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learned a lesson about how easily people believe what they see when a photo of a pigeon in the park ran in a newsAovERTisiNGSAEEs paper I worked for in eastern Canada. In jamie Leighton,jamietÃtcp.ca the photo, the pigeon loomed large in the Randy Chaster,randyrutcp.ca foreground with children in th e backComputer player! is published monthly by Canada Computer Paper Inc.Computer Player! ground appearing about half its size. The is a memberaf the CanadaComputes! family of photographer who took the photo wrote a pubilcations; caption a bout g i an t c h i ld-snatching Computer Player! circulation60,000 pigeons invading the park. He never Ot tawoComputes! circulation 35,000 intended for the photo and caption to run, Quebec Micro! circulation60,000 but he went home for the night, and there TorontoComputes! c i rcu lation110,000 was a big hole on page three that a copy editor had to fill, and someCanada Computes!total circulation 265,000 one found the pigeon picture on the photographer's desk, and ... well, the result was a small flood of phone calls from hysterical parents and Canada Computed grandparents the next day, a large apology on page two the day after EDIToR-IN-CHIEFMare Gulens that, and a week's suspension without pay for the photographer and MANAGINGINTERIIR EDIT0R Lara Thais King ARTDIREcToR Jennifer Hanlon Scott copy editor.

Coey EoIToe William Wood Despite the sheer outrageousness of the claim of the existence of Computer Playerr mammoth avian child stalkers, and the fact that these readers are part 425 Arrall St., Suite 503, Vancouver, BC V68 6E3 of a culture that has been awash in photographic images for more Phone (604) 608.2688 Fax (604) 608-2686 than a century, and that they have most likely owned and operated Toronto Computed some form of camera themselves, they were tricked by a rudimentary 99 Atlantic Ave., Suite 408, Toronto, ON M6K 3J& photo technique.

Phone (416) 588-681& Fax (416)58&4110 So, is there any hope for these people as new hardware and softAuvERTIEING SAEEs. ware photo-manipulation tools become better, subtler and — more Frank Houston,frankCatcpan.com'=-: importantly — cheaper.

MarshaMiller, marsha@cpan.cern And it certainly is getting cheaper. At Comdex PacRim in January, Ottawa Camputasf~ Media Graphics International was promoting image-editing software 260 St. Patrick St., Suite 303 ..-- that it sells for US$xo. Canadian distribution and prices were still Ottawa, Ontarin 'KlN 515;-'='.:-i being finalized at press time, but it is likely to retail for less than $zo Tel: (613) 789-6431 Fax; (61 3) 7894433l~: in Vancouver — which gives it a lot of "can't lose at this price" appeal.

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COITldex PacRilTI Final attendance figures are not in yet for Comdex PacRim, but it was certainly busy from our perspective at the Canada Computer Paper booth. Readers of several of our publications, including Computer Player!, dropped by to share their views on what they like and what they'd like to see more of. Alan Zisman has written an overview of the show and local participation for this issue (see page io). Comdex PacRim also generated several story ideas and provided us with some new products to review that you' ll be reading about in coming months.

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Looking ahead Next month, we are unveiling a new business section in Computer Player! Coverage in the March issue will include the basics of setting up a home office and a review of the Swiss Army knives of computer peripherals — multifunction devices.

Looking back In the December editorial, I wrote about a couple of volunteer organizations in the Lower Mainland that recycle old computers, and I incorrectly indicated that both organizations refurbish old systems. In fact, Big Brothers Renew Crew collects the computers and peripherals but does not refurbish them. The systems are sold through Value Village thrift stores.

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incident is mentioned along with the fact that the worm was the result of a typo in the code that caused the program's rapid self-replication. Morris was not intentionally trying to bring down the Net. It was a student exercise that went bad. ln my opinion it is not fair to include Robert Morris with the likes of Kevin Mitnick. Morris made an honest mistake and admitted it. He

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has been worked on my new mug shot.When the photo was taken I was standing against white mini blinds not a swirling black and blue backdrop, and then there's my jaw line, which graphic artist Jana Kolar nipped andtucked a tad in Photoshop.

If you have an interest in performing such digital plastic surgery for either ethical or unethical ends, or in simply making the sky look bluer and the grass greener in your holiday snaps, turn to our review of digital scanners (page 37). and our update on digital cameras (page T6) in this issue

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Give$8 Velts a hand I just read your review of a few HPCs (hand-

was fined $xo,ooo and given a suspended held PCs) in the Jan. '98 issue and I must sentence. Mitnick was a deliberate vandal and thief and he's in jail.

If you print this letter, please omit my e-mail address. Thanks.

Regards, Ed Thwaites, Vancouver

admit my disappointment. Disappointed that you will crown the HP 32oLX a winner when I have a Philips Velo s that cost almost half that with mere usable features induded.

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HaekerS I Gadteta a SITLBtt elmr In a recent article, you make some statements Comes complete with pocket versions of In yourHackers and Crackers aiticle,you m enabout Kevin Mitnick, such that he is the most Microsoft Nord, Excel and Internet Explorer. tioned that Robert Tappan hhoiTls wrote the destructive sg&8 Internet worm virus. This is famous hacker of all time. you should direct Other programs induded are a database, connot the full story. The program that Morris you readers to t h e f o l lowing site: tacts, Gateisdar, tasks, calculator and an inbox to manage your email. There is also a voice wrote was not intended to be a worm. In http://we 26oo.corn/kevin/.

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Vancouver's Absolute Software makes CompuTrace, which automatically signals your computer's location to a monitoring centre. And Maple Ridge company.

Bartacuda SecurityDevices offers a syscations and computing was demonstrated by the presence on the show Boor of intertem thai includes 120 dB alarms and an esting booths from B C T e l M o b i l ity, optional indelible dye capsule.

• V ancouver's The Media showing off a Microcell/Fido, and Cantel Wireless.

• OpcnRoad Communications, a division of multi-screen presentation of its multimedia Synergy Computer,focusing on Web and and Web site designs that have been creatJava development. ed for clients ranyng from BC Telecom to • Dominion Blue Reprographics demonstratthe Clayquot Wilderness Resort. ing colour printing, including colour lasers, • Other local exhibitors covered the gamut from office furniture dealers to inkjet cartridge reinkers to the B.C. Science answer for businesses.boih large and small, wanting to provide employees the bcncf1ts of Internet email without the temptaiions of full Internet connectivity.

FirstClass Systems„of'fcring a range of computer-based training, with more than 700 instructional packages. v The convergence ol wireless telecommuni-

unning for three days in late January. the fourth annual Comdex PacRim exhibition brought an estimated thousands of visitorsc ai i ihe Vancouver Trade and Convention Ccntreprior to the event. organizers were predicting attendance of 35.000, about 40 percent above last year' s tigure. At the show, visitors had the opportunity to browse exhibits from 225 computer and communications companies, both local and iniemnationa.

In addition, the conference featured four keynote speakers (transcripts from the keynote speeches are available a t h t tp://www. comdex.corn): • Don Calder, president of BC T el s poke about the telecommunications industry's plans to ramp up Internet connection speed.

• Don Chapman, generalmanager of Novell Canada discussed how the Internet and technological change is creating a powerful "World of Me." • Dan Ling, Microsoft research director. outlined how evolving technologies will make ii possible for computers io understand human speech— th«meaning as well as the words.

• Paul Flaherty. research engineer from Digital Equipment focussed on how the Internet is changing the work. from information gathering to decision making.

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Council's Computers for Schools ticipants aged 21 or o lder — a move that would have banned Bill Gates at the time he co-founded Microsoft.

While it was easy to lose them in the 11ood of better known names, a number ol' Vancouver and B.C. companies had products on display. These included: ' SeanixTechnologies. the Richmond computer manufacturer boldly venturing into the competitive LJ.S. market. and winning praise f r o m pu b l i cations s u c h as PCr/Contputing and Winrlon s Maga:inc I'or its product line.

• Kerrisdale's Impaq Technology serving laptop users w i t h ih e w« 1 1-regarded Eurocom product line, including nev; powerful. 266 MHz model.

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It didn't take long after the invention of photography bel'orec'rude darkroom techniques were used to recreate history. As early as 1861, a political scandal resulted from a composite photograph placing the head of the Queen of Napleson another woman's nude body. When Joseph Stalin took power in the Soviet Union, rival Leon Trotsky vanished I'rom historical photos such as a famous shot of hero Vladimir Lenin's May 1920 address

Many ol our daily newspapers, however, have less strict guidelines. The Vancnrrver Sun, for example, prides itself on being the world's first all-digital newspaper — al I photos are taken on digital cameras, edited and processed digitally, and are printed on a state-of-the-art press.

Sita Editors have not yet acco m panied the digital hardware with a written

one-person crusade to protect readers against the intrusion ol' photo manipulation. He says that photo-manipulation software like Adobe PhotoShop "was one of the worst tools to come into the newspaper — it's fr IIed with bells and whistles and everyone wants to

play."

According to Didlick, "changing a photo is the same as changing a quote," and doesn't belong on the news or sports pages of Vancouver's paper of record.

He's less concerned about the blatantly obvious manipulations — these, along with the "Photo Illustration" byline, should be obvious to the readers. Instead, he expresses j '. j concern that "lots morc happens every day policy setting guidelines that is less identifiable, and isn't clearly labeled as an illustration." Didlick would like for photo manipulation.

When an Oct. 24. 1997, to see his paper develop a written policy, and article entitled Reeling in to il crowd. the Bricks highlighted feaBut just as personal computers democrature films being shot in tized skills like typesetting and page design, Vancouver, for example, the last decade has brought the possibility of the Sun printed a photo of photo editing to millions of desktops. Add the North Shore mounincreasingly affordable digital scanners and t ains, c o m p lete w i t h cameras to more and more powerful computHollywood-style l e tters ers and software, and virtually anything you spelling out "Vancouver." can imagine can be made to look as if it was Similarly, after the prescapturedonto film. tigious Vancouver Club voted to continue limiting Is nothing sacred? membership to men, the publish it annually for the readers. While the Some personal favorites: paper published a photo of the club's turn-of- Seattle Times and a number of other U.S. N ot Iong a f ter I'i lm star D em i M o o r e with a group ofjeans-clad young women the-century building, festooned with a "No papers have such a policy, Didlick isn't aware appeared naked and very pregnant on the (perhaps a fitting revenge for Stalin's earlier Girls Allowed" banners, seemingly painted of any majorCanadian newspapers that have cover ol' Vanin Fair magazine, the U.S. satir- attempts at photo-manipulating history). on bed sheets,hanging out the windows. let their staff and readers formally know their ical magazine Spy featured her husband, No longer limited to trained professionals These digital reconstructions of reality were standards for photo manipulation.

Bruce Willis, on its September, 1991 cover, using high-end equipment. photo manipula- idcntilied to the readers simply as "Photo As the Sun's editorial artist. Vic BonderoIT in an identical pose, seemingly just as naked, ,.tion has even become a subject for highIllustrations" in tiny print underneath the is the photo manipulator. He added the and just as pregnant.

"Vancouver" sign to the photo of the city skyschool pr ojects. A t V a n couver's T otal photos.

A 1994 cover of the much more serious Education program, for example, Grade I I Sun photo editor, Nick Didlick, says he line, for example. He agrees that sometimes Scientific' American o f f ered a p h o to o f and 12 students, working with humble 386 sometimes feels like he's forced to conduct a he's working on the edge of a slippery slope.

Abraham Lincoln, arm-in-aim with Marilyn There's always a danger of adding subtle ediand 486 computers, a $200 flatbed scanner, Monroe. Inside, they demonstrated how, and a $140 Connectix QuickCam camera, torial comments to a picture. A famous examwith an off-the-shelf Macintosh computer ple, is the case of a Newsweekphoto that practice using Corel PhotoPaint software. with easily available software, they were darkened O.J. Simpson's skin tones during They quickly learn to their own images to able to bring together the president (who his trial, non-verbally heightening the race historical photos — although they find it' s died in 1865) with the film star (who died in more difficult to adjust lighting and shadows factor.

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Bonderoff also mentions, however, that A 1997 adfor Diesel jeans seemed to offer Manipulating photographic reality can with tight deadlines, he typically "doesn' t a behind-the-scenes look at 1945's historic be great fun, and has been used to good have time to think" of these issues.

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Jobs explained the profitability was primarily due to higher gross margins and continued cost cutting (read: employee layoffs). Apple also benefitted from three key initiatives introduced during the previous quarter:

t. Apple's new Power Macintosh G3 computers, launched on Nov. to, significantly outsold tfa. company's forecasts for the quarterovel' 133,000 units shipped versus a forecast of 8o,ooo units. If accurate, this would make the G3 launch Apple's most successful new product introduction in the company's history.

2. According to Apple, the company's online store (http: //www.apple.corn) has become one of the top-ten grossing e-commerce sites on the Internet since opening its e-doors on Nov. to, selling millions of dollars worth of Macs and accessories.

3. Apple U.S.'s new p a r tnership with CompUSA, the world's largest computer retailer, is producing results. Duiing last quarter, CompUSA outfitted 57 of its computer superstores with dedicated Apple "store within a store" environments, increasing CompUSA's Mac sales. How much of an increase? Well„at the beginning of last quarter, Mac sales a ccounted fo r o n l y t h r e e p e rcent o f CompUSA's overall PC business. After the conversion, Mac sales jumped to tA percent of CompUSA's business.

for example, announced that its Office 98 Macintosh Edition would begin shipping in February,months ahead of the company's Windows version. This version of Office offers Mac customers advanced functionality, including self-repairing applications, currently unavailable to Windows users. In addition, Apple announced Mac OS 8.1., an updated version of the Mac OS 8 software launched in August, as well as demonstrating QuickTime 3.0.

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Of course, Silicon Valley inhabitants live differently than the rest of us, sometimes very differently. The recently departed (from Apple) Gil Amelio received nearly US$to million to leave the company.Now comes news thatSteve Jobs is getting ready to shave a few minutes off his commute by flying to work in a helicopter.

The Apple Computer co-f ounder has won approval to build a heliport — at a cost of about $qo,ooo — at a former naval fuel depot near his Microsoft makes its office at Pixar Animation Studios near Richmond, own software compatible a small community near San Francisco.

It may not be news when most software devel-' The city council gave Jobs a one-year lease opers make their new version compatible with with four one-year options and Jobs is now an older version, but it i s when Microsoft said to be shopping for a chopper. According does. The world's largest software company to newspaper reports, he will fly from his recently posted a free converter that lets own- home in Palo Alto, to the former Point Molate ers of Word 5.t or 6.x for the Macintosh open Naval Fuel Depot, vacated by the military in documents created in Word 97 for Windows or <995. His commute likely will take about 25 Word 98 for the Macintosh. Unfortunately, the minutes, compared with at least an hour' s company's press release didn't explain why drive in light traffic — far longer on some days.

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And that's a name brand machine— an Acer, or an IBM, or a Packard-Bell, or an AST. Ano-name clone, from one of the hundreds of little local stores will offer equivalent (or better) features, at several hundred dollars less. Before Christmas, one local vendor was advertising a clone with that feature-set fo r $ 9 o o ( C anadian). Yes, including monitor.

A market buying cheap, reasonably capable PCs changes a lot of things. It had seemed like the home PC market was saturated — and that was true, at least for $2,5oo PCs. A lot more people may be interested when the price drops below $t.,ooo.

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Strategic News Services analyst Mark Anderson (quoted in PC Week) expects that cheap PCs could, in short order, increase the number of PCs worldwide from today's 300 million to Boo million. With a potential market of t hat size, we could start seeing changes in product development, with new releases aiming at the many millions of existing users, rather than at the minority with new, high-end hardware'.

Slowing down the frenetic change might not besuch a bad thing, you know...more of us might actually learn how to use one generation of products before we feel pressured to upgrade to the next generation.

On the other hand, the emerging mass market for cheap PCs may put still more pressure on beleaguered Apple. When PCs were $2,goo and Macs were $3,ooo, Im ight choose to pay a bit extra to get a Mac. But when PCs start at $9oo, will I pay $1,Boo for a low-end Mac? And with Apple having killed off the Iylac clones, there will be fewer lowend Mac alternatives.

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n predicting the trends for 1998, it's easy for commentators to focus on the new and high-end — the hardware and software coming up.

Sure, we' ll see plenty of that in 1998... at least, we' ll see lots of t hings that. were already visible in 1997 become more noticeable in this new year.

For example, it doesn't take much of a prophet to predict we' ll see more products out on DVD, and more players to play them (but most people and most products will continue to use good old CD-ROM).

And we' ll see some universal serial bus (USB) peripherals: modems, speakers, scanners, and more. But again, most people will keep up using old-style add-ons to their computers.

High-end CPUs will be faster and more powerful. Hard d r ives w i l l b e la r ger.

Customers will want (and need) more and more RAM. I even expect we' ll see Windows 96. I mean Windows 97. I m ean Windows 98. And whether or not the U.S. Justice Department manages to separate Internet Explorer from Windows 9x, it will be a useful upgrade. But as with the other useful enhancements, more people than not will resist the temptation to line up to be the first to upgrade.

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Phas«S Digital. also ol' Germany, unv«ilcd detail» ol' an interesting n««comput«r d«»ign conc«pl based on th« A miga architecture. cod«-nam«d A/Box. It is a i»odular, expandable, n«ver-to-becom«-obsolete-again d«»ign nit(i)i thing. it i» just one thing." principle, where you will he able lo replace.

At t h e s h o w , th « mo s t i mp o r tant upgrade. or expand dit'fercnt »ectors and ;innouncement (ol' many) was Gat«way» c omponents w i thout c <impromi»ii)g t h« I «,'ill if l)1«LI c o n l lf l l t ment to c o n l i nUcd whole. A/Box uses a 64-hit int«rn(il hus strucrcse;irch and development funding through ture thai runs at l0() MHz «loch speed and it» newly created Amiga 1nc. subsidiary. will bc ahle to utilize industry-standard interAls<i ha»ed in Sioux City. Amiga Inc. will be I'aces. Its development is a widely collaboraop«rat«d as an independent «ntity. Other tive effort. A/Box should g«t a linal name n)ajor news included a strategic. aggr«ssive soon, as il is exp«ct«d to he releas«d to the pu»h for lice»»ing thc t«chnology ieither in marketplace sometime next year. its entirety or in part, including the Amiga By the way, Phas«S is a company with a OS) to third-party manufacturers and dcvel- delicate sense of humour, Their i l rad«OPCI ». marked) slogan read» "wh«r«do y<>u want lo In I'icl. th« licensing has been going so be TOMORROW' !" «ell, according to Tyschtschcnko. that wc »hould mayh«beginsending them money." a A few final notes: good-humoured rel'Lrcnce to Gateway'» third Thc year 2000 problem is a non-is»u« I'or quarter (r«d) ligurcs. By mid-October, over Amigas, Epson ha» pr<)nii»«d Arniga driv«r» 400 lic«nce applications were received, and I' or early next year, and lhcIL' afc at least l«'o niany have been»igned, resulting in a whole «xc«ilent Web hro«»ers out ther« tlhrowsc slc«: ol' new product introductions, Irom and Aweh-II > ior»urling th«Nct. con)pl«le new systems to major components.

Il you are on the market lor a new multiThousand» ol' prot'essionally perl'orming soft- media home or horn«ol'I'ice computer that war« tillcs, trom games (Myst ior the Amiga d<ies it all for les», if y<iu arc in no hig hurry, i» out) lo s«rious business applications, are and arc not pre-sold on a PC or a Mac, you already av;iilahlc at a traction of comparable may want to consider th«Amiga altcrnaPC (or M.ic) prices. anil new ones arc heing tiv« — once again. You might he pleasantly lliini« ii I«w l.

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The PhotoPad is the first scanner offering from the company that created instant photography.Itscans both colour and black and white photos up to 4x6 inches. in both 35 mm and Polaroid formats, in a snappy 60 seconds or less per image. This unit should be very popular with small office and home oflice people, creative image services, and folks who produce newsletters.

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BY ALAN THWAITS ere's a roundup ol' seven new'scanners aimed at the home and smalloftlcc markets. The models include four Ilatheds, two sheet!cods, and onc designed exclusively for reproducing photographs. These machines all do pretty much the same thing: they will scan your text or photos, translate them into digital files (for editing or archiving). and allow you to print. fax, or reproduce them on a Weh site. There' s not a whole lot ol dii'fcrence in the soltware supplied with these scanners, either, although some have more and some have less.

Hardware varies, ol' course, with format.

What will intluence you to purchase one unit over another is how they fit in with your usage,available space, and budget.I've come up with my own "best ol show." but thc Ilnal choice is up to you. Read on!

Storm Technologies Easyphoto Storm's EasyPhoto unit will win a lot ol I'ansit's an inexpensive, easy-to-use Ilathed scanner, optimized for digital photo reproduction with Storm's CIcarScan II technology. It's considerably morc compact than the other Ilathed scanners reviewed herc, which will appeal tn those with limited space. II's obviously aimed at l>rst-time scanner owners and those using a scanner for personal and home use.

INinuses: • use limited to photo formats

Indudes: • Polaroid SuperColor interface software and Mi x a n d M a tc h i m age-editing software • scanner calibration card Spedficatl ons: 1oo, zoo, 3oo, 4oo dpi resolutions; 24-bit colour (up to 16 million colours),

hility offered by FreeScan's three scanning modes: multipledocuments can he scanned via a rear-mounted sheet feed, single documents via a front-I'eed slot, and bound materials via a detachable, motorized scanner head. Those options, plus good colour-reproduction capabilities and Logitech's excellent reputation, make this unit a standout among desktop scanners.

• DocuMagix PaperMaster • one-year warranty Specification: 6 o ox6oo d p i re s olution, 4,&oox4,8oo enhanced; 3o-bit colour, 8-bit greyscale, 1-bit black and white; 6.3x12.5x8.3 in. (16x31.5x21 cm) in size; weighs 8.8 lb (4 kg); minimum scanning width: postage-stamp size; maximum scanning width: 8.7x16 in. (22x4o.6 cm) with AutoStitch; maximum/minimum scanning length-none (only limited by desk space) System Requirements: Win95; IBM-compatible with Pentium processor; 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended); 1oo MB free hard-drive space; CD-ROM drive Price: US$299

Pluses: • small footpnnt • input and output versatility • self-powered scanning head

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• high system requirements • high price point

Indudes: 8 bit black and white (up to 256 shades of gray); 5.5x6.2x3.5 in. in size; weighs 350 g; minimum photo size: 1.5x2 inches; maximum photo size: 4.5x6 in.

System Requirements: IBM-compatible with 486 or higher processor; 4 MB RAM (8 MB recommended); 13 MB free hard-drive space; Win 3.1 or higher Price: $199

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co n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e3 7 ' answer to thc latest in desktop systems, bu( it comes witha catch: your computer must hc MMX-equipped and have anavailable USB (universal serial hus) port. Thai (ransla(os into installation and scanning convenience and power I'IIr (hose who have thc right (echnology.

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• Text-scanning s oft w a r e (Caere OmniPage Limited Edition for PC) •Scanned-document management soft ware (Visioneer PaperPort, including Caere OmniPage Lite for Mac and PC) • Adaptec SCSI interface (PC version) • Adaptec AVA-15o5AE/Al SCSI card and cable (PC version) Specifications: 3oox6oo ppi resolution, interpolated resolution up to 4,8oo ppi; sample depth of 3o bits per pixel; 17. 5x13x4.1 in.

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Agfa SnapScan 320 Agfa's SnapScan, launched ai the COMDEX/ SCIB 97 show, is a colllur digital scanner aimed at the home and s m a l l -ol(lce m arkets. The P C version requires thai you add a SCSI card (o your desktop hox if you don't already have one, so Agl'a supplies an Adap(ec AVA- I SOSAF/Al card, SCSI cahlc, and EZ-SCSI Lite so('(ware. Of (hc lla(hcd scanners reviewed here. this line was the most Inlprcssl ve: XIIlid const lac(il la, grc,'I( ln(cri,'Ice.

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Many communication programs, such as America Online, use a technique called caching (pronounced "cashing") to help customers surf the Web faster. The technology behind this magic is pretty simple, at least on the conceptual side. The software remembers each site as you visit it and stores parts of each Web page on your hard drive. The advantage is that your computer doesn't have to download all those snazzy- yet time- consuming graphics every time you visit a particular site.

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Many Web sites, however, change graphics frequently, so saving them may not prove a great time saver. Plus, there are some tools on the Internet thatcan read where you've been on the Web by looking at the cached hles on your hard drive. So keeping a long list of your visits isn't a good idea for privacy reasons either.

Fortunately, Web browsers, such as the one AOL uses let you toss out these hles. The trick is to remember to do this on a regular basis.

Some people delete the files after every surfing session; others do it whenever they think ofit. Here's how: If you are using the 3.X version of AOL, open up your Mac's System folder by double clicking onit. Next,And the Preferences folder and open it. After this, find the America Online folder and open it. Finally, look for the folder named Browser Cache. This is where AOL stores all the graphics hles that are cached

horn your Web visits.

Open up the Browser Cache folder to see all the liles you have accumulated. Select all the liles in this folder by moving your cursor to the Edit menu and choosing the Select All command. Once all the files are selected, you can move them into the Trash and choose the

Empty Trash command horn the Specialmenu.

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who recently left the company. The service guy came and installed the computer but couldn't tell me much more about it. Can you?

Mirabelle, via an ISP MacShrink, David Rosen replies: Sure. The PowerPC was introduced in April tSg6 and is based on the Motorola PowerPC6ot running at >zo MHz. The computer needs System Software version Z.S.z or higher and has 32 KB of Level-tcache. Unlike some Macs, the Power Mac Zzoo doesn'thave any RAM soldered onto its motherboard. Instead, its four i68-pin DIMM slots let you configure your Mac with a maximum of gtz MB of memory.

Your Power Mac Zzoo probably came with s MB of video RAN already installed. With this amount of VRAM your computer is capable of displaying up to 32,Z68 colours at any given time in a 6po by 48o matrix. If you need to see up to t6.Z million colours on screen at any time, you will have to add another i MB of VRAM.

Giving Windows 95 a Tweak Q; In the Win9S Software Screen you can (un)install software. But I' ve got quite a lot of "old'" software in that list that isn't on my hard drive anymore (the uninstall didn't work properly, especially with a lot of shareware), and now these programs are in the list annoying the hell out ofme. Oo you know where I can remove these nonexistent programs from this list?

Raymond van der Hoist Alan Zisman replies: There are two ways to do it.

The hard way: Open REGEDIT, the Registry Editor, by typing "Regedit" (no quotes) at the Start Menu's Run line. In the Edit menu, use the Find command to search for instances of the program name; delete each instance.

Pressing F3 will repeat the search. Continue until there are no instances of that program in the Registry, then repeat for the next program.

The easy way: Get a copy of Microsol't's free Powertoys add-ins for WingS (available at http:/jwww.microsoft. corn), o r s e p arately obtain the TweakUI Powertoy. TweakUI has lots of uselul functions for working with the WingS User Interface, including the ability to easily remove program names listed in the Add/Remove list. TweakUI has a lot of useful functions, as we' ll see in the next letter...

overflows the screen. How can I combine them? For example, instead of seeing all the programs of 0 5 ce, I'd l ike t o s e e o n ly "05ce," and click that to get the program list in Office. There are others I'd like to combine, too.is there an easy way to do that?

Wayne Field Alan Zisman replies: Yes. Too many programs insist o n c r eating silly, t op-level Programs sub-folders hlled with the Program EXE hie, a help fi le,and a read-m e.And users who've upgraded from Win 3.x typically get too many sub- folders corresponding t o Program Manager groups.

There are several ways to customize the Start Men~rograms list. My favourite is to right-click on the Start button (the secret to IVing5 success is "when in doubt, right-click on anything in sight"), and choose Open horn the pop-up menu.

You' ll get a My Computer-like large icon view of the Start Menu, with a folder labeled Programs. Open it to see the sub-folders that correspond to sub-menus. Create new folders, copy, and delete to your heart's content, using standard WinyS file management techniques.

The results will immediately appear in the Start Menu.

Windy compression depression Q: Do you know how to copy the Win9g files from the CO-ROM to a floppy disk. I' ve managed to get all the non-CAB files to one disk, but the rest of the WIN9g ??.CAB files are too big for my t. i4 MS floppy.

If I wanted to back up my Win9S CD-ROM, how could I do that if the files are bigger than the disk and "zipping" them makes them larger, since they' re already compressed?

Daniel Mueller Alan Zisman replies: Depending on the version of your WinyS CD-ROM, you' ll hnd most of the installation files (".CAB or compressed "cabinet" files) are either t.Z or z.t MB in size — too large to fiit on a standard t.y4 MB fioppy. And you' re right, since they' re already compressed, programs like PKZIP can't compress them further.

There are a number of shareware programs that can be used to format t.Z MB fioppies, but

that won't help if you have the 2 MB CAB fiies.

But you can still use PKZIP to create a compressed set of disks horn the entire Setup folder.

Use PKZIP's"-8" option, which enables you to zip items across multiple fioppies. If you type "PKZIP A: WyS.zip DitSETUPI'.* -&" (no quotes) at a DOS prompt, you will create a set of fioppies with a zipped backup of the entire contents of that folder.

Note that it doesn't do a goodjob of error checking. Test the back- up set by unzi pping it onto yourhard drive (which you'd need to do to use it), before assuming you can rely on it!

x6-bit scare Q: Can I run any t6-bit or DOS games or prograrns on the newer Windows 32-bit machine?

I hear that it would crash the hard drive if I ran t6-bit.

Terry Barker Alan Zisman replies: Very much untrue! Wing5 will run nearly all (t6-bit) DOS and Win 3a programs. However, take heed of the following: i) DOS/Win 3.x disk utilities should be avoided,since they-are unaware of Wing5 long filenames, and can inadvertently destroy the long filenames (this may the reality behind the rumour you heard). z) Some DOS programs (typically older games) need to be run in so-called MSDOS Mode, allowing them near- total control over the hardware.

3) A few Win 3.o programs won't run witho ut b e i n g "tricked. " T h er e is a MKCOMPAT. EXE (Make Compatible) program in C )WINDOWS For that purpose. +

• Send Mac-related questions to David Rosen at MacGuy©tcpon.corn.Note: all questions become the p roperty of MacShrink and David Rosen.

• Send OS/z-related questions to Kevin Linfield at l i nfield@torfree.net. Note: please continue to send your OS/z questions in to You Asked Us. We will make every efhrt to indude OS/a questions and responses as we receive them.

• Send Windowsand othersoftware questions to A ian Zism an at azisman©mail.bc.rogers. wave.ca.

Pesky icons woA go away Q: I installed MSN tMicrosoft Network — an Internet access providerj to take advantage of the free month of use, and then promptly uninstalled it. Since that time, the NISN"shortcut" has been on the desktop, and I can't get rid of it. I' ve attempted to delete every aspect of MSN in the registry and have succeeded in making the icon a standard "Folder," but am still unable to delete it. Am I forever stuck hiding it behind the start bar?

Gary Ailes Alan Zisman replies: You can get rid of it, along with most other persistent desktop icons, u sin g M i c rosoft's m u l ti-talented TweakUI add-on. TweakUI's Desktop feature lets you easily remove persistent icons from the Desktop.

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