishing, playing 3D games and creating databases. Internet forGrandma One cool device that I saw at Comdex that did seem worth considering was from Uniden, a telephone manufacturer based in the United States. I liked these units, because simple email is fairly standard. Text-based messages can do the job for most people right now. Uniden used OS9 to create a POP compliant email phone. This striking looking unit is predicted to be available early in 1997 and sell for about $300 for a one-line cordless phone version. It is about the size of a small thermal fax machine. The lid flips up to reveal a small keyboard and screen, with which you can do the basics of e-mail. It only does text-based e-mail and cannot handle any file attachments, but it is always on (no boot up time) and can be set to poll your mail server at whatever interval you set it to. I think I have finally spotted a way to get my computer-reluctant mother on e-mail. Three numbers to program and five bucks a month for an e-mail-only accountthis seems like a dream unit. The rest of this issue is packed with information and ideas to ease the pain of choosing and getting up to speed on a new computer. If you are already there, we encourage you to pass this copy around to your friends who want to get wired. Enjoy the issue. Douglas Alder Editor/Publisher

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I do hope Ross Macdonald was pressed for time on his "Looking forward to backing up'" article in the November TCP,because otherwise I'd have to attribute this to either shoddy research, or the all-too-common joumalistic i n ability t o s e e a n y t hin g o u t side Microsoft's little realm. Mr. Macdonald, in writing about using large-capacity flopticals for backup targets, states that "there's no software yet to allow a backup to a PD in the sense that we normally think of a backup.... the PD won't recognize any existing back-up utilities that compress or automatically schedule or incrementally save, or any of that other neat backup stuff." Maybe not in the DOS/Windows world. Symmantec Fastback Plus for OS/2, on the other hand, has a few u n ique abilities. Besides the usual compression, scheduling and incremental backup functions, it supports four types of backup devices: standard

floppy disks, floppy-connected QIC tape drives, SCSI tapes drives, and a little thing called "system devices." A system device in Fastback/2 can be any drive with a recognizable drive letter, removable or fixed: local disks, network drives, ZIP and JAZ disks... and, as long as a PD drive can be given a drive letter under OS/2, Fastback/2 should be able to nicely back up to that as well (if someone would be kind enough to send me a PD machine and disc, I' ll be happy to put this to the iron test). Just peel off a new system device template, open the Settings/Properties, select the PD's drive letter on the "Path"notebook page, and you're off to the proverbial races. Works like a charm with my ZIP drive, and if I'm really in a weird mood, I can even create a system device for my RAM disk. Just for the record, BTW... Fastback/2 has had this ability for a couple years now. Of course, I expect no on e w il l c are until Microsoft comes out with something similar for Windows <insert year>, at which point it will be touted as the greatest thing since sliced 8-inch floppies... And while we're on the subject of O S/2 . . . I find it very disturbing the type of coverage you gave OS/2 Warp 4.0 in your October issue of The Computer Paper.There were only two half-page columns pertaining to it's release, whereas, one year ago, when Windows 95 was released (August '95), the front page of your paper was a full-page Windows 95 logo. And there were four to five pages of columns pertaining to it's release. Has the media influenced your paper so much that everything in your paper is either Windows 95 or it doesn't make the press?

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Also, I would even be surprised to find a column about the widely anticipated — amongst expert computer users and ISPs — release of Linux 2.0 (aka Linux 96). What has happened to one greatest computer papers? Has the media taken it over? Appears so. Michael Thorndyke To thine own eyes be true In TCP'sNovember Lab Test on color inkjet printers, you rate the Canon BJC 4100. Since then the Canon BJC 4200 has come on the market and I was wondering how you rated it. I went to a retail store to check out their printers and compared the Epson Stylus Color 500, Canon BJC 4200, and the HP 680c. They had samples on the same paper, same resolution, and same picture, To my eyes, the Canon BJC 4200 was the winner. Please let me know your comments. Arthur Owen

cle for the Canon printer(s) are available t';.:.weinadvertently left out the contact inforonly in the United States. Please take note of "" matton for the Paymate program. '-:,""„ on inkjet printers, Canon has asked us to the following corrections as well, which note the following. Although the Web were errors on our part: the warrantieson: Paymate is from." address we had listed at hltp://www.canoII.corn the Canon 240 and 4550 models are for one .- AK Microsystems was correct for the company, they also,: year only, and the correct toll-free number;.;-..245 West Beaver Creek M., Suite 9b:"„:;;;,::-':;; maintain a site that links you directly to ' for Canada-wide support is 800-263-1121.— Richmond Hill, Ont. • ( their computer-related product line. This SH L4B 1L1 can be found at http://www,ccti.canon.corn.:: phone 90S-771-115S Also, we' ve been recently informed that the':-"'. Payroll survey Information mlsaieul ,s f ax 905-771-1344 neon inks that were mentioned in the arti- ': In our December '96 Annual payroll survey, t oll free fax 800-263-3795 Canon correctlona With regard to our Noveinber '96 Test Lab

DT replies: We have yet to test this new Canon model.However, each one of these brands has a good share of the market and many satisfied users.Sometimes, after all the measurement are taken and the tests run, subjective experience is the deciding factor, so ifit looks the best to you, that should be a factor in your buying decision as much as the performance figures.

Where's the one-line, many-devices piece? In your November '96 issue a letter from Glenn McCauley refers to an article "One

phone line, so many devices" in TCP, November 1996. I have been trying to find this article in online past issues (I assumed the above reference is incorrect, since the letter was in fact in the November '96 issue) and have been unsuccessful. Please let me know where I can find this article if it is available. Al Mallory

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Kodak launches new digital camera • In the continuing fight for supremacy in the digital camera wars, Kodak has launched another salvo against the competition with the introduction of its DC25 Digital Camera. A camera aimed primarily at the homeuser, this lowcost successor to the DC20 digital camera contains more f e atures

is the first Kodak camera to feature an LCD viewfinder. Its 4 cm (1.6 in.) color screen allows the user to see exactly what the camera sees before taking the picture. It comes with 2 MB of internal memory, which can store up to 14 highresolution or 29 standard-resolution pictures. The camera also supports Kodak Compactflash memory cards, so once the camera is "full," you can replace the current memory module with another to keep on shooting. The DC25 is a point-and-shoot camera, with a

that both Macintosh and PC owners can use. Digital cameras snap pictures without filmthe image is captured on a digital microchip, which can then be downloaded to a computer. Once transferred, the image can be edited, and then used in such things as presentations, e-mail, and Web pages. This 13x4x7 cm (5.1x1.6x2.8 in.), 270 g (9.5 oz.) camera can shoot pictures in two resolution modes — high (493x373 pixels) and standard (320x240 pixels) — in 24-bit true color. The DC25

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the past few pictures on the LCD screen and then decide to save or delete them. Kodak Picture Easy software is included with the camera. The suggested list price for the DC25 is $695.— KS-R Contact: Kodak Canada, Tel: 800-465-6325. Web site: httpJ/www.kodak.corn/ More For Dummies ln 1997 • ID G Books Worldwide, which publishes the fantastically popular For Dummiesseries, has announced their latest editions to the line, including Microsoft Ofhce97 For Windows For Dummies, Word X For Windows For Dummies,Excel X For Windows For Dummies,and Access X For Windows For Dummies. Pitching the For Dummiesline as "a reference for the rest of use," John Kilcullen, the creator of the For Dummies franchise, has selected writers for their combination of technical expertise and the ability to organize information effectively and to communicate in plain language that the ordinary PC user can understand. For even quicker comprehension and access to information, IDG also publishes aQuick Referenceline of books aimed at providing the most commonly used features of theseprograms explained step by step. The For Dummiestitles sell for $26.99 each, and the Quick Referenceversions for $17.99 each.

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Network. This site is a dedicated science Web site that contains its own content and identity, yet incorporates the science programming themes of Discovery Channel Canada. The goal of EXN is to provide viewers with a way of getting another dimension and more information on topics covered in the programming contained on the channel. EXN's focus includes scientific innovation, educational content and technological magic, and will feature daily science news, features and an "Amazement Park." FXN News presents short science news stories of the day, designed to complement the stories covered on the channel's flagship daily science show C'discovery,ca. Feature stories by the EXN news organization offer a more comprehensive look at some of the most intriguing science issues, and the "Amazement Park" is EXN's experimental section, where the leading edge interactive components can be found. The Discovery Channel

has entered into partnerships with Environment Canada, the Canadian Space Agency and The National Research Council, to showcase the latest in multimedia Web technologies. EXN is a major investment for The Discovery Channel, which plans to spend $5 million on its development over the next five years, as part of its commitment to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to develop Canadian media. The site has already passed the one million hit mark, and lays claim to being Canada's foremost science resource centre, offering telerdsion viewers and Internet users alike a means to leam about science. Interesting developments in the world of science and of the World Wide Web are taking place at EXN —stay tuned!KS-R Contact: EXN, Web site: http: //www.exn.net/ Discovery Channel, Web site: http: //www.discovery.ca Matsushltato ship DVD drives • Spokesmen for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. said they expect to begin shipping DVD-ROM drives in volume early next year. DVD-ROM drives are the successor to the CD-ROM format, which read discs that are about the same size as a regular CDROM, but are capable of holding 4.7 GB of information, as opposed to the 650 MB of data regular CD-ROMs hold.

Matsushita, better known for products sold under its brand names, like Panasonic, Technics and Quasar, has already begun to ship sample drives to prospective original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vendors. The firm is confident that other providers of digital media (such as the sound recording and software Industries) will be won over by their new DVD encryption scheme, which will prevent users from easily making copies of DVD discs. Matsushita also has plans to start mass production of recordable DVD drives (called the DVD-RAM), sometime late next year. Matsushita expects to sell more than one million DVD drives within a year of their launch, and expects stiff competition in the marketplace for such devices. Mass production wiii likely see DVD drive prices in the $250 to $350 range for OEM vendors, and somewhat higher for endusers. As a prelude to the introduction of DVD for use in the home, Matsushita announced the

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development of the world's first DVD internet Linkage System for the World Wide Web, which can play high-qualityMPEG2 video through a Web page. The Web client setup consists of a DVD-ROM drive, an MPEG2 decoder board, an HTTP Request Conversion Program, and software to combine motion pictures within Web pages. With this setup, Webmasters can deliver large quantities of MPEG2 motion pictures which are played directly from the DVD-ROM to the Web page when requested. A disc identification number keeps track of the items requested, so it can used for a wide variety of services, such as Webbased catalog shopping, publishing, travel, and educational purposes — KS-R

quality using a five-star system. These ratings will be placed in a database for future reference. SchoolNet, the network the Canadian government set up to link Canadian schools, is supporting the project, and Net Shepherd issued a challenge to schools in the United States to participate as well. MacDonald said his company plans a major promotion of the project in the United States later this year. Les Jickling, marketing coordinator at Net Nanny, said schools are showing a growing interest in his company's software, which allows parents or teachers to limit access to Web sites. This is partly because the issue is getting a lot of public attention lately and partly because schools are using the Internet more and more, he said. Contact: Matsushita, Tel: 905-624-5010 Net Nanny has just released Version 3.0 of the software. One new feature is the option of vlslon.corn cable consortium offers nation- creating a "Can Go" list, so that only listed sites al high-speed Internet access •The cable are accessible, as an alternative to the earlier version's "Can't Go" approach, which required industry's research and business development consortium vision.corn recently announced the updating to keep up with the discovery of new national roll-out of WAVE, a sites that needed blocking. high-speed Internet access serJickling said businesses are also showing vice delivered through cable. interest in Net Nanny because it allows them to WAVE uses cable modems plus a control time-wasting use of the Internet at work combination of fibre optic and without blocking employees' access altogether. W8 V 8 coaxi al cable to bring high-speed The suggested retail price for Net Nanny 3.0 is $39.95. Internet access to the home. WAVE is vision.corn's first collaborative effort. (vision.corn c o nsists o f Ro g ers, S haw, Contact: Net Nanny, Web site: Cogeco/Cablenet, Western CoAxial, Cable http: //www.netnanny.corn Regina, Delta Cable, Access Cable Television, Net Shepherd, Web site: http: //www.shepherd.net/ Videon CableSystems and Videotron, who together serve more than 80 percent of the total Canadian ISP group announces code of cable subscribers in Canada.) conduct • TO RONTO (NB) — The Canadian WAVE does not require a dedicated phone Associa-tion of Internet Prntdders (CAIP) has created line or dialup modem — instead users are always a voluntary code of conduct that it hopes its memconnected to the Internet via cable, much as their bers and other Internet sendce providers IISPs) will television is. "The cable industry will now offer follow. Canadians the fastest, most convenient access to the Internet," said Richard Stursberg, president of vision.corn. "Internet users will find we have the best technology and the most responsive service available. The Internet is an amazing place, WAVE turns it into a faster, amazing place unleashing the potential of the Internet by bringing highspeed, affordable bandwidth to th e h ome. Wherever WAVE has been offered it has had far higher penetration than telephone offerings." Only about 200,000 current cable subscribers serviced by the vision.corn consortium are ready The code pledges compliance with all applicfor WAVE, but by the end of 1997, this number is able laws, and in particular commits ISPs not to expected to rise to over two million Canadian knowingly host illegal materials on their systems. homes. Until they become commercially availlt also promises respect and protection for users' able, cable modems are rented from a cable com- privacy, and a commitment to public education pany and virtually unlimited access to the about Internet issues and technology. Internet is included for one monthly fee of $SS. A Margo Langford, general counsel for iStar subscription to WAVE also includes up to five e- Internet Inc. in Ottawa and chair of the group mail addresses and 5 MB of Web space dedicated that drew up the code, says there is no formal to home pages.—KS-R policing mechanism at the moment, but CAIP may at some point in the future make compliance Contact: WAVE,Website: http: //www.wave.ca/ with the code a condition of CAIP membership. For more information. call your local cable company. The organization currently has about 40 members, or about 10 percent of Canada's ISPs, Canadians tackle Net content concerns • Langford said. However, those ISPs serve someTORONTO iNB) — Two Canadian companies and what more than IO percent of Canadian Internet a number of Canadian educators are working in users. IStar Internet, Canada's largest ISP, hasabout their own ways on the problem of keeping chil13 percent of the overall market„she said, and sevdren away from inappropriate Internet content. eral other sizable ISPs are also CAIP members. Calgary-based Net Shepherd Inc. has announced Langford said the code's commitment to not a content-rating program called the StartSafe knowingly host illegal material means ISPs will Challenge in co-operation with the federal gov- remove material that is illegal — such as child emment's SchoolNet, while Vancouver-based Net pornography - if it is brought to their attention. Nanny Ltd. has just announced a new release of Clauses in the code also commit ISPs to make a its namesake access-control software. reasonable effort to investigate legitimate comKevin MacDonald, a spokesman for Net plaints about content they host, and to notify the Shepherd, said his company launched the content provider or abuser of the complaint StartSafe Challenge to have teachers, librarians, before taking action. and other qualified educators rate the roughly 37 On the privacy front, the code states that ISPs million documents available on the World Wide will pro~dde private information to law enforceWeb. Through a collaborative rating system using ment authorities only as required by law. Net Shepherd's DAX Hound software, participants will assign ratings ranging from general Contact: Ron Kawchuk,atCAIP,Tel:905-279-6417. through objectionable documents, and also by Fax:905-279-9418.E-maik kawchukOio.org

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New Acrobat S.o ls more Web friendly • Adobe has just released the latest version of Acrobat 3.0, which enables users to publish documents in a format that can be read across virtually all platforms. The newest version supports special features that make it more suitable for use on the World Wide Web, including integration with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, the two most popular Web browsers.

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macros have been included to enable Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel for Windows 95 users to create Acrobat files directly from either program. Image files can now be directly scanned into the PDF format, and touch-up text editing tools are now included for making quick changes to an Acrobat document. Adobe Acrobat 3.0 has an expected street price of $295.— KS-R Contact: Adobe Canada, Tel: 416-360-2317. Web site: http//www.adobe.corn/acrobat i:oolWo men surf t h e W e b • A new CoolWomen Web site is online "to teil the stories of the iives of women in Canada in a down-toearth style which highlights their dreams and

their goals, and what their stories mean to other girls and women." According to Nancy Ruth, one of the 12 people who developed the site, "the story of women in Canada is now online across time in a format that is fun and appealing for all generations. The Web site creates a comfortable place where girls and women can experience the

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Contact: CoolWomen, Tel: 416-924-6961. Web site: http: //www.coolwomen.org Halifax company wins IDC research grant • NB — Brooklyn North Software Works, a twoyear-old developer of hypertext tools for the World Wide Web based in Halifax, N.S., has won the first annual Software Market Research Grant from the federal government. The Industry Canada grant provides Brooklyn North with $20,000 worth of market information and ana-

alarm, eventually blossomed into the unintentional prophet of the Information Age. His often obscure catch phrases, such as "the global village," and "the medium is the message," have inspired much of the serious study of mass media and communications technologies in the last 35 years. As well, the "cyberculture" that emerged in the mid 1980s gained much inspiration from his writings. He is also the patron saint of Wiredmagazine in its mission to make the computer revolution hip.

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offered again next year, a software company must have a head office and development facilities in Canada, a product on the market, and annualrevenues between $200,000 and $5 million. Pink Panther's passport to peril • A new CD-ROM title from New York-based Wanderlust International features the animated adventure of the popular cartoon cat, offering a mix of humor, problem solving and action, The Pink Panther character, originally introduced in the Inspector Clouseau live-action comedies in the 1960s, has been licensed from its copyright holder, MGM/UA Family Entertainment, to star as an international agent seeking to protect international travellers from a variety of dangers. Like Corel's new Wild World of Madison Jaxx game, the Pink Panther's Passport to Peril offers an element of l earning,with a cultural database of over 250 pages of info and pictures on food, peoples and languages, nature and history.— /E Contact: Wanderlust, Tel: 212-966-&887. Pa6ieBlart Canada introduces narrowband personal communications service • Industry Canada has awarded a licence to provide two-way wireless messaging services to Toronto-based PageMart Canada. The new licence will permit PageMart to establish two-way messaging and data communications, including w i reless modem, information on demand, telemetry, and response paging. According to PageMart, "Narrowband PCS (NPCS) is thought of as an enhanced form of paging service, yet it really represents a shift in the entire concept of wireless messaging. The common name for this emerging technology is two-way paging,but because it encompasses so many advanced messaging services, including voice messaging, N-PCS more accurately defines the wide array of products and services coming to market over the next several years. E-mails, faxes and messages can be sentboth ways, no fussand no wires." An example of what N-PCS will make practical would be the ability to use a notebook PC or a handheld personal digital assistant (PDA) to connect to the Internet via wireless modem to the PageMart network service. A wide variety of devices, from pagers to computers, can hook up to the N-PCS once it is in place. PageMart intends to roll out a test version of the new service early this year, with wider availability mid to late 1997.— IE Contact: PageMart Canada, Tel: 416-423-6605. Web site: http://www.pagemart.ca . "Marshall BIctuhan, What Are Ya Dain?" • Marshall McLuhan, who began his scholarly life as a kind of prematurely middle-aged, fusty academic prude who viewed the mass media with

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The first complication comes from the fact that, since Intel is the big mama of manufacturers, all other CPUs are classified by speed "as if" they were Pentiums. This is called the "P rating." So, for example, a particular AMD K5 chip might have a "P rating" of 166 MHz but have an actual speed of 100 MHz. What the "P rating" tells us is that it claims to be as fast as an Intel Pentium 166 MHz in terms of actual computing. Dean Whitehair at AMD put it this way: "I think what you' re going to see with all the

new advanced architectures that all microprocessor manufacturers are going to right now, is that core clock speed is going to become more and more irrelevant — especially for the end user. Unfortunately, right now, they' re still measuring CPU performance based on clock speeds. But what we' re seeing„ for example, is that AMD's KS with a P rating of 133 has a core clock speed of only about 100 MHz but it performs as fast, or faster, than a Pentium 133." What's supposed to be appealing about a KS is that you get that equal performance for a lot less money. But that's a whole 'nuther story we' ve already looked at in a premous issue of The CnmputerPaper (check out our Web site at http:www.tcp.ca ). Regardless of all that theorizing, it remains true that the higher the clock speed number, the faster the actual CPU — a Pentium 166 is definitely faster than a Pentium 100, for example. What has rendered this once mercifully simple concept more complex, however, is that CPU speed is no longer a reliable indicator of system performance. In combination with the different types

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PCI bus Bus was a very complicated thing to explain when 486s were de riguer because there were several different types you might encounter inside a given machine. But all that's been made simpler now because all new computers use Pentium — or Pentium-like — CPUs and all motherboards use the PCI bus because it was designed to maximize performance from those chips. In simplest terms, the bus is really just a bunch of wires that carry the electrical inforRAIN Imying tip: You can never have too mation back and forth between the chip and much RAM. But there's a certain point at the rest nf the stuff in the computer, And bus which most people won't see any benefit speed, like most things computer, makes a big (usually above 20 MS with INlndows 95). difference when it comes to performance. You So don't go crazy unless you have some don't really have to know the following inforvery specific RAM dependent applications mation, but I' ll throw it in for those who are In Illlnd. interested (everybody else can skip a few paragraphs): Hard drive or hard disk or HDD Regardless of the speed of your Cl'U, it The hard drive is the machine that stores all c ommunicates to everything else in t h e of your software and any stuff you create. It' s computer through the bus. And, just as with a direct cousin to the floppy diskettes you see CPUs, bus speeds are measured in MHz. people stuffing into slots with the difference Now, this is where it gets a bit tricky: all the that it's non-removable and capable of holdnewer motherboards have jumpers that ing a lot more information. All personal comallow you to set the bus speed at 25 MHz, 30 puters come with a hard drive. All you need MHz or 33 MHz. And when you buy your to do is get the biggest one you can afford. system, these jumpers will be set to optimize Seeing 810 MB HD in an ad tells you that whichever speed of CPU you' re getting (100 the hard drive can hold 810 megabytes of inforMHz, 133 MHz, 166 MHz, etc.). However, mation. In terms of t y ping, that's about where the chip actually meets the bus, 250,000 pages. Sounds like a lot. But not a lot of t here's a t h in g c alled a m u l t iplier for computer stuff consists of simple text. It might addressing the CPU's clock speed, and these take any of us a lifetime to generate 810 MB of can be limited to 1.5x, or Zx or 3x dependword-processing files, but the software package ing on the quality and brand of the motherthat lets you create those files could quite easily board itself. need 50 or 60 MB just to fit in the computer. If your motherboard has a 3x multiplier, Just to give you an idea, on my computer your computer will be upgradable at any time the Windows 95 directory alone holds 129.7 all the way up to a Pentium 200 or equivalent MB of stuff, and that doesn't include all my CPU. A 1.5x or 2x multiplier will limit your software applications or all the files I' ve creatupgrade options. Therefore, if you anticipate ed. And I should emphasize, too, that my peran upgrade of your CPU down the road — and sonal storage requirements are quite modest that's just about a given these days — make compared to most. sure you get a clear answer from the retailer In everybody's favor, however, harddrive about just how upgradable your machine is size is becoming less and less of a concern for going to be. They might not know all the most system buyers as hard drives have technical ins and outs, but make sure you become exceptionally inexpensive on a price know exactly what the motherboard can per megabytebasis. Purchased separately,the accept so there won't be any nasty surprises price of a 1.6 GB (gigabyte) hard drive (it can when the time comes. hold 1,600 MB of data) just squeaks over the All of which helps explain why the rela$300 mark. That means most system builders tionships between machines of different will throw i n a r e asonably proportioned speeds isn't linear. Put more simply: when all device — usually 810 MB or, if you' re lucky, 1.6 other factors are constant, a Pentium 166 GB — while keeping the whole system price machine will likely be more than the arithdown. Unless you' re really planning on stockmeticaliy expected 66 percent faster than a ing up on resource hungry software — or creatPentium 100 because it has the benefit of ing huge, resource hungry graphics files — 1.6 faster CPU communicating through a faster GB or more should stand you in good stead bus. until it's time to move on to yet another computer a depressingly brief couple of years down But back to our story... the road. All your internal cards — video, sound, hard Good for us too is the fact that, in one of drive controller, SCSI controller, etc.— comthose many technological paradoxes, these municate with the CPU by sitting in slots new, bigger hard drives are actually much connected directly to the bus. So, the faster quicker at storing and retrieving information the bus, the faster or more efficiently all those than the older, smaller ones. So we' re getting components will operate. a boost in system performance along with a PCI (peripheral component interconnect) Many computers now come with 16 MB of RAM, which is optimum for running most software under Windows 95. Moreover, you can always add more RAM at any time and prices have dropped to such a low level ($10 to $20 per megabyte) that there's no excuse for scrimping in this department. If you' re serious about buying a system that comes standard with 8 M B RAM, you can probably — and should try to — swing a deal for eight more.

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has been specifically designed to take advantage of the Pentium type chips' super fast 64bit elements. And it has the additional advantage of what everybody calls "Plug and Play," which means that any PCI card you put into a PCI slot will be recognized by the computer automatically... no screwing around with configuration files and the like (at least in theory). But, not all the expansion slots inside your computer are going to be PCI because many cards just don't need the kind of speed PCI facilitates. A faxmodem, for example, won't perform any faster in a PCI slot. That' s why, if you ever look inside your computer, you' re going to see both PCI slots and what are called ISA (that's industry standard architecture) slots on the motherboard. ISA is the most common type of interface for many kinds of common expansion cards — like sound cards and f axmodems — so those devices are wired up to work in the ISA slots anyway,

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Suing tip: Bus type is no longer a worry so you can ignore any notation in the ad that specifies PCI because there isn't any alternative anyway. However, bus speed will become an important factor in future CPU upgrading, so try to get a motherboard that can accept any CPU speed up to 200 MHz. VGA or SuperVGA ($YGA) color This term is compu-code for what amounts to two separate items in your system — the monitor, and the video card (sometimes called a graphics or video-graphics card) inside that translates electro-stuff into pictures and text for you to look at. SVGA (super vddeo graphics array) is better because it can give higher resolution i mages. But not everybody takes advantage of that, so the more economical VGA (video graphics array) is still used in some machines though it's gradually disappearing to the point where you likely won't be offered anything other than SVGA on a new system. A more important question to ask is how much video RAM is on the video card inside the machine. These cards contain their own version of RAM and video RAM is responsible for speeding up the process of translating meaningless electronic bumpf into pictures and text. It also dictates the limits of how many colors are possible at what levels of resolution (higher resolution requires the processing of exponentially larger amounts of information to put nice pictures up on the screen and move them around). But monitors and video cards are where retailers most like to go cheap because it's the best area in which they can make big profits. It's unlikely that a bargoon system will sport the best representative of either item though even the cheapest these days are as good as the mid-range of only a few years ago.

Video card bujiin9 tip: You want at least 1 MB of RAM on the video card but 2 MB Is better. Some cards will hold 4 MS but they' re much costlier and you have to be a real specialist to be able to make use of their capabilities. An ideal situation for

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works? There are a lot of technical things to consider in monitors, but most name brands are just fine guts-wise. As far as you' re concerned, the "dot pitch," the picture size, and whether the monitor is interlaced (int) or non-interlaced (ni) are most important. Dot pitch tells you how small the individual dots — or pixels — are that make up the screen, and the smaller the number here the better. A large dot-pitch value, 0.38 for example, generates what you'd generously call a fuzzy picture. A dot pitch of 0.28 is what you should look for. It yields a clear, sharp picture. Interlaced versus non-interlaced is more complicated, An interlaced image is one that' s drawn on the screen by two passes of the picture tube's electron gun (as opposed to a single sweep with a non-interlaced image). The gun hits every other horizontal line on the first pass, and then fills in the other lines on the second pass. This can cause a tiny flicker, which is virtually invisible. However, after about half an hour at the computer you' ll mysteriously feel like your eyeballs are falling out, Even non-interlaced monitors might "go interlaced" at higher resolutions, but since few people use those, you get a nice, clean picture at normal resolutions because the entire image is created on a single pass of the electron gun. When it comes right down to it, just remember this: interlaced bad, non-interlaced good. Unfortunately: interlaced cheap, non-interlaced non-cheap. That said, interlaced monitors are becoming more and more rare because they' re just so darned hard to sell in the face of falling non-interlaced monitor prices. Finally„ there"s picture size. Just like a TV. it's measured diagonally. But manufacturers got together somewhere and agreed to measure the entire picture tube size, not the size of the picture. Good monitors disguise this by putting a mask over the front of the tube so your image seems to fill the screen edge to edge. But if you measure what you see, you' ll find that your 17-inch monitor is only about 15.5 inches across, your 15-incher is about 14 inches and your 14-inch monitor is closer to 12 inches. Again here, t h e b i gger t h e b e tter. Fourteen-inch monitors are really cheap now, even good quality ones, because it's generally accepted that 15 inches is the minimum size for reasonable computing comfort. Of course, bigger is better, but the price curiously rises exponentially in relation to screen size. A really good 15-inch monitor might set you back $650 but an equally good 17-inch model could be $1,200 or more. That's $550 for a mere two inches more!

Monitor blrying tip: The monitor is what you' re going to be staring at during virtually every hour you spend ln the front of the computer so don't start going miserly here. Fortunately, roost systems come with something reasonable these days so you can focus more on watching out for a bad monitor as opposed to searching for a good one. Multimedia, CD-ROM ready,

MM package (or something) Just about all computers for sale these days are multimedia ready and most of the components used are of a quality good enough for general consumer applications. Generally that means you get a 6x or even Bx CD-ROM drive these days (that's good), a sound card of

Monitor (included or, most likely, not) You know what it is, but do you know how it

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Outside o f prayer, these books are your uorld. A magician comes to visit and casts a spell. You are thrust into one o f today's book superstores aeith not 30 but 5,000 volumesf illed aeith photographs, maps and ieords you have never heard or read. When you purchase your f i rst computer, yo u a r e t h a t m o n k .

A guide to reading ada Continued from page 22 some sort (hopefully a 16-bit SoundBlaster compatible) and a couple of really crappy speakers —all installed and ready to go. One of the newer specs to come along, though, is something you may see in an ad that refers to MPEG. This is a video acceleration technology that can be implemented either as hardware (chips on the video card) or software (not as good). Essentially, MPEG is a technology that helps eliminate any jerkiness in your computer video. When configured properly with MPEG, your CD-ROM videos should run as smoothly as if you were watching TV. MPEG isn't yet standard on every machine but it's common enough that you should be able to find lots of systems that include it.

Iwultitnedla buying tip. 'Dan't expect ta hear brilliant speakers but yau should otherwise be getting a 16-bit Saundliaster

compatible sound card and a minimum 6x CD-ROM. If anything describing the sound card mentions NaveTabie synthesis, that' s goad: lt means there are digital samples ofreal sounds built Into the card (as opposed to digital reproductions) sa yau get much; truer reproduction fram software that looks for ii,—MIDI stuff, music campositlan software,many games, etc,,;:;, '.. Faxmodem Things just keep getting better and better for us. Though not in every new computer, a faxmodem is included with so many you might as weil get one in your package too. A faxmodem allows you to plug your computer into the telephone line and send and receive faxes, or dial into online services like Compuserve, or into the Internet. So, if you plan to explore the Internet, you need a faxmodem.

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faxmodetn buying tip: .„all yau have ta do is make sure the faxmadem you' re getting Is either a 28.8 Kbps (kilabits per second) ar the newest 33.6Kbps speed. Same af the current luxury models indude voke functions (mail boxes, telephane answering machine capability, etc.) and ather telephony features. Those are nice

things ta have but they' ll likely be a bonus found only in higher end systems. Most people don't need or use most telephony features anyway because they mean leaving yourcomp uter on 24 hours a day, "Includes $1,000,000 worth of software" When we last went through this exercise, software bundles were highly variable and equally negotiable to some degree. These days, however, with the pre-installation of most or aII of what you' re going to get, there' s little room for barter. However, though all computer systems come with something, you' re going to And there's a big (read: BIG) discrepancy between what software comes with different brands and sometimes even different models of the same brand. Software prices haven't followed their hardware counterparts and remain relatively expensive, so you might carefully consider what you want to use your computer for and look for a system with a bundle that best accommodates that. I wouidn't make a decision to purchase a system based on the software bundle, but there's enough variation out there that you should be able to get a system that suits your needs with an equally accommodating parcel of goodies.

our computer is like the physical store that contains those books. It is a tool with which software and the internet come alive, offering as revolutionary a change in your world as the monk experienced in his. Software development and access to information through channels such as the Internet have come as far in 20 years as book publishing has in 500 years. Justas there are volumes on nearly every subject in the bookstores, there are software products or Internet sites on a myriad of topics. Confused by the technology? You have a right to be, but the rewards can be awe inspiring if you take the time to map out the territory.

A portalon the world at large So what is this Internet stuff, and the Web and e-mail people keep talking about? The

internet is like a large county library system with numerous satellite libraries linked by

tion of same sort that covers everything sa

you won't be abandoned by the servke ' numbers. One final reminder. "$1,000,000 worth of free software" that you can't even

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Warranty It's strictly buyer beware, buddy, Generally, you can expect the cheapest package price to have the worst warranty. You pay a premium to buy from those small computer specialized stores, but you' ll be glad you did when... I mean if... you have any problems. And don' t think you won' t. Computer problems rank right up there with death and taxes. Even if all the hardware is working properly, software can drive you nuts. Don't expect the salesman at "Mega Warehouse" to help you, or even know how. He' ll just tell you to bring your machine back so he can send it on an all-expenses-paid, 12week vacation to Siliconia. Instead, be sure to establish a good relationship with the shop where you buy your stuff. You'd be surprised how many problems can be fixed during a 10-minute phone call with somebody who knows what they' re selling... and backs it up. Some general tips before you go

shopping:

sure you' re getting current versions of everything being offered. And make sure

I) There's no point in waiting "another few months" to get the latest and greatest becauseyou'llend up neverowning a computer that way. The latest and greatest is already in the final stages of development when the newest machines hit the shelves.

registration cards. The least you should expect these days is to haveWindows 95 and/ar Windows 3.11 already installed and

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2) Always buy the best and fastest computer running (that saves yau a couple of hunyou can afford. I' ve been told a jillion times dred dollars right there) along with sepathat, "All I need it for is some word prorate sofhvare and utilities for all your bits:; and pieces (faxmadem, saund card, video ". cessing and to play a few old games," only months before I get the inevitable call: "ls card, etc.). Also, samecomputer companies;, nawpre-load all the software and provide ':,' there any way I can make it go faster... witha backup on a single CD-ROM. That"sokay. out spending too much money?" or "I The CD-ROM will have an officia registrawanted to put MicroX SuperX on my

Software bundle buying tip:Make you get ail the manuals, packaging and

computer — but on a v astly l arger scale. Instead of looking in the card catalogue to see what books are available, you can search for people and their interests and activities as well. On the Internet, you' ll come into contact with people with ideas to share, skills to test or questions that need answering — perhaps by you. Whatever your waking activities — from work, home or h obby — there are people around the world with the same interests who you can connect with on the Interne. It's the people, not the technology, that makes the Internet so terrific. You will find people who are the antithesis of the violence and anti-social behavior you see on the news every night. You can get help to find an antique car part, a quilt pattern, help your kids find out about an obscure village in

machine but it says there's not enough RAM (or hard drive space, or...)." 3) Don't let a salesperson snow you with lingo. That's the primary reason for me writing this article. Be sure you understand the capabilities of the machine and get a clear explanation of its expandability for future upgrades to virtually any component. This may seem premature but in all likelihood it's not.

Some handy questions Keep these in mind when you' re in the store (in no particular order): I) Am I getting an 8 bit or 16 bit sound card? Is it SoundBlaster compatible? 2) Am I getting the latest versions of the software and do I get the manuals, packaging and registration cards? Are they installed and running or do I have to do that myself? 3) What's the warranty on the computer? Do you service it on-site or send it out? Can I call you if I have any questions? Do you have a guaranteed turnaround time for fixing and returning my computer if it needs repair? Do you have a loaner policy (free or otherwise) if you have to keep my computer longer than (whatever the "guaranteed" turnaround time is)? 4) Can I upgrade the CPU, and how fast a CPU will it take when I do upgrade? S) How much RAM can the motherboard hold'? What types of RAM will the motherboard support? 6) How much RAM is on the video card? Can I add to that at any time? If so, is the video RAM proprietary? How much does video RAM cost? 2

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With these computer groups, I can locate a plant I have always wanted, ask about a new potting media I saw used at another club's show or find people who will trade pollen to help conserve endangered species. I have "friends" in Belgium, South Africa (this person sent stamps to my youngest son and articles for our society newsletter to m e), Saskatchewan and Texas. Newsgroup discussions are often lively and the willingness to help and share defies the dog-eat-dog mentality we' re always told is the heart of 20th century culture. For people in isolated areas, a phone connection to th e I nternet makes them an instant member. For example, Steve Saunders in Nova Scotia posted photos of elegant orchid displays on the Web within a few days of the national Canadian Orchid Congress in Halifax this past Fall. With children in school, I could not go. But thanks to Steve, I was still able to view the show anyway. Using my computer, I can also send a photo of an orchid I'm having a problem with to a special section of the Orchid List Digest and receive a diagnosis the same day from someone thousands of miles away. And there are other ways computers help with my orchid growing. I maintain a "database" of my orchids using a special program called Orchidata-3. (The software from Computer/Management Services requires Windows/DOS and sells for US$66.50, plus shipping and handling). A database is a special group of programs that collects, sorts and collates items, numbers or other information. A common use for a database is to maintain a mailing list that can be sorted automatically by name, province, affiliation, etc. With my orchids, I use a database to keep a record of the name, parents, flowering history, repotting and, most important, where I acquired the plant. Why do I need the last item? Orchids are becoming endangered all over the world. This provides evidence that :hey were obtained from legitimate sources and not collected illegally or smuggled. I can also print a report with the database that sorts all plants blooming in the spring so that I can remind myself to repot and fertilize without jeopardizing flower spikes. Web world wide The Web is the third big player on the Internet in addition to e-mail and newsgroups. The World Wide Web is like indexed yellow pages for businesses and individuals. But instead of a small box advertising a business or service, "Web pages" can be almost any number of full pages (but are usually less than 10). The pages tell you what a business or organization has to offer or what an individual is interested in. As a perk, there are always items marked by bold type or a different color type. By clicking on one on your computer screen with the pointer that is controlled by your "mouse," you can jump to another Web page for that related item. For instance, Ruthe Stowe (her Internet address is http: //home.netinc.ca/-rstowe/) in Hamilton is interested in weaving. On her page, she has links to the weaving guild she belongs to and the weaving newsgroup she subscribes to. She also has other links to weav-

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Yet another Web site is an index to hundreds of genealogy (the study of your family ancestors)

sites on the Internet, including a number of Canadian ones. One site, Barrelful of Genealogy Links, has registered over 56,000 callers in the last six months. (I am number dropping only to give you an idea of how many people worldwide are communicating and sharing.) None of these three sites (the weaving

Internet account for all to access. Web sites often contain information to help you with a project. For example, one offers step-by-step help to build your own computer. It also contains information on locating and buying parts (http: //www.verinet.corn/pc/).

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site, build your own computer site and this genealogy site) are commercial. All have been published because someone had an interest and wanted to share it. Software programs you can purchase sometimes also have built-in links to the Internetso that you can add or update inforrnation. Two of the most common genealogy

programs, for example, have internet links for research. Family Gathering (works with both Windows and Macintosh computers and retails for about $62) from Palladium links to chat rooms and discussion groups hosted by

doing Internet research directly from this program, you can also search Internet sites or newsgroups such as Roots-L for more information. F amily T re e M a ke r D e l ux e f r o m

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president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Novell, citing the impetus for the decision as "the board'5 perspective to long-term business objectives, not short-term issues." In many ways, it was too bad. It was yet another nice guy finishing laste r a t least being shown the door. Frankenberg once said in an interview that he knew the attention lavished upon him by the financial and trade press had little to do with him as a person. It was a product of the job and would cease when he quit. Perhaps it is because he was so completely without ego about such things that the Novell board said it saw "opportunity for new leadership to swiftly and aggressively take advantage of expanding opportunities in the networking marketplace" when it replaced him as chairman of the Novell board with John Young, the high-flying former chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard. (Ironically, Young used to be Bob Frankenberg's boss when the latter also worked at HP prior to his all-too-short reign at Novell.) Meanwhile, Novell supersalesman (and executive vice-president of worldwide sales) Joe Marengi was named president, and now reports to Young. At the time of writing, HP's board was still i n search of a new chief executive officer.

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you plug a full-size keyboard, an external mouse and an external monitor into your notebook computer, you can use it just as if it were a desktop system. And when you unplug

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Many neck, shoulder, arm and wrist pains can be attributed to poor mouse placement. You shouldn't have to reach for it every time you need to use it. Mice should be on about the same level as the keyboard. There should also+ ample space for the mouse; too many

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people still squeeze it in between the keyboard and something else, resulting in unnatural arm motions or a juggling act between the keyboard and the mouse. If desk space is really at a premium, consider an attachment for the side of your desk or chair where the mouse can rest. A variation of the mouse is the trackball, which some people prefer to a mouse. You might also consider alternate pointing devices, such as graphics tablets or touch

pads. These have the advantage of being immobile, and many people find them easier on the wrists than a mouse. Also, if you' re already suffering from an RSI, these gadgets can be a godsend — but you might want to check with your physician first.

within easy reach, so that you can get to power switches, eject buttons, and the like without having to stretch or twist. However, as more and more peripherals compete for limited desk space, this is not always possible. When you' re forced to move something a bit farther out of the way, a good rule of thumb Per i p heral visions is to keep the most frequently used peripherP e ripherals come in many shapes and sizes, als closest to you. The mouse should be right b u tthe general rule can be summed up in one next to you; something like an external wo r d: accessibility. Your peripheralss which is generally tumed on and off Iroud be modem, once per computing session, can be placed further away. Always leave room for your printer and a document holder. Your document holder should sit alongside your monitor, so that you don't have to repeatedly tilt or swivel your head to switch your gaze from the monitor to the holder and back. If you have no room on the desk to the side of your monitor, 0e e 4 0 get a document holder that attaches directly to the monitor. Your printer should have space clear to easily feed paper, read the display panel, and remove paper from the tray. If you don't have a printer now, plan ahead: it's very likely you' ll get one m the future.

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Work smarter, notharder These guidelines address the most common ergonomic problems in computing environments, but they' re not complete, and they' re not universal. Nor is it easy to get everything right the first time. (Every three months, I do a review of my work area to see what needs improving; I' ve completely rearranged everything at least three times in the past two For a more i n-depth perspective on ergonomics, a good resource is Cornell University's Web site (see contacts). It's regularly updated, and provides the texts of several studies in the field. Achieving the perfect computer environment is hard work, but bear in mind that it' s your physical and mental well-being at stake, as well as that of your family, co-workers, or employees. Safe computing is happy computing. 0

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Because we' re all built differently, it can be a nightmare setting up a single workspace for multiple users — a common situation with most home computers. There are desks and chairs available that allow users to customize just about every conceivable angle and elevation; it may be a worthwhile investment for a work area that will be used by three or more people, It's hard to come up with the ergonomic system that's ideal for all members of the family, but it's a goal worth aiming for. If there is one universal rule to follow, it' s that the safest computing is to occasionally not compute. No project is so important that time cannot be taken to eat properly, stretch, massage your wrists, or simply take a quick stroll around the house or office. If you spend all day in front of a computer at home or at work, indude a 15-minute walk or bicycle ride in your lunch break. In general, regular rest breaks — even as short as five minuteshelp to ease physical tension and relax potentially overworked muscles.

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Those figures were not lost on Microsoft vice-president Pete Higgins, whose job it is to oversee the Microsoft Office suite. Higgins says that while Corel has done well with WordPerfect since buying the company, the boost in sales is little more than WordPerfect has traditionally gained from the issue of a new release of the product, b u t s i n ce WordPerfect sales are all now in the suite configuration, the sales that typically would have

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been spread over the word-processing and suite sales were all combined into an impressive summer market share for Corel. Higgins also says Corel hasn't made any significant dent in corporate sales of suite products, where Microsoft continues to dominate with Office for Windows 95 and has great hopes for it s u pcoming Office97. Corel also did not do itself any favors with th e p roblems it h a d i n s h i p ping WordPerfect Office. In mid-September the company stated that, "as a result of a combination of factors" it had experienced delays i n s h ipping c o pies o f Co r e l O f f i c e Professional 7 ordered in the third quarter of fiscal 1996. The amount of product ordered but not shipped (and therefore not included in Corel's revenue for the quarter) was approximately $15 million. "We focus on shipping the highest quality product with the greatest functionality possible. As a result, delays can be encountered in engineering as every effort is made to include the latest functionality and to eliminate all significant bugs prior to releasing a product to manufacturing. As weil, the normal pattern of sales orders in the industry results in a substantial weighting of orders to the end of a quarter," explained Corel chief executive officer and president Michael Cowpland. "Being a multi-product company, it is frequently difficult to project accurately which particular products will be ordered in any particular quarter where there are no new releases..., All of these factors have an impact on the production scheduling. These difficulties are attributable to our continuing integration of the new products acquired by the company and all our systems and programs are under ongoing review to address and correct any deficiencies in these areas."

Corel brews a Java version One of the most exciting developments so far in Corel's tenure with WordPerfect has been the emergence of a plan t o o f fer WordPerfect Office for use with industry standard World Wide Web browsers that can handle Java code. In May, the company unveiled this scheme to create "a suite of integrated office productivity applications" written for Java. Corel promised that the suite would include Java versions of applications based on

Corel WordPerfect, Corel Quattro Pro and other productivity applications, all integrated within a new graphical user interface (GUI) framework. It pledged that this new office suite would exploit the technological experience gained by Corel from Corel WordPerfect Suite, as well as leverage the advantages of the Java platform, offering cross-platform functionality based on component architecture that is delivered online. "Corel has been quick to embrace Java

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introduced Corel Barista, what it called "a core technology" that it promised would allow users of Corel Office Professional's WordPerfect 7 and Corel Ventura 7 to create documents based entirely nn the Java platform, without any programming requirements. And by mid-October, Corel was making the first public trial of Corel Office for Java by offering it for use at the Corel Web site, making it the first major office suite to be written entirely in the Java programming language. Dubbed Corel Office for Java, Corel claims

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Models reviewed: AST Ascentia P50 Compucon Dell Latitude LM P133ST Dell Latitude XPi P150ST Eurocom 6200T Hewlett Packard OmniBook 800CT HyperData 759MX IBM ThinkPad 560 IBM ThinkPad 760ED Impulse Duonote KTX 880-100 KTX-880-133 NEC Versa 4230 NEC Versa 6030H Panasonic CF-25 Toshiba Tecra 500CDT hc «hoicc between purchasiiig a desktoli or a <iotebooh computer is a comrrioll dl)c<11»(a, Do you warit to give (<p

the raw power of a desktop computer for (lie portability of a notebook? Depending on your computing needs, the question can be a nobrainer. For many of us, the lower cost and greater performance of a full-size desktop computer far <iutweigh the benefits of portability. However, for people v ho need instant access to information in places inirn boardrooms to fishing boats, a notclionh is a ncces. sity. Preferably, the machine should lic able to handle all the tasks demanded oi the desktop col11puter, matching as closely as possible the specifications a»d performance of tlic latter. This month w e a sked for n o tebook machines that can be considered replacenlcnts for the deskt(ip P(, arid we receive(l many that tit th» bill in ternis ol sliecifications. 1hc rnaiiistay <>f our survey this <no<it)i are powerful 133 Ml lz macliines co<itigurcd with items such as 2 ((B hard drives, Hx (.I)-

R()M drives and TFT (also known as active matrix) screens. However, our benchmarks suggest the latest generation of travel companions still miss the )nark in t h e a rea o f p erformance. Rcincmbcr, no matter how much you spend, a desktop I'(; in any given class will always outpace a notebook liy a large factor. On BAP(.o Sysmark32, a score (Sysmark) of 100 is equal in pertormance to a hase-configured Pc<itium 100 MHz deshtop machine. Most of th» notebooks touting higher central processing unit (CPU) speeds failed to reach this

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Still, the notebook market has seen several incrc»icntal improvements over the last several i»onths. Vendors are offering and shil ipi<ig then> with faster pnicessors, larger scree»s,uid liard drives and taster (.D-ROSf drives,

Within the category of desktop replacements, there is still a great amount of diversity to be considered. Notebooks exist to fit a number of needs. For example, in this survey we have the ultra slim and l ightweight ThinkPad 560 from IBM alongside the battleproof I'anasonic (.:F-25 and Dell's souped-up Latitude XPi 15(). The ThinkPad is designed for the traveling executive, the l.atitude Xl'i 150 — with all its bells and whistles — is suited f or th e c o ntemporary office, and t h e Panasonic is designed for heas>-duty fieldwork in an industrial environment. Expandability «nd built-in functionality al'c a cons(de,at<»» ivll<.'ii (.11(iosi<1g a llciv (.<>>(t(iu(«' / oii page 62

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notebook. Many notebooks sacrifice i nternal floppy and CD-ROM drives in the interest of downsizing. The reduced size of these gems can be beneficial to the commuting professional hut the lack of removable storage can he an equal menace. The docking station options for a given notebook are also worth investigating, especially if you are going to use it to replace a desktop. The pointing device is another area that bears some serious consideration. While t«u<.hpads are far and away the most widely used mechanism, they are not necessarily the hest f«r each individual. Luckily, we still have some choice in this area with a couple of vendors o)fcring tracl balls and eraser-head tsar )c devices, which many people prefe~. Some notch«oks have uniq ie oprions. like an infrar»d remote control m«use (which we' ve

The tests We used BAPCo Sysmark/32 running under Windows 9S to benchmark the notebooks. This is a grueling test and invariably, some computers fail to make it clean through the benchmark. Notebooks in particular have a hard time with the benchmark as they use

With I MB of vid»o RAM, video resohiti<>n up to8(i0x6()0 are possible on a ~harp-Io«king 12.1-!nch act«e matrix screen. The l<uv»si priced notch«ok iii our sun ey, this I.atitudc I.M I33 is yours fnr $4,()9«v)th a «nc-»ea <~ arrantv.

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AST's new linc of notebooks includes this model PSO. A full-featured unit, it comes with a Pentium 133 MHz processor and 256K of Level-2 cache. Our test unit came with 16 MB of RAM and a large 2.1 GB hard drive. 1'he PSO's 12.1-inch active matrix screen produces sharp images at resolutions up to 800x600 internally with 2 MB of video RAM. The CDROM and floppy drives are interchangeable,

meaningyou can use them both internally,

work 1<X) percent. The biggest problem when this occurs is that w» aren't ab)e to obtain, in <ivcral! Sysmark for the rnachine. What read»rs should do in th»se cases is to look at the individual numbers and estimate what tlic m,!chine evould most likely score on this particular section, when taking into consideration its other scores and overall system configuration. We must stress this, because it would be neither fair nor wise to discount a particular system simply because there was a glitch with the benchmark suite.

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heen referring to )ate!y as the "IR v and").

1hcre are two popular types of display sere»ns for r)oteb<ioks today — DSTN and TFT. DSTN is the cost-cftcctive option, but it does not offer the clarity or brightness of TFT. DSTN displays are hack-lit and cannot be siewed at an angle very well, whereas TFTdisplays produce brighter, sharper images viewahle from several angles.

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Compucon systems of the desktop variety are well known to our Test Lab. This time, however, we were sent a notebook bearing the ( ompucon name, At first glance, it appeared to be a good all-in-one unit. The system is powered by a 133 MHz Pentium processor with 256K of Level-2 (or secondary) cache. The RAM configuration was slightly larger than we had asked (or, at 24 MB instead of 16 MB. The 12.1-inch active matrix screen is sharp anti easy to read, producing clear images in both text and graphics applications at resolutions of 800x600. The system contains a I GB hard drive; an adequate amount of storage for most portables. Both the CDROM and floppy drives are internal, saving you from having to swap ha»i' and forth. While this may be extremely convenient, the tradeoff comes in the form of extra carrydng weight. The price tag on the unit is 55,199, Deil Latitude LM P'I333T Never one to break with tradition, Dell has once again provided us with two machines that are not only complete, but areextrem ely well priced. The LM 133 runs on a 133 MHz Pentium processor with 256K of level-2 cache, 16 MB of RAM, an 810 MB hard drive and has 16-hit sound capabilities. The 6x CDROIvl drive and floppy drive are interchangeable. The unit has a touchpad as its pointing device, two PCMCIA slots, and IR capabilities.

Dell's latest creation is the XPi 150ST. It's the very first notebook with a 150 MHz processo to have come through our Test Lab. It wasted no time making a good impression on us. Ou test unit was equipped with the standard complement of 16 MB RAM, and 256K of pipelined cache. This particular model uses trackball as its primary pointing device as opposed to the ever-popular touchpad found among many of the notebooks we' ve tested. The 150ST features a built-in 6x CD-ROM drive and a built-in floppy drive, housed one on top of the other. The hard drive in this unit is larger than its cousin, the LM 133. A 1.3 CB, it' ll provide you with plenty of storage while you' re on the road. It's also the firs notebook we' ve seen to come with a PCI 128 bit video controller. If graphics-related applications are your thing, then this notebook was designed for s ou. And it can he yours fo $5,499 with a three-vear limited warranty. Euracom 6200T

Another all-in-one system, the 6200T from Eurocom has evervthing you need all under one roof, At the heart of the machine is a Pentium 133 MHz processor and 256K of sec ondary cache, 16 eIB of RAM and a 1.2 GB hard drive. Your multimedia needs are met with a built-in gx CD-ROM drive and 16-bit sound capabilities. The floppv drive on this model is also built in for your convenience.

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monitor. If y ou r m e mory requirements should increase, the notebook will accommodate you with up to 64 MB of EDO RAM using four DIMM (dual inline memory module) sockets. The keyboard makes use of the popular Windows 95 keys and uses a touchpad for its primary pointing device.

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Hewlett-Packard's latest in its OmniBook lineup is the 800 series. Our test model was an 800CT, which managed to throw a few surprises our way. When you first look at an OmniBook, you see an ultra-slim, very lightweight notebook. It's hard to imagine the power that lurks behind that gentle exterior. The 800CT is powered by a Pentium 133 MHz processor with 256K of external cache on board. Our test unit was configured with 16 MB of EDO RAM, which is expandable to 48 MB, and a 1.4 GB hard drive. With a 10.4-inch active matrix screen, graphics quality was superb. Video consists of a 32-bit PCI chip with a 128-bit graphics controller from NeoMagic. With 1 MB of video RAM, resolutions of 1024x768 are possible when an external monitor is used. As is common with HP OmniBooks, you get a built-in two-button mouse which pops out at the right side of the computer at the press of a button. Certainly different from touchpad devices, but very similar to a desktop mouse, except for the range of motion allowed. The mouse connects to the computer with a cord that is 9 cm (3,5 in,) long. If you happen to pull too far, don't worry — the device is completely removable. The 800 series also features a docking station where you will find a port replicator, including SCSI-2 and SVGA-out ports, support for an industry-standard half-length 16bit ISA card or a 32-bit PCI card. The Cocking system supports what is commonly referred to as "hot docking" which means that you

can dock and undock the system while under power in an operating system enviroment. Due to dock's slim nature, the 4x SCSI CD-

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The only complaint we have about this machine is the fact that it lacks a Level-2 cache. We' ve said it before, and we' ll say it again (and again and again): the Level-2 cache is a crucial part of any computer, be it a notebook or desktop. The performance gains far outweigh the money you'd save by not having one in your system. Unfortunately, due to popular demand, this notebook w/s very hard to come by, and arrived just after our test results were complete, which is why you' ll see nisi/A u (not available) instead of a result in the benchmark portion of the Lab Test chart. This attractive and very lightweight unit can be had for $6,399. IBM ThinkPad 760ED

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133 MHz Pentium processor and 16 MB of RAM. The hard drive is 1.08 GB, the floppy is external, and it features 16-bit stereo sound. There is no compromise made as far as the display is concerne. Equipped with a 12.1inch TIT screen, you get great looking text and graphics at the common 800x600 resolutions. It's also one of very few notebooks in this survey to make use of a trackpoint device, as opposed to t h e p o p ular t ouchpad. Included with the system is a CD-ROM of Lotus SmartSuite 96 to help you get down to business immediately.

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Want it all without completely blowing your budget? Take a look at this new Duonote from I m pulse C omputer C o rporation. Whether you want a large 2.1 GB hard drive, or a built-in 28.8Kbps faxmodem, this Duonote has it all. How about built-in, IOBaseT networking capabilities? Not a problem. And the main unit itself weighs a mere 2.1 kg (4.7 Ibs). If it sounds like we love this notebook, it's because we do. This unit is probably the closest thing you' ll get to a true desktop replacement with all the bells and whistles to go along with it. Driven by a Pentium 133 MHz processor, 256K of Level2 cache and 16 MB of RAM, this machine wasted no time soaring through our grueling benchmark suite. The main unit can be docked on a MultiNet Mobile Station, which houses a built-in 6x C D-ROM drive, a removable )1oppy drive, the 10BaseT connection, and a port replicator consisting of an t xtc mal monitor port, serial and parallel p ort~, a Ml [ ) l i'game p o rt , a n d du a l r«tractahl«stereo speal crs. The Mobile Station it~elf w«ighs only 900 g (2 ibs) and is less (lian '.5 <:ni (I in.) thick. The video system consis(s of an 11.3-inch TFT screen capable iif Br)0x600 resolution with 1 MB of vid«<r RAM. A very complete package, with a ven competitive price of $5,495 and a three-year warranty. (Having to part with this little gem is one of the hardest things I' ve ever had to do. Hmm, when's that next notebook survey scheduled? —SH) KTX 880-100 and 880-133 New contenders in our Test Labs, KTX notebooks are distributed worldwide by Edge Wholesale Ltd. Both models we received were identical on the outside, with differences in

Both systems come standard with 6x removable CD-ROM drives and 16-bit audio capabilities. Both systems are priced competitively, with the 100 MHz model being $3,290, and the 133 MHz system at $4,590. The warranty is two years for parts and labor, and applies in ter nationally,wherever Edge distributors are found. NEC Versa 4230

We managed to squeeze this NEC 4230 in just before going to press. For the most part, it' s very similar t o i t s c o usin, th e 6 030H (reviewed below), with differences being in the form of smaller-sized components. The processor is still 133 MHz, but RAM is 8 MB as standard. The screen is a 10.4-inch TFT, capable of i n t ernal resolutions of 800x600 with I MB of video RAM. The unit comes with a 1.0 GB hard drive, and removable 6x C D -ROM an d f l o pp y d r i ves. Performance was slightly less than the 6030H, which is anticipated due to the 8 MB of RAM. The price on the 4230 is $5,129 with a oneyear warranty. NEC Versa 6030H One of NEC's latest is this 6030H. Featuring a P entium 133 M H z p r ocessor, this f i ne machine managed to come out on topin terms of raw performance on our benchmark suite. Additional specs include 256K of Level-

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include the keyboard, the LCD display and all ports. As far as the inside of the machine is concerne, it features a Pentium 133 MHz processor, 8 MB of RAM (expandable to 72 MB), a 1.3 GB hard drive and three PCMCIA slots. The screen is a 10.4-inch active matrix TFI' capable of resolutions up to 800x600. This was another unit that unfortunately arrived late (once again due to popular demand) and therefore has no scores listed on our charts. According to Panasonic, the unit with the above configuration is available immediately for just under $6,000.

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Notebooks seem to be very popular items these days, making demo units hard to come by. This was the case when we requested a Toshiba model. As notebooks become more and more powerful, the demand by journalists for demo units grows. We were unable to obtain a 133 MHz model, so we went with the 500 CDT which features a 120 MHz CPU. The system has 256K of pipeline burst cache, 16 M B of RAM expandable to 144 MB, and a 1.2 GB hard drive. The multimedia components in the unit i ndude built-in, 16-bit stereo sound, and aremovable 6x CD-ROM drive. The floppy drive and CD-ROM drive are interchangeable. The screen is a 12.1-inch active matrix, with resolutions up to 800x600, using 2 MB of video RAM. Also included in the unit are IR communications capabilities and a built-in 28.8Kbps faxmodem. Performance was above average, considering that the processor was 120 MHz. This model is available as described above for $6,299 with a three-year warranty.

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Cassiopeia palmtop a charmer Casio employs Windows CE in new handheld PC B V D A V I D T ANA K A Microsoft's Pocket Internet Explorer Web browser are induded with the Cassiopeia). However, only PPP is supported, so if your ser-

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Product: Cassiopeia handhold personal computer Models: A-10 (tested) with 2 MB RAM,and A-11 with 4 MB RAM From: Casio Canada Suggested retail price: S699 ($899 for the A-11)

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computer — or is it that palmtops have come to Windows? In a sense, both are true. Microsoft, with its Windows CE 32-bit operating system, and several manufacturers have joined forces to create the handheld personal computer, or HPC, the latest variation on computers that fit in your pocket. What it means is that i f y o u ar e a Windows 95 user, you can now buy a palmtop computer from one of several manufacturers and be greeted with a graphical interface you' ll immediately recognize and be comfortable using. If you' re a Microsoft Word, Excel or Schedule+ user, you' ll also get a set of applications that will be familiar to use and compatible with the full-blown versions residing on your Windows 95 desktop computer. And,

if you want to synchronize your organizer files, or move spreadsheets or word-processing documents between your handheld device and your desktop PC, a slick serial cable-based (or infrared) transfer utility is included. The subject of this review is the Cassiopeia A10 from Casio Canada Ltd., one of the first companies to bring a Windows CE product to market.

such as SLIP, you' re out of luck. Instead of using a mouse to navigate, you can use a stylus on the touch-sensitive screen to double-click, drag or highlight items (you can also use keyboard shortcuts and a Windows key is included on the Cassiopeia). Since there's no mouse, right mouse button functionality is accomplished by depressing the ALT key and tapping with the stylus, although the functions are limited. The Windows 95-style interface will undoubtedly be a major selling feature on these devices. However, the scale of the Windows elements has its advantages as well as some drawbacks on a device with such a small screen. On the positive side, the controls are large enough to manipulate with your fingertip, so you don't always have to use the stylus for navigation. But the size of those elements also has its drawbacks. The task bar, main menu bar and scrolling bar are about the same width as on my Windows 95 desktop displayed on a 17-inch monitor when it's set at a resolution of 1,024x768. This means that, comparatively, those controls are taking up a lot of screen space on the Cassiopeia. On Windows 95, you can use the auto-hide option to clear the task bar off the screen when it doesn't have to be accessed. In Word for Windows 95, you can invoke the clean-screen option, which hides all the menus and tool bars. On Windows CE or Pocket Word, these are not available — pity. But given the constraints of the hardware (limited RAM, small screen dimensions, lack of hard drive, etc.), Windows CE works. Individuals will quibble over what Microsoft

chose to leave out of the operating system or how it implemented certain features, and my quibbles will be different than someone else' s.

However, if you want a handheld computer

Wlscgiow$ CE, what's that? Windows CE is a 32-bit operating systmn that

that looks and sort of acts like your Windows desktop PC, and you are willing to live with the limitations inherent in t h ese small

uses a graphical interface, which closely resem-

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bles the Windows 95 and NT 4.0 desktop. It uses a subset of the Win32 API, which means that Windows 95 software developers should be able to develop applications for Windows

these new HPCs. When Microsoft was working with hardware manufacturers, it defined a minimum set of features it wanted all Windows CE palmtops to include, among them a 480x240

CE devices with tools they are already familiar with — but within the constraints of the smaller environment. And by the way, the CE doesn't stand for anything officially, but speculation is that it could stand for Compact Edition, or Consumer Electronics. You might think of CE functionally as a stripped-down version of Win 95. Many of the features are there on CE, but the subtleties or

breadth of customizability are lost. For example, TCP/IP is supported, which means you can use a Windows CE device on the Internet (and in fact, both an Internet mail program and

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matter of dragging files in and out of the HPC Explorer window. Because Pocket Word and Pocket Excel use a different file format than the full-blown versions, a file conversion process occurs automatically during file transfer. File synchronization between Schedule+ on your PC and the PIM modules in the Cassiopeia, on the other hand, is automatically done each time you connect the two units together. The synchronization utility also creates an archive on your PC, in case calamity befalls your Cassiopeia. I pulled the two AA main batteries and lithium backup out of the unit to simulate complete battery failure. When I reinstalled the batteries, and hooked the unit to the PC, the files were restored from a special archive with no particular bother. Pocket Web browser I also loaded the optional Pocket Internet Fxplorer on the Cassiopeia, and am I)appy to rcport that setting up my Internet service and logging nn took less than five minutes. I inserted a Fujitsu 28.8 PC Card modem, ivhich the Cassiopeia auto-recognized, and after setting up the "make new connection" dial-up utility (which is similar to the one found in Windows 95), it was a simple matter of dialing in, and then launching the Web browser. However, be warned that the current generation of PC Card devices will tax the handheld device's two AA batteries severely. The factory installed batteries had only about two hours' use when I first attempted to use the modem, and within f iv e m i nutes, were drained. After loading a fresh set, I managed to use the modem for about five minutes, and the battery meter still read "good." When you turn the Cassiopeia on after inserting the PC Card modem, you are greeted with a warning dialog, pointing out that the device will be hard on your batteries, and you should use an AC adapter. Unfortunately, the AC adapter is an extra-cost option with the Cassiopeia. However, short battery life is not a problem specific to the Cassiopeia. Under normal use, the Cassiopeia's batteries are rated to last about 20 hours. Where are the other applications? Microsoft had set up a special Windows CE section in its pavilion at Fall Comdex, and invited several palmtop manufacturers and a dozen and a half third-party software, peripheral and accessory vendors to participate. Microsoft says that nearly 100 third-party vendors have stated they will be creating products for these de~Sees. I noted a couple of handwriting recognition products, wireless data modems (including one from Bumaby, B.C-based Infowave), memory card products, and vertical applications such as forms design applications. You can expect application development to accelerate, now that the hardware is actually available. Already posted on Microsoft's Windows CE Web page is a 1.1 version of Pocket Internet Explorer, and Powertoys, which includes a few bells and whistles, a paint program. Summing up While there are a few features I'd like to see added to or changed on the Cassiopeia and on Windows CE, overall it's a terrific first effort, and immediately usable out of the hox. 0 Contacts: Casio Canada,Tel 416-431-3747 Microsoft Windows CE, Web page: http: I/www.microsoft.corn/windowscei Non-Microsoft Windows CE, Web site: http: //windowsce.corn

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that the street price in Canada will be below $50 at some wholesale-style stores. Tough to beat, Microsoft Money 97 is a CD-ROM-based Windows program for Win 95 or NT 4.0 (it does not work on NT 3.51). The minimum hardware for the program is any machine that has a CD-ROM and will run Windows 95, but on anything less than a 486-50, it drags. The basic features of the program are as one would expect with account ledgers, loan and mortgage amortizing, printing of cheques, portfolio manager, asset tracking, financial calendar with drag and drop and an extensive help system with text-based reference information to help answer many financial questions. As a newer Microsoft program, it uses IntelliSense technology which is Microsoft's way of saying the program tries to guess what

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be a single user currently, but perhaps you' ll be in a networked environment in the future. Does the PIM allow for group scheduling, selective sharing of d ata, notes? • Printing: Many PIM users also use paperbased systems, making good printing capabilities essential for integrating the two. Will it print pages that fft your paper organizer system? Will it look the way you want: report formatting, font options, preview, double-sided printing, color? These are some things to consider. These programs are full of ease-of-use conventions, productivity enhancements, automated shortcut routines and every other nifty little trick their makers could think up. They are better looking, smarter, and more cooperative than their forefathers. But for all the spit, polish and promise there is one elemental factor that might give you pause to consider: is a PIM for you? To be more succinct, will the value of organizing your information exceedthe time cost? The short answer is Yes! One of the problems with personal software, whether it is an information manager or a financial program, is that well-intentioned consumers purchase the software and then feel defeated when they don't keep perfect records. This is unnecessary. The programs reviewed below have so much functionality that there is something

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tidious can utilize every feature, the lackadaisical may enter only a first name and phone number. You may not really need your drycleaner's postal code. PIMs have made great strides and come full of great little features. The market is crowded and that is good for consumers. Each company is vying for shelf space, which makes products richer and the prices leaner. Look for this trend to continue as Microsoft ups the ante with it s new all-in-one email/PIM/fax program, Outlook, and the new features in Lotus Organizer, which push the PIM envelope. Find below reviews of Any Time Deluxe from Individual Software, DayTimer Organizer 2. 1 f r o m D a y -Timer Technologies, the makers of D ay-Timer paper-based organizers, SideKick 95 from Starfish Software, Lotus Organizer 97, and a short peek at how Microsoft has overhauled their PIM, Schedule+.

Any Time Deluxe From. Individual Software Inc Suggested retail price: $49.95 Any Time Deluxe is a Windows 3.x or 95 program for standalone use or use in a small network The product can be licensed in a network pack of three, five or 10. Both a CDROM and diskettes are included in the pack-

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This is a very good program that I really liked. The developers have incorporated changes to reflect the growing use of the Internet, Day-Timer automatically launches a u ser 's browser (Netscape Navigator o r Microsoft Explorer) to go to any Web site recorded in a contact record or notes field. Similarly, for any e-mail address entered, DayTimer will launch an e-mail package (any VIM or. MAPI system on Windows; Claris e-mailer or Eudora on Macintosh) and pre-address a message. One of the best features is the quick fill data entry. Originally brought to the consumer market by Intuit in the Quicken software, quick fill lets the software guess what you are going to type based on previous entries. It works quite well and is a real bonus here. The company has 50 years of time-management experience with paper-based systems and it shows. Day-Timer claims 85 percent of those who use PIMs in their daily lives also carry paper-based planners. I am not sure if this is true, however, I am sure that the combined use of the program and their notebook organizers is a real joy. In some programs, the complexity of printing the information to a two-sided, odd sized sheet is confusing, but the documentmanagement wizard in Day-Timer makes setup straightforward. The leather-covered day book was a real joy to work with. The product can also be purchased as DayTimer Organizer for Workgroups which is a strong group-enabled scheduler/PIM. The software can be purchased in multi-user packs, which may be combined to support up to 720 users per database.

organizers. (The c ompany sen t along a binder for evaluation.) Day-Timer Technologies Inc. introduced its product in 1994, and it is one of the bestselling PIMs on the market. The program is available for W i ndows and Madntosh, and manages schedules, to-do lists, addresses, phone calls, notes, and expenses. This new version has Web and e-mail launchers, customizable fields, full t extsearch, linked phone log, expense tracking, entry linking, and free-form notes. A selection of binders and computer forms designed to work with Day-Timer Organizer is available to create a complete time-management system.

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over the desktop, which seems unnecessary. This is a program that is pretty and easy to get up and running, but the depth of features and the ease of navigation are not there as they are for the other programs. As an introduction to the PIM world, or for a casual user, this is a fun little program.

lotus Organizer 97 for Windows 9$/NT From: Lotus Development Corp, Suggested Retail Price: $99.95 Just released a few months before Christmas, Lotus Organizer 97 is a full-fledged information manager but it is also a lot more. From the standpoint of a standalone application, it is a very complete and robust program that will work very well by itself or as part of Lotus SmartSuite. Considering the space limitations here, let me dispense with listing the

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The great linking ability: As an OLE 2.0, 32-bit program for either Win 3.x or NT, it is possible to do almost all your work from inside of the PIM. True drag and drop: Things that you would expect to be drag and drop all are. The interface is good and the navigation tools are excellent, • Other Organizer 9? features include: A new daily calendar view with appointments displayed as blocks of time in a graphical format, rollover of planned calls until completed, and rich text formatting. There are other interesting functions such as launching your Internet browser or email program, but there are two very exdting things that really presage the future of PIMs: a common front end for both personal and corporate PIM, and Web Calendar, on-the-road Internet access to your PIM data. Organizer is one of the most popular PIMs on the market and well regarded as a personal productivity product. Lotus Notes is the number one corporate communications program and now Lotus intends Organizer to be the front end for Notes. This will be good news to both Notes and Organizer users and a serious threat to Microsoft's plans to dominate the corporate LANs of the world. Equally

application that enables Organizer 97 files to be accessed through industry leading Web browsers, is available as a free download from Lotus'Web site (see contact).

Organizer 97 Web Calendar will allow Organizer 97 users to access,share and manage schedules and tasks remotely over the Internet or on corporate intranets. "Organizer 97 Web

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Tips to save money with an RRSP GIC's for your RRSP. It can be very confusing to decide what options are the right ones for u pon us. B y you. However, one fact is certain. If you are self-employed, it is particularly imperative now, you have probathat you plan to look after yourself in retirebly been bombarded by t h e a d v ertising ment by maximizing your RRSP "contribucampaigns o f f ering tion room" every year. Not only will that m utual f u nd s a n d cause your RRSP to build quickly, but it will

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flamboyant and restless copywriter. They strike up a conversation and cautiously begin corresponding, and their relationship gradually becomes more intense. The story is told as a series of e-mail messages they send each other. The book is pure voyeurism as you watch how their relationship blossoms entirely through electronic means. But however good

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Decignoro peer through the layers of Intel'o first mlrcroprececsor, the 4604. could process 60,000 instructions per second. The current Pentium Pro chip has 3.S million, and can perform up to 400 million instructions per second (400 MIPS). Grove claimed that by 2011, a microprocessor with a billion transistors may exist, with the ability to process 100,000,000,000 instructions per second (100,000 MIPS). This would be 250 times faster than the fastest current Pentium Pro. Groves claimed that imminent improvements in the microprocessor will allow PCs "to deliver lifelike, real-world experiences."

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the first USB-enabled speaker system, and Phoenix Technologies says its Phoenix Bios now supports USB. Some people in the USB area said USB would get a big push with the next version of Windows, which apparently will have extensive USB driver support included when it ships in mid-1997. Smaller forms of memory A number of c o mpanies were showing CompactFlash cards, which are about the size of a book o f m atches or 3.64x4.28 cm (1.4x1.7 in.) and weigh about 11.5 g (.05 oz). These can be used alone with devices that have interfaces designed for them, or will drop into a PC Card carrier, which allows them to be accessed with a computer that has a PC Card slot. Steve Larivee, with SanDisk Corp of Maitland, Ha., said his comapny just announced a 64-megabit, double-density flash RAM dies, "which allows us to store 2 bits in each domain." He said the next products will use chips that are slightly larger than 64 megabits, which will create a 10 MB card — "a nice round number." Sandisk will skip the 128 Mb generation and go right to 256 Mb, "That's going to allow us to do 30 MB in one die," said Larivee, who said the capacity of these CompactHash cards should hit 100 MB by 1998. Contact: Sandisk,Tel:408-452-0500. Web site: http: //www.sandisk.corn

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"We' re not surprised by this phenomenal growth: we' ve witnessed incredible demand for the miro DC20 and we' re seeing even greater i n terest fo r t h e j u s t r e l eased m iroVIDEO DC30," a ccording t o J i m Anderson, miro's vice-president of worldwide marketing. "We will maintain our advantage by continuing to introduce more aggressive price points for hardware combined with new, extremely easy-to-use editing software." miro's line of digital editing systems for PCI-equipped Macs and PCs includes the entry-level DCIO unit, with a street price of about $499, and the DC20 unit for about $899 (both the DC10 and DC20 have been reviewed in TCP.The new DC30 model, aimed for the professional market, with a price of about $1,250, will reviewed in an upcoming issue). miro chose to launch its new mirnVIDEO DV100 (Firewire) solution for digital video editing at Corndex. The DV100 is compatible with Sony Digital Video (DV) source code, and is compatible with products such as the Sony VX1000 Digital Handycam, and is software upgradable to future DV equipment. "The DV100 lets users keep video footage from a video camcorder in digital format through the entire production process, form shooting to storing to editing. This allows — for the first time — the production of first generation quality sddeo from a desktop video system. First generation quality video is the highest quality video possible. With the miroVIDEO DV100 and c ontrol f ro m t h e i n c luded miroVIDEO Story Tools, video footage can be scanned, scene locations auto-indexed, and then edited. Raw and unedited footage can simply be left on the camcorder's DV tape, gisdng

users a virtual storage peripheral in their digital camcorder," according to miro. The company will sell the DV100 by itself, or bundled with the DC30 capture board for about $2,500. Fast Electronic, also headquartered in Germany held a media briefing to roll out its Master Line of digital video editing products. Fast chief executive officer, Mattias Zahn, was at Comdex to announce the new line. A couple of Sony representatives were in the audience, v atching the Fast card pull in a pretty good idden stream from a couple of new Sony digital sddeo cameras connected to the computer with a single IEFE 1394 "firewire" connector. Contact: miro, Tel: 800-474-6476. Web site: http: //www.miro.corn Fast. Tel: 415-295-3500. Web site: http: //www.2FAST4U.corn Digital cameras and printers

Expect to see a lot of digital cameras, along with devices like image printers that will allow you to set up a digital processing lab in your home for about $1,500. Panasonic's TruePhoto and Fuji's Printit (which are the same device sold under two brand names) use a thermal process to develop the images ( from digital cameras, scanned prints or captured video frames) onto special papers that have the heat-sensitive chemicals in them. The papers are made by Fuji and will probably cost $1 per 7.6x12.7 cm (3x5 in.) sheet. (The American representative said Fuji expected the cost to be about US$14.95 for 20 sheets, or US$0.75 per print). The printer itself will sell for about US$479. A Panasonic representative said one print was left out in the sun for about six weeks with no signs of fading, but that the product hadn't been around long enough to evaluate the long-term stability of the image. We asked when and if the products would be available in Canada, but could not get an answer more definitive than "we don't see why not." Special thanks to Epson, which loaned us a couple of its latest PhotoPC 500 digital cameras to use during the show. Most of the snapshot images you see accompanying this report were taken with the units. Overall, we were very happy with the cameras. They were light and easy to carry around, and the picture quality, while still nowhere near 35mm film standards, was surprisingly good. Epson had set up a media photo area where we could go to download images from the camera and e-mail them back to our offices in Vancouver, and that worked flawlessly.

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BUC K L E R Audiotrix Phone by talking to a Mediatrix employee at its headquarters in Sherbrooke, Que. OT Communique Laboratory Inc. • The Toronto firm announced that the 32-bit version of its Communicate! software is asMable. Communicate! manages fax, data, voice, and paging communications through a single phone line from a personal computer running Windows. The new version supports Windows 95 and NT and sells for $249. It is aimed at small office and home office cus-

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Oorlane International • Mo n treal-based Ooriane launched its repository computeraided software engineering (CASE} tool into the United States market.!spina Reich, president of Ooriane, also said Canada's Defence Department has chosen her company's software for use in developing a new personnel system data warehouse. Televltesse Systems inc. ~ The Ottawabased maker of "software that watches telesdsion for you," as spokesperson Carol Martin put it, came to Comdex. to launch its AccesTV Continued on page 1M

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