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1. GOOD NEWS WE RE AND TO SAVE MONEY WE UPGRADING ALL OF HIRED A CONSULTANT TO TELL US WHAT TO BUY Copyright 2003 Matt Johnson mjohnson atpm com ATPM 9 05 53 Cartoon Cortland Extras Desktop Pictures Flowers Part 3 Flowers Part 3 The pictures presented here are courtesy of Jens Grabenstein They were taken in June 2002 on a two week road trip through California starting from San Francisco The images reflect the cultural and natural diversity of this beautiful state Previous Months Desktop Pictures Pictures from previous months are listed in the desktop pictures archives Downloading all the Pictures at Once iCab and Interarchy formerly Anarchie can download an entire set of desktop pictures at once In iCab use the Download command to download Get all files in same path In Interarchy use HTTP Mirror feature Contributing Your Own Desktop Pictures If you have a picture whether a small series or just one fabulous or funny shot feel free to send it to editor atom com and we ll consider publishing it in next month s issue Have a regular print but no scanner Don t worry E mail us and we tell you where to send it so we can scan it for you Note that we cannot return the original print so send us a copy Placing Desktop Pictures Mac OS X 10 1 x and 10 2 x Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu and click the Desktop button With the popup menu select the desktop pictur
2. Cancel I f ox 3 108 513 Numeric l j JE i fa G PE Most people will probably export SPSS tables and charts to other programs for publication usually by copying and pasting to the other application but SPSS 11 s tweak to output tables adjusting the column width to match output makes it easier to simply save output as PDF or HTML and use it without modification This may be the greatest time saver of the new version for some people While SPSS seemed stable on my system an early blue and white Power Mac with only 448 MB of RAM and a 400 MHz G4 upgrade did experience a corrupted preferences folder which required re installation resetting permissions did not help and the program seemed to lock the Command key down at times Syntax pasted in from the Classic Scrapbook did not work properly and had to be retyped though syntax from older versions ran well when opened normally In extended testing SPSS sometimes crashed when being closed and some parts of the output sometimes refused to use certain fonts ATPM 9 05 68 Review SPSS 11 0 SPSS 11 makes it easy to take heavy duty statistics into the world of OS X The fact that SPSS 10 and 11 are mutually exclusive also makes it easy to decide on upgrading if you stay in OS 9 you cannot use SPSS 11 and if you move to X you have to Because SPSS has such a slow interface strongly recommend that you do not use it with older machines or less powerful laptops A 700 MHz G4 or above
3. A I PM seer tf ae Volume 9 Number 5 About This Particular Macintosh About the personal computing experience ATPM 9 05 1 Cover ATPM 9 05 Cover Art Copyright 2003 We need new cover art each month Write to us by Jamal Ghandour Editorial Staff Publisher Editor in Chief Managing Editor Associate Editor Reviews Copy Editors Web Editor Publicity Manager Webmaster Beta Testers Michael Tsai Christopher Turner Paul Fatula Raena Armitage Dan Boland Johann Campbell Ellyn Ritterskamp Brooke Smith Vacant Lee Bennett Vacant Michael Tsai The Staff Contributing Editors How To Interviews Legacy Corner Music Networking Opinion Reviews Technical Ken Gruberman Robert C Lewis Sylvester Roque Charles Ross Vacant Vacant Chris Lawson David Ozab Matthew Glidden Ellyn Ritterskamp Mike Shields Vacant Eric Blair Kirk McElhearn Gregory Tetrault Vacant Evan Trent 2 Cover ATPM 9 05 Welcome Robert Paul Leitao Artwork amp Design Graphics Director Grant Osborne Graphic Design Consultant Jamal Ghandour Layout and Design Michael Tsai Cartoonist Matt Johnson Blue Apple Icon Designs Mark Robinson Other Art RD Novo Emeritus RD Novo Robert Madill Belinda Wagner Edward Goss Tom lovino Daniel Chvatik Contributors Lee Bennett Eric Blair Dan Boland Matthew Coates Jens Grabenstein Matt Johnson Joe Kudrna Robert Paul Leitao Robert C Lewis Kirk McElhearn E
4. Then about two years ago SPSS contracted with MacKiev to port version 10 over to the Mac The result was a program with the capabilities of the Windows version including a wide variety of plug in modules and good speed Now version 11 has been ported over but only to OS X If you use OS 9 you must stay with version 10 But those who recently purchased new computers only to find they cannot boot into OS 9 and that SPSS 10 won t work in the Classic environment will be very happy about the new release As with prior versions as you slice dice and weight data and pop out scatterplots using the built in menus SPSS automatically records your syntax into a journal which you can later modify as a kind of macro to quickly run lots of analyses very quickly recommend buying the optional syntax guide and typing your commands as often as you can instead of using the menus Using SPSS becomes much much faster that way Teds ES SPSS ie Lio PS AS i i Gr Lot G ia E je TL eh fla f5 f fr Mbanb Opelana aoe t r ley Sic Cad Snatistice 5 bedi n aa Odean I Crouped dian Mambor of Caint Sad Ensor of Kern Suadand Deriba s Chet your organization zen s r Dep managers use te H A fs you STIGER VET MeT rane full lt i ib oe OM PRE nerds rane prea Hipa ah you Fane Wet PDDE lance Fr Typical omaan wik Fina muhia lapen of carral Lii arae Kalash ai Do yaar cumini EMIALOWEE 11 mia Grea ai Eaiasln Sarak Sati
5. If I recall correctly you will need to set AppleTalk to remote only You also will have to properly configure your network modem and Internet settings in Windows to work with your iBook s internal modem Gregory Tetrault Copyright 2003 the ATPM Staff editor atpm com We d love to hear your thoughts about our publication We always welcome your comments criticisms suggestions and praise Or if you have an opinion or announcement about the Macintosh platform in general that s OK too Send your e mail to editor atpm com All mail becomes the property of ATPM ATPM 9 05 14 E Mail The Candy Apple by Ellyn Ritterskamp eritterskamp atpm com This Month s Candy Apple Is Golden the Golden Rule That Is just wrapped up a unit on ethics with an introductory philosophy class and thought some of the stuff we learned might be applicable to the rest of us We often face decisions about how to participate in a technological society maybe some of these ideas will help simplify those choices We ll talk about the ideas first then try some sample problems Idea 1 Behave toward other people in ways you believe they should behave toward you It doesn t matter what we think or feel as long as our actions are grounded in respect for others If we behave well toward others eventually the thoughts and feelings of benevolence follow Maybe But that almost doesn t matter What really matters is that we don t harm othe
6. SPSS 11 0 by David A Zatz dave allpar com Developer SPSS Inc Price 1 145 base maintenance recommended starts at 287 upgrade from SPSS 10 for 299 upgrade from SPSS 6 for 499 Academic pricing starts at 599 base Many users will need extra modules Training manuals recommended are around 100 each tvbebobvbninininintubebebnbebe Requirements G3 with 192 MB RAM 256 MB of hard disk space Mac OS X 10 1 2 VERY NICE Recommended 500 MHz G4 256 MB RAM Trial None The statistical analysis application SPSS entered the Mac market with a lean efficient syntax driven program Version 4 would let you use menus but those menus would simply build syntax on the screen helping users to use the powerful program as efficiently as possible It had many deficiencies among other things it produced its results in a mainframe style monospaced font but it ran rather quickly on a Mac Plus and helped beginners get used to the SPSS syntax language OAS oe AF Hf B 2 L 3 Spreadsheet view Value labels are optional i ras Do non Yes Bonus E 2 Donaus Do nat us F Do not us Do not us Tbe not us Do nee us Joo Oe ug SPESProcersee Ing Unfortunately after a disastrously bad port of version 6 which switched to a more modern menu driven system with syntax also available SPSS abandoned its Mac customers ATPM 9 05 64 Review SPSS 11 0
7. The next step therefore is to break your music into individual tracks This article the last in the series will show how to break up your recording into individual tracks arrange those tracks into a playlist and burn that playlist to CD Amadeus II Doing this in Amadeus II is straightforward Highlight the first song in your recording Make sure you check the beginning and end of your selection so you don t clip either end of the song From the Edit menu select Copy and from the File menu select New You will then be presented with a new sound window Select Paste from the Edit menu and that track will be pasted into the sound window To be on the safe side play back both What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl the beginning and end of this track If the music starts or ends abruptly discard the new file and re try selecting the track in your original recording copying and pasting it into a new file e Amadeus Il File FET selection Sound Effects Analyze Wind 606 Show Whole Sound Copy Clear E Crop Ek F OO Select All XA iniii Cut to New File 38x wel Copy to New File 3C oo 000 cra ao TT a Amadeus ll Copying a Track You might also want to play back the track in its entirety to make sure all unwanted noise has been eliminated If not go back to part two of this series and apply the various filters as described Once you are satisfied with that track choose Save As from th
8. enhanced interface customization Bundles of Joy Final Cut Pro 4 will also come bundled with three brand new applications Livelype provides powerful animation tools to your titling including templates to make letters appear to digitally draw themselves on the screen Compressor incorporates media encoding directly within Final Cut Pro The first time heard Compressor being mentioned ATPM 9 05 20 Report NAB 2003 overheard someone in the crowd say Bye bye Cleaner Last but absolutely not least is Soundtrack an integrated application providing access to thousands of royalty free music samples and 30 professional effects All the sounds loop and automatically match each other in adjustable pitch and tempo allowing you to compose an infinite number of musical arrangements for your videos If this sounds familiar to composing with Sonic Foundry s Acid on the PC it may be no wonder While have not been able to find a solid source for this fact my understanding is that one of the people Apple recruited to develop Soundtrack also helped write Acid And That s Not All In addition to these new applications Cinema Tools previously available separately will also be bundled with Final Cut Pro 4 The utility which originally sold for nearly 1 000 has been updated to support ink numbers and change lists for both 35mm and 16mm film ATPM 9 05 21 Report NAB 2003 Final Cut Pro 4 s price for a new purchase wil
9. 3 Robert C Lewis concludes his series on converting LPs to CDs by discussing how to split recordings into tracks and then burn them to CD How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves New ATPM writer Matthew Coates likes PDFs He discusses the Acrobat like features built into Mac OS X and then shows how to use Adobe s Web site to create PDFs from many different types of files You don t have to buy Distiller Cartoon Cortland This month s Cortland pokes fun at consultants Who do they really serve Desktop Pictures Flowers Part 3 Jens Grabenstein travelled to California and brought back some pictures of flowers Review Google Hacks book If you re seeking information about the Web s best search engine look no further Kirk McElhearn reviews Google Hacks a great book whose 300 pages will tell you everything you ever needed to know about using and programming the site Review Pocket Tanks 1 00b Fans of Scorched Earth will be interested in reading about Pocket Tanks reviewed in this issue by Daniel Boland Pick your weapons and start fighting Review SPSS 11 0 If you re in need of a heavy duty statistical analysis program we ve got one for you David A Zatz reviews the latest version of SPSS a Mac OS X only port of the program ATPM 9 05 10 Welcome Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 Knowing how to type is pretty much a necessity and Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor is one way to learn offering a way to practice your most
10. Online Occasionally damage is ineffectual or not properly recorded An aircraft can on rare occasions take a huge number of direct hits and still fly home if smoking profusely Tanks have survived a large number of hits and attacks by sappers The lag time between computers can also make what is a sure fire hit to you a complete miss Another source of gripes is damaged targets spawning out early where the target leaves before being completely destroyed robbing the victor of full credit for the kill The one aspect of the game did find wanting are the buildings Large buildings in cities resemble giant boxes on a Hollywood stage set This is an unavoidable shortcoming in my opinion as rendering more detailed buildings means more demands on the computer and server Regardless there is for each building a ground level and external stairs to the top There are a few small buildings and churches with internal stairs but the window frames are annoyingly thick saw one building with no upstairs windows The bunkers and fortifications in the game are oddly inaccurate These bunkers are key positions in the game that must be captured however as a strong defensive building they are anything but that They are often positioned next to other buildings trees or walls that obstruct any defensive fire and have large openings that offer a direct line of incoming fire The system is not 100 efficient objects and walls do not stop all shells or explos
11. a directory newsgroup searches and the recent Google News service which has quickly become one of the Internet s most essential sites Unlike most other search engines Google is not a portal if you want to search Yahoo you have to suffer its cluttered page layout irritatingly frequent advertisements and oh too many bright colors In contrast Google offers a minimalist interface with maximum usefulness You can search for a lot of things by just typing a few keywords into a search field and you ll get useful results But the real value of any search engine and especially Google is doubled when you learn the search syntax or language that allows you to refine your searches The first part of this book begins with the basics of Google searching and goes on to explain all the fine points of its syntax You ll learn how to restrict your searches to different types of documents languages domains or dates You ll discover how to search for certain types of files such as PDFs Word files doc PowerPoint files ppt or others And if you want to hack some HTML you ll learn how to make your own Google search form to put on your Web site or personal search page The bulk of this book however is not for casual searchers Some 200 pages talk about integrating Google searches with more complex tools such as SOAP and Perl XML and using the Google Web API with PHP Java Python CH NET and VB NET Google s real strength for programmers is t
12. available for up to 72 hours T General Ul Compression 0 Fonts Color Advanced File Options Compatibilty FH Optimize For Fast Web View C Embed Thumbnails Auto Rotate Pages Resolution 600 dpi Binding Left One of the screens for adjusting settings How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves General Compression Fonts Color Advanced Embed All Forts Subset All Embedded Fonts Below i00 30 When Embedding Fails gnore The Fonts tab of previous window You may convert as many files as you like but the service caps file sizes at 100 MB and limits processing to 15 minutes per file 10 minutes for trial members A Paper Capture document is limited to 100 pages If your project breaks the limits document processing fails and you are notified by e mail Adobe suggests solving the problem by splitting the project into several parts or converting the original into PostScript before submitting it again Realistically most users are not likely to get close to the size and processing limits Unfortunately either by oversight or design Create Adobe PDF Online cannot batch process incoming documents a big annoyance The service will happily churn away on as many files as you like but you can add them to the queue for processing and retrieve them only one at a time recently converted 23 Word documents in a session and while had no complaints with the results getting there was tedious because had
13. contact us if you re interested How Can I Subscribe to ATPM Visit the subscriptions page Which Format Is Best for Me The Online Webzine edition is for people who want to view ATPM in their Web browser while connected to the Internet It provides sharp text lots of navigation options and live links to ATPM back issues and other Web pages You can use Sherlock to search all of the online issues at once The Offline Webzine is a HTML version of ATPM that is formatted for viewing offline and made available in a Stufflt archive to reduce file size The graphics content and navigation elements are the same as with the Online Webzine but you can view it without being connected to the Internet It requires a Web browser The Print PDF edition is saved in Adobe Acrobat format It has a two column layout with smaller text and higher resolution graphics that are optimized for printing It may be viewed online in a browser or downloaded and viewed in Adobe s free Acrobat Reader on Macintosh or Windows PDFs may be magnified to any size and searched with ease ATPM 9 05 102 Frequently Asked Questions The Screen PDF edition is also saved in Adobe Acrobat format It s a one column layout with larger text that s optimized for reading on screen It may be viewed online in a browser or downloaded and viewed in Adobe s free Acrobat Reader on Macintosh or Windows PDFs may be magnified to any size and searched with ease What Are S
14. crashed while playing Brick Factory when I accidentally pressed the Return key The crash required a forced restart under OS 9 The ReadMe file warns that you should not change monitor resolutions while the program is open Omissions The biggest omission is that Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor does not follow Macintosh interface guidelines This program feels like a crude port from a Windows version It does not use Macintosh menus or dialog boxes Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor does not offer any typing tests separate from lessons or imported text Other omissions are mentioned in the Using Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor section Documentation Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor comes with a short ReadMe text file No other documentation except for the meager contents of the Help window is available Technical Support E mail support and fax support are available There is no live telephone or online support did not test the rapidity or accuracy of e mail support Alternatives Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing version 9 is available for 20 from Broderbund North America or from Mindscape Europe Asia Latin America Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is far more polished and complete than Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor have used an older version for years and recommend it highly Typing Tutor 10 Pearson Software is no longer published but is still being distributed by many vendors including Amazon com It sells for a
15. creator codes one example being Super Get Info but that is beyond the scope of this article could go on about Final Vinyl s weaknesses but there are alternatives to Final Vinyl have already tested the iMic with Amadeus Il Peak LE Spin Doctor and Montage Of these four Amadeus II and Peak LE worked with the iMic because they support Apple s Sound Manager for which the iMic acts as an input source There may be other audio software available that is also compatible with the iMic if you know of such software please let me know by e mail and will try to compile a list for next month s column If you plan to use the iMic recommend that you use Amadeus II to record and edit your music don t think it s worth using Final Vinyl even though it s free What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Peak LE Separating recordings into individual tracks works very well in Peak LE and it is done by breaking your music into regions A region is a segment of audio bounded by markers that signify the start and end 608 Klatu alff Max 0 006 44 1EHZ 16 bit Stereo raw AIFF T F Peak LE Marking the End of Track One To create a region click at the beginning of a song Then find the end of the cut and Shift click there to highlight that song From the Action menu select New Region A dialog box will appear asking you to name that section of music Choose a name click OK and that section will automatically be marked off as a r
16. for some users this freebee also is a worthy replacement for Acrobat Reader For me Preview s thumbnail feature clinches the deal When you drag several PDFs onto the Acrobat Reader icon each document opens in a separate window Do the same with Preview and you are presented with a single viewer window displaying the first page of one document and a sliding drawer of generously sized and adjustable thumbnails of each remaining page and those of the other PDF documents It s a terrific feature when screen real estate is at a premium Since Preview is primarily a graphics viewer it is missing two text related Acrobat features you might consider deal breakers clickable Web and document links and a Find feature And Preview s Zoom feature is annoying when working with PDFs and any other file format for that matter The zoom is inexplicably nailed to the center of the window while Acrobat and most other Mac applications allow you to move a magnifying glass tool to change the focus of a zoom It would be nice to see these problems addressed in the next version of Preview but for now stick with Acrobat Reader when working with interactive PDF documents There are several test drive options if you re considering a switch from Acrobat to Preview Preview can open Acrobat generated PDFs via the usual Mac methods for opening a file in an application that didn t create it Or you can choose to have a particular PDF always How To Mac OS X s A
17. in ATPM that s specifically designated for your stories We d really like to hear from you Several Segments contributors have gone on to become ATPM columnists Send your stuff to editor atpm com Hardware and Software Reviews ATPM publishes hardware and software reviews However we do things in a rather unique way Techno jargon can be useful to engineers but is not always a help to most Mac users We like reviews that inform our readers about how a particular piece of hardware or software will help their Macintosh lives We want them to know what works how it may help them in their work and how enthusiastic they are about recommending it to others If you have a new piece of hardware or software that you d like to review contact our reviews editor at reviews atpm com for more information ATPM 9 05 104 Frequently Asked Questions Shareware Reviews Most of us have been there we find that special piece of shareware that significantly improves the quality our Macintosh life and we wonder why the entire world hasn t heard about It Now here s the chance to tell them Simply let us know by writing up a short review for our shareware section Send your reviews to reviews atpm com Which Products Have You Reviewed Check our reviews index for the complete list What is Your Rating Scale ATPM uses the following ratings in order from best to worst Excellent Very Nice Good Okay Rotten Will You Review My Product If you or y
18. is just about required for tolerable speed and a faster processor is really needed to make the program enjoyable in everyday use If that means staying with OS 9 it may just be worth it to keep the relatively Snappiness of SPSS 10 Version 11 does not add enough new features to justify an upgrade for many users except as noted for OS X compatibility which is downright needed for those with machines that won t boot into 9 SPSS 11 is capable fairly user friendly and easier to work with than previous versions The number crunching is very fast and the reports increasingly easy to use in presentations and articles It is no small wonder that SPSS 11 is still the market leader in professional Statistical analysis Copyright 2003 David A Zatz dave allpar com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com E ATPM 9 05 69 Review SPSS 11 0 Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 by Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Developer Runtime Revolution Price 25 95 Requirements Power Mac with System 7 1 or Mac OS X 10 1 3 16 MB of application RAM 800 x 600 resolution with 256 colors Recommended Mac OS 8 0 QuickTime 4 0 to play background music Trial Fully featured 10 days Overview Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor is designed to teach novices how to type and to help intermediate to advanced typists type with greater speed and accuracy It uses a combination of structured less
19. it s much better than in the past and individual tables can quickly be modified for acceptable results The Reports module can save a great deal of time when for example analyzing survey data This and the Advanced Statistics modules are almost must haves ATPM 9 05 67 Review SPSS 11 0 The OLAP cubes facility has been upgraded to allow calculation of differences between variables Those who hate scientific notation will be glad to know it can now be suppressed in all output This upgrade does not just deal with system software and appearance issues a number of statistical upgrades were also made These can be explored fully on SPSS Web site and may affect a surprisingly large number of users Varisble view label can be applied in this view of with syntix i ee Hane Type Wier Decima Label Values Missing goli Numeric i Most students t l as 0 not available j motu 6 alls Humerit i th Faculty tare about me 0 not available mole Oo ra EE Humerit i 1 The quality of insira 0 not avallsble j ro 6 OF 24 Hurnerig i T riniai ara hakai lii An maiia d a i i Value Labels 24 35 Hurneric i pE EER EL Hummerit i i Walp ELETA Hummerit i q Value Label Stick Hurneric I i 1 I amii Add D a net available f net used j I 38 59 Hummerit 0 1 not satisfied at all it 95 510 Numeric i y 1 2 not vory satished f 3 tomewhat dissatisted x L 155 511 Numeric I i 101512 Numeric i o
20. join your teammates or to join other groups ATPM 9 05 89 Review World War 2 Online The Germans usually win upon which point the map is reset but there is every possibility the Germans could be stalled past the typical two month game cycle A truckload of allies arrives in town ready for action The box contains the game CD a simple 52 page user manual and a useful but dated map of Northern Europe The CD contains additional images and music not found in the downloadable version The box states some hefty requirements as mentioned above noting a lack of support for dual CPU machine configurations but my experience has shown that it can run quite well on a lesser machine Cities aircraft and heavy action with large groups of players require powerful machines but if you avoid those you can still have fun using lower end machines have been playing this simulation on my 500 MHz PowerBook G3 with 640 MB RAM and a paltry 8 MB of VRAM While the game is for the most part playable a reasonable minimum specification for adequate game play would be a 600 MHz G4 with 512 MB of RAM and 16 MB of VRAM with L3 cache It is important to note the L3 requirement because the G4 iMac eMac and new 12 PowerBook which lack this L3 cache perform surprisingly poorly running this game To use the tanks big guns and airplanes it goes without saying that the game will require a joystick and a good one at that Fortunately quality joysticks ret
21. my practice lines looked like this Import text lets you select any file Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor strips out non printing and non standard characters and then displays the resulting text line by Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 line just like the lessons The practice session ends when you reach the end of the imported text Show fingering shows hand and finger placements for typing a character Placement includes the use of the Shift key when relevant Practice typing keys is the same as Practice worst keys and consists of random clusterings of the characters you chose Extra Practice Wizard Your wors keys in onder are You may find I usekd or more FE Would you Ske lo practice imeresilng bo practice hyping your own texi impon text below and click Ihe bution Lo J See lingering Extra Practice and click the bulion Pradice typing keys I The Safari Park game has a boat being rowed and sailed down a meandering river There are four bridges that will block the boat unless you correctly type the characters in the turtle or alligator boxes At higher levels the boat moves faster At lower levels the game is incredibly boring Even if you complete all the typing in a few seconds you have to wait Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 for the boat to slowly wend Its way across the bottom of the screen Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor does not remember the las
22. properly prepared PDF will always look and print as it was intended Adobe s free Acrobat Reader soon to be renamed Adobe Reader with the release of version 6 may be the world s most common software Adobe estimates that 500 million copies are out there perhaps half of which are on my hard drive OS X and the PDF With new OS X native versions of the company s PDF creation software Acrobat 6 rolling out this month you ll be hearing a lot more about PDF technology and especially some of the heavy duty tools featured in the pricier and heavily promoted professional version that s aimed at the design graphics and commercial printing industries But most of us do not deal with huge complex PDFs that a gigantic six color digital press would use to print a 79 coffee table book Instead we download brochures and manuals business reports government documents catalogs and of course online Mac magazines How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves Remember the thrill of downloading that first PDF And remember how your hopes were squashed by the realization that Acrobat Reader is look but do not touch software Creating a PDF requires the 250 standard edition of Adobe Acrobat soon to cost 260 a lot of money for the occasional user But unless you own an application such as PageMaker with Acrobat s creation engine already under the hood purchasing Acrobat used to be your only option Well forget that With OS X s nifty int
23. sensitive document into the ether without knowing who might see it Probably not Still if you re making PDFs of sensitive documents the old fashioned way Acrobat passwords notwithstanding you re already dancing with the Devil For the light or occasional user Create Adobe PDF Online is a terrific and very affordable resource And for freelancers who never know where they are headed next the service can pay off in unexpected ways An assignment recently had me working in an all PC environment converting Word files into PDFs One file simply refused to convert properly in each of many tries a graphic was put in the wrong place Finally frustrated uploaded the file to Adobe s Web service It was back in minutes working fine The conversion problem may have been the fault of the PC or Microsoft or Acrobat for Windows There s even the tiniest chance it was my fault although much prefer to blame Microsoft But Create Adobe PDF Online was beyond reproach It did its job and a Dell did not plunge from a fourth floor window So there s a downside to everything Copyright 2003 Matthew Coates hmedia mac com How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves Cartoon Cortland by Matt Johnson mjohnson atpm com DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH WHERE SHADOWS LURK AND EVIL DWELLS IS THE HOME OF A LOATHSOME CREATURE THE SERVANT OF A DARK LORD WHOSE NAME IS LONG FORGOTTEN ABEING KNOWN ATPM 9 05 Cartoon Cortland
24. the scoop Luckily had an NAB veteran with me My good friend and former college roommate Andy McConnell took me under his wing and helped me to have a really good time Andy has attended eight of the last nine NAB conventions ATPM 9 05 18 Report NAB 2003 could easily go on about what it felt like to be one of about 90 000 people wandering around the two million square foot Las Vegas Convention Center that housed some 1 200 exhibitors However since this publication is about the Macintosh experience I ll Stay focused The spectators around Apple s pavilion at NAB were never sparse ATPM 9 05 19 Report NAB 2003 Apple s Video Editing Powerhouse Probably the biggest announcement pertaining to Macintosh users was the announcement of Final Cut Pro 4 to be released between June and August think the only complaint have is self imposed I ll be editing several short videos to be shown at an annual week long convocation that always begins on Memorial Day weekend and it just seems too bad won t quite be able to use the new version for this round of videos Apple announced Final Cut Pro 4 on Sunday April 6 These banners were hung outside the South Hall shortly afterward The new Final Cut Pro 4 features were met with enthusiastic applause at each moment and venue heard them The new features total more than 300 the most significant being RT Extreme support for 8 and 10 bit uncompressed video 32 bit processing and
25. this ATPM 9 05 27 Interview Jonathan Gales ATPM Is there anything else about MobileTracker you want potential visitors to know What can a newcomer expect when he clicks to MobileTracker net JG We update all the time Monday through Friday and as warranted on the weekends If you don t want to be a compulsive clicker subscribe to our RSS feed It includes full posts and pictures If it s your first time at MobileTracker take some time to look around and hopefully you ll like what you see Also if you have a lead on a hot news story that hasn t yet been featured let us know news mobiletracker net ATPM Thanks Jon It was totally my pleasure to meet you in person and wish you success with MobileTracker Copyright 2003 Lee Bennett lbennett atpm com ATPM 9 05 28 Interview Jonathan Gales what s Under the Hood by Robert C Lewis rlewis atpm com Got Vinyl LPs to CDs Part 3 The Playlist and Burning to CD The Story So Far In the first part of this series discussed the relevant terminology and went over the required hardware Last month looked at how to record and how to filter your recording When you copied your original recording onto your Mac and filtered it to your liking you did it as one continuous piece of audio In this form there is nothing separating each song or track if you were to burn your music to CD at this point you would not be able to switch between individual tracks at will
26. to say that Amadeus Il is a great entry level program for those who want to test the waters of recording and editing Spin Doctor is also useful and it comes bundled with Toast Peak LE is great for breaking your music into tracks but it will have to wait for Arboretum to release Ray Gun Pro as a plug in to make it whole Montage with Ray Gun Pro is in its early stages and according to Arboretum the next update will bring major changes and improvements If you are serious about your audio and want to use Montage with Ray Gun Pro recommend that you wait till the update comes out Last Words For Now What started out as a one off article has to my surprise mutated into a three part series Before close gosh did actually say close I d like to make some final points First take your time Do not try to rush through the whole process Clean your albums before recording The cleaner the album the less noise will be picked up Next be careful with your filters Listen to your music often as you apply the filters If possible use What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl headphones to get a better handle on how your music sounds Check and double check as you break your music into tracks Nothing can be more infuriating than to find out that you wasted a whole CD by cutting a single track short Lastly will stress again what mentioned last month avoid using the microphone port when recording onto your Mac If you use it you run
27. to set the options for each file A suspicious mind would suggest that removing this speed bump could make Adobe s online PDF service wildly popular and that s not necessarily a good thing It could hurt Acrobat software sales and more likely lead to prohibitively high Web infrastructure costs to keep up with the demand The money is in catering to the occasional user who might not buy the boxed Acrobat software or who uses the service out of the office There s nothing to gain by having the online service cater to bandwidth hogging heavy duty users Let them buy the box But as the lawyers say all this is just speculation How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves Create Adobe PDF s other potential soeed bump is the speed of your Internet connection If you are working with big files a broadband hookup is a necessity fast processing isn t much help if it takes forever to send and receive the documents The Adobe Web service also can turn a Web site into a PDF but it does not support JavaScript or Cascading Style Sheets CSS two increasingly common Web site elements Compare that with version 5 of Acrobat for the Mac which will convert CSS and offers partial support for JavaScript version 6 appears to be even more compatible If converting Web pages is a requirement of your workflow the Web service is not for you But keep an eye out for a likely upgrade Keep security in mind when using Create Adobe PDF Do you really want to send a
28. troublesome keys and a few games to reinforce what you ve learned Reviewer Gregory Tetrault also suggests several alternative programs to consider Review TiVo Home Media Option TiVo has been popular for a long time but you may not know about the TiVo Home Media Option Eric Blair introduces you to a way to link your Mac and your TiVo together allowing basic sharing of music and photos between the two platforms Review World War 2 Online Blitzkrieg Joe Kudrna reviews World War 2 Online Blitzkrieg a highly detailed online combat simulation game that spawns you into WW2 Teamwork is highly important unlike many shoot em up style games this game doesn t expect you to win the war alone S ATPM 9 05 11 Welcome Back Issues just received my first online edition of ATPM thank you for the best publication of its type I ve ever seen How can retrieve previous issues of ATPM Charles G Lynch All the back issues are available on our Web site Michael Tsai Mac OS X A couple of months ago feeling desperate sent an e mail to ATPM explaining how at 82 years was appalled to be confronted by Mac OS X that didn t know how to use it or to learn it especially as was suffering from loss of memory Step forward the readers of ATPM John Petty Matthew Coates and Jack Schachtebeck all offered help and don t mind confessing that used them shamelessly But each one helped me to solve a puzzle
29. your online time was spent What is your role there and how did you get involved JG I m technically the Webmaster but most of my time is spent writing articles and news not code Rick Yaeger the founder started the site probably close to four years ago and asked me to come on board in June 2001 We took the site from a Blogger com powered weeny to a PHP MySQL powerhouse It was a big transition but it s been fun Along the way we ve picked up a few other people Greg Maddux and Brian Burnham ATPM And then after a time of working with MacMerc and your blog you started MobileTracker Tell us exactly what MobileTracker is all about and your motivation for Starting it JG love Gizmodo but it doesn t cover much of the phone market it s all about gadgets figured could scoop him on most stories and just cover the market much better also thought the economics would pay off and so far they have MobileTracker is the relaunch of n3rd net Cell Station a site that lasted about two weeks thought it was great but then the editor over at MacMinute said Hey you need a domain name It never crossed my mind before but instantly felt the need In about 10 minutes had the debit card out and owned MobileTracker net The site s purpose is simply to track the latest and greatest in the mobile world MobileTracker is never pushy about buying anything but when someone does we get a kickback Not big usually 1
30. 5 percent but it keeps the server running As the site grows economies of scale start to kick in ATPM And the site s tag line is dead on You can t trust the salesperson Do you report on all things in mobile communications or is there a niche that you tend to focus on JG MobileTracker definitely focuses on cell phones but since the market changes so fast who knows what s going to be next Gotta keep the future open ATPM Do you have access to particular sources or any insider information about upcoming technology or do you simply report on what you find on your own JG Can plead the fifth We go into rumors as much as possible but our sources aren t at this time mission critical However if anyone wants to be a snoop they can e mail us ATPM 9 05 26 Interview Jonathan Gales ATPM Hah yeah you re allowed to plead the fifth So what are some of the coolest and most innovative things you ve reported on to date JG I d say the satellite powered phones that are being used all over Iraq by essentially every cable news station They are actually quite cheap and readily available Some of the other cool stuff in the news is video recording on phones MPEG 4 and the color HipTop that s coming this fall ATPM MobileTracker s coverage includes combination PDA phone devices Is there any other type of related technology you d like to include as part of MobileTracker someday JG The PowerPage does a great job with some of th
31. Home Media Option In addition to viewing a slide show you can display a single image or get information about a photo When getting information about a photo you can see the date the picture was taken the date it was imported and the date it was modified You can also rotate the picture in 90 increments if necessary When displaying photos on the television TiVo scales the photo as large as possible without distorting the proportions If the photo won t scale to the full size of the screen common with rotated or cropped images the picture will be displayed with a black border Only the Basics have essentially the same complaint about both playing music and slide shows the options are far too basic Music playback doesn t support any sort of cross fading There aren t any transitions when images change during a slide show However my biggest complaint is that you can t mix audio and video After using the iLife applications it seems natural to have music playing in the background during a slide show or to have visual effects while listening to music With the Home Media Option though it s one or the other visually boring music or silent slide shows Since your TV has both a screen and speakers the TiVo should be able to use both of them at once Also the Digital Music option is currently limited to playing MP3s If you have music you ve imported into iTunes in the AIFF or WAVE formats you won t be able to play them
32. Net plug in which quits your browser and launches the game Once loaded you are shown a map of recent activity Use the map to zoom in on an area or view a list of active missions or attacks that you can join The entry screen also lets you modify the key map and view your progress to becoming a general Once a mission and vehicle are picked hit Launch and the game drops you onto the map Most of the time you will spawn in a relatively quiet area and move to the front line by land air or sea but sometimes you may spawn in the midst of heavy action Just as in the real war information is scant and your on screen display offers basic health meters a direction indicator and a short range map The environment is detailed enough to look impressive There are day and night cycles but the transitions happen about four times faster than normal The game follows the laws of physics from gravity right down to weapons recoil and the swaying motions of vehicles You can have accidents if a truck you are riding hits a bump or a tree people will be thrown out and injured Because there are so many vehicles in the game there are configuration settings for each class and individual vehicle as well as settings for up to four different joysticks attached to the same computer or for four players using the same joystick The spawn in locations are either in the field called FB or in a city called AB What is available depends on how activ
33. World War 2 Online A plug in for your Web browser is also installed meaning you should quit your Web browser before installing As ATEM went to press this plug in is incompatible with Apple s Safari browser and have only tested it with Internet Explorer To create an account go to the Web site s Account Getting Started area enter the CD Key found on the case along with some personal and billing information and take your time to choose a user name and password you re happy with You can change your user name at a later stage but it will cost a little extra Once you have signed in you can then choose a squad to join Teammates help you play the game coordinate the missions and give a sense of familiarity and welcome The option to play elsewhere or on the opposite side is still there but once familiarized with the game joining up will offer great camaraderie There is a ATPM 9 05 92 Review World War 2 Online feature in the radio window to instantly chat with specific squad members or an individual Being a member also gives you posting access to the Forum Support Mac is very helpful with questions There is already a vibrant community of players As you gain experience you gain rank and privileges This game is possibly unique in that it is launched from a Web browser On the Web site choose a side Allies or Axis read the news and orders for the day and then click the Join button This activates the Play
34. a much greater risk of picking up all the nice electrical noises created by your Mac s internal fan hard drive CD drive and other components Next month will either do a utility roundup or publish an article that have been slowly piecing together on the latest technology in input devices That is it for now By the time you read my next article another year in my life cycle will have passed Yes I m a stubborn Taurus Until then End of Line Copyright 2003 Robert C Lewis rlewis atpm com Robert is a Mac consultant What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl How To by Matthew Coates hmedia mac com Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves The Myth the Legend the PDF The Adobe PDF Portable Document Format is a small wonder of computing remarkably versatile endlessly useful and simply everywhere It is the Rosetta Stone of computer compatibility a miraculous solution to the oldest hassle in personal computing we don t all have the same stuff We don t have the same computers or programs or fonts or printers or knowledge about how it all works But with the PDF none of that matters know I can always send you a document that you can open And you can send one to me Apparently we re doing a lot of that No matter what the PDF contains a bare bones ReadMe an IRS tax form perhaps an elaborate architectural rendering it is an elegant realization of the simple yet profitable concept of a universal file format A
35. ail for as low as 25 ATPM 9 05 90 Review World War 2 Online When using the game s bundled configuration utility it is best to start with minimum settings and increase over time starting with the resolution and observing frame rate changes if the FPS rate is not shown press the Num Lock key Higher settings make the environment look better but may reduce performance The bottom left button when clicked displays detailed descriptions of each of the settings There have been a dozen updates to this game since the first Mac version came out and dozens more on the PC side but this is the first time can honestly say it s a Really Good Thing There is an amazing and constant effort to improve the game with user polls conducted and suggestion requests accepted Since started playing the developers have added new effects new terrain a dozen more towns one armored car three tanks and five new airplanes pushing the total number of vehicles into three figures The improvements in version 1 8 4 are substantial There may already be additional vehicles by the time you read this Looking at town from river bridge Joining the Squad With this in mind it is best to download and use the full game installer from the site about 99 MB instead of installing from the CD which carries version 1 6 8 By default files install to the PlayNet folder within the Applications folder although this can be changed Review
36. ains a list of seven topics in an upper window and information on the selected topic in a lower window found this section unhelpful Report for your last lesson Accuracy gt You had to repeal 0 lines Best And Worst Keys Your best k ys in order were mow Your wordt heyi p WEG m Topas lhem aaa a saan he oplan beiw gt i i SSE i Overall you are making excellent progress You mada exceptionally lew mistakes Your targel is in sighi Keep The ararac as high as Ihis and Bs only a malber of ine A Comments SLS r a ie a k 5 Report window immediately after completing a lesson Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 The Report window summarizes the results of your last lesson or activity There is no way to review previous reports The Report window has a different format if the button is clicked immediately after launching or logging in as a new student Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor This Student History report summarizes overall progress History Info Student Greg lt lt Keys Leam DE orre Speed Accuracy Fe 10066 Your average WPM ip 22 31 OF your target of 70 WM You average error percemlage IS 336 en ee M Comment _ E TE Hi 1 SEA rg id arr TA Welcome back You shared leaning lo hare om Tuesday Apii 6 2008 You have y pradiced for approximately 1 hour Progress report for a student Problems and Bugs I
37. are correct Bob Dylan Play gt Don t do anything Getting information about a song Review TiVo Home Media Option Photos The Photo menu works somewhat differently from just about any other function in the TiVo Instead of items running down the left side of the screen your screen is broken down into a 4 x3 grid Each entry in the grid can contain an item from your photo collection along with a preview het E JelhyishS fetish JeltytshOT Jets Gre t noth deii i ah i Jesh t 1 pelts Lt Sorted by Aane pers ENTER te change Previewing a number of jellyfish photos In theory this lets you easily see all the pictures on your computer while staying within the menu system Since the Home Media Option gets your photo albums from iPhoto though the first Photo menu contains nothing but folders representing the different photo albums suspect the Photo menu system was designed this way for Windows users since Windows uses completely different methods to organize pictures On the bright side TiVo determines the name of the pictures based on the titles set in iPhoto as opposed to the seemingly random names your digital camera assigns to files Slide shows work pretty much as you would expect every photo in the selected album is displayed on the screen for a few seconds at a time As with listening to music your slide show options are fairly limited time per photo shuffle and repeat Review TiVo
38. as it will greatly reduce the amount of scrolling What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Once you are done breaking your music into tracks you can double click on each track and name it Spin Doctor comes packaged with Toast Titanium which means that once you are done with your playlist you can transfer it directly to Toast and burn your CD but not before setting the pauses as described below BE klana CA Jam 7 Aner of Urssug Beb Rate Hale ay Ji c Tras Lie Here 7 Dr Marvels Bir Beipsarih 3 b 1 i Litiie Hermati Calling Gocapesty r 7 EE m 7 c Do If Elin Tee O Ondo A Tirsa Rerig FAES CDSpinDoctor Teve To GA OA Ghe Appi b hna Fabi Taari Tiga are T21 E be Piip iy DP Epin Tracks Defined in CD Spin Doctor Unfortunately each time I clicked on the Toast icon button in Spin Doctor things did not seem to work right Yes clicking on the button did launch Toast but the audio tracks did not transfer once Toast was fully open This turns out to be a bug in Spin Doctor under Mac OS X 10 2 If for some reason the tracks are not automatically transferred to Toast upon clicking the button simply select all the tracks in Spin Doctor and drag them onto the Toast window This workaround is not mentioned in the manual or on the Web site There is a third also undocumented way to section your recording First create a new folder on your desktop Give that folder the name of your recording Now go back to Spi
39. at time a signal of a hit is sent to the server which passes that information to the opponents computers They acknowledge the hit and report damage sustained this information is passed back to the server and notice is finally sent back to the shooting players computer all in the space of that one second A slow computer with a low frame rate suffers more misses than lag Teamwork The hallmark of this game is cooperation Two players can share a single vehicle where one is usually a driver or pilot and the other is a gunner or bomber Not only can a large gun be operated by two people but to move it across great distances one needs the assistance of a third player to operate a truck In a tank the driver will select the tank available and request an additional crew member who takes the turret position It makes for easier spotting of enemies which is vital for victory but communication between driver and gunner is tricky It is easier to be a tail gunner to an aircraft s busy pilot ATPM 9 05 96 Review World War 2 Online The implementation of this feature is refined functional and one of the best aspects of this game A cross platform communications software called TEAMSPEAK is being used to great effect to help coordinate vehicle operation as well as squad organization German forces moving out The key to a great game or movie is in the details Once soawned into a fighter while grounded engine off fired its g
40. ce you find that point let go That section will be highlighted Select Define Track from the Track menu that track will now have markers set at the beginning and end of it and a generic title will appear in the Playlist window Repeat this process for your other tracks A mistake in the start or end time of a track can also be easily corrected Select the track you wish to modify from the playlist to highlight it Go to where you wish to make the correction Shift click in the blue area next to the marker and drag in the direction needed to correct the mistake As you drag the area you move over will turn white Once done release the mouse and the marker will move to the new point Although this procedure Is described in the manual it neglects to say that you need to Shift click when you drag The book says to just click and drag If you do that you will de select the entire track BE Klan CA alam j e a I Aner of Uranus Fit Beb Paea Bile ay F True Life Here 7 a bh br Harvedi aS Bir Bedi worl i T z b Libii Fermati c SS Elegie Time OD Tiree Pvp etal CDSpinDoctor fave To Ga DOR A Gees Apt bona Pcie Taari Tiaka S21 Pnb Hark 0D pp BaT Di elec bed iT H vii Adjusting a Marker in CD Spin Doctor One thing I do not like about this method is that you cannot Shift click when choosing a track That is why expanding the window to the full size of your screen is so important
41. crobatic Moves open in Preview Select the document s icon hold down the Option key and choose Always Open With from the File menu Then select Preview from the submenu This also works via contextual menus If you want to make all of your PDFs open in Preview select the icon of any PDF and choose Get Info from the File menu Click the triangle next to Open With choose Preview from the pop up menu and click Change All But note that the icon of an Acrobat generated PDF won t change unless you save the PDF with a different name and the Get Info window waffles a bit promising only to use the default application to open documents that are like your sample Translation there s no guarantee this technique will work consistently You may have already taken Preview for a PDF opening test drive and didn t know it In OS X the Print dialog box includes a Preview button and its name is no coincidence Clicking the button opens your document as a PDF file in Preview if it is your default PDF application otherwise Acrobat Reader will open Before move on let s have a little fun with Preview Let s say you have an original document written in Microsoft Word and named it I Love my Mac without quotation marks Click the Preview button in Word s Print dialog box and your love letter opens in Preview Save It using Save As in the File menu accepting the default file name for the document and choosing the desktop as the
42. destination The result is a PDF with this oddball name Preview of Microsoft Word l Love My Mac doc pdf Alas if you are contemplating parlaying this oddity into an endless loop of previewed previews it won t work When you click the Preview button in Preview s own Print dialog box it opens a new PDF but with the mundane name untitled Rats How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves Acrobat Online Despite all the PDF generating fun you can have with your Mac there may be times when you will need PDF features that OS X can t deliver Say hello to Create Adobe PDF Online It s a great resource Create Adobe PDF Online ammm i Product info help support start a web cage i downloads rolated products i hag out Wekbome Conversion Choices Conversion Stabs Conversion History Prag here nee Choose a file from your hard frit a URL and receive a drive oad we ll onver i te Web page captured in Adobe Adobe PDF or de optical POF in return You can tasty character neceqnaien OCR save daetrihube and print or you converted Web pages for shared er future use This is the starting screen once a subscriber has logged in use this online PDF maker more often than my copy of Acrobat If I hadn t bought the software before tried Create Adobe PDF Online might not have bought it at all The Web based service is a great choice for small businesses and single users who occasionally need to make a fully
43. dia Option These four playlists show up as folders in the Music screen The first three contain sub folders for each artist album or genre respectively iTunes generates these groupings from the ID3 tags associated with each of your MP3s so you should make sure the information in your music library is correct to use the Home Media Option to its fullest The fourth list displays all of the songs you are sharing Playlists behave as you would expect whatever songs you have in the playlist in iTunes are in the playlist on your TiVo TiVo also supports both normal and Smart playlists though it cannot update Smart playlists From the Music menus and playlists you can either listen to a particular song or listen to a whole playlist by pressing Play on your remote when you highlight a playlist of folder Listening to music is a fairly straightforward affair Your options are limited to shuffling your music repeating your music and whether or not you should play any sub folder in your current playlist While you are listening to music your TiVo will either display a blank screen or some textual information about the currently playing song You can move around within the song with the fast forward and rewind buttons on your remote and Review TiVo Home Media Option advance to the next song with the Channel button Additionally your TiVo can also display some basic information about songs from the menu system assuming your ID3 tags
44. e File menu name the file and click Save Then go back to your original recording and repeat this process with each of the rest of the tracks suggest that you save all of your tracks in a new folder What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Final Vinyl Last month reported that Final Vinyl which as you will recall comes bundled with Griffin Technology s iMic lacked the filters required to restore your recordings Sadly have also found it to be weak when it comes to cutting your music into tracks Although the instructions did explain how to place cue marks between each cut they did not explain how to save each track Preview DO Ede Siwt D D i d g ue Aai a ci mark to fs a e a 001 07 15 PAMA Final Vinyl Adding a Cue Mark The instructions tell you that for each break between two songs found while playing back your recording you should select Pause from the Control window and then click on Cue in the Control window This will then put a marker between the two tracks At this point the instructions leave you hanging on what to do next I tried to save thinking it might save the tracks individually to no avail What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Worse Final Vinyl saves its audio files without type and creator codes The type code must be set to AIFF all caps so that other editing applications can read them There are many utilities available that let you change a file s type and
45. e of that job for me Apple s Web site has a full section devoted to NAB 2003 complete with photo galleries Award winning Wonders One additional bit of major news for Apple is that Final Cut Pro 4 won two best of show awards MacCentral reports that FCP was the recipient of a Vidy Award and a Government Video Salute presented by United Entertainment Media ATPM 9 05 23 Report NAB 2003 Final Thought I m going to wrap up with props to Crywolf and whoever came up with the slogan for their CoolMac Silencer The slogan Hear Yourself Think Different is something we can all take to heart Granted it s for a product that I ll probably never directly use any time soon but the words left a considerable impression especially when you consider the numerous complaints at how loud the Mirrored Drive Door G4s are This company makes some great looking equipment silencing and cooling cases Some marketing brain was on the ball with this slogan But beyond this product think about the slogan How much psychological clutter is present in your life that prevents you from being able to well think different Anyway hope to see you at NAB 2004 Copyright 2003 Lee Bennett lbennett atpm com ATPM 9 05 24 Report NAB 2003 Interview by Lee Bennett Ibennett atpm com Jonathan Gales MobileTracker net Advances in mobile communication technology lately have picked up such a pace one can hardly stay abreast of what is c
46. e of your iTunes Playlists Honestly the functionality of TiVo Desktop sounds like it belongs in the Sharing Preference pane but I m not certain if Apple allows third party developers to add entries to the list of services Review TiVo Home Media Option Although this all sounds straight forward hit a major snag during my initial setup my TiVo just did not see my Mac It turns out this was due to having turned on OS X s built in firewall and made worse by the fact that TiVo did not have its Macintosh documentation complete when it released the Home Media Option Currently the documentation is available and the answer to this problem is basically to open ports 8101 8102 and 8200 on your firewall If you don t understand what this means don t worry the new documentation does a very good job of explaining it Interface After you purchase the Home Media Option an appropriately named Music amp Photos option appears in your TiVo Central menu When you select this option you see a list of all the people sharing music and photos via TiVo Desktop on your network See who s sharing music and pictures on your network Music The Music screen shows you every playlist you ve elected to share in the TiVo Desktop Preference Pane Additionally iTunes creates four playlists of its own that you can choose to share with your TiVo iTunes Artists iTunes Albums iTunes Genres and iTunes Songs Review TiVo Home Me
47. e other mobile technology laptops for instance The goal is really to just focus on phones It s a big market and the site can always do even better than it is right now everyone can always improve ATPM We were just looking at the latest version of PowerBook G4s at the Apple Store before doing this interview suppose you re itching to buy one pretty soon JG Totally use Macs exclusively and since update a few sites daily spend a lot of time on my aging 400 MHz G4 tower As mentioned go to school and in between classes it would be great to be able to bypass the computer lab and hop online in style have PowerBook envy so bad it hurts ATPM Should be worried that you re typing on my PowerBook with your responses smirk JG Um scouts out escape path no not at all ATPM I m suddenly reminded of the Lay s potato chips commercial Get your own PowerBook Anyway how do Macs figure into MobileTracker and your own life JG MobileTracker isn t a Mac site but because most Mac users like nice things a good bit of our traffic is Mac users Also most of my contacts are at Mac sites thanks to my stint at MacMerc so when beg for the almighty link it s usually on a Mac site it s no coincidence we re doing this interview use a Mac because I m not an IT guy When I m working on something want the computer to be a tool to accomplish the task not just a tool Windows powered computers just don t do
48. e premise two tanks shooting at each other remains the same there are plenty of options to keep even seasoned veterans interested The variables you can change include wind terrain and explosion size Although none of these options are revolutionary Scorched Earth would not be the same without them and Pocket Tanks delivers the goods ATPM 9 05 59 Review Pocket Tanks 1 00b Now for the most important part the weapons The freeware version of this game comes supplied with thirty weapons the vast majority of which are offensive Each player has ten weapons to choose from out of a randomly selected twenty the final ten can also optionally be randomly selected The purpose of the game Is to outscore your opponent using the weapons you ve chosen WE4PON SHOP Select a Weapon CPU 10 ha et bh harms ET Mirtha Ee gt Shot F Firecfarker Skipper I Pile Driver a Tommy Gun fn Fn Map ala Fi re Mover F Hibil Fir pragker Pi i a A ii Misnilg Fi Dirt waver FT mage Wall H shot 7 Ground Hog EET TECTA Weapons Selection Screen As expected scoring is based on a combination of the vicinity of the explosion and the power of the weapon Some weapons are more useful than others but of the thirty included in the freeware version only Tracer could be considered completely useless OD am fe r iy i Gu Fineupple Pirar 70 aT Beware the Pineapple Pocket Tanks is fun It is easier to waste away an hour or two w
49. e the location is and on your rank most units are available at Corporal level From then on it s drive fly boat or just plain walk to the action Of course you can hitch a ride or be towed by a truck by getting close and jumping on board While hundreds can be online there is a limit of 64 for each FB or AB ATPM 9 05 94 Review World War 2 Online The availability of equipment is a deciding factor in most battles Scoring is based on two factors in defensive missions how much longer than 10 minutes they last and whether you Survive and in an attack mission claiming a kill This is much easier said then done as most of the time you are unsuccessful RAF out in force Hurricanes and Blenhimes Of all the online games have played this is the most reliable even over a 56K modem Lag when it happens has almost no impact on ground operations at most causing movement jerkiness or a rare delay in updates on flags was able to test it simultaneously by operating a tank using two accounts over a high bandwidth connection There was a consistent 1 4 1 3 second feedback lag between the two which is very good Considering that the servers need to keep track of hundreds of objects including bullets test for collisions and then inform each player s computer of movement hits or other events one can begin to come to terms with the quality of this simulation A successful hit does take about one second to register on your screen In th
50. egion with start and end markers designated by two yellow lines The thing I like most about this method is the fact that these lines are not set in stone If you listen to the end of the region and find it cuts off prematurely you can click on the region marker and move it to the correct position Once you have created your first region repeat the process for the other songs in your recording What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl After you have separated your recording into regions you will be ready to create your playlist from within Peak LE In the File menu select New gt Playlist and a blank Playlist window will appear Next go to the Window menu and select Contents This will open a content window that displays all of the regions you marked off in your recording Now all you have to do is drag your titles over to the Playlist window If they are not in the right order simply drag a title to another position Once you have the playlist the way you like it go to the File menu select Save As and give your playlist a name Then you are ready to burn to CD Peak LE is designed to work with Toast 5 and higher and a copy of Toast Light is bundled accordingly At the top of the playlist window is a set of buttons On the left side next to the trash can you will see a button with a small icon of a CD and a letter B within it Click it and Peak LE will automatically launch Toast and copy the playlist over Unfortunately the track title
51. egration of PDF technology anyone can be in the publishing business PDF is a native file format in OS X meaning that any application with a Print command can generate a PDF There are limitations Acrobat offers a long list of PDF creation options OS X offers none OS X creates PDFs that look great on your monitor and generally print just as well But it does not offer Acrobat s sterling ability to compress graphics nor any other Acrobat features such as password protection and document annotation Still if your PDF needs are fairly basic simple documents without a lot of graphics OS X s implementation of PDF technology will serve you well and save you money Creating a PDF in OS X is easy Although only a few applications offer a convenient Save as PDF command in the File menu the saving procedure under OS X Jaguar is just as Straightforward open the Print dialog box and click the Save as PDF button Pick a destination for the file and you re done Earlier versions of OS X don t have a Save as PDF button Instead select Output Options in the Print dialog box s pop up menu Check Save as File select PDF from the Format menu and click Print While this procedure which also works in Jaguar is not exactly intuitive it does offer a clue about why you re mucking about in a print dialog box to save a file It s the other file format option PostScript The PDF is a sibling of this complex printer langua
52. en it comes to burning your CD this is the section for you Before you import your tracks into iTunes open the iTunes Preferences window and click the Burning icon Set the Disk Format to either Audio or MP3 CD with a Gap Between Songs of None What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Now click the Advanced icon This is very important Deselect Copy file to iTunes music folder when adding to library If you do not do this all of your tracks will be copied into iTunes Music folder eating up another 500 to 700 MB of space on your hard drive Click OK to dismiss the Preferences window To import your tracks first select New Playlist from the File menu Name your playlist by clicking on the untitled playlist title in the Source column Then drag all your tracks over to the iTunes window Order the tunes the way you want them click the Burn CD button in the main iTunes window insert a blank CD and iTunes does the rest And the Winner Is Most of the material have discussed in the past three months does the job When it comes to hardware do your homework could not be happier with my Stanton ST8 80 turntable M Audio makes some great audio processing cards and now it has an external version of the Audiophile 2496 retailing as the Audiophile USB for 249 hope to have a look at it sometime in the future The iMic is a great economical way to record audio on your Mac if it lacks PCI slots For 25 would be crazy not
53. es folder you want to use Desktop Pictures Flowers Part 3 You can also use the pictures with Mac OS X s built in screen saver Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu Click the Screen Saver 10 1 x or Screen Effects 10 2 x button Then click on Custom Slide Show in the list of screen savers If you put the ATPM pictures in your Pictures folder you re all set Otherwise click Configure to tell the screen saver which pictures to use Mac OS X 10 0 x Switch to the Finder Choose Preferences from the Finder menu Click on the Select Picture button on the right In the Open Panel select the desktop picture you want to use The panel defaults to your Library Desktop Pictures folder Close the Finder Preferences window when you are done Mac OS 8 5 9 x Go to the Appearance control panel Click on the Desktop tab at the top of the window Press the Place Picture button in the bottom right corner then select the desired image By default it will show you the images in the Desktop Pictures subfolder of your Appearance folder in the System Folder however you can select images from anywhere on your hard disk After you select the desired image file and press Choose a preview will appear in the Appearance window The Position Automatically selection is usually fine You can play with the settings to see if you like the others better You will see
54. functional PDF but do not want to pay for Acrobat At 9 99 a month or a lump sum 99 99 for a year you can use the Adobe Web service for more than two years before the fees amount to more than the price of the software Chances are you ll spring for an Acrobat upgrade before then anyway And you won t have to spend anything to try online PDF conversion the service offers a free demo of up to five file conversions How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves Create Adobe PDF Online offers most of the significant features of Adobe Acrobat as well as a few the software does not currently have such as Paper Capture which creates searchable PDFs from scanned paper documents Paper Capture was dropped from version 5 of Adobe Acrobat for the Mac despite howls from users thankfully it returns in Acrobat 6 Adobe s Web PDF service works with almost any file format including Microsoft Office applications Adobe s Illustrator InDesign Photoshop PageMaker and FrameMaker WordPerfect and a long list of graphic file formats including EPS JPEG GIF TIFF PNG along with any other file which can be converted to PostScript before you upload it Create Adobe PDF Online offers far too many PDF making options to go into here but if you have used Acrobat Distiller the boxed version s PDF creation engine you ve seen them before Excellent HTML based help files lucidly explain the service s features For most users including beginners one of five pre def
55. ge that has powered a fair sized chunk of the digital age PostScript is the native tongue of many laser printers and high end imaging devices essentially it tells the printer how to construct a page for printing Normally a PostScript version of a document is sent directly to the printer but it may also be saved in geek speak a process called printing to disk Acrobat Distiller Acrobat s PDF creation engine makes user friendly PDFs from these all code PostScript files Until Acrobat came along How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves and put a happy face on PostScript many commercial printing companies preferred to work from PostScript files rather than native files from page layout applications because like PDFs they include everything needed to print a document OS X does not use PostScript which is owned by Adobe instead relying on the Apple graphic technology called Quartz If the PDF is PostScript s sibling then Quartz is PostScript s cousin Maybe even second cousin But you won t care once your Mac starts generating PDFs for free PDFs and Preview OS X s core integration of PDF technology goes beyond generating files If you frequently use PDFs and especially if you often open several at once consider switching to Apple s graphic viewer Preview as your everyday PDF reader You may already know Preview as a huge improvement over OS 9 s PictureViewer when it comes to opening and converting graphics files but
56. guably the first Massively Multiplayer Combined Arms Cooperative Operation Real Time Simulation ever What separates this war game from all others is its combined arms It utilizes infantry tanks aeroplanes and ships and offers the ability to share the operation of a vehicle with another player in a constantly changing strategic environment This is the most audacious attempt to date at recreating this period of history and for the most part it has succeeded This simulation is set during the 1940 German Blitzkrieg across a richly detailed Northern Europe as French and British forces do their best to stem the tide of the overwhelming German assault It takes place in a half scale virtual model of northern Europe There are huge cities and small villages connected by roads rivers and railroads The nature of the map offers the option of simply travelling across Europe in an aeroplane or truck but this will take time Just to fly to the German border from Dover in England takes an hour and a half in real time The object of the game is relatively simple stop the enemy from capturing territory The ways of achieving this goal are varied and ever changing You initially spawn in your choice of vehicle or as infantry at your location of choice do your duty and if you survive you spawn out and receive promotion points There are dozens of vehicle types and a handful of infantry types available and you can choose either to
57. he possibility of integrating it into other tools and fine tuning the results to provide the highest possible level of pertinence There are also tips for webmasters telling them the best way to set up their pages to get better and more targeted rankings ATPM 9 05 57 Review Google Hacks book Programmers and webmasters who want to work with Google and exploit its results will find a wealth of material in this book Simple Web searchers will also learn to save time and get the most precise results from Google searches The section on search syntax and the tips for getting the right results are worth far more than the cost of this book in the amount of time you can save and the quality of results you ll get from Google This is a valuable book full of useful tips and one that will enhance anyone s use of Google Copyright 2003 Kirk McElhearn kmcelhearn atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com D ATPM 9 05 58 Review Google Hacks book Review Pocket Tanks 1 00b by Dan Boland dboland atpm com Developer Cornerstone TSP Games Price 15 99 Requirements Mac OS 8 6 or Mac OS X 10 1 800x600 resolution Recommended 233 MHz G3 Trial Feature limited no Deluxe version features VERY NICE Whether or not you remember the classic game of warfare called Scorched Earth you can now enjoy it on your Mac in the form of Pocket Tanks by Cornerstone TSP Games While th
58. iPhoto 2 0 home network Trial Fully featured 30 Days GOOD It seems like members of the press and the computer industry have been talking about the convergence of computers and home entertainment systems for years When the topic comes up somebody almost always wants to tell you how computers will move into the living room However just about every attempt to put a computer in the living room has been a miserable failure There are numerous reasons why these devices have failed but the basic lesson is that computers and televisions haven t played well together Within the past two years the number of people with home networks has increased dramatically Some companies have realized that thanks to networking you can put your computer wherever you want it and still reap many of its benefits Given the popularity of MP3s it s not surprising that many of these products are designed to connect your computer to your stereo system TiVo the maker of digital video recorders that people either adore or know nothing about has entered the world of home networking Their Home Media Option is more than just an MP3 player in the living room it also lets you view photos on your computer share recordings among other TiVos in your house and schedule recordings over the Internet This review will focus mostly on the Digital Photos and Digital Music portions of the Home Media Option Setup wasn t really sure what to expect when
59. ience the cost is only 7 924 7 425 for 7 500 songs at 99 each and 499 00 for the 30 GB iPod Most users might get by with a less expensive iPod and perhaps a few thousand fewer songs in AAC format For people not familiar with the new AAC format it s richer than MP3 provides for easier anti piracy protection and gives a new reason for people to buy a Mac for their music pleasure At least that s Apple s plan let s see how consumers respond Bottom Line It Baby At 99 per song Apple will reportedly keep on average 34 from each song purchase with the balance remitted to the music labels it will take millions of song downloads for the new music service to appreciably impact Apple s earnings It s still hardware sales that drive Apple s revenue In April Apple announced a net profit of 04 per share for the three months ended March 29 2003 Apple s second fiscal quarter is traditionally the company s weakest for sales and earnings During the quarter Apple shipped 711 000 Macintosh units of which more than 40 of were laptops Due to late shipments of the new 17 PowerBooks Apple ended the quarter with about 4 5 weeks of channel inventory Apple s channel inventory level is ATPM 9 05 8 Welcome among the lowest in the PC industry This was good news for Apple but a lesson in patience for buyers waiting on delivery of what some call the TowerBook because of its size Apple ended the quarter with more than 4 5 b
60. illion in cash and equivalents Despite the somewhat tepid earnings report Apple has increased its cash holding by about 190 million since the beginning of the fiscal year Apple ended yet another quarter with big cash small market share and an anxious Mac community speculating about even more products to come This might lead a Mac user to say So What Else is New We re glad you asked Final Cut Pro 4 will soon be released and the ubiquitous iBook received a speed bump and larger hard drive For digital artists and engineers the forthcoming Shake 3 has new features and unlimited licenses for distributing work over multiple Macs For those of us with only 99 songs available for purchase with our limited technology budgets Safari Public Beta 2 is available for free download on the Apple site and via Mac OS X s software update service There s more news and information about Mac related products inside this issue The ATFM Staff Our May issue includes The Candy Apple This Month s Candy Apple Is Golden the Golden Rule That Is Ellyn explains why we should pay for what we use Report National Association of Broadcasters Convention 2003 Lee Bennett gets indoctrinated to the NAB experience and describes what it was like ATPM 9 05 9 Welcome Interview Jonathan Gales Lee Bennett sits down to chat with Jonathan Gales about his latest endeavor MobileTracker net What s Under The Hood Got Vinyl Converting LPs to CDs Part
61. ilter 6 Disconnect the iMic highly unlikely since this is an analogue problem If you hear RF you ve got bad sockets on the iMic guess In each step disconnect and reconnect a few times to be sure you are hearing the RF Hope this helps Brian L Reimer ATPM 9 05 13 VET believe have determined that the Radio Shack pre amp was using leaks have located a better one As far as can tell the radio signal is gone Should it fail still have the other tests you said to try Meanwhile want to thank you and your engineer friend for your outstanding assistance It s soared me further anguish and the cost of a new turntable Please know that it is greatly appreciated Robert Frye Virtual PC can t seem to get Internet Explorer in Virtual PC 2 1 2 to work with the internal modem in my iBook Could you please tell me how to get this to work Jobby Wan Kenobi I am assuming that you have an older iBook and are running OS 9 Upgrading to a newer version of VPC makes it easier to connect to the Internet because VPC will share your Mac connection but it isn t required The trick is to create two different TCP IP connection sets TCP IP Modem and AppleTalk settings for your iBook One set is for connecting to the Internet via OS 9 the other for VPC 2 1 used Location Manager to make switching back and forth easier do not remember all the details on how to do this but they are described in the VPC manual
62. ined option sets for optimizing your PDF will How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves be all you need whether your PDF is destined for the Web general use or even commercial printing The service s interface is clean and well designed it never gives more information than a user can handle Select options for your Filename My Document txt AEB conversion To edit your z settings go to Preferences Optimization Setti mgs eBook POF Compatibility Acrobat 4 0 PDF 1 3 Convert pages from te ae Options Add Adobe Acroby tilt Security to your filt No Security Pd Delivery Method E mail me my new PDF as an attachment This is the basic window for selecting either the default conversion settings or one which a user has previously saved i To use Create Adobe PDF Online simply browse to a file to convert choose your settings and whether to convert the whole document or a sequential range of pages such as pages 4 12 and click Create PDF Adobe says files up to 5 MB in size usually are processed within 2 minutes When the conversion is done you may opt to receive an e mailed link to the file to have the file e mailed to you as an attachment to wait for the How To Mac OS X s Acrobatic Moves conversion and download the file immediately or to skip notification altogether and have the file wait for you to retrieve it from an online holding bin Whichever option you choose the file will be
63. introduces an erosion of trust that will reduce future good for the society then we commit an unethical act when we download the file Using virtue ethics we never have to ask the question We spend a lifetime cultivating a virtuous state of soul If the virtues of courage justice moderation and wisdom are sufficiently nurtured when we arrive at moments of choice we know what to do We have a sense of what Is just and how that means that things belong in their proper places We are sufficiently savvy in the subtleties of when to make exceptions and under what circumstances We are courageous about doing the right thing even if it is not easy especially when it is not easy We temper our desires with the knowledge that we are doing the right thing Problem 2 Whether to send in the shareware fee on an application If the creator is not properly rewarded for her hard work and ideas then we harm her A reasonable trial period is understood as part of the demonstration My hypothetical problem is concerned with what happens once that trial period has resulted in a decision to keep the software Using duty ethics we ask Would it be OK if I were trying to make a living by making my program inexpensively available on the honor system and nobody sent in the 10 bucks If the answer is No then we will commit an unethical act if we use the program without paying for it Using the principle of utility utilitarianism we ask Is it go
64. ions so it is possible to be hit inside a bunker Overall bunkers seem to be a hindrance and many players question their purpose This game suffers from occasional freezes and application crashes that occur more frequently on modem connections On a broadband connection a crash or freeze may on average occur with every 15th spawn in but am usually finished playing before that happens ATPM 9 05 99 Review World War 2 Online have read some reports of poor performance even with new high end Macs There are a few map bugs mainly bases that cannot be captured and trees invisible from one side Lag is generally unnoticeable unless you are flying when that short pause may seem to last forever but other then that it runs very smoothly considering the hundreds of players online at once Going on a river cruise in a small Fairmile patrol boat Play Tips Be patient If you rush into combat you won t last long Learn how to operate as many individual vehicles as possible before you rush off to battle Learn to work in teams as you cannot capture a town alone The more familiar you are with your vehicles and maps the ATPM 9 05 100 Review World War 2 Online more successful you are Truck runs and defense missions are the best route to more promotion points but remember to despawn at base after a run You must play the game for more than ten minutes and survive to receive those points The cliffs of Dinant Last Call Wor
65. ith this game than one might think The graphics and music are solid and appeal to the eye and ear Strategy buffs will enjoy the closer matches and explosion fanatics will revel in destroying their buddy s tank Gare Over oD oa Daa he i 7s wy ATI M Wins Again do however have a few gripes about this game Even with ten levels of difficulty find myself winning at the hardest level nine out of ten times whether choose the weapons myself or let the game do it for me A four player mode would be nice as well although might just be being picky But if anything must stress this not everyone will like this game Regardless of its features some people my fianc e included will think this game is boring and stupid All the Deluxe version offers is thirty extra weapons and the promise of future weapons expansion packs There are no additional options or harder difficulties If you think it is worth the money then by all means update to the Deluxe version I on the other hand have plenty of fun playing the free version For those who love Scorched Earth Pocket Tanks is a version worthy of your time Although don t think the Deluxe version is worth the money the freeware version makes a terrific download Copyright 2003 Dan Boland dboland atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com J ATPM 9 05 63 Review Pocket Tanks 1 00b Review
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67. l remain unchanged at 999 Upgrades are 399 Yours truly sat in on a 30 minute introduction to Final Cut Pro 4 Apple set up a mini classroom within their pavilion and conducted these introductions as well as several in depth topic specific tutorials all day long throughout the convention 20 30 workstations were set up complete with Bose QuietComfort R Acoustic Noise Cancelling R headsets Getting to try out these headphones for a half hour clinched my decision to buy a set the next day ATPM 9 05 22 Report NAB 2003 It s Not Over til Apple Says It s Over Apple also announced Shake 3 and DVD Studio Pro 2 at NAB Shake is a digital compositing and visual effects package for use with HD and film projects and uses Shake Qmaster network render management software DVD Studio Pro 2 brings an updated interface time line track editing and professional templates styles buttons and backgrounds Your new production team is here Can You Say Growing Market Share Andy informed me that for a while Apple s presence at NAB seemed to be dwindling That is absolutely not the case any longer Practically every time turned to a new exhibitor saw Apple equipment driving what they had to show Numerous exhibitors had even gotten their hands on the new 17 PowerBook spent a little too much energy just taking everything in and not getting as many photographs as should have Not to worry though Apple reps took car
68. ld War 2 Online Blitzkrieg must not be seen as an arcade style game such as Quake Medal of Honor or Unreal It is a serious combat simulation that can be enjoyed if treated as such and gives a good historical perspective of what it was like 63 years ago This game is most recommended for WW2 hobbyists serious gamers and those who like simulation games but it may still be attractive to arcade gamers The camaraderie you will find between players is very noticeable with players trading humorous war stories or boasts Perhaps some will be perfectly happy just to drive to a hill top admire the virtual countryside and listen to the digital birds Copyright 2003 Joe Kudrna joek wt net Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com N ATPM 9 05 101 Review World War 2 Online FAQ Frequently Asked Questions What Is ATPM About This Particular Macintosh ATPM is among other things a monthly Internet magazine or e zine ATPM was created to celebrate the personal computing experience For us this means the most personal of all personal computers the Apple Macintosh About This Particular Macintosh is intended to be about your Macintosh our Macintoshes and the creative personal ideas and experiences of everyone who uses a Mac We hope that we will continue to be faithful to our mission Are You Looking for New Staff Members We currently need several Contributing Editors Please
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70. making it easy to share data and scripts with Windows people or users of older Macs Data is stored in a highly compressed format in a break from Microsoft s norms of oversized files but matching SPSS mainframe heritage There are only two major issues with compatibility SPSS 11 for Windows output files cannot be shared with SPSS 10 or earlier versions for the Mac and SPSS scripting language not to be confused with syntax was not ported over since SPSS 11 can now use AppleScript SPSS 11 like prior versions also reads tab delimited and fixed format ASCII text and Excel files Output files can be saved as HTML for posting on the Web SPSS also sells programs that allow other people to view the results and delve deeper into the data SPSS also deserves credit for porting over just about all the modules available under Windows so Mac users aren t faced with overpriced crippleware Indeed the prices match the Windows versions despite porting costs The main deficiencies of the Mac version compared with Windows are being one half version behind Windows is up to 11 5 missing features include not being able to directly import SAS files the loss of the Method subcommand of Crosstabs and three subcommands of nonparametric tests both of the latter are missing from the optional Exact Tests module ATPM 9 05 66 Review SPSS 11 0 New features include direct publication to the SmartViewer Web Server an extra cost option that allow
71. n Doctor and highlight the first track Then drag that section of audio to the folder on your desktop That track will be copied into a new file in the folder which you can rename Follow these steps for the remaining tracks What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Montage With Ray Gun Pro Last month discussed how to use Ray Gun Pro RGP in conjunction with Montage In doing so left you in limbo as to what to do after setting RGP to your liking That s because before you can actually apply your changes in RGP you must first section your recording into tracks and then export them should note at this point in case the following instructions are hard to follow that Arboretum plans to release an update to Montage RGP in about a month and the documents are being re written in areas to make using Montage and RGP easier to understand and use With your recording still encapsulated in RGP click the dark blue bar area in the music window This will turn the music section black Then find the first break between track one and two At the very top of the music window is a time line bar click once in the bottom half of the time line bar and a blue playback marker will appear At the top of that marker is a small blue disk with an arrow within it clicking and holding on the disk will let you move the marker to the left or right When you have the marker where you want it select Split from the Edit menu and Montage will set the first track The
72. n move to the next break between tracks two and three set the marker select Split and Montage will create the next break Repeat this process for the rest of your recording What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl The thing like most about this method is that you do not have to set markers up at each end of a track Montage remembers where you left off each time This is very useful when one track runs into another without a natural break between the two Monmage dit Recond Mayoack Process Test View Anenge Window _Momage GUN epo biy Road copy kar b r ev i uA LEE poppia apace Montage Exporting a Selected Track It is now time to export the tracks suggest that you now take a moment and double check that the settings you have applied by RGP are how you want them because these settings will be applied to your tracks as you export them Go to each track and click in the dark blue bar which will highlight that track then select Export from the File menu A small dialog will pop up use the default settings and click OK Montage will then render that track as an audio file applying all your settings Once this is done the standard Save window will appear Create a new folder name the file click Save and move on to the next track What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Correction last month said you had to buy Montage and Ray Gun Pro together for 250 It has come to my attention that y
73. ns contain a block of text to type at the top and information about your typing performance below For novices the displayed information is a map of the keyboard For more advanced users graphs of the overall speed and error rate and last line speed and error rate are displayed The timer Starts with the first key you type When you finish typing a line by pressing the spacebar after typing the last visible character a new line appears There is no option for scrolling text Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor will give visible red text and audible beep clues for each mistyped character if you selected those options during the setup quiz The lesson will not progress until you correct all errors in the displayed line There is no option that allows you to continue without correcting errors Lesson Welcome to Ten Thurbe Typing Tutor 2 3 The text you Lies dals hor ihis Bree Speed Wor se Emot oa Typo the text al the hop of the sereen Al the ond of fhe ine chook lor misinkes and cored any using ihe anow keys and DELETE Pross space to go to the mod line Time Let W new Main window with Lesson showing Extra Practice offers four options Practice worst keys based on your previous results Import text See fingering shows fingering for a single key and Practice typing keys that you choose Practice worst keys creates random strings of characters For example my worst keys were and Thus
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75. od for society for me to continue using this program without paying for it If the answer is No because it means that eventually shareware writers and artists will stop producing their work because they are not being fairly compensated for it then we commit an unethical act when we use the program without paying for it Using virtue ethics just like on Problem 1 we never have to ask the question We are such great people that we know what to do We test the software for a while decide we want to keep it and then we send in the money Easy ATPM 9 05 16 Candy Apple The Golden Rule So there you have it Three different ways to tackle life s toughest ethical problems And all you have to do is decide whether to download some tunes or whether to fork over that 10 you ve been meaning to send in for that nifty piece of software you use every other day Onward Copyright 2003 Ellyn Ritterskamp eritterskamp atpm com ATPM 9 05 17 Candy Apple The Golden Rule Report by Lee Bennett Ibennett atpm com National Association of Broadcasters Convention 2003 Can You Say Newbie Let s be totally truthful What you ve got here is a first time NAB attendee who has only Started doing digital video DV work in the past two years or so and is just finally beginning to learn to use Apple s Final Cut Pro instead of Adobe Premiere But since it seems I m the only ATPM staff member who went was nominated to come back with
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77. on your TiVo More importantly this means your TiVo cannot play AAC files ordered from the new iTunes Music Store or encoded by iTunes 4 Fortunately the Digital Photo option is a bit more forgiving in terms of file formats it supports JPEGs GIFs BMPs TIFFs and PNGs Beyond Music and Photos haven t really touched on Remote Scheduling and Multi Room Viewing for a few reasons First haven t had a chance to use either feature yet Second the behavior of these portions aren t anywhere near as Mac specific as the Digital Photos and Digital Music features Finally really think that the Digital Photos and Digital Music option are the more important features Review TiVo Home Media Option Is It Worth It The way see it people interested in the Home Media Option will fall into at least one of two categories people who already own Series2 TiVos and people who want their digital music and photos accessible from somewhere other than their computers If you already own a Series2 TiVo the Home Media Option presents a significantly less expensive option for accessing your digital music via your entertainment center than its competitors both the Slim Devices SLIMP3 and the Turtle Beach AudioTron cost more than 200 and aren t integrated with iTunes looked briefly around the Internet for a stand alone product that has similar functionality to the Digital Photos portion of the Home Media Option but wasn t able to find any
78. ons and typing games to achieve those goals Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 Installation and Setup The download file is a Stufflt archive of the Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor folder After decompression the application is ready for immediate use When you launch Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor for the first time you are asked to register If you do not register the program will function for only ten days You will also encounter a window displaying a Tips n Trivia window Tips window with option to hide You can avoid this by unchecking the box in the lower left corner You next see a log in screen for identifying yourself Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor allows multiple users per computer After you identify yourself Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor presents a quiz which asks about your typing goals and your preferences You can answer the questions on each screen or you can skip sections You can choose either QWERTY or Dvorak keyboard layouts Once you have finished the setup quiz Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor proceeds with the first lesson Using Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor has one main window Choices seven program areas plus Quit appear as eight buttons at the bottom of the window Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor opens with a structured lesson The lessons are based on information provided during the setup ATPM 9 05 71 Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 quiz and on performance in previous lessons Lesson scree
79. or two Now I m feeling much happier with the new system and beginning to have a suspicion that it s better than OS9 Thank you ATPM Marius Pope Kudos Hi there stumbled across your site while looking for FireWire info about my new for me Power Mac G3 300 It s a pleasure to find such a clean and well run site with clear concise and helpful to the point articles Thanks again Richard Woodruff ATPM 9 05 12 VET Converting LPs to CDs Using an old turntable a pre amp and an iMic in addition to LP signals receive a radio broadcast Has anyone encountered this Could a new good turntable be the answer Any ideas Much thanks for any help Robert Frye Usually the phono pre amp has a Radio Frequency RF filter to block the FM just contacted a radio engineer friend and here s his help to find where the RF is leaking in At each step listen for the RF to go away 1 All devices need to be grounded to the same power plug If they re plugged into the same wall outlet with a power bar that will do it 2 Connect everything up and listen for the RF 3 Disconnect the turntable from the pre amp 4 Connect a cable to the pre amp to mimic the turntable cables If you hear RF then you may have bad turntable cables This is where your problem is 5 Disconnect the pre amp from the iMic If you hear RF here you have a bad RF filter in the pre amp This is the most likely the source a pre amp with a cheap RF f
80. ou can buy Ray Gun Pro by itself with a free limited copy of Montage for 149 Arboretum did this intentionally so that people who want to work only with audio do not have to buy the full version of Montage Toast Importing The next step is to import the individual files you just created into a disc burning program found Toast to be by far the most flexible and user friendly pieces of software for this task although you may prefer to use iTunes will discuss how to use iTunes to burn audio CDs at the end of this article In Toast s main window select Audio In the Finder navigate to the folder you saved your tracks in then select and drag all of the files to the Toast window or drag one file at a time If in Toast the tracks show up in the wrong order you can click and drag each track to another position in the list Toast Burning To the left of the Title column is the Pause column Set all the pauses except the first one to zero If you do not do this there will be an extra gap of silence between each track This silence will be very different from the transition made going from one track to the next made that mistake on my first attempt and the result just did not sound right Once you have adjusted the pauses all you have to do is insert a blank CD click Record and let your Mac do the rest iTunes iTunes does not yet offer the means to separate a single recording into tracks but if you prefer iTunes to Toast wh
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82. round 20 haven t used it but it got very good customer reviews on Amazon com Disney s Adventures in Typing with Timon amp Pumbaa Disney Interactive also is no longer published but is still available It sells for around 10 It is designed for young novice typists My daughter used it last year when she was eight years old and liked it Roller Typing Edventure Softare uses the sport of rollerblading as a theme for typing skill games It lists for 30 but its street price is around 25 Jumpstart Typing from Knowledge Adventures distributed by Vivendi Universal Games is part of the Jumpstart educational software series It is designed for children in grades 3 5 It is available from Amazon com for 10 A new version Jumpstart Typing 2003 will be available in June for 20 Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 Summary Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor feels like a crude port of a mediocre Windows program It is functional but other programs are much better and often cost less Copyright 2003 Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If_ you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 Review TiVo Home Media Option by Eric Blair eblairQatpm com Developer TiVo Inc Price 99 first TiVo in household 49 additional TiVos in household Requirements 400 MHz G3 TiVo Series2 DVR USB Network Adapter Mac OS X 10 2 iTunes 3 0 1
83. rs Idea 2 Behave so as to maximize happiness for everyone This one is difficult to quantity but certain actions are recognized as being generally contributory to many people s happiness The definition of happiness here is not giddiness or ecstasy just a general feeling of well being that lasts and is not constantly under attack Idea 3 Behave properly out of a state of character that makes it obvious what you should do Idea 1 is duty ethics Idea 2 is utilitarianism and Idea 3 is virtue ethics Grossly oversimplified all of them but clear enough for our purpose which is to apply them to real life choices many of us make or have already made Problem 1 Whether to download an MP3 from someone else s computer The issue is whether the music is copyrighted and ought to be paid for rather than shared This does not include instances in which explicit permission is given to copy a file If an artist is losing money by my copying the file rather than purchasing it then the artist is being harmed ATPM 9 05 15 Candy Apple The Golden Rule Using duty ethics we ask Would it be OK if were trying to sell music and people didn t pay for it but instead copied it for each other If the answer is No then we will commit an unethical act if we download the file Using the principle of utility utilitarianism we ask Is it good for society for me to copy this file without paying for it If the answer is No because it
84. s But more on the new music service a bit later We re talking about releasing new products at the end of the month and on the same day as our publication deadline Let s call this the most timely May issue in ATPM history d Pe Grant Osborne iTunes iPods and International Ire That s right On April 28th Apple announced the iTunes Music Store The stores requires a half dozen or so things 1 A Mac with Mac OS X 10 1 5 or later 2 A credit card 3 iTunes 4 4 QuickTime 6 2 recommended 5 Broadband Internet access 6 Residency in the USA OK really only five things But try the new service on dialup at your own risk The 30 second song demos on dialup take about 20 minutes to play not really that long but they do take awhile For the lucky millions who do have the recommended equipment and meet the all important residency requirement there are now 200 000 songs available for download at a cost of only 99 each Of course many of the most vocal Mac users to comment on the service or lack thereof live overseas where the iTunes Music Store has yet to open its digital doors This has raised the ire of Apple s international user community more quickly than US users can download a couple dollars worth of songs Accompanying the new music service are new iPods boasting larger drives smaller forms and better buttons The new 30 GB iPod can hold up to 7 500 songs For the penultimate Mac user digital music exper
85. s do not carry over You will have to rename the tracks in Toast by double clicking on each title and retyping its correct name CD Spin Doctor There are three different ways to separate your recording into tracks using CD Spin Doctor Auto Define Tracks ADT found in the Tracks menu will automatically go through your recording looking for points of silence Each time it finds such a point it places a marker there The problem with this method is that if there is a false ending or sudden drop in sound ADT will place a marker there causing one track to become two or even three tracks ADT does an even worse job with classical music and removing unneeded tracks can become very tedious especially when eight tracks become 20 or more Roxio recommends that you only use this function when you are sure that all tracks in a recording are continuous with no false audio drops The Define Track function also in the Tracks menu works in almost the same way as the New Region command does in Peak LE Before you start this process expand the window to fill your screen this will help you find the gaps between each track with more ease For some reason the zoom button at the top left of the window is grayed out so use the drag handle on the bottom right corner instead What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Now find the beginning of the first track Click where the music begins and drag to the right keeping your eye open to when that track ends On
86. s quick and easy dissemination of results throughout an organization or to the world Data can now be restructured so multiple cases can form a single case or vice versa which will save some researchers incredible amounts of time and nuisance A database wizard can recode string values to numeric variables obtain random samples and do other clever time saving tasks that once required workarounds or other software Other clever features for quickly rearranging data such as the innovative pivot controls remain er re n Output and input pivoting tray controls All Respondents mol kiri AI Pat y Lamin ATHA wl Latif S Fri iva od bongang hare Ti 644 T Hi 1s ih T o s ir Pani I O Pivoting Tr y sl 218 178 E la iT ibe ote l ayers IFR ee ist i t 4 q a i weullabie f r moni student 4 Columns 15 ix Editor fier ihai are Sonens kor 16 i i 4 4 an aren cial a a ee hee ation are halta prince one provahed im my Rows i adable on campus z sk j n emae irs etre lLoireletralsa me et goals to werk Inn ib ea on i A B 13 el A M k PLL 7 1 aL4s24s 342d 25 26427428420 210 01 14212421 3 214e2154 STATISTICS CPET CCPCT7 0 X 3 TITLE ALL Respondents The optional and very handy Reports module now produces modern output with tab delimited tables instead of the old monospaced fonts It s still only camera ready if you re not very particular but
87. sbes for First Layer Aer Laon eee ea I Teak f r Wendi by Most of SPSS capabilities remain from version 10 and will refer you to that article rather than going back through them ATPM 9 05 65 Review SPSS 11 0 As with version 10 the major drawback to the program is a long boot time Version 10 booted in 30 seconds on my beige G3 despite an upgraded hard drive and processor Version 11 takes 45 seconds on my blue and white G3 with an upgraded hard drive and 400 MHz G4 processor No doubt it s considerably faster on more modern models While screen redraws are very sluggish on older machines calculations are tolerably quick suspect the part of the program that actually does the work uses only highly optimized and probably very old in many cases code while the user interface was developed with less concern for processor time SPSS Windows origins are otherwise hidden It looks and acts like a real Mac program using standard OS routines The data output and syntax views all have different sets of menus as they do in Windows for example you have to be in the data window before you can use a menu to split the file This can be annoying but it does keep the menus to a manageable size SPSS has done a wonderful job of maintaining the syntax through all Mac and Windows versions so that files written for older versions work without a hitch The data format is also compatible without conversion across versions and platforms
88. t level you achieved and there is no way to start at a higher level You also have no control over the characters to be typed Safari Park The Brick Factory game has character containing bricks falling on the left side of the screen If you correctly type all the characters the brick is sucked into the machine to the right If you fail to type the characters quickly enough the brick lands on a conveyor belt and is discarded onto a pile When the pile gets too high it falls over and you lose a life Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 Brick Factory makes little sense Even at the lowest level a brick can contain up to 12 characters Other bricks may have only two characters Character strings are usually words words plus punctuation or number strings ee Tht Tg Tes E RATE Fi Brick Factory Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 The Options window gives only three options related to the background black or off and to music and sound To change other characteristics of the program you must retake the setup quiz found this to be a cumbersome and annoying process Ten Thumbs Help 5 lt _ lt oo IH z Cvwak or OWERTYT Whal i Dvycrak Dacrak is a keyboard layout I is very dierent from OWERTY A Lilie Halay When ihe ia ypewmers were inverted Ihe Aboul Ten Thumbs How io Sit Gomecthy Help Review Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2 2 2 The Help window cont
89. the result in the little preview screen Once you are satisfied with the selection click on Set Desktop in the lower right corner of the window That s it Should you ever want to get rid of it just go to the desktop settings again and press Remove Picture Mac OS 8 0 and 8 1 Go to the Desktop Patterns control panel Click on Desktop Pictures in the list on the left of the window and follow steps similar to the ones above ATPM 9 05 55 Desktop Pictures Flowers Part 3 Random Desktop Pictures If you drag a folder of pictures onto the miniature desktop in the Appearance or Desktop Pictures control panel your Mac will choose one from the folder at random when it starts up DeskPicture An alternative to Mac OS s Appearance control panel is Pierce Software s DeskPicture reviewed in issue 5 10 and available for download amp ATPM 9 05 56 Desktop Pictures Flowers Part 3 Review Google Hacks book by Kirk McElhearn kmcelhearn atpm com Author Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest published by O Reilly Price 24 95 Trial Some sample hacks As many Web users know Google is the ultimate search engine With EXCELLENT the largest number of pages indexed and one of the fastest interfaces Google is the search engine of choice for most serious Web searchers I personally use it dozens of times a day and only rarely use other search engines Google offers powerful search syntax cached pages
90. thing If you don t already own a Series2 TiVo the answer isn t as easy You need to factor in the cost of purchasing a TiVo either the monthly or lifetime fee for the basic TiVo service and the cost of the Home Media Option If you just want either the Digital Photos or Digital Music functionality there are certainly less expensive ways to accomplish this Personally already owned a Series2 TiVo with the lifetime service plan before the Home Media Option was announced Since was already looking at home entertainment devices 99 seemed like a small price to pay when compared to the competing stand alone devices Copyright 2003 Eric Blair eblair atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re i interested write to us at reviews atpm com amp Review TiVo Home Media Option Review World War 2 Online Blitzkrieg by Joe Kudrna joek wt net Developer Cornered Rat Software Price 34 99 online service costs 12 99 month with one month free trial and additional free months for recruiting new players Requirements 800 MHz G4 512 MB of RAM 64 MB VRAM 1 GB free hard disk space Mac OS X joystick Trial One month free online boot camp map for unlimited offline practice VERY NICE About This Simulation WW2 Online Blitzkrieg is played online with hundreds of others across the world Considering its emphasis on detail it is in more respects a simulation than a game meaning WW2OL is ar
91. tried to configure my TiVo for use in my existing network One of TiVo s selling points is that it s simple to use However many of TiVo s subscribers are the sort of people who want to control every aspect of their home network Review TiVo Home Media Option TiVo seems to have both ends of the spectrum with their configuration options If you just want to plug in and go your TiVo can automatically select the appropriate configuration options via either DHCP or BootP If you want total control you can specify all the network settings chose the latter option and was presented with a series of easily understandable configuration screens When entered a typo that would have prevented the TiVo from connecting to the network a warning message was displayed and could not continue until fixed the error To make your Mac share its music and photos with your TiVo you need to install TiVo Desktop TiVo Desktop is a Preference Pane that reads both your iPhoto and iTunes libraries to determine what sort of media you have on your computer It also sees your iTunes playlists and your iPhoto albums so you can choose to share only portions of you libraries Publish my music Publish my entire iTunes Library Publish only these playlists M iTunes Artists im inf iTunes Albums iTunes Songs iTunes Genres M 2 Hour Playlist CJ Least Played W Live Music FI CJ My Top Rated 7 Name Music on esb ti Sharing som
92. uns to observe the light effects and sound To my amazement started moving backwards had not expected the developers to model the recoil on fighter aircraft as they did so well on tanks and guns but they obviously have to great effect These are not cookie cutter objects in different skins every vehicle is beautifully modeled and behaves differently as does the recoil of each weapon So too are the vulnerabilities of each vehicle Each vehicle contains fuel ammunition oil power controls and of course the crew so a penetrating round may only damage one or two systems if indeed it hits anything With tanks a shell may penetrate and ricochet off something inside before hitting a vital item You can swim across rivers but make sure you are well rested or you will risk drowning Running takes away from your stamina but lying down quickly recovers your breath Damage is variable from being stunned to sustaining light wounds to being mortally wounded to dying instantly Did mention how beautiful the details are An 88mm cannon fires at night Bugs and Lags Sadly no game is perfect Yet A pitfall of the game bemoaned by many is being locked inside a vehicle There is no means of escape even if it means losing the vehicle forever There is every chance a vehicle is rendered immobile but its occupants survive Yet they can t get out and they can t spawn out of the environment either ATPM 9 05 98 Review World War 2
93. urrent that is until MobileTracker net came along ATPM decided to dig into the mind of MobileTracker s kingpin Jonathan Gales During one of my numerous weekend trips to Tampa Florida met up with Jon at the Apple Store at International Plaza We spent a few moments drooling over the current line of PowerBooks then made our way to the outdoor portion of the mall sat down and Started to talk about MobileTracker ATPM Start by telling us what you currently do You re in school right Jonathan Gales Shhh You aren t supposed to know I m in school But if you must know in a few years will be a degree carrying computer scientist Currently my time is divided among MacMerc MobileTracker and school ATPM What did you do that first got you into Web programming JG started out about six years ago learning HTML through GeoCities It was about the only thing back then and at that time it didn t have any fancy templating Just HTML baby ATPM At what point did you start learning the level of HTML and PHP you program in today JG got a book on Perl a few years back and then quickly moved on to PHP because CGI just plain sucks got a few books on the subject but what helped the most was PHPnet the best site for a programming language ever quickly learned a few things and then Started writing stuff for other people ATPM 9 05 25 Interview Jonathan Gales ATPM Before MobileTracker MacMerc was where much of

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