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1. Sound Figure 9a Sound For Phrase Usage Pitch Timbre Duration Tone Sound aj Volume Cj Yolume are given you could write a Concerto for Words if you created a different sound for each rule and remembered to make enough errors that went uncor rected to hear the song Figure 9 As if that were not enough there is an other customizable menu box to create keyboard shortcuts or macros Figure 10 What else can they think of to add I wondered Then I found it statistics Everyone has to throw statistics into everything possible But what do statistics really have to do with grammar Somebody some where at sometime was so bored that he yes he created a table showing how the words used in a document would dictate what kind of person would read that document Nothing about the art of writing noth ing about how inter Cancel i OK esting the subject Figure 9b still be made for all the inflexibility of English at times and there in front of me was the perfect visual representa tion of that thought all of the ther mometer bar controls for sound ef fects Not only could you choose the grammar rules you wanted to obey you could compose your own sounds to go with the mood of the document being written With all the controls you May June 1999 was nothing about anything except counting and crunching numbers Re
2. The meeting started as usual with the Question and Answer session hosted as usual by Pi Secretary and Macintosh Guru Lawrence Charters As usual the questions were wide ranging and the an swers informative to all A very interest ing discussion on clean installs and the necessity of re installing applications was very informative Tom Witte then took the stage to be gin the program Tom explained that QuickTime is not your normal Macintosh application or file format rather it is an Information Architecture that describes a QuickTime object Most of us think of QuickTime as a method of playing movie clips on our Macs but that is just the MoviePlayer application QuickTime is really the architecture that allows MoviePlayer to display a QuickTime ob ject as a movie on our screen The first QuickTime clip shown was the HAL 9000 Year 2000 commercial which Steve Jobs introduced at the Janu ary MacWorld in San Francisco I think this was the first full scale commercial ever produced for the Internet It was so popular that it was transferred to video and Apple paid the going rate to show it 12 Washington Apple Pi Journal during the Super Bowl later that month Next we got a look at the Lucasarts trailer for the upcoming Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace motion picture due to be re leased this summer This is one of the most frequently downloaded large files on the Internet I m sure it has increased the do
3. Graphic Arts SIG lasing by Blake Lange February WENTY FIVE members came out to the round table dis cussion of brochure production at the February meeting Attending were Ed Escalante Ray Duke Diana Buell Carol S Cable Marcia Marks Karen Howe Karen Klein Valerie Burghardt Carol Sky Russell Kirsch Blake Lange Etana Finkler Robert Allen Elfi Zuc chetto Helen Dilley Barsalou Mary Keene Esta Gladstone Charles A James Charlie Romero Bob Russell Bob Everett George L Venable Jen nifer Williams Barbara Valakos and Sonny Tohan Etana Finkler said The February Graphics SIG s topic was brochures and was extremely helpful to me ina practical way since I am somewhat a novice at brochure creation having designed less than 30 brochures Mem bers brought in a variety of styles of work and shared a variety of experi ences We talked about how and where to get ideas Someone shared this approxi mate quote from Picasso A good art ist borrows a great artist steals By hearing that other artists sit down with Art Source Books art magazines etc before they begin their design it vali dated my taking the time to do that as well We discussed the ethics of steal ing ideas and talked about how the fi nal product you create really can wind up with inspiration rather than some thing stolen that others ideas just help expand your material in different directions
4. i ania Sabres ie s SE gel eee Kaci NY hes ea a es Reatensionel Tax aaia Software for the Apple II by Brian Mason fe ECT THAT by now most of you have already turned in your tax forms But if you haven t or you need to start thinking about next year I would like to recommend a tax preparation software package for your consideration I have been using this same program since at least 1987 though they have been in business since 1979 This software is called Tax Preparer and is published by HowardSoft Tax Preparer is not cheap It cost 99 this year for the regular update However as Ric Edelman the finan cial advisor author of The Truth About Money and host of the Your Money Matters radio show on WMaAL said in another context You get what you pay for Which are you going to put more confidence in a tax package for which you paid 25 or a tax preparation service for which you paid a couple hundred dollars Basically the program runs on any IBM compatible or Apple compatible machine even those with 40 charac ter wide screens 5 25 disk drives and as little as 64K of memory So this would include the Franklin 1000 and 2000 series of computers It will run ona Macintosh only if you emulate the IBM or the Apple computers either through hardware or software For the Apple II it comes on a 3 5 disk or on 5 25 disks with full features if you have a hard disk or 256K of memory Yo
5. Any help or suggestions gracefully accepted and do keep up the good work The Journal has the only serious com puter page in the community Jim Wood 5107 Talbot Place Alexandria VA 22304 2705 tel 703 370 5977 Jim Thanks for the complements Dave and I are blushing You know Dave we find out a lot of information from the Knowledge Bases and Sup port options on manufacturer s web sites As much as people like to bash Microsoft I find the info contained in their support sections to be pretty good and thorough I thoughtI would take this opportunity to answer some questions using the support options from Microsoft for Jim s question here I ve included the text I used to search so you can see the results This may help our readers when they get some frustating problems and can t wait for us to answer their questions in the paper You have a couple of choices here If you are still on Windows 98 you can try converting your existing partitions to the new FAT32 FAT32 is a system that allows more hard drive space to be used in a single partition Jim s first question is about parti tioning and Windows 98 versus 3 11 I went to http support microsoft com clicked on Search Support My search is about Windows 98 just pull down the menu there and select Windows 98 I want to search by Keywords the default then I type in partitioning without the quotes One of the nice things about Microsoft s page is that it
6. May June 1999 eal 3 by Stuart Bonwit OSER 3 IS a posing and anima tion program for human and animal figures It has come a long way since I reviewed Poser 1 0 in the May June 1996 issue of the Pi Journal Poser 1 0 did not do animation and the figures ported to an ani mation program could only be animated there Poser 3 0 figures can be animated in Poser 3 0 and can be ported to Ray Dream Studio 5 a modeling and animation pro gram and retain their animated features Both Poser and Ray Dream are products of MetaCreations Amazingly realistic figures can be cre ated and manipulated in Poser 3 0 Instal lation is a snap as one would expect ona Mac The first thing the manual tells you to do is to increase the memory allocation as much as possible Use of virtual memory is recommended I allocated all kanng Tools but 1 5 MB to Poser and found I couldn t open WordPerfect to write the review as I went along I dropped the allocation down to 45 MB Opening Poser brings the intro title page very artistically enhanced with dissolving titles Then the Workspace appears Fig 1 It doesn t surprise you that it occupies the entire screen be cause you just read that in the User Guide Overview didn t you You don t even see the menu bar however you can bring it into view by moving the cursor above the Workspace All the Workspace feature titles are in a dull gray until the cursor touches them Then th
7. sort of like pushing you past that blank white page I found that to be true when I was looking at how circles had been used in a magazine ad and then I used circles and arcs as a May June 1999 graphics element but my work looked nothing like what I had seen One woman shared that some times she takes a walk outside the of fice and brings in a leaf or weed from outdoors and scans it and uses it in the brochure I brought in a practical problem of estimating the time needed from design to print of a project and got some great advice from several de git lt lt f signers that enabled me to put in an organized hour estimate breakdown the following Monday at work March Seventeen members came out to the round table discussion on logo de sign at the March metting Attending were Ed Escalante Arthur Hoiland Ronald I Bloch Harald Hoiland Ann Aiken Stuart Bonwit Attila Horvath Karen Klein Carol Sky Blake Lange John W Laughlin Ann Lesnik Helen Dilley Barsalou Bob Russell Bob Everett Jennifer Williams and Sonny Tohan There was a brief intermission when Stuart Bonwit showed off his latest multimedia project Figure 2 Two members having a discussion after the February meeting Washington Apple Pi Journal 15 I brought in a practical problem of estimating the time needed from design to print of a project and got some great advice from several designers that enabled me
8. 1992 Mercury Sable V6 provided by Alldata com appeared I moved down the long list from Safety Recalls Emission Recalls General Recalls to Service Bulle tins The list was long with about one page per year of my car s age In rapid fire order I cashed in my Bank Certificate of Deposit and did some serious car looking I quickly bought a new car Tell a Friend I mentioned the Alldata com web site to my buddy Chet He checked out his family s cars In turn Chet used the recall cars print outs as leverage to get reimbursed on previous out of pocket repairs that were related to the car re calls notices Also he was able to receive discounts on the recall work men tioned in the Service Bulletins from the car dealerships My buddy Chet told me Alldata com web site saved him money and kept his family alive He avoided car accidents that could have been the results of recalls that were never received Undelivered automobile recalls that were pi geon hold in the Dead Letter Box W Paul Gerstenbluth is a Mac Computer consultant and management analyst in Rhode Island 82 Washington Apple Pi Journal DC Web Women Launched to Provide Resources for Women Online HE THRIVING Internet community previously known as DC Webgrrls announces today the launch of a new women s Internet group DC Web Women The group formerly affiliated with Webgrrls In ternational created the new organiza tion to better serve the needs of its growing
9. 1999 it had split once and paid a dividend for five years and was trading at 82 So I calculate the cash back at 34 354 or 538 89 of the cash in which was 6 375 From the 1995 portfolio GE was the best performer I bought it at 54 it then split and now trades at 100 and 5 16 Including the dividends I cal culate the cash back at 20 615 50 or 381 77 of the cash in which was 5400 To me it looks like holding these Dow stocks for a period of years pro duces the best results Mark Pankin thinks differently He brought in a Summary of Annual Average Price Changes of Beating the Dow Strategies and Market Aver ages This handout looks at 13 dif ferent ways to apply our Beating the Dow strategy and compares those to how the Dow itself has done the S amp P 500 the NYSE Composite and the NASDAQ since 1971 Basically Mark finds that our Beating the Dow hasn t since 1994 So Mark is looking for other ways to outperform and showed us his op tion strategies These involve using long term options on the Dow stocks and so far look promising If you want to see the details come to the meeting StockSIG meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7 30 PM in the WAP office E May June 1999 1987 I started with a Mac Plus That was replaced in August 1994 by a refurbished Performa 475 in recent times operating with System 7 5 5 and a 730 MB hard drive You could not say I have bee
10. 6 ee ETN 5 MS i OE anl p rast i Pi TANE fre mat bes yoy reat ay at nE ni Aav EA E A E EN a F tae Pr CEE te PA p a OF Pp horas bd Sass 243 fo RR i pnn ete n T ree Tia ast ett ia ore ETT ge Te er ee rege See Ake ke ceo he oS Tog ae re es amuia ee a ee ie re a RA bee at T i Tete ae ee was t by David L Harris the next Wednesday as promised by Apple and the next entry on the UPS site confirmed its delivery Nothing in between The G3 is a mini tower and is larger and heavier than I had pictured I had trouble finding a place for it with my limited available space Of course I did find a place It sits beside my 14 NEC monitor which is still sitting on top the Performa I had to find a way to transfer files from the Performa to the G3 remember no floppy no Zip drive for now Obtaining an Ethernet card for the Performa I spent a couple of days learning the basics of networking which I ve never had to master before The built in AppleGuide helped here as did the written manual for the Performa which contains much more help than manuals do these days I bought a 10Base T Ethernet hub and connected the Performa to the G3 which has 10 100Base T built in Once I had made the connection I could be gin to transfer files from Performa to G3 Since I have only one moni tor this required booting the Performa without monitor using its ADB keyboard to shut it down properly when done with the
11. BOD February Meeting Notes 13 May June 1999 Election information and ballot in centerfold A Web Site that Could Save Your Life www alldata com 82 by Paul Gerstenbluth DC Web Women Launched to Provide Resources for Women Macintosh Articles On the Bleeding Edge 19 by David L Harris Software Review Font Reserve 23 by Paul Chernoff Fonts A Quick Overview 29 by Lawrence I Charters Adobe Premiere 5 00 33 The Trials of Being New by Dennis Dimick by Stuart Bonwit Best of the TGS cscs 40 by Jon Ludwigson Software Review Grammarian 53 by Mary Keene Universar Serial Bus USB POO nie 59 Changing Faces New Mac N t EED AAN OPORE 66 by Lawrence I Charters Close Encounters of the Paper VOR RG snan 68 by Tom Herlihy Art Explosion 250 000 70 by Sylvia Rego Ce 71 Reviewed by Sara Gagan DIOUDIOCHCE sin n n 73 by Derek Rowan amp Dave Ottalini More DoubleClick 75 by Derek Rowan amp Dave Ottalini 3 Macs amp a Printer scssi 76 by Matthew Glidden Apple Articles Professional Tax Preparation for E AET a iriran astoan 79 by Brian Mason Welcome to Delmarva Slice Thank you to all who contributed your Giant receipts to the office Remember to vote in the election All information and your ballot is in the centerfold The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd is an independent
12. Escape backs you up through the menus the arrow keys and or the number keys move you into the menus If you forget what key to press press the question mark and a simple help line is displayed at the bottom of the screen If you need to add up some figures on a line enter the key and the first number This causes the cur sor to remain on the same line Then press the operation you want to per form on the first number or and then enter the second number and the calculation is done for you There are basically two ways to approach the IRS forms you need to fill out in the package Either pick the form you want to fill out and go di rectly to that form or you can use the 1040 Road Map When you choose the later method you are first presented with the 1040 form Some of the lines have blocks at the end of the text These lines are automatically com pleted by the program and are auto matically skipped as you move the cursor down the page To the far right of some of the lines are w s and r s The w indicates that there is a worksheet built into the software that you should complete to arrive at the correct dollar amount for the indicated line Pressing the i key for itemize takes you to that worksheet The r indicates that an IRS form supports the line Again you press the i key to go to that form Once a form or a worksheet has been completed
13. Font Reserve has a solid design but it still needs some work on implemen tation It takes longer for Font Reserve to activate fonts than a beta of Suitcase 8 Adding fonts to its database also requires you to wait but this is partly due to its error checking procedures Auto font activation still needs work The XTension works the vast majority of the time but not always Regular font activation does not work in all applications but this is partly Font Reserve gains its power and flexibil ity from its font oriented database While it can manage font suitcases like its competitors it is designed to work with individual type faces It provides font information such as family and foundry due to the variety of ways that differ ent applications work with fonts Finally Font Reserve uses a serial number based copy protection scheme If you do not enter its serial number it will work in demo mode As a Macintosh manager my biggest complaint about serial numbers is the need to find them every time I set up a computer Fortunately DiamondSoft sells multipacks that allow multiple copies to share the same serial number Support DiamondSoft provides support through phone e mail and its web site I sent e mail to their technical sup port staff and they responded within a few hours When I had problems with the Font Reserve XTension 2 01 they e mailed me a beta of version 2 02 which solved the problem While th
14. Icharters tcs wap org Apple II Editor Seth Mize 410 766 1154 Art Editor Blake Lange 301 942 9180 Volunteer needed Calendar Editor Bill Wydro 301 299 5267 May June 1999 Deadlines Writers submissions July August May 20 Sept Oct June 20 Editors submissions July August May 24 Sept Oct June 24 Ad space reservations July August May 20 Sept Oct June 20 Camera ready ad copy July August May 24 Sept Oct June 24 Apple III SARA pple Pi This issue of the Washington Apple Pi Journal was created on a PowerMac with proofing and final output on an HP LaserJet 5000 N The page layout program used was PageMaker 6 5 the word processing program was Microsoft Word 5 1 the principal typeface is Palatino 10 12 for the articles and Avant Garde Demi for headlines subheads and emphasis Charlemagne Bold for Cover Design The WAP Journal cover design was created by Ann Aiken in collaboration with Nancy Seferian The Capital artwork was illus trated by Carol O Connor for One Mile Up which donated it for use on our cover icon Guide amp Apple Disk Libraries Apple II Ile amp IIGS Q Macintosh Disketeria Jl General Interest Postal Information Washington Apple Pi ISSN 1056 7682 is published bi monthly by Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Periodical po
15. and has to be seen by five cabinet agencies Let s further stipulate that the originating entity does not have to employ new technology or tech niques to make this process work Today the agency that creates such a document in WordPerfect for Win dows perhaps typically faxes the 15 page item to the other five agencies to a fax machine that is designated as the receipt point for incoming docu ments of this type This is actually very common accepted practice in federal agencies but the unfortunate result is that each receiving agency has to work from the hardcopy that arrives at the tray of the fax machine Fortunately solving this basic problem does not require a change in practice by the originating entity The hands off automation starts exactly at this stage Instead of using a true fax machine to receive hardcopy documents you instead employ a Mac a fax modem and the accompa nying software to capture the incom ing facsimile to disk Let s call this Machine 1 and declare that its en tire job is to capture the fax and store in on disk with a unique name that s a job the fax modem software does easily Already you ve got the docu ment in electronic form You maintain a second Macintosh on the office network to do all the fancy work Let s call it Machine 2 This machine runs a set of programs and drivers to process the incoming fax 1 Using the free AppleShare soft wa
16. and how they are con nected to the Macintosh You should review the program Macintosh Basics and Mouse Basics prior to attending the class This is a two session class The price is 70 for both sessions 100 for nonmembers Introduction to Macintosh Evening Set 1 5 3 99 and 5 10 99 from 7pm 10 pm Jim Ritz Day Set 1 5 6 99 and 5 7 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet Day Set 2 6 1 99 and 6 2 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet Day Set 3 46 Washington Apple Pi Journal 6 17 99 from 9 30 am 4 pm Pat Fauquet Day Set 4 7 1 99 from 9 30 am 4 pm Pat Fauquet Intermediate Macintosh Intermediate Macintosh will fol low up on the concepts taught in In troduction to Macintosh You will learn more advanced Macintosh skills and terminology and about using in stalling and updating system files about managing memory hard disk space fonts sounds and other re sources You ll learn how to upgrade your hardware and applications You will learn more about maintaining and troubleshooting your Mac Topics will include organizing and managing your hard disk backing up informa tion and backup strategies archiving disk formatting defragmentation and optimization managing system exten sions and control panels avoiding conflicts and incompatibilities virus protection memory management up grading or replacing the operating system system enhancements cus tomizing software installation mouse m
17. april 98 Column 4241 html A review of HFS http www chron com content chronicle atchron 98 02 15 drmac html Upgrade your partitions from HFS to HFS without reformatting using PlusMaker http www Alsoft com Finally another great source of information on drive partitioning or anything computer related is your lo cal User Group Whether PC or Mac these folks are a tremendous resource of information and help Most impor tantly there are members who have probably done what you need to do and faced similar problems so they know how to deal with them The price for membership is small com pared with the return The biggest groups in the DC area are The Capitol PC Users Group at http cpcug org and my favorite Washington Apple Pi at http www wap org By the way their lat est CD Pi Fillings V 4 5 is out with tons of Mac OS upgrades utilities and more all for just 10 00 plus postage Info is on the web site or email to office wap org Check out their edu cation disk too W May June 1999 zi a Reta uae ca yd bal mle eis wate Saa PE KOR L A a a Me AF oe ae eet ae Ue eek 5 el hie a qii ara T ae aps us Qe aie wie a jdt ya Ae EN gey Beat soar Hie Ase fs H i a ae Fae dh gto REMY IR a ARIE i T REELE SSE eR EAS ae R A More DoubleClick AR DOUBLECLICK My mom and dad wouldn t write this so I m going to write it I ll make it brief What is your idea of a dream system We
18. create master pages and manipulate text and graphic objects Learn how to correctly use Xpress font and picture usage win dows and how to configure the docu ment for the laser printer or high reso lution imagesetter Prerequisite Intro duction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its in terface The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to Quark XPress 5 26 99 from 6 pm 9 pm Paul Schlosser Quark Xpress Clinic This class is for those who have some experience with Quark Xpress and are interested in asking questions and having specific problems dis cussed The class will be a question and answer format and you should bring along on floppy a sample of things for which you would like help Prerequisite Introduction to Quark Xpress or a good knowledge of the basics of Quark Xpress and its inter face The price is 35 50 for non members Quark Xpress Clinic 6 23 99 6 pm 9 pm Paul Schlosser Introduction to PageMaker Using the basic commands tolls and palettes you will import format and position text and graphic elements needed to assemble a single page black and white flyer This project will cover the following topics Restoring default PageMaker settings Changing the view of a publication Creating a new publication Opening an existing publication Setting up the horizontal and vertical rulers Displaying and hiding guides Positioning the zero point Using the pointer t
19. only beginning to take advantage of its abilities I hope to continue doing so fora number of years W May June 1999 BP eee UALR TCL es ALLIES bener e wet vn ait eget Born it t RE Ya nett tear tes APA IE Leslie Soe a eg a INEN Uh d aly phet angered Y o wis 5b Thu Renata Wat oe pet Aes Wee Chip iio ime LRE EPRE w BST aurthe FER Shan VEIAN igs Ra t aes ae E Y powers Software Review rA DERRETE EE ES AON j Na EARALAS G AS et HPs ii iG at te A Faras E r fr oh ir by ey t ore Le bey 1 Rag a e DEA oake SRG PES E ee EET A a EERS ATE OM N taas pret Ore oe rehearses 8 ioy ys E ONA e TT ANE E ea a Ta eke t gt Kem tis Ni sot be tt Sia ihe fasts jiy paT FEA EY EAN HSn D sy eae ABN om bh AUE K Me ai Pee Ta 4 H i ah ehh Meth tetas uty PR pe ptm i Pe AS cas es ae Vahey Ce 3 D te LAN iett SSTA ay aie ERRIRE Ser tetera iin te LEZEA ha UE Pirate tae bet mpg Font Reserve by Paul Chernoff 1999 Paul J Chernoff Font Reserve by DiamondSoft 99 dis counts for multiple licenses http www diamondsoft com UNDREDS OF fonts Thousands of fonts Millions and billions and trillions of fonts Font Reserve provides the abil ity to easily activate and deactivate fonts as they are needed but it goes beyond Suitcase and Adobe Type Man ager Deluxe by providing more font management tools It is based on a so phisticated database with individual typ
20. plane select offline browsing from the FILE menu and surf s up The Page Holder feature is one I didn t appreciate at first but have come to appreciate more and more Ever go to a web site that has a big page of links to follow for more infor mation Just drag that page into the page holder and you can follow the links without flipping back and forth between pages The Search tab opens up a stan dard search dialog and gives a list of results from one of the popular search engines You are given a default en gine and can change it if you like There is also a link in the upper right corner to Sherlock One suspects that this will be more tightly integrated in the future One comment my experi ence is that using Sherlock and Internet Explorer 4 5 together causes occasional crashes I think this may be because of some problem such as init conflicts or something because I haven t heard many complaints from other users By far my favorite feature is the shrink pages to fit feature when printing Very often I would print pages only to have information I needed truncated off the right side of May June 1999 a page or two pages would print with only the navigation bar or other useless data on the second page Now you can preview what will print and Internet Explorer 4 5 will automatically try to shrink the page to fit on your printed page This feature alone is worth the price oh yeah its free I forgot On
21. processes that are proprietary to Apple and for which Apple wants some money for each use of same Opps Now the amount that Apple wants from each user is in dispute There are claims that the fees are all over the landscape depending on how willing you were back then to chip in some bucks to help fund the develop ment of FireWire when it was a gleam in some engineer s eye As a result there are two movements afoot One group of enterprising programmers is trying to write around the Apple pro prietary code Another approach is that being persued by Intel I am concerned that if 1394 be comes a niche for consumer elec tronics devices Apple is in trouble Transparent Macintosh s depends on FireWire Professional users will find little in FireWire to interest them if there are no hard disks scanners RAID systems and other high end peripherals available for it Without broad industry support for 1394 as a general purpose bus it becomes an other ADB a bus for Macintosh only peripherals High royalties and the possibility of cheaper well promoted alternatives are leaving developers skittish about 1394 Apple can t toler ate such a position The company is finally working its way out of making computers where standard computer hardware doesn t work The solution Apple found to its QuickTime 3 licensing fees may prove a model for avoiding another cliffhanger Apple changed those re quirements when developers
22. shame to us that these very functional machines might end up in a landfill or languish in some thrift shop There must be a way to pass on to a new gen eration of people who cannot afford I to purchase a computer equipment that has knowledge to impart and years of life still in it Why can t Wash ington Apple Pi organize such an ef fort We can We did And this is the story of what happened In The Beginning What started out two years ago as a small scale redistribution of un wanted computers from member families to area religious institutions shelters and local families grew into an acceptance by WAP of whole col lections of Apple II series computers peripherals and software from area schools Word of mouth recommen dations just could not relocate that many units We began to search for school sys tems that would be interested in these machines and would use them if avail able We found three schools in way south Virginia who accepted our of fer We placed 15 Apple II set ups each in two public and one charter school But still we searched for a way to donate a seriously large block of computers in one area West Virginia Calls We offered 50 machines to the state of West Virginia Senator Robert C Byrd and his staff helped us find the people within the state government who might be willing to take them The Department of Education was not interested for the public schools but the state was interested in
23. walked the cows past the edge of town not very far to pasture each day P4 gt fresh milk One of my family s stories has al ways been that the neighbor who had the property behind ours was pretty upset to hear that we were moving in because it meant that she would no longer have room to graze her cow She had been using our little plot of land in addition to her own but now she would have to get rid of the cow What makes this an interesting anec dote is that the house was and is in New York City P7 gt But I still remember horse drawn milk wagons I was born in 51 and grew up in what s now knownas Potomac the address was Route 1 Rockville back then The delivery vehicles burned gasoline instead of oats but we had separate ones for milk eggs and even seltzer My grandfather grew up in Northeast Washington DC He helped to raise oysters in the soupy I mud of his basement and used to tell me about hucksters who sold all sorts of things from pushcarts including deviled crabs The hucksters would sing out about their wares very much like the way stadium refresh ments vendors do P8 gt getting milk fresh from the fac tory Neat And were you the one to go out and fetch the supply I ll always remember the first time I had real milk fresh from the cow I had had no idea that milk came with so much cream on it And that wasn t any fancy producer cow just a run of
24. 0352 email tom cook tcs wap org Secretary Tim Childers 410 997 0066 Treasurer Carl Souba 410 418 4161 Membership Jacquelyn Hall 301 854 2932 Publicity Henry Yee 410 964 3706 Disk Librarian Apple Bill Campbell 410 997 9317 Disk Librarian Mac Tim Childers 410 997 9317 Database SIG volunteer needed Delmarva Slice President Shelly Wetzel sawetzel ssu edu Secretary Geraldine Rossi gnrossi ssu edu Treasurer Dean Peterson dapeterson ssu edu DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 Excel SIG Dick Byrd 703 978 3440 Frederick Slice President Ron Free 301 271 2310 V P Peter Alvestad 301 371 4165 Alvestad aol com Sec Treas Nwsltr editor J Russell Robinson 301 797 0100 The Cracker Barrel BBS 301 662 3131 GameSIG Mike Dickman 703 525 2410 Genealogy SIG Ed Jordan edwin jordan tcs wap org Graphic Arts SIG Blake Lange 301 942 9180 blake lange tcs wap org HyperTalk volunteer needed Mac Programmers volunteer needed Music SIG Ed Moser 301 924 1573 Newton SIG volunteer needed NOVA Educators SIG PatFauquet 703 550 7423 email fauquet erols com QuickTime SIG Stuart Bonwit 301 598 2510 email sbonwit tcs wap org Retired SIG Chuck James 301 530 6471 StockSIG Morris Pelham contact on TCS Three SIG David Ottalini 301 681 6136 Paul Campbell 313 255 6497 Women s SIG Kathleen Charters 410 730 4658 COPYRIGHT 1999 by WAP Washington Apple Pi Ltd User groups may reprint without prior permission any portio
25. 40 mb RAM It also started out on Windows 3 11 and has been upgraded to Windows 98 It runs beautifully and I can now do my work and run my grandchildren s games The problem is partitioning It is now partitioned into three equal sections of about 2 gb but I can only access two of them The program for formating the new hard disk Western Digital EZ Drive 9 09 stipulates that Windows 3 11 cannot handle parti tions bigger than 2 2 gb while Win 98 can handle in this case the full 6 6 gb Because it is an upgrade Windows 98 requires that I install Windows 3 11 before it will load I tried just install ing Windows 98 but no go This re quires that I partition the disk into three 2 2 gb sections This would be no problem except that the BIOS will only allow five drives telling one of them to be B drive does not work So in Win 3 11 I can have three partitions and no CD drive or two partitions and my CD If I could format the hard drive and set go immediately into Win 98 I could have all my 6 6 GB onC Is there any way to go directly into Win 98 so I can have just one partition If not is there some way I can have a drives C D amp E plus F for my CD My prefer ence would be to have three separate partitions then I could have one for DOS My computer used to run sev eral DOS based programs very well but under Win 98 the simulated DOS cannot provide sufficient memory it r FINISHED reading May June 1999 tells me
26. 8743 Database File Maker Pro Ron Evry 703 490 1534 General Bill Waring 410 647 5605 Database Filemaker Pro Harold Polk 301 662 6399 General Bob Wilbur 703 426 0556 Database Filemaker Pro Ken DeVito 703 960 0786 General Rick Shaddock 202 321 2110 Database FoxPro Dave Jemigan 540 822 5137 Graphics Print Shop before 9 PM Harvey Levin 301 299 9380 Database Helix Joan Jemigan 540 822 5137 Graphics Print Shop before 9 PM Bob Wilbur 708 426 0556 Database Helix Express Guy Durant 202 575 0414 Hard Drives Mort Greene 703 522 8743 Database MS File Guy Durant 202 575 0414 Hardware Dick Nugent 703 425 1056 Database FileMaker Pro Ron Evry 703 490 1534 Hypermedia Hyperstudio Elizabeth Mangan 703 750 2710 Database Pro Cite Bob Sherman 305 944 2111 Laser Printing Dave Weikert 301 963 0063 Databases Panorama Dave Jemigan 540 822 5137 Operating Systems before 9 PM Bob Wilbur 703 426 0556 Database General Joan Jemigan 540 822 5137 Operating Systems before 9 PM Blake Lange 301 942 9180 DeskTop Pub PageMaker Joan Jemigan 540 822 5137 Word Processing Apple Works II before 9 PM Mort Greene 703 522 8743 DeskTop Pub PageMaker Ron Evry 703 490 1534 Word Processing AppleWriter Eric Grupp 410 315 8331 DeskTop Pub Quark Xpress Allan Griff 301 654 1515 Word Processing Paul Schlosser 301 831 9166 DeskTop Pub Quark Xpress Ron Johnson 410 315 8764 Drawing Graphics Adobe Ilustrator 3 0 Apple e Nancy Seferian 202 333 0126 Drawing Graphics Aldus Freehand Morgan Jopling 410
27. Apple II computers printers and soft ware Title A Hundred Pounds Of Clay Original lyrics 1961 by Bob Elgin Luther Dixon and Kay Roger Washington Apple Pi Journal 9 Se Hare hohe e nae a Ims nae i ave Hp ian i re l sii ige 7 Mee oy sete TRS er ue pie ed Meigs ES Pays Fe uff Se dant Deen hae ie bet a pis rhe eal i ber Hin Rama re 1999 General Meeting Report by Don Essick Vice President Macintosh UR FEATURED guest this month is Microsoft Corpor ation of Redmond Washing ton I m sure you ve heard of them Adam Carroll Business Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit and Omar Shahine of the Macintosh Development team in Cupertino came to give us the rundown on Internet Explorer 4 5 for Macintosh Outlook Express 4 5 for Macintosh and Mactopia Microsoft s web site devoted to things Macintosh The meeting started as usual with the Question and Answer session hosted by Pi Secretary and Macintosh guru Lawrence Charters The Q amp A was followed by a quick business meeting at which the bylaw changes and upcoming Pi elections were dis cussed Lawrence then played an in teresting Star Wars QuickTime movie that explained what may really have happened at Tatooine I must confess that I ve been us ing Internet Explorer 4 5 for some time now I took the chance and got the Beta early on There are some things I like about Internet Explorer 4 5 and some things I like a
28. I ask is that you remove the ballot and envelope and write some thing anything on it For example if you have ever used one of our elec tronic services or ever visited our web page write Hello Lauri on the bal lot Lauri Zeman is the lady who keeps the little penguins in line who make all that work You can write Hello Kathryn She is the editor of this magazine that you are reading and gets nothing but busted deadlines Now go to the centerfold of this magazine Do it My story about FireWire will wait Ah I see you are back This is not an insignificant shift by Intel and its partners Intel and Microsoft have been saying USB for low impact peripherals 1394 for more demanding devices for several years now To quote Intel USB and IEEE 1394 are complementary technologies that will provide low cost and high performance connectivity options to makers of peripherals Microsoft is equally clear The IEEE 1394 high speed serial bus complements USB USB for lower impact devices and FireWire for the most high perfor mance devices has been the plan for at least two years and was openly dis cussed long before that Then some thing happened Here is what Pat Gelsinger Intel vice president and Desktop Products Group general manager said recently In the area of consumer electronics we believe 1394 has a role in the area of audio or visual high perfor mance devices Broad
29. Macintosh com puter we tell you to bring everything computer cables software manuals etc We don t promise that your com puter as delivered will be found in some school Depending on lots of variables we can usually make two working units out of every three do nated That is because the Pi does not donate crippled units or ones missing hardware or software We don t even donate computers missing keycaps An Apple II or Macintosh donated to an organization in the name of the members of Washington Apple Pi is complete down to the introductory disks that came with that computer period WAP is not in the tonnage shifting business But to assemble just 130 complete sets means acquiring dozens more for parts stumbling over all of them until all sets are complete and then delivering all that equipment damage free And this time the address is not down the street from us or around the bend It is 13 different locations in West Virginia Fortunately three schools elected to come to our offices to pick up their alloca tions In addition there is one DC public school that is getting a set We got the heads of the other West Virginia day care fa cilities to agree to meet us ata central location the town of Ronceverte See if you can find it I ll give you a hint Think of a nice place to hide Congress in case of a nuclear war and you are in the general area sort of Well let s see To get ready you
30. Offered Hire Me Tech Computer expert look ing for work Ihave 19 years of computer experience hand have worked for some of the biggest orga nizations in the world including Toyota Chevron and The National Institutes of Health I m also an official Apple Demo Rep I am looking for Macintosh oriented com puter administration work I have much Windows NT 95 98 and UNIX knowledge but I love Macs Contact me at 301 315 9288 or email me at VicNaz1 aol com for a copy of my resume Help Needed I like the Pi and I like the Mac and wonder if there are any others with similar leanings in the Warrenton Virginia area If you are I would like to make your acquaintance Please call Doug Saunders at 540 347 1769 Thank you E Washington Apple Pi Journal 83 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 Parkiawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Membership Application Please pe or type ie eee Phone H A Phone W Company Address i Occupation ao a Please answer a few questions for us regarding your computer use Check the ateei that you use on a regular basis WAP has many Special Interest Groups SIGs and activities Fill in letter next to area of interest O App le IL I O LISA J Join Group V Volunteer O Apple Ile IIc O Mac Il O Apple IIc O Mac Iici cx AppleWorks SIG__ HOTLINE___ O Apple II GS Mac Ilsi Apple II GS SIG HyperTalk SIG____ O Laser 128 O Mac Ilfx apes SIG o SAR O Apple MI SARA O Mac Powe
31. QuickFill Split Transactions Categories Writing Checks Preferences Passwords Help Reconciling Accounts Reconciliation Report Credit Card Accounts Trans ferring Money Students should have some famil iarity with the program and made an attempt to use it before class The class will be taught using Quicken 7 not the deluxe version The instructor will try to answer all questions as long as they are within the curriculum outlined above Bring your written questions Prerequisite Introduction to the Other Educational Opportunities E Apple Computer Inc Reston VA 703 264 5100 or www seminars apple com E Mac Business Solutions 301 330 4074 Micro Center 703 204 8400 W Piwowar amp Associates 202 223 6813 Carol O Connor 703 430 5881 Photoshop Special Effects and Photoshop for Web Graphics Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to Quicken 5 21 99 from 1 pm 4pm Pat Fauquet 6 16 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet Making Quicken Really Useful as an Interface to Your Bank Instructor will go over online banking and bill paying along with the general concept of this new banking service The focus will be on using Quicken with a Crestar Bank account The principles are the same with most financial institutions so if you use or plan to sign up with another bank this will still be valuable To use any of these
32. Worksheet 5 Investment expenses This is the part of box 1 on the IRS Form 1099 DIV that you did not ac tually receive but was used by the payer to cover investment expenses You must pay tax on the full amount in box 1 The investment expense is de ducted only as an itemized expense in line 22 of Schedule A which the soft ware ensures automatically I received the Tax Forms Guide the first part of March with a revision of the software The flyer accompanying the Guide stated We appreciate your patience with our delay in getting this manual to you There were so many changes this year that we had to delay our completion of the manual in order to get the soft ware to you in a timely manner We hope that you can appreciate the de mands on our time in automating the three new forms we added the numer ous new calculations for new credits new types of IRAs new reporting of Washington Apple Pi Journal 79 capital gain distributions etc The late revision to the software was necessary because of the compli cated way the tax on IRA s is calcu lated The previous version of this year s update allowed you to start working on your return and included instructions on how to work around the problem that was fixed in the re vision received in March Movement through the program is very simple since the program is text based Rather than using your mouse to point and click you simply press the appropriate navigation key
33. a way to doa batch fix It was suggested that the problem be posed to Reunion by email or posted on their Web site Some additions to the Reunion 6 program were demonstrated Under the TREE command there is a com mand that will move the boxes away from the page breaks Also pic tures can now be put into the family group sheet In the general discussion it was noted that Personal Ancestral File PAF does not seem to be available for Macs although it was available in the past Plans for future meetings were discussed One suggestion was to have a demo on Reunion 6 The meeting was adjourned at noon Karen Kyte Acting Secretary eee tie ya ge San DG oie OG ata ep a BE b E A pea Teh iaia 2 ale tint ire jt ee Siar Soe Copp ade as beT aot ESENE aie waked ey oo RRA March Genealogy SIG Meeting No Meeting The Jordans with the keys were snow bound Unfortunately two hardy souls showed up any way having left home before the cancellation phone calls reached them May amp June Agendas Every Second Tuesday 10am noon Pi Office Producer of Reunion Software will be guest at the May Meeting Frank Leister President of Leister Productions the creator For those members using photo albums or storing photos in other ways please remember to use archival quality papers albums boxes etc for stor age and protection of Reunion 6 is expected to meet with the SIG at it
34. and delays of big solutions may discourage put ting the problem in professional hands Or you may work for a small group that has no IRM support group at all This is a situation that calls for self help Wouldn t it be great if the steady stream of documents you normally process in one way or another some how magically appeared on a Web site or agency server with no manual pro cessing You and others could view them instantly from your desktop machine and then handle them elec tronically attaching them to e mail with a standard form that seeks com ments posting them to a dockets Web site accessible to the public and your fellow analysts or simply forwarding them to an electronic storage point Moreover depending on the form of handling you use e mail forwarding for example it could automatically generate a complete record of the document s disposition a searchable electronic log of office action that is created effortlessly as a by product of circulation All this is in reach now with ex isting software applications which are even free in some cases To demon strate this new process clearly let s take a specific example from the fed eral government the policy clearance of a legislative proposal that will be sent to Congress after the agencies in volved have reviewed and approved it Let s imagine that the document is 15 pages long includes a descriptive bar chart in the supporting analysis
35. but can be updated and upgraded in so many ways that it would take a book to discuss everything And remember you re not just talking about the com puter itself but the peripherals you will also need to complete your sys tem That includes a monitor scanner and printer for example and could also include modem tape backup joy stick digital camera etc Given the money you re talking about let me suggest you hold on a tad and wait for the Revision D iMac that is expected out this summer The word is these all in one units will have a 300 mhz or faster processor DVD 16 monitor 56k modem Rage Pro graphics at least a 6 GB hard drive and 32 mbs of memory which is upgradable There s also comment out there that Apple will bring back the so called mezzanine slot that will let you add additional functionality including even faster graphics cards etc these were removed from the Re vision C units This will only set you back about 1299 00 leaving you plenty to buy a scanner and photo quality printer IF you play your cards right some vendors even bundle one of these peripherals with the com puter Of course you ll get your choice of 5 yummy colors The iMacs offer great sound but you can improve that with color matched speakers from a number of vendors Given the popularity of the iMac many more games are being produced for the computer most of the top rated games are already available wait till
36. dd ee t s wo ba TE hg FT Oe PE AE a ae are Gi amme Plain Vriting Rules Current Writing Style Common Writing w i Phrase Usage C Bookish Phrases Ga Cliche Expressions G4 Compound Words Ga Euphemisms CJ Expand Abbreviation CJ Expand Contraction Cj Extremely Formal Ga Faulty Phrases CJ Formal Phrases G4 French Expressions Ga Generic Terms CJ Informal Phrases Ga Latin Expressions _ gt Ga Antecedent Reference Ga double reference Ga ack of reference G3 unclear reference Ga Article Noun Agreement Ga article a Mf e Punctuation Cl Abbreviation expected G2 Balance out of order G3 Comma after dash Ga Comma amp restrictive modifier G3 Comma splice Ga Dashes eo owe e SS 7 Qf Statistics Fi Spelling Figure 8 were created with specific errors cho sen to demonstrate all of the errors that Grammarian can detect and analyze correctly Notice the check mark in Fig ure 2 in the Sentence window This shows the precise place of the error In the Correction window Grammar ian cites the defining criteria for this error explains the cure and offers to do it for you in return for a click Grammarian can be used with C amp G s SpellCatcher for a thorough proofreading approach but even though Grammarian is not a spell checker
37. did work with was the worlds largest and most complex single purpose electronic system I taught maintenance on it too That s why my brain is so full of kibbles amp bits Sailor 1 We bubbleheads have to have smaller and complex systems you see not as much space as a skimmer so we have to be more efficient in our use of space Another thing that always struck me as funny was that the active sonar decibel output on a submarine was a bunch bigger than anything a surface sonar has and submarines almost never use active sonar I guess the re duced cavitation due to higher water pressure was too much for the design ers and all that audio power was in stalled despite practically no chance it would be used Sailor 5 gt No but what I did work with was the world s largest and most complex single purpose electronic system You ran the phone company Or for James Coburn fans The Phone Company E Washington Apple Pi Journal 65 ithe LON War Rr ye Ara oar Speteat yt ta Iit ie j PI E A M ta g we 4 gt a S5 4 1 f l nily PS Faaa TY ET AT Aiat Meare TiN i yw 77 cali DP AVM 4 Pi ed TEE Sat ah Wen ene W Ch hi ee bist te i EIER E PRE SORG jm Changing Faces New s gt Haca aaa o T a H i y gt Wg az aP Pa lt i ENE a AA Gs Shige er er Plenty 4 tA aa yd et ey iis m PAY tt ee et MEE rae lab poeta I Aa aSa A ARGESTE f ease ide Pee n A ANT
38. easy to find fonts Anumber of stan dard filters are provided such as ac tive fonts orphan bitmaps and PostScript fonts The filters reduce the size of the font list The Browser also provides ways to create your own fil ters See Figure 8 You can create new filters to use once or add to the Filter menu Select Edit Filters or Edit Quick Filter The former allows you to edit the filter menu while the latter instantly ap plies the filter criteria The filter edi tor is similar to the Macintosh s Find utility You can create multiple search criteria and all columns can be the basis of a Filter If you know that you want a Garamond font but don t know its exact name you can create a Filter for all fonts that have Garamond in their name Or you might want to look through all Grotesque Sans fonts and look for the one that best meets your needs Or you might want to look for May June 1999 a font owned by a specific client All are possible in Font Reserve See Fig ure 9 Adding fonts to the Font Reserve da tabase Adding fonts to the Font Reserve database is as simple as dragging and dropping Just take the folder holding your fonts and drag it either onto one of the supplied applets and on the Browser s set or fonts window panes Unless you change the preferences you will be asked if you want to move the fonts to the Vault copy the fonts or leave the fonts in place and add their alias to the databas
39. ex perienced Mac user alike It focuses on small networks from two to ten Macs or so with instructions for setting everything up and making it work to gether Where appropriate pictures and screenshots accompany the in structions to ease in comprehension And hey it s free My favorite price For the convenience of people who don t want to read all of the site on line a downloadable version is available This downloadable file in cludes every page and graphic on the site For ease of use the freeware Shrinkwrap is used to create a disk image of the web site stuff it and make it self extracting For readers that just bought a new Mac and are wondering how to con nect it to their old one here is a small May June 1999 section of this amazing site lt http weber u washington edu manos network ethernet gt Setting up a Crossover Cable Ethernet Network Preface The least expensive of the Ethernet options crossover cables are a specific type of twisted pair cable that has the internal send and receive wires swapped This cable can net work two and only two systems to gether Caution or Why won t my crossover network work Most of the new Macs out there come with some type of Ethernet built in Some like my 8500 come with a port on the back Others like some clone models come with an installed Ethernet card Just because you have two Macs with built in Ethernet doesn t mean y
40. except for the ProDOS application and the System folder double click on the TPSTART SYSTEM icon and begin In subsequent years when you re ceive your update disk view the files May June 1999 in order by date both in the folder on the hard drive and on the floppy disk Based on the modification date select the new files from the floppy and drag them over to the folder on the hard drive The software includes a transla tion utility which takes the informa tion from the previous year s return and completes a great deal of the in formation required for the new year This includes not only your personal information but also information about your income and depreciable property It advances your age and the age of your property by one year etc giving you a starting point for the completion of this year s return The program also automatically figures the effect on this year s taxes of the previ ous year s activity Just as one ex ample if you are taking deductions for depreciation of business assets the program will figure out if there is any life left in the asset and if there is cal culate the depreciation that can be taken this year using the same criteria as the previous year and any adjust ments that might be required as the result in a change in the tax law The challenge I took upon myself this year was to move the software off of my Apple IIgs even though I didn t really need to and put it on
41. few detailed instructions In this class students will learn how to use this program to accomplish many tasks that normally require Adobe PhotoShop Prerequisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to Adobe PhotoDeluxe 6 16 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet Introduction to MovieWorks Many Washington Apple Pi mem bers purchased MovieWorks at the November General Meeting Come learn how this software works in a hands on session We will make a movie that brings in several pic tures adds titles has narration and an animation and transitions between pictures We will then make QuickTime movies that can be played on a computer and over the Internet The instructor will demonstrate how to digitize a movie on a computer with a video capture card and how to record from the computer to a VCR We will discuss how to add video cap ture and video out capabilities to your computer We will also discuss how to optimize your system to make the best possible movies with MovieWorks Students are invited to bring their own pictures to be put into their MovieWorks projects If you own a Zip drive or other large capacity storage device you may want to bring it to take your project home If you do not own MovieWorks information will be pro vided on where to obtain the software The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to M
42. first apply many volunteer hours into testing and repair ing all that stuff Then you try to figure out how to crate 100 Apple Ile and Ilc computers 105 monitors 125 disk drives 40 printers cables cords joy sticks instruction kits soft ware manuals and all those boxes of pin fed paper you gave us once upon a time Then you geta big truck or in our case one large trailer and a truck Add one expert in packing theatrical road shows to place all that stuff in each vehicle in such a fashion that the loads won t shift and break something and you are ready to travel to Ronceverte Don t worry they are not convinced you are coming After all they have been promised things before that never appeared why should we be different Well we are And once they got over the shock of hearing This extensive under taking while well worth it was not without costs Think of the project as a milk stool Two of the legs need and assets are in abundance It is the third leg support re sources to make it hap pen that is the hardest to assemble from our office manager that we would be arriving on a certain date arrangements were made for the other day care providers to pick up their share of the equipment Over The Blue Ridge The trip itself was uneventful We waved at the tall spire atop the Home stead hint hint chugged up moun tain roads and raced down the other sides until we arrived at the
43. for archiving Suddenly I got an urgent message that my hard drive only had 796 K of stor age space left Moments before I had at least 100 MB furthermore I couldn t use the Finder I couldn t shut down I couldn t do anything I mention these things only because this began a very weird two week time frame and I don t know if the one legitimate problem I Washington Apple Pi Journal 53 Pein WAG _LTFamin 49 Ch eck Se amy le Docu ment style lt a Ss Punctuation Error A hyphen should connect this compound adjective The well done steak burned to acrisp amp hyphen should connect this compound adjective A compound adjective consists of two or more words that are combined to form a one thought modifier If followed by a noun the words should be connected with a hyphen i e we aone wei chosen Clicking on Correct corrects the problem by adding a hyphen Figure 3 Pe ee OOS eee SSS amm r Che eck Sampie 53 wean SEF in NITIA Punctuation Error ford s incorrectly capitalized Persian Gulf Sentence The war in the persian gulf was short names capitalization Figure 4 had with Grammarian was its fault a wrong version problem a system problem that is mine alone a once in a blue moon problem remember this is a blue moon month and a year when we have two blue moon months a current version problem with OS 8 5 or somethin
44. in terface The price is 35 50 for non members AppleWorks for the Experienced User Workshop Call Office for Dates Pat Fauquet Networking Networking for the Home and Small Office Do you have two Macintoshes and one printer or two printers and one Macintosh or maybe even more Come learn the possibilities of fered by the Macintosh platform to share not only printers but also files and even modems Learn about the built in networking software in every Macintosh and various hardware and software options available to do even more This class will cover AppleTalk and PhoneNet connectors AB switch boxes serial port expanders USB ports and hubs ethernet cards and transceivers Hubs router and servers will also be discussed Learn how to install network ca bling without tearing down all the walls and learn how to determine what kind of cable to buy and how to put the connectors on the cables In addition to talking about wires and hardware choices we will also dis cuss sharing files and applications be tween two or more computers and printers Prerequisite A good work ing knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Networking for the Home and Small Office Call Office for Dates Pat Fauquet _ Internet Telecommunications Introduction to the Internet This two session class is an intro duction to the Internet The browser screen and the functions of the v
45. is needed to work with Frontier and make vari ous menu choices to cause the fax soft ware to go through its print cycle Wouldn t it be great if the steady stream of documents you normally process in one way or another somehow magically appeared on a Web site or agency server with no manual pro cessing You and others could view them instantly from your desktop ma chine Here are all the steps that Frontier undertakes automatically once a minute test whether a new fax has ar rived on Machine 1 and copy it over to Machine 2 only after the fax trans mission is complete cause the Global Fax Center or comparable software to open and print the newly arrived fax which cre ates a PDF file in actuality and save it to a location on disk where it can be forwarded to other machines move the new PDF document to a AppleShare server or activate Fetch and FTP the PDF document to a UNIX Web site remove the extraneous files cre ated on Machine 2 during the produc tion phase to be ready for the next cycle Fetch is a very handy shareware tool scriptable in either AppleScript or Frontier Essentially it puts a smooth user interface on the FTP file transfer protocol UNIX capability to move files between computers In this case it allows a Mac shop to move files into a UNIX environment such as a Web site As noted moving files to a Mac server is extremely simple using AppleShare Her
46. it catches many spelling re lated errors that are made as a conse quence of the wrong word for the con text Figure 3 Figure 4 shows the odd 56 Washington Apple Pi Journal i look to the correct spelling caused by incorrect capitalization While time has taken its toll on my use of proper English I thought I had heard all of the forms of modifier that existed un til I saw the one illustrated in Figure 5 Never before had I heard of a squinting modifier I knew it as a misplaced adverb but I like squint ing modifier better It immediately engages my curiosity making it more remarkable thus more rememberable Hey if they can change the names and make up words so can I Grammarian is certainly no shrink ing violet check out the shameless plug they sneak into Figure 6 All of the changes that are made in the sen tence editor are held in RAM until you either reach the end of a document or quit the sentence editor At that time you will be asked if you want to write the corrections to the document An affirmative response initiates a save to disk function thereby inscribing the changes in the document perma nently or until they are changed again Figure 7 If you have a very large document with a lot of errors it would be a good idea to stop occasionally and protect the changes already made from the computer poltergeists I found the Grammarian writing rules preference
47. its suitcases do not al ways make sense to me If a font is in active a white dot will appear to its left if temporarily active a blue dot if permanently open a black circle If a family or suitcase holds both active ZL Acaston AitBold ZL Acasion AitBoiditalic GL Acasion aititatic E Acaston AltRegular fl Acasion AltSemiboid E Acasion AltSemiboiditalic O OTOOTO O Q 0 ODO Figure 3 Different Browser views of fonts font family and suitcase and inactive fonts a combi nation of appro priate dots will appear to its left See Figure 3 appreciate that Font Reserve does allow you to create your own font suitcases see below and to view by suitcase Font Reserve allows you to take advan tage of its abilities while working in a manner similar to that of Suitcase Sets You can organization your fonts into sets Sets make it convenient to or ganize your fonts by to project client or any other criteria A font can be a member of none one or more sets You can activate or deactivate entire sets at a time In Suitcase and Adobe Type Manager Deluxe suitcases go into sets In Font Reserve individual fonts go into sets which is a more flexible method All fonts in a set can be activated or deactivated in one action and sets can be placed within other sets The Browser s upper window pane dis plays sets and fonts see Figure 1 As with the fonts pane you can see if a set s fonts are active or inac
48. local membership through a non profit structure Since 1996 this community of women in new media has grown to nearly 1 500 members As more and more professional women take their careers to the Internet DC Web Women will be their voice their source for information and career growth and their vehicle for service in the DC community says Jeanne Marshall president of DC Web Women In addition to continuing the highly popular electronic mail list DC Web Women will offer member services such as low cost hands on workshops networking events and monthly meetings about Web re lated topics such as web design us ability issues and high tech certifi cations The Outreach program will con tinue to create partnerships in the community and seek to involve young women in the technological revolu tion One of its biggest events Take Our Daughters to the Net Day held in conjunction with the Ms Foundation s Take Our Daughters to Work Day provides an opportunity for young women to learn cyber safety May June 1999 and build their first web page The third annual Take Our Daughters to the Net Day will be held on April 21 1999 at several lo cations around the region Says Outreach Direction Sonia Zamborsky We look forward to continuing our tradition of helping girls and women get involved with the Internet Membership is free and I strongly encourage interested women to visit our web site at http www dcwebwo
49. movie editing program on the Macintosh It has been a pivotal cre ative tool of mine for nearly six years The most recent prior revision Premiere 4 2 proved itself a solid ed iting platform that offers amazing cre ative options for making QuickTime movies If someone said I could use only one program my choice would be Premiere 4 2 As a result my expectations have been pretty high for the latest 5 0 re lease Nearly every review in the Mac press since 5 0 s arrival last spring made me believe the new Premiere s greatness was akin to that of sliced bread Perhaps these reviewers got a dif ferent program than the one I bought Maybe their candor was tempered by having received a free review copy or their publication got loads of adver tising money from Adobe I paid 190 for my upgrade to 5 0 from 4 2 Premiere 5 0 was rewritten from the ground up and it has performed like a program released before it was ready One must assume marketing schedules and quarterly NASDAQ stock market revenue reporting de mands drove timing on the new 5 0 version release not whether Premiere 5 0 was fit Adobe Systems last fall released a free Premiere 5 1 update that has im proved on the instability slowness May June 1999 and poor implementation It is pos sible now to say that Premiere 5 1 shows promise Now Premiering My first movie making experience began with Premiere 3 0 in 1993 on a Mac IIci with QuickTime
50. my effort coaxing Premiere 5 0 to run it was time to return to the stability and pro ductivity of Premiere 4 2 Projects were produced swiftly and with little prob lem Since the Premiere 5 1 arrived it s possible to use 5 1 without fear it will 34 Washington Apple Pi Journal e ee a o See ee eee UE STR EAS PRPS NL IT EE TTT TAMA x Ease In randomly destroy projects at least most of the time Just assure that your Mac and video capture card s drivers are supported by this latest Premiere release If for example you are plan ning to use cards such as the miroMotion DC 20 or older Radius or TrueVision Targa cards you will be out of luck Check Adobe s web site www adobe com for specific informa tion on whether Premiere 5 1 will work with your hardware setup The Promise of 5 0 The allure of Premiere 5 0 compels with sleek and simplified on screen presence akin to what one might find in a more expensive professional ed iting bay at least that s what the mar keting materials call it Premiere s got a new monitor window that allows easy multiple source clip viewing editing and project previews all in one There s an enhanced timeline con struction window that lets you hide or lock tracks A navigator palette like those found in PhotoShop and Illus trator makes for easy movement along Width Top 120 Height Eg Ease Out Pan and Zoom Premiere s Image Pan filter allows you t
51. nize your artwork on layers Create a new layer View and hide layers Se lect layers Remove artwork on layers Reorder layers to change the place ment of artwork in the image Apply modes to layers to vary the effect of artwork on the layer Link layers to affect them simultaneously Apply a gradient to a layer Add text and layer effects to a layer Save a copy of the file with the layers flattened Prereq uisite Adobe PhotoShop Part 1 or a knowledge of the topics covered in that class The price is 35 50 for non members Adobe PhotoShop Part 2 5 18 99 from 7 pm 10 pm Blake Lange 2 Washington Apple Pi Journal 6 8 99 from 7 pm 10 pm Blake Lange Introduction to Adobe Illustrator This course will cover the basics of vector graphics drawing straight lines curves and shapes tracing im ages using paint tools working with layers and creating and editing text Prerequisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to Adobe Illustrator 5 11 99 from 7 pm 10 pm Blake Lange Introduction to Quark XPress Learn the basic fundamentals of Quark Xpress the most widely used page layout program Learn the proper way to configure the Xpress preferences and how to use the tool measurement color and documents palettes You ll learn how to properly create new documents define four color process and spot colors
52. noise escaping to warn others that I was not sleeping as I was supposed to be And it didn t need batteries About as close as you can get to something for nothing P9 Me too I made a bunch of differ ent models my favorite was one that used a blue blade double edge razor blade and the lead from a pencil P6 Well greetings to all the crystal set ers I must admit that as a when in doubt throw it out type person I did not save my crystal sets P10 To all old techies I had a crystal set that I used to listen to late at night continued page 63 May June 1999 Hotline me hotline service is only for members of WAP Please do not call after 9 30 pm or before 8 00 am Name Telephone Heading Subjects Name Telephone Heading Subjects Apple General Carey McGleish 313 332 8836 Word Juggler evenings Bob Sherman 305 944 2111 Communications DBMaster Ron Evry 703 490 1534 Hypermedia Hyperstudio Cross Platform Bemie Benson 301 951 5294 Miscellaneous lle Card for the LC Ken DeVito 703 960 0786 Transfers MS DOS Apple Mac Harvey Levin 301 299 9380 Programming Apple Script Eric Sheard 908 782 6492 Spreadsheets Advanced Visicatc eves 908 IBM Compatibles 782 6492 days 2242 Louis Saunders 301 648 7332 Hardware Troubleshooting amp Repair Allan Griff 301 654 1515 Spreadsheets Apple Works Etana Finkler 301 891 2821 Illustration General Can call until midnight Eric Sheard 908 782 6492 Spreadsheets Visicalc eves 908 782 6492 Loui
53. rather pictures of some sort The most popular dingbat font is probably Zapf Dingbats though the Win dows Wingdings and original Macintosh city fonts Cairo and Mo bile are also dingbat fonts Since dingbats are not letters you can t use them for text instead they are used to empha size the text such as the various bullets in Zapf Dingbats or illustrate something such as the map symbols in Carta Palatino Times Essential Fonts Macintosh computers are easy to customize but one distressing way to customize your Macintosh is to throw away critical fonts Every Macintosh needs three fonts to oper ate Chicago Geneva and Monaco These three fonts are used in menus file names and listings Mac OS 8 5 adds some additional menu fonts Charcoal Capitals Gadget Sand Techno and Textile Those with PostScript printers also need to retain several fonts that are built in to virtually all PostScript printers Avant Garde Bookman Cou rier Helvetica New Century School book Palatino Symbol Times Zapf Chancery and Zapf Dingbats Adobe Type Manager ATM adds two fonts of its own that don t show up in any on screen menu listing Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM These two fonts are used to fake missing fonts in certain cases Be very careful about throwing away unnecessary fonts Many ITC Bookman light Washington Apple Pi Apple Garamond Washington Apple Pi New Century S
54. re looking for a new computer and it has to be able to do everything high performance games Web design word processing financial records DVD movies and games great sound I would say try to keep it under 10 000 but my par ents would say it should be under 2 500 Thanks for your time Danny DAVE Woah Derek and I have been wondering when we d get a question like this I know Derek still has that dream Radio Shack TRS 80 system he put together a few years ago And I still have really that dream Apple DoubleClick is reprinted by per mission of the Journal Newspapers Dave Ottalini is on the Board of Di rectors of Washington Apple Pi the Apple Mac user group based in Rockville Md Derek Rowan is president of HLP Asociates Inc www hip net a full service computer network and Internet firm serving businesses headquartered in Falls Church Va and with offices in Washington Bal timore and New York City Dave and Derek can be reached by e mail at doubleclick jrnl com by snail mail in care of The Journal 6408 Edsall Road Alexandria Va 22312 or by fax at 703 846 8366 While all questions and comments are welcome we cannot promise individual responses May June 1999 system with 5 MB Profile Dreams are wonderful but usually only last so long as the next version of CPU or OS does Then you get to start all over again Luckily Danny today s Macs and PCs are not only fast and powerful
55. reached at paul chernoff tcs wap org May June 1999 y re e ELDRE ost sf fed EELE 7 SSENT Ae gt nadie el EIG M K Re eT ts yie EAEN f Fonts A Quick Overview 1999 Lawrence I Charters HEN THE Macintosh was introduced in January 1984 the first thing users no ticed were the fonts Prior to the Macintosh computers generally dis played everything on screen in a single monospaced font In contrast most of the Macintosh city fonts Athens Chicago Geneva London New York San Francisco Venice were proportionally spaced fonts and only one Monaco was a monospaced font Almost overnight the Macintosh became a darling of amateur typogra phers and hundreds of shareware fonts sprang into being A couple years later Apple intro duced PostScript printing with the LaserWriter and typography really took off The LaserWriter was capable of reproducing commercial quality printing and the original city fonts were banished replaced by Avant Garde Bookman Courier Helvetica New Century Schoolbook Palatino Symbol Times and Zapf Chancery Progress however often has ca sualties as it did this time the very Monospaced Courier simple Macintosh now seemed to be beset by all kinds of font confusion New York looked much like Times Palatino Bookman and New Century Schoolbook Are they really that much different Similar But Not Same In a word yes they are q
56. sembled in the early 80s Well I m going to be a little cyni cal Not really it s just my job to give both sides of a computer story In stead of spending all of that money on a new PC how about spending 599 on one of the new E Machines The low cost PCs sweeping the nation In only 4 months of sales E Machines Washington Apple Pi Journal 75 i 1 i i have surpassed the market share of Apple computer and are the 4th larg est manufacturer of personal comput ers in the marketplace at only a little over 1 behind IBM They are the fastest growing personal computer maker in history For 599 you get a 333MHz Celeron based but don t worry it is the new Intel Celerons that are very fast 32MB of RAM upgradeable 4GB Hard Drive DVD Drive ATI Rage Pro Turbo Graphics card Crys tal 3D audio card keyboard mouse Windows 98 Microsoft Works Floppy and a v 90 56K modem Just add a monitor and you re ready to rock Take the left over 9 200 and investit With the interest or dividends you can buy a new E machine every year You can t get that kind of computing upgradeability anywhere This ma chine will really do everything you want and especially for Internet surf ing and such it will be great because you have a fast modem Check em out at http www e4me com If you absolutely have to have the latest and greatest consider a Pentium Ill 500MHz Get a 18GB Hard Drive CD Writer DVD Drive although
57. software is used to capture the image and it is then sent to the PhotoShop program for editing changing size cropping brightness levels etc The final image can then be saved in a variety of for mats depending on the future format jpeg tiff gif pict etc If saved with a title of lt photo jpg gt it can be used in e mail For further questions about scan ner use and graphics Nancy Seferian SysOp of the TCS strongly suggests posting questions on the TCS on the Graphics Board on Conference 3 For questions regarding PhotoShop there is a PhotoShop news group on AOL For scanners a hint was given the numbers 600 1200 etc refer to the highest resolution that the scanner can do Amember noted that ASTRA 1200 was a good scanner For those members using photo albums or storing photos in other ways please remember to use archival quality papers albums boxes etc for storage and protection A question was asked about an indexing system for use when saving photos and other scanned material Ideally it would have the date and title in the list Some discussion was held but no one had a sugges tion on how to do this Marie Bestul gave a demon stration of a quirk in Reunion 6 May June 1999 when transferring GEDCOM files created by a non Mac machine Names were placed in fields where they did not belong Each name has to be transferred individually to the proper field There does not seem to be
58. something produced on a battered Smith Corona manual typewriter A note to potential quibblers Lawrence Charters does know the difference between a font a typeface and a letterform but decided to use the generic Macintosh term font rather than devote this entire ar ticle to explaining the differences Robin Williams The Mac ts not a type writer Peachpit Press 1990 72 pages 9 95 Robin Williams The Non Designer s 32 Washington Apple Pi Journal Type Book Peachpit Press 1998 239 pages 24 95 nd Robin Williams How to Boss Your Fonts Around 2 ed Peachpit Press 1998 188 pages 16 95 Script Boulevard Washington Stpple Di Script Reporter Two Washington Apple Pi Script Rage Italic Script Mistral Washington A p Script ITC Zapf Chancery Washington Apple Pi Script Nupital Script Washin glon Apple Tx Casual Russell Oblique Washington Apple Pi Decorative Electroharmonix WA5SHLDVFON APPLE PL Decorative Toolbox WASHINGTON APPLE PI Grunge Eraser Dust WASHINGTON APPLE Pi Dingbat ITC Zapf Dingbats XP ASKER VL LOk re Dingbat Carta We FL OREOO FOLIA V May June 1999 a oe Reins 4 Sicha sta ks TEA ie au yrs ie ree Si if Adobe lt a 5 The Trials of Being New By Dennis R Dimick REMIERE 5 has the mak ings of a great software pro gram As the first program to use QuickTime Adobe Premiere has since become the leading full featured
59. step better than a Game Boy Having a site which looks like Wylie Coyote and Beep Beep are soon to appear doesn t make things much better Once again it s a matter of taste but none of the other Microsoft pages have this childish look May June 1999 Following his demo Adam bravely opened up the floor to questions from the audience For the first time in my tenure doing these programs someone who couldn t attend the meeting even e mailed in a question The questions were many and varied One of the top ics which I had expected did come up Office for the Mac does not have a ver sion of Access a database package nor does one appear to be on the horizon It appears that FileMaker Pro has this market on the Mac Due toa shipping problem the an ticipated CD ROMs of Internet Ex plorer 4 5 and Outlook Express 4 5 did not arrive in time for the meeting Adam did promise to make sure we got several hundred copies to give away at next month s meeting He did however bring lots of goodies to give away including four copies of Of fice 98 for the Macintosh and 50 Mactopia T shirts plus other stuff Beth our office manager begged for one of the copies of Office 98 for the Pi Office Internet Service Charges ji and since she is so very nice to me and misses most meetings by manning the table in the lobby I couldn t refuse Thanks to Adam Carroll and Omar Shahine for visiting us from the left coast It really
60. successful printing In summary while I have gained a lot of respect for the capabilities of CorelDraw 8 during this review pe riod it is highly unlikely that I will make the switch myself CorelDraw 8 s ability to create and edit bitmap images may put it ahead of Illustrator and Freehand in some respects but those who need a high end bitmap editor will most likely continue to use PhotoShop and until DRAW does ev erything else way better than Illus trator and Freehand my guess is it will face an uphill battle in the professional design community On the other hand I can certainly see where CorelDraw 8 for the Mac would be an excellent choice for many entering the design field depending on their ultimate us age as well as for the nonprofessional who wants a high end multifaceted draw paint and 3 D program all rolled into one and who is willing to take the time to learn what this big complex and really quite amazing program can do W From March 1999 The Pulp newslet ter of the Hartford User Group Ex change CT May June 1999 at rn m y gt 48 rT ae P A ta rae vy te r 1h s gt F ah i E e 5 Double gt wy eee gt oo i Eh your column of February 8 on par titioning and would like to carry this further My computer stated life as a 486 DX2 66 with 550 mb hard drive Subsequently it has been up graded to a 486 586 133 with a 6 6gb hard drive and
61. suitable for either full speed or low speed devices The full speed cables allow not only for stand alone cables of varying lengths but for faster transfers up to a bus maximum of twelve megabits per second or 1 5 megabytes per second eight times faster than the low speed mode USB Is Expandable USB providing a maximum of 127 peripherals per computer Computers with slots can theoretically have mul tiple USB host interfaces a future de velopment with interesting potential Unlike the older serial ports that sup Washington Apple Pi Journal 59 m port a single device each or the SCSI style daisy chain where adding or re moving any device disrupts the entire bus USB supports special devices called hubs that contain attachment points for other devices Each hub can provide connections for several other devices including other hubs until you have enough attachment points to connect everything you desire Like ADB the USB carries enough power for some devices though oth ers may need more power than the bus provides Each USB attachment port on the computer has to provide 500 milliamperes mA of current each USB device must not count on receiv ing more than 100 mA of power from the USB Hubs themselves may either draw power from the USB itself a bus powered hub or they can be self powered and plug into an electrical outlet You may see the math already working here Each attachment port on the computer prov
62. that you think you d like to return to fre quently you simply select Favorites from the menu bar and click add to favorites and there it is Click on the favorite and there you are History remembers where you ve been The list is divided up into folders for to day yesterday Tuesday etc and you can control the number of links saved in the preferences Ever tired of typing the same stuff over and over again Internet Ex plorer 4 5 will now auto complete in formation it recognizes in URLs and forms fields In addition it as a forms auto complete feature which will fill in most common forms for you auto matically You can turn this feature on and off with preferences of course and you are prompted to fill in the data for auto fill the first time you fill ina form Any time you fill in a form field the browser will suggest an auto fill as soon as it recognizes a saved string Since I fill out lots of forms when begging vendors to come and speak to us I liked this feature Your mileage may vary Another favorite feature of Internet Explorer 4 5 is the ability to go to a site and download its contents into a Web Archive This is a great feature for anyone who has a PowerBook and travels frequently Instead of watching Armageddon on your DVD you can surf the net from your airplane seat Just set the site to save in a web archive before you go to bed and let the pages download to your hard drive Next day on the
63. the specification also forces the software for the host in this case the USB Manager in the Mac OS to load drivers for newly attached peripher als as they re discovered and option ally to unload those drivers when the devices disappear You don t have to restart to load a driver for a new pe ripheral but you do need to have the driver installed before you plug in the device The electrical connections on USB are terminated on each cable and in the devices preventing any transmis sion problems and eliminating the burden of external terminators that have plagued SCSI devices for years Since the specification explicitly re quires devices to handle these situa tions and forces the host controller to adapt to a changing bus actual users get real plug and play You can create a complex network of hubs and pe ripherals at any time and even unplug the whole mess from the computer and plug it back in and everything just works And you never fry anything How cool is that The Mechanicals USB Prevents Common Errors USB may eliminate some of the SCSI headaches like termination but you re probably thinking you can screw it up if you try hard enough And you can but you have to work at it What portions of USB aren t self configuring are intentionally designed to be difficult to do incorrectly For example look at those USB connectors on your iMac or transpar ent G3 Each connector is a small rect angle wi
64. the tangle of wiring that is flowing around your computer May June 1999 You have those nice fat inflexible SCSI cables terminators cable matching games and SCSI IDs to juggle Don t forget that some devices like a higher SCSI number than others and that there is no way to change devices without shutting the whole contrap tion down reconfiguring and coming up again As we discussed last time there has to be a better way to man age the wide range of peripheral de vices with which a modern Macintosh user works In Search of a Rational Transportation System So why not build on something like SCSI or the Apple Desktop Bus ADB instead of inventing an entirely new standard Put simply the exist ing standards are not up to the task for today s computers It makes little sense to stay with a connection system that only allows a small number of devices A more global solution than the limited number of attachments that can be made to either SCSI with its thick cables or the low bandwidth of ADB is needed Handing very high bandwidth devices like high end digi tal cameras or super fast hard drives adds noticeable cost to a system mostly intended for low band width devices like keyboards and mice as well as for medium bandwidth de vices like floppy drives and scanners The ability to attach and remove de vices while the computer is running plug and play and reducing that nest of cables round out the list of wan
65. them for another program West Virginia has a state wide Head Start style program which has no funding for computers The director at each site was notified of our offer and wow When we stopped taking calls we were looking at requests totaling over 200 computer sets Washington Apple Pi has never worked through that size of a place ment But we were willing to try Our Learning Curve We knew what had to happen if this was to be something other than a Washington Apple Pi Journal 7 qt shift of tonnage from one location to another Too often we have visited schools where well meaning compa nies have donated their surplus com puters in the name of education or a tax write off or being socially respon sible Unfortunately in way too many cases none of that occurred The schools found themselves with inoperable and cannibalized machines they had no educational software to run on them and no one to tell them what to do to make it happen If there is no money for the computers where do people think the money is coming from to pay for acquisition of the missing parts soft ware or basic training We have seen piles of 2 3 and 486 machines languish for those reasons Not on Our Watch When you call the Pi office offer We service Macintosh Computers 24 ON A C O M P U T E R I S T 7 703 569 5584 A COMPUTERIST LTD 8 Washington Apple Pi Journal ing your Apple II or
66. to put in an organized hour estimate breakdown the following Monday Figure 3 Attila Horvath speaking at the March meeting at work Schedule The schedule for the Graphic Arts SIG over the next several months is Saturdays May 8 June 1 and July 10 Each meeting will be from 10 00am to Noon The rule of thumb in case you want to figure out when there will be a meeting is that the meetings are scheduled the second Saturday of each month except when the Washington Apple Pi has a major activity sched uled for that day Directions Mac Business Solutions is located at 9057 Gaither Road Gaithersburg Maryland 20877 The phone number is 301 330 4074 From Interstate 270 and Shady Grove Road go East two lights make a left onto Gaither Road then almost immediately turn into the second entrance on the rightFrom the Shady Grove Metro stop it is just a short taxi ride W NATIONAL WOMENS SAILING ASSOCIATION Four logos by Ann Aiken 16 Washington Apple Pi Journal May June 1999 Hoe Shere te Ree eee Ce Shley nis Cee vot rae ER i a Cee Gd wee RRS ae AEC a ea Lr rake Sat Me February Genealog SIG Meeting THE MEETING was held on February 9 1999 beginning at about 10 am in the Training Room at the Washington Apple Pi Office There were about a dozen members in at tendance Esta Goldstein gave a dem onstration on using a scanner and bringing the image into PhotoShop for editing The scanner
67. to record and edit sound files to prepare them for adding to a web page Copyright issues will be discussed Students will be introduced to the use of scanners and digital cameras Bring several photos for scanning and a CD or tape for music and sound effects If you want to use these projects in an actual web page please sign up for Web Page Workshop in addition to this class If you have a external Zip drive please bring itand an empty Zip disk to class If you have an internal Zip drive at home please bring an empty Zip disk to class This is an all day workshop Please bring a sack lunch or money to order lunch in Prerequisite Introduc tion to the Macintosh or a good knowl edge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 70 100 for non mem bers Graphics and Sound for My Web Page 5 28 99 from 9 30 am 4 pm Pat Fauquet Consumer Graphics and Multimedia Introduction to Graphics May June 1999 Are you confused by graphic jar gon Would you like to learn how to choose and use a scanner Do you know the difference between draw and paint programs Are you wonder ing about digital cameras Are you baffled by PICT GIF TIFF BMP JPEG and all those other graphic formats Would you like to learn how to send a picture by e mail Do you know what to do with pictures people send to you Would you like to learn how to make your own Finder backgrounds and icons This is the class for you We will explo
68. will keep the last 10 searches you have done at their site available to you They use cookies to do this but don t worry they are just tracking what you ve searched for in the past Click Go and up pop some hits The second hit looks interesting MS DOS Parti tioning Summary I read about the different DOS versions and even Win dows 95 and Windows 98 and how they partition hard drives At the top in the summary of this article it has a link to another article that tells me the order in which driver letters are as signed This is relevant to Jim s ques tion too I click the Back button on my browser to get the list of hits again Number 5 is a description of de fault cluster sizes for FAT32 I ll check it out Well it doesn t really tell me any thing but it does mention another ar ticle about the description of the FAT32 system I m intrigued so I click on that one It tells me all about FAT32 file sys tems which is kind of interesting You can learn that the FAT32 system allows large partitions which is exactly what Jim s looking for Even more interest ing is a section that mentions how to convert my existing partitions to FAT32 under Windows 98 What the article says to do is 1 Click Start point to Programs point to Accessories point to System Tools and then click Drive Converter FAT32 2 Click Next 3 Click the drive you want to convert to the FAT32 file system and then click Next 4 F
69. will cover Sherlock search plug ins and how to use and manage them Learn how to save searches and when to use Sherlock instead of Internet search engines Prerequisite A good working knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Searching with Sherlock 5 5 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet 6 18 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet Introduction to AppleWorks a k a ClarisWorks This class will introduce the stu dent to the integrated software pack age AppleWorks The course will be gin with an introduction to the funda mentals of the AppleWorks environ ment the window layout the help menu and the universal commands Each of the six modules Text Draw Paint Spreadsheet Database and Communications will be treated sepa rately but the emphasis will be on text and draw documents The course will conclude with an examination of some basic integrated applications Prereq uisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for nonmembers Introduction to AppleWorks 5 13 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet 6 9 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet May June 1999 AppleWorks a k a ClarisWorks for the Experienced User In this class we will take AppleWorks to a new level Learn how to make easy outlines lists and check off charts Make great slide shows and presentations right in AppleWorks Learn how to dres
70. you see the new one from Lucas Arts based on Chapter 1 of the Star Wars saga And with software from Connectix you can play almost any Playstation game Emulation soft ware is also available to run Windows on your Mac and thus all the games on that side of the PC puddle With the USB port you can connect a grow ing list of peripherals like that scan ner and printer including a growing number of joysticks You ll want to buy a disk drive like the Imation Superdrive or Zip Drive IF you can t wait go with a cur rent iMac the only thing it doesn t of fer is a DVD drive at this point or the Blue and White G3 and a good 15 17 monitor but you ll end up paying somewhat more for it than the iMac You can get a model built to order di rect from Apple with a DVD drive if that s what you need Any of these Macs are wonderful for doing web design like FrontPage GoLive and HomePage word processing Try Nissus Writer Appleworks or Word from the Office 98 suite Quicken will take care of your financial needs Apple bundles a vast amount of soft ware with each iMac which should take care of just about everything you need to do My only other suggestion would be to upgrade your memory to at least 64 or even 128K if you can afford it you ll be happy you did OK Derek your turn to Dreaaaaam Dream Dream Derek Hmmm You laugh but I still do have a TRS Model 100 laptop and a Sinclair ZX 81 1K computer as
71. 00 uptime on _both_of the ships was on Left more time for waxing passageways and chipping slant decks Sailor 2 Didn t you guys also do the Mk116 Mod 3 UWFCS Sailor 4 Yes but that was in our outfit on the west coast and I have little knowledge about it I did think Mother Honey was a good technical outfit and I am pleased to have been a part of it for 15 years Sailor 1 gt uptime Obviously you never deployed with a WLQ 4 Sea Nymph N Suite if you had 100 percent uptime Good thing that darned thing had so many redundant receivers processors and displays there were always broken ones It was cool when it worked but was only at 100 capability 5 of the time ran around 90 or so the remain I der which was good enough with the built in redundancy Sailor 2 gt Yes but that was in our out fit on the west coast and I have little knowledge about it I did think Mother Honey was a good technical outfit and I am pleased to have been a part of it for 15 years There were only two Mod 3 s in existance One in Honeywell s labs and the other was on the USS Belknap Being heavily modified by collision with an aircraft carrier and nearly destroyed well actually was de stroyed A Humpty Dumpty story witha happy ending has a way of net ting a ship some odd equipment Sailor 2 gt Obviously you never de ployed with a WLQ 4 Sea Nymph N Suite if you had 100 percent uptime No but what I
72. 1 6 and Sigma De si hs MovieMovie Programming Team card A year later Tad nan Shaven tf SuperMac s Spigot II Tape http www adobe com card replaced MovieMovie in my setup Pre miere 3 0 pro Adobe Premiere s 1 Teresa Crotty Sylvain Francoeur Larry Lozares Nick Schiott arnar Gerireibw Pawid Wire Rrisn Yarmshe z vided the software tools to capture video and to assemble and edit mov ies via QuickTime The Spigot II card provided hardware support to bring video signals into the Mac and out to TV and VCR People were amazed these mov ies were made on a computer let alone a Mac IIci I was Though these rough hewn flicks were really quarter screen playing at a half speed 15 frames per second they dazzled mostly because they existed at all The years since have seen System 85 1 5 1 Copyright 1991 1996 Adobe Systems incorporated All rights reserved Adobe Premiere is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems incorporated Patent Pending Greetings Premiere 5 1 shows you this screen at launch If you get hold of Premiere 5 0 go to Adobe s website and get the free upak on The updated 5 1 is more stable and si in Equalize 60 Hz 150 Hz 400 Hz ae 1000 Hz C Preview sound 6000 Hz 15000 Hz en oes men Audio Tools Premiere 5 offers an array of audio tools including the new Equalize filter that lets you customize the tonal range of an audio track Premier
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76. A6 page reference nna Pag Worry Right 0 000 card TTT System requirements Worry ete 100 E Power Macintosh 603 or later E System 7 6 1 or later E 20MBRAM lisestHTaeall Figure 10 EE Taper 0 ALLLALLLLLL 100 TTT 100 T 100 TTT l 100 O N Twist 0 O N Side Side 0 MTT Scale XScale yScale Scale COUR i i wee PAURE Co A O gt eee Figure 11 Washington Apple Pi Journal 39 Best of the TCS compiled and edited by John Ludwigson IMAX in the Schools Technology marches on and no where faster than in the nation s pub lic schools if you believe everything you read Herewith some tongue in cheek textual criticism SERVER The Sunday Washington Post has an ar ticle on the front page of the Metro section that compares the second grade classes at a public school and a charter school both in Anacostia The article is fairly interesting and I was enjoying reading it until I got to the state ment that the charter school plans to give the kids IMAX comput ers to use at home Sigh Appar ently neither the author nor his editor knows anything about com puters And a nice little plug for Apple was lost in the process Besides how are those kids going to fit a 50 foot tall IMAX screen into their homes Analyst gt how are those kids go ing to fit a 50 foot tall IMAX screen into their homes An IMAX projector is about the size and weig
77. ACT d tas PA Bed EO LEA creah VENIET eee 1 elf LG birt t I KAN Ryne pA ANEAN AAA METNE Uaa SES 3h i a ASN LUIS hy ki l nf Eta fest 9 1 ee Pe Pet hh a ol ar bl at io TY mt A Lis SPANIEI Mac Logos By Lawrence I Charters CE UPON a time when Apple Computer Inc wanted t o turn the Macintosh into a ubiquitous generic computer the company created Mac OS Since the very beginning Macintosh operating systems were called System somethingorother but after System 7 5 3 Apple decided the operating sys tem should be known as Mac OS and a suitably generic logo without the trademark apple and without any of the usual Apple corporate colors came into being The Mac OS logo was useful for the first time Macintosh users had a name for their operating system Macintosh clone makers liked the name and the logo since the new op erating system put up a nice friendly blue black and white splash screen featuring one two or three smiling faces depending on how you looked at it Unlike Microsoft s Windows logo the clone makers also liked the Out the beloved friendly Mac OS logo 66 Washington Apple Pi Journal fact that the Mac OS logo didn t have the name of another company greet ing the user at every boot Everything was sunny and bright Until Steve Jobs a non Apple employee engineered a palace coup toppled the Apple management and wiped out the Macintosh
78. Ate i gt Paperwork Kind by Tom Herlihy MAGINE YOURSELF asabe leaguered bureaucrat awash in a sea of paper Easy to do for many of us who toil for Uncle Sam If this is your fate rejoice for the marvels of the Macintosh can set you free That is the marvels of the Mac UserLand Frontier Adobe Acrobat Fetch and a fax modem package such as Global Village Fax Center all working together to spare you hardcopy document handling filing and storage retrieval problems The problem you face could be 1 You work on agency rulemaking and experience delays because many comments faxed in by the public take forever to appear in the docket file of the rulemaking 2 You coordinate legislative regulatory or other policy documents for a living and staff shortages now seriously interfere with distribution of multiple copies to multiple offices some located blocks away in another building or 3 You are in charge of maintain ing a central directory of Departmen tal Instructions for a far flung set of regional entities and a welter of dif ferent word processing formats com plicates electronic posting unnecessar ily These are the types of headache that try one s soul These and many similar problems interfere with getting the actual work accomplished and yet they seem to become the central issue 68 Washington Apple Pi Journal all too often As helpful as the IRM team may be the cost
79. I don t know anyone who wants to watch a movie on their 15 or 17 monitor at their computer desk ZIP Drive Tektronix Phaser Dye Sublima tion color printer 128MB of RAM minimum Ethernet Adapter for your ADSL 1 6Mbps Internet connection 17 Flat Screen monitor which is re ally the same as 19 regular monitor 3D Full Duplex Sound Card Creative Labs 16MB Banshee Video Adapter I would also consider a second hard drive that is in a removable cage so that you can have a hard drive for games and one for other stuff Games tend to blow up your machine if you use enough of them Cost Computer is about 4 000 printer another 3 000 Money to spare Of course you can shave some money off by going with a regular monitor and not having removeable hard drives That would 76 Washington Apple Pi Journal bring you more in line with your 2 500 If anyone wants a system like this give me a call MORE COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS Guys Thanks for your advice and to Harley for his comments on the prob lem with my system hanging up when shutting down Shortly after I E mailed you the problem stopped hap pening I could not figure out what was different until I read Harley s comment I do have Norton Utilities 3 0 running in the background Some time recently I went to the web to check for an update for NU and down loaded one I do not recall the timing of the download and when I stopped hanging up but it sure m
80. Integ Packages 3 Easy Pieces before 9 PM Paul Campbell 313 255 6497 Repairs Dave Jemigan 540 822 5137 3 5 Super Drive before 9 PM Dave Jemigan 540 822 5137 SCSI Drives before 9 PM Steve Truax 304 263 5749 Stemspeller Dave Jemigan 540 822 5137 Stemspeller before 9 PM May June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Joumal 41 Washington Apple Pi Office 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 M W F 10 a m 6 p m Tue 7 p m 9 p m Sat 9 a m 2 30 p m Web address www wap org e mail address info tcs wap org WAP Office Phone 301 984 0300 TCS 2400 bps 301 984 4066 TCS 14400 bps 301 984 4070 Frederick Slice Graphics SIG 42 Washington Apple Pi Journal May June 1999 z eS AD ee n ae ond AR ae y eat ae ge o ve z Ers G B Annapolis Slice 3rd Saturday 9 30 AM Severna Park Library on McKinsey Rd off Rt 2 Severna Park MD Answering Machine 410 647 5605 AOL SIG contact John Barnes at JDBarnes aol com or in the evening at 301 652 0667 Apple III SIG Quarterly on 2nd Saturday 10 00 AM WAP Office Columbia Slice 1st Thursday 7 00 PM Call for location BBS 410 964 3706 DataBases Mac SIG Volunteers needed to restart this SIG Delmarva Slice At the campus of Salisbury State University but will rotate throughout Delmarva area when appro priate Email Shelly Wetzel form more informa tion lt sawetzel ssu edu gt Excel SIG 3rd Wednesday 7 30 PM WAP office FileMak
81. Internet whether it be for business Washington Apple Pi Journal 11 Jl educational or recreational pur poses From the boardroom to the classroom the Internet has become a powerful new resource for infor mation You will be pleased to know that the reports of a per minute usage charge on consumer access to Internet Service Providers ISP are erroneous The Federal Communi cations Commission FCC has no intention of assessing a tax on Internet traffic or of making any changes in the ways consumers ob tain and pay for access to the Internet This misunderstanding arose due to an FCC proceeding dealing with carrier to carrier payments or reciprocal compensation This compensation is paid between tele phone companies for the use of the local phone network and is not paid by Internet users There is de bate about whether local calls to Internet Service Providers are sub ject to reciprocal compensation and this matter is currently being reviewed by the FCC The manner in which consumers pay for Internet access is neither before the FCC nor Congress and there are no plans to change the current payment system In fact a local phone company can not adjust their local rates to include an Internet surcharge without ap proval from state regulatory com missions The FCC has also already stated that ISP traffic should be ex empt from interstate or long distance access charges Again let me assure you that the FCC
82. MU 88 5 FM P5 I fondly remember listening to the Lone Ranger on my crystal radio here in Alexandria Va and getting the signal from the very powerful station in Denver Co That was about 1949 or 1950 P6 Wow Hey I thought I was the only surviving crystal set user in existence P7 Well about 40 years ago I bought a small crystal set for 1 It had a small earphone and a wire with an alligator clip attached which you clamped to a good ground I usually used the dialer stop on a telephone but water pipes and lightning rods worked well too I believe it was the first way I listened to Felix Grant s Album Sound show on WMAL which made me a jazz lover for life P8 gt I thought I was the only surviv ing crystal set user in existence Nope I have one too not as good as the amazing set I once cobbled to gether with a single transistor as an amplifier and tuned by a variable con denser rather than by scraping a con tact over the coil The one on my dresser now is a kit but it still amazes me to listen to it like magic sound appears from the ether The Lone Listener Rides Again Hi Yo Germanium AWAY P4 gt Hey I thought I was the only sur viving crystal set user in existence Tsk Tsk I wasn t even born back when P5 was listening to his crystal set but I did the same thing ca 1960 It was great because the signal was weak enough that I could listen in bed without any
83. May June 1999 4 95 The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd Volume 21 Number 3 Election issue It s time to vote now A Hundred Apple Ils 7 On the Bleeding Edge 19 Review of Fontware Reserve 23 we Mac SSS Image Pan Se Fonts A Quick Overview 29 ae a a a A Start Adobe Premiere 5 33 J wiatn 1280 Ea ets a T60 wiath 960 _ Poser 3 37 Heignt 960 960 Cy i Top 120 Height 720 x Ease In x x Ease Out Grammarian 53 gt gt Copy gt gt E 4 lt lt Copy lt lt e Vee a a Y 1 e Exchg ie Universal Serial Bus USB Revisited 59 2 Aa NEW CLARISWORKS BOOKS Just before its restructuring Claris Corporation published two exceptional ClarisWorks books The ClarisWorks Users Group ordered Claris complete inventory which lets us offer these books at special discount prices Add 5 s h for the first book 1 for each additional book International orders by credit card only international shipping additional ClarisWorks Companion This is Claris Corporation s Official guide to ClarisWorks 5 0 More than 700 pages filled with clearly written step by step directions hints tips and ideas to help you learn how to use Claris Works This comprehensive manual includes everything you should know about ClarisWorks The ClarisWorks Companion should be in every ClarisWorks user s library Fully indexed Pu
84. Office for Dates Web Page Development _ Web Page Workshop Come design a web page In this class students will be introduced to HTML and how it works They will learn how to use Claris Home Page or Adobe PageMill or GoLive CyberStudio Personal Edition to make a series of linking web pages using pre made backgrounds graphics ani mations and sounds They will learn how to plan and organize their files for easy web page maintenance They will learn about the principles of good web page design Their pages will be ready to upload to the web If you have a external Zip drive please bring it and an empty Zip disk to class If you have an internal Zip drive at home please bring an empty Zip disk to class This is an all day workshop Please bring a sack lunch or money to order lunch in It is suggested that a good follow on class would be Graph ics and Sound for My Web Page Pre requisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 70 100 for non members Web Page Workshop 5 27 99 from 9 30 am 4 pm Pat Fauquet 6 24 99 from 9 30 am 4 pm Pat Fauquet Graphics and Sound for My Web Page In this all day workshop students will learn how to make and prepare backgrounds clip art buttons rules dividers and animations for web pages They will learn about the GIF JPEG and PNG formats and when to use them In the sound portion of the class students will learn how
85. Q37 2 42 asp To increase the amount of DOS memory available http support microsoft com sup port kb articles Q134 3 99 asp Description of Default Cluster Sizes for FAT32 File System http support microsoft com sup port kb articles qi92 3 22 asp MS DOS Partitioning Sumary http support microsoft com sup port kb articles q69 9 12 asp Info on how MS DOS and Windows 95 assign drive letters http support microsoft com sup port kb articles Q51 9 78 asp Of course by giving away our Internet Searching Secrets there won t 74 Washington Apple Pi Journal be much need for computer colum nists huh Dave DAVE SHHHHH It s our secret Derek Well OK but only for this week s col umn As long as we re talking about support let s head our Mac users to apple com for Apple Computer s on line help Goto apple com support to start Selections include the new Blue and White G3s Powerbooks iMacs Older Macs Mac OS and Server and Applications From any of these choices you can head to the 14 000 article Technical Information Library Like Microsoft s technical information files on the web this is a great place to get help or tips about anything Apple If you scroll down to the bottom of the page there s a search window you can use as well Most of the time I head in that direction since it can save several mouseclicks getting through layers of menu selections Derek handled Jim s question about Windows Par
86. aintenance and Macintosh house keeping philosophies This is a two session class The price is 70 for both sessions 100 for nonmembers Intermediate Macintosh Evenin 6 7 99 and 6 14 99 from 7pm 10 pm Jim Ritz Day Set 1 5 13 99 and 5 14 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet Day Set 2 6 10 99 and 6 11 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet Day Set 3 7 2 99 from 9 30 am 4 pm Pat Fauquet Upgrade Your Operating System or Replace Your System Software Learn how to prepare your com puter to upgrade its system software or replace the operating system Stu dents are invited to bring in their own CPU s and System Software CD s for guided instruction Learn how to back up essential files and documents how to use Disk First Aid to repair any hard drive catalog errors which may exist what pieces of the System Software you will want to or need to install and which pieces of the old System Folder to bring into the new one Learn how to update printer and scanner drivers Learn all about features in the newest System Software from Apple NOTE Students who choose to bring their CPU s should not bring any cables power cords keyboards or monitors The price is 35 50 for non members Upgrade Your Operating System or Replace Your System Software 5 12 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet 6 25 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet Personalize Your Mac The Macintosh platform offers the user many features th
87. akes sense that NU was causing the problem Thanks again Joe Stehling Bowie David amp Derek Thank you for the information in 3 Macs amp a Printer your column of March 29 answering my earlier questions on partitioning I thought I would bring you up to date on what happened I now have three fully functional partitions on my hard drive of 2 2 GB each However I don t know how On Sunday I had drives A through E After your column Icon verted my two accessible drives to FAT32 While checking MSD I noticed I now had a phantom drive F and a limit of drives through H I went back and ran FDISK which advised me that Win98 had a large disk management function I decided not to go for one big disk as it advised some programs would find this non accessible With FDISK I resurrected the unnamed par tition and named it E I tried to for mat it in FAT32 but the program said it could not access it However this morning it was listed as already hav ing FAT32 Maybe FAT32 is magic MSD now advised my limit on drives is through I Now I ll try your infor mation on increasing memory for DOS programs Keep up the good work Jim Wood E 2 dee o eae a guide to Macintosh networking by Matthew Glidden lt manos u washington edu gt lt http weber u washington edu manos network index html gt HREE MACS amp a Printer is a wonderful site that explains Macintosh networking in plain English intended for novice and
88. applica tions important to graphic artists such as QuarkXPress and Adobe Illustrator do update their font menus while they are running If you do not read the manual you might not realize that when you acti vate a font all of the fonts belonging to that font s suitcase are also acti vated This restriction is caused by to the MacOS This works no differently from Suitcase and Adobe Type Manager Deluxe except that Font Reserve s inter Washington Apple Pi Journal 25 o Jump to the first font whose name starts with face allows you to select an individual font as op posed to forc ing you to se lect an entire Edit Quick fitter 38F Dup cate Fond ID s Duplicate PS font Names suitcase in Vautt There is one Ans exception to Orphan Bitmaps Orphan Outlines the suitcase Owned by Default rule if Font PostScript Only Reserve is set to TretTuoc Onis open copies of Figure 8 Filter menu fonts it can open up an in dividual font without opening other members of its suitcase The drawback is that it takes longer to open copies of fonts But using font copies rather than the actual fonts yields other ad vantages The original font files are protected against corruption fonts shared on a file server will be accessed more efficiently and fonts on a CD ROM will be temporarily copied to the hard disk allowing you to remove the CD ROM from your computer Auto activation Font Reserve offers fo
89. ari ous buttons will be discussed The user will learn how to personalize the browser window to meet visual and screen needs Internet addresses and error messages will be explained Washington Apple Pi Journal 47 a Search engines and directories will be discussed and explored Students will learn about bookmarks and how to manage and share them with others They will learn how to download pic tures and files and how to use them on their computer This will include how to install downloaded software and to use it Computer viruses and methods of avoiding them will also be discussed Student will learn how to print information and save files from the Internet both with and without pictures This class is appropriate for all users of the Internet including America OnLine customers Prerequi site Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 70 for both parts 100 for non members Introduction to the Internet 5 6 99 and 5 7 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet 6 10 99 and 6 11 99 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet Take Control of Your Internet Con nection Are you tired of having to call your Internet company for advice only to reach a technician who has never seen a Mac Are you fed up with being told that if you want to use the newest browser or the latest system software they will not provide tech nical support Would you like to know what settings and numbers you need t
90. as Boot which translates to The Boat in En glish It is a movie based on the real life events of a German U Boat stars Juergen Prochnow The DVD special edition is packed with deleted material and is 209 min utes long It is also in Digital Dolby 5 1 and if you have this type of setup at home this is a _reference_ DVD for DD 5 1 You won t find many better This is an excellent movie that I highly recommend to anyone even remotely interested in the subject If you have DVD and a full Dolby Digital 5 1 setup you are in for an au dio treat Sailor 3 gt IMHO the best story on life aboard submarines is Das Boot which translates to The Boat in english I agree I have the director s cut but in tape format rather than DVD The whole thing is in German with En glish subtitles It feels so real you can smell the stink Sailor 1 gt Das Boot Yup one of the most realistic over all depictions of life at sea I ve ever read and the movie didn t hide the small size cramped quarters like Hunt for Red October and the old John Wayne submarine flicks did It s set in a different time though there is a world of difference between the way a diesel operated back in WWII and how a nuke works Sometimes I think that they were better submarine driv ers back then unlimited amounts of endurance and high speed with more modern SSN s tends to forgive a lot of mistakes Sailor 2
91. at can be cus tomized to make the computer fit the user In this class we will explore the customization options available within the operating system such as increased screen font sizes new desk top patterns and pictures alert sounds start up and shut down items launchers contextual menus and ba sic AppleScripting We will also look at additional system extensions con trol panels and software to further customize the computer interface in cluding additional clipboards scrap book and notepad enhancements and additional calculators Since these sys tem enhancements will occasionally cause extension conflicts the class will also cover troubleshooting them Specialized notepads scrapbooks calculators Prerequisite A good working knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Personalize Your Mac 6 25 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet May June 1999 searching with Sherlock System 8 5 introduced Macintosh users to a new find file application called Sherlock This class will cover all three of Sherlock s search options In the Find File portion we will cover search strategies to not only find files but also as an aid to cleaning up your hard drive and System Folder In the Find by Content section we will discuss indexing of your hard drive to make these searches faster and how to structure searches to find what you think you have In the Search Internet section we
92. at once This repeating cycle has become a cyclical market mantra com puters speed up software gets bigger with more features and computers slow down This holds for Adobe Premiere 5 1 and its forebears Productivity must be examined in more than one way and as we move ahead we ve got to be will ing to take a step back Are more fea tures better when programs run at half the speed as before Why don t the software program marketers also tout stability and swiftness as features Have we long past reached a point with software where new fea tures are added for the sake of cycli cal upgrade income and an implied requirement we buy a new computer each year just to stay where we were speed wise Challenge for the New It s possible to say Premiere 5 1 is a good program that offers potential and leave it at that The rub comes for those who don t have access to an older Premiere to compensate for Premiere 5 s shortcomings These people want to start making QuickTime movies now and Adobe Premiere 5 1 is what they must buy if they want Premiere Once there were more editing pro grams in the Macintosh market but mergers and acquisitions on the cor porate side have left Adobe Premiere as the de facto leader for the Mac Strata sells VideoShop but for all its quirks Premiere is the better program If you re into the new DV format ed iting choices from Radius and others are also available At heart Premi
93. at you can accomplish almost anything with CorelDraw 8 that you can with the other two acknowledged leaders in the design industry In fact it does things that Freehand and Illustrator cannot do So why am I not leaping to make the switch As a professional graphic de signer for years I have been steeped in the ways of Freehand Illustrator PhotoShop and Quark XPress When you are comfortable with the way something works there is a natural reluctance to change When I was first introduced to Quark for example I experienced major bouts of resistance marked by endless whining about Quark quirks Now you could not pry it out of my computer I rarely complete a job without it It is so much easier and faster just to work the way we are used to just having to deal with those pesky upgrades now and then All this leads me to my major prob lem with CorelDraw 8 it is unfamil iar From its weird little names for common tools like the pick tool in stead of the selection tool to a seem ingly excessive number of tool op tions it just seems foreign to me May I quote the manual Some tools in Adobe Illustrator Macromedia Freehand and CorelDraw perform the same task but have a different name Other tools May June 1999 have the same name but may perform the task in a different way p 603 Because CorelDraw is a well estab lished Windows application I wonder if some of the peculiarities I fi
94. ate swirl emboss curl distort pinch blur or sharpen your bitmap image Draw 8 includes many filters that would be recognized by PhotoShop users I absolutely love some of the goodies bundled with CorelDraw 8 Its Commercial Printing Guide is loaded with information useful for the non professional and professional alike This is a handy consolidation of infor mation you would otherwise have to glean from numerous sources or learn the expensive way through trial and error It also comes with some impres sive libraries a separate CD includes 1 000 Type 1 and TrueType Fonts 40 000 clipart images and 1 000 high resolution photos To manage all those fonts and any others you might have on your computer CorelDraw 8 pro vides Font Reserve a font manage ment application This data base browser combination does the job of Suitcase or Masterjuggler but in my opinion does it much better Word of warning though you need to have some version of ATM installed Font Reserve is not compatible with ATM Deluxe It is recommended that ATM Deluxe be replaced with the standard version available from Adobe Practical Analysis or Exploring the Work Area Without Reading the Manual As a test of how intuitive the CorelDraw 8 interface is I decided to noodle around prior to doing the Washington Apple Pi Journal 71 tutorial or even looking at the manual Isn t this what most people do until they get frustrated H
95. b lished by Claris Corporation List 34 95 C WUG special 19 95 ClarisWorks 5 0 The Internet New Media and Paperless Documents Here is the perfect intermediate advanced book for ClarisWorks users You ll learn how to use Claris Works to create printed and paperless documents that you can transmit over the Internet or distrib ute through other electronic media Describes how to integrate image maps create interactive docu ments record QuickTime movies prepare Web pages with ClarisWorks and more 350 pages Fully Chai indexed Published by Claris Corporation List 34 95 CSWUG special 19 95 Mee tre veet Bryne H and Paas a m ARRIE mi Order from ClarisWorks Users Group Box 701010 Plymouth Michigan 48170 888 781 CWUG Fax 734 454 1965 email lt orders cwug org gt Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back BETHESDA COMPUTERS amp NETWORKS INC A Tradition of Sales Service amp Support Authorized Reseller for Macs Motorola Tektronix HP PCs amp PC Clones Apple Authorized Warranty Repair Facility Specializing in Macs PowerMacs PowerBooks all inkjet amp laser printers amp monitors Data Recovery and Upgrade Service Contracts Available 24 Hour turnaround 11 Years Service Experience g Call 301 652 5108 Weekdays 10 am 6 pm Saturdays 11 am 4 pm amp Open Late Hour You can t afford to have a computer down Authorized Wednesday take it to the expert
96. bility to easily activate and deactivate fonts as they are needed but it goes beyond Suitcase and Adobe Type Manager Deluxe by providing more font management tools Conclusions Font Reserve s ability to find cor rupted fonts and its database make it a true font management program While it has a few problems it is a stable product that does what it states it does While its interface is more complicated than those of Adobe Type Manager Deluxe or Suitcase 3 it also does more It provides more than one way to deal with fonts that meets the needs of different users The font management software market is once again heating up By the time you read this Adobe Type Man ger 3 5 and Suitcase 8 should be avail able Both products promise to pro vide stiff competition to Font Reserve and Suitcase 8 is will have some nice new features But Font Reserve s data base distinguishes from its competi tors for those Macintosh users who need to constantly activate and deac tivate fonts on a frequent basis System Requirements 68040 or PowerPC processor MacOS 7 5 or later including MacOS 8 8 1 and 8 5 6MB RAM recommended W Paul Chernoff spends his days writing databases at The Washingtonian when not busy helping people with QuarkXPress fixing network problems working on the Internet or taking care of the servers He is lucky to be doing most of his work on a Mac At home he balances time between Mac and family He can be
97. blade The part I am really fuzzy on is antenna ground I may have them re versed Also it only worked on blue blades The stainless steel blades would not work I d guess I got plans from Boys Life or Popular Science The following appeared on the Open Fo rum board C1 B28 in late December as the Sailing Underwater thread The premise of the first paragraph seemed borne out as one by one the former un derwater sailors surfaced to add their memories Observer A fair number of Pi sters seem to have some background in sub marines and by definition members of a computer users club are more or less techno nuts Now therefore I commend to your attention a new book Blind Man s Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew published by Public Affairs a member of the Perseus Books Group ISBN 1 891620 08 8 It s The untold story of American subma rine espionage according to the jacket I found it fascinating so much so that I ve hardly emerged from my chair for two days Among other tales is that of the nuclear sub Halibut In cluded in the goodies installed in the boat s Bat Cave was a Univac 1124 intended to process all the intelligence info this amazing spook sub was sup posed to gather In a view of things to come the book observes There were never ending computer problems The computer s Interleaf operating sys tem needed more tha
98. bout that other browser Anyway Adam did a fan tastic job of showing us some of the great new features in Internet Explorer 4 5 In fact Internet Explorer 4 5 has gotten quite a few accolades in the browser wars Internet Explorer 4 5 won the Best of Show at the recent MacWorld in San Francisco By now most of us have experi enced an Internet browser Some of us are old enough to remember when interacting with computers meant punched cards and listings printed on an impact printer Believe me a 10 Washington Apple Pi Journal browser is better In the early days of the Internet most of us browsed text files that had imbedded hypertext links These links showed up in bold or a different color and placing the cursor on your terminal over the link and hitting enter this was on a VAX no mouse moved you to another page With the advent of modern browsers with graphics JAVA Flash etc it now takes almost 3 minutes to load most pages with a 33 8K modem Is this better Could it be we have gotten carried away by the fluff at the expense of the content Right away you notice that Internet Explorer 4 5 is a little differ ent Down the left side of the screen are four tabs Favorites History Search and Page Holder This is one of my favorite features of Internet Ex plorer 4 5 Clicking on any one of these tabs will slide your active page to the right and open up a frame with your selection in it If you visit a site
99. by holding down the Option key while switching applications all others can be hidden Apple s Application Switcher operates to hide the applica tion switched from but it doesn t hide them all unless you click several times So I ve installed the latest version 1 3 1 of HoverBar It seems to work However as with my old system it shows icons for background processes that I don t really need to see and there are more of them Folder Ac tions for instance than of old Summary The new Blue amp White G3s come with new technology and the absence of several pieces of old tech nology built in For someone new to the Macintosh this would not be a major problem they would just buy peripherals that would utilize the new technologies such as USB scanners printers modems etc For someone who has a number of legacy periph erals and doesn t want to replace them immediately adaptors and plug in cards must be added In a short time this too will not be a problem but when the G3s were introduced these were in short or no supply In my case it did cause a bit of bleeding as well as requiring an outlay of several hundred more dollars But this really is an astonishingly fast and capable machine Things that used to take many minutes such as software instal lations rebuilding the Desktop file and so on now take a few seconds or minutes at most The Web is faster AOL is faster Everything is faster lam
100. c OS and its interface The price is 70 100 for non members Working with QuickTime 3 Pro 6 30 99 9 30 am 4 pm Pat Fauquet Introduction to Adobe PhotoDeluxe This inexpensive program is fun EF sare F by ls ee s gd aae e ia j ae bee E E baan Inia OTS S IT cCoEg Tie cae poe ire 2 t me r errar give en at th e of fice Me Ihe f yr y R g i areas b y ETAR git E y tte ee ead a t i made to hold a seat 7 m Class Size Class size is is limited to 16 students p per rclass B EV lle Merten a ae the LA y he ae si Ban ariera Prevegistations and dpayment must be Se EMS Re av as ele te a Instructor Cancellation If a classi is cancelled by the instructor all students will be notified of the cancellation Please check your home answering I machine if you have not given a work number for notification _ Student Cancellation A cancellation 2 must gt re y geived by the office 72 hours before a class is scheduled B vahe only exception tothis is is a a cancellation d due toi illness ao 7 Wena Cs VE a So vMi arai Tran n AT recast Washington Apple Pi Journal 49 mm _ and easy to learn It can be used to edit images for the web It also can be used to enhance digital photographs or scanned images make calendars post ers and cards The only major draw back to the program is its poorly writ ten manual with lots of neat examples but
101. c OS or for the new Mac OS X I Works best with Mac OS 85 Still in while not authorized for hardware or software packaging Apple does encourage developers user groups and partners to use this logo on their Web sites May June 1999 a Apple logo belongs to Apple and can t be used by anyone else without Apple s permission But guidance included with the legal lan guage suggests how devel opers user groups and partners can enhance their Web sites with a new In the new simplified Mac nice color banner showing logo in convenient horizontal a Mac OS box an Apple cor and vertical orientations The porate apple and the new logo retains the blue phrase Works best with black and white coloring of the Mac OS 8 5 Mac OS logo Mac OS is dead Long live Mac OS E opers user groups and partners on About the same time however the use of logos on Web sites The le Apple also released guidance to devel 8al elements remind all parties that the NETSCAPE TM Microsoft Authorized Licensee Explorer May June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 67 TARP Sot We A og Pee peepee eels Bef Bete eee en reg t y rapa i Arau a E ae OTE e a yA eiei sr E gis E 4 ka Scat i e pon emcee 3 Ar Tee erie BEL at ceed Gir Sy MERLE LS eS tary Be ta So ger Ghee oe f rd id ERK ay a ee mC OIG et re RO Prep ta Ge de Ae S Se eg Ethics Nas
102. choolbook Washington Apple Pi Washington Apple Pi Washington Apple Pi people think the extra fonts take up memory not really or extra disk space they do take up disk space but huge disk drives are very inexpen sive It can be very frustrating trying to find out why someone s computer isn t working properly only to dis cover the cause is a font thrown away as unnecessary Recommendations Typography is a subject as broad and as deep as you wish to make it There are countless books on the sub ject and entire magazines devoted to the subject But here are some easy guidelines to good typography Don t write in City fonts such as Chicago Geneva Monaco New York etc These were de signed for use on a 1984 Macintosh using a 1984 vintage ImageWriter I dot matrix printer Unless you are still using this com bination move on to something more advanced Don t write anything in New York Many people like New York because of the large size on screen but when it is printed on paper it looks ungainly and way too large May June 1999 If you want to increase the size of text on screen Microsoft Word 98 Corel WordPerfect 3 5 and AppleWorks ClarisWorks 5 0 allow you to increase the size of the manuscript image on screen with out increasing the printed font size M Don t write anything in Cou rier Courier was designed for use on an IBM typewriter probably before you were bor
103. clone mar ket The new Apple quickly went through several operating system marketing schemes that made no sense to anyone outside of Apple Fi nally in 1998 Apple decided that the future would bring two and a half Apple operating systems Mac OS Mac OS X Ten and Mac OS X Server the half part Mac OS in the form of Mac OS 8 8 1 8 5 and 8 5 1 has proven to be a strong resilient foundation for the new Apple fueling a wave of new PowerBooks plus the colorful iMac and blue and white Power Mac G3 systems Things got a bit more inter esting with the early 1999 release of Mac OS X despite the apparent simi larity between Mac OS and Mac Unlike Microsoft s Windows logo the clone makers also liked the fact that the Mac OS logo didn t have the name of another company greet ing the user at every boot Everything was sunny and bright OS X the latter a variant of UNIX is not even remotely related to the former Apparently Apple agrees for in early 1999 Apple released a set of new guidelines and licenses for developers Out the Mac OS logo In a simplified variant of the former logo in both vertical and hori zontal versions with just the word Mac The new guidelines even have diagrams showing how the new logo can be placed on software packages This ever so helpful document doesn t even mention one big benefit the new logo can be used for either Ma
104. deas that make them feel bright And we did it all with just a hundred Apple IIs Yes we did whoa oh yes we did Now can t cha just see them a walkin round and round Samplin the software they just found Doin just what they should do To make their creative dreams come true They ll enter a whole new world Where those Apple IIs just glow We created a haven where some great new thinkin can grow Whoa oh oh yes we did With just a hundred Apple IIs FADE People let me tell ya what we did With just a hundred Apple IIs May June 1999 isn t It A Shame VERY DAY YOU and I make decisions to discard func tioning devices for all sorts of reasons Oftentimes I wonder if there isn t some way to pass on older but workable devices to others Lots of or ganizations run thrift shops that take in donations and sell them But who operates a collection refurbishment and redistribution operation that charges nothing The office at Washington Apple Pi gets calls all the time from families and schools that are bailing out of Apple II and Macintosh equipment that no What started out two years ago as a small scale redistribution of unwanted computers from member families to area religious institutions shelters and local families grew into an acceptance by WAP of whole collections of Apple II series computers pe ripherals and software from area schools longer serves their needs It seems a
105. deployment requires reasonable licensing terms around this technology for it to be ac cepted and deployed by the industry In that sense we re very happy with the progress that s been made recently announced And we re looking for ward to seeing those licensing discus sions complete Opps skip all the verbal padding 6 Washington Apple Pi Journal and reread one sentence Broad deployment requires reasonable li censing terms around this technology for it to be accepted and deployed by the industry Gee to whom might he be referring Mr Gelsinger raised the problem of 1394 royalties but never mentions Apple Computer the inventor of 1394 and the collector of the royalties I see a parallel between the history of the Apple Data Bus ADB and the current dust up over FireWire That s the deja thing I mentioned earlier ADB is a proprietary system devel oped in house by Apple to provide a uniform powered interface though which to attach devices such as mice keyboards adaptive firmware and lightpens and stuff Unfortunately ADB was not invented here and comes with royalty fees for its use The Universal Serial Bus is a royalty free interface Intel has said mem bers of the core promoters group of USB 2 0 do not intend to charge roy alties for essential patents required to implement the specification The IEEE 1394 implementation of Apple s FireWire contains certain chips and
106. differences among them I do trust Howardsoft however This is because of the completeness of the package the documentation that not only comes with the package but that comes in the mail during the year and the comprehensive way the com pany services its professional tax pre paring customers Howardsoft now has a very help ful Internet site located at www howardsoft com Here you will not only find information about the company but also helpful hints on using the software additional infor mation about tax regulations and links to the IRS and other sites pertain ing to tax preparation You can also receive customer support via email at the site There are also Customer Ser vice Memos which explain in depth certain difficult tax issues such as Roth IRAs and how to use the software to properly handle these issues I will continue to use this excel lent tax preparation software package as long as the company continues to make it And now that I can emulate the Apple II on my PowerMac I would say there is an even longer life expect ancy for the software Product Information Name of Program Tax Preparer Name and address of Publisher Howardsoft 7852 Ivanhoe Av enue La Jolla CA 92037 Phone 619 454 0121 E Mail www howardsoft com Minimum Platform IBM PC or Apple II with 64K RAM and 5 25 disk drive Recommended Platform IBM PC or Apple II with 256K RAM or hard drive and 3 25 disk drive Price Ta
107. directly converts into PDF the postscript file that most word processors produce as part of printing to a LaserWriter these are absolutely crystal clear high quality products Thus if you are han dling large documents you would rather not fax or if you want beauti ful looking Departmental Instruc tions you can process PostScript files direct to PDF Frontier could easily automate this process as needed Inci dentally Acrobat s PDFWriter driver is not free but is part of the Pro pack age The package also includes a prod uct called Capture that turns scanned material into PDF even storing searchable text strings as part of the file but this is for high volume con version and is paid for on a per copy basis Refinements aside the arrange ments I have described are in place and functioning on a daily basis in a federal agency legislative office They are easily implemented by a set of three Macs and could probably be duplicated on PC s at little cost and with no maintenance overhead It is probably not coincidence that these arrangements are in place and work ing just as federal offices everywhere become clerically challenged but such are the ways of bureaucracy Hmmmm this is the line I came in on E 70 Washington Apple Pi Journal Art Explosion 250 000 review by Sylvia Rego Rating 4 5 Clicks out of 5 Requirements Macintosh with System 7 0 but 7 5 is needed for the opti
108. e s the lowdown on Adobe Ac robat Acrobat is a very high quality set of programs that can do amazing things but what they boil down to at the basic level is that they can create a very faithful reproduction of almost any document created by other soft ware and the resulting PDF file can be read on any platform Mac Win dows UNIX x windows and probably others with a free universally avail able reader The reader is now often found as a plug in to popular web browsers that is shipped as a part of the browser so that PDF files are as easily viewed and printed as JPEG GIF and HTML files If you go to the Internal Revenue Service s web site to obtain tax forms they are now in PDF format At the Government Printing Office Web site enrolled bills being presented to the President for signa ture are also in PDF format Thus you can confidently expect users of the documents you process to be able to Washington Apple Pi Journal 69 display and print them no matter what platform or word processor they use Amazingly PDF files can be smaller than the word processor files they were created from You can obtain the free Adobe Acrobat reader for any plat form at the following URL http www adobe com prodindex acrobat readstep html There are many refinements pos sible To take one example the Adobe Acrobat Pro 3 x product which is not free but in the 300 range includes a product called Distiller that
109. e Other op tions include assigning font owner ship and activation You can even tem porarily add a font to the database so that it will be removed when you shut down your Macintosh See Figure 10 The difference between dragging the folder to the Browser s set or fonts window panes is that the former will create sets that match the suitcase or ganization and the latter will just im port the fonts without creating any sets I like the flexibility the import op tions provided I find that when I im port fonts I tend to change the options based on use Sometimes I put fonts in the Vault other times it makes sense to leave them in place Perhaps the most important fea ture of the import process is error checking Font Reserve creates a log of every problem encountered This in cludes corrupted fonts duplicate fonts and orphaned bitmaps When I imported my office s fonts I was sur prised by the number of problems en countered The manual provides good guidance on what to do about identi fied font problems Viewing fonts A designer often wants to look at fonts before activating them Font Re serve provides three different customizable on screen views of fonts and has the ability to print a variety of specimen pages You can preview a font as a single sentence as a para graph or as a waterfall showing the font at various sizes You can change the text for single and paragraph views and adjust the font s
110. e Letters lt E gt Enter a Letter lt F gt Find Letters lt H gt Help Brief Tutorial a be eee Info on Letters lt K gt Keep Letters SES aR List Letters lt O gt Off the System lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt R gt Read Letters lt S gt oaa Scan Headers of Letters lt T gt TitleScan Letters lt X gt Xfer Download Letters Please see page 44 for the TCS Help Hotline phone numbers Washington Apple Pi Journal 45 Macintosh Tutorials General Macintosh Classes Introduction to Macintosh Meant for the new user or anyone who wants to learn more about the ba sic operation of the Macintosh The stu dent will learn how to safely turn the Macintosh on and off how to under stand common Macintosh terminology found in manuals and other documen tation and how the basic components of your Macintosh system hardware and software work You ll also learn why the Macintosh user interface is con sistent across all applications and how this makes learning and using software easier The basic dos and don ts of com puter maintenance will also be covered You will learn how the Finder works The finer points of the Menu Bar and the Apple Menu will be discussed Er ror Messages Dialog Boxes Icons Fold ers Keyboard Shortcuts Scrapbook and Clipboard will also be covered You ll learn the basics of installing software as well as use of the Chooser and pe ripheral devices
111. e delivery of bulk data as any data packets with errors in them are retried if due to occasional failure However bulk transfers have no guarantees on bandwidth or la tency the time the device spends waiting for available bus capacity Only full speed devices may initiate bulk transfers M Interrupt transfers are for small amounts of data that don t occur often in bus terms as in every mil lisecond but need attention when they do happen USB guarantees an interrupt transfer will start within a specified amount of time Here is an example USB can transfer the data on an entire 1 4MB floppy in around one second but no floppy drive in existence can write an entire disk that fast If you press lt Command Pe riod gt to stop copying a file to a USB floppy disk you want your key stroke to come through immediately even though the disk data is trans ferring over the same USB at the same time You don t want that lt Command Period gt keypress wait ing behind a disk s bulk transfer If your are a gamer and a joystick didn t respond for a second or two you d hit the roof right after your simulated spaceship creates a new crater on the Martian surface Washington Apple Pi Journal 61 L USB Is lsochronous The fourth transfer type is also a FireWire keywords isochronous pronounced eye SOCK ruh nuss Isochronous most simply means time dependent An isochronous bus like USB or FireWire guara
112. e i Phar DG na ee ee a oe ne peste ek A it ot ae Lee Se e 5 ese a nae He Thay ea read 3 hon a am TEE E a i R par a wit ite one oe beet i FI A ie ace rt ing and editing information in a data base will also be covered The differ ences between the AppleWorks mod ule and FileMaker Pro will be dis cussed as well as when and how to migrate an existing database into FileMaker Pro Prerequisite Introduc tion to the Macintosh or a general knowledge of the Mac OS and its in terface The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to FileMaker Pro and or the AppleWorks Database Module 5 19 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet 6 22 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet FileMaker Pro Clinic This class is for those who have some experience with FileMaker Pro and are interested in asking questions and having specific problems dis cussed The class will be a questions and answer format You should bring along on floppy a sample of things you would like help Prerequisite Intro duction to FileMaker Pro or a good knowledge of the basics of FileMaker ZE re op ina Fer he WEE Wel ah gi tate gage oP r7 t sa spee Aa A de ee ee Ge ay ie pah e ad a San a ancl s i cf YP a ae CA a come ELA S ipone geu Ra a 4 Thee PF a re eLa ee See i Wher i aA way m a ia P apes eget ae 1 jhe a ns Pe f mo Se iy Diet at BYE ae Boy t PER FA a T N i le het ee io F moar E cee ONE A Proe edged A a
113. e supports up to 99 separate audio tracks in a movie Washington Apple Pi Journal 33 QuickTime Premiere and hardware improve After the Mac IlIci there was a PowerMac 8500 with built in AV capture Later a miroMotion DC 20 M JPEG compression capture card was added to the 8500 Now my movie machine is a closeout priced PowerMac 9600 350 witha Media 100qx card and QuickTime 3 0 In today s market of blue and white PowerMac 400 MHz G3 towers my hardware is nowhere state of the art but video qual ity from the Media 100qx card is beautiful This setup is stable and it s pretty fast for most tasks Premiere 4 2 on my 9600 is whip fast Premiere 5 1 on this setup is not so fast At least 5 1 doesn t crash as much as 5 0 did Even with its limitations Premiere 4 2 has been a reliable tool for produc ing short form QuickTime based digi tal movies It has anomalies such as the not insignificant failure to main tain lip synch on audio over time When Adobe announced Premiere 5 0 last year with promise of true audio sync and improved professional in terface I rushed in for an early up grade Fools sometimes do that Alas I spent more time restarting my Mac than using Premiere 5 0 I could rarely get Premiere 5 0 to launch as it would repeatedly freeze when trying to load the zigzag filter plug in at startup Simple editing actions such as adding transitions were gla cial Rather than spend all
114. eckers that are bel aches Se ee Styk eS Eeee Punctuation Error Do not use a comme to set off restrictive modifiers or program y that checks for many types of errors Do not use a comma tairo restrictive modifiers You have a clause that starts with a restrictive modifier zed which whom and is preceded bya ff comma You should remove the comma Restrictive modifiers are clauses that are needed to make the meaning of the sentence clear Example Ae Asda ball that w amp S green The well done steak burned to A hyphen ened commact this compound Aa A compound adjective consists of two or more words that are combined to form a one thought modifier If followed by a noun the words should be connected with a hyphen i e we aone well chosen May June 1999 ligerent or aggressive or just enjoy let ting you know they caught another mistake Grammarian is not like any of those It is gentle more specifically it is pretty accurate and doesn t have a one note theme Some of the very early grammar checkers could only check for passive or active verb use That gets old fast Initially I didn t test any thing specific I just installed it activated it and watched what happened I had tried Grammarian previously by downloading the demo version The version I got on the floppy dis kette was the same but gener ated a strange re port a punctua tion error when I typed a period at
115. ecking URLs and Personal Backup the simple but effective backup soft ware I got with my Zip drive in 1995 These programs all seemed to have trouble with the large hard drive or possibly the HFS formatting they claimed there wasn t enough space left on the hard drive to save copy or re place files even though the drive had loads of free space I found no newer versions of DiskTop or WebArranger DiskTop seems still to work though after complaining and I can Save As WebArranger files in a different folder each time Personal Backup did have a low cost update and this works fine in the new environment With the ease of use of Personal Backup I had got ten used to backing up my Performa after almost every session onto Zip disks With no Zip now I had gone a couple of weeks without being able to 20 Washington Apple Pi Journal back up to a different drive and was feel ing exposed I could have used the Ethernet connection to the Performa and used it as a backup but it was still being used for other purposes such as occa sionally accessing Zip cartridges flop pies and using the scanner I didn t feel up to the conceptual confusion of using it for backup too Some other software compromises have had to be made With the unsatis factory state of StuffIt Deluxe 5 x Istayed with 4 0 adding the newest freeware Stufflt Expanders This means I no longer have the True Finder Integration that I enjoyed in t
116. efaces rather than font suitcases which makes it a powerful tool for graphic artists and service bureaus While those who do not need Font Reserve s sophistication might be bet ter off with other simpler interfaces y ar Por a perur lt tay s p m 7 EA z n gt i s gt s pra z maD _ s J lt x gt r 4 Pee eee T 7 i wal g Seale L urr a tal 3 es se eR me Re em emt eee e Ot ee ee ee eee one a Figure 1 Font Reserve Browser ont Resert ye I A acta Font Reserve offers features unavailable from its competitors While evaluating font manage ment software for the production de partment at The Washingtonian I estab lished the following criteria I wanted the ability to M activate and deactivate fonts whenever I want WE search for fonts based on a vari ety of criteria including name family and foundry automatically activate fonts in QuarkXPress documents even if they are used in embedded EPS graphics M easily duplicate font setups on multiple computers TCS ee p bf r reo Sst Atali Ru N Sie gr ee as y i Family Washington Apple Pi Journal 23 easily add fonts at any time and be able to track newly added fonts E help identify problems including corrupted fonts and orphaned out lines It s the Database Stupid Most sophisticated database Font Reserve gains its power and flexibility from its font orie
117. er Pro SIG 3rd Thursday 7 30 PM WAP office Frederick Slice General meeting time 2nd Saturday 10 00 AM United Methodist Church 22 Main Street in Walkersville Game SIG 1st Thursday 7 30 PM Call for location Genealogy SIG 2nd Tues of the month 10 AM to noon WAP office Graphic Arts SIG 2nd Saturday of the month Mac Programmers SIG Volunteers needed to restart this SIG Newton Developers SIG Volunteer needed NoVa Education Ed SIG Call SIG chair for times amp locations QuickTime SIG 2nd Tuesday of each month 7 30 PM WAP office Retired SIG 4th Wednesday of each month 11 AM to 2 PM each meeting will have a topic but be run informally WAP office Stock SIG 2nd Thursday 7 30 PM WAP Office Morris Pelham who chairs StockSIG is Sysop of the Investment StockSIG board on the TCS Contact him on that board Telecomm SIG Call SIG chair for times amp locations WAP Garage Sale June and December WAP General Meeting 4th Saturday 9 00 AM Northern Virginia Community College Annandale Campus Community Cultural Center Auditorium Women s SIG At the Pi Office at 6 00 PM dinner 2 followed by 7 00 PM meeting presentation Call SIG chair New chair information not received Notice Plans change Anyone with calendar information please call the Calendar Editor Bill Wydro 301 299 5267 or Beth Medlin at the WAP Office 301 984 0300 May June 1999 Washington Apple P
118. ere are my ini tial impressions The Page Size button is a nice fea ture It offers every format from A1 to German Legal Fanfold whatever that is Of course you can specify a custom size as well Ruler units run from points to miles and kilometers This is certainly very accommodat ing but I wonder where I can find a print shop that will output a 12 x 1 mile page Some features seemed less friendly to me At first glance the tool bar looked very foreign It also took me longer than I would expect to fig ure out how the program manages lay ers When the computer froze upon saving my first masterpiece I decided it was time for a tutorial The tutorial itself seemed friendly enough until again I tried to save This happened repeatedly so I ran Conflict Catcher but to no avail The problem became inexplicably intermittent after that but I never did get through the whole tu torial without crashing I assume this had something to do with my com puter set up rather than the program The tutorial itself I felt should have been a little more comprehensive My practical test of CorelDraw 8 was to try to replicate a real life project done in Freehand Originally I had cre ated a 4 color CMYK logo for a cli ent in PhotoShop to be saved as a tiff and imported into Quark for use in a letterhead business cards note card envelopes etc However the client ret roactively decided she wanted the en tire
119. ere is a wonderful piece of software The feature set is May June 1999 amazing I ve now produced sev eral movies with Premiere 5 1 and can say it has an elegant feel It still runs slowly on my Mac especially as projects get complex and 5 1 still fails much too often to be called reliable If you haven t used Premiere before and can find a discount priced new copy of Premiere 4 2 consider that The older version has shortcomings but if you want to start in QuickTime editing 4 2 appeals Premiere 5 x may have its bugs squashed by the time you are ready to move up Let s hope Adobe is working on a Premiere 5 2 I m not looking for new features just a stable and fast program where the offered features work reliably I d love to say Premiere 5 1 is the best Pre miere yet but for now my vote still goes to Premiere 4 2 W Pi member Dennis Dimick pur sues QuickTime as a hobby He has written for The Journal on graphics and multimedia subjects since 1992 and can be reached via email ddimick aol com Adobe Pretbiere Dt grit Adobe Systems Ine 345 Park Avenue hae anal mee San Jose CA CA 95110 a n HE eee H Retail Price 895 Set ex gt bere S 5 _wwwadobec com A Requires a PowerPC Macintosh noi Mac O57 5 5 or later Premiere 5 1 requires QuickTime 3 02 _ 48 MB or more application _ RAM recommended Large capacity disk drive or RAIDarray 24bit color any adapter
120. erial Bus USB and what Apple calls Firewire Each is one the new meth odologies to connect peripherals to what are now called transparent Macintosh computers the collection consisting at the moment of the iMac and the blue and white G3 mini tower By the time you read this there could be at least one more I want to expand on the coverage of USB What I will do is summarize what was covered last time delve a bit deeper into what is going on that you cannot see and touch on the new cabling that connects USB devices Let s start by revisiting _ the why of USB N THE March April Journal I So Much To Attach I asked our instructors to poll their students to see what it is that they at tach to a computer Students in our introductory classes have the standard attachments modem printer key board mouse maybe a ZIP drive But from our upper level courses the list grew appreciably To all the above add a Jaz drive a second hard drive a scanner an internal CD reader a CD R burner and a tablets We have sev eral members who use more than one printer to proof a job Add the inter nal floppy drive and you have periph erals attached to the internal and ex ternal SCSI bus two serial port con nections several devices connected to the ADB port and one to the floppy connector You are over the limit of seven devices for typical SCSI chain filled your serial ports and have a load on your ADB line Now picture
121. ey could not solve my problem of activating fonts in EPS files as they are imported into QuarkXPress docu ments they were quick to give me an estimate on when a new version should be available Their web site support is not so good They have some tech support discussion groups on their site but most questions appear to remain un answered Maybe their response rate was better than it looked but some discussion threads were broken and the slow speed of their web site dis couraged me from exploring the dis cussion groups Pricing and Availability Font Reserve 2 02 is listed at 99 per copy but discounts of up to 35 are available for multiple licenses Font Re serve can be purchased from major mail order and Internet Mac software web sites or directly from DiamondSoft Upgrades from Font Reserve 1 x includ ing copies bundled with CoralDraw are 65 If you purchase directly from DiamondSoft you can download the software from their web site and still receive the CD ROM and manuals which include Bitstream fonts Try Before You Buy DiamondSoft allows you to download the entire copy of Font Re serve from their web site including the XTension and the manuals Until you enter the serial number the database will be limited to tracking 100 fonts All other features are available This is a great way to test Font Reserve for suitability and any possible software conflicts May June 1999 Font Reserve provides the a
122. ey light up bright white In Fig 1 the cursor is on the title Editing Tools seen lit up at the top center of the figure The 20000060 T ocunm ni Hii ey Style Figure l in 100 mmm rScal 700 CORTE Voi eg 100 ve TET TITT Twat numm S ide S ide mmm id TALUL at a iy ee n te gt r a f x we ey eyes vad gt P BO a Mey DG Rpt o can we Ay f i i WN By ie a ie fg Fe ind one Biers un ess oe Washington Apple Pi Journal 37 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 controls for three lights are seen in the upper left The center light is bright shining from the upper left which you can confirm by looking at the figure in the center The camera controls are at the left There is a choice of preset camera angles and shooting distances 38 Washington Apple Pi Journal Figure 5 Hea SE Figure 6 Figure 7 plus complete control of X Y Z posi tion and 3D rotation In the lower left are the display styles ranging all the way from block outline through sev eral wire frames to increasing quali ties of rendering Below the figure you may see that the Chest has been se lected It can be manipulated by drag ging in the figure or by the Parameter Dials at the right which give very pre cise control The temptation to play with the controls before reading the manual is overwhelming The Tutorial is straightforward and easy but it is laden with land mine
123. font ownership This adds an optional additional layer of organiza tion If you need to make it clear that you or a client owns a font you can designate its owner Or you might want to indicate if a particular depart ment or your entire company has the rights to use a font For example The Washingtonian Inc has a site license to many fonts but the production de partment has purchased additional fonts for constructing ads It is impor tant that the editorial part of the office never uses these fonts Ownership can be used to track who is allowed to use particular fonts Finding fonts When your fonts number in the hundreds or thousands it can be dif ficult to find what you want Font Re May June 1999 C fdd temporarily C Deactivate all temp active fonts C fictivate added fonts temporarily Paul j chernoff A Make this the primary owner Lig gt Se Aas ite aa A aes re ienes J Cem C f iis Tae ROR a tity helt aL Ue ETE eran mea te Figure 10 Import Preferences serve makes it easy to search for fonts even if you are unsure of their names The Browser offers a number of ways of finding fonts The first way is by name You can start typing in the Browser and a dia log box will appear that offers to take you to the first font that matches what you type But if you don t know the beginning of the font s name there are other options See Figure 7 The Browser s filter ability makes it
124. for the Mac Unless it performs particular functions way better than the standards Free hand and Illustrator he said why would anyone switch The Outlook There are reasons why I think CorelDraw 8 will gain ground For one thing designers who work in a mixed Windows Mac environment might have need to exchange files and thus gain exposure in a back door sort of way They might then be drawn to the strengths of CorelDraw as they be come familiar with its interface and begin to use it in place of the old stan dards in some instances People who are starting out in desktop publishing on the Mac might find it more conve nient and certainly less expensive to buy CorelDraw which includes Photo Paint for bitmap editing Dream 3D for 3D modeling and a host of util ity programs than to plunge into the expense and perhaps overkill of a high powered setup like PhotoShop and Illustrator or Freehand CorelDraw s tainted reputation among service bureaus which stems mainly from PostScript problems in earlier versions will be hard to eradi cate Presumably these problems have been addressed in the latest version Also there are some new pre press features that will go a long way to head off errors introduced by the user The Prepare for Service Bureau Wiz ard in CorelDraw 8 guides you through a series of steps to help en sure that the files you send to the ser vice bureau are complete and properly set up for
125. for you L Addition This extensive undertaking while well worth it was not without costs Think of the project as a milk stool Two of the legs need and assets are in abundance It is the third leg support resources to make it happen that is the hardest to assemble This project con sumed scarce Washington Apple Pi resources considerable volunteer time lots of storage space and scarce dollars New sources for that third leg need to be found if we are to under Il take another project on this scale Grants a different working relationship among the three component donors recipients and ourselves or additional outside support will make it possible for me to again tell ya what we did with another a hundred Apple Ils Cast of Characters These are the people and institu tions who gave equipment and time to made this possible Schools Charles E Smith Jewish Day School Children s Learning Center Grace Episcopal School Gunston Hall Elementary School Norwood School Oneness School Our Lady of Lourdes School St Agnes amp St Peters Schools People Senator Robert C Byrd _ Carol Dunn assistant to Senator Byrd Brenda Williams West Virginia De partment of Education For Washington Apple Pi Boris Levine Jay Thal John Ruffatto Herbert Block Karen and Ed Escalante Dave Ottalini Steve Fink Pat Fauquet Dale Smith Scott Poit Kristen Dunn Thomason All the families who donated their
126. g else entirely Briefly the problem I had with the 54 Washington Apple Pi Journal Suggestions Word s incorrectly capitalized These are words which should always be capitalized i e United Neles English Usually the word s are proper Clicking on Correct corrects the problem by adding the proper form of lost disk space was caused by Flash back saving a complete copy of every version of my scans and not in any way related to Grammarian As a re sult of the hard drive space prob lems and the diagnostic work I had to do to uncover the source of this problem I did a complete backup wiped my drive reformatted in HFS and installed 8 5 Here is where a very ironic problem involving Gram marian occurred OS 8 5 problems I started with extensions off to in stall Grammarian after reformatting the hard drive That went fine Grammar ian informed me that the install was successful and it would like to be re started Okay I could do that or could I I experienced a rare startup conflict Since I had Conflict Catcher CC 8 04 installed and the only two extensions enabled were CC 8 04 and Grammarian both Casady amp Greene C amp G products it was an ironic no brainer Just to be sure I ran the en tire conflict test and sure enough CC 8 04 agreed that Grammarian was the culprit Okay I ll just mosey on over to the TCS to look for an update It was Saturday at noon and the TCS
127. g the Dow Strat egies and passed around copies Mark s 1998 Portfolio included DuPont EastKodak GenMotors IntPaper and Philip Morris At year end that portfolio was up 9 4 less than the Dow at 16 1 less than the S amp P 500 at 26 7 and less than the NASDAQ at 39 6 Mark s 1999 Portfolio includes Caterpillar DuPont Goodyear MMM and Philip Morris So far it s down but the year is young We had a good discussion of all our Dow stock portfolios and com parisons with other choices until someone suggested we had beaten them to death We moved on to a discussion of LEAPS that is long term options on the Dow stocks Mark has been buy ing and selling these in search of larger profits than our Beating the Dow Strategy and it is working Mark showed us how with five pages of handouts We had a good discussion again 18 Washington Apple Pi Journal with one comment from someone in the back about having once bought something like that and had a carload of plywood delivered to him Then Dave Weikert took the floor and told us all about making money with Apple Computer stock Dave brought us copies of pages from Yahoo Finance with charts of Apple stock prices over 3 months and 2 years told us about his sources of information told us where the iMac will be built and got into a discussion of cash on hand revenues and profits in comparison with Gateway and Compaq Then Dave told us his sell targe
128. gt eck Global Macintosh Conference lt 8 gt Global Miscellany Conference Conference Menu lt A gt Adjust Pointers lt C gt Change Conference lt G gt Global Read All New Msgs lt L gt List All Available Boards lt O gt Off the System lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt R gt Read All New Msgs lt W gt Welcome Bulletin lt X gt Xfer All New Msgs lt Z gt Lelect Boards of Interest Bulletin Board Menu lt A gt Alter Edit an Existing Message lt B gt Blind Reply toa Msg by Number lt C gt Change Boards lt D gt Delete Msg From or To You lt E gt Enter a Message lt F gt Find Message by Keyword lt L gt Library for this Board lt O gt Off the System lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt R gt Read a Msg or Msgs lt S gt ocan Message Headers lt T gt TitheScan Msg Headers lt W gt Welcome Bulletin for Board lt X gt Xfer Download a Msg or Msgs User Preferences lt A gt Alter Password lt E gt Emulation Mode lt F gt File Transfer Protocol lt P gt Prompt Character lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt R gt Reply Mode Prefix lt V gt Video Length lt X gt Expert Novice Prompts lt Y gt Your Current Status Electronic Mail Menu lt B gt Blind Reply to a Letter lt D gt Delet
129. gt A fair number of Pi sters seem to have some background in sub marines Thanks for the book suggestion Actually my job was to _find_ submarines and if necessary turn them into scrap metal Oh an update on a subject I started a long time ago The USS Belknap CG 26 Unfortunately the Navy carried out their promise to a massive amount of protest from what I understand They sunk her on Sep tember 24th 1998 She is now a shel ter for homeless fishes Sailor 3 gt Included in the goodies in stalled in the boat s Bat Cave was a Univac 1124 I was involved in the conversion of a Navy analog missile fire control system Talos GMFCS to an experi mental digital system in 1964 The ex May June 1999 perimental system used a Univac 18 bit computer with 24K of memory The production system installed about 4 years later used a Univac 18 bit com puter with 40K of memory Three cabi nets cpu memory tape replaced the seven that the analog system took but two additonal cabinets were required with the digital system to perform the analog to digital and digital to analog conversion Sailor 1 When my ship went through the shipyard in 85 86 we got the latest and greatest navigation system called an ESGN It is an inertial nav system but instead of having a gyro on bear ings to stabilize the measurement plat form it uses an electrically levitated ball spinning at around 250 000 rpm or so The whole
130. has no plans to charge or to allow phone carriers to levy a usage fee on Internet users I hope that this answers your questions I will continue to monitor all legis lation regarding this new technol ogy and will keep your views in mind should the House of Repre sentatives consider such legisla tion Again thank you for writing Sincerely Bob Weygand Member of Congress DA iL E ea ert kl eG KERTAA Beh eb a EET ee mee ae x P ey G TA Lpo ee A not St kpati i T ig weeat re rer si tt il oa diel TG pe ae ae ey Sa ae oer ee KEE E RT oie i e aA ais pie T E Fe E pa 1k eg a ge de oe Pryce an ote ce Gi ih Var OP gy ee E ree come eT ie a Pate pat whe ete OW Pda PUTS Se SE aia B te ge g en oe eee Fe pe eR Ra Maj agp E ape te Cena Owes ton De ge ha er oe are ce eee fae TS TE PE ee ag at eae LT A Ba Ss me hE ERIT gt t 4 Meeting Report By Don Essick Vice President Macintosh Programs UE TO A confluence of cir cumstances the topic for this meeting was in flux to the last minute In the final week before the meet ing it turned into the annual WAP QuickTime Festival Last month I had asked Tom Witte to explain the process he used to create the WAP 20 Anniver sary QuickTime movie I had also planned for Pi President Lorin Evans to give his annual State of the Pi and Fire side Chat Well there was so much inter est in things QuickTime that Lorin was pushed aside until another day
131. he Ultimate Macintosh Productivity Tool has once again become a commercial product a free totally capable version remains on the web site as version 5 0 1 It has valu able comprehensive web publishing capabilities that are in addition to the powerful scripting capabilities used in the process described here You can look over Frontier and its many poten tial uses at http www scripting com frontier5 As an aside Apple s own AppleScript could probably substitute for Frontier but so many needed ca pabilities are readily available in Fron tier that it looked like the far more ro bust scripting environment Out of the box for example it has a script that tests whether the newest fax file on Machine 1 is still being captured in which case it leaves it alone or whether it is ready to be copied over May June 1999 to Machine 2 Also Frontier easily stores the creation date and time of each new facsimile as a so called per sistent value so that the program accurately remembers which files it has processed versus which ones have come in since Frontier last quit This is valuable when you suffer interference or worse on the network To be fair Frontier can t solve ab solutely every problem For example the version of Global Fax software used is not scriptable by either Fron tier or AppleScript so a 95 addition called Player from Prefab software http www prefab com
132. he past And some ap plications have been entirely left behind Having to reinstall a number of ap plications I was obliged to collect in one place all the software registration num bers from old invoices letters and cards If I had kept this record updated as I went along it would have saved time In some cases the new software picked up the registration info from preference files I had copied from the Performa I had ordered an Orange Micro SCSI card from their Web site so I could use the external Zip drive I have directly access my UMAX scanner and add an internal SCSI drive for backup but the card wasn t immediately available The G3 manual mentions only adding internal SCSI drives but I learned from Lou Dunham that ATA drives could be used instead They are cheaper than SCSI drives too and can be formatted with Apple s Drive Setup I ordered an 8 gigabyte IBM drive from ProDirect 1 800 524 9952 along with a cable with con nections for two drives and installed it a very easy task with the G3 s wide swinging side door Didn t work The two drives the new one and the factory installed 6 gigabyte Quantum ATA drive conflicted and the computer wouldn t boot at all With Lou s encouragement and help May June 1999 l genera washington ANPP Pi meetings Northern Virginia Comm College Community amp Cultural Center Aud 8333 Little River Turnpike Annandale VA Getting to NoVa take E
133. hen tell us about your professional qualifica tions specifically your experience helping people with technology and troubleshooting Macs in a networked environment Send your e mails to jobs uptimeweb com Visit our web site to learn more www uptimeweb com jobs 4 COMPUTER SERVICES IN Gy Washington Apple Pi Journal 19 ports one for printer and the other for modem I checked first to make sure it was compatible with my external US Robotics modem and HP DeskWriter 550C printer The adaptor plugs into one of the two USB ports on the back of the G3 and comes with software on a CD the G3 has a fast CD drive built in to setit up I found setup quite easy for both printer and modem access After getting most of the older of ten shareware software and files that I wanted transferred from the Performa to the new G3 I started see ing how much of it would work in the transition from System 7 5 5 to OS 8 5 1 with the added factor of a multi gigabyte hard drive formatted as HFS I went to the Version Tracker Web site lt http www versiontracker com gt to see what were the latest versions now PowerPC of the software I wanted to keep both commercial and shareware In some cases no new versions seemed to be available Somewhat to my surprise most of my old software still works I did have trouble with three of my often used items DiskTop a utility for seeing and changing file details WebArranger for ch
134. here before and hope that what ever it is that started this gets corrected expeditiously A Commercial Announcement Now that I have your attention a brief aside for a public service an nouncement you know like one of those never ending appeals from your public television channel Washington Apple Pi really asks but two things of you each year renew your membership and vote in the an nual election for officers and directors We fantasize that you will do more than that like tell others about us but that is all we really ask of you The reality is that thousands be long but few participate We place a ballotin each Journal but only around 3 are returned hallots not magazines Please do me a BIG favor Let me know that you are alive by mailing the ballot located in the center of the magazine to the address on the enve lope It would be nice if you voted for some of the folks who are willing to spend a year keeping this place mov ing forward I really don t care who you vote for or if you live in Chicago how often If trying to get you to vote ton Apple Pi s_ an pre nis s M geyng Eveni Ain 3 heal oo eu ad DU gt ommunications 2 amp Publicly istributed sotiv yNaraderie Advice ra y Demos amp A A066 H ates Washington Apple Pi Journal 5 I is a stretch maybe getting you to at least return the ballot witha nice note penned to it has some chance All
135. hoices The IRS has been very particular in the past about what they receive You must either submit their official forms or forms that look very much like their forms In the days of dot matrix print ers Howardsoft was one of the com panies that constantly worked with the IRS to get them to accept com puter printed forms But they have always also offered the opportunity to use transparent overlay forms that you can put ona photocopier together with your printed output behind the over lay to make an acceptable photocopy reproduction of a completed form which once signed the IRS would accept Finally Howardsoft also al lows you to use laser printers with special tax fonts which the IRS will accept I have never tried the copy machine or laser printer options I have always just used my standard every day ImageWriter II When you use this option all of the forms are printed in a fashion acceptable to the IRS all in the correct order for submis sion except for the 1040 itself which you have to fill out with good old pen and ink based on the facsimile 1040 printed by the program Installation on an Apple Ilgs is simple If you have a 3 5 disk drive make a copy of the 3 5 disk that comes from Howardsoft put the copy in your disk drive double click on the TPSTART SYSTEM icon and begin If you have a hard drive just create a folder to hold the files copy all of the files from the 3 5 floppy over to the folder
136. ht of a VW bug It should fit in most homes if you take out a wall first Analyst 2 Did you ever get a closeup look at an IMAX projector in action It s a fascinating gadget with the film lying flat on platters and an ingenious method of float ing along section of film to reduce tension as it goes through the gate 40 Washington Apple Pi Journal The Lone Ranger Rides Again One of the greatest of all shows on radio or TV was The Lone Ranger starring Clayton Moore as the Masked Man and Jay Silverheels as Tonto The Lone Ranger s hearty Ht Yo Silver Awaaaay still ech oes in the memories of those of us privileged to have heard or seen that e play Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as some Pi sters take their childhoods out for P1 Sixty six years ago tomorrow Janu ary 30 the Lone Ranger was first broad cast on radio P2 gt Sixty six years ago tomorrow Janu ary 30 the Lone Ranger was first broad cast on radio Silver his horse wasn t broadcast for a couple more years mostly due to size P4 gt Sixty six years ago tomorrow Janu ary 30 the Lone Ranger was first broadcast on radio No doubt The Big Broadcast Ed Walker s old time radio show will have some commemoration Maybe even the original episode if it is still available This is always an interesting show Sun day nights 7 10 pm Dramas like the Lone Ranger tend to come on starting around 8 or 8 30 WA
137. i Journal 43 Hotline me hotline service is only for members of WAP Please do not call after 9 30 pm or before 8 00 am Name Telephone Joan Jemigan 540 822 5137 Dan White 301 843 3287 Dick Grosbier 301 898 5461 Russell Robinson 301 739 6030 Eric Seidel 540 667 5289 Neil Laubenthal 703 691 1360 Tom Cavanaugh 301 627 8889 Tom DeMay 410 461 1798 Tom Witte 703 683 5871 Bob Wilbur 703 426 0556 Louis Saunders 301 648 7332 Joan Jemigan 540 822 5137 Jerry ller 410 987 5432 Bill Geiger 703 237 3614 Sandy Kowalczuk 410 268 3149 Ray Settle 410 647 9192 Joan Jemigan 540 822 5137 Jim Ritz 301 770 1405 Ray Settle 410 647 9192 Tim Childers 301 997 9317 Dave Weikert 301 963 0063 Dave Jernigan 540 822 5137 Mort Greene 703 522 8743 Sandy Kowalczuk 410 268 3149 Blake Lange 301 942 9180 Tom Witte 703 683 587 1 Jeff Dillon 301 434 0405 Dave Jemigan 540 822 5137 Dave Jemigan 540 822 5137 Rick Chapman 301 989 9708 Tom Witte 703 683 5871 Peter Combes 301 445 3930 Peter Combes 301 445 3930 Mort Greene 703 522 8743 Mort Greene 703 522 8743 Stuart Bonwit 301 598 2510 Tom Witte 703 683 5871 Mort Greene 703 522 8743 Frank PappaJohn 703 922 3851 Jerry ller 410 987 5432 Jerry ller 410 987 5432 Lester Morcerf 410 987 0685 Tho Snowberger 410 757 4656 Rick Shaddock 202 321 2110 Mel Benson Bill Geiger Mel Benson 410 647 6873 703 237 3614 410 647 6873 Clarence Goldberg410 263 5189 Henry Miller Jones 703 478 3721 Bob Wilbur 703 426 0556 Loui
138. ides 100 mA for a bus powered hub and for each of four ports attached to it However each attachment point on such a bus powered hub can draw a maximum of 100 mA because if all the devices are active that s all the power avail able If you tried to attach another bus powered hub to the first bus powered hub it wouldn t be able to draw enough power to run any devices at tached to it pretty much defeating the point of adding a hub That s where self powered hubs come in A self powered hub has to provide the full 500 mA of power to each of its attachment ports Self pow ered hubs can have as many attach ment points as they wish bus pow ered hubs are limited to four ports each because of the power require ments Each attachment point on a self powered hub is enough to drive a bus powered hub so everything works fine as long as you don t con nect one bus powered hub directly to another bus powered hub Other than this minor power re lated problem hooking up multiple 60 Washington Apple Pi Journal devices is almost trivial with USB If you run out of attachment points you get a hub and add more ports If you fill those ports up get more hubs Two ports allow more than two devices because some devices include func tionality as well as built in hubs The Apple USB Keyboard for example is both a keyboard and a bus powered hub with two attachment ports one of which is usually connected to the USB mouse Tha
139. iew with my old system seemed quite good but the new one is better The increased re fresh rate eliminates all traces of flicker the picture is rock steady In addition I can now use things such as Sherlock to search QuickTime 3 0 for movies recent versions of RealAudio and all the goodies that require the latest OS As with my Mac Plus before it I loved my Performa and it gave me years of faithful ser vice I didn t miss too much what I didn t have But now processes which took time on the Performa are almost instantaneous I wouldn t want to re turn to the past Not everything that comes as stan dard with OS 8 5 1 is perfect On my Performa I had several utilities that I liked One was part of the CETools toolbox which let me open programs or files from a menu under the Apple icon from within any application Fa vorites under the Apple menu in the new system pretty much duplicates that I used to run HoverBar which lets you launch or switch between ap plications files or folders with a mouse click on an icon bar which hov ers on the screen Apple s new Appli May June 1999 cation Switcher does the same thing for open applications but I found it not as convenient as HoverBar Any application file or folder can be added to HoverBar s bar whether it is in use or not and launched or opened with a click The bar can be set to grow to the left or right It can be hidden using Command Esc And
140. ime if you have OS 8 1 or lower installed download a demo copy of Grammar ian from the C amp G web site While you re there get a free copy of COMPUTER CAMP coming this summer to WAP Washington Apple Pi Journal 57 H Grammarian Menu Keyboard Shortcuts Check All Grammar Check Selection Only interactive Checking Auto Show Suggestions Show Suggestions Writing Style Writing Rules Menu Keyboard Shortcuts Grammarian Control Panel Figure 10 Total Sentences 22 Average Sentence Length Figure 11 Sherlock Assistant for a friend who has OS 8 5 installed How it works for the curious The natural language grammar checker developed by Linguisoft dif fers from existing grammar check ers on the market in several ways Today grammar checkers use a se 58 Washington Apple Pi Journal Average Syllables Per Word 6 Command lt gt Shift Caps Lock lt S Option E Control oe Cena Total Words 169 T 68 1 53 Flesch Kincaid w Reading Ease Standard Readable For Adults 68 MAUA hadh ee ee BEATA ATEN LIATE RAATI AAT id id ii lal iia 0 30 100 Readable Grade Level 5th 4 5 E i Q Q 10 11 12 College Grad Human Interest Highly Interesting 53 aai iili i Eidi a ET ilda biik ti dlid lik ries of heuristics or pattern match ing to flag problems in a sentence Grammarian uses natural language process
141. ing to parse sentences at a deeper logical level Using state of the art natural language processing techniques the grammar checker first builds a complete analysis parse of the syntax of the sentence and then analyzes the sentence by looking at the relationships of actions and the people or things that are in volved in those actions By doing this natural language processing provides the foundation for the grammar checker eventually to be able to under stand the meaning of words in a sen tence Because of these techniques Grammarian can more accurately de tect and correct grammatical and sty listic errors W Requirements Macintosh computer able to read 1 44 MB high density floppy diskette Mac OS 7 or 8 About 2 2 5 MB hard drive About 2 MB of application RAM Tested on Power Mac 6100 2 1 GB hard drive Mac OS 8 1 with standard HFS and 8 5 with HFS Publisher Casady amp Greene Inc 22734 Portola Drive Salinas CA 93908 1119 USA Direct Sales 1 800 359 4920 Fax 831 484 9218 sales casadyg com tech casadyg com http www casadyg com ftp casadyg com Mary is a freelance graphic arts craft de signer and teacher in the Washington Metro area and an active member of the Washington Apple Pi Questions sugges tions requests tips comments and feed back can be emailed to e mkeene tcs wap org May June 1999 Universal Serial Bus USB Revisited Technobabble Lite wrote about the Universal S
142. ing to pho nemes i e basic speech sounds Fig 9 shows the man saying O This will come in very handy for my animation of the opera diva singing an aria Fig 10 Head Parameter Dials 1 shows facial expressions that can be manipulated but I could not see any dials to move the head When the de May June 1999 Figure 8 Figure 9 fault figure is brought up there are head moving dials but no facial ex pressions I confirmed that in the manual I drafted an e mail letter to MetaCreations Support to ask about it lalso wanted to know how the wink was created since I saw no controls for the eyelids The manual says under Blink to set the Blink Parameter Dial to 1 0 to close the eye Where is that The hint was that the Blink dial was described right after the Worry Left dial seen in Fig 10 at the bottom Note Ignore those nine dots they can be preset to control camera views I found that I could grab the Param eter dials and drag them up so that I could see the rest of them but I was unable to find any mention in the manual of moving the dials Voila Fig 11 shows the rest of the dials And what do you know there are the Blink May June 1999 dials and the head motion dials I scrapped my e mail letter I have gone through twenty of the forty pages of the formal Tutorial How ever I ve glanced through and made frequent references to many of the sub sequent 130 pages nine chapte
143. ising and frequently used on wedding invitations Because they are harder to read than serif or sans serif fonts they should not be used for body copy unless you really don t want people to read your text Casual fonts are similar to script fonts but not as precise and regular A fairly recent innovation casual fonts are designed to look as if they were handwritten They are sometimes used in advertising to give an ad or letter a personal look and often used by individuals who want to write letters on a computer but make the printed version look more intimate Well designed casual fonts are de signed to be highly readable but you still probably wouldn t want to use one to publish a book Decorative fonts tend to be harder to read but reflect the old tradition of lettering as art and decoration Aside from advertising and informal display signage decorative fonts should be avoided Grunge fonts a fairly recent innovation are anti fonts irregular lettering designed to impart an im pression of rebellion alienation or sometimes an anti technology look While Wired magazine seems to be fond of grunge fonts generally speak ing they have no real purpose outside of rare use in advertising and signage such as possibly an advertisement for a riot or a grunge rock concert 30 Washington Apple Pi Journal Dingbats some times called orna ments are fonts that are not letters or standard type but
144. izes for all previews See Figure 11 Font Reserve provides 10 different specimen templates and you can modify them or create your own Font collection Font Reserve makes it easy to col lect fonts to send with a file to a ser vice bureau You can drag a set fam ily suitcase or individual font from the Browser to the desktop Font Re serve will copy the selected fonts as a single suitcase with any accompany ing PostScript fonts AppleScript Font Reserve is AppleScriptable but not recordable This is because you script the Font Reserve application which is a faceless database pro gram and not the Font Reserve Browser Unfortunately AppleScript documentation is minimal consisting of two sample scripts While it appears to be highly scriptable I did not have P PR ay ee my BIER TEHER TFA NOTAN A Figure 11 U E TEIA Sa mae Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 _ f time to learn how to do it More docu mentation would be appreciated Replication When dealing with 50 Macintoshes I need a font solution that minimizes my labor in keeping all font setups identical Font Reserve pro vides three ways to help The first is the ability to copy the font database from one computer to another This not only transfers fonts but also the sets and ones designated as perma nently active AppleScript while it has a steep learning curve provides a way to up date the Font Reserve database You can use write A
145. job done in three Pantone colors So I exported the paths from PhotoShop to Illustrator and opened them in Freehand I prefer working in Freehand I filled the paths with the appropriate Pantone colors to com plete the logo then created the statio nery pieces all in Freehand I later had to recreate the job in Quark but that s another story I tried to repli cate this sequence using CorelDraw 8 72 Washington Apple Pi Journal instead of Freehand but didn t get very far When I attempted to import the Illustrator paths the pointer loaded but when I clicked to place them nothing happened This was probably a result of my lack of experi ence with the program but I finally had to give up due to time constraints Service Bureaus Print Shops Let us assume that I had been successful in completing the job in CorelDraw instead of Freehand What then would have been my output op tions I called several service bureaus and print shops to check the viability of sending CorelDraw 8 files out for pre press With one or two exceptions the results were not encouraging One local printer suggested that I export any CorelDraw files in EPS format and place them in another program such as Quark for final output He expects slow acceptance of CorelDraw in the professional design community and does not plan to purchase it any time soon Another pre press imagesetter says he has never had a request to work with CorelDraw
146. keyboard power key and then the Return key Although the G3 can also use an ADB keyboard and I had a spare bought for 5 at the December Garage Sale I had no extra ADB cable and had to use the iMac like USB keyboard and mouse that came with the G3 All this with little desk space to be gin with The USB keyboard and mouse are cute but like others I found the round mouse hard to orient and since I often use my computer in the dark except for illumination from the monitor using the black keyed USB keyboard full time was less than sat isfactory So there was a lot of key board and monitor switching until I got another ADB cable I also had to use the monitor with the Performa to get anything off of my many floppy disks before I could Ethernet their files to the G3 More cable swapping Not a desirable chore what with my bad back and all the connections being on the backs of the Performa and G3 un like the side connections on the iMac I mentioned above that the G3 lacks serial ports I was fortunate to get a Keyspan USB to serial adaptor they were in short supply given all the other G3 and iMac owners trying to get them which has two serial Mac Consultants and Iechs Wanted Join Uptime s team of dedicated and professional Mac lovers as we serve the technology needs of busi nesses throughout metropolitan Washington DC Send us an e mail describing yourself and what you want to do every day T
147. l Pers Contact Mgr ACT Personal Finance Dollars amp Sense Personal Finance Manage Your Money Personal Finance Manage Your Money Personal Finance Quicken Personal Finance Quicken Personal Finance Quicken Printers Connectivity Printers Troubleshooting amp Repair Printers General Printers General Programming C Programming General Programming General e mail at herwin gmu edu Programming Perl C C Pascal Programming Pascal Spreadsheets Excel Spreadsheets Excel Spreadsheets General Spreadsheet Chart ClarisWorks Spreadsheet ClarisWorks 703 524 0937 SpreadsheetChart Excel 44 Washington Apple Pi Journal Name Dick Byrd Mort Greene Rick Shaddock Tom Cavanaugh Bill Waring Lloyd Olson Neil Laubenthal Bemie Benson Jaque Davison Jaque Davison Jaque Davison Jaque Davison Jaque Davison Dave Jermigan Telephone Heading Subjects 703 978 3440 Spreadsheet Chart Excel 703 522 8743 Spreadsheet Chart Excel Spreadsheet Chart Excel 202 321 2110 301 627 8889 410 647 5605 410 544 1087 703 691 1360 301 951 5294 703 644 7354 703 644 7354 708 644 7354 708 644 7354 703 644 7354 540 822 5137 Charles Schindler 410 437 4624 Eric Grupp Bob Wilbur Walt Francis Tim Childers 410 315 8331 703 426 0556 202 966 5742 301 997 9317 Tom Cavanaugh 301 627 8889 Hanis Silverstone 410 435 3582 Joan Jemigan 540 822 5137 Dave Jemigan 540 822 5137 Macintosh amp Apple Ginny Spevak 202 244
148. l Zip drive to the SCSI card and inserted a Zip disk there it was on the Desktop It wasn t so easy with my UMAX Astra 610S SCSI scanner The VistaScan software simply would not see the scanner although SCSIProbe 1 5 said it was there on bus 1 Evi dently VistaScan was only looking on bus 0 A trip to the Orange Micro Web site lt http www orangemicro com gt showed a Grappler Scanner Con trol Panel When downloaded and put into the Control Panels folder it al lowed me to connect the scanner Now VistaScan sees it and I can scan pic tures with my old scanner One more piece of scanner related software I have is TextBridge Pro for Optical Character Reading It proved 22 Washington Apple Pi Journal much harder to get that to work I could not even successfully open TextBridge it hung at the registration screen giving no choice but a forced reboot of the G3 Using Extensions Manager to turn off all extensions didn t help But holding down the shift key at startup seems to have dis abled more stuff and I could then launch TextBridge Of course with no extensions it couldn t see the scanner Finally after three tries TextBridge s registration screen gives you the op tion of getting rid of the registration screen forever After that I could launch TextBridge with extensions on and it finally found the scanner Having to reinstall a number of applica tions I was obliged to collect in one
149. licensed with QuickTime 3 0 and is not public do main like many of the others and will only run on a PowerMac Dennis then presented a QuickTime slide show he created for his family This production was cre ated using Adobe Premiere to inte grate pictures and sound and to edit effects The image pan and zoom fil ter was especially effective in prevent ing the images from seeming static It was a beautiful movie with excellent sound and made me want to go out and get an AV capable Mac and the software to do the same thing Following Dennis Tom Berens gave us a quick demo of LiveStage from Totally Hip LiveStage is an ap plication that allows you to create QuickTime animations with scripts to make them interactive There was a bee that followed the cursor a Con centration game and an iMac memory game All very small appli cations using QuickTime sprites and scripts Demo disks were available and two copies were given away as door prizes Tom Witte then closed with the 20 Anniversary movie production demonstration Tom took us through the process of selecting clips pasting them together creating a background and mask and assembling all of the parts to create the final product Dur ing this process he also demonstrated Media Cleaner Pro by Terran Interac tive This is a utility that provides complete sets of media options for cre ating QuickTime objects Just select CD ROM and all of the different QuickTime o
150. med many fonts into a single suitcase The Vault segregates these fonts in a logi cal manner I find that I prefer using the Vault method for the fonts owned by my employer and the alias method for fonts supplied by our advertisers The Vault method makes it easier to repli cate font databases from one computer to another without resorting to putting fonts ona file server The alias method is perfect for any fonts supplied to us by advertisers since these sit on our file server and are removed from the database at the end of the month Using Font Reserve Despite its sophistication Font Re serve is easy to use It can do the basics of turning fonts on and off but its ad vanced features are easy to access Font Reserve takes advantage of Apple tech nologies such as drag and drop alias and AppleScript Activating fonts Fonts can be activated by clicking on the dot to the left of the font its suit case its family or a font set see Fig ure 1 You can assign whether a click permanently or temporarily activates fonts temporarily activated fonts will be inactive after you restart your Mac You can also activate fonts by selecting the fonts suitcases families or sets and clicking their permanent or temporary activation buttons Once activated the fonts are instantly avail able in every application The only caveat is that most applications do not update their font menus after they are launched However many
151. member all the songs that sound like they are over but there s another brief coda At the definitely last minute Jeffrey throws in one last customizable feature for Advanced Users I m not going to tell you what it is You have to find it for yourself Here s a hint power users will prob ably love it Impression Overall what parts of Grammar ian I used with OS 8 1 I really liked the choices explanations and other features have the potential to release and polish creativity in writing Whether it does or not will depend on the writer s perspective Does he see the glass as half empty or half full One thing is sure no one can honestly say they were stuffed into a rigid grammatically correct mold not when they have this many choices to cus tomize Grammarian I will be very unhappy if I have to choose between OS 8 5 and Gram marian because I feel Grammarian has the power to elevate the ordinary writer into a great writer by offering options suggestions and opportuni ties for the writer to expand his lan guage skills and tailor his use of lan guage to target specific interest groups Based on C amp G s history of solid software I suspect the prob lems I experience were unusual and perhaps even limited to me If my discussions with them disclose any thing that will affect the quality I have seen in Grammarian and in their other products I will write a follow up to this review In the meant
152. member the details or have the instructions saved some where One of these really ought to be in the Smithsonian History amp Technol ogy museum P8 gt The year was about 1934 Wow Old timer you sure got me beat I wasn t even born until four years after that But I still remember horse drawn milk wagons P2 gt my favorite was one that used a blue blade double edge razor blade and the lead from a pencil Ah a military model Yes they are expensive but so are the components P2 gt But I still remember horse drawn milk wagons I do too I went to Lancaster PA last year P8 Ah but the wagons I remember May June 1999 came up our street The horse did in deed know where to stop in front of our house for example And in sum mer the milkman often let us kids have a bit of ice Wonderful We could pat the horse too P2 gt Ah but the wagons I remember came up our street I m younger than you are your Web site picture is useful and remem ber getting milk fresh from the factory we lived too far from any town for even a horse drawn wagon The first house I ever lived in had a dirt floor In short what you are discussing is not only a matter of time but also wealth P1 gt remember getting milk fresh from the factory When I lived at my grandmother s we got our milk from the cows across the street The Codlings who lived there had a barn and cows and supplied milk They
153. men org and become involved in our community says Marshall For more information about DC Web Women contact Jeanne Marshall President a t leader dcwebwomen org or Alycia Eck Public Rela tions Director at press dcwebwomen org DC Web Women ht amp pe F www dcwebwomen org Webgrrls International http www webgrrls com Ms Foundation xX t pv f www ms foundation org m Delmarva Slice We welcome this new Slice and suggest that people in that area contact Shelly Wetzel lt sawetzel ssu edu gt to find out more about the group May June 1999 Classified advertisements can be erber by waite a copy to the business office od Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Be sure to include your WAP membership number and indicate area codes with your phone numbers Ads must be received by the ad copy due date listed in the calendar page for that month in order to be included in the appropriate issue Any ads postmarked after that time will be included at the discretion of the editor Cost is 2 00 line 40 characters per line maximum 12 lines Members of Washington Apple Pi Ltd may place ads up to three lines at no charge The editor reserves the right to refuse any ads deemed inappropriate Services Law Office of Richard S Sternberg A General Practice of Law since 1984 General Civil amp Criminal Litigation Employment Labor amp Civil Rights Personal Injury amp Aut
154. moved to investigate other multimedia tech nologies to avoid what they consid ered exorbitant fees and annoying on screen advertisements That could be the model for recovering from this bad news story Now you know what I want to say What say you Did you do as I requested Do you have your ballot in hand Please do it now Don t wait for someone else Do you part to get us above 3 We get there one ballot ata time Please Lorin P S Don t forget to mail it E Aer SLES E RTE RI ee i ae Ind lex to Adv Aue migra eS A Computeriste i ineert 8 Bethesda Computers 02006 C2 ClarisWorks UG sissie oiserstee bonetso G2 Mae Up era esc lt siecc oresorcssentesaseneens C4 TO E E E I I AA O 5 Te a E A T 19 Pi Fillings Goes to School C3 WAP Garage Salle sisiscsctscssssesisscssssseens 1 WAP Please Vole sscsiscsssssusevssvaccasveiesss 9 May June 1999 A Hundred Apple Ils by Lorin Evans We took a hundred Apple IIs And then we said Hey listen We re gonna help out some kids today Because we know what they re missin So we gathered our members up And a great big task began We refurbished computers for a generation that s had none Whoa oh oh yes we did With just a hundred Apple IIs We made their lives more interestin And they ll return to them every day For a creative world to enter in And they ll remember them every night For the new i
155. my PowerMac running Bernie II the Res cue the Apple IIgs emulator from F E Systems I expected to get and did indeed get a tremendous improve ment in the speed with which the in volved calculations are computed Ev ery time you complete a line the form is recalculated and any lines which re sult from automatic calculations are completed This process never took an unreasonable length of time but now that I am emulating the IIgs on my Mac the speed is greatly improved To print using Bernie II The Rescue you need to go into Change Program Settings Facsimile Printouts and get rid of the initial setup characters and change the no of line feeds needed per line to 0 I have never used another tax May June 1999 fae Can Setep Window help Clever Wore FlYanane Pron vol 01 Masat N RT Tinh wy ALC ehig N fy A Sunt Ap PA P e gt b P Bit Bion communications j LU TU u 8 yn o Ff hf wear wat Bernie The accua 5 D vets tartar rs r uredne st pod porter rars Figure 2 Screen shot of Tax Preparer running within Bernie II the Rescue on my PowerMac This shows the forms available to use within the program The ones checked are the ones that currently have had data input preparation package so I do not know how Howardsoft compares with say MacInTax I have often wondered if you fed the same data to different tax preparation packages if there would be significant
156. n Because it is a monospaced font your eye must travel farther to read a given Piece of text than the same text written in a proportionally spaced font Aside from columns of num bers Courier should be avoided M Use your computer as a com puter not a typewriter Terminal punctuation periods exclama tion points and question marks should be followed by one space not two In fact nothing should be followed by two spaces Line things up with tabs or tables not spaces On the Macintosh spaces are proportional too and not al ways the same width E Experiment with your printer Try printing text in different col ors even if it only has black ink or toner Try printing text in dif ferent sizes with different fonts Learn what looks best with your particular mix of printer and com puter M Generally speaking use no more than two fonts in any given publication If you mixed too many font styles in a paper bro chure or flyer it tends to look more like a ransom note than a professional looking paper bro chure or flyer In the early days of the Macintosh most Mac user group newsletters looked like ran som notes with dozens of typestyles thrown together May June 1999 Notes The accompa nying illustrations were all created using PostScript fonts mostly from Adobe s collec tions but also from other sources Some notes about a few of the fonts E Russell Ob lique was created b
157. n of the contents herein provided proper author title and publication credits are given except in cases where the author has reserved copyright permission In these cases the author should be contacted directly Please send a copy of the article as printed to Washington Apple Pi 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 4 Washington Apple Pi Journal May June 1999 fna D j pr Saya ee Vu All Over Again HE MACINTOSH com munity seems quite pleased with itself The tangy colored iMacs are selling well as is the blue and white mini tower G3 Those two and a couple more which will join them shortly are known in the trade as transparent Macs Lots of people are noticing that Macintosh products are also the computer of choice on both the tube and the silver screen How they appear in those two places is a story for another time What is bothering me in all this good news is a small but important undercurrent of discontent that is moving through a segment of the com puter community that I believe affects Apple and thus us It has to do with one of the new input output method ologies found in the mini tower G3 and soon in the rest of the line It is the replacement for SCSI called by Apple FireWire a proprietary name claimed by Apple and known in the rest of the industry as IEEE 1394 STC IN a gt AN Seema ADN US i ho Cis lt hi a l PowerPC gt Call 1 301 9 984 0300 for registration pas
158. n on the cut ting edge of technology But I got into my head with encouragement from fellow Pi members and a recent gen eral meeting with Apple tobuy anew Blue amp White G3 This is one of the new Macs lacking some old familiar technologies such as a floppy drive serial ports for printers modems and such and SCSI ports New technolo gies include USB and FireWire In addition it came with MacOS 8 5 1 So the transition promised to be an ad venture Would I bleed Here is what happened I ordered the low end 300 MHz G3 via telephone on a Tuesday I had planned to order it with an optional added SCSI card so I could run my old SCSI peripherals scanner and Zip drive and maybe add an internal SCSI hard drive Apple said no that SCSI cards were not immediately available and that I could not order one and wait I did not avoid sales tax either Apple adds your local tax to the bill To cut costs I had it shipped via ground When the G3 shipped I got a confirming e mail from Apple telling me when it would arrive Later I ob tained a UPS tracking number and tracked its travels on the UPS Web site lt http www ups com tracking tracking html gt This was not particu larly helpful because its whereabouts were noted while in transit only at a few points The last entry ona Friday was that it was in Illinois it arrived May June 1999 se agare y a oe tee Pate ta od fy w 2 Byars Peg ae ae jpn Fa
159. n the computer s 32 kilobytes of memory to operate And they didn t even have Bill Gates to blame it on 64 Washington Apple Pi Journal sailor 1 Having spent 20 years driv ing boats around you will find a lot of what Blind Man s Bluff contains fascinating reading but somewhat sensationalized I ve been involved in a number of operations and read reports of a number of others and it isnt quite as hairy as one might imag ine from the book It is fascinating reading though and gives a glimpse albeit a slightly inaccurate one of life submerged I found the description of what happened to the Scorpion in teresting reading but it draws a lot of conclusions from precious little fact I guess it could have happened that way hot run hot torpedo caused by maintenance but normally that main tenance was performed closer to ar rival at home port not 6 or 8 days out as the Scorpion was when she went down Despite all the efforts and money expended there isn t a real clear picture of what exactly did happen Facts are few and you can draw any of several conclusions based on how you interpret them and how you mix in knowledge of operating proce dures and CO tendencies but we ll never know for sure Still a good read though comes closer than almost anything I ve read to giving the non nuke a glimpse of what it s like Sailor 2 IMHO the best story on life aboard submarines is D
160. nd are the result of a Windows program be ing bent to fit the Mac environment An Innovative Program Just because something is unfa miliar is no reason to discount its use fulness however CorelDraw 8 has a number of strengths from which the other programs could learn For in stance itis as customizable in appear It also comes with some impressive libraries a separate CD includes 1 000 Type 1 and TrueType Fonts 40 000 clipart images and 1 000 high resolution photos To manage all those fonts and any others you might have on your computer CorelDraw 8 provides Font Reserve a font management application ance as you could ever want You can change the way the default screen looks how and which tools appear on the toolbars and where the palettes are placed You can even save and load customized arrangements for different types of jobs The user interface con sists of toolbars dockers windows that can either float or remain attached to the workspace borders and roll ups floating windows used to assign object properties such as size and po sition The Property Bar changes as you switch from tool to tool Draw 8 features a very cool Drop Shadow function with which you can interactively create soft transparent your ship has come in sic Create tex tures extrusions transparencies con tours special lenses and more to your heart s content Then apply filters to pixel
161. nium Low Cost Y2K Solution By now you have probably read that Macintosh computers do not have a Year 2000 problem But Washington Apple Pi does As a non profit corporation the Pi needs to have managers and leaders that reflect the needs of the user group With the next term of our Board of Directors set to begin in June 1999 the Pi needs several things from our members 1 your ballots indicating your choices for leadership positions 2 your ballots to validate the election if we don t get enough we need to do it over again at great cost 3 your enthusiasm participation and ideas expressed through our meetings tutorials Journal articles telecommunications services and other activities and recruitment of new members But right now we need your ballots So track down the ballot at the center of the magazine fill it out and mail it in so that it is received no later than May 28 1999 Our computers might make it into the new year without any help but the Pi needs your ballot to help guide us on our way As Y2K solutions go it is cheap and easy 14 Washington Apple Pi Journal May June 1999 gt ze Pees ro Fleg o rh 8 ae eR os oe oe Atal t ie kat RAN ANE UUN oat rete i SI As Ulsi MEE R AENT Ta aaee Mi nE e lt 0t ra Tie o ee wh an l tod gt ms Fs b g Had o Pa grs a E Ale i 1 eth e se EN nied Hans f Eat he Vac teh ait hi ii kiir En eas it oo die ic che gt Fee PERNT l g 3 3 et A gt
162. nt auto activation If you open a docu ment using a font that is not ac tive Font Reserve can turn it on in many cases Since applica tions use different methods of accessing fonts auto activation will not work with every appli cation In addition since most applications cannot update their font menu if fonts are acti vated while the application is open the font will display prop erly in the opened document but the font will not show up in the font menu The Browser will create a special set of auto activated fonts This is use ful in identifying fonts that you might frequently use but do not have set to be permanently active A problem I encountered with auto activation is that it slowed down my computer too much My computer would seem to freeze whenever I changed applications and auto activa tion was on I suspect that this is be cause I normally have 452 fonts open QuarkXPress XTension While I don t use Font Reserve s normal auto activate feature I do use its QuarkXPress XTension This XTension will automatically activate any font used in a QuarkXPress 3 32 or 4 x document when the document is opened including fonts required by embedded EPS files I find that the XTension activates the required fonts over 95 of the time I have not been able to establish a reason why the XTension sometimes fails to automati cally activate a document s font All fonts be SS ing used in Ban ee ae Q
163. nt based on the needs and skills of the students Re quests for specific content are invited When you register tell us what you want to learn what software you want to use and anything else you want to share Prerequisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Computer Crafting Class 6 1 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Mary Keene Working with QuickTime 3 Pro Have you ever wished you could make a video from your computer in stead of writing a report Have you ever wanted to add titles credits and or a new sound track to your home videos Have you ever wanted to cut or mix your own audio tapes Have you wanted to make your own QuickTime movie a QuickTime pan orama or make QuickTime VR object Do you know what equipment you need and how to hook it up to your Mac to make all those things happen All these projects can be done with QuickTime 3 Pro which is included in Macintosh OS 8 5 In this class we will explore these projects discuss what you need to do them and show you where to buy the missing parts with out spending a fortune If you have a external Zip drive please bring it and an empty Zip disk to class If you have an internal Zip drive at home please bring an empty Zip disk to class This is an all day workshop Please bring a sack lunch or money to order lunch in Prerequisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Ma
164. nted da tabase While it can manage font suitcases like its competitors it is de signed to work with individual type faces It provides font information such as family and foundry A single Macintosh can have mul tiple font databases though only one can be open at a time Most users should find a single database to be adequate but the option handling multiple databases is useful for man agers preparing font sets for different machines e g a giant database for production staff and a more limited database for editors Access through Font Reserve Browser See Figure 1 The Font Reserve Browser referred to hereafter as the Browser is a win dow to the font database Its lower pane displays font information in cluding name kind foundry class and location You can sort on any col umn and select which columns to dis 24 Washington Apple Pi Journal Figure 2 Font Reserve Preferences column settings play You can also decide if you wish to view fonts by their PostScript or menu names See Figure 2 Three Views of Fonts You can view the fonts in three different ways by font by family and by suitcase I often view by family since it is a logical unit font fami lies often have easy to read names Adobe Caslon makes more sense to me than ACaslon A family might be split across multiple suitcases and since I allow Font Reserve to set up my suitcase structure read about the Vault below
165. ntees the delivery of data in a time sensitive fashion USB speakers are a great ex ample of an isochronous transfer As sound data is generated it needs to get to the speakers absolutely as fast as possible If there s a half second pause between packets every few seconds the audio is unusable and maddening A live video camera has similar re quirements Getting a bit more tech nical an isochronous bus guarantees bandwidth it promises that a device performing an approved isochronous transfer can always transfer a given number of bits every second Unlike bulk transfers that happen when ever or interrupt transfers that hap pen immediately but are small isoch ronous transfers can move large amounts of data on the bus immedi ately The trade off here is reliability USB specifically declares that any er rors in isochronous data are not re tried they re skipped and everyone moves along There s no other good way to do it if a video camera is streaming data across the bus it can t freeze the image until the bus is ready to resolve errors because the image in front of the lens doesn t stop If the bus can t transfer the data in that particular packet for any reason the packet is simply lost Guaranteed data transfers require bulk or interrupt transfers Isochronous data can be much larger than interrupt data Each isoch ronous data packet can transfer up to 1023 bytes compared to 64 in an in te
166. nth Apple is unlikely to include every possible class driver with the OS but even a few more could dra matically improve the user experi ence especially for first time Mac us ers USB wants to be exactly where it is a low cost royalty free easy to implement peripheral bus for any kind of peripheral that doesn t need hard disk speeds E Lorin Evans We would like to thank the staff at MW The Weekly Journal for Serious Macintosh Users for permission to ex cerpt portions of a much longer work for this article If this piece stimulated your interest please visit their web site at lt http fwww gesf com gt for sample articles and subscription information May June 1999 Tim Best of the continued from page 40 The Lone Ranger Rides Again continued P10 To all old techies I had a crystal set that I used to listen to late at night in my upstairs room in St Joseph MO The year was about 1934 P8 gt one that used a blue blade double edge razor blade and the lead from a pencil Once upon a time I had one of those too A friend who was a radio ham showed me how he had made them in the Army in the South Pacific in WW II so his buddies could listen to whatever was on the air But I ve forgotten how to make them how many turns on the coil how to connect the blade and crys tal pencil lead etc I think the origi nal used a toilet paper roll to wind the coil on Do you re
167. ntial need for country identi fiers in case the input is language spe cific as with keyboards and so forth The USB implementors have formed a Device Working Group to help create broad USB Device Class Specifications A class driver controls all devices that adhere to a given class specification The available standards apply to those classes of devices al ready identified the ones listed above as well as audio monitor de vices physical interface devices even a bridge to IrDA infrared devices The Mac OS s USB Manager includes class drivers for hubs and for human interface devices HIDs That s why any HID that adheres to the published standard is truly plug and play the OS already has a driver for it If that device supports individual features beyond the HID class specification that any Macintosh software wants to exploit the manufacturer still needs to write a device specific driver so Macintosh software has a way to ac cess those features Mac OS USB Is Evoiving Fortunately the Mac OS services for the Universal Serial Bus are grow ing rapidly As the software evolves and more peripherals arrive expect to see more built in class drivers For ex ample if the Mac OS included a built in mass storage class driver devices like Zip drives or CD ROM burners would be truly plug and play and not require any kind of disk based driver at all The number and scope of class specifications for USB expand each mo
168. nyone wish vy Q Bitstream Wed Jan 13 1999 t wol suti v QY Bernhard Modern Wed Jan 13 1999 ING tO CONTO sul ane b Q 003 001 Wed Jan 13 name and composition x RY 2 0 1 0 Wed Jan 13 should use this method Q EE Today 12 44 PM Ber nhModBT Bol Fri May 2 1997 The Vault The other method is to allow Font Reserve to store fonts in its Vault The Vault is a series of re ae REOSE WAS N Pee EE AN Ed SERBS BY PNR Aa A lS r Korad DA SSAA O A s s bt DaN Oe i Shoe folders and suitcases organized by type PostScript Bitmap TrueType type foundry e g Adobe Bitstream font family e g Bernhard Modern and version number The lowest level folder houses the font suitcase and any related outline files You will probably never have to open the Vault through the Finder See Figure 5 Because all fonts in a suitcase must be turned on and off as a group un less you choose to activate copies of fonts see below the Vault s disad vantage is that you might not want to activate all nine variations of Adobe s Copperplate font Fortunately Font Reserve s alias method allows you to create your own suitcases see above The Vault provides specific advan tages Duplicate fonts are never added to the Vault If you have suitcases that hold a hodge podge of typefaces these are separated from each other Sometimes applications come with a variety of fonts in a single suitcase or you might have previously cram
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170. o create motion across still images You assign start and end framing on the image and Premiere will create all the intermediate framing the whole project timeline even on a small computer screen There s compatibility with PhotoShop filter plug ins a host of new audio filters and effects and an improved ability to manage sort and search on project source clips in mul tiple bins Premiere 5 finally offers scrollable text in title windows and offers keyframeable effects that you can vary repeatedly within a single transition or filtered clip The keyframe effects feature alone is worth the price of the upgrade This shopping list of 5 0 enhance ments alone would provide a formi dable challenge for engineers design ing an upgrade let alone a complete program rewrite The superficial and interface improvements are wonder New clip bins offer improved data management and it s easy to sort and filter by many parameters besides time code The new look is elegant and Premiere 5 0 offers a three point editing metaphor that means you can edit a clip to a length so to fit an exist May June 1999 ing hole in the project timeline Pre miere also supports Control Key Desktop Menu options available since Mac OS 8 0 This new feature enhances editing speed by simplifying navigation and tool choice Though Premiere 5 0 released months after QuickTime 3 0 it was only compatible with it and did not s
171. o know to keep your Internet connec tion always working Come learn how the software that enables you to reach the Internet works Learn how to record the essen tial numbers and settings Then learn how and where to find the latest browser and Internet software Learn about browser plug ins and how to download and install them Learn how to personalize your browser and mail software Learn how to switch be tween Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer Learn how to deal with bookmark files and Internet ad dress books 48 Washington Apple Pi Journal Students are invited to bring their own CPU to work on if they so desire Do not bring any cables power cords keyboards or monitors If they wish to test their modem connection bring the modem modem cable and modem power supply The price is 35 50 for non members Take Control of Your Internet Connection 6 18 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet Learn to Use the TCS the Pi s leg endary bulletin board Learn how to use ZTerm a tele communications program or Nifty Telnet to log on to the TCS Learn to send and receive Internet e mail to navigate around the TCS s conference system read and enter messages to it and how download files from the Files Library Prerequisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for nonmembers Learn to Use the TCS the Pi s legendary bulletin board Call
172. o the Grammarian menu quite easily Gram marian can also check for many levels of grammar styles chosen by the user to suit the particular style of writing of a document For instance you would want a more formal style for business correspondence than for a story about a little boy who lived on the Mississippi River and ran away from home only to have a series of ad ventures One of the features I like in Gram marian is the mini editor window in which it lists the errors found the text containing the error and an option to correct the error in that window in stead of having to track down the sen tence yourself This is especially use ful when you are using the noninteractive silent mode Check all Grammar Figure 1 and proof reading an entire document Even bet ter is the fact that the error window is corrected and updated immediately so you are sure the correction has been made Included in the documentation for Grammarian are sample documents for use as a tutorial These documents Grammarian can be used with C amp G s SpellCatcher for a thorough proofreading approach but even though Grammarian is not a spell checker it catches many spelling related errors that are made as a conse quence of the wrong word for the context Washington Apple Pi Journal 55 Paste the changes to Sample Document Figure 7 m ones Aye TETENG NE Phen
173. ollow the instructions on the screen Please note that I HAVE NEVER TRIED THIS You MUST havea good backup that you can restore from in case of disaster Another option which you wouldn t find on Microsoft s home page but which I happen to know about is Partition Magic software from Washington Apple Pi Journal 73 Power Quest We use that software here in our office and like it We haven t had any problems with it Back to Jim s second problem of not having enough memory for a DOS program under Windows 98 I go back to http support microsoft com and I search now for increase memory for dos programs without the quotes The third hit is titled How to Increase Conventional Memory for MS DOS Based Programs That looks good Jim s final question is about in stalling Windows 98 with the upgrade copy the short answer is you can t since the upgrade costs less than the full copy they want to make sure you have the older copy installed and they will upgrade it for you It gives me lots of info on this sub ject too much to reprint here Here is a listing of the URLs that may help Jim and others Power Quest s Partition Magic http www powerquest com prod uct pm PMdescription html For more info on FAT32 check out http support microsoft com sup port kb articles Q154 9 97 asp There is a good albeit technical article on the various forms of memory at http support microsoft com support kb articles
174. onal Portfolio browser included for the 23 CDs Pros Professional quality and variety of images range of top ics easy to locate and use Very help ful manual From line art through Web graphics and animations Cons Photo section titles in cryptic PC style not Mac plain En glish with a single sample of each cat egory illustrated in the book The crippled version of Portfolio image browser is adequate but limited _ Company Nova Development 818 591 9600 www novadevcorp com Street Price 99 95 149 95 for tw _ 500 000 Be sure to specify Mac version not PC Currently in _ cludes Kai s Photo Soap SE HR Bh Hos ik das What s to Know ORMALLY I would wonder what I could find to say about a collection of images No doubt you ll be hearing what I have learned from the high standards of this set Locating Animage What good are 250 000 images if you still cannot find what you need Thanks to the obvious care and atten tion put into the organization of the CDs and into the 1300 page image catalog and User Manual my only problem was making a decision of which choice to make Each CD has a Contents list on its face showing the categories and range of topics it covers and their format The BOOK is also first class Pages are thin but avoid bleed through of images while still being sturdy enough to easily turn without any crumpling After the User Manual pages which a
175. ool the text tool and the zoom tool Specifying multiple columns Locking the guides Creating placing formatting and po sitioning text and graphic elements Creating a drop cap Applying a tint to text Specifying a hanging indent Creating ruler guides Drawing circles rectangles and lines Adjusting the stacking order of elements on the page Range kerning text Using the Snap to Guides option Prerequisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to PageMaker 6 22 99 7 pm 10 pm Blake Lange PageMaker Clinic This class is for those who have some experience with PageMaker and are interested in asking questions and having specific problems discussed The class will be a questions and an swer format and you should bring along on floppy a sample of things for which you would like help Prerequi site Introduction to PageMaker or a good knowledge of the basics of PageMaker and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members PageMaker Clinic Call Office for Dates E May June 1999 Grammarian 1999 Mary Keene INSTALLED Grammarian on my Power Mac 6100 running OS 8 1 and ran it without any prob lems It was pretty intuitive to learn no weird stuff or complex things to re member point and click I liked it It has a very comfortable way of letting you know there are errors I have used other grammar ch
176. ou can use a crossover cable to network them Some Macs can t use Ethernet unless there s al ready another device available to com municate with such as a hub The reason why relates to the process Macs go through during startup 1 Power on 2 Look for active Ethernet devices 3 If found go active If not found stay inactive If your two Macs are both like this a crossover network probably won t work for you since the Macs can never go active without the other already active It s kind of a chicken and egg problem So how do know if mine will work If one of your Macs has an Ethernet device that automatically goes active there are adapters and transceivers that do so then you ll be okay to use a crossover cable since the second Mac will also go active If you set everything up and go through the software steps on the next page but it doesn t work you probably won t be May June 1999 able to use a crossover cable only If you really really think the setup you have should work but isn t make sure to send mail and Ill see what I can do for you 1 Get a crossover cable You can find a crossover cable at most cable stores I picked one up re cently from my local CompUSA For people interested in building a cross over wire for yourself here are the exact wire connections Pins 1 to 3 2 to 6 3 to 1 4 to 4 5 to 5 6to2 7 to7 8 to8 If you re looking for specific infor mation on building you
177. ou really re ally wants you to use hubs for that purpose not extension cables espe cially if you are going to connect low speed devices USB may elimi nate some of the SCSI headaches like termination but you re probably thinking you can screw it up if you try hard enough And you can but you have to work at it USB Handles Multiple Transfer Types USB includes four different ranked ways of transferring informa tion to accommodate as many differ ent kinds of devices as possible W Control transfers are short irregu larly occurring requests for action or response by a device They re most often used to issue commands or get status from a device such as asking a scanner what resolutions it supports or telling a floppy drive to eject a disk Anything that tells a device to do something or asks what s going on is likely to be a con trol transfer The results of a request are probably a different type of transfer a command to start scan ning might be a control transfer but the scanned image data would likely be a bulk transfer Bulk transfers are irregularly occur ring requests for data in large amounts that isn t time sensitive The data from a disk or scanner or digital camera just needs to get there it s not important that the data arrive in a few milliseconds Bulk transfers are for this get it there soon but don t stop the time sensitive stuff data USB guaran tees th
178. ovieWorks 6 2 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet Graphic Hardware Workshop This will be a free form session 50 Washington Apple Pi Journal Scanners digital cameras a tripod and turntable microphones an AV Macintosh and VCR will be available for student use Software such as Adobe PhotoDeluxe and PhotoShop MovieWorks QuickTime movie pan orama and VR author ware audio ed iting and recording software and Internet authoring packages will be available for student use The instruc tor will provide hands on guidance Students should bring photos or objects to scan sounds or movies to digitize scripts to record or projects in progress Since the end products may be too large to fit on a 3 5 disk students are encour aged to bring drives for removable me dia other than Zip drives Two Zip drives will be available This workshop does not replace introductory instruction in individual software packages such as PhotoShop MovieWorks and PhotoDeluxe The instructor will aid in accomplishing projects but will not be able cover in troductory material The price is 35 50 for non members Graphic Hardware Workshop 5 12 99 form 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat neared ot home aiia Smell usiness ha i iy es at ie Sej _ Financial Managemen ae Introduction to Quicken This course will be an introduc tion to the personal use of Quicken 7 or 98 and will cover the following En ae ie ay say ld tering Accounts Use of
179. pecifically support any of QuickTime s new features Audio compression options that QuickTime has supported for years were still lack ing and none of the transition effects or video filters supported inside QuickTime 3 0 were recognized Premiere 5 1 now supports several QuickTime based audio compression codecs on export but we still await a promised plug in from Adobe for sup port of QuickTime 3 0 s many internal transitions and video effects such as Aged Film 5 Ts Fulfillment Regardless of support for features in QuickTime stability and speed re main my main concerns about Pre miere 5 I ve constantly struggled with 5 1 s video capture fragility a chal lenge Premiere 4 2 handles like a rock Sequential video captures in 5 1 have crashed my Mac and the program from Coolscan from Mayica from Photo CD from still video freezes for no apparent reason while creating preview files This all while I m using latest version Media 100qx drivers a simplified Mac OS 8 1 with hardly any extensions and a rigorous Project listview Fields gt lt Name C Date C File Path Ci Log Comment x Media Type x Video Info x Audio Info x Video Usage x Audio Usage Ri Duration L Timecode C Reel Name Pq comment D tabel canine od use of disk management utilities to assure system order Since Premiere 4 2 allows me to capture at will it s possible to use Pre mie
180. place all the software registration numbers from old invoices letters and cards If I had kept this record updated as I went along it would have saved time The results was it worth if Yes My old Performa had a CPU running at 25 MHz My G3 runs at 300 MHz And in fact many operations on the G3 are about ten times faster than on the Performa For instance America Online 3 01 took about 32 sec onds to launch on the Performa On the G3 it takes 3 seconds I re installed many of my commercial applications from their CDs using the PowerPC versions instead of the previous 68K Mac ones Installing from CDs now of ten takes seconds instead of the min utes Iam used to seeing Applications such as Adobe Acrobat Reader now act decently Scrolling a pdf document on the Performa involved a frustrating wait until the screen re drew Al though Web communications are no faster being limited by the modem speed window re draws and other operations that involve only the local computer are much faster giving the experience of a faster Web My Performa was maxed out with 36 MB of RAM and 1 MB of video RAM The G3 comes with 64 and 16 For now 64 MB of RAM seems quite adequate maybe Apple is now ship ping systems with enough RAM to start With 16 MB of VRAM I can see millions of colors instead of thou sands on my 14 monitor set for 640 x 480 pixels and with a refresh rate of 72 cps The monitor v
181. ppleScripts to change its configuration and add and remove fonts The last tool to discuss is the abil ity to export and import sets While an exported set does not hold the ac tual fonts if you import a set and have the required fonts you can easily du plicate the way in which Font Reserve organizes fonts on different comput ers If Font Reserve is set up using the alias method font sets can be easily moved to other font databases ensur ing that fonts are organized in a con sistent manner All is Not Rosy Turning automatic activation on can corrupt the Database Prefs file If this file is corrupted the Macintosh will crash on bootup This happened to me twice in two weeks It took me an hour when this happened the first time to determine the problem Font Reserve needs to better handle cor rupted prefs This problem does not occur with the Font Reserve XTension Font Reserve demands megabytes of RAM Graphics professionals prob ably have adequate RAM on their computers but PowerMac 6100s with only 16MB RAM will definitely have problems DiamondSoft recommends reserving 6MB of RAM for Font Re serve The Font Reserve application which is constantly running wants 4 6MB of RAM by default on a 28 Washington Apple Pi Journal PowerMac depending on whether if virtual memory is on or off But addi tional RAM is required by the MacOS if you activate many fonts and the Browser prefers to use 2 4MB when it is open
182. ptions generally used for CD ROM production are set similar to a style sheet in a word processor You can then fine tune these pre set May June 1999 options to your liking and save your rendered object The meeting closed as usual with the door prize drawing We gave away 2 copies of Live Stage courtesy of Totally Hip http www totallyhip com and Tom Berens one copy of Media Cleaner Pro courtesy of Terran Interactive http www terran com a copy of Claris Impact courtesy of Claris Corporation and Microsoft Office and Mactopia mouse pads and t shirts courtesy of Microsoft Corporation who also sent free CD ROMs of Internet Explorer 3 5 Board of Directors Notes qt and Outlook 3 5 as promised These were available at the check in table in the lobby 3 NOAA Turning the Tides CD ROMS your tax dollars at work at http www noaa gov and several books on OS8 and other things Macintosh by various authors and publishers Next Month Adobe topic yet to be announced In May we hope to have Apple Computer and MacOS 8 6 and possibly their new Multimedia offering FinalCut In June we take a break for the semi annual computer show and sale See you next month E February 10 1999 Note these are preliminary as the Board had not approved the minutes as of this writing Also these are not the full min utes those may be found on the Washing ton Apple Pi bulletin board the TCS in File Tran
183. publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple Computer Inc The opinions statements positions and views stated herein are those of the author s or publisher and are not intended to be the opinions statements positions or views of Apple Computer Inc 2 Washington Apple Pi Journal May June 1999 Advertising in the Journal Some Orientation Possibilities Full Page 7 5 x 10 0 Third Page vert 2 5 x 9 5 Sixth Page hor 5 0 x 2 5 Third Page hor 5 0 x 4 75 Half Page Two thirds Page vert 7 5 x 4 75 5 x 9 5 Sixth Page vert 2 5 x 4 75 Washington Macintosh No of times ad run 1 2 3 4 5 6 Full Page 450 383 338 270 Covers 550 468 413 330 Two thirds Page 360 306 270 216 Half Page 300 255 225 180 Third Page 225 191 169 135 Sixth Page 125 106 93 75 Special guaranteed positions incur a 10 surcharge Ad Deadlines The Washington Apple Pi Journal is published bi monthly The ad copy deadlines and ad space reservations are listed below for your convenience Copy may be received as traditional mechanicals rc paper velox prints or film negatives Negatives will incur an additional 15 00 strip in charge Editorial Staff Managing Editor Kathryn Murray 804 472 4449 KAM129 aol com Associate Editor Bonnie Ashbaugh 301 946 8955 Review Editor Macintosh Editor Lawrence Charters 410 730 4658
184. r year users a Tutorial Guide which helps cover some of the concepts of op eration of the software and an Oper ating Guide which give more detailed instructions about how to work your way through the program nagivating through the various screens and op tions and printing your tax returns The instructions for the Apple version of the software are distinguished from the instructions for the IBM version by shading of the text allowing you to just skip over the portions that do not pertain to your situation The Tax Forms Guide this year was 10 pages longer than last year making it 310 pages long Every year the Tax Forms Guide starts with a highlights of the changes over the pre vious year This section was two pages longer this year This section gives you an overview of what to look out for as you prepare your return areas where you can t rely on what you did last year but must make decisions about what to do this year The Guide as you can guess by its length is very comprehensive Though Howardsoft never claims to be able to replace your accountant or lawyer there are often situations you run across where the Guide will make it clear what the implications might be of taking one course of action rather than another An example of how Howardsoft incorporates IRS rules into the software is indicated by this example paragraph from the Guide Here the Guide is explaining how to fill out line 5 of the 1099 DIV
185. r R da nai as leg Phone Sih Le Crates PP a rY uf r se es a mae x 5 yee X tt tt i 7 wt eo b a eee hee i a teeta co in rd ied a i 3 oe chan F pT oe e a My 5 I Bigs P te gt a zp ty ED PE HERI rare a RAE ilie 1 j fe i rie at Wy ote Pro and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members FileMaker Pro Clinic 5 19 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat Fauquet Introduction to Spreadsheets This class will introduce basic spreadsheet concepts Students will learn how to set up a spreadsheet how to enter and edit numbers and words how to enter basic formulas and make basic charts and graphs They will learn how to sort data and how to print the whole spread sheet or only a portion of it Students will use either the spreadsheet module of AppleWorks ClarisWorks or Excel This class is not meant for persons who are intermediate or advanced users Prerequisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a general knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to Spreadsheets 5 5 99 from 1 pm 4 pm Pat saad i Professional Graphics and aa __ Desktop Fublishing ap Laeean00 m oe Please fill in the course abao of the class es that you wish to attend Address Class 1 City State Zip Phone day ___________ evening Member Number Class 2 Class 3 Non member x Class Fee Total Fee O Credit Card Number of Cla
186. r cable check out the how to build a crossover cable page not mine but very well done 2 Plug each end of the cable into the Macs Ethernet ports Plug each end of the cable into the Macs Ethernet ports If your Mac has built in Ethernet the port will look something like this If you re using an Ethernet card or adapter the port will look very similar Pin Signal name TD TD RD RD Oo UO N a slightly larger than a phone plug 3 Install the Ethernet drivers on each system Unlike LocalTalk networks Ethernet networks require some addi tional software beyond the standard extensions included with the MacOS If your Mac came with a built in Ethernet port you probably only need the Ethernet Built in or Apple Built Just because you have two Macs with built in Ethernet doesn t mean you can use a crossover cable to network them in Ethernet extension in addition to the normal networking software Check out the documentation that came with your system it should include instruc tions for using the built in port If you added an Ethernet card to your Mac after buying it it probably came with a disk or two Make sure to read the card s instructions and install the software as directed without the included software it s unlikely your card will function properly 4 Go through the Installing the Soft ware page then start up your Macs Since crossover networks need to be
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188. re exceptionally helpful the images are arranged in real life categories and sub heads within each format style The gray page beginning each section pro vides fast locating of a group There is an alphabetical index by image topic which lists all pages for that item Images can be inserted directly or you can use the included Portfolio browser Or ask me lt DataPaul aol com gt about a shareware substitute that s better What About Form ATS Each image shows if it is black and white or color and grayscale Formats include EPS 300 DPI TIFF PICT 24 bit 72 DPI JPEG photos and back grounds 50 animated GIFs and 240 DPI 24 bit color JPEG photos ideal for inkjet printers Owners of Style Writer or other non Postscript printers can get a free version of all TIFF files for 4 s amp h if desired The thoughtful manual tells all you need to know even specific for 14 programs includ ing ClarisWorks AppleWorks And Professional Fonts 1500 TrueType and PostScript fonts by Agfa high quality W From the March 1999 issue of Get Info newsletter of the Macintosh Asheville Computer Society May June 1999 CorelDraw 8 SF i ys y Pey y a 4 esos a Reviewed by Sara Gagan CorelDraw 8 for Power Macintosh In stalled on a Power Mac 8600 250 64mb RAM RELDRAW 8 for Power Macintosh is a big complex pro gram that competes well with Macromedia Freehand 8 0 1 and Adobe Illustrator 8 0 It seems th
189. re 4 2 for video capture and follow Window Options Assigning Qualities You can customize the information presented in the Project Win dow with these options in the Project Window setup screen These additions make Premiere s data management tools more powerful Audio 03 43 06 Sar ieee Ee HS 640 x 48 640 x 48 640x480 22KHz SBit 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 11 00 Still Image Still Image Movie title 1 title2 Universal Counting Leader EET ESRI Data Management Premiere now offers detailed options for assembling media files into projects You can store source material in different Bins according to media type or personal preference May June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 35 O gt Audioi Da at gt Audio 2 os Bins_ 20 sec ie Improved Timeline Premiere s main window for assembling video pictures titles and audio into a movie has been given new o mE EJE TSS ASS ear eee A asa features and options This is where you sequence your movie in time and add transitions and filters It s possible to have up to 99 video tracks with 5 1 to edit Those who don t have a 4 2 copy of Premiere available might not be so sanguine Like some did with Microsoft Word 6 0 perhaps you could buy Premiere 5 then try calling Adobe to request a downgrade to the previous version You can claim your Mac is too slow or something akin to that Premiere 5 1 finall
190. re all these topics in nontech nical language and show you how make graphics work for you Prereq uisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Introduction to Graphics 5 21 99 from 9 30 am 12 30 pm Pat Fauquet Computer Crafting Class An informal class in a flexible for mat to help students combine regular art and craft skills with their computer This combination will open many new doors for some and make life easier for others This will not be a class to teach a specific skill rather it will teach how to open your creative spirit Stu dents are invited to bring clip art graphic applications and projects to class Instead of showing you new software you have to buy this class is structured to help you get the best use out of software you own Learn how to create stencils tem plates silk screens sponge patterns etc Using new ink jet media you can make elegant faux stained glass per sonalized gifts animated greeting cards elegant wall hangings memory books and quilts jewelry games etc Requirement for attendance imagination or a desire to imagine New crafters may attend to learn new computer tricks and experienced crafters may attend to learn computer tricks None of the classes require May June 1999 previous experience Creativity grows in a creative en vironment Come play with us Each class will be differe
191. re available on every Mac you mount the Machine 1 hard disk on Machine 2 so that it can copy over each incoming fax as it arrives 2 Using the fax modem software a second time this time located on Machine 2 you print out a copy of the fax but in this situation you ac tually substitute Adobe Acrobat s PDFWriter software that produces a PDF portable document format file May June 1999 on disk instead of sending the print job to the printer This is what you want the fax remains in electronic form but it has now been transformed into a universally available format that is common on the web and elsewhere 3 Last using AppleShare again or Fetch if you are placing the com pleted PDF files on a UNIX Web site you place each item in a directory on another machine in the office let s call it Machine 3 and clean up before the next processing round deleting extraneous files left on Machine 2 for example Making all this happen automati cally is where UserLand Frontier ver sion 4 2 3 or 5 x comes in This is an amazing product written and con stantly improved by Dave Winer and Doug Baron It is described in all its wondrous detail and capability in Matt Neuberg s Frontier The Defini tive Guide O Reilly and Associates 1998 go to http www oreilly com catalog frontier for a description of the book Although this scripting tool really much more and dubbed by Neuberg as t
192. real to them as it was for the kids inside who also could not believe what was happening The younger ones picked up on the excite ment that emanated from the older chil dren We set up two computers one with a Broderbund program called Play Room for the younger children and one called Think Quick from the Learning Company on the other It was not long before it was SRO beside each of the strangers who brought all this stuff to their daytime home Just think back to the first time you held a joystick much less mastered it Re member again the pleasure you got May June 1999 Your support of Washington Apple Pi has brought new life to those venerable computers and the opportunity for a new generation of kids to experience the power to be their best from realizing that you could control that character on the screen by mov ing the control stick It is OK to smile because now you know what we saw in the faces of children and maybe just a touch of how they felt Are you getting some sense of the pleasure you brought these kids Good Just because you can afford a more sophisticated computer does not diminish the capabilities of your older equipment especially in the hands of kids who would not otherwise have that opportunity Your support of Washington Apple Pi has brought new life to those venerable computers and the opportunity for a new generation of kids to experience the power to be their best Good
193. rrupt transfer packet However USB guarantees those 64 byte interrupt packets get there and they re retried if they don t There is no perfect transfer type in USB that guarantees delivery of large quantities of time sensitive data but USB does allow de 62 Washington Apple Pi Journal velopers to pick their trade offs and to use multiple transfer types if nec essary USB requires that at least 10 of each one millisecond frame be re served for control and bulk transfers leaving plenty of room for isochronous and interrupt data while never shut ting down the bus s ability to shut off devices or keep lower priority data moving Don t forget that some devices like a higher SCSI number than others As we discussed last time there has to be a better way to manage the wide range of peripheral devices with which a modern Macintosh user works USB Handles Multiple Device Types USB helps organize the wide world of devices through the notion of device classes Most devices while unique in many ways fit into broad categories human interface devices mass storage devices printers com munication devices power devices and so forth A human interface de vice could be a keyboard a trackball a mouse or a joystick As different as those devices are they all share com mon characteristics the need for both control and interrupt transfers no need for bulk or isochronous transfers the pote
194. rs to get a fair idea of what s possible and that includes a lot My next step is to pro duce an animation with synchronized voice sound both speech and singing One of the things deep into those chap ters is the method of synchronizing ani mation to sound This can all be done in Poser without resorting to Adobe Pre miere Wow Can t wait On the advice of MetaCreations Technical Support I downloaded an upgrade additional plug ins and the Poser Ad vanced Techniques Manual how much more advanced can they be from MetaCrations Web site These make it pos FLLI 32 recommended M 16 bit color display 24 bit recommended E CD ROM drive W 80 MB hard disk space minimum Same CD works with Wintel ma 0 000 l tht TTT 0 000 LBrowUp 0 000 TTT Worry Righi 0 000 TALLLLLLLLRE Wo ry Let 0 000 TTT Blink Righi 0 000 n Blink Left 0 000 sible to exchange models and animations complete ALU with key frames between 0 000 Poser 3 and UAL MetaCreations Ray Dream nannt K ia Studio 5 The unlimited Ris a possiblities are now more PRAMA Ain ha unlimited l For the serious anima Manns SR tor who wants to work aa r 0000 with human and animal ieee oon a figures MetaCreations te Tongue dL 0 000 Poser 3 is certainly a valu TTT able application and I rec ars 0 000 ommend it o 3 LBrowDow 0 000 The package includes n eit mM A194 page User RBrowUp 0 000 E ACD ROM LBrowUp 0 000 mM
195. s tempting options that lead you astray The human male figure in Fig 1 is the default figure During the course of the Tutorial I wound up with Fig 2 Posed Figure Dog The posed figure the Business Man is one of many available the Poser library The library is available by clicking the handle at the extreme right of Fig 1 The library also has several animals In posing the man I changed the angles of both thighs and shins and both feet I changed the poses of the hands selecting from the library of hands Figs 3 4 and 5 show the basic hand a fist and the OK sign However the hands can be modified by changing the angles of each of the joints on ev ery finger and thumb to create any desired gesture What this will do to make the ballerina s gestures more graceful is almost unbelievable The thing that really bowled me over was Poser s facility with facial ex pressions Fig 6 is a close up of the ba sic Business Man s face with one of many hairs from the library I changed the color of the hair from the original green to a dark brown I found how to doit with the help files I m sure later in the Tutorial this will be ex plained Fig 7 Wink and Fig 8 Horror are two of many expressions in the li brary And it is possible to create an in finite variety of expressions by manipu lating the eyes eyebrows lips mouth tongue etc There is also a library of fa cial expressions correspond
196. s Saunders 301 648 7332 Louis Saunders 301 648 7332 Tom Cavanaugh 301 627 8889 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Michael Hartman 301 942 3717 Michae Hartman 301 942 3717 Harry Erwin 703 758 9660 Joshua Juran 301 231 8622 Michael Hartman 301 942 3717 Charles Schindler 410 437 4624 Lloyd Olson Walt Francis Roger Burt Bob Wilbur Mark Pankin 410 544 1087 202 966 5742 301 424 6927 708 426 0556 Heading Subjects General before 9 PM General General General General Networking General General General General General Hardware Troubleshooting amp Repair Hypermedia HyperStudio before 9 PM Iisi General Integ Packages ClarisWorks integ Packages ClarisWorks Integ Packages Clarisworks Integ Packages ClarisWorks before 9 PM Integ Packages MSWorks integ Packages MSWorks Integ Packages MSWorks MacDisketeria Disk Library Mail List Manager My Mail List Manager before 9 PM Miscellaneous File Transfer amp Backfax Miscellaneous HyperCard Miscellaneous Hypercard Miscellaneous Hypertalk Miscellaneous MX 80 Miscellaneous Online Bible Mac Miscellaneous Soft Windows Mac Miscellaneous Hypercard Miscellaneous Hypercard Multi Media Director Muiti Media Language Multimedia Image Studio Multimedia Macro Mind Director Multimedia Quicktime Multimedia Quicktime Multimedia Video Works Music Notation Finale Older Claris General PB180C General Performa 550 General Performa System Genera
197. s Saunders 301 648 7332 Network Connectivity days 2242 Louis Saunders 301 648 7332 Printers Connectivity Ken DeVito 708 960 0786 Telecomm Tom Cavanaugh 301 627 8889 Printers General Louis Saunders 301 648 7332 Printers Troubleshooting amp Repair Apple Bemie Benson 301 951 5294 Accounting Apple SSC Super Serial Card Internet Neil Laubenthal 703 691 1360 Apple IIGS General Dan White 301 843 3287 General Allan Griff 301 654 1515 Apple Works General Walt Francis 202 966 5742 General Ken DeVito 703 960 0786 Apple Works General Will DeKroney 410 626 7716 General Paul Campbell 313 255 6497 Apple Works General Curt Harpold 301 762 0887 Programming JAVA Ray Settle 410 647 9192 Apple Works General Craig Contardi 410 674 2752 World Wide Web Netscape Navigator Allan Griff 301 654 1515 AppleWorks General Seth Mize 410 766 1154 World Wide Web Sailor Ken DeVito 708 960 0786 Beagle Buddies Jaque Davison 703 644 7354 WorldWide Web Web Site Builder W T Cook 410 995 0352 Beagle Buddies Don Avery 202 362 1783 Beagle Buddies Macintosh Dale Smith 301 762 5158 Communications Nancy Seferian 202 333 0126 Art amp Video General Allan Griff 301 654 1515 Database Apple Works Robert Sambolin 787 841 1641 General Morgan Jopling 410 721 7874 Database Apple Works John Enberg 301 262 9347 or 301 604 8348 Basics MiltGoldsamt 301 649 2768 Database Apple Works Tho Snowberger 410 757 4656 Contact Managers Now Contact UTD Guy Durant 202 575 0414 Epson Printers Mort Greene 708 522
198. s Value Added 10 am 7 pm 4350 East West Highway Suite 101 Bethesda MD 20814 Reseller Gymnasium Northern Virginia Community College 8333 Little River Turnpike ee washington Hippe pi i Saturday 9 to 2 June 5 1999 INY AN health checkup Bring in your Mac and in return for a donation to the Pi we ll check its health Xx in May see hitp www wap org for a discount coupon on admission ae compliant hardware X Thousands of i amp software bargains Get a Mac Northern Virginia Community College May June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 1 Volume 21 Club News WAP Botiinae 41 44 WAP Calopdar scssessrcicsrisa 42 43 Index to Advertisers 6 TCS Help Shat nihiann 45 Tutorial cc isscccutcssrancecsxcisnewanesnauers 46 LOGUE Pora nu 51 Classified Advertisements 83 WAP Membership Form 84 SIGs and Slices Graphic Arts SIG meetings 15 Genealogy SIG Feb meeting 17 Genealogy SIG Mar meeting 17 StockSIG Feb meeting 18 StockSIG Mar meeting 18 General Interest D j Vu All Over Again 5 by Lorin Evans A Hundred Apple Ils 7 by Lorin Evans WAP February General Meeting by Don Essick Internet Service Charges A Misunderstanding 11 WAP March General Meeting REDOVE scsssesisssapesicascistsiacssvintavosnans 12 by Don Essick
199. s for Down loading lt O gt Off the System lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt R gt Read File Descriptions lt T gt TitleScan Descriptions lt U gt Upload a File or Files lt W gt Welcome Bulletin May June 1999 Edifor Menu lt A gt Add to File lt C gt Clear File in Memory lt D gt Delete a line from File lt E gt Edit a Line lt F gt Find a String lt G gt Global Search amp Replace lt I gt Insert Lines into File lt L gt List the File lt M gt Toggle Reply Mode lt N gt Line Numbering Mode On Off lt P gt Purge Temporary File lt Q gt Quit Clear File amp Exit lt R gt Read back from Tempo rary File lt S gt oave File and Exit Editor lt T gt Write File to Temporary File lt U gt Upload Mode Toggle No Reply Mode lt V gt View Temporary File lt X gt Exchange a String within line lt gt Modify Reply Mode Characters Change Conference Menu lt 1 8 gt Choose Conference Number lt L gt List Conferences Available lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt I gt ick General Conference lt 2 gt Apple II Conference lt 3 gt noana Macintosh Conference lt A gt Classified Conference nds gt ree Global General Confer ence lt 6 gt Global Apple II Confer ence SI
200. s regular May meeting Your will recall that he pre sented Reunion 5 to the Pi General Meeting last July Since then an up graded version has been released for this Cadillac of Macintosh genealogy programs Little space is available in the Training Room where the SIG meets so those planning to attend who have not previously attended Genealogy SIG meetings should contact Ed Jor dan to check on space availability The easiest way to reach him is by email at edwin jordan tcs wap org June Meeting Freewheeling discussion is planned following the guest speaker in May E Genealogy SIG is on vacation July amp August Meetings resume on September 14th Washington Apple Pi Journal 17 qt Pie ire EAE PS nri u PSA as x Bu tees ey cae oe is F e Mabe nt Wes ea EAN RS nabs StockSIG Meeting by Morris Pelham I BROUGHT my usual informa tion on the Dow stocks to our Febru ary meeting but I also brought a hand out showing the 52 week high price of each Dow stock for 1997 and for 1998 Wal Mart had the biggest in crease from 41 and 15 16 in 1997 to 82 and 3 4 in 1998 or 197 but IBM was second at 167 and Merck was third at 149 Wal Mart has never been in our Beating the Dow portfo lios because it s dividend yield has never been high enough but both IBM and Merck have been For those of us who keep the stocks we buy IBM and Merck have been big winners Mark Pankin brought both his 1998 and 1999 Beatin
201. s up charts and graphs how to make specialized dic tionaries and how to have AppleWorks read to you Learn the secrets of stationary files how to make your own AppleWorks libraries store not only pictures but also frequently used text strings Learn how to write personalized form letters and how to do special layouts for newsletters Many of the projects included will be using the capabilities of ClarisWorks 4 0 and AppleWorks 5 0 Students will receive templates stationary files and handouts to take home If you have any feature of the program that you would like covered in particular please mention it when you sign up Prerequisite Introduction to AppleWorks or a good knowledge of the basics of AppleWorks and its in terface The price is 35 50 for non members AppleWorks for the Experienced User 5 14 99 from 1 pm 4pm Pat Fauquet 6 9 99 from 1 pm 4pm Pat Fauquet AppleWorks a k a ClarisWorks for the Experienced User Workshop This class is for those who have some experience with AppleWorks and are interested in asking questions and having specific problems dis cussed The class will be a questions and answer format You should bring along on floppy a sample of things with which you need help The idea being that you can work on a project while the instructor is helping another with one that does not interest you Prerequisite Introduction to AppleWorks or a good knowledge of the basics of AppleWorks and its
202. services you need at least a 14 4 modem and Quicken 7 you cannot use earlier versions May June 1999 If you plan to use Citibank s ser vice or some other financial institution certain Credit Unions for example which have proprietary software this class will be only of limited use but may be helpful in understanding how these systems generally work security issues etc Instructor has approxi mately one year experience with 3 dif ferent banking institutions services Prerequisite Students should at least be using Quicken to maintain a check ing account register A basic under standing of Quicken and its basic ter minology The price is 35 50 for non members Making Quicken Really Useful as an Interface to Your Bank Call Office o Pates Databases ana 4 Spreadsheet 5 et nhs eh Programs nae j j mat PERE pa i Ae htu Po umat t introduction to FileMaker Pro anaj or the AppleWorks a k a ClarisWorks Database Module This course covers what a data base is database terms how to plana database and create database fields and layouts Searching sorting print Was Se are eT es Hegia aE aan Set ae i ae Ge Ss toria eee TATE eo ay a OaS Sd a Sep eh ee Bal apa te ey Sp ea oe ts rat PE Ae Od m Ta saai tl ll Sybesma Fe yer Re eas arankan TTE eet i gt eas ag he as a nr re ER TA Wee p f oe rel ag ESN D oy dah aes aan ee eke ap se Ai os ae lt i a LHe i sia yates i ma
203. sfer Area 5 Directors Present Neil Laubenthal David Harris Lou Dunham Dave Weikert Lorin Evans Don Essick Dale Smith and Pat Fauquet Directors Absent Tom Witte Ellen Baniszewski Dave Ottalini Mary Keene Blake Lange Lawrence Char ters J David Mudd The meeting was called to order at 7 37 p m All members present were ob served to be eating Oatmeal Raisin cookies with the exception of Don Essick Don was eating grapes The minutes of the previous board meeting were approved as submitted Old Business There was not old business to discuss New Business The Office Manager reported to the Board that she was almost out of Pi Fillings CD ROMs and suggested that the board authorize either a reprint ing of version 4 or preparation of a re vised version There was some discus sion regarding the cost effectiveness of anew version after some discussion the board approved by consensus the preparation of a new version The board approved the member ship of the Election Committee Jonathan Bernstein chair Alden Bestul Alvin Auerbach and Anson Geiger The board approved the member ship of the Election Challenge Com mittee Henry Ware There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 8 15 pm E Note the March 10 1999 Board of Di rectors meeting was cancelled due to con cerns about the weather Washington Apple Pi Journal 13 SHINGTON PLE PI At the crest of the third millen
204. shington Apple Pi Journal 31 tually everything there is to know about using fonts on a Macintosh Robin covers the various types of Macintosh fonts bitmapped TrueType PostScript details how to properly install and maintain font col lections and covers a huge range of freeware shareware and commercial font utilities An extensive 32 page glossary translates font terminology into something non specialists can un derstand even the glossary is illus trated Just as well written and illus trated but with a different focus is Robin Williams The Non Designers Type Book Covering both Macs and Windows machines this book is a companion to her superb The Non Designer s Design Book aimed at help ing non specialists create snappy looking professional documents through intelligent typography Though it is a book an average user will find quite enjoyable and useful the world would be a much better place if some professional designers would also read it Given the shocking number of people who still write everything in Courier or Monaco or Chicago and still put two spaces after a period just like they were taught in typing class thousands of years ago there is still a vast audience for one of Robin s first books The Mac is not a typewriter Pub lished in 1990 this slender volume of fers simple expert advice on how to type your thoughts into a state of the art Macintosh without it looking like
205. shows that vendors are serious about the Mac and about user groups to have them put up the resources to send two people to demo a product that they give away Yes I know Mr Gates can afford it but I ap preciate it anyway Next month Pi President Lorin Evans will give his annual Fireside Chat No hints yet on what the topic will be Also Tom Witte Pi Board Member and QuickTime author will host QuickTime Follies Examples of his work creating the Pi Birthday QuickTime Movie and other ex amples from Pi members and other sources Word has it that Adobe is coming in April but I don t have a topic from them yet either See you next month W A Misunderstanding News reports of a Federal Communications Commission ruling sparked a tidal wave of computer user concerns in late 1998 and early 1999 Some news services and many Internet users misunderstood what the FCC was doing and flooded the FCC members of Congress and Internet news groups with protests Pi member Paul Gerstenbluth passed on the following letter of interest from Representative Bob Weygand member of Congress from Rhode Island s 2nd District BOB WEYGAND Congress of the United States House of Representatives February 5 1999 Thank you for writing to me with your objections about the possible levying of charges against consumers for each time they access the Internet I appreciate you contacting my office to voice your opinion Over 50 million Americans use the
206. sses Class 4 Q Check Money Order Card Number Class 5 Class 6 Card Expiration Signature i oq ____ WAP Form CLO06 mod 7 90 Mail registration and payment to the above address May June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 51 Adobe Photoshop Part 1 Learn the basic fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop the most widely used graphics program Learn the proper way to configure the Photoshop preferences and how to use the tool info channel and color pal ettes Also learn how to use each of Photoshop s tools create new docu ments define colors and manipulate text and images Also covered will be the proper format to save your image in and what compression will or won t do to your image Prerequisite Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface The price is 35 50 for non members Adobe Photoshop Part 1 5 5 99 from 6 pm 9 pm Paul Schlosser 6 1 99 from 6 pm 9 pm Paul Schlosser Adobe PhotoShop Part 2 Adobe Photoshop lets you isolate different parts of an image on layers Each layer can then be edited as dis crete artwork allowing unlimited flex ibility in composing and revising an image This lesson introduces creating an image with layers and covers the basics of the Layers palette and how to select view and reorder layers The concepts are fundamental for the use of Photoshop In this lesson you ll learn how to do the following Orga
207. stage paid at Rockville MD Annual membership dues for Washington Apple Pi Ltd are 49 of this amount 24 is for a subscription to the Washington Apple Pi Journal Subscriptions are not available without membership POSTMASTER Send address changes to Washington Apple Pi 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Change of Address should reach us 60 days in advance of the move to ensure that your Journals continue uninterrupted Washington Apple Pi Journal 3 Officers and Board of Directors President Lorin Evans _lorin evans tcs wap org Vice President Mac Don Essick don essick tcs wap org Vice President Apple Pat Fauquet fauquet erols com Secretary Lawrence Charters charters cs wap org Treasurer Dave Weikert dweikert tcs wap org Directors Ellen Baniszewski ellen tcs wap org Lou Dunham _bou dunham tcs wap org David Harris davidhams tcs wap org Mary Keene _ e mkeene tcs wap org Blake Lange blake lange tcs wap org Neil Laubenthal neil laubenthal tes wap org David Mudd david mudd tcs wap org Dave Ottalini dave ottalini tcs wap org Dale Smith dales tcs wap org Tom Witte tmw his com Library Volunteers Apple IT Head Librarian Volunteer Needed Apple IIGS Librarian Volunteer Needed Apple IT Librarian Volunteer Needed Apple III Librarian David Ottalini 301 681 6136 Macintosh Librarian David Weikert 301 963 0063 Mac Library John DeMarco Ben Frank William Jones Fred Rodgers Tony Salerno Joe Swick Volun
208. started up in a certain way you should come back here once you re done with the software installation and follow the steps below 1 Start up the first Mac and TD 1 wait for it to get 7 to the desktop TD 2 2 Start up the sec RD 3 ond Mac and RD 6 wait for it to get to the desktop 3 Open the AppleTalk con trol panel on the second Mac and select Ethernet 4 Restart the first Mac and wait for it to get to the desktop 5 Open its AppleTalk control panel and select Ethernet You re done E From the March 1999 MacWest Memo newsletter of the MacWest Computer Society of Vancouver British Columbia Washington Apple Pi Journal 77 jii paims Don t Be An April Fool sign up for Washington Apple Pi Tutorials e Introduction to the Macintosh e Maintaining Your Macintosh e Adobe Illustrator Photoshop PageMaker e Introduction to the Internet e Web Page Authoring e EMail News Groups Chat Web Browsers e Macromind Director e Microsoft Word Each 3 hour classis ASAA e Claris Works 35 for members D EARD ees nat 50 for others T 9 Phas hs u Daytit me os po VEEG To sign up call Ge ae 301 984 0300 z es Classes Now ayy ENNY aD ee ee L a We i a a A En a Cee nd ___ oe 78 Washington Apple Pi Journal May June 1999 r fl Grate is Se ea ee Pr Vp Saiki SEAT race EE d lt Ar IS EAT S ate He big erie eae ait i A D ad Pp s oe ci ota
209. swords i New QU IDS 14 lines S Wan Acis May June 1999 upporting 30i Last month I told you that the computer industry the peripherals industry and even the Federal Com munications Commission had signed on to this protocol as the way to move vast amounts of data But a wrinkle has appeared Intel one of the signa tory companies for the IEEE standard has announced that it and seven other companies are cooperating on a USB 2 0 specification aimed at creating a faster version of the Universal Serial Bus This new implementation of USB is designed to reach the full range of PC peripherals hard drives video cameras high resolution scanners etc In plain English USB 2 0 is being de veloped as a replacement for 1394 which itself is just beginning to gain market share I believe this move is cause for some concern and think you should know about it What follows is not a technical treatise as to why FireWire is better or worse than the proposed new USB 2 0 I am more interested in swears vey Veni cle n aay ionin 7 fs umors T are mn Was shingtc Knowledg rer 4 AG 5 ste 2400 bps sand 9600 bps 301 98 Want Ade SY ste nv S Vande public access 301 984 4 4070 202 543 5170 Apple jor Pa Wa nes IF Apple em 300 to 19 200 bps m software amp ul politics of the issue why someone at Apple should realize that they have been
210. t for the stock is still 50 and it still hasn t quite got there but it is close So close Tantalizingly close It goes up it goes down it goes up again he hopes By now it was well past 10 PM one of our later meetings so I began to put away the chairs and turn out the lights and people began to take the hint and move toward the door still talking If you have any questions or com ments on this column or others of mine they are welcome on our TCS on the StockSIG Online board StockSIG meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7 30 PM in the WAP office You are welcome to come and express your views W We had a good discussion of all our Dow stock portfo lios and compari sons with other choices until some one suggested we had beaten them to death Cri EAD rear ey Seles ie a EA wife tele ame a Gag SAS ae i e PEN tds tee ave See ter i t er ilar Jere fe ag ad Say te tT r lage e E OE bee S r t 5 yon te 22S pbs 7 yer iyieh St tata fl Os piu th at s Via Ge da Cae RE 2 ee ite Peeve aie 2 i ae en el SO SL PY lt Pied ae ne nog ge Pora y rie s p March StockSIG Meeting by Morris Pelham FOR OUR MARCH meeting I brought my 1994 and 1995 Dow stock portfolio results and Mark brought the 1999 information From the 1994 portfolio Merck was the best performer I bought it at 34 and then the price went down and I had the chance to buy a second time at 29 and 3 4 As of March 1
211. t leaves one port on the keyboard and one port on the com puter for other devices Be sure not to connect a bus powered hub to the key board since the keyboard is already a bus powered hub USB Configures Itself Devices on the USB are not only easy to add they re self configuring All devices are hot swappable Add ing or removing any particular device doesn t affect any of the others unless of course you add or remove a hub but USB is ready for that as well USB is a polled bus meaning that every so many milliseconds the host controller your Macintosh asks each attached device including hubs if there s anything new to report The devices can t initiate communications with the host they must wait for the host to poll them If a device does not respond after a specified time and for a given number of attempts the host accepts that the device has gone away it s been unplugged or has lost power or is otherwise no longer func tioning Once the host knows this it communicates through software that the device is no longer available Any new requests to that device are refused with an appropriate error There is no concept of an old device reappearing though so you can t unplug a device and plug it back in and expect every thing to stay unchanged You don t have to worry about drivers either as long as they re in stalled Since USB explicitly allows de vices to appear and disappear at any time
212. teers Brian Mason Head Reading Lib Volunteer needed Dealer Relations Comm Legal Counsel Richard Wohltman Membership SIGs amp Slices Coord Journal Store Distribution Tutorial Coordinator Volunteer Needed Telecom SysOp Lauri Zeman 703 912 6048 Volunteer Coordinator Tom Witte 703 683 5871 Volunteer needed Volunteer needed Volunteer Needed Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Business Office 301 984 0300 TCS 2400 bps 301 984 4066 14 400 bps 301 984 4070 Web address www wap org e mail address office wap org Office hours Mon Wed Fri 10 am 6pm Tues 7 9 pm Clinic Night Only Not Regular Office Hours Sat 10 am 2 pm The office will open at 1 p m on the day of the General Meeting we 1 heck if office is _ Office Staff Office Manager Beth Medlin Office Staff John Ruffatto Saturday SIG Chairs Annapolis Slice President Jeff Straight 410 634 0868 email jstra annapolis net Vice President Lloyd Olson Secretary Ron Johnson 410 315 8764 Treasurer Clarence Goldberg 410 263 5189 AAS Membership InfoLine 410 647 5605 Library Lester Morcef 410 987 0685 Publicity Kay Cave 410 266 9752 Nwslttr Lorraine amp Jim Warner 301 262 3420 AOL SIG John Barnes 301 652 0667 J DBarnes aol com Apple IIGS Lorin Evans 202 543 1248 Art SIG Joe Morey 703 281 5385 Columbia Slice President Bob Pagelson 410 992 9503 Vice President Tom Cook 410 995
213. th all four wires in a neat hori zontal line But if you get a stand alone cable for connecting a hub to the com puter you ll notice the plug on the other end is different it has the four wires arranged as the four corners of a rectangle You can t plug that con nector into the computer only into the back of a hub or other device The hub s outgoing connectors for other devices look just like the connectors on the computer May June 1999 The designers did this on purpose The rectangular connector at the com puter with all four wires in a line is a type A connector and the squarish connector with the four wires as cor ners of a rectangle is a type B connec tor There are plugs and receptacles for both type A and type B It may seem like deliberate con fusion but it s not USB uses a net worked star topology This allows any attachment point to be a hub of fering multiple attachment points If all the connectors were the same it would be really easy in a complex USB setup to accidentally connect the out put ports on two hubs together creat ing a loop in the network that melts the USB Manager s software con trolled brain Two different connectors prevent this Every receptacle into which you plug downstream devices must be a type A receptacle and take only type A plugs like the connectors on the computer or those on a hub If a cable is not permanently attached to a device though the ups
214. the r and w change to i s so you know 80 Washington Apple Pi Journal Filename from vol 0t Hascn 98 Return Path to Main Renu PREPARE 1848 Tax Returns SELECT Fora to Prepare Fora 1848 Nain Fora 1 Taxpayer Info s Filing Status Exenps Incone Ln 7 9 22 Adjustaents 23 27 d 28 33 Tax amp Credits JA t Credits at Other Taxes Paynents Retund or Tax Due Extr ress Esc to use above nenul 2 3 4 3 6 f 8 9 0 2 P l C Disk 8 Full xeturn 0 K ESC QX 63 E I you OVERPAID 8 2 085 1999 estinated taxt 1646ES J Z of aby est tax to w Ant vant REFUNDED 10 YOU 2 085 uting Type 3 Okko eta ay vngs Account No Recount nuxber 8 1578 nt APELIED TO 1999 EST TAXS Yl HEETE UNT YO OWE stinated tax penalty a line for personal Renos ax Preparer by KRowardso Figure 1 Typical data input screen Data is entered into the form on the right Pressing the Escape key activates the navigation a rea on the left The r on the right side indi cates that there is an IRS form available which can be used to generate the dollar amount to be entered on that line you have decided that this line per tains to your situation and you have supported the dollar figure that is au tomatically transferred from the form or worksheet to the line on the origi nating form When it comes time to print out your return you have lots of c
215. the end of a sen tence Since I was just perusing the software at this point I made a note to come back for specific test ing of this oddity and continued playing with it You can run Grammarian in ei ther an interac tive mode or a silent mode In the interactive I feel Grammarian has the power to elevate the ordinary writer into a great writer by offering options suggestions and opportunities for the writer to expand his language skills and tailor his use of lan guage to target specific interest groups mode a pleasant computer voice qui etly states the problem as soon as you type a grammatical error It will per mit you to keep typing and is not a significant distraction especially if you work ina noisy environment The silent mode can be used at intervals to proofread what has been written alternatively you can complete the document and proofread it all at once You can also choose to have Grammar ian pop up a message noting an error at the point of commission instead of or in addition to speaking the error After I finished exploring the fea tures I went back to investigate more specifically the puzzling punctuation error message and to select screen shots to illustrate the features Before I got very far I had an acute hardware problem that forced me to suspend working with Grammarian for a while I had been using my scanner PhotoShop 3 0 and Flashback to scan some old family pictures
216. the pasture old bossy type cow In my first full time job as a newsie I was a small town paper s farm reporter One of our local success stories was a dairy farmer who real ized that people were fed up with su permarket milk His principal prob lem thereafter was managing the traf fic in his driveway as the city folk lined up to buy jugs of the real thing As for the milk wagon I had never thought of it as having anything to do with wealth we didn t have much either it was just the normal way milk got delivered at that time the 1940s Of course I saw it through the eyes of a boy but one who thought country folk were lucky real cows fresh vegetables creeks and pastures to play in water from a real pump Silly as it may seem to you I still feel a good deal the same way That job as a farm reporter was one of the best jobs I ever had P9 gt connect the blade and crystal pencil lead The reason I like the blue blade was its simplicity No coil was needed You tuned it by moving the lead to different parts of blade gt Do you remember the details ummm no kind of I think antenna went to screw that held blue blade to wood Lead core from pencil was wrapped in paper clip end middle of paper clip was screwed Washington Apple Pi Journal 63 I to board and end went to one line of earphone other end of earphone went to ground You tuned by moving lead point to different parts of
217. thing was run by a single board computer with a Motorola 68000 and 2 megs of RAM on it This thing was the single great est electronic device I ever had dur ing my career at sea It didn t have all the bells and whistles that the sonar fire control and ESM systems did but had bullet proof reliability and al ways knew where the ship was I was continually amazed at how reliably it worked in contrast to either the SINS DMINS it replaced or the much fan cier sonar fire control systems Sailor 4 Glad to hear you liked the ESGN I worked for Honeywell from 69 84 and was proud of the ESGN ef fort Sailor 1 Cool I was on Guitarro the first 637 to get one we may have even been the OPEVAL platform and we had lots of factory types out back then to visit can t remember your face from back then though I was the Navigator at the time Sailor 2 gt I was continually amazed at how reliably it worked in contrast to either the SINS DMINS it replaced or the much fancier sonar fire control systems May June 1999 the neighbor who had the property behind ours was pretty upset to hear that we were moving in because it meant that she would no longer have room to graze her cow She had been using our little plot of land in addition to her own but now she would have to get rid of the cow What makes this an interesting anec dote is that the house was and is in New York City Hey 1 had 1
218. titions and FAT 32 so we ll take a simliar look at Apple s answer to getting more out of hard disk partitions On this side of the PC world it s called HFS So I ll search for that and see what we can come up with One of the selections tells me HFS is called the Extended File For mat and was available starting with OS 8 1 we re up to 8 5 and on the verge of 8 6 It will let me dramati cally increase the number and size of files stored on my system But except as noted below you have to do a backup and then reformat using Apple s Drive Setup Program to get the benefits of HFS Heading over to the Mac OS Tech nical Information Library at http til info apple com I ll do an other search on HFS to find that there are some 76 articles just on this item alone You could also search on Ex tended File Format as an alternative but as I discovered nothing came back So HFS is what you ve got Going beyond Apple s site I ll use the wonderful Sherlock Search Engine that comes with OS 8 5 Sherlock can search your choice of Internet sites si multaneously including the Apple Technical Information Library The rub with doing it this way is that HFS can stand for lots of things like Health and Family Services so you ll have to weed through a few choices to find what you re looking for Here are some articles I found that are relevant to our search HFS Survival Guide http macworld zdnet com pages
219. tive or a combination of the two Figure 4 mm bjii IPEPLELEHE PS Pair Macintosh E MTCBenguiatOo BokObliue PS Pair users migrating sini annaa from Suitcase to MESS Font Reserve will Figure 4 Sets of fonts May June 1999 BernhModBTRom Dister Upen Face gt e tier MES shows that the Startup Set has both active and inactive fonts and holds a number of other sets The Benguiat Gothic set is open to display its fonts See Figure 4 Storing Fonts Font Reserve offers two ways to physically store your fonts You can use both methods in a single database Alias method The alias method works similar to the way Suitcase and Adobe Type Man ager Deluxe work You set up your font suitcases any way you want before adding them to the database You must use this method if you share fonts on a file server connected to multiple Macs Fonts stored on file servers CD ROMs and removable media should be stored in this manner The alias method gets its name from using the Macintosh s alias tech nology to add fonts to the database If you activate a font entered through the May June 1999 Fri May 2 1997 J AZON Figure 5 The Vault as viewed through the Finder alias method and the font is not on the local hard disk you will be prompted to log onto the appropriate file server or b Thu Jan 14 19991 insert the proper disk or gt Vir RAAS P CD ROM A
220. to Outlook Express 4 5 I must admit I have tried this program and didn t like it Not because it didn t work well or because it had some in herent flaw it just wasn t what I was used to Long ago I worked for a com pany in Cambridge Massachusetts which was an e mail pioneer They were close neighbors of Bolt Beranek and Newman the company that de veloped the Internet for DARPA Well I got used to a certain way of handling my e mail and Outlook does things a bit differently Some people actually like eating raw fish too It s a matter of taste To be honest I tried Outlook Express 4 5 again and liked it better but I still haven t switched My com pany recently switched our e mail to Outlook so I will be forced to use it at work Maybe this will be the push I need to give this program a fair shake Another feature is the ability to create and read HTML mail Once again my e mail pr judice is showing but getting fancy shmancy e mail is not on my hot list Just plain text is fine by me I could be wrong An other feature which may get me to switch to Outlook Express 4 5 is that it handles newsgroups as well as e mail Finally Adam gave us a look at Mactopia Microsoft s web site devoted to things Macintosh It is very conve nient having it all in one place at last but personally I find the cartoonish look off putting I ts bad enough that the dark side still thinks that the Macintosh is just one
221. tream attach ment point where the device gets its data from must be a type B receptacle and accept only type B plugs There s nothing special about the cables elec trically but the design makes it physi cally impossible to create a loop on the network without working really hard at it Many peripherals have perma nently attached cables like the USB keyboard eliminating another pos sible way of muddling your bus topol 08y These rules prohibit some cables and devices that are physically pos sible because their existence would break the rules The USB specification explicitly disallows any cable with type A plugs or type B receptacles at both ends such a cable would allow connecting two type A receptacles to each other making the forbidden loop As noted earlier all stand alone cables must be full speed cables longer low speed cables allow for too much inter ference or signal degradation so all low speed peripherals must by rule May June 1999 come with attached cables And while it might not seem intuitive the speci fication also prohibits USB exten sion cables any cable with a type A or B plug on one end and a receptacle of the same type on the other end If you had more than one such extension cable you could easily and without trying create a single cable segment longer than five meters making any communications on the bus from that point downstream unreliable While such cables may exist y
222. ts Bundle these goals together and you have the design criteria behind the Uni versal Serial Bus Let s poke around inside USB to see how all this works a USB Is Serial Each USB connector has only four wires two wires twisted together for data transfer one for power to the de vices and one as an electrical ground The serial design allows for thin wires eliminating those nasty thick cables The exact length of cables depends on the wiring used within them Heavier duty wires can hold an electrical charge over greater distances with no distortions and therefore allow longer cables but the faster data is trans ferred the shorter the cable should be before loss of signal becomes a prob lem A good rule of thumb is that no single segment of cable should be longer than 5 meters USB Is Fast USB has two speed settings low speed and full speed Low speed is designed for low bandwidth periph erals like keyboards and mice and is limited to 1 5 megabits per second Thus these lower speed devices don t need twisted pair wires for data trans fer or shielded wires however their cable segments can t be as long as twisted pair shielded full speed cables Too many low speed devices accessing the bus too often can de grade overall performance since the electrical signals on such devices aren t as robust So the USB specifi cation explicitly prohibits low speed stand alone cables Any extension cable you find is
223. turnoff to the town of Ronceverte We discov ered that there are two clues about liv May June 1999 ing this far out The bigger the Wal Mart the smaller the community We saw two Super Wal Marts located at two different intersections neither of which looked like it needed a cross ing guard The second clue was when we stopped at a local drug store for a drink The sign on the door read Please Do Not Carry AGun In Here Oh and the drug store is next to Blue Grass Gas They sell LP gas in large cylinders The day care center that hosted us was located on the main street of the town of Ronceverte Main street runs for four blocks One side is a branch off the main CSX line There is a clas sical 1900s station and a long passen ger platform but passenger trains stopped coming too many years ago Now all that rumbles along Main Street are unitary coal trains Across from the tracks are the shops of Ronceverte You will find two barber shops a collectibles store a cabinet maker in the former corner Rexall Drug Store the classic caticorner Rexall sign still hangs there a bar and the day care center The other stores are vacant The center staff is long on desire and short on equipment You and your neighbors throw away more kids stuff than this center has for assets The very few folks who walked by stared as we unloaded the 100 comput ers monitors disk drives and accesso ries The sight was as un
224. u can also get it with lim ited features if you simply have a 5 25 disk The software supports 41 differ ent IRS forms including Schedules A B C D E EIC F H J R and SE See accompanying screen shot There are May June 1999 also 44 different data entry worksheets to provide documented support for corresponding lines on the forms in cluding such things as Mortgage In terest Vehicle Expense Personal Ca sualty and Theft and Estates and Trusts just to mention four Finally there are 26 different prominent IRS worksheets built into the calculations that are not part of the printed return such as capital gain worksheets Roth IRA contribution worksheet and Child s Investment Income worksheet just to name three While the 3 5 ver sion includes all IRS forms the limited version supports 21 For those of you who prepare other people s tax returns you can create up to 15 tax returns on each of 99 separate tax volumes The manual consists of two sec tions one that stays much the same from year to year and one that you replace every year The later is the Tax Forms Guide which covers the cur rent version of all the IRS forms and how you are expected to complete them The former deals with the Tax Preparer program itself which hasn t changed much if at all over the years It contains an Introduction which cov ers initial installation instructions and the installation instructions for prio
225. uarkXPress oe oe 2 ita 8 ao Pies Piste A gt Da a E p ie ee eee See h XN f fidobe Systems ra WOT i ee I VTT ee as Boone 9 Filter snag box 26 Washington Apple Pi Journal documents will show up as a spe cial set even if some of the fonts are already open This can be very h se bere EE TASS FAT HE er Sais ifs handy in assembly fonts to send with your document to a typesetter If you drag the QuarkXPress set to the Macintosh desktop a copy of all suit cases and PostScript outlines will be created See Figure 6 Two additional features are of note The XTension allows you to cre ate a new set based on the fonts used in a document from within QuarkXPress If you are designing a new publication and want to easily activate the fonts you use in the future the Font Reserve XTension makes it easy The XTension also adds the ca pability of collecting the fonts for a service bureau One disadvantage of the Font Re serve XTension is that it does not check for font usage when you print a docu ment This is a problem if you import EPS files into a QuarkXPress docu ment and they require different fonts The only work around solution for version 2 02 is to close and reopen the document DiamondSoft is working on a new version of the XTension that will activate required fonts whenever EPS graphics are placed in a QuarkXPress document Ownership One font characteristic you can apply is
226. uite dif ferent New York was designed to look good on the Mac s screen and is too large when printed on paper Bookman New Century Schoolbook Palatino and Times are all serif fonts but they look quite different if you look at the details Since literate read ers read by shape rather than letter by letter even subtle changes in the shape of characters can create a radi cally different look There are many different ways to classify fonts but the most basic clas sifications are serif letters have slight projections at the end of strokes and sans serif letters don t have anything on the end of the strokes Generally speaking sans serif fonts are good for headlines signage traffic signs are TORT LII TE DL OT Itd E Proportionally Spaced Times AOOOOOOCOOOCOONOOII Washington Apple Pi Journal 29 Jl always sans serif and anything but long passages of text Serif fonts on the other hand are ideal for body copy virtually all books magazines and newspapers are printed in serif fonts Once you master differentiating between serif and sans serif fonts you ll soon realize that while most fonts fit in one or the other classifica tion some don t The five biggest ex ceptions are script casual decorative or novelty grunge and dingbat fonts Script fonts as the name suggests are evocative of formal hand written script only written by a perfect mas ter penman They are sometimes used in advert
227. umber and subject s you want to assist with May June 1999 ENE ME ED RENN EAN 4 he ig LaS apa tears Bee tan RG Korg ch 3 Bais ie Be is 3 ae Be l ORITUR eee Sade ER E cine a FEIA Ol Bee coe Es ae Se Pett wh irnia a A quick reference sheet for use while on the TCS TCS Phone Numbers 301 984 4066 for 300 1200 2400 bps 301 984 4070 for 9600 14400 28800 bps Main Menu lt B gt Bulletin Boards lt C gt Change Conferences lt E gt E Mail lt F gt File Transfer lt L gt General Library lt M gt Membership Search lt N gt Now On System lt O gt Off the System lt P gt Public Library lt T gt Time and Date lt U gt User Preferences lt W gt Read Welcome Bulletin lt X gt eXamine Weather Forecast File Transfer Menu lt A gt Adjust Pointers lt G gt Global Read New Descs lt L gt List All Available Areas lt N gt New File Descriptions lt O gt Off the System lt Q gt Quit to Main Menu lt R gt Read All New Descs lt Z gt Zelect File Areas File Area Menu lt A gt Alphabetical List lt B gt Batch Functions lt C gt Change File Area lt D gt Download a File lt F gt Find File Descriptions lt H gt Help With File Transfer lt I gt onns Info on File Contents lt L gt List All Files lt M gt Mark File
228. ure and date gt 84 Washington Apple Pi Journal May June 1999 Pi Fillings Goes To School A special edition of the famed CD ROM filled with carefully selected applications utilities and neat stuff for students teachers parents and the educationally inspired And yes it s fun too Pl FILLINGS GOSE TO SCHOOL Pi FU Me GASTO SCHA FALLIUGS GOEN SCHOOL PIE amp GOES TO SCH FLUGS GOS CHUL sia GOES TO SCHOOL i Also available Pi Fillings Version 4 just released with a comprehensive assortment of Mac OS updates and enhancements Internet essentials telecommunications essentials and things you ll want to have even if we can t quite figure out what to call them Available now for only 10 each and they re iMac friendly Call the Pi office 301 984 0300 or send a check to the Pi office to purchase your copies today April Shower of Savings Promotions iMac 1 199 PowerBook G3 MacOS 8 5 Power Macintosh G3 FREE 32MB Memory from 1999 Free T Shirt from 1599 FREE while you wait Installation iE Carrvine Cas i Free Mac FREE am ns Case Bible Mail in for FREE Internal Blueberry Grape Tangerine 99 Value Fax Modem or Internal and Strawberry in Stock re Mail for FREE 100MB Zip Drive Epson Stylus 740 SuperDisk ae 100 Mail in rebate if USB Zip Drives amp Floppy Mail in for FREE 04MB i purchased with Apple Disk Drives in Stock Memory or Virtual PC 98 i Studio Display 17 c 19
229. used Example Ta SS Sa eS Gran am mal Sentence Grammarian retails for 79 95 Figure 6 Grammarian until after I installed the update That s when I realized I had to restart with the extensions off to install the update Got the update in stalled and instead of the successful installation message I got an error in installation message Tried to unstuff the download and reinstall it only to get the same error message At this point I cried Uncle Once I have a May June 1999 Ammar Check Sar Hie Document sie aa Opes ans Chi eck Se osu cumer at Punctuation Errori Three digits should follow a comma Suggestions Three digits should follow a comma When you use commas to make a large number more readable Grammar Coach expects to find exactly three numeric digits after each commain the number This message indicates you are missing a digit or you have an extra digit in the number my Fe a ae Suggestions Wid him frequently frequently told him PSS IE AR NSE SS chance to consult with C amp G about what happened I ll tell you the rest of the story For now I will report my experience with Grammarian working happily on OS 8 1 Features Grammarian comes preconfigured with many options set for the most common software applications that ial would need grammar checking If you have an application that is not preconfigured you can add that t
230. vant Guard Gothic Washington Apple Pi Sans Serif Helvetica Washington Apple PI Rage Italic from the Swedish com pany Esselte Letraset is another nice script font For many years this was used in the logo for the San Diego Macintosh User Group magazine Re sources It is available from Interna tional Typeface Corporation ITC http www itcfonts com E Times one of the most widely used fonts in the world was created for the body text of The Times of Lon don All PostScript printers include Times as a standard font and a vari ant Times Roman is the default font on all non PostScript laser printers by Hewlett Packard and Canon E Electroharmonix is part of a huge collection of PostScript fonts created by Ray Larabie They are all free pro vided you don t bug him with any questions about them If you look care fully you can find this font used on the Pi s Web site http Www wap or E New Century Schoolbook one of the fonts built in to virtually all PostScript printers has been until re cently the standard body text font for the Washington Apple Pi Journal Resources Fonts play a large role in the Macintosh world If you want to know more about them run out and get a copy of Robin Williams bogk How to Boss Your Fonts Around 2 ed Sub titled A primer on font technology and font management on the Macintosh this richly illustrated lit erately written book will tell you vir Wa
231. was still down for maintenance What about the C amp G web site Remote Access PPP crashed and couldn t be opened Huh It had been working just fine I redid all the diagnostic tests that I had done after the conflict prob lem Disk First Aid and Norton Disk Doctor 4 01 still insisted none of their kids did anything wrong or broke any thing Nothing else to do except trash the Remote Access preferences file and reinstall the TCS Explorer script still didn t work Remote Access was ac cessible but not responsive It was pretty obvious that the script installa tion didn t connect all the pieces After several more tries I con firmed with some Pi members that despite the TCS still being down Ex plorer was operative I finally got a good script and connected online C amp G had an update that would im prove the 8 5 compatibility Down loaded it with no problems restarted with extensions off to reinstall Gram marian I had removed it after the con flict and during the TCS Explorer problem Learning from experience I used the space bar to stop the restart with extensions on so I could turn off May June 1999 i SERRA LP Ae ae As 64 Squinting Modifier Sentence His physician told him i frequently to exercise Squinting Modifiers Asquinting modifier is one that may modify either a preceding word or a following word It squints at the words on its right and left and leaves the reader conf
232. window rather inter esting Figure 8 It made me realize how much time has passed as I saw phrases I have not seen in many years more importantly I have not heard the pleasantness of correctly spoken and written language for many years I wondered just how many people would remember some of these phrases Would there be enough to prevent them the phrases not the people from becoming anachro nisms I confess to finding a few modern terms that stopped me in my tracks as I pondered them I felt like I had been sleeping not for Rip Van Winkle s 100 years but definitely for 25 or more Flexibility The user has many levels of choice in fashioning the perfect voice for his her writing I was amazed at the care the application s author had exercised to make this a fully personalized util ity Normally utility applications don t offer a lot of choices Everything is so straightforward Grammarian re minded me of how flexibly inflexible or inflexibly flexible language really is In the process of musing on this I ran right into the visual epitome of what I was thinking about it was almost like Jeffrey Robbins the author had read my mind and let me run right smack into the sound controls I had been re flecting on all the choices that could May June 1999 Sound For e Phrase Usage Wild Eep Indigo Droplet Quack Simple Beep Phrase Usage Grammar Error Punctuation Error Soft Click Tone
233. wnloads of QuickTime too Following this we were treated to the obligatory system crash which seems to accompany most live demonstrations Next Pi Member Dennis Dimick demonstrated creating a QuickTime slide show from a folder of images If you have QuickTime 3 0 you can do this by simply creating a folder con taining the images you want with se quentially numbered names You then select Open Image Sequence from the File menu and you re off QuickTime will ask you for a frame rate and create a sequencer application to show your images If you want to create a self contained QuickTime movie you must export it as such This will convert the original image to a compressed QuickTime file format using one of the many QuickTime codecs A codec is an encoder decoder application that compresses your raw video and or audio to make it take up less space It does this using math ematical formulas that determine which parts of the picture are redun dant or can be derived from adjacent pixels It then throws this information away and replaces it with a key that can be filled in dynamically when the movie is played There are several May June 1999 codecs in the QuickTime arsenal You might want to experiment with them to see which ones give you acceptable results for your purpose If you use Sorenson be sure that you are send ing the file to someone who has a PowerMac and QuickTime 3 0 The Sorenson codec is
234. x Preparer regular edition first time purchasers 295 Annual update cost regular edition 99 plus 9 minimum shipping Other products also available at additional cost Washington Apple Pi Journal 81 I aye oe a ea ri ris ty eer A Web Site that Could s o Your Life www alldata com by Paul Gerstenbluth ArieFound aol com onnector of my Mac Performa 6200 CD It was no good waking people up at 3 30 A M I than turned on my Mac and four minutes later I was on the Web O KILL THE sound I put the dead plug jack into the audio sound c You Got Troubles My car was acting obstinate and I just received a recall notice from Ford on my Mercury Sable Also I just received a detailed e mail from my friend on the Ford and Mercury Recalls The 3 3 million cars recalled were 1986 1995 model year Taurus and Sable vehicles and 1988 1994 Continentals I was told that car owners were asked to bring their vehicles to dealers for installation of new reinforcement plates attaching bolts and plate nuts The repairs will be made for FREE I wondered if there were any more outstanding recall warrants on my car Search Engines I typed in Recall Cars auto Mercury Sable using AltaVista com and Jeves com for my search engines I was directed to Popular Mechanics Alldata com web site Double clicking on recall cars I moved to 1992 and Mer cury Sable The splash screen Automotive Recalls and Technical Service Bulletins for
235. xit 6 West onto VA 236 _ Little River Turnpike General Meeting Ballots due May 28 1999 Irre AV i Ape Pi oa For schedule changes check the TCS or the Pi s Website at http WWw wap org Northern Virginia Community College May June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 21 from a PC savvy person at work I learned that the second drive had to be configured as a slave to the first one s master Both were set as mas ters from the factory Changing the IBM drive to a slave was a matter of removing one easily accessible jumper and moving it to a new location on the drive after going to IBM s Web site to find out what jumpers were what I installed OS 8 5 1 from the CD that comes with the G3 then Finder cop ied everything from my first drive named Azul y Blanco to my sec ond named Azul Grande After the first copy I use Personal Backup to automatically back up only files which have changed unlike some other rela tively low cost software such as Ret rospect Express it supports backing up onto hard drives Routine backups now take only seconds Orange Micro The Orange Micro Grappler 930U SCSI card finally arrived Installation inside the G3 was a breeze but remov ing all the external cables and reinstall ing them plus new ones was not My aching back Although my G3 did not come with an internal Zip drive lomega software is included As soon as I con nected my externa
236. y Pi member Karen Ackoff This casual or informal font is patterned after her father s precise careful style used for documenting technical drawings She noted that you might notice if you look carefully that the tops of strokes show a slight increase in width this actually stems from the fact that when I first wrote out the alphabet by hand I was using a Rapidograph technical pen that leaked So each stroke started off with a slight flooding of ink hence the Slight thickening at the beginning of each stroke This probably won t show up in the Journal reproduction but it adds a slight calligraphic flair when you use it for a letter It is li censed by Adobe through Alphabets Inc You can find the relevant Adobe Web page at http www adobe com type browser P P_449 h E Apple Garamond is the corporate typeface of Apple Computer It is a slightly modified version of Garamond Condensed created by Bitstream for Apple For an example of Apple Garamond just look at the name of your computer on the front of your Mac assuming of course you have an Apple Macintosh and not a clone Garamond Condensed is available from Adobe and with it you can do a very good job of faking Apple s corporate typeface Reporter Two available from Adobe is a very bold script font used for several years in Washington Apple Pi Garage Sale flyers Serif ITC Bookman medium Washington Apple E Sans Serif ITC A
237. y offers the core audio compression tools QuickTime has offered for years Now you can export a QuickTime movie from Pre miere 5 1 using various audio com pression schemes as IMA 4 1 and the new QuickTime 3 0 codecs Qdesign Music and QualComm PureVoice Premiere 5 1 also fixes a design shortcoming in Premiere 5 0 that deals with using preview files from disk to make final movies During the editing process Premiere creates many files on disk containing compiled transitions audio effects fades filter effects and the like During playback from timeline Premiere calls on these previews to show you in real time how your movie iooks as you edit and play back Premiere 4 2 and earlier versions use these preview files when writing out a final movie file If you properly configure preferences and compile 36 Washington Apple Pi Journal preview files in advance you can print movies directly to tape from the project timeline or write a final movie file to disk as quickly as your Mac and hard drives are able Alas Premiere 5 0 failed to use pre view files when writing out final movie files and a task that previously took a few minutes could take hours Thank fully Adobe s engineers fixed this de sign oversight with Premiere 5 1 Not So Fast As faster computers let us do things faster software engineers write in more features so we can do things not possible before Computers slow down because they re asked to do more

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