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34 Shoot Your Troubles

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06 CONTENTS
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09 Editors’ Page
The free and open Internet is under siege by heavy-hitter
ISPs—and here’s what you can do about it.
10 Get Info
The 17-inch MacBook Pro is here, Seagate’s new hard drive
can hold 9,444,707 JPEGs of Lindsay Lohan, and the cost of
Apple’s new Cupertino campus would pay the salary of the
Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez for 20 years.
37 Reviews
38 After Effects 7 visual-effects software
46 B4 II virtual-organ software
50 Boostaroo Revolution iPod amp and audio splitter
42 Cleaner 6.5 batch video encoder
52 DocuPen RC800 scanner
44 EasyShare P880 camera
46 ezSound 2.1 Speaker System iPod speaker stand
41 huey color calibrator
53 Interiors 3.6 interior-design app
50 iPod USB Power Adapter iPod power adapter
43 iWand Presenter slide-show remote control
40 Photoshop Elements 4 image-editing app
49 SilverSATA II RAID array
43 SMK-88 Mac Mini Compact Keyboard keyboard
47 TimePassages Basic Edition astrology software
50 TransPod iPod car adapter
48 Yojimbo 1.1 information organizer 50 49
55 Games
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55 Boot Camp Reality Check Intel Mac update
55 Civilization IV tips and tricks
57 Deep Trouble 2 shooter game review
55 Dofus coming soon
56 Quake 4 fps game review
78 Log Out
79 Contest 80 Shut Down
78 Letters Win a copy of what our Feb/06 Before Microsoft Word,
Readers weigh in on our new Disc interface, Boot Camp, review called an “industrial- WordPerfect, WordStar, and even
the iPod’s future, and their iTunes Music Store habits. strength” media processor, the Wang WPS, there was the
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FROM THIS MONTH’S ISSUE
BROKEN SPOTLIGHT BE SAFE, NOT SORRY BE YOURSELF PULL THE PLUG,

If Spotlight isn’t returning As you dutifully back up your Creating limited user accounts NOT THE WIRE
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search isn’t in the Privacy in mind that but only if you remember to behind the
tab of System Preferences > CD and DVD media won’t last log out of your administrator fridge, always
Spotlight. From Get Info, p16. forever. Be redundant—back account. pull on the plug,
up your backups. From Ask From Ask Us, not on the cord
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EDITORS’ PAGE
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Save the Web!

The free and unfettered Internet may soon
STAFF RANTS
Q. What would a multi-tiered Internet mean to you?
be but a fond memory. Deep-pockets ISPs,
led by AT&T and Verizon, are pushing a Mark Rosenthal SIGMUND ’FRAID
What would a multi-tiered Internet mean to you?
scheme that would enable them to charge It’s one thing to develop faster service and charge for
a premium fee—some call it protection that. But to slow down service—to actually reverse
money—to ensure fast access to Web sites. progress—is just immoral. Even the oil companies
wouldn’t develop a gasoline that slows you down and
There are also rumblings that some ISPs then up the price of their regular stuff.
might even block access to competing Web
sites and services. Sean Molloy CHAMPION OF THE LITTLE GUY
Here’s how it might work: Let’s say that What would a multi-tiered Internet mean to you?
It would just lead to the (bandwidth) rich getting richer
you want to buy a rubber chicken (just go and the poor getting poorer. If MajorMartCo.com is
with me on this). Archie McFee’s Web site loads in a flash, but you also suddenly legally sanctioned to get priority bandwidth,
want to see what Silly Jokes is charging for that essential commodity. that just pushes the little mom-n-pop Internet shops
further into the margin. No siree, I don’t like it, not one bit!
You type www.sillyjokes.co.uk, hit return, and wait. And wait. And wait
some more. Frustrated, you go back to www.mcphee.com and make Peter Marshutz MULTIDAD
your purchase. Why the discrepancy in Web-page performance? Simple: What would a multi-tiered Internet mean to you?
because Archie McFee paid for premium, top-tier Web-access service; Internet? What Internet? My partner and I just adopted
three—count ’em, three—kids, and I haven’t enjoyed a
Silly Jokes didn’t, and lost your business. nanosecond of Web surfing in months. When the kids
Another theoretical—and I emphasize theoretical—scenario: You’re are older, maybe I’ll mind, but for today … Manuel, stay
out of José’s diaper pail!!
an iTunes Music Store addict who recently subscribed to cable-based
broadband from, say, Comcast. Unfortunately, when you try to access the
iTMS, all you get is the Multicolored Beach Ball of Doom—but you can pop Roman Loyola PENNILESS PINCHER
right aboard Comcast’s music-sales site and your downloads proceed It means more money out of my pocket, that’s what.
without a hitch. Commerce Web sites will just pass along the premium
fees to the consumer. Arrgh, the pressure of The Man
The Internet has revolutionized commerce, communication, and keeping me down sure does make my neck hurt.
creativity because of its even-handed approach to bandwidth.
ThinkGeek.com can compete with WalMart.com, Daily Kos can tweak Fox Niko Coucouvanis DOESN’T FOLLOW THE WHITE
News, bloggers can create Web-storms of truthiness when major media MAN’S LAW
players spike a story. This fair and balanced access, however, is under It’s a great idea—but only if they’d do it smartly and
threat—unless we can convince Congress to include a concept called create some sort of wacky tax to fleece a few bucks off
network neutrality in pending telecom legislation. the porn mongers. In reality though, I have faith that
techno Robin Hoods will come through with a hack for my people.
Simply put, network neutrality means that ISPs must treat each packet
of info equally—whether that packet came from your personal blog or The
Max THE DEBUGGERATOR
Wall Street Journal. The popularity of a site would remain a function of its What would a multi-tiered Internet mean to you?
quality, and not of the financial clout of its publisher. What if MacFixIt.com, MacInTouch.com, or the
Unfortunately, network neutrality amendments have already MacAddict.com forums couldn’t afford to pay for top-tier
access? Where could I get quick help when one of my
been voted down in Congress—perhaps because you and I haven’t beloved Macs contracts the creeping uglies? Where
let our feelings be known. So it’s time to raise a serious stink. Call could I read page after page of reactions to skanky bugs induced by
Apple’s latest Security Update? At www.nytimes.com? I think not.
your congressperson; email your senator; write a letter to your local
newspaper—and check out www.savetheinternet.com.
There’s still time. Get crackin’.
Enjoy,
comingsoon:august2006
Here’s what our editors are preparing for the next issue of MacAddict.
Feeling creative? Then don’t miss next month’s how-to round-up, featuring a whole slew of creative projects. We’ll also show you
how to beef up GarageBand with a plethora of potent plug-ins, and demystify all those home entertainment terms—LCoS and SXRD,
anyone? Then we’ll teach you how to safeguard your Windows XPified Mac from the inevitable malware, make and use your own cell
phone ringtones, and sneak around Spotlight and the Finder for a snappier Mac experience. In Reviews, we put Apple’s new 17-inch
MacBook Pro through its paces, check out the live-view LCD on Olympus’s Evolt E-330 SLR camera, and rate Motorola’s SLVR L7
mobile phone, Rain Design’s iWoofer, and a lot more.
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FIRST LOOK:
SUPER-SIZE ME!
The 17-inch MacBook Pro is here.
A
t first glance, a 17-inch
notebook, such as
Apple’s new 17-inch
MacBook Pro ($2,799,
www.apple.com), may
seem like an extravagance—kind
of like lugging around a 6.8-pound
cafeteria tray. But once you start
using it, you’ll wonder how you got
by with 12- and 15-inch screens in
the first place—especially if you’re
a pro who lives in Aperture or Final
Cut Studio.
Apple’s new 17-incher
was unveiled at the National
Association of Broadcasters
(NAB) trade show this April;
it comes with a 2.16GHz Intel
Core Duo processor, 1GB of
PC2-5300 DDR2 memory, a
120GB 5,400-rpm Serial ATA
hard drive, an 8x double-layer
SuperDrive, one FireWire 400
port, one FireWire 800 port,
and three USB 2.0 ports. It also
has a built-in iSight, Bluetooth,
AirPort Extreme, Gigabit
Ethernet, ExpressCard/34 slot,
and IR sensor so that you can
control the bundled Front Row
media player with the included
Bigger, better, faster. Apple Remote. The brighter-
than-ever 17-inch display has
a 1,680-by-1,050-pixel native
resolution driven by a 256MB ATI
Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics
processor.
If you’ve got the muscle to
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lug this baby around, it’s got the

muscle to serve as your masterful
mobile Mac.—Roman Loyola
10 July 2006
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Starting in June, Apple’s
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eligible for recycling. USB 2.0 connection.
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mStation’s Tower ($299.95, www.mstationaudio.com) is a 43-inches-
tall, 13.75-inches-wide speaker stand for your iPod. The Tower has a
pair of one-inch tweeters, a pair of two-inch midrange drivers, and a
5.25-inch subwoofer. It also includes a remote control for adjusting
volume, bass, and treble, plus standard playback options.
Pyramid
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GET YOUR FREE FONT MANAGER A free tool to help you

sort your Minions.
N ot entirely happy with your font-management software? Sure,

Apple’s FontBook is a nice utility, but it doesn’t autoactivate
fonts. Extensis’ Suitcase Fusion ( Jun/06, p52) and
Insider Software’s FontAgent Pro ($99.95, www.insidersoftware.
com) are pricey, and their expansive feature sets are overkill for
many. If you’re looking for something different, you might want
to check out FontExplorer X, a free font manager from Linotype
(www.linotype.com).
FontExplorer X has a customizable iTunes-like interface that
has enough features to challenge the heavyweights: automatic
font activation and the option to specify which applications use
autoactivation; plug-ins for InDesign, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress;
customizable font previews; the ability to compare fonts onscreen;
and the option to create a ZIP archive or disk image when exporting
fonts or font sets. It also includes access to an online store that lets
you browse, compare, and purchase Linotype fonts. FontExplorer
X is an impressive app, especially for a version 1.0 product (though
there are still some bugs that need to be ironed out). The fact that it’s
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things: an errant SystemUIServer process (an integral component of Mac OS
pocket and puts it smack dab on your
tummy—or gut, as the case may be.
TuneBuckle offers three different types
X that handles some of Spotlight’s routines) or a problematic Spotlight index. of iPod-encasing aluminum buckles,
Here are a few things you can do to fix a broken Spotlight. including the Original ($59.95, pictured),
PRIVACY Make sure that your startup volume (or any other volume you want to the Full Moon ($69.95), which has an
search) isn’t listed in the Privacy pane of the System Preferences > Spotlight. opening for the clickwheel, and the Full
Spotlight won’t search items listed here. Metal Jacket ($79.95), which covers the
KILL PROCESS You can stop the SystemUIServer process by launching Activity whole nano. The buckles are available
Monitor (/Applications/Utilities) and finding the SystemUIServer under the with a black or white leather belt in sizes
Process Name listing. Select it, and then click Quit Process. The menu bar ranging from a 26 to 50 inches (see “gut”
should refresh; wait a minute or two, and then try to use Spotlight again. reference, above).—MV
RE-INDEX Folders can spontaneously become unsearchable by Spotlight, with
the search function refusing to find the folder itself or any items contained
therein. Here’s the fix:
1 Open System Preferences > Spotlight.
2 Click the Privacy tab.
3 Drag the problematic (unsearchable) folder into the field (this can be your
entire hard-drive volume), adding it as a place Spotlight does not search.
4 Close System Preferences.
5 Re-open System Preferences > Spotlight, and click the Privacy tab again.
6 Remove the folder (or volume) from the Privacy field.
7 Quit System Preferences again.
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Sure, you know how to use
Mac OS X—but we’ll show you
how to tap its hidden
powers to
turn it up
to 11!
18 July 2006
by Rik Myslewski
s we were putting the finishing touches on this article, the

clock crept past midnight to April 29—and Mac OS 10.4, aka
Tiger, celebrated it first birthday.
During the year that we Mac addicts have lived with the
big cat, we’ve all discovered our favorite features and
developed our favorite techniques. Here at MacAddict, we editor
types have had gobs of time to find out what makes Tiger purr.
After all, that’s what we do for a living—instead of having a real
job, like you.
So here are some of the tips, tricks, terminologies, and
technologies that we’ve uncovered in the past year. Dig in, and you’ll
emerge from page 25 better equipped to tame Tiger (or whatever
your favorite cat may be) and well prepared to take your
knowledge of Mac OS X to an even higher level.
July 2006 19
Jump to the
Recent Past Looking
for a recently used folder in the
Finder? Select Go > Recent
Folders. It’s a great timesaver
that allows you to quickly jump to
INSIDER LINGO
any of the nine folders you As the Beatles sang,
most recently accessed. “Get back to where
you once belonged.”
A true Mac addict just has to know what’s under Mac OS X’s hood.
P art of being a Mac OS X expert is the pure pleasure of

knowing the definitions of technical terms. Sometimes
the knowledge is useful in a practical way, and sometimes
processes have equal priority, so this stat
should read at or very near 0.00.
SHARED LIBRARIES A library is a
it just makes you look smarter than the next guy or gal. Here collection of (usually) simple routines that
are a few Mac OS X terms that you can use—either to improve applications use to accomplish their work.
your OS X experience or to simply toss around to make you A shared library is a library that’s—you
friends say, “Gawd, what a geek!” But they’ll mean that in a No word on whether guessed it—shared among multiple
good way … right? there are naughty applications, either at the same time or
EXTENSIONS Skip to the next entry in this alphabetical list CPUs, as well. whenever an app damn well feels like it,
and read the definition of framework, below. Go on, we’ll wait. whether the needed routines are already
Back already? OK. Essentially, extensions are to hardware what hanging out in RAM or still lounging around on your Mac’s hard
frameworks are to software—they’re what developers use (or drive.
create) when they want to interact with Apple or third-party VIRTUAL MEMORY Simply put, virtual memory (VM) is an
devices such as mice, graphics cards, and more. Extensions live always-on scheme by which Mac OS X tricks your Mac’s
in /System/Library/Extensions and can be identified by their microprocessor into thinking that info is still in RAM, even
file extension, .kext (for “kernel extension”). If you see any such though the info has been moved to your hard drive to make
files in that folder that you’re absolutely, positively sure you’ll room for other stuff in RAM. Accessing info from a hard drive
never need, feel free to toss ’em—but remember that we said takes much longer that accessing it from RAM—and while you
“absolutely, positively.” won’t get any Out Of Memory errors when using VM, you’ll pay
FRAMEWORK This assemblage of shared libraries (see below) in performance. The solution to VM slowdown is simple: Buy
and other application assets make it so software developers more RAM.
don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to get an WIRED MEMORY Some info in your Mac’s RAM can’t be
app to perform a task—they can reach into a framework (either swapped out to virtual memory;
one from Apple or one they create themselves) and reuse a it must remain in actual, physical
function or asset that it contains. Mac OS X is chockablock with RAM—it’s wired. As with Unix’s
frameworks. nice command (above), you don’t
NICE In the CPU pane of Activity Monitor (/Applications/ really need to know about wired
Utilities), there’s an entry in the usage-statistics area labeled memory—but we thought you might
% Nice. This stat tells you how much of your CPU time is being have wondered what the Wired stat No, this RAM has
used by processes whose priority has been altered by Unix’s meant in the System Memory pane nothing whatsoever
nice command, which changes the priority a process has when of Activity Monitor (/Applications/ to do with a trendy
requesting CPU resources. In standard Mac OS X usage, all Utilities). It sure drove us crazy until TechnoMag.
BOOT DIFFERENT
was screwing it up.
Oh, and be forewarned: Starting up in Safe Boot mode takes
If your Mac disobeys, give it the boot. longer—a lot longer—than starting up normally. We’ve experienced
Safe Boot startups that have taken over 20 times as long as normal
W hen your Mac refuses to start up normally, sometime the best

way to find out what’s ailing it is to start it up abnormally.
Here are three alternative start-up (aka boot) strategies.
startups on the same Mac. The reason for this seeming indolence
is that when starting up in Safe Boot mode, Mac OS X runs a full-
scale file-system check. Sure, it’s convenient to have this important
SAFE BOOT Back in the halcyon days of System 7 through OS 9, action performed
one of the surest methods of diagnosing a sick Mac was to restart automatically, but we
with extensions off by holding down the Shift key when rebooting— would appreciate a way
remember, ol’ timers? Although Mac OS X extensions are quite bit
different from those in the crashy old days, you can still restart Yes, this is a Mac. In
your Mac with a necessities-only system by using Safe Boot mode. Single-User Mode,
In a nod to tradition, you enter Safe Boot mode by restarting while you’re deep in the heart
holding down the Shift key until the startup screen appears with a of Mac OS X’s Unix
prominent red “Safe Boot” appearing under “Mac OS X” in the login underpinnings—and,
dialog. If your troubled Mac launches successfully into Safe Boot yes, it can be dangerous
mode, it’s a good bet that some non-Apple software you installed in there.
20 July 2006
✃
KEY KEY COMMANDS
Milliseconds matter, and key commands will save you thousands of them.
E ven though we’re proud that the Mac was the first personal
computer with a mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI),
true Mac übergeeks wrangle their rodents only when absolutely
necessary. Key commands are faster than grabbing your mouse.
IN THE FINDER IN A FINDER IN APPLICATIONS

Command-Delete Move the selected item to the WINDOW OR THE FINDER
Trash. Command-1 View window contents in Icon Command-W Close a window.
Shift-Command- Empty the Trash, but display view.
Option-Command- Close all windows (doesn’t work
Delete warning dialog first (if enabled). Command-2 View window contents in List W with all applications).
Option-Shift- Empty the Trash without view
Command-` Cycle through windows (doesn’t
Command-Delete displaying warning dialog. Command-3 View window contents in (accent grave) work with all applications).
Command-L Make an alias to the selected Column view.
Command-Tab Display the Application Switcher.
item. Command-right Expand selected folder and
Tab Move through apps while
Command-R When an alias is selected, jump arrow its nested subfolders when in
displaying the Application
to its originating file. List view.
Switcher.
Option-Command- Make an alias of an item in Option-Command- Expand selected folder when in
Option-Command- Display the Force Quit
drag another location. right arrow List view.
Escape Applications dialog.
Option-drag Copy an item to another Command-left Collapse folder when in List
Option-Command- Put your Mac to sleep.
location. arrow view.
Eject
Command-T Move item to Sidebar. Option-Command- Open parent folder of selected
Shift-Command-Q Display Log Out dialog.
up arrow item and close current window.
Option-Command- Toggle the Dock between show Option-Shift- Log out without displaying Log
D and hide. Command-up Move up one directory level.
Command-Q Out dialog.
arrow
Control-Eject Display the “Are You Sure
DURING STARTUP Command-down Move down one directory level.
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You Want To Shut Down Your
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arrow
Computer Now?” dialog.
Press and hold C Start up from a CD. Shift-Command-C Jump to Computer view.
Press and hold N Start up from a bootable

network server (aka NetBoot).
Shift-Command-H
Shift-Command-I
Jump to Home directory.
Jump to your iDisk (.Mac
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subscribers only). Jazz Up Your Toolbar
Press and hold T Start up in FireWire Target Disk With a Finder window open, select View
mode. Shift-Command-A Jump to Applications folder. > Customize Toolbar. You can now drag
almost anything you want into and out of
Press and hold Start up from a different startup Shift-Command-G Display the Go To The Folder the Finder window’s toolbar: frequently
Option-Command- volume, if present; if not, start sheet. used apps and documents, files with icons
Shift-Delete up in Safe Mode (see “Boot Command-K Display the Connect To Server that display photos of family members—
Different,” p20). whatever. This trick makes it easy to launch
dialog. images in Photoshop that’d normally be launched
Command-M Minimize the active window into in Preview if double-clicked—just drag the icons of
the Dock. those files an inch or two onto the Photoshop icon
in the toolbar instead of dragging them all the way
Option-Command- Minimize all Finder windows across your screen to the Photoshop icon in your
M into the Dock. Dock—assuming
it’s there in the
first place.
Convenience
comes to a toolbar
near you.
to skip that time-consuming step. Shift-Option, anyone? Mode drops you into a shell (sh-2.05b on our Mac running OS 10.4.6),
In addition to Safe Boot mode, there are two other startup where the Mac experience is but a fond memory. The only reason
alternates worth mentioning: one because if you know only a little you might want to start up in Single-User Mode is if you can’t start up
Unix you might be able to spot a problem, and another because if you any other way. The only action that we recommend you perform here
know only a little Unix you might be able to do some serious damage. is to run a file-system check by pressing Return, typing fsck -fy
VERBOSE BOOT If you hold down Command-V while starting up, at the prompt, pressing Return again, and waiting for the operation
you’ll enter the arcane and geekily amusing world of Verbose Boot. to end—when it’s finished, a message will inform you that your file
In this mode, Aqua’s comforting interface disappears, and you get system “appears to be OK” or, if you’re unlucky, something more dire.
to watch every one of Mac OS X’s background processes scroll by. All kidding aside, when you’re in Single-User Mode you
To most normal humans, the messages are opaque—but if you have have total control over the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X.
a problem that hangs your Mac during the start-up process, Verbose If you don’t know exactly what you’re doing, you can cause
Boot can be a godsend, as it lets you know what process failed major, irrevocable damage. Major. Irrevocable. Damage. If
exactly when the hang-up occurs. After the parade of white-on-black you’re wise, you’ll admit that you’re in a high-
text, Verbose Boot returns you to the wonderful world of Aqua. risk neighborhood where you don’t speak the
SINGLE-USER MODE Now this is hardcore. While Verbose Boot language; you’ll run away by typing reboot and
eventually lands you in the familiar Aqua interface, holding down pressing Return. If you’re ambitious, you’ll study
Command-S while starting up puts you into Single-User Mode—pure everything you can find about Unix and come
Unix on a Mac. Instead of the familiar Mac interface, Single-User back to fight another day.
July 2006 21
A Unix-Command Sampler
C’MON IN—UNIX
Here’s a handful of useful and/or diverting Unix
commands you might want to explore by typing man
WON’T BITE!
Mac OS X’s Unix core can provide you with
command name in the Terminal—and these are only a
fraction of the 1,000-plus commands available on your tremendous power—if you know where to start.
Mac. If you’re feeling adventurous and want to see a list Resting comfortably beneath Mac OS X’s shimmering Aqua
of all the Unix commands hiding in your Mac, launch the interface lies a full-featured version of an industrial-strength
Terminal, hold down Shift and Escape, then press ? and operating system: Unix.
type y in answer to the prompt that appears. Press the The roots of this oft-improved OS can be traced back to the
spacebar to jump from page to page in the long list that late sixties, and its many and varied versions* are legion. Mac
appears. OS X’s Unix implementation, Darwin, is based on BSD (Berkeley
Standard Distribution), which is one of the most common and
cal Displays a calendar by month or year most thoroughly tweaked Unix distributions. Once you even
begin to learn how to bend Unix to your will (a good place to
cd Changes the working directory start is O’Reilly Media’s Learning Unix for Mac OS Tiger, $19.95,
www.oreilly.com), you’ll uncover a whole new world—and if you
chmod Changes a file’s permissions want total control over your Mac and might enjoy simple ways
cp �Copies
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of accomplishing complex chores, Unix is for you.
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SHELL is the name of the type of program you see running in the
system
Terminal (/Application/Utilities). There are multiple different shells
from which you can choose, including bash and tsch. Bash has
grep The Big Kahuna of search commands
been the default in Mac OS X since 10.3; prior to that, Apple used
tsch. You can switch to tsch by going to Terminal > Preferences,
kill Terminates a process
clicking the radio button labeled Execute This Command,
ls Lists the contents of a directory replacing /bin/bash with /bin/tsch in the related field, and closing
Preferences. The next Terminal window you open will run the tsch
mv Moves or renames a file shell. If you want to have some geeky fun, prod a couple of Unix
jockeys into an argument over which shell is superior.
pwd Displays the working directory’s file No matter which shell you use, at its prompt you enter…
path …COMMANDS, which are small, self-contained programs that
accomplish a specific task. We Mac types are familiar with large
rm Deletes a file—permanently, so be applications that include in their arsenals tons of commands
careful that print files, run filters, play tunes—whatever. Unix doesn’t
work that way. When you’re in the Terminal, for example, and
tar Create or extract archives for you type clear and press Return, the shell runs a tiny program
backups named clear, which—of all things—clears the Terminal’s display.
Clear isn’t part of the Terminal or the shell; it’s a full-fledged
top Displays all processes running on program all by itself.
your Mac
Commands can be modified by…
…ARGUMENTS, which are words or other information you enter
uptime Displays how long your Mac has been
after a Unix command to tell that command what you want it to
running
operate on. For example, if you type rm (the remove command)
followed by the argument doomedfile.txt, you’ve just told
Unix to delete the file named doomedfile.txt.
Monitor Your Memory
Use the System Memory pane of Activity Monitor (/Applications/ That’s the bash prompt
Utilities) to check the amount of Active memory your Mac uses
when not running any apps. After you’ve been using your Mac for on the top and the tsch
a good amount of time without rebooting, check it again. If the prompt on the bottom.
number has increased significantly, you may have a memory leak
caused by a rowdy software driver. Remove your drivers one by Vive la (minuscule)
one, and recheck to find the culprit.
différence!
22 July 2006
Go Old School
If you’re “of a certain age,” here’s how to create a bit of nostalgia.
Launch the Terminal, drag its window’s lower right corner until the
dimensions read 80x24 in the title bar, and then select Terminal >
Window Settings. Select Color from the top drop-down menu, choose
Green On Black from the Standard Color Selections drop-down menu,
and then click Use Settings As Defaults. You also might want to choose
Font > Show Fonts and bump up the Size slider a bit. Takes ya back, don’t it?
Nostalgic and practical.
One argument: the

directory whose contents
The default The ls (list) Two flags: a (show all we want to list. Tip: Just
bash-shell command files) and l (long, which drag the directory folder
prompt shows more info) into the Terminal, and its
path will appear in the
command line.
Notice that the a

flag makes ls display
File invisible files.
sizes are
measured in
blocks. One
OS X block
Notice that files
equals
with names that
1,024
begin in lowercase
bytes—one
letters are
kilobyte.
alphabetized after
those that begin
with uppercase
After a command is completed, a new prompt appears. letters.
Commands can also be followed by… and back. Press Q to quit the pager and return to the prompt.
…FLAGS, which are modifiers that allow you to better define Armed with this simple roadmap, dive in. And don’t worry
what you want a Unix command to do (they’re also known as (too much) about messing stuff up—as long as you stay at your
options). For example, if you type fsck (the command to check own level of permissions and in your own user directory, Unix is
the file system) and follow it with the flag -fy, Unix will check pretty darn good at protecting itself.
your entire file system no matter what condition it’s in (that’s
what f tells it to do) and assume that you want to answer
“yes” to any prompt it may display (that’s y’s job). Flags are Death by PID
usually preceded by a hyphen; also, note that this example Have a problematic process? In the Terminal, type top
could be entered into the Terminal as either fsck -fy or and press Return to list the PID (process ID) and other
fsck -f -y. info for all the processes running on your Mac. Then
Your best friend when exploring Unix is the man command. type kill a misbehaving process’s PID and press Return
to terminate that process. This maneuver can nuke apps
Type this command into the Terminal followed by another
that even Mac OS X’s Force Quit command can’t snuff.
command as its argument—man fsck, for example—and a Unix
application called a pager will lead you page-by-page through
Unix’s built-in manual content for the command fsck, detailing
every argument and flag that you can use with it. After you’re
finished reading a page, simply press the spacebar to get to the The process with PID 2834 is about to go bye-bye.
next page, and use the up and down arrow keys to scroll forward
Not to RAM It Down Your

Throat, But…
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it now, and we’ll say it
again tomorrow: Equip your Mac with as much RAM as *For an eye-straining view of the
you can comfortably afford. You won’t regret it—Mac
OS X runs infinitely better when it can romp around in a history of Unix’s many variants in
large RAM playground. Also, if you have an Intel-based Mac, timeline format, check out www.
know that Rosetta stores some of the application instructions
it has translated in RAM—if you’ve got a lot of RAM for it to use, levenez.com/unix.
it won’t have to retranslate those instructions when they’re
needed again.
July 2006 23
Morale Booster
If you’re running the bash shell, launch the Terminal, type PS1= ”At your
service, O Great One! ”, and press Return. This replaces your standard
Terminal prompt with something more fitting to your exalted status as an
übergeek-in-training. Actually, you can put anything in quotes after PS1,
and it’ll replace your
standard prompt. (Your
prompt will return to normal in
your next Terminal session.)
Screw humility—
you’re learning Unix!
CLEAN UP YOUR DOCK

Create your own app launcher, arranged just the way you like it.
I nstead of littering your Dock with icons of the apps you use on a regular basis,
create a folder named Top Apps (or whatever name you’d prefer), fill it with
aliases to your favorite apps, then pop it into your Dock. The easiest way to fill it is
to drag each app into the Top Apps folder while holding down Option-Command;
doing so will create an alias of that app in your Top Apps folder.
As an added nicety and to make your Top Apps folder easier to identify in your
Dock, select your Applications folder, press Command-I to open its Info window,
and then do the same with your Top Apps folder. Select the fancy-schmancy
Applications-folder icon in its Info window, copy it (Command-C), select the plain-
Jane Top Apps folder icon in the Top Apps Info window, and paste the Applications
icon onto it (Command-V).
Now close the Info windows and drag your newly decorated Top Apps folder
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and holding on this folder will bring up a list of all your favorite apps; select one,
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and it’ll launch. Since this folder will display its contents in alphabetical order,
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only the user who created it can change it. If you want your own Top Apps folder,
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keep it somewhere in your user name directory (aka ~/ for you Unix learners).
The desire for an uncluttered Dock doesn’t

have to keep you from one-click access to all
your favorite apps.
REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES

System Profiler information can provide helpful
troubleshooting hints.
W hen your Mac is humming along in perfect health, launch System

Profiler (/Applications/Utilities/System Profiler, or Apple Menu
> About This Mac > More Info). After it launches, choose File > Save As,
and in the File Format pull-down menu, choose System Profiler 4.0
(XML); save it. The resulting SPX file will contain a vast compendium of
information about your Mac in its good-mood state. Should your Mac
ever get into a bad mood, you can open this file on any Mac running Tiger
(including yours, of course) and compare it with a similar profile that Use System Profiler to see what printer-driver versions you have
you create when your Mac’s cranky. Finding the differences in the two installed—compare them to the ones on your printer vendors’
profiles can be a big troubleshooting help. Web sites to make sure you have the latest and greatest.
24 July 2006
UPDATE YOUR UPDATE SAVVY
There’s more to good ol’ Software Update than you might think.
S oftware Update (Apple Menu > Software Update) not only

keeps your software up-to-date, it also keeps you safe
by providing the aptly named Security Updates. The most
painless way to keep yourself up-to-date is to select System
Preferences > Software Update > Download Important Updates
In The Background—you’ll be notified when they’re ready to
be installed. If you want to keep an update after it installs,
launch Software Update (Apple Menu > Software Update), The Software Update log will fink on you if you’ve been tardy.
highlight the software update, and select Update > Install And
Keep Package. You can alternately select Update > Download to a known security flaw for a full three weeks—if you owned a
Only to—you guessed it—download but not install the peecee, it would’ve been toast by then. These days, Apple labels
update on your Mac. If you launch Software Update and see its security updates sequentially—2006-001, 2006-002, and so
an update listed for a device or capability you don’t want or on. To find our what day they were released, you need to search
need to update—such as an iPod or Bluetooth—highlight the for the update by number at www.apple.com/support. Click the
update you want to ignore and select Update > Ignore Update. link to the update when it shows up in the search-results list, and
From then on, every update for that device or capability will then scroll to the bottom of the page to read the Date Created
be ignored. To un-ignore an update, select Software Update > info in the footer.
Reset Ignored Updates. If you’ve installed an update but have a sneaking suspicion
To check out a list of the software updates you’ve installed that the install didn’t take, navigate to /Library/Receipts. In
(and when you installed them), select System Preferences > that folder, find the PKG receipt file with a name that relates
Software Update > Installed Updates > Open As Log File. This to the troublesome install, and toss it into the Trash. The next
launches the Console (/Applications/Utilities) and displays time you run Software Update, the appropriate update should
a list of all your installed updates. You may be surprised how be reinstalled. Usually. Sometimes. Maybe. Also, if you ever
many you’ve installed—you also might be discomfited to find have to reinstall Tiger from scratch, make sure you go into
how late you’ve been in installing security updates. These used /Library/Receipts and throw away all the PKG receipt files left
to be labeled with the date they were released; for example, over from previous system updates; this way, when you run
if your once-over of the update log tells you that you installed Software Update, you’ll be able to reinstall the many and varied
Security Update 2004-10-27 (aka October 27, 2004) on 2004- system and security updates available since your original Tiger
11-19 (November 19, 2004), that means you left your Mac open installation.
Is the NSA After
FACILITATE EFFUSIVE VERBOSITY You, Too?

If you’re paranoid—and who isn’t
these days?—Mac OS 10.4’s Disk
Utility (/Applications/Utilities)
allows you to scrub all the unused
space on your hard drive squeaky
clean while leaving your current files
untouched. Launch Disk Utility, select
the volume you want to sanitize, click the
Erase Tab button and then the Erase Free
Space button. Choose from three levels
of security, click Erase Free Space—then
go out for dinner, dancing, and a show,
’cause even at the least-secure level, this
operation takes quite a while.
MacAddict Editor-in-Chief Rik

Myslewski says that if you really want
to get down, get funky, and get back up
again regarding Unix, check out Prentice
Hall’s A Practical Guide to Unix for Mac
OS X Users by Mark
G. Sobell and Peter
File names can contain up to 255 characters, but when long names are displayed in the Seebach ($39.99, www
.prenhallprofessional
Finder (left), you’ll see only the first few words, an ellipsis (…), and then the last word or .com) or Mac OS X
two. To see a file’s full name in a Tool Tip box (right), hold down Option and hover your Tiger: Unleashed by
mouse over the filename. Without Option, the same box will appear after a few seconds. John Ray and William
C. Ray ($49.99, www
.samspublishing.com).
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GET THE
Fed up with—
or can’t afford—
WORD OUT
Microsoft Word?
Try one of these
alternative
by Jake Widman word
processors
instead; they
offer many of the
same features at
a fraction of the
price.
S
ometimes it seems as if there’s no
escaping Microsoft Word. The trial
version comes installed on new
Macs. Everybody uses it at your office.
You get DOC files from all the peecee folks
you work with. Now that Apple no longer
bundles a full-fledged word processor
with new Macs, you may feel like it’s
the Microsoft way or the highway—but
nothing could be further from the truth.
We’ve rounded up 13 word-processing
alternatives that lie on the spectrum
between TextEdit (the basic app that
comes with your Mac) and Word. Some are
compatible with Word and some aren’t,
but all are capable of handling more than
ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN UELAND
just basic writing tasks.
ON THE
DISC
iText, LightWayText,
Mariner Write, Nisus
Writer Express,
Papyrus Office,
ThinkFree Office
28 July 2006
WORD STAND-INS
If you’re looking for Word’s familiar features—but don’t want to use Word—these apps are the way to go.
Papyrus lets
GERMAN ENGINEERING you add a note

to highlighted
IN DA HOUSE, JAWOHL! text.
PAPYRUS OFFICE
($99, www.rom-logicware.com)
German-born Papyrus is nimble, quick, easy to learn, and has features that
easily rival—and in some cases improve upon—Word’s abilities. It can handle
character and paragraph styles, tables of contents, footnotes and endnotes, The Mark button
automatic text (called Text Macros), and highlighting. It doesn’t track in Papyrus’s
changes, though it does let you attach pop-up notes to highlighted text. Font Panel lets
Papyrus’s table feature is more straightforward than Word’s and offers you highlight all
just as many formatting options, including one that Word doesn’t: vertical the text with the
centering of text in a cell. Table cells can also take spreadsheet-like attributes you’ve
formulas and functions, and a table in one document can reference a table specified.
in another—even if the other’s not open.
Another great feature is discontinuous selection: You can select words,
paragraphs, or table cells that are separate from one another. Papyrus’s GOOD NEWS: Easy to learn. Many features superior to Word’s.
Font Panel also has a nifty feature called Mark: Choose a combination BAD NEWS: More expensive than other Word alternatives.
of font attributes, and Papyrus highlights all of the text that has those GET IT IF: You want a lightweight but capable word processor with
attributes. As a bonus, Papyrus is only 3.1MB (the whole download is only superior mail-merge capabilities.
9.2MB), showing that someone still appreciates efficient coding.
JUST PLAIN SOLID WORTH WHAT IT COSTS

Mariner Write ($49.95, www.marinersoftware.com) AbiWord (free, www.abisource.com)
Like the Mac itself, Mariner Write is well thought out, its interface AbiWord is a free, open-source word processor that does a decent
makes sense, and it has most of the features you need. Creating job copying Word, providing most of the same commands in the same
or editing a style sheet is easy: Select the attribute in the style menus. Unfortunately, it’s nowhere near as nice as the apps that cost
description and choose what you want from a menu or ruler. money, and it’s not as capable as the other freebies.
But there are also some annoying weaknesses. The app can So what’s wrong? First of all, the icons in the toolbar are ugly—a petty
do columns, but they apply to the entire document—no mixing complaint, maybe, until you realize how much time you spend staring at
layouts. There’s no automatic hyphenation. And when we imported your word processor. Worse, the onscreen letterspacing is poor, and the
our test Word document, Mariner Write letters shift around as you type or select text. There’s also no real manual
brought in the formatting and the style or online help (as is frequently the case with open-source apps), and the
names, but didn’t link them. But we love available FAQs and wiki pages contain spotty info. We never were able to
its Modify command for cleaning up figure out how to get curly quotes (“ ”) as we typed, for example.
imported text files. It’ll convert straight
quotes to curly quotes (or vice versa), turn GOOD NEWS: Familiar, Word-like interface. Can
multiple spaces into a tab, and a lot more. read and write in MS Word format. Free.
BAD NEWS: Ugly. Unreliable onscreen display.
GET IT IF: You don’t use a word processor much,
Mariner Write offers lots of ways to quickly
but need to work with Word files occasionally.
clean up text, doing in one step what can
take several in other apps. Stray marks and characters that shift when you select them mar AbiWord.
GOOD NEWS: Capable and full of features. Great text-conversion tools. Easy to learn.
BAD NEWS: A couple of annoying limitations.
GET IT IF: You frequently need to clean up text that’s going to or from email or the Web. Frankly, AbiWord’s antiquated toolbars are painful to look at.
July 2006 29
SWEET SUITES
These capable apps come with more than just words—
they’re full-blown office suites that can process numbers,
OLD FAITHFUL
pictures, and more. APPLEWORKS 6.2.9
$79, www.apple.com
You can tell how much Apple still cares about
AppleWorks: When you search for it on Apple’s
Web site (www.apple.com), the first result is a pitch
OPEN-SOURCE OFFICE for iWork ’06, home of the upstart Pages app.
NEOOFFICE 1.2.2 (free, www.neooffice.org) Oh well. Pages is certainly slicker than
NeoOffice is an open-source productivity AppleWorks, which still looks like it’s running
software project that contains tons of The NeoOffice interface looks in Classic mode, but it would be a mistake to
features in its several modules, including like it came from Windows, but underestimate AppleWorks. It has pretty much
all the Word features missing from many it’s worth putting up with. everything you need: character and paragraph
other apps in this article: mail merge, styles, basic tables, some automatic fields
highlight text, track changes, and more. (such as page number), and so on. The interface
It also opened our Word test document is elegant and uncluttered, and includes a ruler;
flawlessly, preserving automatically small icons for setting tabs, alignment, and
numbered lists and style definitions. spacing; pull-down font and size menus; and
Two things hold it back from a customizable Button Bar. It also comes with
greatness: First, it takes a long time drawing, painting, spreadsheet, database, and
to launch—nearly a minute on our G5 presentation modules—albeit basic ones. It’s
iMac—but once it’s running, it works as hard to heartily recommend something that’s
fast as any other app. It also looks like NeoOffices gives you a lot of style- clearly old technology, but on the other hand,
a Windows 95 app, with tiny jaggy icons definition choices, along with a AppleWorks is fast, clean, and time-tested.
on square white buttons, and doesn’t preview of their effects.
always behave like a Mac GOOD NEWS: Quick and clean. Comes with additional
app. But, hey, it’s free, it GOOD NEWS: Capable. Free. Impressive Word compatibility. drawing, spreadsheet, and other modules.
does everything, and it BAD NEWS: Unattractive. Slow to launch. BAD NEWS: Old-school interface. Dead-end app. Used to
even includes a drawing GET IT IF: You just want an office suite that does just about come free with new Macs.
everything, and you don’t care what it looks like, as long as it’s free. GET IT IF: You don’t care about what’s new and just want
module that does 3D.
a reliable multipurpose office suite.
MANY FEATURES, CLUMSY PACKAGE

THINKFREE WRITE ($49.95, part of ThinkFree Office Desktop, www.
thinkfree.com)
Here’s another Word clone with familiar-looking toolbars. Plus, it’s Office
compatible—the default file format is Word 97. It can’t highlight text or
track changes, but can autocorrect as you type. Unfortunately, it takes
forever to launch, and many operations (such as Select All) take so long
that you’ll wonder if anything’s happening. And when you do select a
large block of text, there are horizontal gaps in the highlight color that
don’t affect anything, but are unnerving. More intriguing than Write is
ThinkFree Online, a free service that lets you store documents online and Its look may bring back memories of OSes
work on them in a Java application via your browser from any computer. past, but it’s still easy to find what you need in
AppleWorks
GOOD NEWS: Word compatibility.
Other office apps included.
BAD NEWS: Slow. Nonstandard
behavior.
GET IT IF: You really like the idea of a
Java-based word processor—though
ThinkFree Online is probably a better bet.
That little triangle on the Format button should indicate a drop-down menu; in AppleWorks’s helpful startup screen is the most
ThinkFree Write, however, a new sheet appears. up-to-date part of its interface.
30 July 2006
JUST THE TEXT, MA’AM
When you don’t need all of Word’s bells and whistles, these apps act a bit more like TextEdit (/Applications)
and provide the basic tools you need—plus, they’re freeware or shareware.
HAPPY WORDS FROM JAPAN

ITEXT (free, http://members.aol.com/iText)
ITEXT PRO ($15, http://members.aol.com/iTextPro)
LIGHTWAYTEXT ($25 shareware, http://members.aol.com/LightWayText)
This family of word processors from Japan tries so hard to be liked that it’s hard for Lightway Text
us to be very critical—none of the other apps in this article urge you to “Make your offers surprisingly
words happy!” Luckily, there’s not much to criticize. robust search-
All three apps offer basic functions: tabs, line-spacing control, and limited and-replace
character styles (though no paragraph styles) that can include attributes such as options.
font color and colored rules. The apps do offer some unexpected extras, such as
multicolumn capability and, in iText Pro and LightWayText, line-number display.
Some of the tools work in unfamiliar ways: You change line spacing by changing the
number of points between lines (not from baseline to baseline).
There’s little reason to get the basic iText plain—it’s essentially a more-
confusing TextEdit. iText Pro and LightWayText add appealing features such as
custom paper sizes, the ability to search and replace by complex expressions
(such as items not matching a particular character, or finding the shortest
sequence of a certain
GOOD NEWS: Some specialized features you might find useful.
character), and macro
BAD NEWS: Occasionally confusing tool operation.
recording—LightWayText
GET IT IF: You want a simple word processor with a touch of
even includes a macro
REDO
the exotic—and happy words!
editor.
YOUR OFFICE
While you’re thinking about replacing Word,
FREE AND EASY what about the rest of Office? Mail can sub for
WRITER (free, www.kennettnet.co.uk) Entourage and Keynote for PowerPoint—but
Writer doesn’t do much—it has only basic text entry and editing can you really replace Excel? Well, you can try.
tools. It uses a slider to set text size, for example, but offers no MARINER CALC You can buy Mariner Calc
corresponding way to set line spacing. Want to indent the first line alone ($49.95, www.marinersoftware.com) or
of your paragraph? Use a tab—there’s no ruler. bundled with Mariner Write as part of the $79.95
But click the Picture button and you get a sheet that lets you navigate MarinerPak. Mariner Calc was able to import
to a picture and a slider to size it before dropping it in. Slick. Writer’s our test Excel document with all of the formulas
Clip Box is a separate window for holding text snippets. Writer can also intact, but it dropped the conditional formatting
automatically strip the angle-bracket (>) characters from emailed text (it’s not supported) and changed all the fonts.
or change straight quotes to curly—aka smart—ones or vice versa (the NEOOFFICE NeoOffice’s import of our Excel
latter called Stupefy Quotes). You can also export in HTML or RTF with spreadsheet looked exactly the same as
the option to include Font Face, Color, Size, and other formatting codes. it did in Excel, keeping the formulas and
conditional formatting. Score another one
GOOD NEWS: Simple for the amazing, free NeoOffice. Oh, and
tools for common tasks. Writer it’s also got a powerful equation editor, a
Free. Slick image tools. offers drawing module with Bezier curves, and a
BAD NEWS: Extremely
some whole 3D object studio. And it’s still ugly.
limited feature set.
handy THINKFREE OFFICE ThinkFree Calc managed
GET IT IF: You want
an easy way to clean
cleanup to import our text Excel spreadsheet with
up text coming from or The slider tool is a handy way to resize tools for the formulas and layout intact, but it didn’t
headed to the Internet. images before you drop them in your online preserve the conditional formatting—that’s
Writer document. text. not a feature it supports.
July 2006 31
THINK DIFFERENT
These apps provide many of the features of Word (and then some) without simply cloning its look and feel.
FLEXIBLE AND STYLISH

MELLEL 2.0.7 ($49, www.redlers.com)
Mellel’s like a well-organized workspace, where the tools you need always seem to
be right where you expect them to be. Its format bar
and ruler present a lot of information without getting
in the way, but the nicest part of the interface is the
floating Palette. It’s similar to Word’s Formatting
Palette, but more customizable. The different
sections dock to one another, so you can remove
sections you don’t use, rearrange them, or make a
primary and a secondary Palette—whatever you like.
Flexibility is Mellel’s hallmark. Mellel’s paragraph
Rather than combining character and paragraph settings in one style, each styles can contain
paragraph style (which can contain a full complement of hyphenation settings) specifications for
can be associated with a character style, enabling you to mix and match as just about anything
desired. Character styles can have several Style Variations, so that you can you want, and get
invoke a bold italic version of a character style without having to define it as a their character
whole new unrelated style. You can also define up to 20 Document Variables formatting from
for inserting frequently used text just by selecting Variables from a menu. associated character
There are a few things Word can do that Mellel can’t—such as mail merge—and styles.
vice versa. (For a list, visit www.redlers.com/generalcomparison.html). But overall,
Mellel doesn’t just give Word a run for its money—in many ways, it’s simply better.
You can detach, remove,

GOOD NEWS: Flexible, customizable interface and style sheets. Superior multilingual capabilities.
and rearrange the
BAD NEWS: Can’t do every single thing Word can do.
sections of Mellel’s
GET IT IF: You want a top-notch word processor and don’t absolutely need one of Word’s unique
formatting Palette
features.
however you desire.
SEARCH FOR ANYTHING

NISUS WRITER EXPRESS ($69.95, www.nisus.com)
Nisus has been making Mac word processors for a long time, and it shows. Rather than being a Word clone, GOOD NEWS:
Nisus Writer Express (NWE) adopts the fashionable interface of Apple’s Pages and iLife. A slideout drawer holds Speedy and capable.
the Character, Paragraph, and other formatting palettes; to choose fonts, you call up the familiar Font panel. Up-to-date interface.
Powerful Find and
The palettes are smart, too. Insert a table, and the Table and Border formatting tools come to the fore. The
Replace functions.
Language palette has a thesaurus that automatically shows synonyms for the last word you typed or any word
BAD NEWS: A wee
you select. You can even make your own palette group. bit pricey compared
NWE’s most amazing feature, though, is its Find and Replace function. The app lets you use part of your Find results to some of the other
in your Replace, allows you to specify how many entries.
occurrences of a string to search for, and a lot more—Find GET IT IF: You
and Replace take up nearly 7,500 words of NWE’s online want a solid app with
Help, which shows you how to find three capitalized the best Find and
words in a row. Just search for (?:[[:upper:]][a-z]+[^[: Replace functions on
upper:]]+){3}\s)([[:upper:]][a-z]+)(.*). Simple, eh? the planet.
NWE’s style definitions occur in the main window, so you can get a full-size
preview of what your style’s going to look like.
32 July 2006
BEYOND WORDS
PAGES ($79, part of iWork ’06, www.apple.com)
Sure, Pages is a word processor, but that designation sells it short—and
makes it look bad in comparison. When you consider only its writing and text-
editing abilities, it suffers next to Word. For example, it has paragraph styles
but not separate character styles. But its page-layout abilities go above and
beyond what most high-end word processors can do. It can’t highlight text,
for example, but it can put a background color behind an entire paragraph—
something that a pure word processor wouldn’t even think of.
Pages can also handle multicolumn layouts, the incorporation of charts
and other drawing objects, and the import and alignment of photos more
smoothly and easily than any of the other apps in this entire article. So
choose it for its document-production capabilities, and look elsewhere if
you’re just a writer.
GOOD NEWS: Integration with iLife media tools. Strong layout features.
BAD NEWS: Missing some useful features you’d get in a pure word processor.
GET IT IF: Layout and design functions are as important to you as word processing, or you want a Pages is as much about the page as the words on it. Here a
great presentation program (Keynote) in the same package.
blue line pops up to show that a photo is centered.
WHAT’S IN A WORD PROCESSOR?

T hinking about trying out a new word processor? Use this chart to see how its tools stack up against Word. And because you can
never truly live a completely Word-less existence, we tried importing a Word document with some tricky formatting into each app
to see what remained intact—the letter codes in the last column refer to (A) colored text, (B) highlighted text, (C) paragraph styles, (D)
a table, (E) an automatically numbered list, (F) a paragraph with background shading, and (G) a section with multiple columns.
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1 one-time A, B, C,
AbiWord • • • • • • • sum only • • • D, E, G
in placed
• • • • • • • •
2
AppleWorks spreadsheet
A, D, E, G
entire
LightWayText • document only •
entire A, B,
Mariner Write • • • • • • document only
limited
C3, D
Mellel • • • • • • • • A, D
A, B, C,
NeoOffice • • • • • • • • • D, E, F, G
Nisus Writer A, B, C,
Express • • • • • • D, G
A, C, D,
Pages • • • • • • • E, F, G
Papyrus • • • • • • • • • by style • A, C, D
ThinkFree A, B, C4 ,
Write • • • • • D, E, F, G
Writer 5
1 After setting up your source data file and target document, you perform the mail merge through a command
in the Terminal.
2 AppleWorks uses DataViz’s MacLinkPlus translators for Word compatibility. But more of the AppleWorks formatting Jake Widman wrote the bit about
was retained when we simply opened the native CWK file in Word than when we opened the exported DOC file. Mellel in Nisus Writer Express, the
3 Mariner Write imported the style names and text formatting, but failed to link the formatting with the style name. paragraphs about Pages in Papyrus,
4 ThinkFree Write assigned the wrong font to one of the imported styles. and the write-up of AppleWorks in
5 No, we didn’t forget to fill in the info in the Writer row in this table—there’s just very little it can do. NeoOffice—then his head exploded.
July 2006 33
Field Guide to TROUBLESHOOTING
Shoot Your Troubles

By Niko Coucouvanis
T errible is the day when your Mac won’t start up—but sometimes it does happen. Maybe you’ll get as far as a gray or blue screen
before your Mac stalls; maybe your Mac won’t even chime or light up at all. Here’s how to troubleshoot your Mac before you
take it out back and just shoot it.
Oh No! My Mac Won’t Start Up!

Begin with Basics
Unplug every peripheral from
Take a Deep Breath your Mac except your stock
Apple keyboard and mouse.
Troubleshooting requires the relentless application of logic, so you need to Swap the main power cord
approach your problem with a settled mind. Step away from your Mac, and with a different one that you
take a walk around the block to calm your nerves before you proceed. know works; do the same with
the cable that connects your
display to your Mac. Start up
from a Mac OS X install disc.
No joy yet?
Software Sickness Hardware Heartache
Seasoned troubleshooters If your Mac’s screen stays dark,
know that 99 percent of Mac its power-button LED blinks, or
maladies come from software. you don’t hear a startup chime,
Hanging at a gray, blue, or it’s safe to conclude that there’s Be Safe
blinking-question-mark screen something wrong with your
is most surely a software hardware. Follow the green Start up in Safe Mode:
problem. Follow the blue dotted line for ways to deal with Press the Power button, and
path for software solutions. hardware hang-ups. immediately after you hear the
startup chime (not before!),
hold the Shift key. This forces
OS X to start up with no third-
party extensions, startup
items, or nonessential fonts.
Das (Disc) Boot If your Mac seems happy
in Safe Mode, try deleting
the following files: /System/
Open your optical drive by pressing your keyboard’s Eject key (or hold down
Library/Extensions.mkext and
your mouse button at startup). If your keyboard isn’t responding, stick a
/System/Library/Extensions
paper clip in the tiny hole on the drive’s face. Put your latest Mac OS X install
.kextcache. Your Mac will
disc in the drive, close it, and reboot while holding down the C key. When
rebuild the files when you
the startup process is complete, open Utilities > Disk Utility from the menu
restart normally (without
bar (not the one in /Applications/Utilities on your hard drive), and select your
holding any keys). Another
main hard drive from the list on the left. Click Repair Disk. When that’s done,
Safe Mode trick is to move
click Repair Permissions. Once the permissions are fixed, open Utilities >
any items out of /Library/
Startup Disk (again from the menu bar), select your Mac’s hard drive as the
StartupItems, /System/Library/
startup disk, and restart. If that doesn’t work...
StartupItems, and /Users/user
name/Library/StartupItems.
Stash the files somewhere
safe, and reboot normally. If
your Mac works, replace one of
Resetting a Fire(Wire) the items, restart, and repeat
If a device attached to one of your Mac’s FireWire ports stops responding, until your Mac chokes again.
the cure may be a FireWire reset. Disconnect all your FireWire devices, shut There’s your troublesome file.
your Mac down, unplug it, wait for 10 minutes, plug your Mac back in, restart Still not working?
it, and reattach your FireWire devices. Prayer might be helpful, as well.
34 July 2006
See the Light
Testing Time When your Mac won’t start, the LED above the power button may cycle a flashing
pattern to tell you what’s wrong. If the light blinks three times per cycle, one of your
RAM slots is angry; systematically remove your RAM to isolate the problem. If the
Try the Apple Hardware
light blinks two times per cycle, your Mac isn’t sensing any RAM, which probably
Test (AHT). While it’s never
indicates a problem you can’t solve without an Apple Certified Technician.
really helped us with our
problems, it’s never hurt
anything, either. Use the
AHT from the disc that
came with your Mac. If
Sit Tight
you have a newer model, Swap Hard Drives
the AHT is hidden on the Check your RAM and video
main install disc. To access Try mounting your hard drive card to make sure they’re tightly
it, start your Mac while on a different Mac, using inserted. Open your Mac, touch
holding Option to show WiebeTech’s DriveDock the metal frame to ground
a list of available startup ($99.95, www.wiebetech.com) yourself, and unplug the power.
systems; pick AHT as or the second Mac’s internal Push on the RAM modules to
the startup volume. Once connectors. If the drive mounts, make sure they’re not loose.
your Mac starts, follow the run Disk First Aid, and return If you have a Power Mac, also
prompts to a restart. Still the drive to the problem Mac. check your video card: Distribute
just sitting there? Still have troubles? your fingers evenly across the
back edge of the card, and push
straight toward the motherboard
with firm, even pressure. Now it’s
working, right? No?
Zap Some Circuits

Now it’s time to break out one of the oldest troubleshooting
tricks in the book: Zapping the PRAM (parameter RAM),
which stores some of your Mac’s settings and can get Power, Managed
corrupted. Restart while holding the Command, Option, P,
and R keys simultaneously. You’ll hear the chime, and then As a last resort, reset your Mac’s PMU (power-
the Mac will restart again; keep those keys pressed through management unit). Consult your owner’s manual,
at least two chimes. On many Macs, zapping the PRAM this or search for PMU at www.apple.com/support.
way also zaps the NVRAM (nonvolatile RAM), which also
stores some settings. If your problems persist, zap your
Mac’s NVRAM by restarting while holding the Command,
Option, O, and F keys—you’ll see a dark screen with
nothing but text, including a prompt; type reset-nvram,
and press Return. At the next prompt, type reset-all, and
press Return. If this works, your Mac should automatically
Total Time-Out
Before completely giving up, disconnect the power cord
restart, and all will be well. If this doesn’t work...
and anything else plugged into your Mac, and then go
get a beer or otherwise amuse yourself for 15 minutes or
more. Believe it or not, after running through every trick
mentioned in this article, this once brought our 2003-
model-year 1.8GHz Power Mac G5 back to life.
Be Someone Else
After starting up in Safe Mode or from a CD,
open System Preferences > Accounts, click
the lock to authenticate, and then click the Be Clean
plus-sign button to create a new account. Give
the account a name, and check the box labeled When all else fails, reinstall Mac OS X; select Archive And Install
Allow User To Administer This Computer. Now to keep a backup of your old system files—once you’re stable,
shut down and restart normally, but log into you’ll probably want to move them back into your new System
the new account instead of your regular one. folder one by one (until your Mac stops working again).
Delete everything in the old you’s /Users/user
name/Library/Caches folder, move the /Users/
user name/Library/Preferences folder to the
desktop, and restart. Still won’t start up? Niko Coucouvanis still prefers the old shotgun-style, try-every-fix-at-once
approach to troubleshooting—but can’t really recommend it.
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The SilverSATA II (pictured) may seem a bit

simplistic in its design, but therein lies its
beauty: clean, simple, and bold all at once.
Next month, we’ll have reviews of Apple’s
17-inch MacBook Pro notebook, Olympus’s
Evolt E-330 digital SLR camera, Mackie’s
Tracktion 2 music-production app, and more.
38 After Effects 7 visual-effects software

46 B4 II virtual-organ software
50 Boostaroo Revolution iPod amp and audio splitter
42 Cleaner 6.5 batch video encoder
52 DocuPen RC800 scanner
44 EasyShare P880 camera
46 ezSound 2.1 Speaker System iPod speaker stand
41 huey color calibrator
53 Interiors 3.6 interior-design app
50 iPod USB Power Adapter iPod power adapter
43 iWand Presenter slide-show remote control
40 Photoshop Elements 4 image-editing app
49 SilverSATA II RAID array
43 SMK-88 Mac Mini Compact Keyboard keyboard
47 TimePassages Basic Edition astrology software
50 TransPod iPod car adapter
48 Yojimbo 1.1 information organizer
Games
55 Boot Camp Reality Check Intel Mac update
55 Civilization IV tips and tricks
57 Deep Trouble 2 shooter game review
55 Dofus coming soon
56 Quake 4 fps game review
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product. Intel Macs.
July 2006 37
38 REVIEWS
Adobe After Effects 7

IMPROVED VISUAL-EFFECTS SOFTWARE
effects, thanks to Open GL 2.0

support (provided After Effects
supports your Mac’s video card;
check Adobe’s Web site for
more info)—unfortunately, After
Effects is not yet a Universal
application, so expect slower
performance if you have an
Intel-based Mac.
Go pro. If you’re springing for
the $999 Professional Edition,
you’ll get two bonus features.
For starters, After Effects will
render up to 32 bits per channel.
Working with 32-bit imagery in
the old version’s 16-bit mode
meant losing flexibility for color
corrections and other tweaks;
it also risked ugly banding.
With full 32-bit support, After
Effects 7 now qualifies for more-
The new interface looks cool and creates a color-neutral environment so you can focus on your project’s professional compositing work.
visuals without distraction. The only catch is you’ll have to
update your third-party filters.
T he latest version of Adobe After

Effects includes a redesigned
interface, big keyframing improvements,
work as they always have, but the new
and improved graph editor makes it
easier to edit those keyframes. Back
The Pro edition ships with a plug-
in called Timewarp, which lets you
smoothly speed up or slow down the
and top-tier color rendering options that in the old days (version 6.5), you could playback speed of footage and add
give even the pickiest effects artists more work with keyframes in a graph view, but motion-blur effects. It’s a popular
reason to consider After Effects for the job. After Effects displayed each animated feature these days—it made its way
If you’ve used After Effects before, parameter on its own keyframe graph into Autodesk’s Combustion 4
you’ll do a double-take when you launch that you could reveal and hide at will. ( Jun/06, p43), an After
version 7 for the first time—it has a new, This worked fine when you only wanted Effects competitor. Adobe’s rendition
streamlined look. Functionally, all of to futz with a single parameter, but to is straightforward and competent, and
After Effects’ windows and palettes are tweak many parameters at once, you’d some of its basic elements also appear
now docked panels in a single resizable have to fill up your screen with multiple in the standard edition of After Effects.
window, so there’s no unused space in graphs—making it hard to find the one Both editions also sport plenty of
your work environment. You can adjust you wanted—and cross-reference one smaller touches: the ability to export
the panels to your liking; if you want to parameter with another. After Effects to Flash video (FLV), more animation
make the Timeline larger, for example, now displays the keyframes for multiple and behavioral presets, HDV support,
you drag its border to a new position, and parameters on a single graph and uses a integration with Adobe Bridge, and—oh
After Effects shrinks the other windows different colored curve to represent each yes—a product-activation “feature” that
to make room. You can also undock parameter you choose to display. You can keeps you from installing the app on more
any panel and turn it into a floating one easily toggle this graph view on and off than two Macs at once.
(great for moving it to a second display) from the Timeline, and the graph editor The bottom line. With a clean
or combine and separate panels by itself features all the keyframing controls and customizable interface, speed
dragging them into or out of each other. you’ll need built right into the interface. improvements, and a better feature set,
Adobe also overhauled the Timeline’s Version 7 is also noticeably faster Adobe After Effect 7 is an impressive
keyframe graph editor. Keyframes still in applying, previewing, and rendering upgrade.—Helmut Kobler
COMPANY: Adobe REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.3.9 or GOOD NEWS: Efficient and customizable new
CONTACT: 800-833-6687, www.adobe.com later, 512MB RAM, 500MB disk space, interface. Improved keyframe graph editor. Faster.
PRICE: $699 (Standard), Open GL–compatible graphics card BAD NEWS: Internet-based product activation.
$999 (Professional), $199 (upgrade) Upgrade is a little pricey given the new features.
38 July 2006
40 REVIEWS
Photoshop Elements 4
IMAGE-EDITING APP FOR THE MASSES
tasks such as object selection,

Adobe introduced a couple of
Magic tools with this version of
Elements: the Magic Selection
Brush and the Magic Extractor
tool. The Magic Selection Brush
determines selection paths based
on colors, contrast, texture, and
patterns. Theoretically you
can drag a fat brush across the
middle of an object you’d like to
select and then sit back and let
Elements do all the selection work
for you. In ideal situations—say,
when you’d like to select a purple
flower against a green grass
background—the Magic Selection
Brush works like a charm. In
practice, we often found the brush
had a hard time selecting our
intended objects, even after we
attempted to tweak the selection
There’s no sleight of hand with the new Magic Extractor tool. It works wonderfully. by designating foreground and
background areas. Its processing
P hotoshop Elements 4 is Adobe’s

latest venture in the quest for the
consumer-grade-image-editing Holy
when new photos are added. Bridge also
provides a direct link to upload photos for
free online viewing at an Adobe/Kodak
was sluggish, even on a 1.5GHz G4
PowerBook, and when the final selection
failed to match our intentions, we saw
Grail, which lies somewhere between Web site. It also offers a built-in interface to little magic in the process. Fortunately,
the increasingly versatile iPhoto and order prints, books, and calendars. other less-automated selection
Photoshop CS2. Adobe’s efforts have Modes. Elements’ basic interface techniques are still available.
resulted in an elegant balancing act of is essentially unchanged from version The Magic Extractor, on the other
novice-friendly simplicity and full-flavored 3. You can edit in either Quick Fix or hand, was magically delicious. When
Photoshop power. Photoshop Elements Standard Edit modes, the former with we needed to extract a subject from its
4 is replete with advanced Photoshop a much smaller toolbar (only five tools background, the Magic Extractor walked
features, meaning it will be plenty for many are available) and lots of auto-fix us through a simple process of indicating
users and provide a fertile training ground buttons, including Smart Fix, Red Eye foreground and background areas with
for those who eventually want to upgrade. Fix, Lighting, Color, and Sharpening. strategically placed dots, giving us the
One such trickle-down feature that While our results varied in quality when opportunity to fine-tune the selection
shows up in the new Photoshop Elements using the Smart Fix button, the other afterward. Simple and effective, Magic
is Adobe’s powerful file browser, Bridge. quick fixes often did an admirable job of Extractor can save loads of time.
It doesn’t offer the full capabilities of the cleaning up photos. You can view your Elements 4 introduces a few more
CS-level Bridge—Elements users don’t results in a convenient before-and-after important features, including effective
have access to Adobe Stock Photos or side-by-side setup, and the interface automated skin-tone-correction and
scripting, and Version Cue is limited—but makes it easy to accept or reject the Auto red-eye-removal tools, as well as more-
the scaled-down version does provide easy changes, or to tweak them a bit using advanced Camera Raw processing (closer to
access to full-screen slide shows and the sliders. Standard Edit mode, as you the capability offered by Photoshop CS2).
ability to do searches by keywords or other might surmise, provides access to the The bottom line. Photoshop Elements
metadata. You can save search results as full range of tools Elements has to offer. 4 is an important upgrade to a powerful
collections, which update automatically To simplify potentially time-intensive image-editing app.—Michael J. Shapiro
COMPANY: Adobe REQUIREMENTS: G3, Mac GOOD NEWS: Packed with features. New Magic Extractor is way cool.
CONTACT: 800-833-6687, OS 10.3 or later, 256MB RAM, Includes Adobe Bridge.
www.adobe.com 750MB disk space BAD NEWS: No CMYK support. Color management limited to sRGB and
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Cleaner 6.5
PRICEY BATCH VIDEO ENCODER
It’s great that Cleaner adds so many

new formats (even though some of them
aren’t exactly mainstream); that’s why
we were surprised to find Cleaner’s
paltry support for H.264, the sexy,
super-efficient compression codec Apple
introduced in QuickTime 7. Cleaner can
encode to H.264, but it offers no easy-
to-use presets. You have to manually
create your settings from the ground up.
Ouch. Cleaner’s $599 price ignores
the fact that it has some genuine
competition these days. Case in point:
Apple’s Compressor ships free with
new versions of Final Cut or DVD Studio
Pro, and it expertly encodes video into
QuickTime files aimed at DVD, CD-ROM,
the Internet, and mobile devices (with
great support for H.264, by the way).
Compressor doesn’t support QuickTime
competitors such as Real, Windows
Cleaner’s interface is plain and simple—in a good way. Media, or DivX, but for many Mac users,
those formats are irrelevant anyway.
C leaner was once a must-have tool

for working with video on the Mac.
It was a batch-encoding whiz, able to
effects such as noise reduction, gamma
correction, and watermarking.
Autodesk has updated Cleaner
Stiffer competition comes from
Sorenson Squeeze ( May/06,
p50). Squeeze costs $449 and encodes
take raw video and expertly encode it by adding some new video formats, to Flash, QuickTime, and other formats.
to almost any digital format imaginable, including various Kinoma Producer But Squeeze also includes the Sorenson
creating everything from downloadable formats with presets for popular PDAs Video 3 Pro codec, which excels at
versions for the Web to bigger, better and Sony’s PSP gaming handheld (many creating sharp, artifact-free Internet
renditions destined for CD-ROM, DVD, presets use MPEG-4 compression). video. In fact, many of Cleaner’s own
and more. But although the latest There’s a new setting for iPod video, Internet- and CD-ROM-oriented presets
version of Cleaner has been more than several settings for Flash’s FLV and SWF call for using Sorenson 3 video, but they
three years in the making, it offers few formats, the ability to encode video in often produce pixelated, unprofessional
must-have new features—or anything the popular DivX codec, and support for results unless you have the Pro edition
else we can get excited about. Real 10 (in addition to existing support of Sorenson’s codec installed. But
On the bright side, the things we’ve for Windows Media). using the Pro codec with Cleaner costs
always loved about Cleaner are you an extra $299 (on top of Cleaner’s
still there: an easy, intuitive $599); you get it for free in Sorenson’s
batch-encoding interface; lots Compression Suite.
of preset compression settings The bottom line. Nothing supports as
that produce good results right many encoding formats as Cleaner does,
away; and manual control over but you can still get much of Cleaner’s
everything from image size and core functionality for free—or at least
data rates to post-production considerably cheaper. We wish Autodesk
had recognized that by pricing Cleaner
Cleaner can encode your video a couple of hundred dollars cheaper.
into just about any format you Instead, it may have priced Cleaner right
can think of. out of a job.—Helmut Kobler
COMPANY: Autodesk Cleaner 6) GOOD NEWS: Encodes video to many new formats. Same lovable,
CONTACT: 800-440-4198, REQUIREMENTS: G4, Mac OS intuitive interface.
www.autodesk.com 10.3 or later, QuickTime 6.5 or later, BAD NEWS: No presets for H.264 video. MPEG-4 encoding doesn’t
PRICE: $599, $125 (upgrade for 128MB RAM, 35MB disk space work with QuickTime 7.04 (must downgrade to 7.01). Expensive.
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It looks like an
SLR, but it’s not.
The P880 has a built-in
flash, along with a hot shoe
on top of the camera for an
optional external flash, such
as Kodak’s P20 Zoom Flash
($149.95), which can really
light up a room—consider
buying one if you plan on
taking a lot of indoor shots.
Other features include 15
shooting modes, five color
modes, three sharpness
modes, and three contrast
modes. The camera can also
capture QuickTime movies at
30 frames per second at either
640-by-480-pixel or 320-by-
240-pixel resolution. When
it comes time to output your
photos, the P880 connects
to your Mac via USB 2.0; the
camera is also PictBridge and
ImageLink compatible, so you
can skip the Mac and connect
directly to printers that use
those technologies.
Image quality. Unfortunately, the
P880’s images aren’t quite as nice
as its features. Our sample pictures
EasyShare P880
from the P880 showed a significantly
elevated level of noise. As we increased
the ISO of the camera from 100 to
FEATURE-RICH CAMERA 200 to 400 (doing so increases the
sensitivity of the imager), the level of
T he 8-megapixel EasyShare P880 is

a feature-laden camera that delivers
more than you might expect. Though it
cameras, including a hand-operated
5.6x optical zoom lens. While that
doesn’t sound very high-tech, it’s
noise increased as well. At ISO 400,
the noise level reached a crescendo
that would have rivaled a heavy-metal
looks like an SLR camera, it’s not. See actually a lot faster to zoom by hand concert. We shot our best images with
the viewfinder just above the lens? SLR than to zoom with a motor. Kodak also the ISO set to 50.
cameras let you view images through the describes the focal length of the zoom We also would have liked to see
same lens that captures them. The P880, range in terms of 35mm film-based the EasyShare P880 fitted with a
however, uses an electronic viewfinder lenses—the owner’s manual specifies more comfortable handgrip—it’s not
(EVF)—and it’s one of the best ones we’ve the focal length of the lens in 35mm designed for folks with big hands.
seen. Coupled with the large 2.5-inch LCD parlance. And lastly, like several other The bottom line. The P880 does
on the back (clearly visible in daylight), new cameras, the P880 has built-in what it’s supposed to do. If you can
you have no one to blame but yourself if memory—only 32MB of it, but that’s still work within the constraints it places on
you can’t frame your pictures properly. better than nothing. The P880 also uses the photographer, you’ll find plenty of
The P880 has a few unique features SD and MultiMediaCards, and it saves good features for a fairly decent price.
that we’d like to see more often in other its images in RAW, JPEG, or TIFF formats. —Rick Oldano
COMPANY: Kodak REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.2.8 GOOD NEWS: Clear, large LCD. Quick manual zoom.
CONTACT: 888-368-6600, or later BAD NEWS: Noisy images.
www.kodak.com
PRICE: $549.95
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B4 II ezSound
TRUE-SOUNDING VIRTUAL-ORGAN SOFTWARE 2.1 Speaker
Divine sound—
and waaay
System
easier to haul PUNCHY iPOD
to gigs. SPEAKER STAND
belong in B4
II’s interface,
and they can be
L ooking like a newfangled “As Seen
on TV!” supergadget, the ezSound
is a 2.1 speaker set (a pair of midrange
programmed drivers and a mini subwoofer) for your
to respond to iPod. It’s highly portable and actually
MIDI-controller sounds good for such a small package.
values. Native The ezSound measures 4 by 5.25
Instruments by 1.63 inches and weighs 10 ounces,
also offers not including the power adapter. It
the ultimate can run on four AAA batteries, and
T he sound of the venerable Hammond

B3 organ is familiar to anyone who’s
listened to popular music in the last
hardware accessory, the B4D Drawbar
Controller ($339; $449 when bundled
with B4 II), which sports real drawbars
you can connect it to your Mac via
USB or FireWire to sync your iPod.
The connector atop the ezSound fits
40 years. From R&B and gospel to the and other controls specifically designed dockable iPods; if you have an iPod
strains of Jimmy Smith and Emerson, for B4 II. We tested B4 II in GarageBand shuffle (or any other MP3 or CD player),
Lake, and Palmer, the sonic weight of and Ableton Live, and it displayed low you can use the audio-in jack located at
the B3 still packs a punch—as does the latency and perfect stability. We won’t the back of the ezSound.
physical weight of this monstrous beast. hesitate to use it for live performances. The built-in subwoofer provides some
Native Instruments’ B4 II is the most For this version, Native Instruments punchy, though not earthshaking, bass.
accurate, pleasing software version of added a beefed-up tube-emulation The two front speakers do a respectable
an actual B3 that we’ve ever heard, and feature that lets you overdrive the sound job of handling highs; they deliver
it weighs in at hundreds of pounds less for that perfect organic recreation of the distortion-free sound, even if the
than the real McCoy. dirtiest Deep Purple “Hush” snarl. For volume is somewhat low. We wish we
Delivered as a standalone app or vintage-keyboard geeks, the B4 II also could pump up the sound a few notches
as an Audio Units and VST packs in some nice simulations to really fill a room.
plugin, B4 II is a snap to of other classic keyboards, The bottom line. The ezSound is
install and a joy to play. Unlike including the Farfisa and Vox an easy way to air out your tunes.
many other software synths, Continental—very useful in —Gil Loyola
B4 II is designed to do one a retro-music setting. The
thing and do it exceptionally much-improved Leslie rotating-
well—emulate the sound of the speaker code (an essential
original instrument. The aural Hammond’s B3 part of the B3 mystique) and
authenticity is nothing short organ: much heavier a decent variety of virtual
of amazing—it’s eerily close to than a ’Book. speaker cabinets round out the
actual B3s that we’ve played, tonal-tweaking possibilities.
with all the features of the real thing The bottom line. The B4 II is darned
and then some, including 120 presets close to being the perfect plug-in for
that show off the range of the B3. The creating the next classic-rock or R&B It’s small,
tone-changing drawbars from the real hit. It easily earns its Editors’ Choice but it sounds good.
hardware are placed right where they award.—David Biedny
COMPANY: ezGear REQUIREMENTS:
COMPANY: Native Instruments REQUIREMENTS: 733MHz G4, Mac OS 10.3 or later, CONTACT: iPod mini, iPod nano,
CONTACT: 866-556-6487, 256MB RAM 800-780-4763, or third-generation or
www.native-instruments.com www.ezgear4u.com later iPod
PRICE: $229, $99 (upgrade) PRICE: $79.98
GOOD NEWS: Excellent Hammond B3 sound. Low latency. GOOD NEWS: Portable.
Gritty overdrive. Offers good sound quality
BAD NEWS: Nothing significant. for its size.
BAD NEWS: Weak volume.
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Yojimbo 1.1
FRIENDLY INFORMATION ORGANIZER
disappoint. You can drag any text file or

URL into the Yojimbo window (or onto
its Dock icon) and the app creates a new
Note or Bookmark item, respectively. If
you want Yojimbo to capture the contents
of a document from another app, just
print the document; in the PDF pop-up
menu in that app’s Print dialog, you’ll
find a new Save PDF In Yojimbo option.
Yojimbo has other innovative input
methods, including the Drop Dock, a
translucent tab on the edge of your
screen that expands when you drag
anything over it, allowing you to drop
the item into your Library. You can also
copy content to the clipboard and use a
hotkey to bring up the Quick Input panel,
which guesses what sort of item you want
to create and autofills the data into the
panel. If you want that content to be of a
different type, just click or use a keyboard
shortcut to switch types. Two drawbacks:
Yojimbo must be running to capture info,
and it doesn’t allow you to grab text by
selecting it and using a Contextual Menu.
All of your info is immediately at hand in Yojimbo. StickyBrain has neither limitation.
For security, any Note, Password,
T he Mac’s organizational tools—

Address Book, iCal, and even
Spotlight—are nice, but they can’t help
Collections pane contains the Library
(which includes all items), custom
folders you create for your snippets, and
or Archive item can be individually
encrypted, and if you use Yojimbo
on multiple Macs, you can sync your
you store and retrieve those little bits Smart Collections that gather each of database via .Mac. The first time
of information that crop up throughout Yojimbo’s five information types. You you sync, all data must be copied;
your day, such as URLs of interesting can store Notes, which can be any plain subsequent syncs go relatively quickly,
Web sites, serial numbers for software, or rich text; Archives, which can be PDFs since Yojimbo only copies changed
recipes, passwords, PDF files, and or Web archives (snapshots of any Web items. Data you put into Yojimbo hasn’t
pictures of pets wearing funny outfits. page); Bookmarks, which store URLs taken a one-way trip; it’s easy to export
You need an electronic shoebox for all of Web pages; Passwords, which save information as RTF, PDF, or Web archive
these info nuggets; Yojimbo is Bare online or offline passwords; and Serial files, depending on the original item.
Bones Software’s new entry into this Numbers, which are set up for software The bottom line. In the crowd of
increasingly crowded field, joining serial numbers but could easily be used information organizers, Yojimbo stands
established apps such as Chronos’s for hardware. Unfortunately, you can’t out because of how effortless it is.
StickyBrain ($39.95, www.chronosnet create your own Smart Collections. Yojimbo is easier to use than most of
.com), Circus Ponies’ Notebook ($49.95, Selecting a Collection shows its items its competition, and it doesn’t bog
www.circusponies.com), and Inventive’s in the List pane, and clicking an item in you down with tons of features or a
iClip ($19.95, http://inventive.us). the list displays its contents in—where tough learning curve. If you need more
Yojimbo’s three- else?—the Content pane below. features, you should look elsewhere,
ON THE pane view makes it Easy filing. A key aspect of a snippet but if all you want to do is capture your
DISC easy to organize and manager is how easy it is to plop stuff and get back to work, Yojimbo is for
Yojimbo
see information. The information into it, and Yojimbo doesn’t you.—Tom Negrino
COMPANY: Bare Bones Software REQUIREMENTS: GOOD NEWS: Multiple easy ways to input information. Sleek
CONTACT: 781-687-0700, Mac OS 10.4.3 or later interface. Good .Mac syncing.
www.barebones.com BAD NEWS: No user-definable Smart Collections. App must be
PRICE: $39 (single user), $69 (five users) running to capture data.
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50 REVIEWS
Boostaroo Revolution
BOOMIN’ iPOD AMP AND AUDIO SPLITTER
M om always told us to share, but

she also taught us to look out for
number one. That’s why we dig UpBeat
standard headphone/iPod connection.
The company touts interpolated “three-
channel surround sound;” we couldn’t
This device lets you share the music
and pump up the volume.
Audio’s Boostaroo Revolution, despite pinpoint all three channels, but we did at high volume.
its goofy moniker and jumbo price tag. appreciate the improved sound. The company
As the name almost implies, this thing Boostaroo’s performs well as an warns that the
amplifies the volume of any audio input amplifier. Our decibel meter is on the fritz, Boostaroo’s jacked-up signal will likely
and splits the signal to two 1/8-inch but our bleeding ears bear witness to the overdrive ’phones or speakers rated lower
audio jacks, allowing two headphone augmentation—UpBeat Audio says it’s up than Apple’s 32-ohm earbuds (although
users to rock out together—at potentially to a four-times increase, and we believe in our testing, Apple’s ’buds held up
ear-damaging volume. it. Consider yourself warned. If two people adequately until we cranked the sound
Audio splitters come in many flavors, are listening at once, they’d better have up to a painful level).
some of which channel a single stereo similar volume preferences, since the The bottom line. The Boostaroo isn’t
signal into two distinct stereo signals, Boostaroo offers no volume control of its for everybody, but if you frequently
and some of which merely divide the own. Aside from potential ear damage, the share your music or find your $300
signal. Boostaroo does the former, downside to this powerful amplification is Sennheisers don’t get enough signal
providing a split stereo signal that’s at that the lower the quality of your ’phones from your ’Pod, give yourself a
least double the volume you get from the or speakers, the more your music distorts Boostaroo.—Niko Coucouvanis
COMPANY: UpBeat Audio REQUIREMENTS: iPod or other GOOD NEWS: Makes iPod sharable—and crazy loud.
CONTACT: 616-837-9500, audio source, headphones or BAD NEWS: Might blow out your eardrums if you’re not careful.
www.upbeataudio.com speakers with 1/8-inch audio jack Expensive.
PRICE: $79.95
iPod USB TransPod

Power Adapter IDEAL iPOD CAR ADAPTER
STRAIGHTFORWARD iPOD POWER ADAPTER

T he TransPod might be the perfect iPod
car adapter. It’s well constructed, uses
B onnet’s iPod USB Power Adapter is just what you need if what
you need is an iPod power adapter. It’s small, lightweight,
comes in black or white, and looks pretty
any FM frequency, allows FM presets, is
compatible with any dockable iPod, and
charges your ’Pod battery. Plus, the signal
sleek. It has a retractable power plug so it transmits to your car radio is solid—we
you don’t have to worry about getting were able to use more than a dozen FM
poked in the leg if you carry it in your frequencies, all with excellent clarity.
pocket, and it comes bundled with There’s even an arm extender for the
a USB-to-dock connector cable. TransPod, which we needed for use
Even shuffle owners can get into in our 2005 Mazda6’s 12-volt socket,
the act by plugging in directly to which is located close to the gearshift.
the adapter’s USB port. Without the extender, the TransPod The TransPod is the iPod
The bottom line. Plug it in, and it gets in the way; with the extender, car adapter we’ve been
works. Could it be any simpler? everything fits fine. Your car, of looking for all our lives.
—Gil Loyola course, may be different.
The bottom line. The TransPod is one of the better—maybe
Simple but effective. the best—iPod car adapters we’ve used.—Roman Loyola
COMPANY: Sonnet Technologies REQUIREMENTS: Fourth- COMPANY: DLO PRICE: $99.99

CONTACT: 949-587-3500, www.sonnettech.com generation or later iPod, iPod mini, CONTACT: 866-800-4763, REQUIREMENTS: Any dockable iPod
PRICE: $19.95 iPod nano, or iPod shuffle www.dlo.com
GOOD NEWS: Cinch to use. Pocket-sized. GOOD NEWS: Uses any FM frequency. Charges
BAD NEWS: Nothing, really. ’Pod battery. Sturdy.
BAD NEWS: Can obstruct items near 12-volt
socket. Pricey.
50 July 2006
52 REVIEWS
DocuPen RC800
FICKLE LITTLE SCANNER
A side from starting conversations

due to its high novelty factor and
lightening your wallet by three c-notes,
For starters, the included OCR apps
(PaperPort and Abbyy FineReader) don’t
work with Macs—but the way-expensive,
Using the RC800 is
easy, assuming you
have a steady hand and a
what’s the DocuPen RC800 good for? sold-separately OmniPage ($499, www flat surface—just swipe the
This scanner’s stats look terrific on .nuance.com) does. When we tried DocuPen over your document
paper: built-in rechargeable battery; piping a scan directly into Word, all with a smooth, steady stroke.
8MB of internal memory with a microSD we got was Mac OS X’s spinning As for the device itself, it has a
slot for more; 24-bit-color support with beach ball of doom. We used flimsy plastic casing and wiggly
12-bit-color, grayscale, and monotone the included PenScanner USB connection. When you attach the
modes; included OCR software (more Control software to retrieve RC800 to your Mac, the pen’s software
on that in a moment); compatibility with and save our scans, and repeatedly commands you to press
common TWAIN-compliant apps such as then opened the files in the scanner’s power button. When you
Word and Photoshop; and a claimed top Microsoft Word. finally get your scans out, they barely
speed of four seconds to scan a letter- Those software It’s look good enough to justify the effort.
size page. In reality, though, the RC800 faults don’t stealthy The bottom line. The RC800’s scan
is a bit less terrific. detract from and scans quality is, as they say, good enough for
Our main beef with the RC800 is that, the RC800’s OK, but government work—but we’ll stick with
like the DocuPen R700 ( Jan/06, main draw: BYO OCR the cheaper, non-color R700 model.
p47), Mac support is an afterthought. portability. software. —Niko Coucouvanis
COMPANY: Planon REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS X or GOOD NEWS: Works better than you might expect. Totally
CONTACT: 866-228-9132, later, TWAIN-compliant software portable.
www.planon.com (such as Photoshop, Word, or BAD NEWS: Janky software and hardware. Included OCR apps
PRICE: $299.99 Acrobat) not Mac-compatible. Expensive.
iPod Showcase
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53
Interiors 3.6
ENABLING INTERIOR-DESIGN APP
I nteriors will appeal to the serious

home do-it-yourselfers out there. It lets
you create 3D versions of rooms in your
palettes. All palettes orbit
around the central window, and
you click and use tools to build
home, so you can visualize and plan your the 3D rendering, change the
remodeling projects. The catch is that it view, or introduce elements. You
may take you a little while to fully grasp can make a QuickTime video
Interiors’ controls. walkthrough of your room by
Interiors lets you design virtual rooms simply plotting a camera path
or whole homes from scratch, using on a room map. The included
your own measurements or the included QuickTime demo videos and PDF
templates. You simply drag and drop to training guides are quite helpful. We see the perfect spot for our black-velvet Elvis painting.
place furniture, windows, doors, and If you’re a serious designer,
colors. The graphical quality isn’t high you’ll need to color-calibrate your display or room fixture, Interiors doesn’t have
enough to use for final design plans, but to ensure accuracy. Our eggshell-blue any features for creating custom pieces.
it’s perfectly fine for preliminary plans or tiles came out just shy of navy on the However, Microspot offers downloadable
homeowners who want to brainstorm. prints—that’s just too Mediterranean libraries on its Web site.
Interiors’ interface can be a bit for us. The Interiors library includes The bottom line. Interiors can actually
overwhelming, especially if you’re not over 1,000 room accessories, but if you be useful and fun—once you learn how to
used to apps with multiple settings want to add a specific piece of furniture use it.—James Ellerbeck
COMPANY: Microspot REQUIREMENTS: 450MHz G3, GOOD NEWS: Fun. Cool animation features.
CONTACT: 561-395-9996, Mac OS 10.2 or later, 128MB RAM, BAD NEWS: Steep learning curve. No tools for creating
www.microspot.com 520MB disk space custom room accessories.
PRICE: $129, $49 (upgrade)
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GAMES
INTEL MAC UPDATE
because you play as hard as you work
57
Boot Camp
Reality Check
The lives of Mac gamers changed forever when Apple released
Boot Camp, the software that allows you to boot Windows
XP (and play its enormous game library) on your Intel-based
Mac—but how many megatons was this Boot Camp bomb?
To use Boot Camp to play Half-Life 2, for example, you’d have
to buy Windows XP (which lists for $199 for the Home Edition
and $299 for Professional, though you can often buy either
for less). You then need to install XP on the Intel-powered
iMac or MacBook Pro you recently bought—a considerable
amount of cash, especially if you already have an otherwise
perfectly capable PowerPC-based Mac in the house.
Boot Camp represents the end of an era (RIP, PPC), but it’ll
be a while before we see any tangible effects on the game
industry, as owners of late-model G4 and G5 Macs slowly
upgrade to Intel-powered Macs, and big game companies
figure out if Mac-addicted hardcore gamers are willing to
boot into Windows. But some game developers such as
Ambrosia, Freeverse, and Pangea are still devoted to the
Mac cause—so there’ll still be Mac-only games for a long To play the upcoming Half-Life 2: Episode One on your
time to come.—Matt Osborn Mac, you’ll have to plunk down a serious amount of cash.
“I knew we should’ve taken

T I P S A N D T R I C KS
the Lincoln Tunnel,
not the GW!”
Civilization IV
Civilization IV, coming to the Mac
in June, is complex and tough
to master—your first few turns
are crucial to your success. The
COMING SOON following tips could mean the
No, Not “Doofus” difference between that first

footprint on the moon and the First city settled. Check. Now
Time you whip out your Flash-equipped browser—French utter demise of society.—MO on to the rest of the world.
developer Ankama Studio (www.ankama-studio.com) is hard
at work again on Dofus, its anime-styled massively multiplayer ■ If you start on an island, seize enough, set your workers to
online tactical fantasy role-playing game (ASMMOTFRPG?). In the entire island early in the chopping to get a city built.
June, the company plans to release an upgrade called Riders of ages, and then build up your ■ Build a barracks and some
the Dragoturkey, which adds mounts, more items, new beasties, technology (Astronomy), archer units to guard your
breeding professions, communication tweaks, and trading warriors (Samurai), and sea city. Promote the units with
between players. Ankama is already publicly testing Dofus- transport (Galleons). a City Garrison.
Arena, which uses the same battle system as its big brother, but ■ Settle a city as soon as you ■ Save your Great Engineer for
has players pitting a whole team of heroes against other players’ can and as close to a farmable building a world wonder in
teams. Dofus is free, but you can unlock more goodies and resource as possible. record time.
capabilities for a subscription fee (¤5 per month, or $6.21 at ■ Quickly create two workers ■ Keep your citizens happy by
press time). Ankama has another Flash-based MMORPG in the and one settler, or you’ll be urban growth and by building
works for late 2007: Wakfu, in which you build up your magic, playing catch-up later. Aqueducts, Coliseums,
engineering, and martial-arts skills, then team up with other ■ Be the first to farm a nearby temples, wonders, and other
players to build cities and defend them from attackers.—MO resource. If you can’t get close people-pleasing structures.
July 2006 55
56 GAMES
because you play as hard as you work
Never ever tell a cybernetic beast his legs

look like Martian toothpicks.
machine guns and missiles. Unfortunately,

the vehicles only appear a few times in the
game—and not at all in multiplayer mode.
Teamwork. Quake 4 has some basic
squad-based missions in which you
follow computer-controlled Marines
while watching your friendly fire. Your
AI squadies do a good job of distracting
enemies and staying out of your way. The
Medic and Techie give you free health
and armor, as well, but they all run ahead
to your next linearly scripted objective
and wait for you to catch up while you
look for hidden goodies, quashing any
feeling of being the ranking soldier. If
Quake 4 allowed you more control over
your squadmates, it would stand out from
other standard shooters with squadrons.
Quake 4 has the strongest story-driven
single-player game of all the Quake and
Doom series (which isn’t saying a whole
lot), but most gamers are into Quake for
Quake 4 the online multiplayer mode. The online

gameplay is reminiscent of Quake III: Arena,
with a 16-player-per-map limit and standard
EARTH-SHAKING FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER deathmatch, team deathmatch, tourney,
Q uake 4 picks up mere seconds after

Quake II (no, we didn’t miscount—
the multiplayer-only Quake III: Arena
environments are more open, and it doesn’t
hide its textures in darkness. Your main
weapons are your trusty infinite-ammo
and capture-the-flag modes. Add Arena
setting to those modes, and you get speed,
double-damage, and other power-ups all
wasn’t part of the Quake storyline). pistol and machine gun, and both sport over the map. Quake 4 features in-game
You play as Matthew Kane, a soldier in a technological breakthrough: a barrel- cross-platform multiplayer support, so
an invasion force that breaks through fixed flashlight (something Doom 3 sorely you can frag peecee gamers yet again. Mac
the hole in the defenses of humanity’s lacked). Other classic Quake weapons gamers can even host their own online
greatest interstellar enemy, the Strogg. include your trusty shotgun, HyperBlaster, games—imagine not waiting for a Quake
It’s up to you to take down remaining grenade launcher, rocket launcher, rail 4 server to open up! Too bad the vehicles
enemy munitions, penetrate the heart of gun, and nail gun (the Strogg gatling gun). don’t show up in multiplayer mode.
the Strogg empire, and teach your alien The new Dark Matter Gun can shoot a Quake 4 demands more resources
adversaries that two can play at genocide. sphere of dark energy, causing plenty of than Doom 3, but offers more bang for
Quake 4 has the same production splash damage. The only things missing the buck—and if you’re playing on an
values, run-and-gun gameplay, graphic from your arsenal are secondary functions Intel-based Mac, you’re in luck: Quake 4
nature, and game engine as Doom 3 on firearms and grenades to bounce off is a Universal app.
( Jun/05, p48)—but Quake walls. Quake 4 also offers some vehicular The bottom line. Quake 4 is a must-
4 looks more impressive, because its combat: The nimble hover tank fires a have for gamers looking for traditional
heavy cannon and first-person shooter action.—MO
carries defensive
machine guns,
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GeForce 6600 or better, 3GB disk space, DVD drive
robotic walker
sports heavy GOOD NEWS: Awesome graphics. Fun single-player
mode. Great Quake III: Arena–inspired multiplayer mode.
BAD NEWS: No vehicles in multiplayer mode. Basic
Intergalactic guns. Haven’t we done this before?
tollbooth workers
RATED
demand exact
change.
GREAT
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because inquiring minds have the right to be inspired
Desktop ($299 to in a vacuum. The moral: Back up your

ON THE
control 10 Macs, $499 backups every year or two.
DISC to control unlimited
OSXvnc
Chicken of the VNC Macs, www.apple DOCK DIMMER
.com) or pcAnywhere Is there a way to have the Dock show
($200, www.symantec.com). For the rest which of my running apps are hidden?
of us, there’s the free, open-source VNC Yup. It involves a trip to the Terminal
(Virtual Network Computing) technology, (/Applications/Utilities) to type
which uses a client/server setup. First defaults write com.apple.dock
you need to install a VNC server, such showhidden -boolean true. Press
as Redstone Software’s OSXvnc (free, Return to seal the deal, and then log out
on the Disc, www.redstonesoftware (Apple Menu > Log Out user name) and
.com/vnc.html) on all of the Macs you log back in (or restart your Mac). From
REMOTE CONTROL want to remotely control, and install a now on, when you hide an application
Is there any way I can use my Mac to VNC client application on any Mac you (Finder > Hide Finder, for example),
remotely control the other Macs on want to be able to access the others. its Dock icon goes dim. To undo this
my home network? Chicken of the VNC (free, on the Disc, dimming, repeat the process, changing
You can access the files on all the Macs http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc) the last word of the Terminal command
on your home network via System is our favorite client; it uses Bonjour to from true to false.
Preferences > File Sharing—useful, but sniff out local VNC servers. Oh, and we
not nearly as useful as having full remote really like the name.
control of those Macs. If you have cash
to burn, you can use Apple Remote CD-R MTBF Make your hidden apps appear more hidden.
I just read that commercial CD-R discs
will not last more than two to five years BUILD YER OWN
after they’ve been burned. Is this true? With Apple’s switch to Intel chips, am
Hard drives are expected to fail I now able to build my own Mac, just as
after a certain amount of use—most PC users always seem to be doing?
manufacturers specify a drive’s Theoretically, you could scavenge a G5
expected MTBF (mean time between motherboard, case, and power supply;
failures) to give you a general idea of stick in a compatible video card, hard
when the drive might flatline. CD-Rs, drive, and RAM; and
however, aren’t as predictable. We’ve maybe get it all wired
got stacks of discs from 1997 that still up correctly (don’t
work fine, and a scratched one from forget the temperature
last week that doesn’t. CD-R technology sensors!). But if you’re
is relatively new, so there’s no way to looking to MacGyver
know for sure how long discs will last. a Mac OS X–capable
We used Chicken of the VNC on one Mac Chemically speaking, the materials that machine out of parts
to connect to OSXvnc on a different Mac make up a CD won’t start breaking down You are not from the peecee
(named Across The Road). for 75 years—if you keep your discs MacGyver. discount bin: no.
Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar), Mac OS 10.3 CHAT PARTY

(Panther), Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), and the I use iChat to message with my friends.
forthcoming Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard—or Is there a way to enable iChat to have
Holstein, should Apple switch from tabbed windows like Safari does?
feline to bovine nomenclature).
MONDO CLASSICO
KITTY, KITTY Is it true that the Intel-based Macs
I am embarrassed to say that I can’t won’t run OS 9 in Classic mode?
remember the codenames for the Apple symbolically killed Mac OS 9 by
different versions of Mac OS X. Can ceasing its development a couple of
you refresh me? years ago, but the Intel Macs mark the
The parade of big-cat-named Mac OS practical end of OS 9—they can’t even
X releases proceeds thusly: Mac OS launch Classic mode. Sounds like a good More than just a fun name to say, Chax
10.0 (Cheetah), Mac OS 10.1 (Puma), reason to keep that old Mac around. adds all kinds of options to iChat.
52
58 August
July 2006
2005
DIFFICULTY No whining—
anyone
It’ll take some
effort, but you
This stuff’s
for the pros.
HOW TO
59
RATINGS can do this! can do it.
TUNES MENU
I really dig iTunes’ little floating control UNIX UNIVERSITY
window, but is there a way to lock it into
the menu bar? WHAT IS PING?
We love Mac OS X’s Menu Extras; these Ping was created by the late Mike
mini menus live in the right-hand side Muuss in December of 1983 as a quick
of the top menu bar and provide instant tool to help him understand some odd
access to useful items such as your behavior on his network. Nowadays,
Mac’s volume and display settings, ping has been ported to just about every
Bluetooth and AirPort status, and computer operating system. Pinging
more. Apple doesn’t provide a Menu a server is like putting your finger on
Extra for iTunes, but Dustin Bachrach’s a person’s pulse—it’ll tell you if the
QuickTunes does (freeware, on the machine is online and powered up, but
Disc, www.dbachrach.com/opensoft). it can’t tell you if specific services (such Above: Ping sends 64-byte packets of data
Simply double-click the QuickTunes as a Web server or email server) are to IP 17.254.3.183. The packets make the
icon to install the Menu Extra—and functioning. Some folks think that ping roundtrip in about 80 milliseconds.
don’t forget to look in /System/Library/ stands for “Packet InterNet Grouper,”
CoreServices/Menu but Mike claimed it was named for the Ping returns simple information:
ON THE Extras for more sound of a sonar ping. To use ping, mainly, the time in milliseconds it took
DISC of these handy launch the Terminal (/Applications/ your ping to make a round trip to the
QuickTunes
menuettes. Utilities), type ping apple.com (or server and back. If the server isn’t
ping 17.254.3.183—you can use available, you’ll simply see a message
canonical names and IP addresses that the host is down. Mike Muuss wrote
interchangeably), and then press Return an extensive history of ping—check it out
to see if apple.com is available. at http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html.
your kids’ user accounts on the Mac.

Creating separate user accounts for
every family member gives everyone
his or her own Mac—or at least a
personal desktop, Mail account, set of
Safari bookmarks, and other personal
Rock iTunes from the menu bar. documents. To set up additional user
accounts, open System Preferences >
THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Accounts, click the lock icon, supply
Can I password-protect the Internet an administrator’s password to
somehow? My kids are getting to authenticate, and then click the plus
“that age.” sign to add a user. Leave the Allow Childproofing your Mac is a Very Good Idea.
We’ll go you one better: Password- User To Administer This Computer box
protect your kids instead, or at least unchecked, and click the Parental Controls tab. Mark the apps you want to
restrict, click the Configure button, and
follow the directions to specify what the
Download the utility sizes, and better transparency options kids can do (Web sites they’re allowed
ON THE
DISC Chax (donationware, (by both single pixel value and alpha to visit, for example). This only works
on the Disc, www channel, smarty). if you remember to log out of your own
Chax
.ksuther.com/chax) account and make sure the kids use only
and follow its included instructions to UP WHERE? their restricted accounts.
turn iChat into a tabbed, multi-chat- My Back and Forward arrows vanished
Buz Zoller is a graphic designer living
supportin’ chatitorium. from Safari—can I get them back?
in Florida. He has been a devoted Mac
Select View > Customize Address user for over 10 years and has worked for
WTF IS PNG? Bar. From the resulting dialog, drag both Apple and Power Computing.
What’s a PNG file? the arrow set—along with any other
Submit
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is goodies you desire—into Safari’s technical questions
the new GIF (Graphics Interchange Address Bar. Or make like the cool or helpful tips directly
Format)—in other words, a standard kids and press Command–right arrow via email (askus@macaddict.com) or c/o
format for Web images. Compared to and Command–left arrow on your MacAddict, 4000 Shoreline Ct., Ste. 400,
South San Francisco, CA 94080.
GIF, PNG boasts more colors, smaller file keyboard.
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60 HOW TO
infect your Mac with Windows XP
Infect Your Mac with Windows XP

By Niko Coucouvanis
F
irst it was Intel inside. Now
you can run Windows XP on
your iMac’s desktop—the
world really has gone mad.
And like rubberneckers at a car crash,
we couldn’t help but look and see ON THE
what all the fuss is about. So read on DISC
for two ways to get Windows on your Parallels Workstation
2.1.1812.7 beta
Mac—one officially sanctioned by Apple,
and another that makes use of the Until recently,
Virtualization Technology hidden inside getting Windows
your Intel-based Mac. Keep in mind running on a
that the apps required for both of these Mac was nigh on
methods are still beta products, so don’t impossible. Now
be surprised if you run into hitches. And there are two
come back next month for advice on how options, with more
to secure Windows XP against viruses, on the way.
spyware, and other such scariness.
Boot Camp for Dual Booters
D 1
ual booting is a fancy term for Get Current
splitting your hard drive into First, get your Mac up to date: Fire up Software Update (Apple Menu > Software
two bootable volumes, each Update), and install the Mac OS 10.4.6 update (for Intel Macs, duh)—a honkin’
with its own operating system. We 163MB download on our Mac mini. But wait, there’s more—
Mac addicts have been dual booting going dual also requires a firmware update. Go to www
for years with different versions of .apple.com/support/downloads, and find the latest firmware
the Mac OS. And now, thanks to the for your mini, iMac, or MacBook Pro (version 1.0.1 at press
magic of Apple’s own Boot Camp, you time). Follow the installation
can add Windows XP to the mix. Dual instructions that come with the Dual booting is not a trivial
booting requires you to reboot your firmware. Now would be a good pursuit. It involves an 83MB
Mac to switch between Mac OS X and time to back up everything on download, hundreds of dollars
Windows—Parallels doesn’t (see “Put your Mac. (And there’s still time worth of bloatware (Windows
Windows in a Window,” p62). to turn back, by the way.) XP), and disk repartitioning.
2
WHAT YOU NEED Hunt and Gather
You need a few more items before attempting this travesty. First, find a single-
MacBook Pro or disc copy of Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 (SP2)—they
Intel-based Mac mini or iMac list for $199 and $299, respectively, but we
($599 to $2,799, www.apple.com) found them at CompUSA for $99 and $199.
Mac OS 10.4.6 or later If you’re just doing this on a lark and don’t
($129, www.apple.com) plan on keeping XP around, you can install it
Boot Camp Assistant from a borrowed disc and use it for 30 days
(free, www.apple.com/macosx/ before the built-in Windows-activation police
bootcamp) disable Windows XP. If you’re concerned
Single-disc version of Windows with performance, know that XP Professional
XP Home or Professional with supports multiple-core processors—XP
Service Pack 2 ($199 to $299, Home doesn’t. Next, proceed to Apple’s
www.microsoft.com) Boot Camp site (www.apple.com/macosx/
Your head examined bootcamp) to download and install the free Other than facing Windows, downloading
Boot Camp Assistant—an 83MB package. Boot Camp Assistant is the toughest part.
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Do It to It
Still here? OK, let’s defile your Mac. Double-click the Boot Camp Assistant icon
(/Applications/Utilities), and follow the onscreen prompts as the Assistant does
everything for you. First, it burns a disc of drivers you’ll need to install into Windows later;
just insert a blank disc when prompted, and click OK. The Assistant will ask how much of your
available disk space you want to dedicate to the Windows OS (the default 5GB leaves about
1GB of free space on the Windows volume—plenty until you discover Kazaa). With your driver
disc at the ready, insert a Windows XP installation disc, and click Start Installation. Boot Camp Assistant does all the work.
4
Boot Camp Caveats
During the Windows installation, make sure you install on the C: partition—
otherwise, you’ll destroy the Mac OS partition, leaving you with a Windows-only
iMac. Wipe that ugly image from your mind, and follow these tips to get through safely:
EMERGENCY EJECT After you install Windows but before you install the drivers, your
Mac’s Eject key probably won’t work. To eject the Windows XP install disc, go to Start >
My Computer, find the optical-drive icon (labeled D:), Control-click it, and select Eject
from the pop-up menu.
WEASELY WARNINGS If the driver installation grinds to a halt, check the Taskbar at
the bottom of the screen for alerts that are hidden behind the main installer window.
Windows throws up these errors for every driver that’s not certified by Microsoft—just
press OK to dismiss them.
ESCAPE HATCH Hang on to your Boot Camp Assistant app—it can cleanse Windows XP Your Mac’s Eject key probably won’t work at
from your Mac just as easily as it infected it. first: Here’s how the other half lives.
Put Windows in a Window
D 1
ual booting is fine, Hospitality 101
but the cool kids are Virtualization is a whole different animal than Boot
into virtualization— Camp–based dual booting. Rather than installing
installing special software Windows directly in its own volume or partition, you install
that lets you create a virtual Windows in your Mac’s regular boot volume. In Parallels’
machine inside your Mac, with terms, Mac OS X is the Host or Primary OS,
no need to reboot each time and whatever version of Windows you install Parallels
you want to switch OSes. How is the Guest OS. You can even install multiple Workstation
is this possible, you ask? The Guest OSes, including Red Hat Linux and all treats your
Intel chips inside the latest strains of Windows back to 3.1. We’re using Mac as the
Macs include technology that a beta version of Workstation here, but the Host OS and
supports hardware-based final should be out by the time you read this, Windows as
virtualization rather than so check www.parallels.com for an update. the Guest.
regular ol’ software emulation.
2
Make the Virtual Machine
WHAT YOU NEED Click New VM (virtual machine)
and follow the onscreen prompts
MacBook Pro or Intel- to specify the type of VM (start with the
based Mac mini or iMac default, Typical; you can always experiment
($599 to $2,799, later), your OS type, and version. The final
www.apple.com) screen specifies the name of your VM and
Mac OS 10.4.4 or later its configuration file—when you click Finish,
($129, www.apple.com) Parallels creates the file and any necessary It’s not free like Boot Camp, but the $50 price tag is
Parallels Workstation directories for you. nothing if you really need to use Windows.
2.1.x ($50 after beta Now click Parallels’ Edit button to tweak
period ends, on the Disc, the VM’s configuration: All of the default settings worked fine for us, but if you’ve got RAM to spare,
www.parallels.com) click Memory to give the VM more than its default 256MB. By default, Parallels expects to use your
Windows 3.1 or later physical CD/DVD drive—but if you’re installing Windows from a disk image, go to the CD/DVD-ROM
Your head examined
section, and click the Use Image File radio button (and yes, stealing Windows XP counts as pirating
software, so we’re duty-bound to tell you not to do it). You can always edit this file later, but for
now, click OK to create the configuration file and return to the main Parallels Workstation interface.
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64 HOW TO
Be More Productive
with Microsoft Word
By Cathy Lu
WHAT YOU NEED

Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac ($399, part of Office 2004 for Mac,
www.microsoft.com/mac)
Mac OS 10.2.8 or later
M
icrosoft Word has long been bemoaned for its crowded
interface, bloated menus, and hidden settings—but we
continue to use it, simply because it’s the most powerful
and universal word processor available. Luckily, there are
ways to minimize the pain. We’ve uncovered some secret shortcuts and
hidden features that will let you do wonders with Word—or, at the very
least, lessen the amount of time and energy you spend wrestling with it.
Do It Faster
■ If, like us, you spend most of your working day mucking about in Microsoft Word,
then you’ll want to shorten the amount of time it takes you to access and accomplish
common tasks. Here’s how.
1
Cut Short
Everyone and their mother (except maybe ours) knows common keyboard shortcuts like
Command-S for Save and Command-C for Copy. But there are other useful shortcuts,
some of which may not be as well known. For example, Command-5 creates 1.5-line spacing. To
find out about more hidden shortcuts,
check out Office Help (Help > Word If there’s a command you use all the time, look up
Help), and search for shortcut keys. a shortcut in Word’s Help. Chances are, one exists.
2 3
Exercise Your Option (Control, Too) Scrapbook It
Microsoft Word also has a lot of functions that you The Scrapbook is a place you can store frequently used text
can access using modifier keys in conjunction with and graphics. Launch the Scrapbook from the Standard
your mouse. For example, to access Word’s Dictionary and toolbar (View > Toolbars > Standard) by clicking the red toolbox icon.
Thesaurus, just Control-click (or right-click if you have a two- This brings up the Toolbox; the Scrapbook
button mouse) any word, and select either Synonyms or Look is the tab on the far left. To add a text clip,
Up > Definition. Again, highlight it in your Word document, and
search for option in then click the Add button in the Scrapbook
Office Help for more pane. You can also click the little arrow
on this topic; function next to the Add button for more choices.
is another goodie- For example, choose Add File, and
gathering search term. navigate to an image or document on your
hard drive. To transport an item from the
We don’t like the Scrapbook
language our forefathers to your Word Think of the Scrapbook
used, so we’re going to file, just drag as a giant clipboard.
pick a new synonym, and drop, or Use it to store any text
accessible from this use the Paste or graphics you need to
Contextual Menu. button. access on a regular basis.
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HOW TO
65
4
Quick Formatting
Styling text is easy, but it can be tedious and repetitive. If you want to apply some formatting to certain lines in Painting text
your document (say, subheads), employ the Format Painter tool. Start by applying a style to the first subhead, with formatting
and then highlight it. Go to the Standard toolbar, and click the paintbrush icon. Sweep your cursor over any text you is almost fun.
want to apply that style to, and watch
as it picks up the same formatting.
If you double-click the Format Painter
icon, it stays active until you click it
again, so you can paint your format
anywhere in the document.
Deal with Annoyances
1
■ Microsoft Disable AutoFormatting
Word is like an If you do Web publishing, you’ll want to turn off all automatic
overzealous dad styling, such as hyperlinks, superscript on ordinals (such as 2nd),
who calls his em dashes, and smart quotes. Select Tools > AutoCorrect and click the
child’s school to AutoFormat As You Type tab. Under Replace As You Type, uncheck the
discuss the “class following items: "Straight quotes" With “Smart Quotes,” Ordinals (1st)
bully situation.” With Superscript, Symbol Characters (--) With Symbols (—), and Internet
Sometimes it Paths With Hyperlinks. While you’re in that window, disable Automatic
thinks it’s helping Bulleted Lists and Automatic Numbered Lists—unless you enjoy having
you out when Word bully you into making lists its way.
actually it’s Bonus tip: If you do the above and then decide you do want Word to
making things autoformat a particular document, go to Tools > AutoCorrect > AutoFormat.
worse. Here are a There you’ll see similar settings to the ones under AutoFormat As You Type. You can rid your documents of many
few ways to rein Set the autoformatting options you want, go to Format > AutoFormat, and autoformatting demons with one
it in. let Word apply those settings to the document you’re working on. visit to the AutoCorrect window.
2
Halt AutoText CONVERT TABLES
Sometimes Word tries to automatically fill in contact Ever copy and paste information from the
TIP
names from our Entourage database—even if we’re not Web, only to find that the text is nested
typing a name. For example, if we type the word summer, Word within a table? Luckily, Word provides a way
automatically adds our friend Summer’s name to the document to extract that information without having to
instead of sticking with the season. Or if we type the word take, copy and paste text from each cell. Just plop
Cathy Lu is a former MacAddict editor and current freelancer who spends more time
with Microsoft Word than she does with her husband, friends, and cat combined.
Word assumes we’re writing a letter and pops up Take Care in a the whole table into your document, select
it, and then go to
little AutoText tip box. Grrr. To disable this aggravating behavior, With the Convert Table To Text command, you can
Table > Convert > Convert
go to Tools > AutoCorrect, and click the AutoText tab. Check even specify how you want your text separated.
Table To Text.
the Exclude Contacts box to have Word ignore your Entourage
database. Or you can uncheck Show AutoComplete Tip For
3
AutoText, Contacts, And Dates to disable all AutoText help. Kill the Messenger
The only thing more annoying than Word’s Office Assistant
You really don’t and Project Gallery is Paris Hilton. Even though you can’t
need Word make Paris go away, you can put the kibosh on both the Assistant
putting words in and the Gallery. To permanently neuter the Office Assistant,
your mouth. uncheck Help > Use The Office Assistant. And to prevent the
Project Gallery from
HISTORIC UNDO
hijacking your application
every time you launch it,
TIP
Don’t get carpal tunnel overdoing

Undo (Command-Z). If you want
go to Edit > Preferences
to go back more than a couple of > General and uncheck
steps, click the little disclosure Show Project Gallery At
arrow next to the yellow Undo Startup.
arrow—you’ll see a history of
actions. Scroll back through them The Undo Typing button in the Don’t need the Project
to find the spot from which you Standard toolbar offers a history of Gallery? You’re not alone.
want to start over. undoes from which you can choose.
Luckily, you can disable it
in Preferences.
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66 HOW TO
RAMp Up Your Mac mini

By Niko Coucouvanis
WHAT YOU NEED

Mac mini ($599 and up, www.apple.com)
Lots of PC2-5300 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM ($80.55 for
512MB, $167.47 for 1GB, www.crucial.com)
Metal-bladed putty knife
Plastic picnic knife
Small Phillips screwdrivers (#0 and #1)
ILLUSTRATION BY SUSAN SYNARSKI

e here at MacAddict are always singing the “more
is better” praises of RAM—and we sing twice as
loudly when it comes to the Intel-based Mac mini,
since it doesn’t have even the teensiest shred of
dedicated video RAM. Here’s how to endow your mini with as
much memory as possible.
1 2
Pry Open the Patient Antennectomy & Descrewification
Lay the mini butt-side up on a clean table. Wedge your Once you get the top off, find the AirPort antenna
trusty putty knife—a good, slim, sharp one—into the perched atop the rear-right corner of the optical drive—
gap along either the left- or right-hand side (not the front or it’s unfortunately right in the way. If you view the mini from the
back) where the plastic bottom meets the metal siding. The side, you’ll notice long plastic tabs poking up and through the
two pieces stay together by the grace of plastic clips that stick antenna. Gently squeeze them together, and the antenna will
up from the bottom piece and latch into a ridge inside the top pop right off—but its wire remains connected, so be careful not
piece. Carefully work the putty knife in about half an inch, then to tear it off. Now find and remove the four screws as indicated
pull it back a quarter inch. Continue moving down the edge a bit in the photo. The one in the front-right corner is slightly longer
and sliding the knife in and out of the gap to release more clips, than the others, so remember to put it back in the right place
gently prying the inner piece out as you go. When you finish the later.
first side, the mini’s bottom should be slightly offset from the
metal edge; keep the gap open with your thumb as you remove Screw #1 Screw #2
the putty knife, and repeat the procedure on the other side
while gently pushing up to separate the two pieces.
PINCH
TOGETHER
HERE
Screw #4,
underneath
antenna Screw #3
This’ll only hurt for a sec—unless you gouge your palm with your
putty knife. Find screw number four hiding beneath the AirPort antenna.
66 July 2006
HOW TO
67
3 4
Plugotomy Extract the Rack
Before hoisting out the subframe, find the little battery Take a moment to study the mini’s rear; you can see a
on the front edge of the motherboard—next to it is a delicate ribbon cable connecting the drive chassis to the
small plug connecting a wire from the fan and speaker to the main body. What you can’t see a little further down is the delicate
motherboard. Carefully pull the plug (not the wire!) to remove drive connector between the drive chassis and the motherboard.
it. If your stubby digits can’t quite grip the plug, use a plastic If you accidentally yank out the ribbon cable, reattaching it is
picnic knife as a pry bar. You’ll find a similar plug at the rear fairly easy—but bending the drive connector isn’t so easy to fix, so
right (under the AirPort antenna) that feeds the power button; dislodge that first by gently lifting the rear of the chassis straight
there’s another plug at the front right that feeds the power- up. When the connector releases, you’ll feel it. Now carefully angle
status LED. You don’t have to unplug those; just mind the wires the cage up and back from the front (pivoting around the ribbon
as you work. cable), as if you were opening a book; flip it up and over and
carefully rest the edge on the mini’s rear panel.
Protect the
connector by
Think you could pulling the
solder the drive carriage
wires back onto straight up
this wee plug? about half an
Hopefully you inch before
won’t have to angling it
find out. back.
5
Bam! There’s the RAM
You’ll find the RAM stacked horizontally against the left-hand side
of the mini, but don’t start tugging yet—the chips are locked in
place. Release the locks by pushing outward on the wee levers on each
end of the upper RAM module. When the module springs up to an angle of
about 25 to 30 degrees, you can safely pull it straight out of its connector.
Now do the same for the lower slot. Snap a new module into the lower slot
(still at a 25 to 30 degree angle), and when it’s all the way in, push it down
to a flat position until the locking levers snap back into place. Now repeat
for the upper slot. If you’re done upgrading, reverse the procedure to close
up the mini. Don’t forget to plug in the fan
wire from step 3, or the fan will run full blast Push out on the levers to
whenever the mini’s powered up. unlock the RAM.
Doh! Repairing the Ribbon

You did your best to keep the ribbon cable attached, but it popped out anyway? No worries, friend, we’re here for you. Put the
drive chassis back in its original place on the mini’s frame, carefully push down until you feel the drive connector snap into
place and screw it down with the screws from step 2 to lessen your chances of dislodging the ribbon cable again. Approaching
from the rear, use your picnic knife to release the slot’s clamp—and yes, it’s as fragile as it looks. Now feed the ribbon cable
straight down into the slot as far as it’ll go, and hold it in place while you snap the clamp shut.
3. Slide the ribbon into the connector, not

1. First, find the ribbon-cable connector. 2. Push up the end tabs to open the slot. between the connector and the board.
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68 HOW TO
Just the Facts, RAM

RAM is always a worthwhile upgrade, but doubly so in the Mac mini. Most Macs
use dedicated video RAM (VRAM), but the lil’ Intel-based Mac mini saves space,
power, and cost by co-opting some system RAM instead. So more RAM is good—
but exactly how much of (and in what configuration) a difference does it make?
To find out, we installed different amounts of RAM in a 1.66GHz Core Duo Mac
mini and ran our Actions test using Adobe Photoshop CS2 ($649, www.adobe.com)—which
hogs even more RAM than usual when it runs through Apple’s Rosetta translator. We tested
each RAM configuration with Photoshop set to use different amounts of RAM (Photoshop >
Preferences > Memory & Image Cache). The results were interesting—if unsurprising.
PHOTOSHOP RAM TEST

1.42GHz G4 Mac mini with a single 512MB SDRAM DIMM
RAM SLOT 1 RAM SLOT 2
PHOTOSHOP
MEMORY
ALLOCATION
100%
75%
50%
25%
0 3 6 9 12 15
Time (in minutes) for each Photoshop RAM setting; shorter bars are better
THE MATCHED-PAIR MYTH THE ROSETTA FACTOR

Some folks assume that the Mac mini’s dual-channel As you may know, Adobe Photoshop doesn’t yet
RAM architecture means that the machine will perform run natively on the Intel-powered Macs, but rather
much better with matched pairs of RAM modules than it through Apple’s Rosetta PPC-application translator—
will with an equivalent amount of RAM on a single chip resulting in, shall we say, suboptimal performance.
or in a mismatched pair (a 1GB module in one slot and Common logic says that setting Photoshop to use as
a 256MB module in the other, for example). Some folks much of the system’s RAM as possible should result in
even believe that an Intel-powered Mac mini won’t boot faster performance—but Rosetta also uses significant
with anything other than a matched pair of RAM modules, RAM to make Photoshop play nice with the Intel-Mac
but ours purred (or choked) along with all possible version of Mac OS X, so setting Photoshop to use
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LETTERS MAX SIGHTING OF THE MONTH

Please tell me I’m not the only one who recognized Max’s
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PARADIGM Max-like with you for the day Wow, talk about a blast from the past. You know how Steve
I appreciate that there may when a video AirPort Express Jobs and Bono are all buddy-buddy these days? I totally
have been good reasons to becomes available. Until then, hooked them up.—Max
eliminate the Tour interface here’s my setup: one EyeTV
on your Disc. Unfortunately, unit, one EyeHome unit, and
in the process, the Disc two AirPort Express units (one
is now difficult to use. to stream my cable modem to
Wouldn’t it have been a my Mac; the other to stream
better idea to include the my Mac to my TV). The media
same kind of info in a text streams beautifully, and I use
file or even in a chart within the EyeHome remote more
the magazine? Otherwise, now than my own TV/VCR/
keep up the great work with DVD remote. Streaming beats
the magazine.—B. Hunter copying 1GB-plus video files
The software descriptions to my iPod and then hooking
you crave were there all that up to my TV any day.
along inside the individual Minuses include audio files:
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and other categorical folders. Pluses include surfing the
We originally called the info Internet on my TV. Total cost:
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for example, but we’ve eBay.—Chris Graves
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Coucouvanis states that See www.garageband that name, those lawyers
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