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 What do you think we'd write about? Macworld Boston, of course,
   and we have so much to say that the Macworld articles will keep
   coming for another few issues. This first issue brings you Mark
   Anbinder's superlatives of the show and the first half of his
   discussion of Apple's new system software technologies. We also
   managed to sneak in a brief bit about the conclusion of the
   Apple/Microsoft suit and a review of Connectix PowerBook
   Utilities.


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Topics:
    MailBITS/10-Aug-92
    Late-breaking Legalities!
    Macworld Superlatives
    Apple Futures I
    CPU
    Reviews/10-Aug-92

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MailBITS/10-Aug-92
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  Macworld has ended, starting out full of sound and fury (mostly
  sound) and draining off into the waters of Boston Harbor as
  everyone tried their hardest to be perky and polite when in fact
  they too were having trouble standing up. The weather turned out
  good this year, and I found the company of so many kindred spirits
  equally as pleasant. I enjoyed meeting many of you with whom I've
  spoken in the past, and I was gratified for the first time to have
  people stop me in the crowded aisles and thank me for TidBITS. It
  is I who should do the thanking since I couldn't and wouldn't do
  it without the many TidBITS readers. Incidentally, if you're
  wondering, we estimate that between 40,000 and 50,000 people read
  TidBITS each week. That estimate comes from readership numbers for
  the Usenet group comp.sys.mac.digest, our Internet mailing list,
  and the various commercial services. The great unknown comes from
  the difficult-to-track private BBSs, many of which carry TidBITS.


Fileserver files
  For those of you who experienced difficulty in receiving files
  while I attended the show, please try again. We had some modem
  difficulties which I can now handle. In addition, keep in mind
  that the information files from Salient and Infogrip will not
  remain on the server indefinitely, so I recommend sending email to
  <[e-mail]> for the index if you want information about
  Infogrip's chord keyboard or Salient's compression products
  (including an incredibly useful list of known conflicts with other
  programs).


Late-breaking Legalities!
-------------------------
  Judge Walker of the US District Court of Northern California
  upheld his earlier ruling in favor of Microsoft in the long-
  standing suit with Apple over various visual displays in Windows.
  Judge Walker ruled that all the visual displays in question fell
  into one of three categories, licensed, unprotectible, or simply
  different. Interestingly, last week Lotus won its look and feel
  suit against Borland for Borland's use of the 1-2-3 menu structure
  in Quattro Pro. It's a strange and slimy land out there, and
  perhaps we'll look at this in more depth in a future article.


Macworld Superlatives
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  by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor

  At a trade show with thousands of products, it's impossible to see
  everything, or even all the important things. If you missed some
  of these products, or if you missed the Expo entirely, please
  contact the companies mentioned below and tell them you read about
  their products in TidBITS. Some of these products will receive
  more in-depth coverage later on, but we wanted to get some of the
  juicy details to you right away.


Best CD-ROM
  In an age where CD-ROM drives are becoming less and less
  expensive, and may even become standard equipment on future Macs,
  it's not easy to produce a CD-ROM that stands out. Macworld had
  many impressive CD-ROMs, but in my opinion the Macintosh Product
  Registry, by Redgate Communications, rates as the most impressive.
  Redgate publishes a useful periodical catalog containing
  categorized lists of Mac products and vendors, and they've outdone
  themselves by putting this information on CD. Volume 2 is up to
  date through mid-July. The combination of a well-designed stack to
  access the information and an invaluable compendium of data make
  for a great product that should be on every Mac manager's or
  reseller's desk.

    Redgate -- 800/333-8760 -- 407/231-6904


Snazzy, if Simple
  Okay, so having a computer phone another computer and pass along a
  short text message is nothing new. Combine that with the latest in
  1990's pager technology, though, and you've got Notify! from Ex
  Machina. Notify! allows users to send messages to personal pagers
  by calling a central computer offering paging services, such as
  SkyTel and MobileComm. In addition to the basic software, Ex
  Machina showed pre-release versions of a network package that
  allows users to send pages through a single modem, a QuickMail
  gateway for sending pages from a QuickMail window, and a Microsoft
  Mail add-on that can forward email to a pager based on urgency or
  even key words within the message.

    Ex Machina -- 718/965-0309


Biggest Disappointment
  I don't like to say negative things when I can avoid it, but I've
  been looking forward to seeing a revamped Microsoft Works 3.0, and
  it just ain't there. Rumors that Microsoft scrapped an early
  version of 3.0 and reworked it from the ground up in response to
  other integrated offerings are clearly untrue, as Works 3.0, which
  Microsoft exhibited in "late beta" form, is merely an incremental
  upgrade to their existing product. Don't get me wrong; Works 3.0
  includes a vast number of good improvements in feature set and
  interface, but it just doesn't take the quantum leap in concept
  that's required of any serious player in the current integrated
  software market. ClarisWorks and BeagleWorks, unless Claris and
  Beagle Bros. do something foolish, will undoubtedly walk away with
  the ever-growing market.

    Microsoft -- 206/882-8080


Silliest Costume
  Without a doubt the silliest costume award goes to SuperMac
  Technology for its yellow-clad superhero, who stood outside the
  booth the entire duration of the Expo, handing out literature and
  drawing in customers. Another company had people dressed all in
  black wearing face paint, but these folks looked so uninterested
  in being there that I wasn't even curious enough to go see which
  company they represented.

    SuperMac -- 408/245-2202


Most Musical
  Macworld Expos have often been graced with an assortment of would-
  be musicians, electronic instruments, and sound compilation
  products, but it took Prosonus to do it right. They offer
  collections of great sounds that work with SoundMaster and other
  sound utilities, but most importantly, they now have a CD-ROM
  called MusicBytes that gives the budding multimedia mogul a
  collection of "clip music" and sound effects for use in
  presentations, QuickTime movies, etc. The material on the disc is
  license-free, and features music performed by artists such as Pink
  Floyd's Scott Page and Steely Dan's Jeff Baxter, who were both on
  hand to perform live for attendees. The disc includes Media
  Librarian, a HyperCard stack that makes selecting and using the
  clips a breeze.

    Prosonus -- 800/999-6191 -- 818/766-5221


Handiest Handout
  Giveaways were fewer and farther between each year, it seems, but
  vendors were still creative when it came to deciding what to give
  attendees. The best by far was an Expo guide from Portfolio
  Systems, publisher of the Dynodex contact management software. The
  guide, sized just right for the average pocket, contained a
  complete list of exhibiting companies and their booth numbers,
  along with a map of Boston and a brief list of local service
  businesses, restaurants, and hotels. If Portfolio doesn't elect to
  provide this service again, Mitch Hall and Associates (Macworld
  Expo's organizers) would do well to provide something similar as a
  companion to the standard bulky program guide.

    Portfolio Systems -- 800/729-3966 -- 408/252-0420


Best PowerBook Product
  Considering the number of PowerBook notebook computers Apple has
  sold since the product's introduction last October, it's little
  wonder that just about every other booth had something for
  PowerBook owners. These ranged from external display solutions to
  alternative battery chargers (and other power options), but among
  the specialized software offerings we found one clear winner.
  Connectix PowerBook Utilities, or CPU, is a compact collection of
  utilities and controls that no PowerBook user should miss. As they
  did with Virtual and MODE32, Connectix has created a product that
  should have come from Apple's engineers but didn't. Among the
  features are improved power management, security mode, larger
  cursor, screen saver, and keyboard shortcuts.

    Connectix -- 800/950-5880 -- 415/571-5100


Most Evident
  If you stopped by the World Trade Center half of the Expo you
  couldn't help but notice Focus, a new company that ensured
  exposure by hiring a battalion of local kids to hand out plastic
  bags, catalogs, and brochures at the doors to the exhibit hall. My
  first guess was that this company wasn't actually exhibiting, but
  a closer look proved that they in fact had a large booth over at
  the Bayside Expo Center. Focus formed last fall as a direct-sales
  vendor that promises quality, service, support, and value to
  customers. Focus avoids going through dealers that president
  Thomas Massie feels are overloaded and can't support today's vast
  range of products. While I know some dealers who do just fine
  supporting their product lines, I can certainly see the value of
  direct vendor support and a strong line of products. Focus offers
  a growing line of networking and storage hardware products,
  including network connectors and hubs acquired from NuvoTech late
  last year. If their products and support are as good as Massie
  suggests, then not just dealers, but run-of-the-mill mail order
  suppliers will need to watch out.

    Focus -- 617/938-8088


For the Wealthy
  Speaking of products for PowerBooks, a couple of vendors had users
  drooling over color LCD flat-panel displays for the user on the
  move. Unfortunately, this technology isn't ready for the
  mainstream - Envisio's display, for example, retails for $5495.
  Apple is rumored to be working on color versions of the PowerBook
  line as well, and it's likely that someone offer a color product
  closer to most users' pocketbooks within the next couple of
  Macworld Expos. In the meantime, the technology is available to
  those who really need it and have lots of money to spare.

    Envisio -- 612/339-1008


Most Daring
  Electronic pornography has come a long way since the days not so
  long ago when bored college students would print out dirty
  pictures made up of line after line of text characters on
  mainframe printers across campus. MacPaint and inexpensive
  digitizers popularized the distribution of scanned pictures, both
  R- and X-rated, and the last few years have seen an explosion of
  adult GIF collections, thanks to the popular universal graphics
  file format invented by CompuServe. Well, electroporn has entered
  the '90s, with a series of CD-ROM products from Romulus
  Entertainment and other vendors. Their latest products are full-
  length QuickTime feature films, digitized from video tape for your
  computing pleasure. "House of Dreams" is one of the most popular;
  it's a 76-minute X-rated film from Caballero Home Video that's
  simply been digitized in 16-bit color and stereo sound. The
  included Digital Ecstasy QuickTime viewer seems well designed, if
  no more functional than Apple's Simple Player, and prospective
  purchasers should note that, like all high-resolution high-depth
  QuickTime movies, this one works best in 16-bit or 24-bit color
  modes, on as fast a machine as possible. On an '020 machine like
  the LC or Mac II, or a slow '030 machine, QuickTime is unlikely to
  keep up all of the time.

    Romulus Entertainment -- 310/453-5068


You Were Saying?
  For a while now, industry journalists have seen automatic
  compression software as a bad idea and have said that we should
  wait until compression is implemented in the hardware or the
  device drivers. I disagree that automatic compression software is
  a bad idea (utilities like AutoDoubler and StuffIt SpaceSaver seem
  to do just fine), but Golden Triangle is about to enter the
  compression market with Times Two, a driver that can be installed
  on almost any storage device and does the compression and
  decompression work at a level where conflicts theoretically can't
  occur. The driver replaces the standard driver from Apple or your
  third-party drive's manufacturer, much the way Silverlining and
  HDToolkit do. Golden Triangle has been in the storage market for a
  while, and undoubtedly has the expertise required to create such a
  universal driver. Some storage experts remain skeptics, but if
  Golden Triangle's shipping product is stable, it would be a boon
  to storage-poor computer users.

    Golden Triangle -- 619/279-2100


The Final Frontier
  Last in our gathering of notables from the Expo is the Star Trek
  Collection of After Dark screen-saver modules from Berkeley
  Systems, Inc. Berkeley, who last summer introduced the More After
  Dark add-on for their popular screen-saver software, has now
  teamed up with Paramount to offer a group of fun modules that
  range from animated scenes (complete with stereotypical Trek
  dialog) to USS Enterprise schematics that match the ones seen on
  viewscreens in the episodes and movies. As a Mac user, I can't
  help but think that's silly -- but as a Star Trek fan, I can't
  wait to see the final product! :-)

    Berkeley Systems -- 510/540-5535


Apple Futures I
---------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor

  Sometimes half the trick in dealing with Macworld Expo is knowing
  where to look for the real news. That was certainly the case this
  time, as some of the most stunning new technology shown at
  Macworld appeared at the nearby Boston Computer Museum as the
  System Software Revolution Showcase.

  Several Apple teams, and representatives from a variety of third-
  party developers, displayed uses of system software features that
  are as yet unavailable to the end user. System 7.1 (scheduled to
  ship in a matter of weeks) was the least exciting technology
  shown, and that's not intended to suggest it wasn't nifty in and
  of itself! It's just that QuickDraw GX, WorldScript, OCE, and
  AppleScript are all niftier.

  Actually, according to Apple system software engineers, System
  7.1's primary purposes are to gather together the fixes and
  enhancements from the Tune-Up releases; to provide hooks for other
  upcoming technologies; and to add a couple of minor enhancements,
  such as a Fonts folder within the System Folder. Anyone who plans
  to use the various new technologies (which should ship over the
  next several months) will need to upgrade to System 7.1, but there
  won't be much direct enhancement in functionality for users who
  already have 7.0 or 7.0.1 and Tune-Up 1.1.1.

  Most of these technologies are expected to be distributed in a
  manner similar to QuickTime. None of them are likely to be a
  built-in part of the system software, for the simple reason that
  they'd take up a ridiculous amount of disk storage space and
  memory. Instead, third-party developers will probably license
  these technologies for distribution along with their applications
  that require them. Apple will likely offer parts of the
  technologies free of charge, but may reserve useful utilities for
  saleable packages such as the QuickTime Starter Kit, released this
  spring. Nothing definite so far.


QuickDraw GX
  QuickDraw GX, while it incorporates many new features that are
  tough to visualize, had one of the most impressive single-feature
  demonstrations. This new version of Apple's graphical imaging
  engine includes routines that can quickly and cleanly rotate any
  bitmap image to any angle.

  Long-time Mac users will remember the thrill of using the Rotate
  feature of ClickArt Effects to spin a MacPaint image. This
  produced mediocre results, and the image couldn't be rotated on
  the fly.

  Using routines provided as part of QuickDraw GX, though, software
  developers will be able to provide rotation features that work
  quickly enough that you can grab the image and spin it, and it
  will update fluidly throughout your spin. The resulting bitmap is
  also attractive, and retains enough of the data that if you decide
  to rotate it back to the original orientation, it will still look
  quite good.

  The immensity of this feat may be lost on those who don't know the
  complexity of matrix mathematics. While I don't pretend to be a
  mathematician (readers who saw me struggling through college math
  courses can stop laughing now!), I do know that these folks have
  done some fine work. The caveat, of course, is that the fluid
  performance being shown was accomplished on a Quadra 700... but
  the engineers feel that, with the debugging routines removed and
  the code tweaked for optimum performance, these functions will
  perform well even on lesser machines.

  Less flashy but more important are the various features of
  QuickDraw GX that support the Line Layout Manager and WorldScript.
  The Line Layout Manager didn't quite make it into System 7. It
  includes support for other-than-left-to-right writing systems, so
  that users may change orientation in the middle of a line or
  paragraph simply by selecting a font that's designed for a
  different direction. This will be invaluable to educators working
  with foreign language translations, or anyone who needs to
  communicate in more than one writing system. In addition, the Line
  Layout Manager offers automatic ligatures, so that when a user is
  typing in a font that supports this, character pairs such as "fi"
  will immediately display in ligated form, for cleaner-looking
  display and nicer-looking printed output. Of course, these 65,536-
  symbol fonts (required for some non-roman alphabets) and automatic
  ligatures require the new TrueType GX.

  Last but not least in the QuickDraw GX lineup comes a new Printing
  Manager, another feature that Apple originally planned to ship
  with System 7. For developers, the new Printing Manager provides a
  cleaner, simpler architecture that will make it easier to develop
  third-party printer drivers. As a result, we should see a wider
  variety of third-party printers available for the Macintosh market
  in the future. For users, the new manager offers optional access
  to the vaunted drag & drop interface that's so important to System
  7. Once you have selected a printer in the Chooser, you can create
  an icon for that printer that may be left on the desktop or, in
  fact, just about anywhere. Each printer can have its own icon, so
  printing a document will be a simple matter of dragging it to the
  printer of your choice. When double-clicked, the printer icons
  reveal the printer's job queue, and thanks to the magic of File
  Sharing, these queues can show all jobs waiting for the printer,
  not just the individual user's jobs. All printers can support
  network sharing, even serially-connected ones. Naturally, print
  jobs can be dragged from queue to queue, and can be previewed with
  a simple double-click. The PrintMonitor [known as PrintMonster in
  some circles -Tonya], one of the last of Apple's MultiFinder
  kludges, has gone the way of the DA Handler, having been
  incorporated into the operating system. Finally, the new Printing
  Manager will allow applications to support mixed portrait and
  landscape printing within the same document, and even mixed page
  sizes within the same document, so you could print an envelope in
  the same file as the letter.


WorldScript
  WorldScript may be the most remarkable of the new technologies
  that Apple's elves have been working on, even though it's not the
  flashiest. This component of the operating system works with the
  Line Layout Manager and permits Apple to support languages and
  writing systems that can't easily be handled in a left-to-right,
  top-to-bottom, 255-symbol manner. They have managed so far with
  software like KanjiTalk, but WorldScript will make the Macintosh
  operating system a truly international one. It will allow 65,536
  characters (or other symbols) in each font, which will comfortably
  support most known writing systems. At the same time, WorldScript
  allows users to combine left-to-right and right-to-left writing
  systems on the same line, something that required a real feat of
  applications programming in the past.

  As mentioned above, WorldScript makes heavy use of new features
  offered in QuickDraw GX, so it will depend on its presence. The
  only unfortunate part of WorldScript is that it does not support
  the Unicode format that Apple, Microsoft, and numerous other
  developers hammered out recently. We don't know the details about
  this, but we anticipate that a future version of WorldScript will
  be compatible with Unicode.

  [Stay tuned for OCE and AppleScript next week. -Adam]


CPU
---
  Those of you with PowerBooks would do well to check out a new
  utility from Connectix, called Connectix PowerBook Utilities, or
  CPU. I had a chance to use CPU because Seattle's dBUG kindly lent
  me a PowerBook 140, and I must say that I liked both a lot.
  Anyway, CPU addresses the four main differences between a
  PowerBook and a desktop Mac: security, the LCD screen, the
  trackball, and the battery.


Security and Avoiding Screen Ghosts
  CPU offers minimal but appropriate security. You can either create
  a graphic screen with a hot spot for resuming work after sleep or
  a create a message with a password. It doesn't try to exclude
  hackers, just casual prying eyes, and you can defeat it with a
  boot floppy, avoiding the forgotten password problem. LCD screens
  cannot burn in as such, but Roy MacDonald of Connectix explained
  that leaving the same screen on an LCD can cause a "memory effect"
  that results in a ghost that only disappears after the proper
  exorcism of leaving the PowerBook turned off for a few hours.
  We're not talking serious here, but potentially annoying, so the
  CPU screensaver merely flips the pixels so white is black and
  black is white. No flying toasters here. I suggested that they
  allow the screen to stay inverted since some people prefer the
  switch and it might save a little power. Perhaps in the next
  version.


Trackball Assistance
  I haven't had much trouble with the trackball, but I can see how
  some people would. So Connectix added the ability to have menus
  auto-drop when you move over them or drop and stay down with a
  single click (the MacHack entry StickyClick does this too, and you
  can find it on ZiffNet/Mac). More importantly, CPU provides access
  to menus using the keyboard and a system unfortunately graphically
  reminiscent of Windows with the hot key underlined. I'd far prefer
  a slightly different font or bolding, because underlines can be
  ugly, especially under a letter with a descender. I guess it's the
  standard method since there are so many copies of Windows out
  there, but that doesn't excuse it aesthetically.


Power Conservation
  CPU's most important features are its power saving features, and
  these abound. First, you can easily configure the times to spin
  down the hard drive, rest the processor, dim the backlighting, and
  put the PowerBook to sleep. Second, you can activate any of these
  power-saving measures with a hot-key, so I often shut down the
  hard drive when it wasn't doing anything because I enjoy working
  on a silent PowerBook. Third, CPU provides sleep corners, and a
  click in a sleep corner acts as a powerful sedative. When you wake
  up a CPU-enabled PowerBook, you don't have to wait for five to
  fifteen seconds, because Connectix figured out how to delay the
  polling of the ADB and the network that PowerBooks generally do
  when waking up. One additional touch that I especially appreciated
  was the spin-up cursor that indicated when the drive was spinning
  up since you can't do anything during that time. Finally,
  Connectix recognized that you use the PowerBook in different
  places, so you can create sets of settings, with - for example -
  settings for travelling, where power may be hard to find; for
  home, where you can plug in easily; and for running on wall power,
  at which point you don't need to conserve power.

  Apple's software doesn't tell much about power levels, something
  which Connectix tries to rectify. You can set CPU to display a
  graphical battery draining, the percent of battery power left, an
  estimated amount of time you can use the machine, the processor
  speed, and those old favorites, the time and date. I like seeing
  this information, since it tells me more clearly when I should
  head for the plug. For those of you without CPU, Nisus Compact
  also includes a percent of battery left indication, and it and CPU
  even more or less agree.


Conclusion
  Enough on CPU, especially since I hear that After Hours Software
  will soon offer Guy's Utilities for Macintosh - PowerBook Edition
  (GUM-P, and yup, that means other editions will come soon), and
  what I've heard is good. Now if only we could work out a better
  acronym for Guy... Guy's Utilities for Macintosh PowerBooks Taken
  In and Out of .... Nebraska? :-) I talked to Guy briefly about
  GUM-P, and as far as I could tell, it has basically the same
  feature set as CPU, but includes a utility that can synchronize
  files between a desktop Mac and a PowerBook. I suspect you could
  put together a suite of shareware utilities that would provide
  some of the functionality of these packages, but you would risk
  more conflicts, due to the number of different extensions from
  different sources.

    Connectix -- 800/950-5880 -- 415/571-5100

  Information from:
    CPU propaganda and manual -- [e-mail]


Reviews/10-Aug-92
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 03-Aug-92, Vol. 6, #28
    IntelliDraw -- pg. 96
    Email Packages -- pg. 102
      cc:Mail
      Microsoft Mail
      QuickMail
      WordPerfect Mail
    VersaTerm 4.6 -- pg. 110

* MacUser -- Sep-92
    Excel 4.0 -- pg. 56
    Norton Utilities for Macintosh 2.0 -- pg. 58
    AddressWriter -- pg. 60
    HAM, HAND-Off II, and On Cue II -- pg. 61
    Hand-held Scanners -- pg. 63
      Typist Plus Graphics
      ScanMan Model 32
      LightningScan Pro 256
    SoundEdit Pro -- pg. 66
    AudioTrax -- pg. 66
    Frontier -- pg. 70
    Evolve -- pg. 82
    TwinIt -- pg. 89
    NetModem/E -- pg. 89
    Pro Tools -- pg. 89
    Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective -- pg. 90
    Intersect CDR-73M -- pg. 90
    TrashMaster -- pg. 95
    Shredder -- pg. 95
    A Silly Noisy House -- pg. 95
    CameraMan -- pg. 97
    Life Forms -- pg. 97
    Word Processors -- pg. 100
      MacWrite II
      Taste
      WriteNow
      Microsoft Word
      Nisus
      WordPerfect
    3-D Graphics -- pg. 114
      Alias Sketch!
      ElectricImage Animation System
      Infini-D
      MacroMind Three-D
      MacTOPAS
      Presenter Professional
      Ray Dream Designer
      Sculpt 3D and 4D
    Personal PostScript Printers -- pg. 160
      (too many to list)
    Du Pont Plain Paper Imagesetter 600 -- pg. 196
    Inkjet Printers -- pg. 198
      StyleWriter
      DeskWriter


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