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1. TA d _ Define another All Dictionaries From Webster s Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Another Anfoth er pron amp a An a one other 1 One more in addition te a former mumber a second or additional ene similar in likeness or in effect OmniDictionary is the Frontmost Window but not Active After finding the definition you need there are a couple of ways you can come back to it later The text field doubles as a pop up menu that keeps track of all the searches you have done while the window was open Also you can choose to save the definition as a text file so you can access it at any time Unfortunately OmniDictionary attaches neither type and creator codes nor a file extension to the file As a result OS X has no way to determine which program should open the file you must add this information yourself OmniDictionary takes the idea of a traditional dictionary off your bookshelf and onto your computer Although it doesn t have all the features of MacDict the ability to invoke OmniDictionary as a service makes it slightly more usable This is a well designed application with only a few minor problems in the implementation If you find yourself Review OmniDictionary 2 0 1 even occasionally needing to look up a word while at your Mac check out OmniDictionary Copyright 2002 Eric Blair eblair atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews
2. King of Kings Where King of Kings FWB Asyne O ID O v2 0 6 e Share this item and its contents Name Privilege Owner 2 User Group oo BI Everyone oo E Copy these privileges to all enclosed folders This window permits or denies access to your shared files when users connect from another Mac on the network Read only means users can see open and copy files but cannot make changes Read amp Write means they can also change the contents of your ATPM 8 02 36 Networking Mac File Sharing shared files Everyone refers to the Guest account if you allow Guest access The Copy button will make all subfolders like the enclosing folder resetting any specific access changes you ve previously made Typical File Sharing Setup For home networks you ll allow Guest access and give them read and write access since you know everyone who ll be connecting to your files In professional situations you ll need to be more circumspect probably creating user accounts for each worker and denying Guest access Accessing Shared Files Setting up your shared files what you just did takes a bit of work but it s typically a one time thing Accessing shared files from the network is the everyday task Open the Chooser from the Apple menu then select the AppleShare icon to see a list of Macs with shared files Select the desired Mac then OK to see its shared files Select Server IP Address to connect to an unlisted
3. Telephone Preference Service Direct Marketing Association P O Box 9014 Farmingdale NY 11735 9014 But what can you do about spam The first thing you can do is look at who provides your e mail service and see what types of unsolicited e mail protection they offer While not foolproof this is a decent first step to take which could cut out a great deal of the spam you receive Some e mail providers offer customizable options while others are significantly more automated Another thing you can do if you like to keep your primary e mail account as spam free as possible is to set up an account which you use when you post to discussion boards and newsgroups This way you ll have less traffic when you answer e mails from your boss or your grandmother Another low tech way to outsmart the spammers is to modify your e mail address when you post somewhere For instance if wanted to throw folks off the track might list my e mail as HEYREMOVETHISSPAMFILTERtiovino atpm com This way if someone wanted to reply to me they could modify the e mail address accordingly and any bulk e mailer would not make a successful connection Finally you could blow the whistle on the spammer If you know the domain name that the spammer is using aol com hotmail com juno com you could make contact with that site s administrator and alert them to the e mail you are receiving Unfortunately this approach isn t always successful as bulk e mail ca
4. newportsealions jog Julia couldn t resist the sea lions sunbathing at Newport s Historic Bay Front 9 8 oca puffin jog and oca seal jog Two residents of the Oregon Coast Aquarium 9 8 yachats 1 jpg yachats3 jpg Late afternoon on the beach at Yachats 9 8 gullatsanderling jog One of the regular seagulls at the Sanderling Bed and Breakfast in Yachats 9 9 perpetua1 jpg and perpetua2 jpg Cape Perpetua on the way from Waldport to Florence 9 9 A Collection of Scottish Pictures The photos were taken by Terry Connell with Canon AE1 fitted with a Vivitar 28 300mm lens and a Nikon F90X using a Vivitar AF 28 80mm lens The 6x4 inch prints were scanned using an Epson G8500 via Twain Acquire in Photoshop 3 0 installed on a Power Mac 7500 180 The scans were sharpened and adjusted in Photoshop 3 0 and saved as JPEGs The clouds are alto cumulus lenticularis taken shortly before sunset in October 1999 The icicles are of spray splashed grass stems after a very cold January 2000 night The reflections are of the Talla reservoir in the Scottish Borders The others are of winter views near my home village of Tweedsmuir Scottish Borders ATPM 8 02 44 Extras Desktop Pictures 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 iC
5. A popup menu of user definable favorite sizes instantly sets original size dimensions for frequently used formats The Units menu lets you calculate using inches points millimeters and centimeters Switching the measurement units even adjusts the numbers you ve entered into the calculator i e 1 inch will update to 72 points Detailed help including Balloon Help is also provided sy Descriplion SLT Simple lege aad furckiqnel vr Le amp Balloen and onl ines belg auppari Dr bp eel Firs Cool 34 interfoce a Supports enlargements reductian s Supports verious measurement systems Hew Size a Can memorize frequenihy weed sizes with Favorites feeiere DPU Lock a Supderts logging sites and saving log fo a text only file a C n mie lesk he Hes DPU field sa it ahri fabe hea the Drigisal DPU F ror ites Menu Log Feature Registering Scarlale Porsonaliged Yersigmes Technical Space Program History Aboul Sort Table Sotheare DTF UG ities ther STS Software About ihe Author Licereni rey Dist had mer Search for a Help Topic feeder Which required more effort to create ScanCalc itself or its help index ATPM 8 02 ef Review ScanCalc 1 7 1 ScanCalc also has a logging feature that lets you save a snapshot of the values currently contained in the calculation window After adding any number of snapshots to the log you can either view the log or export it to a text file 5can Log SeanCale 1 15 02 at 7 53pm M
6. ATPM 8 02 8 Welcome e For the three month period ending in March traditionally Apple s slowest quarter Apple executives have publicly stated they expect sales to rise sequentially to 1 5 billion from 1 38 billion in the December period e Gross margins for the December ending quarter were 30 7 In contrast Dell s gross margins hover somewhere under 19 Apple s gross margins are the envy of the industry e Apple ended calendar year 2001 with almost 4 4 billion in cash e Apple is slowly gaining market share The company announced that 40 of Mac buyers at the new Apple Stores are new to the Mac platform All this good news meets or exceeds the established criteria for Yowza factor three 4 The first three criteria to declare an official Yowza issue must be happen ing at the same time What more could someone want all at one time Ok so we may have to wait a little while for the G5s The new dual processor one GHz G4 should keep even the most speed hungry Mac users happy until summer Quickly reviewing the facts we declare the February 2002 issue of About This Particular Macintosh the first official Yowza issue of the new century and the new millennium What do you think Please read our latest issue from front to back Yowza or no Yowza please enjoy each of our columns reviews and commentaries We take great pride in bringing you the latest news views and reviews in an easy to read monthly magazine Yowza The AT
7. Boy s job easier is another plus Ok maybe I m taking on a bit too much didn t even mention that I m the star as won t really be using a Mac on screen in a movie set in 1939 You ll have to wait for the second sequel for that What Else Happened Not that much The speed bumps and the Gigahertz G4 s didn t really happen til recently I m sure there were a lot of third party announcements of new software however right now nothing comes to recent memory Ok ATI came out with a TV Tuner with a USB connector which will work with a Mac But maybe not for OS X Small comfort for those who bought the same device at least year s Expo with the expectation that it would work with OS X And Chris Horvath of Tweak Films demonstrated how it was easy to port his company s 3D wave software to a G4 running OS X because of its Unix underpinnings His company is responsible for stunning effects in several recent films including Deep Impact and The Perfect Storm With the added GeForce3 video card it was even able to run faster than it ever had under Unix And Earth Browser has been upgraded as well have a friend that signs on every night to check the weather in Newport Beach CA It s also nice to know that she ll be able to check the weather in Newport Beach RI as well ATPM 8 02 26 Hollywood Normally And for fans of Schr dinger Atom in a Box has also been upgraded Everything you could possibly want to know about Q
8. Mac via TCP IP if allowed by File Sharing as detailed above Select a file server Performa 635 AppleShare ATPM 8 02 37 Networking Mac File Sharing The Network Browser program which comes with recent Mac OS versions lists shared files under Local Services If you access shared files frequently you can add specific Macs to your Favorites list or drag them to the Desktop for quick access However you select it the specified shared Mac appears as an icon on your Desktop this is also known as mounting the shared folder You can use it like any other folder although the response may be slower if the network is busy a WA Copyright 2002 Matthew Glidden mglidden atpm com 38 Networking Mac File Sharing ATPM 8 02 How To by Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com What Do Your CD ROMs Tell About You Macintosh Web information sites like MacFixlt and Macintouch recently brought to light a problem that can affect anyone who burns CD ROMs data CDs while using a Mac Most volumes that can be mounted by a Macintosh hard drives removable disk cartridges and CD ROMs contain invisible files that relate to the desktop In OS 8 and 9 these files are Desktop DB and Desktop DF These files are created by the Finder to keep track of applications and documents and their icons Finder window positions tabbed folders folder states etc They are why you can mount a disk and have your files icons appea
9. Server Config app Contents Resources fmserverd start c fmserver conf What is that Remember those Unix underpinnings of OS X and that un Mac like terminal window you swore you d never use OK actually like it Type those three lines in the terminal and it will host your databases Note that it matters not one whit I always wanted to say that whether you re running FileMaker Server Config or not Next downloaded Cronnix a nice simple program that gives a UI to cron a Unix system service that lets you schedule activities So now on schedule cron closes and opens my FMP databases This works fairly reliably but once or twice a month find several hours after the databases were supposed to be opened that FileMaker Server is still trying to open them When hit the Stop Server button I m told the server lost contact with the server Starting the server after dismissing the error message is always successful but I m curious what strange sort of existential crisis my poor computer is having trying but failing to get in touch with itself After had all this working found where Jon got his idea the Using FileMaker Server in Red Hat Linux section of the user manual lists commands intended to be typed at Linux s command line The only catch is you have to put a first to use a command in OS X s command line Nowhere in FileMaker Server s documentation is there an indication that these commands are avai
10. atpm com ATPM 8 02 Review OmniDictionary 2 0 1 Review ScanCalc 1 7 1 by Lee Bennett Ibennett atpm com Developer Stone Table Software Price Free Company customized versions available contact developer for prices Requirements Macintosh with System 7 1 QuickTime Native on Mac OS X Trial Fully featured How many times have you launched Adobe Photoshop to create a sample graphic file then fiddled with the size resolution and color mode settings to see how the numbers would end up Seems a rather menial task for professional graphic editing software doesn t it m Mode Bitmap Grayscale Original Size Hew Size 459 KB 43774 ME RGB Height Height 3 cnvk Width 1 36 Width 425 i SCAN Percent 3125 g CAI P Favorite Sizes 35mm Slide id i F ScanCalc s simple but effective interface Enter ScanCalc This straightforward tool is an open ended calculator that allows you to specify initial dimensions and resolution of a bitmap image then alter any of the numbers to find the new dimensions resolution percentage of enlargement reduction or file size Think of it as an electronic and far more useful version of those old paper enlargement reduction wheels ATPM 8 02 68 Review ScanCalc 1 7 1 This utility is effective in its simplicity A four button color mode toggle lets you quickly hop between 1 bit grayscale RGB and CMYK color definitions
11. had Wyatt play along with the prerecorded MIDI track and the QuickTime Video Kind of an old fashioned silent movie accompaniment with new fangled technology Schiller could have checked his Hotmail too Sadly though there was no similar audio demo A multi threaded Unix system with a USB interface sporting a 5 Mbps throughput had better be able to handle the 31 250 bps bandwidth of MIDI without latency If not something is seriously wrong Show me the same demo with digital audio and l Il be convinced Then One Week Later It sure isn t San Francisco but January also brings the semi annual NAMM show back to Anaheim Apple itself wasn t there one trade show a month is enough for any company but many third party developers were Most of the software and hardware demonstrations were on OS 9 but there were also a few OS X demos and can now add a few more applications to last month s OS X watch list Thanks go to Dennis Leishman of MacCentral and workingmac com for the following information Propellerhead is bringing its entire line of software based instruments Reason Rebirth and Recycle along with their industry standard ReWire technology to OS X making them the second software synth manufacturer after Bitheadz to announce their upcoming jump to the new OS Now l m waiting on Native Instruments Reaktor to complete the set of Re applications for OS X Arturia a German company new to me demonstrated their
12. is this software for According to Steve everyone with a digital camera According to me some people with a digital camera a dual processor G4 and OS X The reality is probably somewhere in between although you definitely need OS X The question you have to ask yourself is Self can my current Mac handle OS X Well for me the answer is no suppose for most of you others the answer may well be no as well Even if you have a G3 Apple is being sued Check out this recent story at MacCentral which brings us to the other major announcement at Macworld Expo ATPM 8 02 25 Hollywood Normally The Next Generation iMac For those of you that haven t seen it it looks something like the bridge of the Enterprise from whichever series you may like the most It does indeed have the G4 processor as well as the funky flexible fifteen inch flat screen Try saying that three times fast It s ok l Il wait Not to mention the circular base A good use of space or an ugly eyesore You be the judge The good news is it has the same display range as most 17 monitors complete with 1024x768 resolution So if really wanted to could do the movie thing on it The high end model has a big enough hard drive more than enough FireWire and USB ports and a SuperDrive All for a mere 1800 As we ve previously discussed bringing down the cost on a low budget movie is always a good thing And making the Writer Director Editor Best
13. its presumed virtues Second question Running OS 9 0 4 on a PCI G4 For reasons having to do with having to remove and then replace a defective hard drive now have two internal drives installed properly jumpered for master and slave The master drive is a large recent model ATA Ultra HFS The slave is a quite old small 500 MB ATA unit HFS Both drives contain startup volumes If do not select a startup disk either of the two may be chosen as the Startup disk If select the master drive occasionally the slave is used as the startup disk Here comes the zinger if select the slave drive for startup the system starts up on the master drive and the slave disk is nowhere to be seen That is it doesn t show up for muster and Drive Setup can t see it either This is most un Macintosh behavior possibly ATPM 8 02 13 VET having to do with the age of the slave drive scavenged from an old Performa box but it performed flawlessly when for a time it was the only drive mounted in the G4 Any thoughts hope so Ed Williams would stick with 9 0 4 am running 9 0 4 on some of my machines and 9 2 on others have not experienced problems with 9 2 but see no real incentive to upgrade unless you will be working with OS X It sounds to me as if you have jumpered the drives incorrectly Some ATA drives are misleading because they have a master mode and then a second jumper setting for master if the drive is in a two driv
14. s other computer company years before Apple bought it When one critic called the new iMac the Apple iLamp we got to thinking The new iMac does have an uncanny resemble to the characters in a short film produced by Steve Jobs s other company Pixar Animation Don t believe us Take a look for yourself Don t even try and tell us the characters in this short film aren t early iMac prototypes It s refreshing to know Steve Jobs is looking to the past when he reaches for the future Now if we could only get him to turn his gaze to Apple s pre 1996 market share numbers The new iMac and its 150 000 pre orders are evidence that the criteria for Yowza factor two has also been met 3 The stock has to be on the move in a decidedly upward direction Apple closed the month of January with a share price just shy of 25 00 per share The closing price on January 31st was the highest closing price for Apple s stock in six months Since Apple released its earnings report for the first fiscal quarter of 2002 the stock price has been gradually moving north In brief the numbers for the quarter ended in late December are as follows e For the first fiscal quarter of 2002 Apple posted net earnings of 38 million or 11 per share in sharp contrast to losses or anemic earnings reported by most of the company s competitors e Apple shipped 746 000 Macs during the three month period that was marked by great uncertainty in the PC business
15. styles and the ability to add expansion modules instead of entire new game versions For those reasons can only give Jeopardy 2nd Edition an Okay rating Copyright 2002 Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com J Review Jeopardy 2nd Edition Review OmniDictionary 2 0 1 by Eric Blair eblair atpm com Developer The Omni Group Price free Requirements Mac OS X 10 1 Those who need to look up the meanings of words while sitting at the VERY NICE computer have several options They can walk over to their bookshelf and find their dictionary They can use a Web site like Dictionary com A third option is an application like MacDict Or if they re working in OS X they can use OmniDictionary OmniDictionary is an OS X client for the DICT protocol Basically there are DICT servers on the Internet that can contain several different dictionary files By default OmniDictionary uses the dict org server which currently gives users access to eleven different sources Eaton s 1897 Bible Dictionary the Elements database Hitchcock s Bible Names Dictionary the Jargon File the CIA World Factbook the Devil s Dictionary the Free On line Dictionary of Computing the US Gazetteer the Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary and WordNet If you so desire you can tell OmniDictionary to use another D
16. then cancel it to be shown a list of existing schedules to edit But hey why sweat the small stuff when you re not getting the big stuff right But wait There s more Remember schedules being able to run AppleScripts Well they still can but FileMaker Server 5 5 for OS X isn t AppleScriptable At all The OS 9 version is as was version 3 0 way back in 1995 This omission wouldn t be nearly so glaring if the back up databases scheduled item worked reliably since it didn t figured OK I ll just write an Applescript that runs at night and shuts down the databases for backup then opens them back up after Retrospect has done its thing But that plan s out the window without AppleScript ATPM 8 02 50 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 Solving the Backup Problem Yes did finally find a solution thanks to a post by Jon Gardner who was after a solution to that nasty you have to press a button problem What s the problem With previous versions of FileMaker and with this version on OS9 It s trivial to make the server start up when your computer boots dump an alias in the Startup Items folder That s it But with 5 5 for OS X it s not enough to make FileMaker Server Config start when you log in because even with the program running it doesn t host anything until someone hits the Start Server button The important part of Jon s post for me is this cd Applications FileMaker Server 5 5 cd FileMaker
17. to delete your unwanted e mails when you want to right Sure you do but there are also some tolls that soam takes which really do add up to genuine dollars First the time it takes for a person to go through all of their e mail is greatly increased when there is a volume of e mail While most spam is easy to find some bulk e mailers use very clever e mail addresses or subject lines which can make the recipient believe that the unsolicited e mail is something of value That leads to more delay as those e mails are opened discovered to be solicitations and subsequently deleted Additionally through reading each of these e mail addresses and subject lines the recipient may inadvertently delete important messages from their inbox allowing for a miscommunication ATPM 8 02 17 Cider Spam Am And since the vast majority of folks out there pay for their Internet access time is also money If you have to spend time sorting through dozens or hundreds of unsolicited e mails it costs Spam also hampers participation in newsgroups and other discussion forums as bulk e mailers will often times glean their e mail list from these sources So if you participate in a gardening forum you may find yourself snowed under by spam And when you receive unsolicited e mail you are hardly the targeted audience My inbox typically contains subject lines from reduce your taxes to teenage girls want you While there is a market out there for some of thes
18. will review them here for those of you who haven t been introduced to them yet 32 bit floating point resolution for plenty of processing headroom multi channel capabilities allowing for stereo as well as various surround mixes 5 1 6 1 8 1 etc ultra low latency full MIDI services and Audio Units the building blocks for DSP plug ins Doug Wyatt Apple s Core MIDI Engineer and father of OMS during his days at Opcode was the featured guest for this portion of the program a demonstration of OS X s MIDI out of the box which is essentially the equivalent of OMS the QuickTime Synth a basic sequencer and Sound Manager on OS 9 A side note it was great to see Doug back after the OMS Gibson debacle ATPM 8 02 22 Barline Expos From a Distance In a variation of the OS X demo we ve all seen far too many times by now Wyatt played a MIDI keyboard connected directly through USB in time with a pre recorded sequence while Schiller launched Internet Explorer are they contractually obligated to use IE even if the demo is unrelated to Microsoft or the Internet and a QuickTime movie The Web page loaded just fine and the movie played with no skips or drags Unfortunately someone forgot to turn down the QuickTime audio or better still strip the audio from the QuickTime file As a result it was impossible even for Wyatt himself to hear what he was playing Had they put a little more planning into the demo they could have
19. works with all my Macintosh computers Gregory Tetrault ATPM 8 02 14 E Mail Adding Memory to a Rio bought a 64 MB SmartMedia card When put it in the internal is 64 MB but the external is still 0 don t know why it won t give me extra memory heard you have to download something Are you suppose to download something into your Rio 500 My version for Rio 500 is 1 04 How do you upgrade it kKurt Binnig Try this Sonic Blue page also added a chip to my Rio 500 and it made it much more fun Now of course I ve caved and bought an iPod but the Rio lives on for my roommate Ellyn Ritterskamp Weather Software want my weather to be on my screen so can see it without searching Can you tell me a way to do this Your best fan Buddy My favorite is Son of Weather Grok It works on both OS X and OS 9 and in OS X can even use the dock to display the info Daniel Chvatik Copyright 2002 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 8 02 15 VET Apple Cider Random Squeezings From a Mac User by Tom lovino tiovino atpm com Spam Am Recently my family and took a trip up to the northeast to visit our re
20. A f PM 8 02 February 2002 Volume 8 Number 2 About This Particular Macintosh About the personal computing experience ATPM 8 02 Cover Art Copyright 2002 by Grant Osborne We need new cover art each month Write to us Editorial Staff Publisher Editor in Chief Managing Editor Associate Editor Reviews Copy Editors Web Editor Publicity Manager Webmaster Beta Testers Michael Tsai Vacant Paul Fatula Raena Armitage Johann Campbell Ginny O Roak Ellyn Ritterskamp Brooke Smith Vacant Lee Bennett Vacant Michael Tsai The Staff Contributing Editors At Large Welcome Desktop Pictures General Graphics How To Interviews Legacy Corner Music Networking Opinion Reviews Robert Paul Leitao Daniel Chvatik Dierk Seeburg Vacant Vacant Vacant Chris Lawson David Ozab Matthew Glidden Tom lovino Mike Shields Vacant Eric Blair Jamie McCornack Gregory Tetrault Christopher Turner Vacant 2 Cover ATPM 8 02 Shareware Reviews Brooke Smith Technical Evan Trent Artwork amp Design Graphics Director Grant Osborne Graphic Design Consultant Jamal Ghandour Layout and Design Michael Tsai Cartoonist Mike Flanagan Blue Apple Icon Designs Mark Robinson Other Art RD Novo Emeritus RD Novo Robert Madill Belinda Wagner Contributors Lee Bennett Eric Blair Terry Connell Paul Fatula Mike Flanagan Mike Shields Matthew Glidden Tom lovino Robert Paul Le
21. ICT server for access to different dictionaries did a small amount of searching but could not find anybody else running a DICT server on the Internet However you can run your own server using this approach you choose which dictionaries you can search and you avoid the requirement of connecting to the Internet Using OmniDictionary couldn t be easier You simply type a search term into the text field choose if you want to search one or all dictionaries and click Define Any exact matches for your word are displayed in the text area that makes up most of the OmniDictionary interface If no exact matches were found a list of similar words may be displayed After finding the appropriate word in the list you can click on it for its definition For the truly Review OmniDictionary 2 0 1 lazy you can have OmniDictionary speak the definition to you The voices Apple includes with OS X aren t exactly soothing but it can be amusing listening to Zarvox define extraterrestrial being F N 00o OmniDictionary Dictionary wf Define All Dictionaries Dietionary Dic tion atrys n pl Dictionaries Cf F dictionnaire See Diction i book containing the words of a language arranged alphabetically with explanations of their meanings a lexicon a vocabulary a wordbook Salei I applied myself te the perusal of our writers and nedinea gheadewer miah ha Af pea ta Aerer dain ne There are two ways to invoke Om
22. PM Staff This issue of ATPM includes ATPM 8 02 9 Welcome Apple Cider Spam Am Back from battling the flu Tom lovino wraps his hands around spam in this month s Cider Oh by the way why is Tom so popular and who keeps sending those 1 500 e mails Beyond the Barline Expos From a Distance David Ozab offers up a mixed bag this month yet another opinion on the new iMac the keynote you didn t see and some new OS X software demonstrated at NAMM Hollywood Normally Mike Shields gives his take on iPhoto the new iMac and other notables from Macworld Expo and laments that his Mac can t handle OS X About This Particular Web Site In this month s ATPW Paul Fatula takes a look at flying cars as well as the dust mites they might kick up There s a site full of forums for digital video enthusiasts and another with information for AppleScripters It wraps up with a site worth of disclaimers Networking Mac and PC Networking Overview Matthew Glidden gives an overview of the hardware needed to set up a mixed network of Macs and PCs as well as the software that s available for sharing files and printers Networking Mac File Sharing Matthew Glidden explains how to set up File Sharing in the classic Mac OS and how to access shared volumes from the Chooser and the Network Browser How To What Do Your CD ROMs Tell About You If you burn and distribute CD ROMs to other Macintosh users they may be able to learn a Sur
23. Reader for free If you have a Power Macintosh Acrobat Reader 4 has better quality and performance ATPM is also compatible with Acrobat Reader 3 for those with 680x0 Macs e You can zoom the PDF to full window width and scroll through articles simply by single clicking anywhere in the article text except underlined links e You can quickly navigate between articles using the bookmarks pane at the left of the main viewing window e For best results on small screens be sure to hide the bookmarks pane that way you ll be able to see the entire page width at 100 e Try turning Font Smoothing on and off in Acrobat Reader s preferences to see which setting you prefer e All blue underlined links are clickable e You can hold down option while hovering over a link to see where it will lead e For best results turn off Acrobat s Fit to Page option before printing Why Are Some Links Double Underlined In the PDF editions of ATPM links that are double underlined lead to other pages in the same PDF Links that are single underlined will open in your Web browser What If Get Errors Decoding ATPM ATPM and MacFixit readers have reported problems decoding MacBinary files using early versions of Stufflt Expander 5 x If you encounter problems decoding ATPM we recommend upgrading to Stufflt Exoander 5 1 4 or later ATPM 8 02 86 Frequently Asked Questions How Can Submit Cover Art We enjoy the opportunity to display new origina
24. Storm Music Studio for OS X which they plan to release in mid March Since was unfamiliar with the application downloaded a demo It s a set of software instruments synths with simple built in ATPM 8 02 23 Barline Expos From a Distance sequencers drum machines and even a pair of virtual turntables and effects that are combined in a studio window to make unique compositions The software is definitely geared toward dance music but could also be twisted in interesting ways Albeton s Live is another application due out for OS X The demo downloaded from their Web site is a flash animation rather than a feature limited version of the program itself so my impressions are limited to what can gain from a directed presentation It appears to be an audio clip sequencer with synchronization capabilities so that samples will stay in time with each other and with the overall tempo of the sequence So the list is slowly growing and a little encouragement from time to time is all need to Stay patient After all the promise of OS X and mLan together and fully functional is so great that the wait is worthwhile University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts where he teaches an introductory class in electronic music for the new Multimedia Minor He is also a Ph D candidate in the U O School of Music and is taking a year s leave of absence to work on his dissertation Copyright 2002 David Ozab dozab atp
25. Virtual PC Help Help Topics The Hal p Topics secliog provides detedled insiruclions an using Virtua PC Topics in thia section are Operating a irtesl PC Instructions for operetinga virtue machine imclwdiing Mari ype amj Sa drsn iar maj erd iti retried when running meere thar gmi eer Regie riag hir Yirtwal PC List Dresher ustioni Goer gaieg thes Whitey PE Liat wires This wince albres ow fo create adit rum and delete virtual Trees ha VPC 5 Help Window Showing Major Topics Review Virtual PC 5 0 Documentation VPC 5 ships with a skimpy 28 page printed manual also included on disk as an Acrobat PDF file VPC 5 like its predecessor includes the Apple Guide file Virtual PC Guide However this file accessed from the help menu of VPC actually launches a Help Viewer document not an Apple Guide document The Help Viewer document contains information that is not in the printed manual but it is no substitute for a good manual VPC 5 does not even include the PDF based AppleScript dictionary that came with version 4 Technical Support Connectix offers free phone toll call e mail and Web based technical support Updates can be downloaded from the Web site Strengths of Version 5 e Easier to upgrade from previous versions e Support for Windows XP e Can run in native mode under OS X 10 1 e Same strengths as VPC 4 Weaknesses of Version 5 e Slower under OS X e Same weaknesses as ver
26. ab 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 Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu and click the Desktop button With the popup menu select the desktop pictures folder you want to use 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 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 ATPM 8 02 45 Extras Desktop Picture
27. ally poor graphics very pixellated the famous computerized Wheel of Fortune tune and a cartoon Vanna walking from one side of my black screen to uncover the letters Well it s 2002 and Wheel of Fortune has come a long way Similar to the first edition which debuted in 2000 this new edition allows you to play a Classic Solo or Tournament style game And note you can t play a tournament until you qualify that is until you ve won five games or have won at least 50 000 And all three players must be human Needless to say didn t play a tournament chose the Normal and Solo options like the Solo option simply because really have no patience for computerized players New to the second edition are 2 500 new puzzles a sample contestant exam you have five minutes to complete 12 out of 16 fill in the blank puzzles and it s not that easy although the answers are on the back page of the booklet new bonus rounds and new Review Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition fantasy prizes This is all great in the game world as you can never have enough puzzles to solve enough prizes to dream about or enough rounds to win And what s even better is you can play it in OS X The Contestant Exam One useful feature is Career Statistics which keeps track of how much money you ve won it is continually updated as you play You can also play various types of games If you re in a rush try the 10 minute option or for the serious
28. an to distribute your CD ROM Challenge Followup Last month in my How To column Working with Downloaded Files without Special Utilities gave our readers a challenge asked readers to send me downloadable files or their URLs that might be difficult to open promised that persons who sent me an unadulterated file could not open without resorting to ResEdit would win a prize Apparently the challenge was too much received a grand total of O contest entries will leave the challenge open for another month although frankly do not expect any winner Todd Blanchard the originator of the Mac OS X Anti Metadata Petition never met my challenge either even though he claimed that he and one of his relatives often downloaded files that needed ResEdit changes before being usable Copyright 2002 Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com How To What Do CDs Tell About You Extras Cartoon by Mike Flanagan sensible sensible screaming net HAM BONE by Mike Flanagan Do You WANT YOUR BRAIN CLEANED Graphic Syndication England Copyright 2002 Mike Flanagan sensible sensible screaming net ATPM 8 02 43 Extras Cartoon Extras Desktop Pictures Oregon s Central Coast These photos submitted by Contributing Editor David Ozab were taken by Julia Harris during their early September trip to the Central Oregon Coast newport jog newport3 jpg Pictures of the ocean taken at Yaquina Head 9 8
29. e version 5 5 is noticeably faster than 3 0 4 0 on Macs particularly on things like the time it takes between clicking hosts from the Open dialog and seeing a list of hosted databases However my Windows users report version 5 5 is slower This may well be more because of the client than the server don t know But speed is certainly a major issue if you re considering upgrading so feel it s worth a mention If you re interested in new features of FileMaker client FileMaker s Web page has a popup menu from which you can select the version of FileMaker you re using now and be taken to a page showing what s new compared to the version you selected Interface We Don t Need No Stinkin Interface Remember that first screenshot way up at the top of this review Well let me tell you something that s not all there is to FileMaker Server 5 5 s user interface Of course Paul was pulling your leg There s no way that FileMaker a company fully owned by Apple which is known for its careful attention to user friendly interfaces would call that a user interface What you don t see in that screenshot is that the cog wheel actually moves It s animated It turns at a nice steady pace as databases are being hosted never changing its speed regardless of how much use the system Is getting Also those three little lights next to the cog wheel they blink It s like magic one at a time bouncing back and forth from
30. e bus In other words you must jump the master differently if there will be a slave drive present Otherwise you will get erratic behavior such as you are experiencing Evan Trent Booting with Norton SystemWorks on a New Mac purchased a new iBook a 600MHz G3 with Mac OS 9 2 2 and Mac OS 10 1 2 am unable to run my Norton Utilities 6 0 Speed disk to optimize my hard drive Holding down the letter C while starting up from the Norton Disk does not work How can get Norton to work Thanks Joseph Younse recommend that you get the latest Norton Utilities update 6 0 3 as of today Then you will need to create a new startup disk Option 1 Create a second hard disk partition that contains an OS and Norton Utilities Boot from this partition to optimize your main partition Option 2 Create a startup disk on an external drive hard drive or removable install Norton Utilities and boot from the external drive Option 3 If you have a CD burner you can create a bootable CD that includes an OS version compatible with your iBook and Norton Utilities recommend that you perform a clean install of 9 2 2 a universal installation that will work on many Mac models on your hard drive restart from that OS install the Norton Utilities extensions into that OS and then copy the System Folder and your Norton files onto a CD You can also add any other utility programs to the CD used option 3 to create a bootable troubleshooting CD that
31. e services it s not at my house Some of these solicitations are also for shady or downright illegal activities as well Obtaining prescription drugs without a doctor s exam and a legitimate prescription is not only illegal it s also crazy And if someone were to actually offer a product you wanted to purchase would you trust giving your credit card information out to some business you don t know Keep that information private and only trust companies you do the research on yourself Is spam a new type of problem Hardly A quick trip to your mailbox will show that it s stuffed to the gills with unsolicited mail Also if you have ever tried to eat a peaceful dinner at home no doubt you know about those annoying sales calls which can ruin the enjoyment of your meal These annoying things are now a way of life aren t they Well not exactly For instance say you wanted to be removed from mailing lists and phone lists Did you know that if you live in the United States you are entitled to the right to be removed from these calling and mailing lists By writing to the following address you can have your name removed from mailing lists and dramatically reduce your junk mail Mail Preference Service P O Box 9008 Farmingdale NY 11735 9008 ATPM 8 02 18 Cider Spam Am And when you are pestered by telemarketers you can write to another similar address to have your phone number removed from the list as well That address is
32. eally 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 ATPM 8 02 87 Frequently Asked Questions 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 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 your company has a product that you d like to see reviewed send a c
33. er or a text editor like BBEdit Here s a fragment of my Desktop DB file How To What Do CDs Tell About You Dialog Dumpert Builderlper MacMPEG2DecoderBuilderlper BB2DecoderBuilderlper DarkSideDecoderBuilderlper DarkSideDecoderBuilderlper TechTool Pro 2ctioningant Whttp www space com entertainment downloads spaceart images hubble cygnusloop 1024 jpg Uhttp www space com entertainment downloads spaceart images wp_hub 14 m8detail_ L jpg Qhttp www space com entertainment downloads spaceart images wp_hub 16 9920 L jpgt downloads spaceart images wp hub 16 9920 L jpgt downloads spaceart images wp_ hub 16 9920 L jpgt downloads spaceart images wp hub 16 9920 L jpgil_ L jpg mfdrFNDR mfdrFNDR mfdrFNDR mfdrFNDR mfdraear mfdraear mfdraear mfdraear mfdraear mfdraear mfdraedb mfdraedb mfdraedb mfdraedb mfdraedb mfdraedb mfdraedb mfdraedb mfdraedb mfdraedb CDSpinDoctornet Accessgant CD Spin Doctort Accessgant SimpleSoundtort Accessgant nh Scrapbookndtort So what can you tell from this fragment have installed MPEG2 Decoder which can extract clips from MPEG2 movies such as those contained on DVDs downloaded numerous JPEG photos from the www space com Web site That was months ago have installed CD Spin Doctor a part of Toast 5 Titanium Simple Sound and Scrapbook Other information in my desktop file included the titles of articles read online and the creator codes of all my applications Distributing this information
34. excessive for such a simple game Unfortunately the new features added since the first edition and the celebrity behind the scenes stuff just don t make up for the high price However if you re a fan and you can afford to splurge buy it Review Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition But if you re watching your pennies why not try a shareware hangman game Check out Bet Your Booty 1 0 hangman with betting 19 95 or Hang3000 1 03 25 You might not get to spin the wheel but really it s all about the letters anyway Copyright 2002 Brooke Smith bsmith atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com Review Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition FAQ Frequently Asked Questions What Is ATPM About This Particular Macintosh ATPM is among other things a monthly Internet magazine or e zine ATEM 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 a Managing Editor several Contributing Editors a Copy Editor and a Publicity Manager Please contact us if you re interested How Can I Subscribe t
35. gned 2 There have to be recent announcements of cool new Macintosh products 3 The stock has to be on the move in a decidedly upward direction 4 The first three criteria to declare an official Yowza issue must be happening at the same time We ll examine each of the Yowza factors one by one 1 The planets in the greater Mac universe must be aligned Admittedly members of the ATPM staff are not astrologers or astronomers When we here someone say that Mercury is rising we tend to think it s getting warmer outside But one thing we did here at Macworld Expo is that the number of new Mac OS X applications now reaches beyond the horizons Please see the Mac OS X applications page to view all the star studded software available for Apple s new operating system That s proof to us that developers throughout the Mac universe are aligned to support our platform of choice This meets or exceeds the established Yowza criteria 2 There have to be recent announcements of cool new Macintosh prod ATPM 8 02 7 Welcome ucts What can we say about Apple s new iMac that hasn t already been written Not much But for those who have concerns the styling of Apple s new iMac is too new or futuristic we d like to put your mind to rest It s a design that s been around for years How do we know Simple Do you remember the Macintosh Cube Many critics claimed that it had an uncanny resemblance to the NeXT Cube designed by Steve Jobs
36. he databases F O FileMaker Server FileMaker Server is punning l Stop Server j 4 Veteran FileMaker Server users will here pause Click a button never had to click a button in previous versions Yep The disadvantage of making you click a button is obvious and I ll get to it in a bit For now a word about what s going on The program you launch is merely a configuration program it doesn t actually host any databases The databases are hosted by a separate program that you never see and which has no user Review FileMaker Server 5 5 interface It is possible to be hosting your databases even without the FileMaker Server Config program running leaving no visible sign whatsoever on the computer that it is hosting all your databases Preferences Guests PRMD File Types Administration Networking Logging Directory Service Maximum number of files to host s A Database Cache umount of RAM to reserve for database cache ao A MB ic Flush cache every ils A t hhommi E Allow FileMaker Server to host Single User files AF Allow FileMaker Pre guests to download updates autamatically Daea Sarena ok fa Restore Settings Cancel f OK y From the FMServer Config menu Preferences allows you to set how many databases the program should expect to serve and to how many users for optimum performance how often to update its log whether to open files that are marked for only a si
37. ice backgrounds including a choice of nine different setting for the Wheel of Fortune Stage including New Orleans Orient Escape European Vacation and 70s Retro These Review Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition backdrops are very crisp and clear with good graphics And there are cute little animations that appear when you choose a letter that is not in the puzzle For example in Orient Escape a fan slides in from the right of the screen and whisks away the letter The New Orleans Backdrop Playing the game Is just the same as in the TV show Spin or click the Spin graphic to animate the spinning wheel choose a letter or buy a vowel 250 To pick a letter click on the letter from the semicircular display The consonants are blue the vowels are red As usual if you pick a letter that s in the puzzle you can spin again buy a vowel or choose to solve Note if you choose to solve the puzzle the default response time is 15 seconds This is not enough for me anyway Change this in the Options menu To start l d recommend 25 seconds because you have to get used to typing the letters in the blanks or clicking them into place was caught with only 15 seconds response time and missed solving two puzzles because was too slow Although Wheel of Fortune is fun the price seems a bit steep for a simple hangman game with poor quality video clips that personally would only watch once The amount of hard drive space required also seems
38. iles on the hard drive you designate Custom installation lets you install all components except the movies Full installation is unnecessary unless you have a slow CD ROM drive The CD also contains an installer for QuickTime 5 Review Jeopardy 2nd Edition Game Play Jeopardy 2nd Edition offers no improvements over its predecessor The opening video is grainy and pixellated The sequences with Alex Trebek are based on mediocre blue screen filming techniques Normal Game Solo bame Tournament of Champions Behind The Scenes Load Game Career Statistics Initial Jeopardy Screen Review Jeopardy 2nd Edition Game setup is identical to the previous version Jeopardy 2nd Edition does not remember your setup options and you must adjust them each time you launch the game Failure to do so leaves you with the default settings for spelling tolerance and for computer opponents abilities At the hardest computer opponent skill level the opponents know most of the answers and have extremely short buzz in times RESPONSETIME 20sec SPELLING ACCURACY CUE COMPUTER LQ CESE SOUND EFFECTS FQN RESET TO DEFAULTS Game Options Menu Screen Game play options include Normal Solo and Tournament The Normal game is just like the television version In the Solo game you have no opponents You play a single Double Jeopardy board and try to answer all the questions There is no time limit You may pass on any questio
39. ime Steve s intended one last thing until Time Canada inadvertently made it the first thing was the new iMac My first reaction late Sunday night was Why didn t think of that It seems so obvious in hindsight yet only by breaking out of the preconception of what a computer and specifically an all in one like the iMac should look like did Apple come up with such an innovative design solution After seeing the keynote felt something had never felt before the desire to own an iMac As the week went on browsed the net to collect other reactions to the new design The most common one was the rather unimaginative It looks like a lamp My reaction to this observation progressed from subtle groaning to tearing my hair out have to be careful not much left on top as is to a sudden and startling revelation Yes it does look like a lamp but why does a lamp look like that in the first place Lamps didn t always look like that At some point someone had the idea to attach a light bulb to the end of an adjustable arm to make a lamp that let you redirect the light more easily I m sure that when the first such desk lamp was made the last thing people said was that it looked like a lamp because lamps didn t look like that before It looks like a giraffe maybe or it looks like a flamingo but not like a lamp ATPM 8 02 21 Barline Expos From a Distance Business types call it thinking o
40. ined spam a k a Unauthorized Bulk E mail or UBE as ATPM 8 02 16 Cider Spam Am E mail that is sent to a group of recipients who have not requested it A mail recipient may have at one time asked a sender for bulk e mail but then later asked that sender not to send any more e mail or otherwise not have indicated a desire for such additional mail hence any bulk e mail sent after that request was received is also UBE Of course for you Monty Python fans the origin of the term spam is easily identifiable as one of their classic skits in which a couple visiting a restaurant discover a common canned luncheon meat on the menu for each entree Of course whenever the term is used the other patrons of the restaurant a group of Vikings began to sing the spam song which drowns out the conversation between our guests and the waiter Fortunately Hormel the company that makes SPAM canned meat has a sense of humor about the association between its product and unsolicited e mail In fact the company goes as far as saying We do not object to use of this slang term to describe Unsolicited Commercial E Mail although we do object to the use of our product image in association with that term Also if the term is to be used it should be used in all lower case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM which should be used with all uppercase letters Fair nuff What s the big deal about soam anyway After all you have the option
41. ing to PCs on the network ATPM 8 02 30 Networking Mac amp PC Overview There are fortunately programs that will translate from the Mac network to the Windows network or vice versa Which program you use will depend on what you need your network to do If you need to make a Windows PC work on a Mac centric network you have two options e Thursby Software Systems s TSSTalk e Miramar Systems s PC MacLAN These programs differ somewhat in their features but both have a downloadable demo to let you try them out first If you want to attach a Mac to a network based on Windows you ll need to pick up Thursby Software Systems s DAVE DAVE allows your Mac to access Windows file servers and printers through the Mac s Chooser just like AppleTalk If you re using a Unix box with an NFS file system Thursby Software Systems also makes MacNFS for networking your Mac to the Unix box Can Connect Macs and PCs for Free If you don t need share files or printers you can set up a TCP IP network between Macs and PCs for just the cost of the hub and Ethernet cables Mac OS Windows and Unix all have built in support for TCP IP making this network setup possible Creating this kind of connection allows you to perform basic file functions primarily moving them back and forth between computers Some types of files such as text files many image formats and some video formats work equally well on both platforms Application
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44. lable for the OS X platform however It s a great feature to be able to control FileMaker Server from the command line but FileMaker really shot itself in the foot by keeping quiet about it in the documentation ATPM 8 02 51 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 Documentation While we re on the topic the printed manual that comes with FileMaker Server 5 5 or which you have to pay an extra 20 for if you are buying in bulk is a bit confusing Presumably in the name of saving space several chapters combine instructions for three different platforms Linux users the lucky dogs don t have to deal with this noting with a parenthetical remark if what they are saying in a particular section or sentence is applicable only to one platform This makes the manual a confusing read since instructions that don t apply to your platform are jumbled in with what you re looking for The odd mixture of screenshots some from one platform and some from another is also rather awkward That might all be forgivable in the name of saving paper hey like trees as much as the next guy if the electronic documentation broke it down better No luck the PDF included on the CD ROM is the same as the printed manual No more than a day s work by a single person could have broken it down into four smaller and more readable platform specific documentation files New Features There are a few really amazing new capabilities of FileMaker Server 5 5 which deserve
45. latives find it hard to classify these trips as vacations and this trip was no exception For example we flew in to Baltimore Washington International Airport and spent a few days with my sister in law her husband and their kids From there we left Baltimore drove 2 5 hours to Lewes Delaware to catch a ferry to Cape May New Jersey In Cape May we visited with my mom my grandmother and other relatives for a few days then drove the length of the Garden State Parkway all 4 hours of it to visit my dad in northern New Jersey Then it was back to Baltimore 3 5 hours to spend a night with my sister in law and company before flying back home Eight days and 780 miles on a rental car later was the happiest person on the plane to land back in Tampa While it was great that we were so popular with our relatives that they all wanted to see us traveling with two small kids in a rented Chevy Malibu was an experience don t want to relive anytime soon As if thought was popular up north had no concept about how popular was going to feel when got back home and checked my e mail My Hotmail account was approaching 1 600 messages with about 1 450 from the same person asking if wanted to lower my interest rate In fact after culling my in box found a grand total of 40 messages that wanted to look at The other 1 560 messages were the dreaded S word of the Internet spam Back in 1997 the Internet Mail Consortium def
46. m com David Ozab is an adjunct instructor at the i ATPM 8 02 24 Barline Expos From a Distance On a Clear Day You Can See the Hollywood Sign by Mike Shields mshields atpm com Normally As my three long time readers know this month I d write about my reaction to the sad State of affairs that Super Bowl commercials have become a trend started after Apple s 1984 ad And again this year we are to be sadly disappointed as Apple has chosen not to spend the 2 million necessary to secure a 30 second spot And February is the month started writing for ATPM so make a mention of that However things haven t been normal lately and therefore find myself in the unique position of being able to comment on the recent Macworld Expo not even having been there What Do We Know A line from a Pink Panther movie however strangely relevant Most of the good stuff was released at the recent DV Expo which told you about the last time And QuickTime Live will be next month so that s next column What did we get A really funky next generation iMac Sure it s got all the latest and greatest features at least according to my last MacMall catalogue however somehow was expecting more And what is this iPhoto The world may never know Well ok can tell you but the Apple site does it better And it s only available on OS X Some of us are still limping along with the Mac they bought five six even seven years ago Who
47. me the functionality should be the same though I ve added images and comments where OS versions notably differ Sharing Files on the Network This section helps make your Mac s files accessible to the network If you just want to connect to existing shared files skip ahead to the Accessing Shared Files section ATPM 8 02 33 Networking Mac File Sharing In the Apple menu check the Control Panels submenu for File Sharing and open it for System 7 users open Sharing Setup instead file Sharing Start Stop Activity Monitor ra Network Identity ownerName os Owner Password E IF Address File Sharing on Status a Stop to turn off file sharing This prevents other users from accessing shared folders ff Enable File Sharing clients to connect over TCP IP Program Linking off Status Click Start to turn on program linking This allows other users to link to shared programs LI Enable Program Linking clients to connect over TCP IP This control panel has the basics of file sharing the owner name an account name for you the owner the owner password and the computer name on a network each computer has a different name to distinguish itself set that name here Then Start File Sharing if it s not already running This may take a minute while your Mac notifies the other Macs on the network that it s ready to share files ATPM 8 02 34 Networking Mac File Sharing Note If you connect to
48. mention They re new compared to version 3 l Il indicate features which according to the manual are truly new to 5 5 Top of the list by far is that a user can define fields of a hosted database provided he she is the only one with that database open This is far more convenient than the old way of closing the database on the server making a copy to another computer defining the field you want or changing an existing field s definition closing the DB copying it back to the server and re opening it Many times even found myself printing out field definitions just to find out whether a field was looking for was in the database or to see how a calculation worked So much for those trees It s nice to no longer have to do that New to 5 5 is the ability to allow guests to automatically download plug ins either new ones or updates as needed and as available Lots of third party plug ins are available for FileMaker but do you really want to go visit each user s machine interrupting them in their work to install a plug in Thanks to this feature you no longer have to ATPM 8 02 52 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 OS X compatibility is also new to version 5 5 With Apple pushing OS X harder than ever making it the default system on new Macs this is awfully important Though wouldn t call this version any more stable than version 3 0 there are stability related advantages to running on OS X Speed In my users experienc
49. n hesitation or nervousness Instead it mimics a stroke patient with partial aphasia Jeopardy 2nd Edition sometimes does not accept correct responses For example one answer required the question Who was Horatio Nelson the British admiral who fought against France However Who was Admiral Nelson was scored as an incorrect Review Jeopardy 2nd Edition response Similar problems affected other responses where minor differences in format or spelling were incorrectly scored The Second Edition still will not let you override an incorrect decision Other minor omissions that were also present in the first edition include the inability to bypass or speed up the TV style introduction and the inability to choose different opponents You can change the overall abilities of the computer opponents but the two opponents remain the same This Macintosh version also does not include the Pre Show audition that evaluates players and adjusts the initial level of play Since you can adjust the abilities of your computer opponents this isn t a serious omission Verdict Jeopardy 2nd Edition almost exactly replicates the look and feel and game play of Jeopardy although am disappointed that there were no substantial improvements would have liked much better video distributed on a second CD the ability to save settings the ability to choose from a variety of computer opponents with different abilities and playing
50. n often be relayed through several e mail servers causing you a great deal of difficulty in locating the original sender The Blacklist of Internet Advertisers offers some outstanding advice as to what steps you can take to rid your e mail inbox of spam and Spamcop has an excellent library of resources for reporting spammers and preventing unsolicited bulk e mails from heading your way ATPM 8 02 19 Cider Spam Am So freshly back from our trip had to spend a few hours getting my e mail account back into working order Surprisingly that was the most frustrating part of my trip hands down just hope that in the future my popularity fades a little bit Copyright 2002 Tom lovino tiovino atpm com ATPM 8 02 20 Cider Spam Am Beyond the Barline by David Ozab dozab atpm com Expos From a Distance Once again the University of Oregon s academic calendar has conspired to keep me from attending Macworld Expo San Francisco Steve why did you schedule the keynote on the same day as my first class of the term Yeah know we ve all had professors who ve given their first week of classes to a teaching assistant while they return from some major conference or whatever Not an option though for a lowly adjunct such as myself So for another year spent the time would have taken to prowl the Expo floor and prowled the Net instead Think Divergent I m sure you ve all seen or heard from the keynote by now This t
51. n without losing points The object is to get the highest dollar score for a Solo Game AMERICAN TELEVISED THE WIZARD asp TUSTING LITERATURE HISTORY oror ST PETER MUSIC ss Oe TTD s 1i ka Py S20 ih Jeopardy Board at Start of Game ATPM 8 02 Review Jeopardy 2nd Edition AMA OTT fA RIGHT TITLE OF TOM WOLFE S 1979 BOOK ABOUT ASTRONAUTS Display of a Single Answer in Jeopardy In Tournament mode you play two games against the same two opponents The player with the highest two game dollar total goes on to the Tournament of Champions against two advanced level computer opponents Jeopardy lets you save a game between questions and return to it later The game comes with a 32 page manual in the CD jewel case which adequately describes installation and game play There is no online help other than the announcer Bugs Omissions and Annoyances Jeopardy 2nd Edition does not have the instability problems that plagued its predecessor had no crashes or freezes did have a game where a video answer was given and cleared from the board but the question was asked again at the end of the round as if it were the only remaining question The female computer opponent sometimes hesitates annoyingly while selecting a category and dollar value I ll take Starts with M for two hundred dollars Alex This appears to be a random event that was probably created deliberately to mimic huma
52. nd inability to easily make the server start when ATPM 8 02 56 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 the system boots though see the link above there is a way really make FileMaker Server 5 5 for OS X a disappointing program If you re planning to install this version of FileMaker Server you should give careful consideration to using the OS 9 version instead Copyright 2002 Paul Fatula pfatula atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com ATPM 8 02 57 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 Review Jeopardy 2nd Edition by Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Developer MacSoft division of WizardWorks at Infogrames Inc Price 20 at GameStop com Requirements G3 based Mac with Mac OS 8 6 49 MB free RAM thousands of colors at 800x600 200 MB disk space Recommended Full installation requires 583 MB disk space Trial None Jeopardy 2nd Edition is the sequel to Jeopardy It provides 4 200 new questions Like its predecessor it faithfully reproduces the television game experience on your Macintosh in which up to three people can play by sharing the keyboard Network play is not supported but the game supplies computer opponents if necessary Jeopardy 2nd Edition looks and plays almost the same as its predecessor which you can now purchase for just 10 at GameStop com A CD contains the Jeopardy installer Standard installation places the application and some data f
53. nd out whether VPC 5 is the right purchase or upgrade for you ATPM 8 02 11 Welcome Reviews Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition Brooke Smith reviews Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition which features 2 500 new puzzles and other goodies but also some lackluster video clips How does the game stack up to the hangman competition ATPM 8 02 12 Welcome Working with Downloaded Files found this article interesting but seem to have another downloading problem have just installed Mac OS X which by and large seems great But when try to save an e mail from yahoo com au it appears to save but displays only machine code gibberish am using Netscape 6 2 because it is OS X native and other Web pages appear to be downloading fine hope you can shed some light on this problem Andrew Lyons I set up a Yahoo mail account US not AU using Netscape Communicator 4 75 and saved a complicated mail file with graphics and formatted text When double clicked it opened in Netscape Communicator and was readable It also was readable from text editors There is a menu at the bottom of Communicator s Save As window with format choices Did you inadvertently save as source instead of text That could be why you see gibberish Gregory Tetrault Update Mac OS 9 0 4 First question What good is Mac OS 9 2 relative to OS 9 0 4 From the Apple site It seems like it has plenty of problems but can t find anything about
54. ngle user and the password for remote administration among other things It s laid out well and is quite self explanatory you won t need to resort to the manual here Schedules The Schedules menu offers about the only other thing you can do with the FileMaker Server Config program schedule tasks to be routinely performed such as the backing up of hosted databases or the running of an AppleScript Unfortunately it occasionally fails to run ATPM 8 02 49 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 What the back up databases option should do for example is save copies of all hosted databases without your having to close them down That gives you backups which would then back up to tape using Retrospect s public beta OS X client without having to interrupt your users or for that matter your busy self Sounds like a great feature but in practice the scheduled task sometimes doesn t run Usually it does but come on we re talking about backing up dozens of databases essential to an office s operation You can t be shaky on backups BOO Schedules T Hame Task Last Run ect Run E backup Backup Databe 1 30 02 12 40 PM OLOZ 12 40 PM ka backup at nite Backup Databa 01 3002 OO 40 Pe 01731702 0940 PM i Delete y d Edit 3 d Mew 3 Problems like that make it sound rather trivial to mention that in the Schedules menu the Edit Schedules item is always greyed out you have to select New Schedule
55. niDictionary The first way is to launch it like a normal application double click on the application in the Finder or click on the icon in the Dock The other way to invoke OmniDictionary is as a service from a service aware application like BBEdit or TextEdit You highlight the desired word and select the Define In OmniDictionary service This also has a keyboard shortcut of Command This seems to change to Command Shift when the current application is already using Command One of the advantages to using OmniDictionary as a service is that any application can take advantage of it assuming it was programmed to take advantage of services One such application is OmniWeb If you ever find a word on a Web site that you don t understand typing Command will get you the definition There is one issue ran into when using OmniDictionary as a service When the definition appears on screen the OmniDictionary window is the frontmost window However it is not the active window The benefit of this is you can continue working in the original program without needing to switch applications The downside is that you might expect Review OmniDictionary 2 0 1 the OmniDictionary window to be active For instance you could look up a word from OmniWeb then try to close the OmniDictionary window by typing Command W Instead of closing the OmniDictionary window you ve closed the Web page you were reading CHOO EE OmmniDietionary
56. o 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 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 Offline Webzine is a HTML version of ATPM that is formatted for viewing ATPM 8 02 85 Frequently Asked Questions 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 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 Some Tips for Viewing PDFs e You can download Adobe Acrobat
57. ode Chk Original haw 0 96i 1 36i 3 DPU 459 KB Mew Chew zisg 25i 300 PU at 312 5 4 35774 MB SceanCale 1 15 02 at 7 54pm Mode Grayscale Original Chew 3i 5i 5 DPU 329 5998 KB New Chew Sif8 S3555355i 150 DPU at 166 666666 915 5275 KB Save calculations to a log that can be exported to a text file Caveats There are several things about ScanCalc that could be easily addressed to make it an even better utility I m no programmer but a suggested memory requirement of more than three megabytes under OS 9 x seems excessive Is this due to the inline help window The help screens are great but they wouldn t suffer as standalone text or PDF file Perhaps the large size is overhead from being written in REALbasic The Save to Log and Show Log commands are located under a dedicated Log menu yet the Export Log command is under the File menu While it is rational that an export function would be found under the File menu it would seem more rational for all of the log functions to be grouped together ATPM 8 02 70 Review ScanCalc 1 7 1 The bitmap color mode choice could be expanded to include various indexed color modes 1 through 8 bit to see how much file size could be trimmed by reducing a GIF s color palette A popup menu to select the desired color depth could be added adjacent to the button for indexed mode Finally a few more measurement unit options such as picas would be helpful Bugs There are
58. oes not match the DPU on the New lines assure you both were the same even had the lock feature enabled in the calculation window when saved those two log entries The DPU for the Original line changes to a lower number for some reason ATPM 8 02 71 Review ScanCalc 1 7 1 The Verdict Anyone who operates a scanner and or resamples bitmap images should find ScanCalc a helpful addition to their arsenal of desktop publishing utilities Before investing in a personalized regional license however would politely encourage the developer to fix some of the minor programming mistakes Note this review was written based on the Mac OS 9 version of ScanCalc However fellow staff member Chris Turner performed some tests on the OS X version for me and l m satisfied that the information in this review positive and negative alike applies to both versions Copyright 2002 Lee Bennett bennett atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com E ATPM 8 02 72 Review ScanCalc 1 7 1 Review Virtual PC 5 0 by Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Developer Connectix Price 99 with DOS 199 with Windows 98 249 with Windows 2000 79 upgrade Requirements G3 or G4 based Mac with Mac OS 9 1 or Mac OS X 10 1 See Connectix com for detailed RAM requirements Recommended As much RAM as possible Trial None Virtual PC 5 Family Overview Virt
59. on a CD ROM is not a good thing Why does this happen As mentioned bootable volumes must have these invisible desktop files If you burn a Macintosh CD ROM by selecting files in Roxio s Toast or Apple Computer s CD Burner the application copies the Desktop DB and Desktop DF files from your startup drive This seems like a bug but one can argue that it is a feature By installing the desktop files from your startup drive if you boot up from that CD its Finder will know all your applications and their file types and also retain all your files Finder comments Personally think Apple should have generic desktop files for burning CDs These generic files would contain common File Type and Creator codes but no private information from you Since OS 9 is on its way to becoming orphan technology doubt Apple will make such a change How can you avoid sending out your desktop files Many suggestions have been made about this Here are some options 1 Burn only ISO 9660 formatted CD ROMs These disks do not contain desktop files However they are not bootable and do not behave like normal Macintosh volumes ATPM 8 02 How To What Do CDs Tell About You 2 Purge your desktop files prior to burning CD ROMs This can eliminate Web site information from your desktop files at the cost of losing all Finder comments You can do this easily by using a utility like Micromat s TechTool Lite which discards your desktop files do no
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61. or For the uninitiated FileMaker is the most popular database program for Mac OS and has the advantage of being cross platform making it a great choice for small or medium sized offices with mixed platforms While the client version of the program is capable of hosting databases on the network for use by other computers that capability is extremely limited all the more so since the release of FileMaker 5 0 If you need to share a large number of databases among users or if you need to share databases among more than a small handful of users specifically 10 different IP addresses over a rolling 24 hour period you need FileMaker Server as well as a separate computer dedicated to the task of hosting your databases ATPM 8 02 47 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 FileMaker Server can host up to 125 databases to as many as 250 simultaneous users I m hosting about 50 databases to about two dozen users These users can be running FileMaker clients from any platform FileMaker supports but they must be at least version 5 0 this version of the server cannot host FileMaker databases older than version 5 0 nor are FileMaker 5 databases readable by older versions of FileMaker Installation and Making it Work Installation is simple there s really nothing more to say about it Drag the databases you want to host into FileMaker Server s folder start the FileMaker Server Config program click the Start Server button and it serves t
62. player choose the four or five round game Another good thing liked about the computer game unlike the TV show is that if you aren t able to solve the puzzle that is if you don t know the answer when the game is over the answer is not revealed leaving it for another time you play Review Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition Also new to the second edition is a Behind the Scenes section with video clips of Vanna White the director the contestant coordinator the executive producer the producer the puzzle writer the stage manager and the announcer Charlie O Donnell so that s what he looks like These segments let you know a little more about the game show A Word from Vanna White However despite these positives the quality of the video clips is poor They look like they ve been dragged across the pavement a technique if I m not mistaken one film director used to create old newsreel footage They re very grainy and not too clear If you happen to be interested in the background of the show these clips contain only brief statements from each person With an average of three to five statements per person that rounds out to a less than one minute interview with each one of them Why bother watching them more than once mean how many times do you really need to see and hear Vanna say she does the mom carpool thing As for the overall look of the game the interface is good and user friendly There are lots of n
63. prising amount about your software your Web surfing and your downloaded files How can this happen How can you prevent it Read Gregory Tetrault s article and find out ATPM 8 02 10 Welcome Desktop Pictures Oregon and A Collection of Scottish Pictures David Ozab shares some pictures taken by his girlfriend Julia Harris during a recent trip to the Central Oregon coast Reviews FileMaker Server 5 5 Paul Fatula reviews FileMaker Server 5 5 for OS X finding that while it hosts databases just fine its complete lack of a user interface lack of AppleScriptability and unreliable scheduling feature seriously mar the program even compared to older versions or this version on Mac OS 8 6 9 x Reviews Jeopardy 2nd Edition MacSoft s Jeopardy received a Very Nice rating last year Will the second edition improve on this Gregory Tetrault reviews this edition and makes the call Reviews OmniDictionary 2 0 1 Eric Blair review OmniDictionary which gives you the benefits of a bound dictionary but saves you the pain of paper cuts Reviews ScanCalc 1 7 1 ScanCalc just might be a utility any scanner operator or digital photo editor would want to keep handy but get out the can of Raid first Reviews Virtual PC 5 0 Connectix released version 5 less than one year after version 4 The big change is that VPC 5 runs under both OS 9 and OS X But there s bad news too So read Gregory Tetrault s review to fi
64. r immediately and have your Finder windows arranged exactly as you left them The Desktop DB file also contains any Finder comments placed in a file You can view and edit Finder comments by selecting a file and choosing the Get Info command from the File menu Command l shortcut So what s the problem CD ROMs burned in Macintosh format can contain a copy of the Desktop DB and Desktop DF files from your boot drive It turns out that many files downloaded from the Internet contain their URLs in the Finder comment field These URLs are in your Desktop DB file It also turns out that other information including fragments of a file s contents can end up in the Desktop DB file So when you burn a Macintosh CD ROM all that information is available to whomever gets the CD Did you visit any Web sites you don t want someone to know about Better take care who gets one of your CDs Also because the desktop files contain Finder Type and Creator codes a person can determine what software you have installed How can someone get information from those invisible desktop files There are many utilities that allow you to find invisible files and change their status to visible use a very old one called DiskTools To see what s in your desktop files recommend finding and copying the Desktop DB file Make the copy visible You can then look at the text content of the Desktop DB file by using a utility like Can Open
65. r download amp ATPM 8 02 46 Extras Desktop Pictures Review FileMaker Server 5 5 by Paul Fatula pfatula atpm com Developer FileMaker Inc Price 899 Requirements G3 or G4 based Mac no upgrade cards 128 MB RAM Trial None FileMaker Server version 3 was always a great program allowing you to serve a large number of FileMaker databases to an office full of users But it dates back to 1995 surely the time has come for an upgrade There was no FileMaker Server version 4 and when version 5 came out the insanely high cost of upgrading every copy of FileMaker used in my office made an upgrade impossible until the next budget year Finally the money arrived along with FileMaker Server version 5 5 which happily runs on Mac OS X without having to resort to Classic mode It was time to buy so buy we did Before get too deeply into this review however a quick note on exactly what I m reviewing FileMaker Server 5 5 is available on a number of platforms including OS 8 6 9 x Windows and Red Hat Linux it s by no means an OS X only program In this review will focus on the OS X version and the rating I ve given the program reflects only that version I ve had some experience with the OS 8 6 9 x version and am quite happy with it it probably deserves a rating of Excellent but haven t spent enough time with it to make a real judgment I ve not tried the Windows or Linux versions What s it F
66. r of networks that include both Macs and other PCs continues to increase Each different computer whether a Mac Windows PC or whatever is known as a different platform and a network that combines multiple platforms is known as a mixed network Setting up a mixed network presents its own unique challenges since you need to know something about each platform involved Mixed Network Hardware When you set up a mixed network Ethernet is the most practical hardware option as you can readily find Ethernet parts for any kind of computer If you have a LocalTalk Mac network and want to add PCs now is a good time to consider an Ethernet upgrade for your Macs A second option to consider is one of the new home phone line networks detailed in Faux Pas Ethernet Home Phone Lines The downside to phone line networks is the lower speed which is about an eighth of 10BaseT Ethernet A third possibility is a wireless network based on Apple s AirPort or another compatible wireless connection There are wireless products available for both Macs and PCs that allow network communication although you ll probably need to add software to your setup that helps the platforms further understand each other Sharing Files and Printers The main obstacle in putting Macs and Windows PCs on a network is sharing files and printers with each other The Mac OS and Windows have very different networking systems so sharing files or printers on a Mac doesn t mean a th
67. s 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 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 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 fo
68. s been predicting the demise of cars in favour of small personal aircraft Moller International has been working for some time towards making this idea a reality constructing prototypes for a personally affordable half a mil though prices will eventually fall to 60 80 grand skycar Unfortunately it seems likely that the biggest roadblock between science fiction and science fact is government infrastructure the FAA is simply not equipped to deal with hundreds of thousands of skycars all going to and from different places unScripted Part of a larger Web site about AppleScripting this site contains interesting stories of applications of AppleScript It was first brought to my attention for a story about how someone used AppleScript and Timbuktu to eventually recover a stolen iMac Very interesting reading for scripters as well as those not familiar with AppleScript The site also offers a discussion bulletin board for people with questions about scripting and news about AppleScript and AppleScriptable applications Dust Mites A Primer As dust mites are considered to be predominantly causative agents of one the sic twentieth century man s worst ailments an information dissemination campaign relating to their health hazard should be launched just hope not too many dust mites get kicked up into the atmosphere in the process Actually this is a serious site with lots of scientific information about dust mites from taxonomy
69. s view Mac OS menus and the VPC 5 toolbar by holding down the Command key VPC 5 continues to offer extensive AppleScript support including recordability and the ability to launch Windows programs Hard CO Floppy Shared Network USB VPC Drive Folder Additions VPC 5 Toolbar Icons at Lower Right of Window Virtual PE List Win 95 Hot Running Win Of Hot Runair VPC 5 List Window with Two virtual Machines Speed Benchmarks Under OS 9 VPC 5 has nearly identical benchmark scores as VPC 4 when testing with PassMark Performance Test 2 under Windows 98 Connectix claims that users running Windows 2000 will get better performance from VPC 5 compared with VPC 4 Benchmark Review Virtual PC 5 0 speeds under OS X are 20 35 slower than with OS 9 Connectix has provided information on why VPC 5 is slower under OS X Connectix hopes to work with Apple Computer to get around the performance problems caused by preemptive multitasking Virtual PC 5 Problems encountered almost no problems with VPC 5 under OS 9 Bugs that affected VPC 4 have been fixed OS X users have encountered more problems which isn t surprising since this is the first VPC version for OS X Besides the slow speed OS X users reported crashes and freezes related to inserting CDs or DVDs waking PowerBook computers and using certain USB devices The first two problems were fixed with the 5 0 1 update The USB problem will be addressed by updating OS X to 10 1 2
70. sion 4 except serial printer bugs were fixed Summary VPC 5 is the best way to run Windows on your Macintosh unless you play 3D games in Windows You have to stick with VPC 2 or 3 for 3dfx hardware support Installing and running Windows on your Macintosh computer using VPC is much easier than on a PC Unfortunately it s much slower Mac OS 9 users who have VPC 4 will gain very little from upgrading to VPC 5 The new features are not compelling unless you need to run Windows XP or need to use DVD data disks on a VPC virtual machine Mac OS X users of VPC 4 will benefit by upgrading to VPC 5 VPC 5 is compatible with OS X and allows you Review Virtual PC 5 0 to run VPC in native mode Although VPC 5 under OS X is slower than under OS 9 1 you gain the advantage of not having to reboot under OS 9 to use VPC If you need the extra speed you can reboot under OS 9 and still use the same VPC set ups Copyright 2002 Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com ATPM 8 02 Review Virtual PC 5 0 Review Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition by Brooke Smith bsmith atpm com Developer MacSoft division of WizardWorks at Infogrames Inc Price 29 95 Requirements G3 based Mac with Mac OS 8 6 64 MB of RAM thousands of colors at 800x600 200 MB disk space Trial None OKAY recall playing an early PC version of Wheel of Fortune It had re
71. specific formats like word processing files however many not work as you want them to If you want to share application specific files across platforms you need to make sure you have the application on both computers and also be sure the application is capable of opening the other platform s files ATPM 8 02 31 Networking Mac amp PC Overview To set up a TCP IP network first set up a switched Ethernet_network Then you can configure TCP IP and use FTP to share files between your Macs and PCs Copyright 2002 Matthew Glidden mglidden atpm com ATPM 8 02 32 Networking Mac amp PC Overview How to Become a Network Guru by Matthew Glidden mglidden atpm com Mac File Sharing File sharing is the ability to let other computers on a network access the files on your computer Of course you control who can open or modify what your Mac has specific pieces of software that exercise this control Note In this section you need to know what OS version is on your computer Choose Finder from the upper right corner menu then About This Macintosh from the Apple menu You ll see the Mac OS or System version here Make note of it for later reference Note If this article refers to software you can t find on your Mac see the Missing Software page for help tracking it down or if need be reinstalling it One Final Note The images below may vary from the actual appearance on your own Mac as Apple has changed things over ti
72. stration in 9 or X in a similar looking interface which is actually a set of three FileMaker databases eee 5D DOS FMP Server_Admin em ministration EC 100 aad EE Browse Unfortunately FileMaker doesn t give you full access passwords to the Remote Administration databases so there s no way to modify the layouts check out the field definitions or otherwise see what makes them tick The manual specifically tells you not to try running Remote Administration in a copy of FileMaker client on the server ATPM 8 02 55 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 machine Any other computer provided it has the necessary plug ins which it can automatically download from the server can administer the machine with the administrator s password But on a few occasions l ve tried to pull up the Remote Administration window and it hasn t worked Here s what should happen You select Open Remote and then click on the name of the server rather than on one of the databases Click Open You should be prompted for the administrator s password Enter it and up pop the Remote Administration databases But sometimes that password prompt never comes up When that happens it s no good to try from another computer the same thing happens Without local administration you are left with no way to administer your server The only thing you can do at that point is hit that Stop Server button Since there s no Local Admini
73. stration there s no way for you to specify how long your users have to log out of the databases or to specify a message for them to see so they know what s going on or when the databases will be back online Once the databases are all closed and your phone stops ringing with calls from worried and confused users you can start up the server again go to another computer and open Remote Administration Conclusion You re probably wondering after reading this review why don t just host my databases with FileMaker Server for OS 9 am considering it The time required to take everything down install OS 9 install FileMaker Server set it up install Retrospect see if schedules work in 9 and if not find a workaround etc is probably more downtime than my office could comfortably stand at a stretch particularly at this time of year Also have it running on a multi processor computer OS 9 can t reap the benefits of the second processor so my completely untested guess is that there might be some difference in performance Finally it s rare but do occasionally have to open some other program on the server if do so under OS 9 and that other program crashes it can bring the whole computer down along with it While the lack of AppleScript awareness is somewhat mitigated by the ability to control the server from the command line the lack of ability to locally administer the server unreliability of the Scheduling feature a
74. t save Finder comments and rebuilds them Then when you burn a CD ROM it will contain a boring Desktop DB file However the desktop file will still have information on all your installed applications Save disk image as Fil Applications Mac 05 3 Yesterday Automated Tasks 11 6 99 a Documents 1 12 02 D Extra Fonts 5 10 01 ii Old Documents 1 12 02 a System Folder Yesterday ki Mount Image Add DigiSign Signature ki Zero blocks Disk Copy Image Creation Dialog Box How To What Do CDs Tell About You 3 Do not burn CD ROMs directly Instead use Apple s Disk Copy or Roxio s Toast to make a disk image large enough to hold your CD files Make sure the Mount Image option is checked The new empty image file mounts on your desktop The Desktop DB file for your new image contains only the following atcoatco Copy the files for your CD onto this new image disk Burn your new CD from this image and it will have essentially empty desktop files Remember that none of these options is necessary when burning audio CDs ISO 9660 CDs MPEG CDs or video CDs None of these generic formats will contain Mac OS desktop files prefer option three since it provides the most flexibility You can burn Mac formatted CD ROMs you can retain your Finder comments you don t have to rebuild your desktop and you can use any available CD burning software So remember burn securely if you pl
75. the top to bottom and back again tell you it s incredible could watch it for hours ATPM 8 02 53 Review FileMaker Server 5 5 And that my friends is the user interface in all its glory OS 9 users don t get that Take a look at what they have to suffer through FileMaker Server mapssfm al idietime TEPIP TCPYIP TEPIP TEPIP Protocols AppleTalk TOPS IP There you go just like FileMaker Server 3 only improved OS 9 server administrators get a tabbed interface from which they can see which databases are hosted open or close databases To be fair you can open databases from the OS X version but you can t close them or see which ones are open nor is any error message displayed if the file cannot be opened see which users from what IP address are on which databases send a message to users disconnect an individual or the whole lot of them FileMaker s manual calls that Local Administration and it s not available in OS X Review FileMaker Server 5 5 Remote Administration Yes there is a way to administer the server and no I m not leading you along on another sarcasm filled romp Most the things you can do with Local Administration in OS 9 notable exceptions include seeing users IP addresses and getting a useful error message if a file cannot be opened Under remote administration you re told the file could not be opened but you are not told why you can do with Remote Admini
76. the Internet from this Mac recommend unchecking the TCP IP File Sharing option for security reasons See the Network Security page for more details Now select the Users amp Groups tab for System 7 x users open the Users amp Groups control panel Start Stop Activity Monitor Users amp Groups 2 oe Guest guest user A Somebody owner 9 New User ie Hew Group Open GS Duplicate Ae Delete Here s the System 7 x Users amp Groups control panel The New User and New Group commands are in the File menu as opposed to the Mac OS 8 amp 9 buttons shown above The owner icon has a thick border to distinguish its icon from other users Users f Groups ATPM 8 02 35 Networking Mac File Sharing The Guest user is anyone who accesses your files without a name and password Open the Guest account to allow or prevent such access If you prevent it only people with a specific User account can access your files Choose New User to add a user account and New Group to add a group account Groups save time by controlling access for several users at once Drag a user icon onto the group icon to add it to that group Sharing a Disk or Folder of Files On the Desktop click once on a disk or folder you want to share Then select Sharing from the File menu s Get Info submenu to bring up the sharing access window System 7 and Mac OS 8 users select Sharing from the File menu as there is no Get Info submenu
77. the rest of the magazine is more interesting than this Thanks for reading ATPM amp ATPM 8 02 5 Cover About This Particular Macintosh is free and we intend to keep it that way Our editors and staff are volunteers with real jobs who believe in the Macintosh way of computing We don t make a profit nor do we plan to As such we rely on advertisers to help us pay for our Web site and other expenses We are now accepting inquiries from interested sponsors and advertisers We have a variety of programs available to tailor to your needs Please contact us at advertise atom com for more information You can help support ATPM by buying from online retailers using the following links Amazon com MacMall MacZone and Outpost com amp ATPM 8 02 6 Sponsors Welcome to the first official Yowza issue of ATPM for the third millennium We did a quick search of our archives and realized there hasn t been an official Yowza issue of our magazine since the 1900 s That s right That superlative word sometimes used in About This Particular Macintosh to describe stellar happenings in the world of Macintosh computing has been absent from our pages for quite a long time As a matter of fact the word hasn t been found in our pages since sometime in the last century The reasons being to have an official Yowza issue several important things need to happen 1 The planets in the greater Mac universe must be properly ali
78. three issues that qualify as bugs from my perspective None of them are of the crashing variety but all hinder ScanCalc s usefulness The Percent field under the New Size section has the weird behavior of throwing the cursor back to the left side of the number with every keystroke While not impossible it is very tricky to enter a specific percentage to see the resulting dimensions Typing the digits in reverse sort of works but you can t type a zero as the first digit You would have to try this to truly understand the problem After adding my own sample favorite sizes wondered whether would be able to delete them It turns out that selecting the Edit Favorites option highlighting a favorite and pressing Delete will do it but this wasn t obvious until opened the Balloon Help But what Balloon Help didn t tell me was that even though selected and deleted a certain size from the menu the preceding definition was deleted instead Thus the only way to delete the last item is to delete all the definitions Doing this will cause the Favorite Sizes menu to revert back to the three default definitions of 35mm slide 2x2 and 4x5 Also while the DPU dots per unit field in the calculation window behaves as expected the option to lock the DPU in the new size section is a boon something seems to be amiss when the calculation is sent to the log You may notice in the sample log image above that the DPU on both Original lines d
79. to mite management to its opposite reproduction Oddly absent is any description of how dust mites cause ailments or mention of which ailments they cause Postforum Think of this site as the water cooler next to your digital hub Postforum is made up mostly of message boards for exchanging ideas and tips for digital video post production The site focuses primarily on Macs since any real editor or animator should know better than ATPM 8 02 28 Web Sites to use Windows The forums are in the process of being made searchable with a beta version currently available on the site If you try a search but don t get an answer to your question you can post on any of the dozens of very topic specific forums available Every Disclaimer in the Book Does anyone actually read those pages upon pages worth of legalese that pop up on the screen while installing a new program Well even if you have you ain t seen nothing yet Several extremely verbose disclaimers appear here along with some scientifically true product warning labels and a few links to other sites of interest along the same line Other posts to the site fulfill the promise of being 100 content free while at the same time making for an amusing read Copyright 2002 Paul Fatula pfatula atpm com ATPM 8 02 29 Web Sites How to Become a Network Guru by Matthew Glidden mglidden atpm com Mac amp PC Networking Overview Overview As time passes the numbe
80. ual PC VPC emulates Intel Pentium based hardware For Mac OS 9 users version 5 is only a minor upgrade from version 4 see my review of VPC 4 It adds almost no new features and is no faster than version 4 The reason for the version number increase to 5 is that native support for OS X is provided VPC 5 runs under OS X where version 4 did not run at all even in Classic Don t get too excited however VPC 5 under OS X is about 30 slower than under OS 9 1 ATPM 8 02 Review Virtual PC 5 0 Installation For OS 9 users a new VPC 5 installation simply requires you to launch the Virtual PC Installer on the CD You designate a location for the installation select Easy Install or Custom Install then click the Install button When you first launch VPC you must enter your name organization and the lengthy VPC serial number The Windows 98 version opens Windows which then requires you to enter the lengthier Windows 98 product ID key Windows then looks at your hardware configuration and completes its installation process Installation under OS X is just as easy OS X users who wish to run VPC 5 under OS 9 or OS X should install the program in OS X It will be available to OS 9 if you reboot into that OS A new feature of VPC 5 is that you can upgrade a previous version of VPC using the full version With VPC 4 you needed to use an upgrade version not the full version This was annoying to someone like me who had VPC 2
81. uantum Mechanics but were afraid to ask For the gamers among you a company called Pyrogon Inc has come out with Stellar Deep an online role playing game for OS X And Ambrosia Software released Deimos Rising the pulse pounding sequel to Mars Rising never got the hang of Ares Oh well it runs on Macs faster than mine Again time to upgrade And something really cool well for guys like me anyway MacReporter Instead of going to thirty to forty different Web sites all the news that s fit to regurgitate to you the home reader now comes to me Ok so I ve been rendered obsolete Maybe had actually gone to the Expo this year I d have a different take on it don t really know what wanted out of this year s Expo The economic downturn certainly affected it as there were 20 less companies than last year Also missing were the large advertising banners that in previous years were draped across almost all the available wall space Enthusiasm was at an all time high however thanks to the power of Steve and his 22nd century iMac 72 and sunny in Redondo e You next time Maybe Copyright 2002 Mike Shields mshields atpm com Disclaimer Mike s views this month probably don t represent anyone else s on this planet or in this galaxy for that matter ATPM 8 02 27 Hollywood Normally About This Particular Web Site by Paul Fatula pfatula atpm com Moller s Skycar For decades science fiction ha
82. utside the box while psychologists call it divergent thinking No matter what it s called it s the way of looking at something commonplace Steve claims a sunflower was his inspiration and seeing it in a slightly different way It s the root of creativity and of originality It s part of what makes us human A few days later saw the movie Postino which if you haven t seen it is a wonderful Italian movie about the friendship between Pablo Neruda and his postman A common theme of the movie is metaphor the postman wishes to be a poet in order to win the love of a beautiful woman and asks Neruda how to make a metaphor That got me thinking again The new iMac looks like a lamp is a comparison based entirely on physical appearance The new iMac is like a lamp is a simile The new iMac isa lamp is a metaphor What is a lamp It is something that illuminates areas previously cloaked in darkness The new iMac is a lamp A much more astute comment and high praise indeed The Other Keynote Once Steve was finished with his semi annual dog and pony show he handed the stage over to Avie Tevanian and Phil Schiller for their far more tech centric keynote They stepped through the various features of OS X with an emphasis on what s going on under the hood their clich not mine My interest peaked when they overviewed the Core Audio Architecture The basic features are now common knowledge but
83. with Windows 95 and purchased the full version of VPC 4 with Windows 98 couldn t upgrade my VPC 2 Windows 95 setup You must eliminate any saved VPC states before upgrading The VPC Installer works as described above It adds your previous version s set ups to its list of virtual machines New Features Compared With VPC 4 e Support for Windows XP e Ability to completely undo a Windows session e Ability to change video resolution of the Windows virtual machine by resizing its window e Support for DVD ROM not DVD video e Native support for OS X Review Virtual PC 5 0 Using Virtual PC 5 This is essentially the same as under VPC 4 You assign RAM and other properties to each virtual machine Settings for Win 95 Sh Shared Folders g Mowe E Keytoard ta COME Fort Ge COH Port F Nebworking ay USE Disabled Booting Dialed Booting Alkewed Mot Inet heed Control click Keys Mot Assigned Midem Part Mone Shared Hetworkirg fio devices selected The aonvount of RAM available to the PC is limited by the aroun of memory in your Mac The optimal size is dependent on the amount of memory available on your Mac Different emulated operating systems willl also have different memory demands C VPC Settings Window Review Virtual PC 5 0 VPC 5 can run as a resizable window or in full screen mode The key command to toggle this has changed to Command Return You can alway

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