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The party's beaus great, best It Is time for me to go

I will be ending my term as president, publisher and editor at Canada
Computer Paper Inc. (the company that publishes TireComputer Paper)
as of Sept. 30. We have a new publisher, David Ritter, who will be operating from Toronto (the balance is restored, the universe is whole again).
I have been working with David to transfer some of my knowledge
and ideas for future growth. He comes to the job as a seasoned publishing executive with more than 17 years of marketing, sales and general management experience with
Maclean Hunter Publishing and Baxter Publications.
He has hit the ground running and although some
days his head is spinning with all the new things he
has to leam, he is absorbing quickly what is needed to
keep the company going and growing. His mandate is
to continue the successful growth we have experienced and to "export the revolution." (You can contact David Ritter at publishertartcpon.corn.)
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My reason for leaving

In 1995, Canada Computer Paper Inc., the company I
started almost 10 years ago, was purchased by

Montreal-based Hebdo Mag Inc., the world's largest
publisher of classified ad format publications, with publications in
Canada, the United States, France, Holland, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland,
Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand and Puerto Rico.
As some ofyou know, when I orig
inallysoldthe company two years
ago to Hebdo Mag Inc., I was given a two-year management contract.
That contract is now up, and I feel it is time to move on.
When I sold, I did so with a view to spending more time with my
family. I plan to travel with my wife and our four children. Our kids are
home schooled, and so this will be one big g
eograph
ylesson for them.
We would like to see some of the world before they get too old and
launch off on their own. We plan to travel for at least two years, before
considering any new projects.

I have enjoyed my time with the company hnmensely and love the
work that we have been doing, but I hit 40 years of age this year, and
for me it is a time for introspection and thoughts on how I plan to
spend the rest of my time on the planet.
My wife Kathryn and I started TTzeComputer Paper in Vancouver in
19N, and expanded the publication into a cross-Canada publication,
with editions that provide coverage for Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton,
Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.
Along the way, we purchasedToronto Computes!, Computer Player!,
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launchedQuebec Micro!rand Ottawa Computes!in the process.
With 11 different editions and a circulation somewhere over
640,000 copies a month, we can lay claim to being Canada's largest
computer publishing company
not bad growth for 10 years. I am
happy with where I am leaving things. I feel I have achieved some of
the goals I set out for myself, or saw along the way.
Osar Oscar speech
We would like to thank the many, many people who
have brought the company to this point. Obviously the
staff at Canada Computer Paper Inc, have been key to
the developmentand success of the company. You can
read the masthead of our magazines to see the names of
the 75-plus people who make it all possible each
month.
We would like to spedfically name some people
who have been key to the long-term development of
the company: John Oliver, national sales manager; Hari
Singh Khalsa, associate publisher in Vancouver, Patrida
Fitzgerald, marketing manager and assodate publisher
in Calgary; Suzanne Fitzgerald, Winnipeg manager,
Graeme Bennett, managing editor; Christine McPhie, corporate controller; Tino Wong, operations manager in Toronto; and Einar
Murchison, assodate publisher for our Eastern Edition.
We would also like to thank our many long-time and loyal advertisers who have made the journey possible. Finally, we thank you the
readers who keep reading, keep using the magazine as a source for your
purchasing and keep telling advertisers you saw their ads in our publications. Oh yeah, we would also like to say thanks to our Moms and
Dads.
VO)uttt010, No.9,
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seem to linger on. Might I add that Apple
should be credited for their incredible ability to
maintain compatil it y when they bridged the
gap from 68000-based machines to the Power
PC. Weak handling of non-Mac files" oh and
PCs do such a great job of handling Mac files?
The fact that Macs access PC files at aII is more
ability than any PC has with a Mac file.
I just think that it is important we contin-
ue to recognize the Mac for its strengths not its

shortcomings. After all, it has been the principle contributor to how software, hardware, and
operating systems are designed today. And now
ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to raise my glass
to Apple Computers... may the Macintosh
always be remembered as the computer that set
the standard for the rest to follow.
Bill Morrison, West Vancouver, via email
GB replies: I happen to like Macs j ust fine, and I' ve
owned several. I am a current PowerMac owner
with both a desktop unit and a portable Apple

product (genuine Apple, not that this makes them
better than the clones, mind you) on my desk at
this moment.
As for my "Does not support 68030-based
Macs comment, wouldn't you like to know, if you
were a 68030 Mac owner, that this is the FIRST
Muc OS release in history that leaves behind that
generation of machine? It's valuable info for some
readers. Why criticize factually correct info that
properly advises people, when tlrere's so much else
to better spend your effort on?
F. YI., Win95 runs just fine on most old 486s

with sufhcient RAM and disk space. It isn't fast,
but then neither was System 7 on a Mac Classic.
ls lt really that good?
After reading your Lab Test on 17-inch monitors in the August issue of The Computer Paper,
and having given the Diamond Pro from
Mitsubishi such a good rating I was almost certain to buy this modeL
However I try to base my dedsions on just
more than one review and came across one on
the Web at htlp:llwww.cnetcom . Their review of

the Diamond Pro was a lot less appreciative
and gave this model in my opinion an unsatisfactory rating for a monitor, espedally one
I'm going to buy. Can you explain why there
was such a big difference in each review? Keep
up the great world
SH replies: In the world of monitors, much like any

other electronic product, there will be a certain
degree of variation fiom one particular sample to
another,even though they are the exact same
model. If you take five samples of the same model
from the same manufacturer and line them up side
by side, no two images pmduced will be exactly
The 'D' in ISO III is for digital you' ll search the internet, send files, display
screens, all four to nine times quicker than the modern you have now.
The 0 alsodials up your connection much, much
two high-speed digital lines ln one. You can be
faster. You' ll beon-tjne in just 2-3 seconds. And 3'
surfing the'net at high speed with one tine, while you
doubles your capabilities. IS N@HOMEjs actually
make phone calls or receive faxes on the other line.
alike. There will always be certain differences,

some significant, others hardly worth mentioning.
It is my belief that the monitor that was
reviewed at httpJlinvw.crret.corn was in some way
either not properly set up or was an example of one
such monitor with some minor flaws from the factory. I must say, more over, that I completely disagreewith the CNET review as faras the on-screen
display (OSD) goes.
I found the Mitsubishi s OSD to be the easiest
tounderstand and use by far when compared to
any ofthe other 20 or so models we ended up
reviewing. The other review also said the image
was dimwhen compared to other modelsand the
reviewersgo on to say that they prefer the real
thing meaning they like the original Sony
Trinitnm tube over the DiamondTron.
Personal preferences aside, Mitsubishi did not
only licence the Tnnitron technology from Sony,
but made significant enhancements to it as well,
something that is not mentioned in the CNET
review. The 877XM we reviewed was, in every way,
u near-perfect monitor. There were no problems
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and last but not least, a very impressive set of
design specifications.
Having sat down and worked with a total of
25 monitors (some monitors anived too late to be
induded in the review), it wasn't a hard decision to
make. Although its price is higher than several in
the survey, the 877XM was worth every penny in
my opinion. I like to think ofa monitor as being a
long-tenn investment. I wiTI still rely on it long
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move in a campaign to restore its position as the
leader in the Canadian PC market, which has
been eroded somewhat in recent quarters.
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Presario 1200 and 1600 Series multimedia notebooks, the Presario 2200 series of desktops, which
start at under $1,785 {including monitor), the
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lavish line of premium multimedia PCs with features such as DVD drives, Pentium II CPUs,
home-theatre surround sound, and backlit Easy
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power user, and offers a Creativity Imaging
Centre built into the computer that enables video
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playback Both the Presario 4800 and 4500 have
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Windows CE handhelds, the Stylistic is a fulIfunction, Windows PC in a handheld foun with a
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The company says more staff along with a new
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The technical team of seven people will grow
to 15, while the nine-member pubhc sector group
will be expanded to 12. The technical team deals
with Canada-specific issues, such as conformance
to legislation and standards; while the public sector team works on functions of relevance to software used in the public sector.
PeopleSoft Canada's parent company is
PeopleSoft Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif, PeopleSoft
develops high-end client-server applications for
accounting, human resources management,
materiah management, distributionetc. DT
Adobe upchstes PhotoDeluxe ~Adobe Systems
Inc. has released PhotoDeluxe 2.0, a version the
company claims features radically increased
power, along with a radically reduced learning
For about $70, ($55 for an upgrade from version 1.0), PC users can have access to professional level power via a simple point and dick interface. PhotoDeluxe 2.0 includes features that simplify use. One example is one-step 'Red-Eye'
removal fmm scanned photos, Another new feature is a SmartSelect intelligent edge tool that
makes cutting and tracing easy. The Photoshop
Clone Tool is included, along with short Guided
Activities, such as making greeting cards.
At every stage, Adobe representatives claim,
PhotoDeluxe has been built from the ground up
to match "user workflow" the typical steps a
user takes to do a specific task. PhotoDeluxe aho
has a full suite of text handling tools. JE
Contact Adobe, Web site: htipl/www.adobe.corn
IT war stories wanted ~ TORONTO (NB)Toronto consulbng firm Alacrity Inc. wants war
stories about information management and business initiatives dealing with information technology. To en~ourage submissions, the firm is offering a Pentium notebook computer valued at
about $3,000 to the author of the best story submitted each year.
The most interesting stories will appear on
Alacrity's Web site at httpJ/www.tigerpearls.corn,
which is aho where stories can be submitted.
T hey will also appear in t h e company's
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Riding The Tigerwith Toronto consultant Harvey
Gellman.Grant Buckler
Penesenlc pushing l%-120, OVD-RAM
Panasonic, a longtime leader in manufacturing
35-inch PC floppy drives, is aiming to move to
the leading edge of the next generation of PC data
storage technology. The company has already
shown consumer and PC versions of DVD players

and drives, and has greatly increased its promotion of the LS-120 drive, a floppy drive that will
read and write to 100 MB diskettes, as well as regular 1.4 MB diskettes.
The LS-120 has support from a wide range of
industry leaders, including Compaq, and is
competing head to head with other new inass
storage devices from lomega, Fujitsu, and
Syquest. As well, Panasonic announced at
Comdex Canada 97 its intention to enter the
DVD-RAM (recordable DVD) market, where it
will be competing with new products from
Hitachi and Sony.
Panasomc has also introduced new notebooks, the rugged CF-25, and the slim, multimedia-ready CF-35, as well as two outstanding, tiny
digital cameras, the Palm Cam, and the Cool
Shot, and two monitors, the PanaSync S70 17inch monitor, and the PanaFiat PF 70 flat screen
monitor,
The LS-120 is a nice technology: the fact that
it does double duty as a standani floppy drive as
wellasa 100 MB perdiskette mas sstoragebackup
system is a considerable convenience for PC users.
However, as with aII new would-be standards, it
wN require a combination of technical excellence
and first rate marketing to get "mind share"
among PC users and market share at the retail
leveL JE
Contact:
Paoasooio,Tel.905-824-5505.
Web site: http:l/www.panasooic,corn
Phllips leunehes Yele 1 ~ PhiTips Electronics
has introduced the Velo 1, the latest and most feature-packed Windows CE handheld computer on
the market. According to Philips, The Velo 1
allows on-the-go professionals to carry the essentials of their desktop mmputer in the palm of
their hands."
The Velo 1 is based on a high-speed chipset
derived from the Micon Graphics MIPS R4000
RISC chip technology, which Philips c1aims gives
fered somewhat from the limitations of Gle transfer between the handheld and full-sized PCs
{some formatting options are not transferable in
Excel and Word fBes, for example), and the small
keyboard and screen, which make them much
less productive than a notebook PC. It will be
interesting to see if the unique features of the
Velo 1, plus other recent CE offerings such as the
Hewlett-Packard LX 200 and the LG Electronics
Phenom will spark the growth in the CE platform
thathas so farbeen so elusive. JE
Contact: Philips, Tel: 888-FOR-VELO, or 416-7546245. Web site: http:ll www.veiol,corn
Over 407 Chech your eyes ~Acmrding to the
Ontario Association of Optometrists, a condition
called presbyopia often develops as people push
through the big 4-0. What happens to aging eyes
is the crystalline lens becomes stiffer, preventing
it from changing shape enough to focus on close
objects.
A common solution is to buy a pair of reading
glasses,
two sets of glasses if you aho need distance correction, or bifocals. However, the association points out that reading glasses are designed
to make things clear at a distance of about 4045
cm (16-18 in.), This doesn't help presbyopic people to see computer monitors, since they are typ.
ically viewed from a distance of about 24 inches.
Bifocals don't help either, since they are designed
to be most effective when eyes are cast downward whenreading a book, for example. And
switching between two sets of glasses is impractical for people who are constantly shifting their
focus between papers on their desk and the mmputer monitor.
Among the solutions are variabie focus lenses
bifocals, trifocals or multifocals without the
lines. These smooth out the transitions between
correction for close, middle and far distance
All Ispirati models include an NTSCwutput

jack that allows users to mnnect a TV to the system for game playing or big-screen Internetsurflllg.
A matching 14-inch monitor bumps the price

up another $500. The higher-priced models are
similarly equipped, but have 166 MHz or 180
MHz Cyrix MediaGX processors and larger hard
drives. Some modeh also include IBM's VoiceType
Simply Speaking Gold, software that allows users
to dictate directly into a word processor or other
application.
Leasefoown: IBM Canada aho announced a leasing plan called the Ambra Ispirati internet
Solution.
With no money down (on approved credit),
users will be able to lease-own an Ispirati 33EX
for $99 a month (lease teim, 36 months). The system will include a 150 MHz processor, 32 MB of
RAM, a 3.1 GB hard drive, 16x CD-ROM drive, a
15-inch monitor, voice/faxmodem, software bundle and IBM Voice Type. Also included in the
lease rate is an Internet account on the IBM
Global Network for up to 100 hours per month.DT
Contact:
IBM Canada,Tel:800-426-2255.
Web site: http Jtwww.oa.pc.ibm.coro
Ceinpresslon En9lnes technology wavelet
hosed ~ Compression Engines Inc. of Houston
is offering a free file compression engirie fight
version), as well as free Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer plug-ins to allow
users to view images compressed with the
eilgille.
Ciimpression Engines says its wavelet-based

compression engine allows files to be compressed
vlsloll.
But the bottom line advice given by the assoriation is that, even if you' re eyes haven't bothered you in the past, as you enter your 40s, you
should have your eyes checked regularly. DT
IB88 Canada announces Arnhre, tease plan
While the Ambra brand was once seen in the
North America and Europe, Canada is the only
market where it is still being sold. And, judging
by IBM Canada's latest announcements, it
intends to keep the Ambra name alive for some
time,
In July, IBM announced six Ambra models in

the lspirati line. Powered by a 150 MHz, 166 MHz
or 180 MHz Cyrix MediaGX processors, the
ispiiatis are priced as iow as $1,249 for the 150
this computer about twice the speed of other CE

devices. The Velo 1 weighs 374 g (132 oz.), and
has a bacMit g~
e s c reen with 480x240 pixel
resolution, and a 61-key QWERTY keyboardwhich is the nicest keyboard of any of the CE
devices this writer bas tested, with its nicely
siMced, comfortable, curved, springy keys.
Among the most innovative features is a
19.2Kbps internal modem, with a cleverly
designed RJ-11 jack that requires no special cable.
Also, there is a built-in voice-memo capability,
with a good quality omnidirectional mini-microphone incorporated into the case, and memory
storage for up to 16 minutes of audio. Voice messages can be sent via the modem as,WAV files,
and "read" on the recipient's Web browser. The
Velo 1 mmes with 4 MB of ROM and 2 MB of
RAM, which is expandable.
Like other CE devices, the Velo 1 comeswith
the Windows CE operating system and a full suite
of software (including pocket versions of Word,
Excel, and a Web browser) preloaded in ROM, The
base price is about 3999.
Of aII the CE devices currently on the market,
this offers the most complete feature set, and the
most impressive design. The CE devices have suf-
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MHz model without monitor. The price includes

16 MB of RAM, a 1.6 GB hard drive, 33.6Kbps
voicelfaxmodem, 16x CD-ROM drive and
so they are from 50 to 300 times smaller than the

original without the artifacts associated with
other image compression methods.
A commercial version is aho availabe for

US$295. It includes batch file compression, the
ability to mmpress JPEGand TIFF Mes, and it also
lets you expand from the WIF wavelet format and
save to a variety of other Ble formats. The company also produces a software development kit.DT
Contact
:CompressionEngines,Tob888-878-3970.
. Wltat's Nerr is compged by feg Evans, David
Tanaka, Graeme Hennett, and Megan Johnston.
Windows 95 operating system. Also included is a

software bundle comprising Lotus Smar5uite '97,
"Communications Centre software, the 1997
Canadian Encyclopedia Plus, and IBM AntiVirus
softwan IBM is aho throwing in a free coupon
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Typical of the Computer Revolution, the I nternet has
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Sheffield, Ont., is a rural school whose student body sends parents off to work each day in nearby Waterloo, Hamilton and
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It is operating with one 14.4Kbps modem that runs off a sec-
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Better hardware is promised for the fall.
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lacks hardware. In other schools, the reverse is true. A few
lucky schools have both resources and willing staff.
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education?
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to gain or exchange information. According to a Quality
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using the Internet, 79 percent responded that it was used by
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students used it for the same reasons, 31 percent said it was used for email, but only tive
percent replied that they used it to answer

technology questions or to tap into online
databases (the survey allowed for multiple
responses).
Email and beyond
Most of you are familiar with the Internet as
a giant library with current-to-the-hour infor-
mation. Some educators are developing

collfse work around that feature.
Carol Cassidy, geography teacher at

Hilifield-Strathallan College in Hamilton,
Ont., projects a Web site using an overhead

palette to teach her students how to gather
lems, real d ebates and "real-time"

exchanges.
Part of this process, of course, includes
such basic lessons as
how to print a section of
an articleor how to use email to ask questions of the author. Cassidy also hasstudents
brainstorm the topic and then do further
individual research using Internet search
engines such as
AltaVista or Yahoo! to sort out
what is relevant and what is not . They are
also asked to decide what category the infor-
b y The H eritage Project at

Foundation.
problem solving, searching and communicating are not just a classroom affair for a grade.
Other sites have problems, solutions, frequently asked questions (FAQs), resouKe lists
They are learning to ask questions of profes-
Students are also using email to pose specific

questions to authors or mentors.
the CRB
and mentors, who can be anyone from older
students to experts, These provide teachers,

parents and home schoolers with an additional resource.
But what is soimportant is that they make
learning "active' exposing kids to experts
and requiring them to be involved. I fmd it
amazing that so many people donate time
and energy to helping nd encouraging kids
in this way.
The library function, email and Internet
projects all fulfill an essential need for
Canadians stretched out in a thin ribbon over
thousands of kilometers: they let users mmmunicate as if they lived next door. No longer
are they dependent on colleagues or friends
for the exchange of information. Nor do they
have to travel 1,000 or more kilometers to a
mnference.
Because messagescan be sent and replies
received in less than an hour without running up a huge phone bill and questions may
ticular author in greater depth.
be thrown out at large to the community
online, geographic barriers are becoming less
Collaborative learvslnli
Another way that computers and the Internet relevant.
are changing the way kids leam and solve
problems is the beginning wave of interactive Converging media
Television gave kids a passive but colorful
projects that is becoming available.
While Cassidy develops her own pro- look at what else was going on in the world.
jects, a significant number of Internet sites But you can't "pause" the television and ask
are becoming available that have structured the character what she thinks about land
programs already developed. Many of these mines orhow helearned to programin a cerinvolve sharing information with other tain language.
But the Internet is changing that too. For
schools across the county or globe, such as
Adventure Everest from CCT Software Plus example, the ScientiIlc American Frontiers
has
or the Canada 2000 project being developed series with Alan Alda on PBS
sionals
Many teachers at high school or mllege
Can you remember the name of a single
author of a science or math text you used in level are encouraging students to make useof
schooly Probably not, yet today's kids, the thousands of internet discussion groups
remember and know them because they are on everything I'rom 17th century English litconversing with the writers the textbook erature to robotics.
A directory for such groups, called Izszt,
authors themselves are reviewingl And students are being infused with the insights and contains information on over 71,000 discusenthusiasm that the original investigators can sion groups. Subscriptions are usually free.
convey.
Students can sit in and read posted questions
Students taking part in the Adventure and answers or post their own. Rephescome
Everest project conversed with legends such from experts and amateurs all over the world.
as Sir Edmund Hillary. Marsvilie participants The interchanges add zest to topics that are
interacted with Canadian astronauts. This dry in a textbook and add enrichment for
type of contact adds a flavor of reality and classroom discussions.
Bernard Duyfhuizen, head of the English
excitement. Traditional texts re like boiled
potatoes by comparison: we may all eat them department at the University of Wisconsin, in
from time to time and stili need them, but Eau Claire, has found that groups such as
students are on the verge of becoming I.istserv can "wake" a student up and encourgourmet diners of information, people and age them to research and think about a par-
and assess information on specific topics of

current interest. One such subject has been
the raging debate over land mines.
Her students not only learn how to access
the Internet but are also immersed in an
ongoing political and humanitarian mntro- issues.
versy. This is active learning with real prob-
And for high school students, it means that
Dialogue, discussion and debate
Information technology,research and current

affairs are rolled into a single exercise.
Wired edmation
The Internet is also being drafted as a
vehicle for delivenng resources and projects

for both classroom and teachers. Carleton
University's SchoolNet, which offers online
interactive projects and downloadable
resources, is the model for Internet projects
worldwide. SchoolNet takesprogramsdirectly
to schools with Internet connections, rather
than requiring teachers to travel long dis-
tances to access new materials on "professional development" days. Some projects are
collaborative and students share data with
mation hlls under: is it authoritative, an
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preparing the kind of questions to keep kids

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has ready-made objects."
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by business (check the classified ads in any
newspaper) but uses a game format because
today's kids have been weaned on cotnputer
and Nintendo-type games. As a result, they
understand the sort of structure to head for
with the code.
Moreover, says Elliot Bay, a math major

tumed Pied Piper for junior programmers,
game development teaches more math than
business applications. So, when students need

to figure out if two beasts are going to collide,
they learn to use such concepts as absolute
value functions or the equation for a cirde.

How many kids in the Winnipeg areacould really be interested in programming?
Last winter (maybe that's the key!), they averaged 86 kids per week in classes. This summer
they had 10 kids a week in for five different
sessions doing just Visual Basic. By the end of
July, they already had 100 kids signed up for
Visual Basic in the fall!
Though these camps are non-residential,
they have received enquiries I'mm as far away
as New York City from parents desperate for
this sort of opportunity for their children,
They all seem to plea for something like

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BurgeLS and Bay are developing a new

course at the Grade 9 to 11 level on three-
dimensional C++ game development. What

kids could come out with is the ability to cre-
ate games that look like smaller-scale, sanitized versions of Doom.

Another unique aspect of their business is
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in a strip mall, they share space and computers with Automated Design Systems, an engi-
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computer-aided manufacturing and design.
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places, and take part in learning.
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ongoing research project, such as MayaQuest froin MECC.
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the. projects. To students they offer rnentors, who are often
leaders in their field, for example, woridwlassscientists.
pushing "back to basics."

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projects around these

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ago. Now, ongoing Internet projects provide the real-world The Heritage Project, which originated in Montreal and is
textbook and framework for problem solving in the present.
sponsored by the CRBFoundation, started in 1987, using teleStudying the planets?Follow NASA missions asphotos and vision, but has moved onto the Internet, giving developers the
So what is the point to all this? Computers and modems
are a tool to increase students' active involvement in learning data are transmitted back to Earth and copied to the Internet; capacity to grow and be more flexible, according to project
and problem solving in the real world and in global or at least keep pace with Canadian dimbers as they make their way to participant Deborah Morrison.
the summit of Mount Everest; or watch and correspond with
national issues.Teachers are moving further away from the "I
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the site.
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On the other side of the country, B.C.-based
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culture.
CCT hopes to model this program after its
successful involvement in Adventure Everest
Online. It followed Canadian and American
climbers who went to Mt. Everest in April of
CCT Software Plus and VR Didatech are sponNetwork. The Heritage Project was launched soring the Canadian Heritage Interactive
in 1991 to raise awareness of the diversity and Journey, which is scheduled to begin April 14,
depth of Canadian heritage.
1998. Two bicycle teams of students will leave
Some of the project's earlier Internet simultaneously from Newfoundland and
experiments included a postage-stamp design British Columbia to meet in Ottawa.
contest, and a Canadian heroes project. The
The idea is for each team to experience
latter was intended to stimulate discussion
the culture, heritage, language and lifestyles
among students on what a Canadian is and of the communities they pass through. But
this year and included Canadians Alan

Hobson and Jamie Clarke in their third
attempt to scale Everest. Over 100 online
what a hero or heroine is. These can still be
these students will take with them other stu-
found on the Internet site with instructions
McLelland and Stewart and the Microsoft
Still on the site and open to anyone are

the questions asked by kids and answers of 20
experts. The entire file runs hundreds of pages
so there are lots of opportunities to leam
interesting facts first-hand. The MayaQuest
expedition and site are interactive learning at
its best. Don't finish the school year without
it!
Over 150,000 kids from Grades 4 to 12
On to Mars
After the Challenger crashed in 1986, the
families of the crew started an educational
program called the Challenger Center for
learned about hardships and setbacks, and
Space Science Education. The goal was to use
simulated problem-solving sessions. A high
space exploration as a theme to foster a long-
dents from across the country via the
school teacher and veteran climber from

Alberta, Dave Vavra-Rodney, was stationed at
for teachers on how to use the project in their
Internet. The virtual travelers will follow the
the Everest base camp to provide daily com-
term interest in math, science and technology. Their project, called Marsville, has been
adopted across North America with addition-
classroom.
journey's progress, sponsor the team locally
munication with participating schools.
al local sponsorship.
The Heritage Project's latest interactive

Internet undertaking is Canada 2000, which
via their school and submit the heritage of

their own community on the Internet.
S tudents from Grades 5 to 8 w ork i n

groups to build simulations of th e f irst
is being launched in Newfoundland and
Down Mexico way
is that kids collect historical and cultural
This month, schools will be asked to submit proposals outlining what they would do
if they were chosen to host a bicycle team for
a day. They will also profile their community,
information, including oral histories, about
including its history, traditions and unsung
their communities.
heroes.
These will then be catalogued in English

and French for access on the Internet. Ideas
will be shared. Target groups are high school
to university level. Two pilots are planned:
a rediscovery of who we are, the Heritage

Interactive J
will be a vehide for con-
Labrador in c onnection wit h t h e 5 00th
anniversary of John Cabot's arrival. The idea
one at Memorial University, in St. John' s,
with a team of academics working with students and another in Toronto lead by
Kidsnergy, which is all student-driven.
Typical of Internet projects, the participants take an interactive role in shaping the
project. According to Morrison, "if you build
it, they will come. But what will they do with
it." The project is open to schools or home
"More than an exploration of history and
ourney
nections, communication and collaboration,"

according to Blake Edwards at CCT Software
Plus.
activities tied to curriculum involved students
in following the climbers' quest and struggle

to fulfill their dream.
Still more adventure and study was found this
(human) habitat on t h e p lanet Mars.
year on the MayaQuest site from MECC, the

developer of Oregon Trail, one of the earliest
successful educational programs that last year
celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Participating teachers attend a seminar in the
MayaQuest also began its life as an educational game. Using a similar theme, a team of
five real "explorers" cycled to archaeological

sites in Mexico and Central America. For the
third consecutive year, they collaborated with
onsite scientists who were attempting to
unlock why the Mayan civilization collapsed.
Carrying high-tech equipment, the five

era, laptop and an Internet connection, Daily explorers are linked to over a million students
reports will be posted on the Web site. in classrooms around the world. The students
Schools will be able to send questions via tapping into the quest, interacted with
email to the teams and responses will be post- archaeologists and experts online, viewed
ed on the site. The goal is a made-in-Canada images of the trek, and studied the Mayans
project incorporating multimedia approaches and contemporary Central American culture.
Each team will travel with a digital cam-
fall to ensure success in the program (applications are available each fall on the Enoreo
Web site an initiative of th e Education
Network of Ontario that is accessible to stu-
dents and teachers).

Each group of kids builds a habitation system model: air supply, communications, food
production and delivery, recreation, temperature control, transportation, waste manage-
ment, water supply or energy. For example,

the food production and delivery group must
learn about nutrition requirements, potential
sources of protein on Mars, how food might
be grown on Mars and long-term storage.
Kids also use the Internet to share ideas
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shared their designs with other students

across the country via videoconference.
This year, according to coordinator Sheila

Rhodes, there will also be an online double-
on Link-Up Day they are responsible for
with kids in other schools and private sector
explaining and defending their habitat to

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On April 26, the Ontario Science Centre

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the future Martian explorers via a link to their
training facility in Houston. Participants
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Uhretto SOCT
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what a toy to wish for this Christinas.
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Best new software appflcatlon: Adobe

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scratching their heads.
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thought and consideration.
As an independent school, Mulgrave is
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greater share of responsibility for the outcome.
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The fhst thing we realized was that the discussion needed to take a step back from
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tent with the steep growth the school was

experiencing, We also had to take into account
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staff at the school was that we should buy
computers and software with Inwlassroom use
in mind. There was to be no dedicated "computer lab." There were two reasons for this.
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Whether students were using the comput-
Training in any kind of formal setting is

always a tough task in schools. Teachers generally have more than enough to do in trying
to handle the many day-toAy responsibili-
creative non-classroom uses for the computer.

Several parents, for example, worked
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ties placed on them without further burdens

being placed on them with hours of set train-
proved to be a wonderful place to gather

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ing course time. One approach that seems to

have worked is to show teachers the kinds of
things that are possible and then make time
camera), online copies of weekly school

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available to them as help is needed.
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general tool used by staff, teachers and students to author their own pages,
tions, we gathered together a number of classic application types (e.g., a world atlas on
What we learned
Several lessons have emerged from th is
process, The first is that training is invaluable.
Members of the technology committee con-
CD-ROM, an encyclopedia,some French language software, a variety of reference materials, some creative writing tools and so on),
demonstrated them to th e teachers and
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ducted training sessions for teachers on sever-
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al nights following the installation of the

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that the school did not have to spend money

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students or teachers.
ers to type book reports or science projects on

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fermat), a spreadsheet that included features
such as built-in graphing and "zooming"
before it was ever fashionable to do so on a
handheld, and a good collection of time and
data management applets.
On the strength of these features, it
became (and still is) the best-selling handheld
computer in Europe. Yet in North America, it
stN warrants little more than a blip on the
radar of those tracking this young sector of
the PC industry.
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that the keyboard was too small to touchtype, the software did not use either IX5 or
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voice recorder offers external buttons for

record, play/stop, and rewind so that you can
record quick "voice notes" to yourself, even
when the Series 5 is closed and switched off.
Psion that uses Microsoft's own Internet
ROM: Built-in applications stored in 6 MBROMmodule.

RAM: 4 MB or 6 MB (capable of storing 2,000 pages
of text, 40,000 appointments, or 20,000 database
and are able to cram a great deal more on the
As soon as you hit any of these external but-
Explorer code to let you drag and drop files
records)
screen than before. As with previous versions

of the machine, however, it is easy to zoom in
tons, it immediately switches on
and begins to play,
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Meanwhile, the built-in converter library
makes the Series 5 file compatible with
Microsoft Office 95, Lotus SmartSuite and
Corel Office/WordPerfect suite.
All-in-all this is an impressive redesign of
what was already a solid product. As I work
more closely with it over the coming
months, I' ll be in a better position to let
CompactFlash: Oneslot for up to 10 MB storage on

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and out on any application so that you do not

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The interface has been com-
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you know where the bugs and foibles
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makers of other handheld devices
used to the older Series 3 keyboard that this

took a little getting used to. After spending a
little time with it, I have to say that it is a lot
more like typing on the keyboard of your
Also, voice recording takes up 6KB per second
average laptop computer.

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pression). But it is still useful to be able to
in this product are. But on the basis

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features are available for the Series 3, it will be
another few months before they are ready for
the 32-bit Series 5. If you need those features
right away, then you might be better off with
a Series 3 or a Windows CE machine.
In the United Kingdom (where this review
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make a quick voice note to yourself, for exam-
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ple, while driving.

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you buy your handheld computer. To this
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such as cellular phones). The first big

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offers pen support and a quite stylish
designer pen is included in a special
compartment of the Series 5 exactly for
this purpose. All applications are penenabled, although none (except the sketch-
pad) really require it.

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s lide-forward ",touch-type" keyboard. It i s
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vious Series 3 keyboards. Ironically, I was so
this machine has to be the voice recorder.
Although voice recording has been available

on the Series 3 for a while, it has always been
a bit difficult, as you really needed to have the
machine open and switched on in order to
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record
or "rewind",
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fully charged batteries to make the most of it.
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Sometimes they are referred to as family trusts,
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they should be considere(L Many people think trusts
are just for the rich or for people with complex fmancial and investment affairs. That is not the case at all.
Trusts are a very common way of dealing with a
one or a number of trust options could meet your business and tax planning needs.
Basically, a trust is a legal structure whereby a
trustee deals with property or assets, e.g, cash, stocks,
bonds, etc., over which the trustee has control, for the
benefit of persons called beneficiaries, The trustee
could also be one of the beneficiaries. Although the
trustee has legal title to the trust property, beneficial
ownership rests with the beneficiaries.
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testamentary trusts. A living trust (also referred to as an
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Family trust: In this situation, you could

have some of the shares in a company
owned by a spouse held in the name of a
family trust. These shares could be nonvoting shares. This family trust could be
comprised of the other spouse and children. If it is structured the correct way, the
monies that would go to the trust by
means of dividends couid then be distributed by means of dividends to each of the
members of the trust. If the members of
the trust were not receiving any other
income, they could each take out $23756
of dividend income each year tax-free. If
the family members were minors, the
n ormal Revenue Canada policy o f

attributing income to a minor to the parents for tax purposes would not be applic-
able.
Estate freeze.. If you own a company or
have other assetsthat have shown a consistent pattern of growth over a period of
time, and you anticipate that that trend
will continue, an estate freeze using a corporation set up for the purpose, along
with a living trust agreement, could be an
effective strategy to consider. The practical
effect of this technique is to freeze the
value of the assets in your name as of the
effective date of the agreement. All future
attribution rule would not apply, if the
capital gains will accrue to the benefit of
trust was formed properly. That is, the
your beneficiaries, e.g., children.
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use a trust company as the trustee or cotrustee, Because of the legal and tax implications of setting up a trust agreement correctly, you should obtain expert advice from a tax
accountant and lawyer who deals in wills and
estate matters. 0
There are many other uses of a living trust,

including supporting your children, divorce
settlements, looking after your financial needs
in your retirement, avoiding probate and
ensuring the confidentiality of your wishes,
T
estam
entary trusts
There are a range of uses for this type of trust.
Douglas Gray, I.LJK is a Vancouver-based

lawyer by training, speaker, cohonnist and author
of 15 bestselllng booksplus a real estateinvestment sofh/ntte p/ogram. His books includeThe
Complete Canadian Small Business Guide and
Home Inc.: The C anadian Home-Based
Business Guide(both plrblished byMcGraw-Hill
I(yrrson) ansf Start and Run a P rofitable
As mentioned earlier, these trusts are included in your will. Common options include the
spousai trust, trusts set up for minor children
or grandchildren, trusts that provide for family members with special needs, discretionary
trusts for children who are spendthrifts and
gifts for charities.
The selection of a trustee is a critically
important part of the process. Many people
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determining overall system performance. The
reason is quite simple. Your CPU spends
much of its time sitting around waiting for
the hard drive to keep up.
Before the CPU can process any instructions, the data has to be delivered to it from
some medium, whether a floppy disk, a CDROM or a hard drive, The CPU performs its
internal operations in mere nanoseconds,
while hard drives must cope with much slower times of milliseconds.
Although we humans may think of a millisecond as being an incredibly short period
of time, to a CPU it's next to eternity. One
millisecond (ms) is actually one million times
slower than one nanosecond (ns). Comparing
these two is like comparing a supersonic aircraft to a turtle.
Inside the CPU, all operations take place
on a microscopic and electronic level.
There are no large, bulky mechanical components that have to move around, which is the
case with a hard drive's motors, platters and
from being applied to it. This holds especially

true when the drive is under power. During
operation, the platters spin at an average of
4,500 RPM (revolutions per minute) and a
sudden shock during this time could very easily send the heads crashing into the platters,
causing extensive damage, and very likely

data loss and drive failure. This is known as a
"head crash."
Believe me, I know! A short while ago
while working on one of my home computers, I had the case open so that I could install
a second drive for a short while. The case was
data was there, clearly visib'.e, but was now in
leaning against my desk on the flooz The
the middle of a new jungle of bad sectors,
power had been tumed on, and just as I went

to reach for the cover to close the case, I accidentally knocked over the tower. Since the
case was leaning at a 45 degree angle against
my desk, it only slid down a few inches, but it
was enough to send the heads of the drive
crashing into the platters.
In a desperate attempt to see if I had lost
any data, I reset the machine and hoped for
the best, while expecting the worst. All my
making it impossible to retrieve. Realizing the

inevitable, I reformatted the drive to no avail.
Every few seconds of disk access, there would
be bad sectors showing up all over the place.
I then went into the BIOS to mark all of
the bad sectors thinking I would end up losing a few MB of my entire drive and count my
blessings. After turningthe computer on, the
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about hard drives are platters and read/write
heads. Disc-shaped platters made of aluminum or glass inside the hard drive are coated with a magnetic substrate that store the
digital information. These platters cannot
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because even one tiny particle could come
between the platter and the read/write head,
thereby causing it to physically scratch the
platter.
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same thing happened again
more bad sectors, this time in completely new areas of the
drive. At this point, the drive was now unusable.
Although I didn't lose anything as far as
data goes thanks to nightly tape backups, I

did learn a valuable lesson on just how fragile
hard drives can be. Needless to say, special
precautions should always be taken when
handling these delicate and quite fragile
devices.
SCSI or IDH
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SCSI.
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slower spin rate and a much lower data transfer rate than SCSI. Over the past couple of
years, however, this has aII changed. IDE drives are now designed to spin at 4,500 and
5,400 RPM, something that was unique to
SCSI just a short while ago. As a result, data
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Accesstimes have aho decreased, and it is
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within a drive. For example, if you partition

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have both a C: and D: drive. Data stored on
one partition is completely isolated from the
same test performed on a SCSI connection

proves to be just another everyday task for the
hardware. The same holds true for bard drives, although this test is easier to realize
other. If one partition were to be reformatted,
came along and raised the ante to 10 MB/sec. because of the much slower access times of
Shortly thereafter came Wide SCSI, which floppy drives,
the data on the other one would be left perfectly intact.

Partitioning is crucial to saving precious
Performance issues aside, one of the

and finally UW SCSI, which is capable of sus- things that clearly distinguished one techtaining transfer rates internally of up to 40 nology over another m the past was price.
Although there is still a notable price differMB/sec.
As we can see, with the new Ultra IDE ence between IDE and SCSI, SCSI drives have
interface capable of transfer rates up to 33.3 come down a great deal in price over the past
MB/sec., it gives SCSI-2 and Wide SCSI a run year or so, For example, a typical 3.2 GB
for their money. Only the latest breed of UW- EIDE drive costs $360 today. Its SCSI counSCSI can outperform the high transfer rates terpart goes for $485, a difference of only
now achieved by UIDE, but the price differ- $125.
Of cours, there is still a great difference
ence between these two technologies is not
even remotely close. UW-SCSI drives still cost when it comes to regular SCSI and Ultra Wide
roughly triple that of the new breed of UIDE SCSI. For the majority of home users, IDE drives will more than do the job, but if you' re
ones.
When it comes to multitasldng, SCSI wins keen on SCSI, look towards getting a simple
SCSI-2 version. And of course there's the cost
hands down. The majoradvantage SCSI has
over IDE is its capability to perform true mul- of the SCSI controller. These can range anytiple data access. In a multi-user environment where from $80 for a really basic one, all the
such as a local area network (LAN) this can be way up to $550 for the latest breed of UW
models. On the IDE platform, separate cona lifesaver.
When IDE drives have to deal with simul- trollers are a thing of the pastnearly every
taneous access situations, the controller has motherboard manufactured after January of
to tell the CPU to switch between the various 1996 will have two IDE controllers built right
tasks, thereby allocating CPU resourcesto the onto the board. With these two connectors
pushed the limits even higher, to 20 MB/s,
job of keeping track of what task haspriority
acting as individual channels, you can run a
to the hard drive at any given time.
total of four IDE devices at any given time.
hard drive space, or more accurately, not

wasting any unnecessarily. No matter what
file system your operating systemuses, it will

waste a certain amount of your hard drive
automatically. The rule is that the larger your
partition, the more space you are likely to
waste. This holds true for any operating system such as DOS, Windows3.1, or Windows
95. OS/2 and Windows NT have addressed

this problem, and don't suffer from the same
limitations as the previously mentioned oper-
ating systems, although they aren't quite perfect either.
It's a good idea to keepyour partition sizes

equal to, or less than, 1 MB if you' re running
any of those three offending platforms. Due
to the complexity of this and other topics in
the world of hard drives, I'm going to leave

the discussion here, and ask you to read our
May '97 Test Lab on hard drives and their
inner technology. If you don't have a copyof
that edition, you can find it online at
http://tcp,ca .
In cenclualorL..
Deciding on a hard drive shouldn't be a
SCSI drivesdon't suffer from this problem. Not only is it cost-effective to have the conTheir controllers have on-board processors troller right on the motherboard, but it's a
that take care of all the work, and they can great convenience aswelL
painstaking challenge. By doing a little bit of
research and comparative shopping, you' ll

be able to make a decision in no time, and
allow simultaneous data access for true multi-
tasking. Try reading from a floppy disk while
(Ultra IDE) variety of drives and controllers writing to it at the same time on an IDE conon the market, internal data transfer rates up nection. One operation will have to comto 33.3 MB/sec. (megabytes per second) are pletely finish before the other can start. The
PartitionlnII to save space

No matter how big a drive you buy, you,wiII
invest in a component that ls much more

than just a place to store file never to be used
want to partition it once you bring it home.

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the Web. It won't run the most current 3D
action games, but if the system comes with a
CD-ROM drive, it will run most educational
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system is lacking these basic features, you
more for a older model than what a new one

costs in the store.
Preferably, bring a computer-savvy friend
with you to act as a BS detector. Never simply
buy a box full of dusty computer parts out of
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town dump, probably can't be beat. If you

have money to spend on a new PC, you aren' t
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refurbished, and which comes with a shortterm warranty (basic protection against a
used computer dealer. Typically, for around
For the best bargains, if you have lots of free
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meets, or meeting the trucks pulling in at the
having to do a lot of legwork, you will pay a

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skimp on some parts, and add them at a later
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The nextgeneration
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which can automatically deliver "pushed"

content. We may be in the minority, but we
hate pushy behavior. Speaking of which....
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are good you' ve used a browser from
Netscape or Microsoft. New, both companies have updated and enhanced their products. But are the new features must-have
additions... or just more code bloat for functions you' ll never need? In this article, we' ll
look at the all-important usability factor of
the new browsers and see how they compare,
and how they fare when compared against
older releases.
MIcrosoft Internet Explorer4.0 PR2

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Windows 3.x are also available from
www.microsoft.corn/ie/)
Pros: Pages 'load faster than from within
Communicator. Java performance is up to 30 times
faster than Netscape'
s in other words, almost tolerable. Better interface, better integrated with Windows
and more customizable settings, Fuliy supports
Microsoft lntelliMouse. It's free
Cons: FTP,VRMLand Web-authoring functions inferior to those of Netscape. Minor bugs and occasional
freezes. And, hey, who wants to see Microsoft winagainrr
Micro soft continues to aggressively push IE4 toolbar loaded Microsoft Word 97, despite
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www.microsoft.corn/ie/). This version supports "pushed content," subscriptions, URL
autoxompietion, offline browsing and frames
views of Channels, Favorites, Search and
History windows that are both effective and
fast. Although the Mac preview release of IE4
does not ship with predefined channels and

Active Channels are not yet supported, it supports pages in Channel Definition Format
(CDF). Thus, Channels created for the
Windows release will work as is
developers
Security continues to be a major concern for Web
surfers, and a source of grief for both Netscape and
Microsoft, ashackersandresearchers the world over
do not need to create a separate Mac version.

The Mac version lacks the Desktop integration features of the Windows release.
Netacape Cornrnunlcator 4.0'l

Pros: Built-in FTP client can access sites
that IE cannot reach. Setter JavaScript
implementation than that in Microsoit's
browser results in fewererror message

diaiogs. TrueOoc
support allowsprecise
their computer or network
font control. Improved plug-in and automatic update supporL Optional Netcaster
functions. Overall, we prefer Netscape's News feature adds "push" and "Web-top" feaReader, but Microsoft's email client. (It' s tures.
Cons: Crashesat least as muchasrecent
worth mentioning that Miaosoft Network
u sers cannot use t hi s email d i e nt, a s Netscape releases, lacks several features
found in iE4. CSSimplementation, while
Microsoft's own ISP service inexplicably still
improved over 4.0 beta releases, is inferidoes not support POP3 mail services.)
We' ve not yet fully explored Microsoft's or to iE's. Lacks support for HTML 4.0
draft specs.
Dynamic HTML Unfortunately, it is not the
many other programs. Both the Mail and

News functions offer Altering and anti-spam
same as Netscape's dialect (a situation we sincerely hope is resolved as soon as possible),

but in superfical tests of both, it seems safe to
say that Miaosoft's is both easier to program

and more capable. Will anybody use it2 Time
will tell....
At press time, Microsoft had just released
the first beta of Internet Explorer 4.0 for
"accept no cookies" option.

The VRML viewer bundled with the full
version of Communicator (and easily installable into the base installation via Netscape's
JAR automatic update system) is superior fo
the one in K4 in a few ways: It supports
into tables, remain unresolved. However, embedded MIDl Ales in VRML worlds and
while few HTML mavens would choose offers better support of Java and audio extenCommunicator over a standalone Web-page sions, not to mention the proprietary
WebFX/Live3D extensions that Netscape
editor, its functions are, for the most part
more elegantly implemented than those in . acquired when it bought Paper Software in
IE4's FrontPad
essentially the editor section
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of the FrontPage 97 package.
Conclusion
Email in Communicator is considerably
improved over previous releases and poses a Version 4> of Communicator is a worthwhile
download for users of Netscape 3.0. However,
formidable threat to dedicatfew users are likely to prefer Netscape's browser
interface or performance in an unbiased mrnand Claris Emailer, Frankly,
we prefer Netscape's offering parison with IE4. Even with its Web/desktop
o ver b o t h of
thes e ; integration features disabled (as easy as a muMicrosoft's Outlook Express ple of clicks and a restart), K4 quiddy became
is arguably superior in inter- our favorite Web browser and email client.
Those looking for a superior Web browsface and approximately at
ing experience should check out IE4,
par in features. Spam filterNetcaster,Natscape's
although many people will probably turn off
ing, autoinatic re-routing
continue to find loopholes in browser security. The
goodnews is,bothcompanieshavemoved quicklyto

plug security breachesandfix bugs. Here,weseea
warning fromNetcaster's installer, cautioning theuser
that a Javaapplet is "requesting unusualaccess" to
While we prefer Communicator's built-in

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are both sensibly implemented and easy to

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Gone will be the P-120s, the 133s, the
150s and the plain non-MMX 166 MHz chips.
To further encourage consumers to upgrade,
Intel is also expected to slash the prices on its
processors anywhere from 20 to 30 percent,
depending on the speed.
Although this hadn't been confirmed by
Intel at press time, several of our contacts at
various companies have given us the same
information.
Assuming these changes to its processor
line are true, Intel has now defined the entry-
level Pentium system as being powered by a

166 MHz MMX processor. Also, Intel recently
{June 2) unveiled its latest and final addition to the Pentium line the 233 MHz MMX
chip.
This makes things quite simple, actually.
You have a 166 MHz clock speed for entrylevel, 200 MHz for mid-rangeand the new
high-end processor in the Pentium line is the

233 MHz variety. If you' re shopping for something with even greater performance, you
have the choice of the Pentium Pro processor
and the new Pentium II processor line, with
speeds of 233, 266 and 300 MHz.
Because the Pentium Pro was designed
strictly for 3? bit applications, it never really
caught on with the home market. It became a
popular choice for servers and high-end

workstations. The Pentium II on the other
hand, has been fitted with the necessary registers to handle 16-bit code in nonwmulation
mode. This means 16-bit applications will

also run significantly faster, not just the 32-
bit applications.
With the Pentium Pro, a 16-bit applica-
tion would run slower in many cases than it

would on a Pentium processor at the same
clock speed. Since the Pentium I offers the
best of both worlds, it will be a very attractive
expensive today, since they are likely to come

down in price in the future.
VIdeo graishlcs cards
t was bound to happen sooner or later. It is

time again at Intel Corporation to decide
what paths its lines of processors will take.
If you happen to be one of the many who
own a Pentium processor, you won't be
pleased to hear that the Pentium will soon be
discontinued. However, you' ll be glad to
know that along with the bad news comes
What's out there

Up until now, your choice of Intel processor
speeds ranged from 120 to 200 MHz. It's been
a while since anything under 120 MHz was
seen advertised.
When we made our calls to the various
Test Lab participants this month, we had our
minds set on entry-level machines powered
by 133 MHz Pentium processors. Imagine our
surprise when several vendors told us they
were informed by Intel that as of late July
{near the time of this writing), it will not be
manufacturing anything under a 166 MHz
from 30 MB to 100 MB. Load a few and before

you know it, you' ll be wishing you had
bought something roomier. But no matter
what size of drive you decide on, always tiy to
plan ahead a little, and think of how your
needs might change over the course of the
next year or two. You may not want to spend
a lot of money on components that are
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option not only for servers and other powerhungry machines, but also for the powerhungry home user with a little bit of cash to
spare.
Prices have dropped significantly over the
past year on every processor. This time last
year, a bare Pentium 166 CPU would cost you
around $575 on the street. Today, that same
processor soon to be discontinued an be
had for only $215, Likewise, the Pentiuin Pro
processor one year ago sold for about $1,150
for the 200 MHz version. That same processor
can be yours now for a mere $700.
The new breed of processors, however, is

still quite pricey. The 266 MHz Pentium II
goes for around $1,275 for the CPU alone.

The 300 MHz versions are scheduled for production in the third quarter of '97 according
to Intel, and are expected to cost quite a bit
more,
Thebasics
If you really think about it, students don' t
require a great amount of computing power
to accomplish their everyday school work.
This is why we originally wanted to go with
133 MHz processorsbecause they offer more

than adequate power for most, and are currently available for only $170. These low
prices can go a long way towards keeping the
entire system's price down, which is something students {and their parents) will appreciate.
The CPU
As we' ve pointed out, the new entry-level
speeds are a tad higher, meaning you get

more computing power. At the same time an
expected price drop would put the P-166
MMX CPU at just under $300, or about $85
more than a non-MMX version.
72 SEPTEM8ER 'gl THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EOITION
And once again, depending on what your

computer will be mainly used for, you should
give some thought to what type of video card
you want. A basic PCI card can be found for
$40. It will deliver plenty of perforinance if
your needs are basic, such as doing "homework" in an office suite or other such integrated environment.
If, however, your course workload requires
you to do some computer-assisted design
{CAD) work or 3D modeling, you'd be far better off investing in the new breed of cards that
offers the best of both worlds excellent 2D
and 3D performance. Some of the more popular are the Matrox Mystique, the new
Millennium II, and ATI's new cards based on
the Rage Pro chip.
Thus, if you plan on doing some gaming

on your new machine, don't get caught
unprepared. Even the most simple games
today require a fair amount of graphics performance. They may not all be 3D scrollers at
20 frames per second, but many developers
today are designing games to use 32,000 and
good or bad. It is a known fact that the floating point unit on either of these processors is
not comparable to Intel's, As a result, applica-
even 16.7 million colors,

One such example is the new Links LS
1998 edition card, which can deliver incredible game play at 1,600x1,200 resolution at
16.7 million colors. {If you' re a golf fan, this
is as real as it gets on your computer screen.)
At this resolution and color depth, your video
card will need plenty of video processing
muscle, and also plenty of RAM.
We' ve seen many of the popular video
cards undergo some significant price cuts in
the past six months. A Matrox Mystique with
4 MB onboard, for example, can be purchased
for as little as $175 today. While 2 MB should
tions that rely on floating point arithmetic
suffice for many, if you can spare the extra
will run more slowly than on these processors' than on their Intel counterparts. This is
one of the major reasons for the price difference between the various companies' proces-
$40 or $50, you might as well get a card with
RAIN and mass storage

Aside from the processor, we recommend
decide what size monitor to buy. If you

already have one you' re happy with, enough
your PC be equipped with 16 MB or 32 MB of

RAM. Because RAM prices are at an all-time
low, it may be wise to invest in 32 MB,
These days, storage options are quite
extensive. Hard drive sizes range from 1.6 to
6.4 GB using the IDE interface. Deciding on
what size to get is simply a matter of what
said, If, however, you' re in the market for a

complete system that includes a monitor, we
recommend you look towards buying a 1Sinch model. For students, this screen size will
offer a large enough viewing area to run the
majority of your applications at a resolution
of 800x600 without causing eyestrain, while
at the same time keeping the overall system
type of applications you will use, and how
cost down.
There are, of course, alternatives to Intel

processors. Cyrix has recently unveiled its
new 6x86MX processor, which is supposed to
offer Pentium II perforinance at roughly half
the cost. Likewise, AMD's new K6-233 is also
reported to give Intel's new processors a run
for their money.
There is a catch, though. Depending on
the applications you' re running, buying one
of these low-cost alternatives can be either
although 16 MB will do for most users' needs.
many you expect to use at any given time.
If you plan to use nothing more than a

typical office suite such as Microsoft Office,
Corel WordPerfect Suite, or Lotus SinartSuite,
then a 1.6 GB drive will be more than
4 MB onboard. More memory allows you to

use higher resolutions and/or more. colors.
Ilonltors
To make use of that video card, you' ll have to
It's pretty much over for the older 14-inch

models, with 15-inch being the new mini-
mum standard. However, you still see some
14-inch models included with some systems,
enough. If, howeveryou plan on throwing in
or sold separately for $220 to $250. Get something that bears a name you recognize with a
a few games from time to time, you'd be better off investing in a drive with a capacity of
at least 2.1 GB.
good combination of features and price. A

good 15-inch monitor can be bought for just
under $350, with the more expensive brands
Games, like all applications these days, are with Trinitron tubes going up to around the
hogging more and more precious hard drive
space. A typical game will require anywhere
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Under ideal conditions, a 28.8Kbps modem
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Entry level
Conrinledfrom page 72
kilobytes per second (KBps), while a 33.6Kbps

$500 mark. The more expensive monitors
offer virtually the same resolutions and dot
pitch as their less expensive counterparts, but
tend to have more features in the on-screen
modem will increase that to about 3.7 kilo-
bytes per second. The latest 56.6Kbps

modems increase that to about 4.8 kilobytes
display (OSD), which allows you more adjust-
per second, again under good conditions.

For an extra $90 or so, you can invest in
ment options. The higher-priced monitors
an x2 upgrade for USR modems, which will
also support higher refresh rates.

Whatevermodel you decide on, make
give 56.6 performance. Alternatively you can

buy a K56Flex modem based on the Rockwell
chipset that also offers 56.6 performance. In
sure it will handle a refresh rate of at least 70
Hz in all of its supported display resolutions.

(At lower rates image flicker will annoy you,
cause eyestrain, produce headaches or otherwise make your computing experience
the long run, it's a worthwhile investment
unpleasant.) For a primer on monitor technology, check out the Test Lab in our August
issue (available online at http JRcp.ca) where we
looked at several different brands of 17-inch
monitors.
Although 17-inchers can be considerably
more expensive than 15-inch models, they
offer higher resolutions, improved tube technology and better refresh rates, to name a few
advantages. For those who have a few hun-
standard for 56K modems won't be finalized

until next year. Neither the K56Flex nor x2
variety of modem available today can be guaranteed to be compatible with the final standard. However modem makers from both
dred dollars to spare, this may be an area
service provider (ISP) to find out which type

of 56K technology it supports (the x2 and
K56FIex are not compatible), and whether or
not there are any extra costs involved.
It's worth mentioning that 56K modems
offer you 56Kbps transfer rates in one direction only information you download. If you
want to transmit information to the other
end of the line, you' ll be doing so at the
modem's otherwise top speed (most likely
33.6Kbps).
worth looking into.
Modems
In this day in age, no student should be with-.
o ut a modem and a connection to t h e
Interne. When working on research papers

where written material is not readily avail-
able, the Internet can be an indispensable

tool.
To take advantage of the Net, you' ll want
to havea 33.6Kbps modem. Most 28.8Kbps

models are rapidly being replaced by the
slightly faster variety, and should be com-
and will give you a considerable improve-
Although it's not a big deal to take your work

into school and print it out there, it's far more
convenient to have one sitting right on your
desktop. There's nothing worse than having
to print something out in a hurry and not
But as always, buyer beware. If the deal

sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
And remember that our Test Lab looks primarily at the things we can objectively mea-
being able to get access to a school printer for

one of many possible reasons.
aren't in a position to evaluate variables, such

as after-sales support and customer service.
However, we think they are equally important
When we last looked at entry-level laser
printers in March, we were surprised at how

prices have dropped, and how technology is
emerging. It is now possible to get a very good
quality laser printer for under $500. Ink-jet
printers have also taken price cuts and have
shown considerable improvement in print
and urge you to do your homework on this

part of the buying equation too.
quality over the past few months.
heard of Intel's plans to cease production of

processors under 166 MHz MMX have opted
to send us just that, Others provided us with
the vanilla version of the 166 MHz processor
without MMX technology. A few even decid-
For just a few hundred dollars, you can get
ment in speed.
But be aware that a final international
camps have gone to some lengths to assure

users that they will be able to upgrade existing 56K modems to the final standard at little
or no additional cost.
Be sure, too, to check with your Internet
sure, such as price versus performance. We
print quality that is more photorealistlc than

ever before. Although it will raise the overall
cost of your complete system, a printer is a
component you should certainly invest in.

Be a smart shopper
With some comparison shopping and by following the guidelines listed above, you can
own a computer that may be considered
entry-level, but will provide you with the
resources you' ll need to get through the next
few years of school. Whether you' re in high
school or on your way to college or universi-
ty, having a computer is pretty much a neces-
Printers
sity these days.

There are many great deals to be found for
just over $1,000, while a complete system
with monitor and printer can easily be had
for just under $2,000. It all depends on how
much raw performance you' re willing to sacrifice in exchange for other goodies. And if
you shop around, you may not even have to
make many sacrifices. There are plenty of
vendors out there who will offer complete
Every student should have a p rinter.
systems to students for very reasonable prices.
Our tests
We asked vendors to send us what they consider entry-level systems. Those who have
ed to send us what we had originally

planned to test
processors operating at 133
MHz.
You many notice a few vendors absent
from this month's Test Lab. This was due to a
number of circumstances. For some vendors,
the idea of putting together entry-level
machines isn't all that thrilling, so they
declined to participate. Others were in the
middle of product line changes, and were
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HP E-496/200 Netserver
HP Vectre XN 6/296
Intel Pentium Pro 200Mhz,64MB

ECC Memory, 4.368 SCSIHard
Drive, BX IDECO-ROM, Windows
NT 4.0 Server with 5 clients,
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Intel Dual Pentium Pro 200 Mhz,

128MB RAM, 4.5 GBUltra SCSI
Hard Drive, 16X CD-ROM, 32MB
Video Card, 10/100 base-T,
Windows NTW4.0 (monitor extra)
'Lease $247/month
for 48 months
IBM PC 339 Pentium
Lease 4351/month
fnr 48 months
HP Printere 8 SCaniteIS
HP Vectra XU 6/299
HP Deskjet 340 Portable...... . . .$375

HP Deskjet400c ...,. . . . . . . . . . .$255
HP Deskjet 692C...,.. . . . . . . . . .$379
HP Deskjet 870CXI ....... . , . . . .$531
HP Deskjet 1000C (prints 11x1 7) ..$633
HPLaserjet5 .... . , . . . . . . . . . .$1371
HP Laserjet 6P,..., . . . . . . . . . . .$971
HP Color Laserjet 5 ..... . . . , , .$5176
HP Scanjet 56...... . . . . . . . . , ..$327
HP Scanjet 5P,..... . . . . . . , , . . .$510
HP Scanjet 4C...... . . . . . . . . . . .$889
IBM PG Server 794

Pentium Pro 299
Pro 299 Server
Intei Pentium Pro 200 Mhz, 32 MB
Pentium Pro 200mhz, 32 mb ECCEDO,

integrated Cirrus Logic with 1mb Dram,
HDt Swaps Models, 2768 Maximum
hard Disk capacity via six 4.51 GBSCSI
Hard disk drives. Standard Software.
Pentium 200 Mhz, 12BmbRam

(4x32mb) 12 sockets available, ECC
Memoly, 136B Hot swap hard disk
drlues, Standard Software
Lease $267/month' for 48 months
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Lease $591/month* for 4e months
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300 Printer, fax, copier ...... . , . . . . .$599

350 Printer, fax copier, scanner ......$647
Pro 1150C Printer, copier, scanner ..$1279
Design Jet 330 Printer ...... . . . . . .$2467
DesignJet 2500CPPrinter ..... . . .$13199
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P/166 AsusVXM/Ba BOXEOCPU .......$335
P/200AsusVX M/8 8 BOXED CPU .......$363
PI200MMX Asus VXM/8 6 Boxed CPU . ...$543
PPRO 180Anus P6NP5M/8 6 Boxed CPU .$917
PPRO 200Asus P6NPSM/8 8 Boxed CPU $1035
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W/Digital 5.168 IDE ModelAC35100 . .....$499 ATI 3D

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W/Digital 4.068 IDE ModelAC34000 . .....$399 MatroxMyslique 2MB/4MB ....., , . . .$165/195
W/Digital 2,1GB IDE
Model AC2100 . ......$265 Matrox Millenium 2MB/4MB ...... . . .$220/277
W/Digital 2.168 Narrow SCSI...... . . . . . .$615 Stealth 30 PCI 2MBEDO .. ..... . . . . . . . .$150
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Quantum Rroball 3.2GBSCSI . ..... . . . . . .$417 Monitor, 170 MB HardDrive, AT I/OCard, 101
Quantum Fireball 6.468 IDE . .... , , , . . . .$489 Advanced keyboard ..... ..... . . . . . . . . .$575
F ulitsu 3.56B IDE ..... . . .... . . . . . . . . . .S320 limited quantity
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Sony 20'300SFT ...
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16porl Hub . .....$262
Sony 15 SX/17SE2 . .... . . . . . . . . . .$541/1242 Kingston OIE-16TP/WG
NEC XV15+/XV17+ ...... ,... . , , . . .$522/885 SMC3605T-EZ5port Hub ...... . . . . . . . ,$117
Mag OJ530/DJ920.......... ,...,.... Q42/2121 SMC 3616TC-EZ16port Hub .....,,.....$399
Mag DX1595/OX1495,....... .,....... j457/326
Samsung5008/1
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Canon BJC4200 bubbfejet . ..... . . . . . . . ,$311
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This machine offers an excellent balance
of good quality components, good performance, and an excellent price. It sells for
$1,249 and comes with a warranty period of
two years for both parts and labor.
Quantum ST VIDE hard drive seems to be a

favorite among several contenders in this
month's lab, and this machine from OA
Comp was also equipped with it. Rounding
out the system is a 16x CD-ROM drive from
Toshiba, a 16-bit sound card from Bravo featuring the 128P chipset, and a pair of multimedia speakers. Also included in this system
package is the Microsoft CD Bundle '97,
which consists of five popular Microsoft titles.
Its very competitive price tag of just $1,268
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with 1 MB onboard and a 33.6Kbps faxmodem. Multimedia is achieved through the 16bit sound card and the Sx CD-ROM drive.
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a quality ASUS motherboard with the new
430TX chipset, and a 16-bit sound card using
the SY1 816 chipset. In its 166 MHzwlass, this
computer came second place in terms of
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which includes a copy of Corel's Office Suite,
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put together, and would have certainly been
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Learning language
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M A CD O NA l D
Thereforeis the name of it called Babel; because

the Lord did I'here confound the language of all
theearth; and from thence did the Lord scatter
thein abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis, I I:19
l am not like a lady at the court of Versailles, who
said: "What a dreadfiil pity that the bother at the
tower of Babel should have got language aB
mixed up, but for that, everyone would always
have spoken French.'
Voltaire
ight off the top, I should
mention t h a t i t ' s
Iready been suggested 1 spend more time mastering English instead of

turning my attentions toward
the more exotic of our planetary tongues.
But then, who listens to
editors anyway (except maybe
when it comes to assignments)?
Which is, quite incidentally, the
means by which it fell to me to
take a look at this protracted lineup of language learning software one of our
august TCP editors remembered 1 once said
"ciao" on the way out of the office and subs equently filed m e u n d er "polyglot tel
pedant" for future use. Such be the way of
tors.
The means to this end is by an immersion
process which makes use of actual, original
material for your exercises... things like articles from real newspapers and magazines
published in the country where your chosen
language is spoken, or the literature of that
country in its original form.
lf, during your reading, a word or part of
speech occurs that you don't know, you can
click on it for an explanation or initiate a
word search showing every example
0 f a particular word in the article
you' re reading.
Pronunciation, on the other
hand, is looked after by word dictation and pronunciation from
Regardless, 1 ended up with a bit

of time in which to test my abilities
with the following packages.
Russian Nowl
Talltinl Translation
Dictionary (Russian)
Power Chinese
Kasy Translator
ken, one of those wavy voice

analysis graphics is drawn.
Then, when you speak (these
programs will record and play
back your voice if you have a
m icrophone hooked up), t h e
same wavy hne shows up so you can compare

your emphases.
Further, you might want to try the four
games all the Transparent Language programs
share: Vocabulous (fill missing words into
sentences), Unscramble (put a scrambled sentence into the proper order), Plug 'n' Play (a
video with narration and text
that you have to try and
understand), and Crosswords
(the same in any language).

There are also faolities for
making personal notes and little windows into which you
can jot down comments at any
point in the story you' re reading.
A roundup of other features
indudes a customized vocabulary
list, alphabet reference (which
names, pronounces and g ives
e xamples of each letter in t h e
From: Transparent Language

Prices: US$49.9S (Russian Nowi),
. US$29 (Talking Translation
oictionary), US$89 (Power Chinese),
US$49.95 (EasyTranslator)
Transparent Language has one of the most
a phabet)
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and grammar basics
albeit many
a ccessibly sophisticated approaches to teach- o f the latter are as useful as: "[the dative is]
i ng languages with the computer. They pref- t he indirect object used in impersonal conace aII their discs with the proposal that
structions; the object of some verbs
learning another language will come
and prepositions."
in useful to just about anyNext
fr om
Tra n sparent
one whether at home, in
Language comes a companion
school, conducting business
d isc;
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or working in a government
Translation Dictionary a whole
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different product, but one which
people who work in govemdirectly accompanies whichever
ment agencies do),
Language Now language you' re
Further,
Trans p arent
studying. These sport spell
Language claims that, no matter
check and verb conjugations,
which of the many languages
and also work as translators
they have CD-ROMs for, they are
for individual words from any
able to teach the "real" language
word processor program or your
as used by native speakers of that

language as opposed to the "Dick and Jane"
version which they ascribe to their competi-
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Russian learning program and dictionary, so
and phrases. The installation guide curn glossary explains early on that there are more
some extensive briefing on that pesky CyriHic
than 4,000 Chinese characters, and in order
The interface is very sophisticated with
alphabet was necessary.

But, ahhh, Grasshopper, while one might
to make the learning exercise practical,

they' ve chosen to glean only the most useful
think Russian is tricky, one is only marginaHy

prepared for what's required by our most ven-
600. With those, they say, "you will (a) NOT
lots of color and animation to guide you

toward the multitude of detail involved in
seeing a Chinese symbol, hearing how it' s
screen, the
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trouble should (a) faiH
The very first lesson shows just how stren-
pronounced, watching how to draw it and

getting a deconstruction of that symbol in
terms of the meanings appointed to the indi-
your screen
area.
Originally
uous even that reduced task might be. It
vidual pen strokes and characters. The only
c reated by
demonstrates how, by simply changing the
curious characteristic I encountered was that
company called
it wasn't possible to make the interface full-
B ay W a r e ,
T ran s p a r e n t
erable Pacific Rim trade partners. Power
Chinese immediately promises to be a long

and arduous j
It comes with two book-
ourney.
lets; the first, an exercise book; the other, an
meaning from "to ask" to "to kiss"a l ready

sounds like trouble to me.
installation guide and glossary of characters tone of the word "wen", you change its
<Og
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ently liked this product so much, they bought

the company. Which also explains why it' s
very inuch different from the Russian disc
(which shares a look and feel with aH the rest
of Transparent Language's languages).

Transparent Language has also revised Power,
Japanese, an earlier version of which TCP
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And finally from Transparent Language
came my favorite: Easy Translator, a very
handy item if you find you are having rather

less than success with the other products
the language
(read: can't be bothered learning
so just have it translated by the computer
instead).
And it actually works! I am gifted with an
almost fluent command of pidgin German
(the reward of many weeks of shirking before
dropping the course in university), so I was
able to test this translator by writing something in English, pouring it t hrough the
translator and having it coughed back up in
German.
And, as near as I can teH, the translation
was correct. Alas, however, Russian is not one
of the languages that this package will translate to so I wasn't able to test it on my Russian,
friends (must be due to that pesky CyriHic
alphabet again).
Easy Translator, however, will come in
very handy for me as I actuaHy have dealings
with German and Spanish publishers and it

works with those two languages as well as,
French. It' ll be interesting to see how those '
continental editors react to receiving my purple prose in an ostensibly ready-to-print format for a change. I should add that Ea:y
Translator operates the other way around too,

from a "foreign language" to English
In a nutshell, the program works by taking any document you paste to the clipboard, I
translating it and putting it back on the clipboard. This one's likely to get the most use of
,
aH from me.
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Spanish, French,English, Cerfnan
(Two-CO-ROMset)
Fram: IMSI
USA
Price: $49.95
I MSI's l a n -
guage packages are no

strangers to us
as I reviewed
What youWCIAt is whatyou get.
another product, called EZ
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version more
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Spanish
(Latin American that is), English (American
that is), French or German in a natural and
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conversational style-and with minimal discomfort.

Easy Language does not, however, propose
to teach us the actual language of our choice.
Instead, learning common phrases, such as
those necessary for ordering food, getting
let's Talk English

Vocabulary and
pronsndatlon Shill Builder
In@les Vosr Way Lln Csrso Conspleto
Interactlvo
From: SyracuseLanguageSystems
Price: US$29.95 (Lets Talk) US$79.95 (Your Way)
directions, shopping and generally making
I also had these two programs to look at, but

L a t i n quite simply had too much skill for the for-
y ourself scarcely u n derstood i n

America, the U n ited States, France or
Germany, is the modest goal.
m er while th e l a tter i s
entirely in
Spa n i shincluding the box and all
the instructions. I didn' t
h ave t i m e to lea r n
Spanish from one of the
other programs in order
to relearn Ingles from
this one so I had to let it
Some grammar and pronunciation basics are also induded, as is the

ability to record yourself and play it
back to test your new abilities. For
fun, you can have your recorded self
played into the conversational exercis, es as a substitute for one of the actors.
I, as you might expect, took on the

German and learned within only minutes, mind you that German for peanut
butter is erdnussbutter... apparently a
much prized delicacy in German restaurants.
In simplest terms here, the exercises for
each of the four languages are structured
around 10 activities with a set of subroutines
in each of those. And, of course, there are
some games to test yourself with but they
deliberately lack a help menu and scoresare
recorded. So watch it!
Packaged as a two-CD-ROM set, the second disc in Easy Language contains vocabulary and translator utilities as well as a multilingual word processor. Also included is a very
thick user guide-slash-textbook that indudes
exercises and tests for the language of your
choice.
The
It is worth a ment ion, t h ough, t h a t
Syracuse Language
Systems offers an extensive catalogue of computer-based discs in the Your
Way and Let's Talk series for a variety of languages, including Spanish, French, German,
Japanese, Hebrew and Italian. The company

also has phrasebook-style titles
called TriplePlay
Plus! for many
languages.
One of the
interesting
features of
the
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Rosette Stone p roducts (and Syracuse
Language programs, although we had only

limited exposure to them) will be of the most
use to anyone wishing to approach fluency
comes as two CDROMs. One is what they call the "Application

Disc" (installs QuickTime and files common
to all the languages Rosette Stone offers),
while the other is the actual language disc
itself. In my case, Italian.
Rosette Stone takes a much more pedestri-
earninby
g employ-
an approach to language l
ing the tried and true method of image, text
while the IMSI package will be of use to travellers who simply want to avoid foreign jails.
Any of these disks might propel me toward
further linguistic acumen, if only I wasn' t
already busy with my Latin and hieroglyphics
studies.
Now when is somebody going to recognize the hordes of us waiting for tutorials on
those!?! 0
and audio repetition through progressively

more sophisticated sentences. If you stick
with it, though, those exercises grow into
increasingly more conversational scenarios.
Though I found this a less engaging
means to polyglottality, the program has won
accolades from several other critics, so what
Rosetta Stone programs lack in novelty can be
excused by their efficiency. I must admit that
even I was able to distinguish an airplane
from a dog after only a few minutes with this
Contacts:
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1895 Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA,94901-5506.
Tel: 415-257-3000.
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Web site: http://igww.lmsisaftcom
program
and that's with absolutely no previous Italian experience (save for maybe SyracuseLanguageSystems,
Maria in Grade 10, but that's another story).
5790 Widewateis Parkway, Syracuse, NY,13214,
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started up, leaving it to you to figure it out
from the two manuals and the Read Me files.
Rosetta Stone also makes language CDROMs for French, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin
Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese.
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the Mac OS and Rhapsody platforms it was

Don Smallwood, senior vice-president and
head of Asia Pacific for Zi Corporation who
had the most to gain.
Smallwood said the collaboration with
Apple "represents the company's first significant endeavor with a technology company
doing business in our target market." The first
stage of this alliance is a software licence
agreement signed by the two companies,
which will see Apple bundle Zi Mail (a
Chinese language email package) with Apple
Macintosh personal computers in China and
Taiwan.
As part of the agreement, Apple has a nonexclusive licence to bundle Zi Mail with the
MacOS Chinese version. Zi Mail uses Zi Input,
a basic Chinese character input system for
personal computers that Zi says is simple to
learn and easy to use.
The company also sells Zi Browser (an
Internet browser allowing the viewing and
input of English or Chinese characters) and
runs an Internet/intranet consulting compa-
He says that is changing, and fast. "There ny called Zi Solutions.

is not a single market in China that is not
This is all possible in Mainland China
booming: infrastructure projects in China are because Zi has cannily entered into a "stratehuge," he says. "China has surpassed India as gic partnership" in the People's Republic of
the opportunity of choice. We are seeing
major multinational vendors coming in with
service opportunities. There is a unique
opportunity in China."
One big part of that opportunity is making the Internet relevant for Chinese users.
Aside from the political issues of just what the
mainland Chinese government will permit its
citizens to see
and the proportionally small
use of PCs and modems in China another
big stumbling block lies in the lack of Chinese
language Internet tools and content.
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English it seems there is one huge potential
market that is currently being vastly underserved.
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taken up the latter challenge and been met
with huge interest by an apparently eager
market. In June, for example, the company
announced a joint development memoran-
dum of understanding with Apple Computer

International Ltd. for future collaboration on
Chinese language products for the MacOS
and Apple's next-generation operating system, Rhapsody.

Under the terms of the memorandum,
Apple will assist Zi in developing and market-
China with Beijing Tengtu Culture and

Education Electronic Development Co. Ltd.
The existence of this partnership allows Zi to
market its products to the Chinese education,
government and business markets. The partnership has official acknowledgement from
China's state education commission, ministry
of post and telecommunications, and ministry of electronics industry.
Watching from Taiwan
One company keeping aclose eye on these

developments is Taiwan's Acer Group, which
has made it known recently that it also sees a
huge ' opportunity fo r C h i nese-language
Internet content and software on the mainland.
Acer software subsidiary Third-Wave
Publishing is aimed at taking advantage of
this opportunity and the man who runs it
says the company will do so with vigor.

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will become a very important software business sector. And he says Taiwanese companies such as Acer are well-positioned to have
an impact. As an example of the kind of
ing Chinese language products in a number thing his company can do, he cited the
of categories: Internet and intranet, word pro- "Chinese Cyber City" site his company
cessing, education, and document processing helped created in California for Chinese residents in major cities throughout the United
and publishing.
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story to tell in Chinese-speaking marketsand have a way to highlight its efforts to help
developers create new applications for both
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French, are limited to experiencing the ASCIIbased world. For now, that's by fat the biggest
community on the Internet, and it will probably stay that way for a Iong time to come.
But if you wont to "slide over to another
dimension" linguistically, things can get
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default except where necessary. AII three
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product that probably will nol be brought to North
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with those written in the local language.
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Apple developed a systematic approach to the picture) we find it is running on a MIPS-based
localization using a common text system
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years can be used on any recent MacOS com- English first. The Encoding selection made in
puter around the world. But the catch is the
the drop-down menu selects only for that
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or the alder the operating system version, the EUC. Cyberoog will not recall pages off-line
more likely it is to have problems.
in a later session, even if "refresh" is set to
Currently, Apple has language kits for
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font (3.4 MD).
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system has a number of ways to enter the var- American Webbrowsers display Japanesecharacters
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inconvenience.
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brought to North Ainerica. Using the Netscape
Navigator 3.01 browser, we find the Sharp Pl-8000
which is a relatively established PDA in Japan. Here is
a recent report of an application for this product.
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heavy use of the many online "search " searchrequesttranslatedintoEngiish, executengines" available on the World Wide Web to .''ed on any popular search engine and then,
find the information you need, you know how . . have the results translated back into German -'
difficult it can sometimes be to use them. '::;::".:;;.. I,':.-",, Lernout 5r Haupsie's work is the result of a
Imagine just how much more acute that ~ $3S-million agreement recently signed with
frustration would be if your first language was,,i' the Brussels Translation Group for the develnot English, and you had to formulate all youri,", opment over the coming two years of these
Web queries in a language you did not corn" ',:-trans'lation services in .multiple languages for
manly use. That is the dilemma facing many "f,-.,':.the internet.
European Web enthusiasts as they find them; .'-'r:"" As a result, the company has started0 new
selves having to simultaneously improve their ".,-':translation group of more than:,1.00 linguists
masteiy of the English language while ttying:,~Sand engineers to begin development ih
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to search on the Internet. . ~ @A Belgian company with strong intema- @service by the end of )997, ancifull setvice in
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announced that it was tackling this problem ~-'vvill support the following languages: English
by developing an online translation setvice,~;to German, and English to Spanish. Additional
that would help translate both queries and;,=':language pairs are plannedtor later that year.
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an interest in technology. There are products
that are presented on the Japanese Web pages
that are not shown on English Web pages and
though that won't stop you from seeing a
bitmapped image, with some learning, there
is a lot that you can find out about these
products. 0
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Netscape Navigator K01

The drop-down menu selection "holds" for
the session and carries forward to the nixt.
Encoding methods include auto-detectionjIS,
Shift-JIS and EUC. There is no sordinary JS,o
Reloading a page in a later session worktd,
and since the encoding had not changed, it
came up in Japanese.
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Microsoft Internet Kxlslorer 3.0 beta

If the default encoding in "Options" is set to
English, the drop-down menu selection must
be made for every page, Encoding methods
include autcdetection, JIS, Shift-JIS and EUC.
Reloading a page in a later session brought it up
in Western, but an error occurred when I tried
to switch it to Japanese autrHietect encoding.
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Pilot lao)I-alike from Sharp Sh a rp

Electronics
ofCanada hasintroduced theSE-500
Mobile Organizer. On the surface, the SE-500
looks like the wildly
sucessful Pilot from
U S Robotics. I t
includes a set of
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basic organizer tools
(scheduler, contact
manager, calculator,
expense t r acker,
database, and electronic
in k -based
note taker) as well as
an infrared port,
docldng station, built-in 14.4Kbps modem and
email and synchronization software (a light version of Intellisync from Puma Technology Inc.).
lt provides automatic synchronization with
Microsoft Outlook 97, ActI 3.0 and Lotus
Organizer 97. Other files can be moved from the

SE-500 to a Windows PC using the Windows
Clipboard.
One notable difference between the USR
Not and Sharp's SE-SOO
is Shatp's lack of a builtIn handwriting recognitton system, The Pilot
offers the Grafitti character tecognition sysietn,
but with the SE-SOO, the pen ltlput produces
only a bitmap image of the pen's tradng, To
input Ascu text, the unit does include an
onscreen keyboard {as does the Pilot) that
allows you to peck out words using the styhs
tip. Hopefully third-party developers will step in
to fill this deficiency.
The suggested retai) price of the SE-500
Mobile Organizer is 3399. Sharp officials said it
is expected to be in retail stores by mid-to late
August.
Conbict SharpElectronics ofCairdda,Tel:600-56-SHARP.
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Winfan Pro 8.0from Symantec

From: Symantec Corporation, Canada
Estimated street price: $1
29.95
ften in the top-10 software sales lists,
and a long-time favorite of both
homes and businesses, WinFax Pro is
back, better than ever.
Version 8.0 is 32-bit fax and telephony
software that supports both Windows 95 and
Windows NT, and includes a number of new
features, such as support for voice modems,
dual modems and Internet faxing.

There are also many improved features,
such as the Fax Cover Editor, the user interf ace and p h onebook i m porting. W i t h
improved links to A CT! an d M i crosoft
Outlook, WinFax Pro 8.0 makes faxing from a
computer easier than with previous versions.
This is a real improvement and a good buy,
especially for the small and home office market.
WinFax Pro 8.0 by Symantec Corporation,
requires Windows 95 or Windows NT (ver'sions 3.51 or 4), and a Pentium (or Pentiumclass) multimedia PC. (We are interpreting
"highly recommended" as "required" here,
but technically you could run the program on
a 486 SX/25. You could also eat spaghetti with
a spoon.)
You will need a faxmodem that is Class I,
Class 2, Class 2.0 or CAS-compatible. A
voice/faxmodem is needed and a sound card
is recommended for TalkWorks.
The CD=ROM installs the software anci
checks for your modem, whereupon it takes

personal data and registers through the
modem. An entry is made to your system files
making the WinFax controller load when you
start up your machine. This allows the program to monitor your faxmodem for incoming calls even when WinFax proper isn't running.
The nice thing here is that even though
the controller is running, other programs,
such as your email program, are not blocked
from using the port as has usually been the
. case with most fax-reception systems. Also,
having the WinFax controller load on startup
means that faxing from within any program
is a one step process.

The CD-ROM installs a couple hundred
fax templates, but if you want to use your
own, the Cover Page Editor is an easy way to
make one from scratch or take an existing fax
and alter it. Adding a logo or a graphic is
straightforward and easy. The program will
spell check your cover page for you. If you use
your computer to send out multiple faxes you
can do so easily.
If you want, you can even set up two
modems one for outgoing and one for
incoming, or one for fax and one for voice
mail. This requires two telephone lines of
course. Symantec ha s a ls o i m p roved
SatisFAXtion support. SatisFAXtion is the
company's corporate fax solution that provides support for up to 1,000 users.
Internet faxing is an interesting idea, The
idea is simple. You send a fax and a list of
names and numbers to a broadcast fax service. They have telephone access in most
areas to avoid long distance charges, the service faxes your fax and you pay the service,
In Canada, this service is offered to
WinFax users by Concord Network Services
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(htip://www.concordfax.corn). It charges 29 to 39
cents a minute, Canadian rates, for each fax,
with the usual minimums and sign-ups of
course, and returns a list of faxes successfully
and unsuccessfuliy delivered. This can be a
very good deal if you have a large volume of
long distance faxes.
Broadcasting on your own is supported,and if you have your fax number already
entered in a compatible organizer you will
not have to bother with trying to import a
text delimited file. Symantec also enhanced
integration with M icrosoft Outlook and
Lotus Organizer through phonebook sup-
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port. If you have one of these programs on

your machine you will notice a new button
on its toolbar. This allows one button faxing to contacts without exiting your organizer.
There is also Symantec's LiveUpdate technology. Users click on the LiveUpdate menu
to automatically update their software via
modem or Internet connection.
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telephone line, is sometimes incom..'
listening for a fax tone. it is sometimes difficult::,:.;,patible with other programs, e.g., netcasbng,
for a horne user to setup the computer system: .,'or push-.style applications and/or. system-monso that calls are nog on occasion, answered by, "jtorInc) utilities.
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WinFax Pro 8.0 also has a new intelligent
faxmodem driver that tries to detect problems
that occur during transmission. This means
rather than having to go through the process

of setting up another group hx, you would
the line as a simple answering machine

(" You' ve reached ABC please leave a mes-
simply make changes to the original docu-
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Making digital video with youI' PC
B Y JEFF EV A N S
When I first saw the INac in 1984, i
had two questions: where"s the coier,

and can you dovldee and anlmatien
Apple I monitors was

basically a TV set with
an Apple logo stuck on
with this thing7 Yeu see, in my inne-
I'L
cence,1had simply assumed that

when i was staring at a computer
However, the early

PCs had very primitive
graphics; they were
either monochrome,
like the early Mac, or
greyscale, or had only
a handful of colors in
their p alette. A l so,
there was no cheap
way to feed a TV signai
into a computer and
mix it with computer-
screen, i was staring at a kind of television monitor, se why couidn't I do

teievislen on a personal cemputer7
PAIIT I: iI hrisf IMPS

histsry
Why you couidn't do television
on a personal computer
It's a matter of frequencies, for one thing.
Television in North America conforms to the
NTSC (North American Television Standards
Committee) format of a 15.7S KHz frequency,
interlaced display. This is the frequency of the
signal that's displayed on your home TV set.
Ironically, when people began hanging

video monitors onto computers in the late
1950s, they used, of necessity, TV-frequency
monitors, because that was the only sort of
video monitor being produced back then. The
early personal computers produced an NTSC
frequency signal. In fact, one of the first
generated text and

graphics, so in practice
personal c o m p uter
graphics and TV signals still couldn't be combined on a computer.
A TV-style display was very hard on early
computer users' eyes: the composite video signal of TV causes a very tiring horizontal flicker, as the video signal jumps from one scan
line to another about 30 times each second.
This makes small text hard to read, and causes horizontal lines to shimmer.
Users got eyestrain

and headaches from
prolonged use of interlaced NTSC displays
Since the main need of
computer users performing applications
like word processing
was for a stable, clear,
"paper-like" non-interlaced display, the computer industry evolved
away from NTSC video
towards a h i g h-frequency (60-120 Hz)
digital graphics card
and monitor standard.
T V and t h e P C
diverged from about
1983 onwards. Mixing television and computers was pretty much forgotten as a mainstream option for the average PC owner.
Only very specialized, high-priced Mac or
PC cards, such as the Targa or Radius video
cards, or the very innovative but badly managed Amiga computer, were available to
keep a connection between computers and
television.
Well computer
Why weuld yeu want te do
video on a PC, anyway7

By the eariy '90s, for those who wanted to create, store, and play back digital video from
the hard drive of a Windows computer (with
all the opportunities for interactive multimedia that impued), there was primitive digital
video technology available, but at great cost
and difficulty. Compared to consumer video,
with its cheap camcorders and videotape,
doing computer video was a huge challenge.
For one thing, video data on a computer is
stored in digital format on an expensivehard

drive or other mass storage medium, rather
than in analog format on a $5 videotape cassette. One second (about 30 frames) of
uncompressed full-screen VGA resolution
(640x480 pixels) video imagery at full 24 bit
(photorealistic) color could take up as much
as 30 MB of storage space. An hour of such
digital video would require over 100 GB of
storage space,
Loading those pictures from a hard drive
into RAM nd then "flipping" them at about
30 frames per second (fps), with properly syn-
chronizedaudio, using regular graphics and

sound cards, was an impossible burden for a
PC or Mac of the time. So, even when cheap
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video digitizing cards, and faster processors,

cheaper RAM and larger hard drives began to
make digital video a tantalizing possibility, it
was still a burden to attempt digital video creation or playback.
The early digital video demos that we all
saw on PCs were limited until recently to tiny
postage stamp screen sizes, blurry, jerky playback, and badly synchronized audio. Digital
video was vastly inferior to comlnercial VHS
tape or cable TV, so it languished as a novelty
item, not a practical and desirable mass medi-
um.
A horde of "standards"
Nevertheless, the tantalizing dream of "TV on
the PC" stimulated a decade-long quest for a
really useful digital video solution. In much
rhe same way as file formats for still images
proliferated to include TIF, IFF, GIF, BMP, JPEG
end many others all with their defenders
and critics so digital video formats popped
up: Anim5 and CDFX on the Amiga, and
Motion JPEG, QuickTime, AVI, I NDEO,
RealVideo, VIVO, and VDOLive for the PC
and Mac. All of these formats met a need, but
they all had huge drawbacks in quality compared to the consumer VHS standard,
There were a few digital video solutions
that achieved a measure of success. The
undeniable leader was the Video Toaster on
the Amiga, an analog-to-digital-and-back-toanalog video and animation system that
sold over 60,000 systems and established
desktop video as a realmarket. The originally Mac-based Avid non-linear editing system
also found a smaller but respectable professional video audience. Adobe's Premiere
video e d i t in g
p r o g ram, M a c romedia
Director, and other programs for sequencing
and editing digital video and animation files
all achieved a measure of success as welL
However, none of t hese early solutions
crossed the threshold of low-cost, consumer
video quality and ease of use to become a
true mass market technology.
could fit on a disc. By decreasing the color

depth (fewer colors in the pa)ette), or increasing the degree of compression (so individual
frames were blumer), or going still lower in
pixel resolution or frame rate, it was possible
to store up to several hours of video on a CDROM.
However, early MPEG vendors discovered
that the more the video image quality was
compromised compared to the VHS tape
quality standard, the fewer the PC users who
were interested in going to the expense and
trouble of using MPEG.
The PC catches up
By 1995-1996, however, the general progress
of the PC and developments in MPEG hardware changed the picture of the fairly dismal
and limited MPEG market.
For one thing, the cost of MPEG capture
hardware declined from tens of thousands of
dollars to the $1,000 to $3,000 range, allowing more interesting MPEG content to be created at a low "cost of entry." Inexpensive
graphics cards with hardware support for
MPEG decompression and playback began to

appear from firms such as Matrox and ATI,
allowing much simpler, higher quality and
cheaper MPEG I playback.
Even PCs without a custom MPEG 1 playback card gained the ability to play back
MPEG I files using MPEG I player software
and the raw muscle of the new fast Pentium
and PowerPC chips (though, to be honest,
software-only MPEG 1 playback often has
limitations in terms of being able to handle

smooth, full-frame-rate, full-screen movies).
In the last year and a half, several new
real-time MPEG I creation cards have and
appeared on the market brought MPEG 1 into
the price range of virtuany any computer professional or serious enthusiast.
MPEt'I 1 and MPEG 2

An industry advisory committee, the Motion
Picture Experts Group (MPEG), was established in the late 1980s to develop a true
industry-wide standard for computer-based
digital video.
Its first release, the MPEG 1 format, used
clever image compression algorithms to
reduce the file size of digital video streams
down to a fraction of a traditional digitized
image file size. The compressed, "encoded"
The vfrtues of MPEG

MPEG 1 is capable of video image quality
that, at its best, resembles a gdod VHS tape or
cable-TV feed, Typically, it rnaxes out its resolution at 352x240 pixels. Maximum frame
rate is about 30 fps, the same as TV.
A top-quality MPEG video sequence can
fit about one minute of video and synchronized audio into 10 MB of storage space.
MPEG 1's main advantageis its high compression ratio: up to 200:1 over uncompressed
video frame grabs. Its main drawbacks,
though, are that it can't beat the quality of
good laser disc or S-VHS video, and it is somewhat tricky and expensive to edit MPEG I
video has to be decompressed and displayed
sequences and include them as part of a
in a continuous stream on a monitor.

Early hardware and software developers
began in the early '90s to create products to
digitize video and convert it to MPEG 1 format. Developers also created MPEG playback
hardware and software to allow MPEG 1 files
to be played on personal computers, or multimedia player consoles.
At the 1992 Comdex show, the first consumer MPEG 1 playback products were
shown. Bundled with a fast (for the time) CDROM drive and a special MPEG I decompression card, the first MPEG bundles cost over
$1,000.
The Reel Magic MPEG I bundle created
the first real exdtement in the MPEG market
in 1993. Even with MPEG compression, only
about 16 minutes of 704x480 pixel, 30 fps,
true color MPEG video could have been
stored on a CD-ROM.
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current MPEG encoding cards for Windows,
the Vitec Multimedia RTS real-time MPEG-1
EncoderiDecoder, Darim Co. Ltd.'s MPEGator,
and Data Translation Inc.'s Broadway card.
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The base level Vitec RTS costs $1,157,

while the professional-level version, which is
the same hardware plus the MPEG CutMachine Video CD authoring and publishing
component, costs $1,899.
The l?arlm MPEGator
This product includes a somewhat larger PCI
card, a manual, software diskettes and a variety
of audio and video cables. The base system
requirements are similar to those for the RTS.
playback for high-quality preview, and the

MPEGator Software Development Kit). The
MPEG video and audio compression drivers
will also permit users to convert existing animation or video files into MPEG format (for
example, they convert AVI to MPEG).
Capturing an MPEG sequence was simple
and similar to using the RTS. We assigned a
file name for the video to be captured, and
specified a file format (either MPEG or socalled "editable MPEG," an AVI format that
allows the video to be edited in a variety of
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Again, we used an S-VHS camera as a source.
The MPEGator software allows the user to
manipulate the properties of the capture (bit
rate, image size, video and audio quality)
quite fl exibly. There i s a n A d v anced
Properties option that has to be approached
with care it will allow variations in the data
compression that may make the resulting
MPEG file enhanced for some applications,
but incompatible with others (i.e., it won' t
run). The advanced options should be avoided if you are a novice.
The quality of the MPEGator's output,
depending on the capture rate specified, was
almost as good as the RTS. The Darim
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Installation was similar to the RTS: Windows
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installation: we had to ensure that there was
no contact between the MPEGator card and
any other parts of the computer (this can happen if the heat sink-fan is positioned next to
some other bulky PCI card).
The MPEGator has both coinposite and Svideo inputs, as well as audio. One oddity of
the card is the sizable heat sink-fan unit
mounted on the board. It must work, since
there were no obvious signs of overheating.
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PCs. Upon investigating the documentation
MPEG encoder cards to hit the market. It
won a great deal of praise and many PC

industry awards when it first appeared.
Broadway is a PCI card with a C-cube
chipset, and it has both YHS and S-VHS
input, andoutput (but no onboard audio capture. it utilizes the PC's sound card), It offers
real-time capture capability, and supports

capture to AVI format video (editable MPKG
1), and compression to true MPEG 1. It
requires a similar PC system configuration to
the other two cards we tested (minimum 75
MHz Pentium).
We had more troubles with the Broadway
Girdthan with either of the others, apparently
because the first computers we tried to install
further, we discovered the Broadway will only

work with certain motherboards, It may well
be that the other cards also have compatibility
issues, and we were simply lucky enough to
have started with a compatibie PC.
Upon locating a PC with a recommended
motherboard type, we installed a Broadway
card into a PCI slot, loaded the software, and
easily captured a test sequence. The maxi
mum capture sampling rate of the Broadway
was slower thari that of the other two cards,
and the quality appeared slightly inferior, but
it was still quite good. For the MPKG samples
I encoded, audio sync for the two other cards
was generally accurate, though the longest
For longer MPEG samples, there are

often audio syneing problems (the best test
of this is to play back a video sequence of
someone speaking if there is going to be
any sync problem, it's most obvious when
lips are moving out of sync with the speech,
like a badly dubbed foreign film). The user

interface on the capture software and the
suite of supplied software were very good,
The Broadway card, with a suggested retail

price of approximately US$1,000 is a solid
product, and deserves its good reputation as
a pioneer in the field.
An e n t ry-level, "lite" v e rsion of
Broadway has been announced, for

US$499, and this product would definitely
be a contender for the consumer PC user's
attention.
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rate (up to 3 Mbps encoding), and produced the best quality of MPEG in our
tests, Its realtime preview was very useful,
and audio syncing was very good, all at a
very low price. The Cut Machine version,
with a package of interactive authoring
and CD-pubhshing software is a g o od
entry level solution for would be MPEG
software publishers.
Darim MPEGator: The sampling rate was
a bit lower than the RT-5, but still resulted in
good quality encoding. It has good ease-ofuse, and the presence of both composite and
S-VHS inputs is a nice feature.
Broadway: Same speed encoding as the
MPEGator, very slick documentation and
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At best, the video is only about as good as
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INPKC 2, DYD and... videotape'F

There are two ways to go for higher quality PC
video. For digital video playback on a PC,
MPEG 2 is the future, This is a much higher
quality version of MPEG, which neels special
MPEG 2 decompression hardware for playback,
The latest Reel Magic and ATI XpertLaWork
and XpertIPlay cards all do a good job with
with an experienced dealer or value-added
MPEG 2 decompression. And, to store the

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high<apacity DVD discs are a must. The
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to the VHS consumer standard. However,
reseller (VAR), who is capable of selling and
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dubbed VHS tapes or broadcast-TV or cable
feeds, your results will be disappointing, no
matter what encoder hardware you use. Try to
confine your video sources to first-generation,
high-quality 5-VHS tapes, live camera feeds,
or laser disc output.
of usefulness before MPEG 2 replaces it,

For one thing, there are no Iow-cost MPEG
Buyer heuiare
One fact stood out in our investigation of
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services to
And remember, that "minimum PC system configuration" means just that: the
absolute minimum. If you want to do digital
video, you should give yourself as much of a
2 encoder cards on the market. MPKG 2 products are available from vendors such as
OptiBase, Optivision, Future Tel, MicroVitec
and IBM, but the cards and software cost over
US$25,000 somewhat beyond the budget of
the average PC user.
Another limiting factor is that virtually no
PCs currently have MPKG 2 decoder or DVD
disc-playing capability. Also, MPKG 2 files are
a good deal larger than MPEG 1 files, and will
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their favorite artie shows true enthusiasm, and merits mention. These two sites
are two of my favorites and I'm not a big
aving spent almost three years com-
piling Canadian music Web sites for

the "Mars Subway Canadian Music
Home Page (httpi/www,monkey-boyilm/cmueidindex.ehtml), David Hathaway has seen

more than a few music sites. His Web page
attempts to list any and all Web resources and
band pages that involve Canadian music and
their presence on the Internet.
David spent many years playing in bands

in Canada (occupation: loud guitar, Roots
Roundup) and now works as an Internet
email systems spedalist with The Electric Mail
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bands to enter onto the Web with their
own site, and it remains as one of the
nicest sites that a band actually contributes to.
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to the most for up-ttwlate information on
bands around the worM, Their "supercasts" live concert webcasts
are often
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Published by one of the original authors
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departed. It's a great site to find out who
is playing where in Canada.
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The Web (Web

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1. Ny Brllllant Beast (band site): This

is probably one of the most consistently
good-looking sites done for a band I have
ever seen. The site changes frequently
and is always a treat.
ASK ar rmwIN
Another fan site that has been around for

a long tiine, and continues to evolve and
grow, This particular site provides a very
complete look at the band The Pursuit Qf
Happiness.
htipi/www2.excite.sfu,cefioi/tpoh/
nies. This site always seems to incorporate some state-of-the-art HTML, making
it an excellent learning tool for budding
designers.
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a sparnmer to keep his word?
As a "courtesy" somespam emailers include a
notice within the body of the email message

effering to remove you from their list, But here' s
the dilemma: would you trust somebody whose
job it is to get the most coverage to actually
remove you from their email list? Considering
the techniques that many spammers use to
acquire email addresses, many of them are out
of date and so out of a large emailing list of hundreds of thousands of email addresses, only a
fraction of them are likely to be valid,
Why is this? Consider the following: at
institutions such as universities, students are
often given a free acmunt. At the end of the
term, these accounts are terminated. Multiply
the number of these accounts by the number
of universities in North America, then add
those to the accounts at universities around
the wired world, and you get a glimpse into
how many invalid accounts are out there.
Don't forget to add the corporations that
decide to switch te new demain names, people who leave for other jobs and whose email
accounts are terminated at their original job,
and the people who simply decide to go with
a different Internet service provider (ISP).
Even worse for the spammer, many of these
accounts may still be active, but no one uses
them anymore, so the email piles up, unread.
As a result, many of the lists the spammer
gets contain plenty of invalid addresses. Most
of the invalid email addresses will simply
bounce back to the spammer, saying that the
email address no longer exists. But for those
that are not rejected, the spammer still cannot be sure that the email they send will be
read. The only way they will know if an email
address is valid is if the email is responded te
in some way. Therefore, it is usually mnsidered a bad idea to respend to a spam email
directly in any way, because you are just confirming that the email address they sent their
spam to is still valid.
Worse, by sending a remove request or a

n astily worded response, you could b e
putting yourself on a fresh email list. For a
long time there have been rumors that
"remove" requests didn't work, and instead
simply added you to a more valuable list of

qualified, valid email addresses. One person
recently decided to put this theory to the test:
in the "Spamford Experiment" a user set up a

brand new email address. It had never been
used, and there was no registry or Web link to
it anywhere else on the system, so there was
no possible way any spammer could have gotten the address from anywhere. A single email
was sent from this address: a remove request
from a prominent email spammer. Within
five minutes, the email account received its
first spam from that same email spammer.
Assuming of course that you are not sucked in
by the pyramid scheme or whatever else a
spammer is trying to push on you, once you
have received an email spam, your best bet is
not to respond to it directly.
What can you do about spam?
Increasingly, there are calls by some people in

the online community to initiate laws that
would stop spammers, or at least make them
more accountable, In the United States, there
is a group that is looking to add an amendment te the existing law that makes junk-faxers more accountable. A similar law was set
up a couple of years ago in Canada to deal
with people sending junk-faxes, and there
have been rumblings by a few people here te
extend the existing law to the realm of
Canadian email spam as well. But is legislation the way to go?
Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC}, an organization devoted to upholding freedom-ofspeech rights in cyberspace, remgnizes that
spam is a problem in Canada. The EFC's take
on legislation is that "anti-spam laws would
be ineffective at catching the real troublemakers who often forge email headers and are
therefore difficult te locate." They also note
that, in contrast, "junk-fax laws are effective
because it is easy to determine the telephone
number of the originating fax machine."
As an alternative to new laws to deal with
spam, (and the possibility of encroaching
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Tools for creating on the Web

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Everyone Is making Web pages. People's cats, dogs and horses have Web pages.
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and sharetheir Interests with the world. Web pages are everywhere.
ne of the things that's so compelling

about making Web pages is that
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lot of the very latest tools seem in tune with
this credo: make it good, and they' ll come.
Make it better and they' ll come back.
You need some tools
Looking at tools
We' ll start by looking at HTML editors. In
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the three classes of Web creation tools, as well
as some of the individu'al tools that software
vendors are marketing. The Internet, being
the place of creation and free distribution
that it is, holds a wealth of tools; so we' ll look
at some of the free and shareware pieces that
won't set you back a bundle. As well, we' ll
review some of the heavyweight stuff that' s
likely to put a dent in your pocketbook.
You' ve heard it before: you can't do the job

without tools, Building a Web site isn't that
different from any other type of construction
job: except, of course, you' re less likely to get
splinters. Although a basic Web site can be
built with only a text editor, to create and
maintain a reasonably professional product,
you' ll need four categories of tools:
l. an HTML editor to build the code of your
Web site;
2. an image editor to help you make or convert cool graphics into an appropriate
Web format;
3. you might want some type of Web site
management tools to help keep your site
under control and in sight;
4. and the extra bits and pieces to do cool
stuff for your Web site: an animation tool
to get things moving, something to help
make interesting backgrounds. All sorts of
things that are really about beefing up the
things that have gone before.
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until you notice all the smarty pants software
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in the area of Web site creation tools. That
makes for a very competitive market; with
software companies climbing all over each
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Whatever other stuff you get, you' re going to
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Strictly speaking, you don't need any type
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and is expected to be finalized sometime this
FalL In the meantime, other standards are being
foisted upon the HTML authoring community.
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Microsoft had devised competing on-line help
systems based upon HTML. In the next couple
of articles, we look briefly at two up-and-coming languages that are designed to augment,
HTML: XML and CDF. They may not mean
much toyou now, but expect them to become
a major part of the way you surf the Web, and
Unlike HTML but like SGML XML does

not have a fixed format.
Through the W3C, industry players like
Netscape and Microsoft are working to expand
HTML to make it into a more flexible and robust
language for creating pageson the Web.However,

different groups are developing different elements
and attributes for HTML, and the end result is
plenty of conflict and little agreement on what
new elements should be developed and standard-
ized in Web browsers. However, it has become

increasingly clear to many that continually
adding new tags to support an ever-increasing set
of demands placed upon HTML as a whole was
not the answer. In response to this situation, the
W3C has introduced XML.
of how Web designers craft their pages.
XML is important because it has much of
the power and flexibility of SGML, but is much
Extensiblemarkup language
simpler to implement. Web Authors can take
Ever since the beginnings of the Web, there advantage of XML by using it to mark up dochave been people who have touted the uments in such a way that an XMLcapable
Standardized General Markup Language browser can read and display the tags in a way
(SGML) as a possible successor to HTML. In that the Web author desires. This flexibility
fact, HTML was originally derived largely
means that XML can be used to create new
from SGML, and inherited two of its underlytags designed to be used by certain audiences,
ing principles:
F or example, a m at h d epartment at a
that the code be in a form that can easily
University could create a DTD to meet the
be read by both computers and people,
unique needs of the department. Similarly,
and that the code describe the logical
XML could be used to properly display and
structure of a document.
document such things as music, engineering,
or scientific documents in ways not currently
While HTML has arguably kept true to the possible under HTML. Browsers could even be
first point, it has strayed significantly from the developed to suit an particular type of XML
second. Much HTML code is now based upon DTD, so that the customized browser could
the principles of layout, similar to what you
read all the documents using that DTD.
Here's an example of a possible XML docwould find in a word processor or a desktop
processing package. Generally speaking, most ument:
people use the descriptive form of a tag, like
the bold (<8>) tag, rather than the logical form
<?XML VERSION="1.0" RMD="NONE"?>
<FUNNY>
based on the strong (<STRONG>) tag, both of
<FUNNYCUY>Knock knock!</FUNNYCUY>
which do exactly the same thing. This may
seem like splitting hairs over a very minor dif<STRAICHTMAN>Who's there?<STRAICI4Tference, but this design difference is due to one MAN>
<FUNNYCUY>Sam and Ianet!</FUNNYCUY>
of the properties of SGML that HTML did not
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Janet
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MAN>
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could do so, if you didn't mind spending the
As you can see, you can use XML to
describe and format just about any kind of
time to define the DTD for them first. HTML
has its own form of DTD too, but it is fixed and document; you only. have to create the DTD
resides in the browser, and cannot be changed to define whatever tags you need.
Pie in the sky? Perhaps. At the time of this
by the user. Defining a DTD is not necessarily
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lost in fixing HTML "in place," was more than
made up for in terms of ease of use. However, resources that discuss its background, advan-
this fact did not keep some people from want-
tages, and implementation. To find out more
ing to extend HTML tags in their own way, but
about XML, check out these Web sites: The
unfortunately HTML simply doesn't allow for
XML FAQ at httpl/www.ucc.ie/xml/ifFAQ-GEIIIER-
this. That is, until the Extensible Markup
AL, and the XML Draft Specification from the
Language (XML) came along...

Introduced by the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), XML is a language that
W3C at: http: //www.ws.oIII/pub/WWW/TR/INO-xmllang-970331.html.
lets you use SGML on the World Wide Web.
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it), the EFC instead recommends that both ISPs
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stance on it. Some sort of reporting mechanism
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about spam email and what can be done to
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entrepreneurs who try to sell their wares online
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Flavors of HTINl editors

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Straight text editors: These are the classics
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advanced versions will do some of the formatting for you at the click of a key stroke
or by programming a macro or two. But
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previous file.
Nice and clean
and just an icon
click away from
the main toolbar.
create perfectly clean code. That is, the others

all sneak some sort of proprietary tags into
weren't even around a year and a half ago, the HTML code, tags that have nothing to do
Now they' re the largest part of the market, with executing the file on the Web, Claris
Adobe PageMill and Claris Home Page are Home Page doesn't do that.
Things I like: WYSIWYG-generated clean
examples of this type of editor.
Hy b rid Editors: I made up this classiflca- code ranks near the top for me. And it's true
WYSIWYG, which not all of them are. The
tion, because it best seems to define this
interface is clean, uncluttered and easy to
not-one-or-the-other category of HTML
editors. These are editors where you see the parse. Also, it's a very simple matter to toggie
between straight code and WYSIWYG mode,
code and see things happening while you
so if you want to get in and do some hand
do the coding. Personally, stuff like this
coding, it's very easy just an icon on the
makes me crazy, but some people really like
it. HotDog is of this ilk, and HoTMetaL has main tool palette.
Things I don't like: For a program as simelements of both t his and WYSIWYG,
ple and elegant as Claris Home Page 2.0
depending on the mode you run in.
appears to be, the overhead is very high. On
Fortunately, in such a large, competitive and the Mac, it commands over 5 MB of running
potentially confusing field, software vendors room. Overhead is similar in Windows 95,
anxious to make a sale are falling all over each This seems excessive and unnecessary to me.
Summary: in my opinion, Claris Home
other to get demos of their products in your face.
Actually being able to play with a working ver- Page 2.0 is the very best of the WYSIWYG
sion of the type you think you'd like best is an HTML editors. The interface is great; it's easy
to leam and works well with a number of
excellent way of deciding what to decide on!
Let's take a quick look at some of the more other types of programs and files. Best of ail,
it doesn't sneak any flaky code into the files it
popular options.
creates when you aren't looking.
Qaris Home Page 2.6

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Weaving your own web site

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where in the world, but Internet Relay Chat

(IRC) remains popular, despite the advent of
voice-based chat clients. One of the IRC's
main limitations has been the arcane nature
of its clients.
While browsers have improved in Leaps

and bounds, there has been relatively little
improvement in IRC clients in the past year,
panies are now starting to ot'fer specialty chats

with rooms for celebrities, psychics and busi-
ness gurus. Others are offering non-IRC chat

servers,that are moderated to keep out spam
and abusive users. They may be free or charge
a small annual fee, but IRC servers remain
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people. There are many "worlds" available
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people. The Active Worlds interface is
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iChat servers, a collection of different sites
arranged by topics. While the selection is not
as profuse as IRC, the level of chat does tend
to have more signal-to-noise ratio. Specific
One of the largest social chats of it's kind,
Telecafe has over 19,000 members from

around the world. Telecafe has software for
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users tend to be more focused and friendly.
There are different rooms, set up like a real
cafe, where you can chat about a variety of
topics.
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versation as comics characters, and their

words pop up in comic balloons.
This is the most fun of the chat clients,
because once you pick your character, you
literally become part of an interactive cartoon. Your character can be happy, sad,
shouting or whispering, and can be male,
female or a space alien of indeterminate
gender! The challenging part is that there
are only a few characters to pick from, so
after a while the chat does get a bit con-
When you use the IRC or a Chat Server,

your message is displayed in d ozens of
homes across the world. Consider yourself
to be a guest in 25 m i llion homes, and
remember if you are rude, you can expect a
rude response.
Sometimes it is better to ignore a chatter
than to respond publidy. Most clients let you
fusing. Comic chat is a lot less technical
provide.
Realize that a message does not appear
than other IRC clients, and is an excellent

starter chat program for kids, but may not
have all the features available in some IRC
clients.
You can use Comic Chat to access any
IRC channel, by turning off the CC-specific
coding, but this does not seem to change
the experience on the user's side. The additional graphics do not slow down the chat
in any way as they are resident on your
computer.
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Chat etiquette
Now that your dient all picked out, you may
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IRC. In some clients, you must use the IRC
command-line, which can be difficult for
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PageMill doesn't ship
with tons of templates
like some of the other
WYSIWYGHTMLeditors do. However, the
tutorial stuff is pretty
good and same of the
ideas could bea

springboard to your own work.
Adobe PageMill
Plafforms: Macintosh, Windows 95 & NT
System requirements Macintosh: 68020 or greater
processor, Mac System 7.1 or later, 8 MB of RAM
with 4 MB available to PageMill.
System requirements Windows: 486 or greater
processor, 8 MB of RAM (16 MB for NT), 10 MB
available hard disk space, VGA or higher resolution
monitor, CD-ROM drive.
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Adobe consistently creates knock 'em dead
products in the graphics field. It's built a
w orldwide reputation d o in g j u s t t h a t .
PageMill doesn't fall short of the company's
reputation for high-quality, well-researched
and executed products PageMill 2.0 is solid,
The code for the previ-
ously shownpageis
easily accessible
through the Edit menu.
If you look closely at
the code, you' ll see
some of thosenasty
tags right here.
PageMill even puts them back in after you take them
out. Arghi
easy to use and a vast improvement over tently choose BBEdit, and have been doing so
Adobe's initial WYSIWYG HTML offering:
for several years and through many upgrades.
PageMill 1.0.
BBEdit doesn't have a lot of bells and
If you ever looked at version 1.0, you might
whistles and extras and it does require that
remember it for all the things it didn't have. No you learn a bit of coding. But the program is
support for frames or tables, no way to view rock solid, requires little system overhead and
CMed
raw HTML code and other major oversights.
the full version (4.0) offers the depth of fea-
can be in a market as completely saturated as the
Version 2.0 corrects all of those things, while

keeping some of the things that made PageMill
of interest to new Webwrights from the get-go.
Things I like: PageMill showcases Adobe's
expertise in the design field. That's the reason so
many designers feel instantly comfortable with
PageMill: the interface is like a well-worn chair
to artists who cut their computing teeth on
Adobe programs like Illustrator and Photoshop.
Things I don't like: PageMill 2,0 adds a
number of obscure and, as far as I can tell,
useless tags to its HTML, Stuff like NATURALslzEFLAG does nothing for my Web pages
except confuse their author.
tures that p r ofessional Web d evelopers
PC software market. There are lots of contenders,

but CMed is popular with the knowledgeable
geek crowd, for several really good reasons.
For a non-WYSIWYG editor, CMed is very
easy to use. It has a nice, clean interface and
the rows upon rows of available toolbars are
Summ
ary:
PageMill is easy to use and
capable of doing all of the things that an

HTML editor should do. The interface is intuitive, the documentation is Adobe-sharp.
Overall, it's a great package at a reasonable
price. However, PageMill's insistence on

adding extraneous tags to all of the code it produces will continue to hamper the program's
success with professional Web designers.
IBEdit 4.0 gr BIEdit Lite
Platform: Macintosh
System requirements: MacOS7.0 or later. Uee of
System 7.5 is recommended.MacPlusor later,

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BBEdit remains a favorite with Macintosh
Web designers. Many professionals consis-
demand: hence the program's ongoing popularity with that set.

It should be noted that when we talk
about BBEdit, we' re essentially talking about
two levels of the same thing. BBEdit Lite is
free (not share) ware and is a great introduction to the program: especially at the price.
The Lite version is not crippled in any way: it
doesn't time.out, and offers full save and
open functions, though it does have considerably fewer features than the commercial
version. However, it's possible to write fully
functional Web pages with the Lite version,
and many people do, at least initially.

Version 4.0 is both full featured and reasonably priced: a combination that sees a lot
of early users upgrading.

Things I like: BBEdit is solid and as far as
HTML editors go ancient. That means that
there have been many generations of the
software and early bugs have long since been
removed.
Things I don't like: As far as I know,
BBEdit 4.0 must be ordered via maiL You can' t
just waltz into your software store and buy it.

Other than that, there's not a lot to dislike.
Summary: BBEdit is dependable and

geared to the needs of Macintosh-based
HTML authors and software developers. It
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Platform: Windows 95 8 NT.

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What BBKdit is to the Madntosh community, so
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easily encouragedto hide elsewhere if they

annoy you, you need more room or you only
work with the toolbars you need right then.
And CMed is cheap, which is always a nice
plus. It's shareware, and if after 30 days you
find you like the program and want to keep it
around, you are required to register it for a
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The things I like: One of the things that
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Things I don't like: The documentation is
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within the program, Windows-style, but I'd
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vrait for the next generation of Macwompafible hardware is almost over. As MacWorld
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access to its courses.
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costs associated with remote instruction,
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Traditional CBT
of teaching employees to use a common
Traditional CBT meant putting a diskette or

CD-ROM in your computer and viewing a
lesson. This is still the most common form
of computer-aided learning. There are
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type or repair your computer this way.
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Simple tools ]et even first grader students capture audio or visual information
exam or brushing up on your algebra is also

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other students for a project or presentation.
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One company offering a number of
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titles focused on business and finance is

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Financial Competence, Biz-Math, Business
Case Analysis, Introduction to Corporate
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esting activity than it has been before.

The product will also allow a school to
use the Internet as a resource. Students
company's needs.
Diversifying the channels
allowed access could be assigned a project

with p r e-determined content. Students
would search for pictures, sounds, facts or
links about that content and place them
into their project. MC2 is working with
schools to make Zebu the classroom technology product that everyone has always
LearnSoft Corporation from Kanata, Ont. is

a CBT company that offers training over a
variety of channels, Delivery can be over
the Internet, on the clients' intranet, on
CD-ROM, DVD, and other means. It also
hoped for.
offers to create customized CBT courses for

businesses and governments.Its products
education and certification division, has
If the test taker does well, easier questions

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home PC, especially for new PC users, is to

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useful if it is running on the computer when-
loaded when you first turn on your new com-
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puter. Some of the principal retail anti-virus

brands are Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus,
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the Anti-Virus utilities in W i ndows and
Windows NT.
practice, is any time), and if the PC user is diligent in adding fixes for the latest viruses to his
or her anti-virus library. Most vendors supply
new anti-virus upgrades at no charge for some
period of time after the initial purchase of an
anti-virus product, 0
Increasingly, PC vendors are including

commercial anti-virus programs in the software bundles that come with multimedia
PCs. Anti-virus software pub-
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comes with McAfee's Virus Scan and
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operating.
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NANUGS(Northern Alberta Novell Users
Group Society} - meetsquarterly at the
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i nformation, please e-mail t o
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phone MikeBrown(403)487-7666.
OBJECTSUSERSOCiETY. See British
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OPENSTEP
USER SOCIETY(VNUS). See
British Columbia OpenStep Group
{B.C.O.G.).
PACIFICNOTESU$EA GROUP{PACNUG)
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Wednesdayof each month (except
August andDecember) 5:30pm at IBM.
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VANCOUVER WINDOWS NT USERS
SQLSERVER. User group being termed.

Meetingsare plannedfor first Monday.To
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264-0247.
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mail604-264-Q247.
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99/4A COMPUTER B.C,99er Users
Greup,e
very Thursday 7-10 p.m. For
mformation,call Ron:522-2598.
TEENSINVANCOUVER USER GIIOUP.Far
teens under the age of 16 interested in
daing computerrelatedprojects regularly.
WWW.programming, games;anything!
The main goal is ta share computer
Imawledge
and ta makefriends. If there
are any homesclmolers Interested, that
would be great. If interested,pleasecall
Orlon Mak
al 926-2835.
THE TOPK
IDS CLUB. A user graup far
kids, teens andparents. Monthly meetings are family focused with
software/hardware
demonslratlons, guest
speaken,Windows and Mac tips and
anline demonstrations. A88$ is available
ta members,Call GarlandCoulson2795439 nr email garland coulson@topkids.corn
VANCOUVERAUTOCAD USERS SOCIETY.
1SI Wed.ofthe manth, 7:30 pm, B.C,I.T.
Bby.Campus Bldg.SW5 Room 1850.
Contact: FrankZander(604) 582-8263.
VANCOUVER FOXPRO USERGROUP

(VFUG).September-June, 2ndTuesday,at
'I9Nhoung2N-1177 W.Broadway. Info
Doug at736-2922, BBS23147N and email tojoytan@uniserve. corn
VANCOU
VERGEDWDRKS USERS CLUB.
For further info. pleasecall: 68--749
(eves).
VANCOUVER GEOGRAPHICINFORMATIONSYSTEMS USER GAOUP.Meetings
arehel
d on the 1stWednesday afeach
month, $eptember through May, at
B.C.I.T.TownSquareRoom'C' at 7:3+m.
Cantact Dwight at940-1518for mfarmalion.
VANCOUVERKAYPRO USERS GRDUPVANCOUVER PORTABLE COMPUTER
CLUB {VPCC),AMO17. friendly members, herbageCP/M saftware, the latest
DOSandWindows files, plus inexpensive
access tothe planehefe Fidaneti Ifisitars
welcome
ta our 88$. Contactperson:Jay
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V7C 4$4, 271-1519; 88$ 271
4934.
VANCOUVERNETWARE USERS GAOUP
(VNUG) is anofffciat usergroup recognized bytheNetwareUsers' International
Assoc. andsupported. in part, by NovelL
Meetings are held an the first business
Monday
afevery month atThe Stanley
Park Dining Pavilian. Ag aspects af the
networking environment are discussed
and presented with emphasis an the
Nehvarenetwork operating system,The
workshop
beginsat4iNPJn.,buffedinner at BNpm. at 7:Npm is aQ&Asession followed byapresentagon ending at
araund 8:30pm.Member,nn-memberand
student pricing applies to the workshop
and/ar dinner-presenladon. Far further
information or meeting topic announcements call our voicemail at 66--VNU
(689-8684} .
VANCOUVER OS/2 USER GROUP.
Altended by
OS/2gurus andnovices alike
and well supported byIBM.Thelargeand
lively meeting is held on the first
Wednesday
ofeach month atgre BC Tel
Buil
ding,3777 Kingsway, Bumaby and
starts at 6:45pm.Join usfor an informal
workshopbeginnmgat 11:30amon the
first and thirdSaturdaysof eachmanlh al
Doppler ComputerSuperstores. 465W.
8th Ave., Vancouver. Contact: Jim
Shewchuk87&4780.
VANCOUVER PC USERS SOCIETY
CUS)- Meetsevery Thursday.7pmat
ienceWorld,membersfree, 85 guests.
ExcegentQ&Asession & feature presentation. Our mission is to educate and
inform ourmembersandthe general public an thecurrent andfuture issuesinpersonal computing,andto provide asocial
carnext for thebusiness.educatinna and
persanal use af microcomputers. We
offer ondisknewsleBer, educational seminars, special interest graupe(Seeseparate VPCUS
$IG listings).and more. Call
290-0660for details andschedule.
VANCOUVER SMALLTALK USEAS
GROUP
(VSMUG) is agrasp of individuals andorganiaationsinterested in objectoriented analysis, design, and programming with a particular emphasis on
Smagtalk. Primarily for individual developers to meet. share ideasand experiences, discusslechrdcalissuesandleam
cool stuff. It's designed
notta beaforum
for sales pgches framvendors. RSVP
VSMUG@
vcn.BC.CAor visit our web site
at hftpy/lucy.csc.uvic.ca/-bnlb.
AS$0CIATION
meets onceamonth at the
Vancouver Public Library (downtnwn).
The meeting isusually on the2ndor 3rd
week of
the month on Tue or Wed
depending onavailability of facgilies. The
purpose ofthegroupis to provideacommon andregular forumfor Delphi developers to gettogether anddiscuss Delphi
rebited issues. 810 admission to cover
rental of room. All meeting noticesare
sent viafax or email. Toaddyour nameto
our distribution liat, sendcompanyname,
address into, phone, fax ande-mail to
Michael
Li
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76307.720@compuserve.corn ar fax:
{604) 432-1799ar tel: (604) 432-1709.
VANCOU
VERENTERPRISE FORUNL 4328761.
GROUP
(VANTUG) Meetings are held on
the 3rd Tuesday July, Sept. Nov. at
6.3Dpm.Pleaseconsult aur website for
further information on agenda items,
membership. Details or meeting locations: http: //www.vantug.corn Email
Nancy Pearce, VANTUGPresident at
Nancyqbsteeves
Jrc.ca.
VI6UAL BASICSUSER$GROUP is for
users, developersamlconsultants creating consumerprogramsandclient specific appgcations.Presentationsby industry
experls. Meets 2nd Thursday af each
month at 6:00pm at Vancouver Film
Schaot,420 HomerSt( &Hastings,abave
Web Cafe) Vancouver,BC.Contact 246600 or salesprafbbc.sympatico.ca for
details of upcomingmeeting.
VISUAL
OBJECT DEVELOPERS ASMCIATIQNOFVANCO
UVER- Far information
on our next meeting, contact John
Kniewasser (604) 430-82'IO fax: (604)
431-3946CIS72120+I56
VPCUS CLARION-TOPSPEED SIGClarion is a fug-featured,industdalstrength DOS &Windows applicatian
developmenttooL lls superior high level
hmguageaml re-usable templates pro.

duce compilablecodeandtight EKE'sthat
run fast arid are rayagyfree. Tllls Ilvel/i
SIG athacts a range ofparticipants from
seasoned professional programmersto
new usersandthecurious. Meetsthe2nd
Tuesday of every month. Contact Jolm
Galka, 736-7762.
VPCUSDBUG SIG (Data Base Users

Group) Emphasis is ansoiving problems
af data managementwith speciai referencetoParadax,Bringa bkmk3.5 inch
disk to pick upgoodies fram Ihemeeting.
Meetings for thenextfew monthswill be
informal, andheldat a local pub.Contact
Brad Fraese,939-3093.
VPCUS Educational Seminars
Members
85, Nan-members815.Various
topics, timesanddates. ContactGwenda
Egwood,737-6674.
VPCUSHTML AUTHQRING SIG-ThisSIG
is a goodplaceta came for informal discussionswith other HTMLdevetopers. or
to get advice on building businessand
personal Web pages Topics Include
graphicsandHTML,plug-ins, thebrowser
wars,
jamba,connecgvgyissuesandmarketing an the internet. Bath novice and
advanced
HTML authorsarewelcome.We
meet
onthe2ndTuesday ofeach month.
Contact
Br enda Del aney
bdelaneyqbunixg.uhc.ca,arVirginia Green:
virginiaebarts.ubc.cafor meeting info,and
to get our email list
VPCUSInternet SIG - New to the info
highway?
Get ta know the internet and
the Web with an experienced guide.
Contact Joe Thompsonfor details,6856945.
VPCUS
LINUXSIG-Linux is thefree alternative to Windows,DOS~ DS/2. Its's
the tried and trueUnix OSconfigured to
runanPC's.Thesystem isopen,fugfeatured,robust, and getting better all the

time.'Most web servers run on Linux.'
See whatmakesit so attractive to those
whoknow.Meats on the 3rd Mondayof
each month. Contact Stan Claussanat
5324846, oremail:claussonghfrrectca
VPCU$ NElWORKING$IG- This is the
ptace if you are a network adminisbalor
and yauneeda break fram beatingyear
headagainst awall, or wantto relatewilh
peoplewlmadually carewhatyou're talkmg about.. Come
and share Novefl glary
stories,ffps, tricks and support ideas.
Currently anhiatus, we'eleoldng for volunteers interested in getting this SIG
going
agam.CardactBrendaOelaney:bdelaney@unixg.ubc.ca, arfax224-2143 Air
mare infannahon,
VPCUSWINDOWS PROGRAMMING SIGFor pragrammersand intermediate to
expert Windows
users whoareinterested
in PC programming,
particularly in C,
Aceous,Oelphi,VB,)am,etc. Meets anthe
2ml Tuesday af most months. Contact
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Hyundai ...........
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InfoWave
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IntertechComputers ..
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IPC
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JRS Computers
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L.C.F.
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Firefly Books
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Half PriceComputerBooks..
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I DG Books ............ . . ......127
Independent
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Micro ComputerHardwareDirecto ...140
Microsoft Press .......... .....,128
ACS/Uniden
Cordlcas Business Phone
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Wheless Headset
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CameraEquipment
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CD ROM
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MapleOakComputer Solutions......142
MatroxGraphics .......,.....,.. ...7
MCMIntegratedTechnology........139
Micro Business
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Micro @naiaComputers ...........47
Micro Video ........
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Micro WestComputers
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MicroConcept ............ . . . ..16-20
MicroGram
SyslemsCanadaLtd.....102
Microserve
BusinessSystems ......111
Motorola ........................3
Multilink Computers ...........,...66
Netunk
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which require professional expertise to assist
their computer automation strategy.
Industrial Division
The Industrial Division complements the
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focussing on data networking design, high
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computing and I n ternet products. This
division provides a new platform of technical
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existing base ot medium and large
businesses, as well as strengthening
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Over the course of 10 years, Dexton has

s haped and directed its growth with t h e
focus on client relationships. It has worked
closely with MacMillan Bloedel, BC Tel,
S imon Fraser University, Ministry of t h e
Attorney General and the Cities of Burnaby,
Coquitlam and Vancouver. In addition to
purchasing computer equipment, the group
also participates in joint programs initiated
by Dexton. For example, the Canadian
Institute for Technological Advancement
(GITA) is supported by the University of
The Software Development Division, in

addition
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applications for the company's extensive
client base, will complete Dexton's ongoing
software d e v elopment p r o j e cts. The
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known as the Business Minder. The
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scanner and digital camera, allowing users
to store invoices and inventory images into
computer memory. As a result, such images
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and inventory documents, and provide for
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designing a world class training facility that
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skills to individual and corporate clients.
British Columbia, Simon Fraser University,

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Corporate Information
Listed: VSE Symbol: DXT S h ares Outstanding: 6,950,000
For More Information
Contact Investor Relations: IIaneef Esmail
Dexton Technologies Corporation
3112 Boundary Road, Burnaby, B.C. Canada VSM 4A2 Tel. (604) 433-9866 Fax. (604) 432-9866
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