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surprised to Bnd the security procedure was stricter

than when I flew out of the U.S. I was required to turn

travellers spend more time

getting to and waiting around
airports than they do in the air.
Though this resonates now more
than ever,themore stringent securi-

on everythingnotebook computer, organizer, pager,

cell phone, and digital camera Then the security guard

glared at me accusingly asshe reached in my bag and

Bshed out a digital tape recorder I'd forgotten about.
It was at this point that I made a mental note to look
into one of those new Handspring Treos. Some days
earlier, during Comdex Vancouver. I attended a news
conference where Handspring and Rogers ATSTT
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necks, not at the security gate, but at an understaffed

The Treo 180 incorporates some of the most attractive features of today's existing standalone devices. It is
a GSM/GPRS phone, meaning it will handle voice and
data. It is also a Handspring organizer that uses the
Palm operating system and Palm applications (the
Blazer Web browser is included). It incorporates a
thumb-operated keyboard, like the RIM BlackBerry,
and wi1l do SMS messaging. Later this year. when
Rogers AT&T Wireless completes its GPRS rollout, the
Treo will also handle standard email and data, thus
becoming a more versatile citizen of the Internet. I' ve
not been a big fan of multifunction devices, but this one
has convinced me to reconsider.
If you' veonly seen pictures of the Treo, you will prob-

check-in counter. The combination in Vancouver

International Airport of three harried agents dealing
with a few too many needy passengers wassuflicient to
increase the wait to nearly an hour. I made the plane

mainly becausetakeoff wasdelayed, but my luggagehad

to take a later ffight.
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significant. It does add another step in the passengerhandling procedure, and you will be affected, particu-

larly if you travel carrying technology.

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ago, I wasaskedto turn on only my notebookcomput-

design. As Iim Mandela,

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pens I'd picked up at a trade show. They had batteries

and vial-shaped light bulbs in them I suppose anyone
on the lookout for no good could haveseen them asdetonators or nerve gas canisters or Klingon disruptors.
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model is coming.
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limited functions, but always-on email is so convenient particularly if you are at a trade show or on the
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over Adobe Premiere. This software is reli-

industry-a governmental subsidy for no

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apparent societal benefit.

regar
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hugesizes involved.Many SOHO businesses run daily or weekly data backups using
multiple CDs. This levy (read: fine) is

Amps times Power factor. Nevertheless,

the real rating of a power supply for genemlloadsisVoltAmpsasitmustbecapable of supplying this product for any
powerfactor.Itis quite common to have
a powersupply with Watt rating of say

Ricoh 5120 (DVD+RW). These products

inherently unfair and unjust in penalizing

advertise a complete solution for creating

DVDs.May we have TCP'sexpertopinions

peopl
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1,000 and Volt Amp rating 1,100, which

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Hi, I'm wribng this in response to the letter you published in the April edition of

The Computer Paper about a "Big hard

drive headache."
Thefi
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artists buy blank CDs to record and sell

[their music] at their concerts and shows.

The whole preamble behind this levy is
to "protect Canadian musicians from losses due to audio piracy."
The fine print, however, reveals that the

moneyis not to be paid to the musicians

at all but to the copyright holders of the

I have found that this is always much

works,have to fi
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more accurate and reliable.

Ifthisdoesn't work,dynamic disk overlay software which translates the drive's
parameters for a motherboard that is
incapable of accessing a large drive properly is probably a better solution.
A quickcheck at www.maiaorcom/ in the
downloadssection refersto such software.
MaxBlast
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Fir
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Paper immensely and wait eagerly for the

this.
I think this should help and be much

next issue.

less fuss (and risk) than looking for and

ple of articles in your April edition, by

Emru Townsend. "Video editing basics"

notable to attend services.CAD [comput-

music, which in each case is the record

companyitself.

OVfan wanesmore

I'dlike to draw your attention to a cou-

Many churches now record sermons

onto CD for distribution to parishioners

is that the writer should try manually

inputting the drive's parameters in the
BIOS setup instead of trying to let the
BIOS detectitin the bootup sequence,

ware for any "drive-size barriers" such as

and "Making your own DVDs and VCDs

provided lots of interesting informabon

(BOSJ948-1Ogg

you bought a new car and received a

dozen pre-issued speeding tickets along
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between computers via CD because ofthe

the voltage by some angie. The out-ofphasecomponent known as Vars is not

real power and we define a power factor
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and fined without prosecution. Imagine if

esting history, but was lacking in details

of up-t
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somewhat reactive, current will lead or lag

the individuaL

speedsatsome time or other."

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levy(BTW, you can thank Sheila Copps for

spearheading this), is effectively putting
the interestsof the corporation ahead of

tracks and live audio tracks in the timeline.

On the subject of making DVOs, Mr.
Townsend's article gave us lots of inter-

equal to Volt Amps.

s s s

A thought for your readers: The

Canadian government, in proposing this

So independent artists, in buying blank

COs to distri
bute and promote their own
recordcompany. It's time to stop putting

corporations before the individuaL

Travis Schneider
Editor's note: To leam more about this
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gccaftanff
s/proposed/cnsr82002-b.pdO. The

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reflashing the BIOS. Any interruption or

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S0.008permegabyteforremovoblememo-

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work, services from Wakefield, Mass.based Comverse Inc. (www.mmvnse.mm)

allow users to access a uni6ed application for email, Web surfing, and voiceactivated messaging.
However. though providers are trumpeting wireless services, there are still
only a small number available like the
two cited above.
A recent study of the Canadian wireless m a rket by
Tor o nto-based
International Data Corp. Canada (IDC
Canada, at www.idccs) points to a few
things that need to happen before wirelessservicescan proliferatehere.

For one thing, Canadian businesses

must build the necessary infrastructure

and support mechanisms to help their

workers take advantage of high-speed
wireless networks and services. They
must also invest in the wireless hardware
for workers. At the same time, solutions

developers must move more quickly to

develop the wireless services and applications Canadians want.
John Fisher, president of Markham,
Ont.-based Borland Software Corp.

(www.borland.com) says one reason developers are slow to develop wireless services and applications is that they mistakenly believe that they need to be built
fmm the ground up. In reality, says
Fisher, the most successful wireless services and solutions will b e t hose that

extend and simplify existing solutions

consumers and business users already
utiTize every day.
"Rather than some wireless revolution, I see it more as an evolutionary
step," Fisher said during a roundtable
held in Toronto recently to discuss

emerging trends in the Canadian wireless market. "It is taking existing applications and extending them to the wireless
world and making them work more easily for that environment."
To simpliiy development of wireless
services, Borland o ff ers J Builder
MobileSet, a Java-based wireless development platform.

keting for Bell Mobility in Tomnto, says

packet-based networks like IX allow

people to pay only for what is delivered

to t hem. Similarly, Rogers AT&T
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on data transferred rather than time
connected as a bene6t of its GSM network Its fee structure ranges fiom $5 per
month for 150 KB of data to $20 per

Bohdan Zabawskyi, head of product

month for 1.5 MB. The biggest package

evaluation at Mississauga, Ont.-based

Redknee Inc. (www.redkaee.com), says he
expects to see a gradual increase in the
number of wireless services and applications over the next year, as developers
identify what people want.

would permit about 300 inquiries for

horoscopes, or t r affic and weather
reports, for example per month.
Davinci's Rodin believes that the lack
of effective customer service mechanisms is one of the reasons why
Canadians are not using wireless-based
e-commerce. If something goes wrong
with a transaction, there is no way to
contact the company to find out what' s
wrong.
"Where electronic commerce on the
Web fell down early on was that if you

Ix Btet cash or .
But a bigger problem confronting those
wanting to develop and deploy wireless
solutions is the current lack of efiective
payment mechanisms. Right n o w,
Canadian wireless carriers offer varying
payment rates for different kinds of
access and services. But there hasn't been
an effective way to pay for individual
services, or for speci6c kinds of information or applications to be delivered to a
wireless device. It is like having to subscribe to several daily newspapers
because the publishing industry hasn't
figured out how to let readers subscribe
to just one.
Steven Rodin, president and founder
of Tomnto-based Davinci Technologies
Inc. (wwwdsvindtecb.com), thinks this problem will disappear soon because the new
high-speed wireless networks are packetbased and therefore allow for transactions calculated on data, rather than
time. This means those who want information on stocks, airline tickets, or
newswire dippings, for example, would
only have to pay for the individual transactions.
Jennifer Bromley, director of I X mar-

had a problem, you had nowhere to go

because the customer service part of the
equation was not well developed,"

Rodin says.
Recently, Davinci launched m-Care, a
solution designed to fill that gap in the
wireless world. M-Care allows for what
Davinci calls personalized self-service: if
a customer has a question about a
charge,they can request more information or contest the charge like they would
with telephone or credit card bills. MCare also delivers information to customers, such as changes in rates for a
particular wireless service they may subscribe to. Wireless services providers can
use m-Care to deliver information that
6ts speci6c customer profiies.

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But if e-commerce over wireless networks is taking off more slowly than
anticipated, that has not been the case

with wireless entertainment aimed at the

youth market Around the world, games
and entertainment-based services delivered over wireless networks have proved
to be a huge success.
Garner Borst
ein, chief executive of
Montreal,
Qu e .-based Air borne
Entertainment
(www.airbomeentertain
mentcom), says mobile entertainment is
going to be the killer application in the
wireless world. Airborne Entertainment
distributes some 80 mobile entertainment products, including games, trivia,
as well as ring tone and icon downloads.
In other parts of the world, wireless
entertainment services have already been
embraced.In Japan for instance, more
than 53 percent ofmobile phone use is
for entertainment. In the U.K., more
than 30 percent of all 10 yrmr olds have
cell phones, and 50 percent of all 12 year
olds have cell phones which translates
into a huge and lucrative market for
mobile entertainment.

"Young people tend to view mobile

devices differently," Borstein says. "They
are used to technology and take very
quicMy to new devices. They are not
fixed in their thinking. A mobile phone is
not just for taking or making phone
calls. It is viewed as an entertainment
device that makes phone calls."
Bell Mobility's Burke says the youth
and wireless entertainment market is
one of the fastest growing se(pnents of its
wireless market. The youth market has
been important in driving the rapid
acceptance of two-way messaging and it
drives nearly half of the total user tralfic
on the network She says technology can
hardly keep up with what young people
are demanding out of it.
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do, it is something they are and it is very
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Moskowitznotes thatthe i705 was not

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. applications available for use on mobile
phones, with their limited screen size
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they have commonly ofFered.
Until recently, anyone wanting to
browse the Web on a mobile phone, use
as a wireless modem, or merely send

lone
land receive email from a handset was
'limited to speeds of between 9.6Kbps
and 19.2Kbps.
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on most handsets were based around the
WAP standard, which was limited in
function and feature. And the handsets

themselves typically usedmonochrome

. screens with limited graphic capabilities.
The good news is that ag this is about
to change. The next generation of mobile
phones is now being rolled out throughout the country by leading carriers. To
get the story straight about who is doing
what, we should probably introduce you
to the leading corporate characters in
thisunfolding drama. They are:
Bell MobiTity: A d i vision of B ell
Canadathat provides a range ofwireless communications solutions including PCS and cellular services, Web
browsing and data, two-way messaging, paging and airline passenger communications services.
Microefi Connexions: A subsidiary of
Microcefi Telecommunications Inc.
and within the Microcefi PCS division,
it owns and operates the Microcefi
GSM (Global System for M obile
C ommunication) n e twork, a n d
wholesales wireless access to service
providers (i n cluding Mi c rocefi
Solutions Inc., which markets PCS
under the Fido brand name).
Rogers AT(kT W i reless: Rogers
Wireless Inc. operates across Canada

under the o-branded name of Rogers

AT&T Wireless. Rogers Wireless provides a range of wireless solutions
including Digital PCS, cefiular, paging,
two-way messaging, and wireless data
services. The company boasts a total of
more than 3.2 million customers
across Canada
Telus Mobility: Provides a range of
wireless services, including both the
Talus Mobility PCS and Mike digital
wireless networks, to clients across
Canada. It gained a national network
two years ago by acquiring Clearnet.
Each of these carriers is rolling out
"next-generation" services on t heir
upgraded networks this year. While they
are not quite yet at the stage of being full
third-generation (3G) services, they offer
a great deal more than Canadian users
have been able to enjoy before. These
services, known in the industry as "2.5
G," are as follows:

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Technology (which refers to its ability to
use a full 1 MHz radio hanna)). But
never mind the acronyms, su(Be it to
say that this technology is the first step in
the evolution of the CMDA mobile
phone standard. It will allow considerably higher data speeds over both the
major CDMA networks in Canada
(those operated by Bell Mobility and
TELUS Mobility). Bell launched the
service in Toronto in March, with other
urban centres to follow.
Using either a CMDA lxRTT-compatible handset. or a wireless data card, such
as the Sierra Wireless AirCard 555, you
a re promised data speeds of up t o
144Kbps (almost three times what you
would get from a standard 56Kbps land-

CKfT

line modem). When used with t he

AirCard 555 and a notebook or handheld computer. these kinds of speeds
provide reasonable wireless Web access,
faster file downloads and even streaming
video playback CMDA 1XRTT-compatible products to exploit these capabilities
include wireless PDAs with embedded
modems, wireless PDA applications,
wireless laptop applications, standalone

PC Cards, and 1XRTI'-capable phones.

Another feature of the IXRTT standard is that it is more power eificient,
meaning you get longer battery life from
your wireless device. This means you
don't sacrifice talk time because you' ve
been checking inventory,sending orders,
or acessing your company's online customer database from your handset.
Finally, 1XRTT will provide more voice
caparity in the same radio spectrum.

Simply put, this should mean you' ll seea

reduction in the number of "dropped
calls" at peak times and it should
redue the chances of anyone getting the
dreaded "afi circuits are busy message".

BPRS(General Packet Batgo Sesvle)

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Fido service both support this standard

on their respective PCS networks. GPRS
provides slightly lower data speeds
(roughly the same as a 56Kbps landline
modem, although it does provide the
advantage of otyering something dose to
"always on" capabilities). GPRS is also
likely to get better global support as it is
the technology developed from the
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and most of the world outside of North
America.
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In terms of devices that support
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others) along with data cards that anfit
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of the pmducers of PC Cards for this
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free" using a wireless Bluetooth headset.

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high end.

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The A820, which will not be available in

Canadauntilthe 3G networks on which it

tem ofMotorola's own design, rather than

and will likely depend on the carriers

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be either late this year or early nerd: year),

PocketPC/Windows CE.The upside ofthis

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phone networks. such as Edgeand UMTS.

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NintendoGameboy, MP3 player,handheld

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design.

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ports all those functions.

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Infowave allows handhelds to communicate with corporate mail servers
he number of options available to
anyone who wants to conduct
wireless email has grown enormously. There are many ways to connect
wireless accessdevices to notebook and
handheld computers, and a considerable

number of devices(such asthe Research

In Motion BlackBerry) that are dedicated primarily to wirelessemaiL
In many cases. however, these solutions have been optimized for sending
and receiving email fmm a standard
Internet or "POP" account, not from
corporate email systems, such as
Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes.
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this hole with solutions that allow users
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email on their handheld devices, including Canada's own Infowave Software

(www.iafow
svecom). The Burnaby, B.C.-

based company's latest corporate email

solution is something called Symmetry
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and corporations at the same time.
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ings,which werealmost exclusively positioned as acorporate buy with a minimum 25-seat licence. Infowave is selling
Symmetry Pro as asoftware subscription
to anyone who wants to buy it and the

company iseven allowing users to try it

free for 14 days before buying (thereal'ter, it will cost you either about $30 per
month, or $300 per year).
The real value in this kind of a product is that it connects you to the live data
sitting on yow company's Microsoft
Exchange or Lotus Notes server. This
means whenyou enter a diary date,for
example, you don't have to wait until
you get back to the office and synchronize your handheld with your desktop
computer to flnd out if there is aconflict

with a meeting request. The same goes

for your address book, your task list, or
anything elseyou may choose to store on
the corporate email system.
Because Symmetry Pro allows you to
work wirelessly with live data from your
Exchange system, you maintain much of
the power of Outlook or a Notes client

PC, respectively. Both supported devices

used a variety of wireless communications standards, Induding CDPD. GPRS,
CDMA, CDMA lxRTT. and GSM. This
means you can use it with many of the
latest wireless-enabled Pocket PC handheld computers, as well as the growing

on your handheld.

Palm OS (and effectively contain the full

functionality of the Palm or Handspring
handhelds within them).
Symmetry Pro also gives users the
choice of whether or not to download
and open attachments (where memory
and the existence of appropriate applications to handle the attachment permit,
of course), something that is absent
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One particularly nice implementation
of Symmetry Pm was on Handspring's
Treo ISO, which runs Palm OS, has atiny
keyboard and thumbwheel like the

number of mobile phonesbasedon the

According to lnfowave vice-president

of marketing Ron Jasper, the key to the
appeal of a product like Symmetry Pro
lies in the ability to have more flexibility
in handling data wirelessly. Mail handling rules within Symmetry Pro, for
example, aflow you to block everything
from a whole domain to a speciflc email

address. This hdps ensure that you

receive the email you want to work with
on your handheld, not every unsorted
bit of email that anives in your Inbox.
The two versions of Symmetry Pro we
saw were for the Palm OS and the Pocket

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BlackBerry, and the functions of a fullyfeatured GSM phone. With Symmetry Pro running on this machine it was easy to navigate
between email, appointments, task lists, and
built-in Palm applications, all while working
with live data from an Exchange server.
The rea) question about the utiTity of this
application will lie in whether or not people are
willing to pay for it. At the heart of Symmetry
Pm is an appeal to people's desire to stay in
touch and have greater control while working
wirelessly. 11mt is also the appeal of a mobile
phone. It is probably no coincidence that the
monthly subscription cost of this product is
similar to that of a mobile phone, a device that
many corporations have no problem approving
(with the assumption that it will yield greater
productivity from employees).
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number of devices that combine both mobile
phone and handheld computer functionality
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As with the Visor Pro, the Treo 180

a video release.

board.POP3 emailcan also be sentand

received onthe device.
The Treo can also access the Web
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instant messenger, like Yahoo!

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any other PalmOSapplication.
Rogers AT&I says the Treo offers
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s a computer publication, we
don't often review automobiles.
ut we got that chance recently
thanks to a promotion by General
Motors of Canada for its new urban
vehicle, the Pontiac Vibe.

I got to be one of those journalists, on

the Toronto-to-Sault Ste. Marie leg of
the adventure. I was teamed up with
Andy Walker of Cyberwalker Media
(www.cybetwalker.com) in t h e red car,
dubbed Team Lava. We would be competing against the dastardly Team
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absolutely evil Team Abyss (a black car

with Toronto Computes!stalfers Nestor
Gula and Chris Talbot).
At the beginning of the journey, we
were given a list of potential points of
interest, and told to see as many of them
as possible while meeting at the rendezvous points at the times specified. No
one could accomplish all of the tasks, so
it came down to efficiency of route planning and weighing potential lateness
penalties against potential gains by hitting extra scoring opportunities.

In case you missed GM's promotion,

the scenario for the Drive the Vibe contest was this: take three cars that differ
only by colour, form teams of journalists
from across the country, and have them,
two at a tune, take the cars on a combination road trip/scavenger hunt. Pack
each car with the latest in connectivity
technology and see what happens.

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Teams would get points for taking

photographs of their Vibe at each location and for uploading photos and status
logs from the road. To acomplish this,
therewas an IBM notebook in each car,
a Motorola phone on Rogers' GPRS network, and a BlackBerry, also on Rogers'
digital network. Kodak provided the digital cameras.
In addition to the standard lighterstyle power plugs (one on the dash and
one hidden in the storage ompartment
between the seats), the dash of the Vibe
featured a single two-prong outlet running at 115 VAC, perfect for powering a
notebook, a cell phone, or a battery
charger.My teammate, Walker,brought
alonga PowerPad 160 from ElectroVaya
(www.cianovaya.com), which kept the notebook powered for l5 hours at a stretch,
so we used the dashboard outlet for
keeping our camera batteries topped up
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status reports on the BlackBerry or notebook. If you' re all alone in the car,
though. the passenger seat folds down
flat, providing a handy worktable for
your notebook don't attempt to use it
while driving, though. For those without
a notebook, folding the seat down means
extra space in the car for placing long
items like ladders. (The car already features 57.2 cubic feet of cargo volume
when you fold the bak seats flat.)
The dashboard also features a colour
screen that does multiple duty: clok,
radio, CD control panel (six-CD changer under the passenger seat), and navigation system. This last option was one of
our big complaints about the Vibe. It's a
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the top of the screen) that measures distance traveled and the direction you' re
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So much for the gadget aspect of the
car. For those interested in the automotive specs, the car features a I.g-litre,

valve timing), pmviding 130 and 123

horsepower at 6,000 rpm, respectively.
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with slightly spottier coverage when we
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was pretty spotty for most of the rest of
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The BlackBerry worked for much of
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using Rogers' network during our trip,
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remaining connected is going to be a

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rural Canada,
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and snowand wasa reasonably goodcar

to have on our cross-country journey,
though it seems best suited to city driv-

ing it chuggedand whined a bit going

up hills, which migjit not be so hot in
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Generally, hardware security devices require less maintenance than software security programs. In an effort to
increase the level of security knowledge and practices of
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'Internet using "clear text" which is not encrypted and

can easily be read.I(someone has placed a keylogger or
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And that is the single biggest problem with computer

,security:it's neverenough. Security isa process,notan
, event. With software solutions, it's not as simple as turnl ing a key in a lock and forgening about it. You must
always be on guard.
No wonder so many users play ostrich, sticking their
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their desktop business pretty focusecL the
IDE hard drive is the blocky silver thing
that goes inside a computer case, and connects
directly to the motherboarcL While other companies
have incorporated some of those IDE drives into
external products, the hard drive manufacturers had
little incentive to do so themselves.
While the SCSI bus had a fairly well-established
and hi@-speed method of gating data into a computer from outside, the IDE bus did not, forcing the
drive to be connected through one of the other and
slower buses into the PC like parallel or USB.
In a way, it would have been. like releasing a hobbled product if the ATAI00 hard drive inside the
external case is capable of 100 MBps transfer. but
your USB connection is only capable of 12 Mbps,
then the hard drive wouldn't be able to perform anywhere near its true abilities because of the bottleneck
at the USB 1.1 connection. Why would you want to
put your brand name on something like that?
Now that both USB 2.0 and FireWire are starting
to make inroads into the mainsteam desktop PC
space, there's more reason to consider moving into
that market. Maxtor has done just that with the
release of its branded Personal Storage line, available
for both USB 2.0 and FireWire connections.At480
Mbps and 400 Mbps respectively, both of these connectivity options are a lot closer to Ihe potential of
the hard drives.
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today, covering everything
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When you purchase a mouse, or other
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and forget about it. Not so with security products.
EfFective security requires maintenance. At the very least,
passwords should be updated.
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required to by network administrators. Fewer still are
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rireWire driive). They sport an identical
translucentexternal case, save for the
colour of the bands on the left and right
side of the box,
We transferred a folder with 65D MB
worth of Blas, about the size of one full
CD. to the drives to test transfer speed.

This was done on a box running

Windows XP Professional, using an
Athlon 1000+ processor,teamedup with
512 MB of PC2100 DDR memory. The
hard drive on the host computer was a
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external solutions: the 3000DV uses the
7,200 rpm DiamondMax Plus drives in
60 and 80 GB capacities; the 1394
ExternalStorage series uses 7,200 rpm
drives in either 40 or 80 GB capacities;
and then there'
s the 3000XT. Ifyou read
the hard drive feature in our February
issue, you may remember the Maxtor
D540X drive, a 160 GB monster that
provided a ton of capacity but a few
installation quirks. By dropping that
drive into an external FireWire model,
Maxtor gets around the 137 GB capacity
cap that you run into if you try to connect your drive to most onboard IDE
connectors here, you just plug the
3000XT into your FireWire port and
youi computer should see the entire 160
GB, no matter which OS you' re using.
Even though FireWire is slower than
VSB 2.0, there wasn't a big difference in
the time it took to copy 650 MB to the
drive: 66 seconds. Surprisingly, we were
able to get the data back to the host in 42
seconds flat, about the same time it took
to do an internal transfer. If streaming
data from the external drive is important, it looks like Maxtor's FireWire version has the edge.

The back of the drive featured another

FireWire port, so you can chain another
FireWire device through this one if you
so desire. Again, about the only real complaint we had was the lack of a power
switch on the external drive.
We were curious about the difFerences
in transfer speeds for the two Maxtor
external drives we tested: in theory, the
USB 2.0drive should have been faster
than the FireWire drive due to the 20 percent theoretical throughput advantage
the 480 Mbps USB 2.0 spec has over the
400 Mbps FireWire spec. In our testing,
though. the drives performed ahnost
equally when writing to the external
media, and the FireWire drive had a
noticeabl
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to the host. We asked Maxtor: what gives?
After going through the standard drill
just to make sure all our hardware was
functioning properly, it basically came
down to the bridge chips on the external
drives. The bridge chip is the hardware
that allows the IDE drive to communicate with the connectivity bus.
In this case, the bridge chip inside the
USB 2.0, known as the ISD300, has amaximum sustained read transfer of 18 MBps
and a maximum write transfer of 14
Mgps. The FireWire drive, on the other

hand, comes with the more robust Oxford

911 bridge chip, capable of 33 MBps read
transkr and 21 Mgps write transfer.
Without going into the exact math
here (yawn), the difFerences in the transfer rates For those bridge chips explain
why thedrives performed at a nearly
equal level when writing to the external
media, and why the FireWire drive took

the lead when copying back to the host.

It's worth noting that since USB 2.0 is
still in its infancy. the ISD300 bridge chip
is basiagy an infant implementation of
the bridge chip you can expect that
future models will include a more robust
throughput, which should allow the
drive to perform at a level that takes better advantage of the USB 2.0 spec.0

Adding USB 2.0 the Belkin way

ny day now, we should start seeing motherboards with USB2.0 connectivity right

onboard, but the majority of us will have to add it in manually. Though a lot of
companiestalked up USB 2.0 hardware,Belkin wasone ofthefirstwe saw thatreally delivemd, with PG add-in cards, as well as USB 2.0 hubs.
We gotour mitts on the FSU220 add-in card,which sits on the PG bus and sports a
totaloffive USB 2.0 ports fouron the rearbracket and one internal port.Each ofthe
portshas an LED to indicate its status at a glance. The card was easy to instalL We

droppeditinto an empty PG slot,and ourWindows XP box knew it wasa USB controller

right away. A quick driver update got it running at full speed without further ado.
Insblbtion of the drivers under Windows 98 wasfairly quick and easy using the included drivers disc (included are drivers for Windows98SE, 2000, Me, and XP).
We alsolooked at the external four-port USB 2.0 hub, model FSU22L It features a

semi-circular stackable design similar to that seen on previous Begin products. The hub
requires external power and ships with a power brick.The hub is phtfcrm-agnostic so
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10 Mbps (100 Mbps not supported).
The unit is as simple to set up as just

plugging in the appropriate cables. We

encountered one initial computer &eezeup. but a&er a reboot there were no further problems.
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USB port rather than requiring a dedicated reader.
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convenient place, such as the side of the
system case or monitor.
The eToken works with numerous
encryption and security (authentication)
systems, including CheckPoint, VeriSign,
Baltimore, Entrust, RSA, and Micmsoft.
Aladdin olfers a developer's kit for tailoring the device to specific applications.
The eToken mmes with software that
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is discovered, without the eToken being
physically plugged into the USB port, the
computer cannot be accessed. On the
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password, the eToken would also become
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reset it since you would also need the
password to accessthe software.

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encryption. The Pm version is a I,024bit RSA smart card. Data is stored in

EEPROM (electrically erasableprogrammable read-only memory). Aladdin

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data for a minimum of 10 years, with at
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capadty, with any operating system, in

any PC using ATA/BIDE drives. All

with no success. We also attempted to

use a 6nger cast made from common

householdsilicone.
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cutting off someone's thmnb, won't work
either, since a thermal register (body
heat) is required. (Rather than test this
method, we accepted the word of

SncuGenreps.)
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accessing your fiies by the fingerprint

window that appears in where you
would normafiy see a password screenas soon as the system is booted, a key is
pressed, or the mouse moved to bring
the mmputer out of standby mode.
However, design flaws in Windows 9x
can let a determined person physically
access your system. Booting into safe
mode, booting into DOS, or booting

from a fioppy disk can bypassall thirdparty security sofiware.

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bypassed with third-party boot software
designed for that purpose. For added
protection. SecuDesktop can be used to
encrypt individual files and folders.
On the plus side, once biometric
authentication is installed, users don' t
have to remember their passwords. IT
support professionals won't have to
answer any more calls from users who
have forgotten their passwords.
The Hamster is a standalone 6ngerprint reader, about the same size as a
paper clip dispenser, that olFers all the
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on since then. As a mouse, this USB
device is very comfortable to use. It has a
scroll wheel and optical tracking rather
than a physical ball, so it requires little
maintenance.
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Mouse Professional is a fingerprint sensor. Like other biometric devices, it
records a unique biological characteristic
(in this case, a person's fingerprint) into
its database, then uses it for authentiation instead of a password. The software
afiows the user to register fingerprints

from all digits.

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capacitive resistance rather than optical
scanning, which Siemens says is a more
rugged technology, that requires less
space to implement so the mouse is
smaller and more durable.
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Valt3( has its own built-in processor
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attached and connected to the Valtt
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inch drive bay.

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drive. Another version pmvides two separate storage 6rewalls. Yet another will
mount in a PCI slot.
We witnessed a single version in
action. The Valt.X rep deleted an entire
program from a test system. The system
was rebooted, and the program was
obviously missing. By rebooting again
and accessing the Valt.X menu, the original configuration, including the missing
program, was completely restored.
Restoring one program was impressive, but what happens when a malicious
agent deletes an entire hard disk partition? We watched as the entire C: drive
partition was deleted. The system was
restarted and nothing was on the drive. It
appeared totally new and unpartitionecL
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data storage, that is a small price to pay
for complete protection and virtually
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Although unlikely. if drive space is
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suites.Adobe doesn't have a suite perse

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InDesign's interface integrates elements
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Among the incredibly useful new features is the ability to adjust transparency
and layer effects of individual objects. It' s
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t'sbeen about four yearssince Adobe

announced InDesign, its great leap

t forward in desktop publishing soft-

ware. With a list of planned features a

mile long. it was plain that Adobe was
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laid. but for the time being QuarkXPress
users had nothing to worry about. Many
features weren't as Beshed out as they
should have been, or they simply weren't
there. Months later came InDesign 1.5,
which fified in many of the blanks and
became a much more attractive option.
Not content to rest on its laurels, Adobe
has packed InDesign 2.0 with enough
new features to make QuarkXPressusers
consider defecting.
lf you' ve never seen InDesign. starting
it up for the first time can be a bit sur-

prising. A few yearsago,Adobe picked up

on one of Microsofi's better practicescommon interfaces across application

astonishingly

behind WordPerfect and Word in this

area.) Table features are a bit less Bashy
than graphics handling, but anyone
who's had to produce a report using tabs
or PageMaker's table application will
certainly appreciate them.
At this point it should be mentioned
that, while the initial InDesign releasewas
overtly positioned as aQuark-killer, some
of Adobe's existing user base feared it
might also spell t h e d emise of
FrameMaker the tool of choice for fastidious technical writers. I imagine that
some FrameMaker users might get a little
antsy on reading about InDesign's XML
import and export features, built-in
PostScript and PDF generation, and longdocument features like multiple-document collection and cross-document
style synchronization. But really, there' s
little to fear, as basic technical documentation features,like cross-references,are
comparatively infiexible, and others, like
conditional text, are nowhere to befound.
But those who use FrameMaker for
creating books and other non-technical
publications may be tempted: InDesign's
right-dick access to special characters
and fioating palette for glyphs are real
time-savers; furthermore, ligaturescan be

Composer, which works behind th'e

scenes to gently adjust letter and word
spacing to prevent "rivers" (empty spaces
between words that can cause anunsightly effect in columns of text).
As you'd expect, Adobe is trying to
court QuarkXPress users with attractive
rebates and InDesign's ability to import
Quark files. And while it's at it, it is trying to entice PageMaker users to move
on up as well, with less-generous
upgrade discounts, and of course the
ability to read PageMaker files. (Both
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lessometimes suffer in the transition; keep an eye
on the status box.) The famiTiar user
interfacedoesn't hurt, either.
With its repositioning as a business
package, PageMaker is likely to stick
around for some time as Adobe's lesscomprehensive desktop publishing application. That should give interested users
time to decide if they need InDesign's
new features, or simply to wait until their
local service bureaus start incorporating
InDesign into their workfiow.
But in the end, it comes down to the
showdown with QuarkXPress. I wouldn't quite say InDesign is the Quark-killer
it set out to be; after afi. software is a
moving target, and QuarkXPress 5.0 has
only just seen the light of day, nearly two
months after the debut of InDesign 2.0.

created automatically without interfering

The game is far from over, but at the very

with speficheck or search and replace

functions. There's also the Paragraph

least Adobe's flagship design product an

hold its own quite respectably. CI

QuarkXPress. (It's always been a mystery

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monitor, 64 MB RAM, and 80 MB disk
space. The software supports more than
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image-editing sofiware.
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a stack. Navigation arrowsappear below

any multi-page thumbnail, that allow
you to accesseach page in the stack
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a PC running Windows98.

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considering that ScanSoft also owns
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very accurate. However. no OCR soft-

tions and versions available for creating a

document. Unless the people you are
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disk space. Internet access and internet
Explorer 5.0 or higher are required for
publishing forms and retrieving data
&om wwweamniionn.com.
Over a dozen scanner makes are supported. We installed OmniForm on the
same Windows 98 test system used for
PaperPort 8 test, and used the same HP
scanner. The OmniForm wizard bung
the system after an initial scan, which
required a reboot. but that proved to be
an isolated problem.
In case you are not familiar with
forms software, depending on the pro-

HTML, and RTF. For maximum versatility, a form can be saved in all formats.
A flat-file database can be created for
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data can be searched.
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publishing a form on a Web page, users

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in an existing form, following which the
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gram, you would be able to do some or

form in yellow.

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electronic ones, process completed
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U.S. corporate tax rates.

EnableCanadian e-business startups to

attr
act and retain talented employees
a way to go in catching up with other

by changing the tax treatment ofstock

options.

developed nations.

Canada has moved up in the world,

Expand use ofRRSPs forearly-stage ven-

ture employees.

though,climbing to the number three fiom

the number four spot in worldwide e-readinm, ranked by the EconomistIntelligence

Unit andPyramid Research. However, westill

Tax deductibility of student loan princi-

trail in networked readiness, ranking 12th

outof75 nations,according to a study out

gesti
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lowered tax rates. Also mentioned is the

at Harvard, and the World Economic Forum.

need for high-speed broadband Internet

Overall, Canadians are accessing the

Internet raore percapita than any other67

accessto the approximately 80 percent of

communities that are currently not served.
A brief mention' is made of the "brain

nation (the seven largest industrialized

countries, agroup that includes3apan, Great

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notethat 73 percent of Canadians feel

online, as compared to 77 percent of small

that putting services and information

businessesconnected in the U5.

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The report offers a number of sugges-

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an S DRAM board i t c o mes prejumpered for usewith a Duron chip (the

reasoning being that Athlon users will
want to use a DDR board), but you can
drop in an Athlon easily enough. As
expected. the performance drops fairly
noticeably when you team up the Athlon
with SDRAM, but the performance is
still pretty good. The board comes with
onboard audio, and still features one ISA

slot for usewith older add-in cards.

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audio.

Checkthe settings!

ne ofthe boards we used this time around, through no fault ofits own, helped
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and bites us: even a siight misconfigumtion in your Windows installation or BIOS

settings can compromise performance. Ourtest bench uses an 15-120 drive instead ofa
floppy, and we typically turn off all unwanted components (serial ports, gameport, etc)
to achievebest performance during benchmarking.Atone pointduring oursetup we had
to clearthe Cis105,erasing those settings and going back to the board's defaults, which
wasn'tcaught.Although everything looked fine during Windows and Sysmark setup, we
were getting consistently bad benchmarking results. When we caught the problem, reinstalled everything, and rebenched the system, the scores went up 30 points.Though it

wasan annoyance,it'sa good lesson foranyone who is building a system: make sure you
have everything configured for efficiency, or you may be sacriTicing system performance!
Sean Carruthers

Compatible with boih Athion and

Duron.
Jumpers Preconfigured
for Duron (200 MHz
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4 boards, and while it looks pretty normal
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scores. They' re still OK, but the o(Rce
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can use to create your own font sampler
and surprise everyone in your workplace
with your skills! Here's what you do.
Highlight the code from the Knowledge
Base Web page from Sub Listfonts() to
End Sub and select Edit, then Copy.
Switch to Word and chooseTools, Macro,
then Macros. In the dialogue. type the
name Listfonts (all one word) and, from
the Macros In dropdown list, choose
NormaLdot (global template) and click
Create. The Visual Basic Editor will open
and your cursor will appear inside a pair
of Sub.. End sub statements. Select from
the Sub Listfonts() to End sub (including
both lines) and chooseEdit, Paste to copy
the code over the top of these.
The range of characters that the macro
is set to print is fairly limited, so look in
the code you' ve just replaced to 6nd
these lines:

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the double quote marks in the second and
fourth linesshown. I like to add the uppercase letters to the second line and all the
otherkeyboard charactersthatare missing
from the fourth, such as1), A,!, k etc..
When you' re done, choose File, then
Close. and return to Microsoft Word.
To run the macro, choose Tools,
Macro, Macros, select the Listfonts
option, and click Run. The macro creates
a new document with a sample of each
font in your font list. You can save and
print it when it's done. If you have limited memory on your computer, you' ll do
well to close all open programs before
you begin (and perhaps even reboot) so
Word has plenty of memory to use.
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try to run the macro to the efFect that
"The macros in the project are disabled.
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First the good
news: Apple chose the expo to introduce
a new higher resolution 23-inch Cinema
Display, a new 10 GB ipod, and a
Bluetooth adapter with OS X support.
First up, the new Cinema Display HD.
This new model does not replace the
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resolution than the 22-inch model
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fact that you can view an entire highdegnition video frame at full size on this
LCD and stgl have room for toolbars
and pellets. The resolution of HDTV at
the highest size is 1,080 lines horizontal.
This new LCD has maximum resolution
of 1,920x1,200, whereas the 22-inch has
a maximum of only 1,600x1,024.
However. to use the Gnema Display
HD, you need Mac with a very new
video card. According to Apple, it will
only run on an nVidia GeForce 2MX or
higher, or ATI Radeon 7500 or higher
with ADC interface. For many this new
display is overkill, but if your work
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Next up is the updated iPod. Everyone
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unfortunately, chose not to lower the
price on the existing 5 GB model. The
new iPod can store up to 10 GB of
music orabout 2,000 songs.according
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One last new item, you can now have
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nice, we wonder how many people will
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GB model with engraving, that's one
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US$49 seems like a Iot.
There is talk of Bluetooth-equipped
printers coming from Hewlett-Packard
and Epson,and many new Bluetoothequipped cell phones should make it to
our shores this year. The Bluetooth driversare available for free dowoload from
wwwapple.com,and they will apparently be
built into the next version of Mac OS X.
The current Bluetooth adapter is a small
USB dongle that plugs into the Mac and
draws power &om your CPU. The
expected range is about 9 m (30 ft.).

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N ow forthe bad news: ApplechiefSteve
Jobs announced that due to increases in
the cost of RAM and LCDs, the price of
all new iMac models have been increased
by US$100. The increase on Canadian
prices is an even $150 across the line. So,
for once early adopters have actually

paid less.
We find this increase strange, since the
PowerBook and iBook lines both use
LCDs and RAM, and the pricing of these
lines has not been increased. It could be
that Apple is facing so much demand for

the new iMac, that raising the price will

cut the demand slightly and give them a
bit more margin on the low-end models.
At any rate, don't expect to see any other
changes on hardware prices or specs
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At MacWorld San Francisco in Ianuary,
Jobs ribbed Adobe (wwwadobe.com) about
not having a version of Photoshop out
for OS X, and the crowd loved it.
photoshop has been the most requested
OS X app since it was released in March.
Adobe has always been careful not to
reveal much about its plans, but now, a
year after OS X shipped, Adobe has
announced Photoshop 7.0. which is fully
OS X native, as well as OS 9, Windows
2000 and XP.
Photoshop 7.0 is not just an upgrade.
it adds many new features that have garneredearly praise from graphicsprofessionals the most significant being the
new healing brush.
This feature can be used to intelligently
repair parts of the image that contain
dust, scratches, or wrinkles while keeping
track of proper lighting, shadow, and tex-

ture. Many people currently use the

cloning tool to repair such blemishes.
When it debuted, the cloning tool was one
of the most important innovations in
Photoshop's history, but the healing brush
looks to replace this tool for many tasks.
We' ve seen a demo of the feature in
action and can say that it really does
work as expected. Photoshop 7.0 brings
other new features too, including the
ability to save customized work environments so different users can have difFerent pallet placement and settings.
Adobe has also enhanced the Web output and rollover creation tools to make
Photoshop more useful for Web content
creators. Photoshop 7.0 is expected to be
shipping in volume by the time this issue
hits the streets. It will be available as both
a full version (for US$609) and an

available now for Mac OS 9, OS X, and

Windows,
The new v ersion b r ings m any
improvements, including the ability to
embed video in Flash projects using the
included Sorenson Spark video compression. Macromedia has also added
tools to streamline workflow, including
an ActionScript authoring environment,
and more control over using colour and
gradients in your projects.
Flash MX includes Flash Player 6.0 for
Mac and PC so you can test your creations before deploying them. With the
release of Flash MX, only Dreamweaver
remains to be updated for OS X, which
will make OS X a viable tool for many
content creators.
Adobe has rdmsed GOLive 6.0 already,
which is Dreamweaver's main competitor,
upgrade from any previous version (for
so we expect to see Dreamweaver MX
US$149).
announced in the coming weeks. Flash
MX is available for US$199 as an upgrade
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from Flash 2.0 or later. For new users, the
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ware/flash) has brought its Bash authoring
environment to Mac OS X with the new
Kenlsink
Flash MX development app. Flash MX,
A very handy product that fills a definite
which is version 6.0 of the Flash suite, is
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a wide range of display options for Rash.
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compania all across Canada. I actually
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we had different types of computers, different types of protocols I'd take care
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gained on the Commonwealth Games, I
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ended up moving me out to Spain, I
lived in Madrid for two years and I basically ran a testteam there.
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bit. I had basicany gotten testing skills
and technology skills, but now I was in
the role of a team lead, so I had to work
the communication skills, interpersonal
skills, that kind of thing. And that was a
really important step in professional
development. I had a small team of two
to three people, which at times grew to

sevenpeople.
I gained more experience with the
technology:again, an even bigger network now, bigger distributed systems,
more complex, much more complex. I
wasresponsible foraw hole seriesofsystems. which involved a news system. a
biographies system, results distribution,
weather, email all these things came
together, and I was responsible for integrating them. That's actually another

area that I' ve been really interested in,

the integration theme.
Testing and integration have always
gone together in my experience, bmause
you' re usually bringing together pieces of
sonware that might have been developed
independently [and[ been tested independently. That requires integration, a
lot of knowledge of how technologies
work to tie stuff together. You have to
know each piece really well, and then you
go through the testing phase after you' ve
integrated them. That's exactly what I
was doing on the Olympics. So those
broad skills arne in handy.

meeting and then give out the instructions to everybody [for[ what we need to
develop. I might also do some estimations on our schedule, and provide deadlines and goals for people to meet. I quite
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tbmugh the phases, seeing it grow, and
doing a good job at keeping it on track.
keeping a good quality product in development.
The ultimate satisfaction out of it is

that we seethis through to delivery to the

customer. That's the part I like tbe best.
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with them, see how it deploys. That' s
where we really see it come alive, in the
customer's environment, and actually
working with the customers and interacting with them is the real bonus for
me. That's where IBM ends and the rest
of the world starts, and being on that
edge is very satisfying.
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