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While many see this as a rational decision — "If domains are f'ree, then everybody's just going to go and grab them," says Mike Walsh, president of Internet Info, a Falls Church, Virginia, market research firm — others are unhappy."Where was the public discussion about this>' asks Karl Denninger, president of Internetaccess company Macro Computer Solutions Inc. "Where was the open bidding process?"

Domain names on the Internet will no longer befree. For years, companies have been able to register,I'reeof charge, the domain portion used in their electronic-mail addresses. That is the part of the email address that follows the "@" symbol,as in 70007,411@compuserve.corn; However, starting Sept. 14, Network Solutions Inc., the company hired to register domain names, will impose an annual fee.

The Journal notes that under the new arrangement, companies registering new domain names will pay $100 per name for the first two years. Each year after that, they will have topay $50 per year.Companies thathave already registered addresses will have to pay $50 starting on the first-year anniversary of their registration.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, reporter Jared Sandberg quotes ofFicials with Network Solutions as saying the Herndon, Virginia, firm will begin charging a fee of $50 a year,needed, they say,because of the rising cost of handling some 14,000 registrations each month. The Journal says those costs will pass $6 million this year, while the company collects only $5.9 million over five years in its contract with the government.

Officials with the National Science Foundation, which hired Network Solutions to manage the domain names, told Associated Press writer Evan Ramstad the charge will not apply to individuals. So a person with the electronic address of 70007.41 I®compuserve .cornis not charged a fee, but CompuServe, representedby the compuserve,corn domain name, will pay one $50 fee to cover the connection to the Internet it supplies to millions of CompuServe user IDs (including 70007,411).

David Graves, Internet business manager at Network Solutions, told the paper, "The dramatic growth of the Internet and the costs of doing domain name registration services are exceeding the budget." The Journal notes domain registrations havesoared"ascompanies, eagerto hold on to their trademarks in cyberspace, have rushed to register multiple names as a defensive maneuver."

AP says the NSF will continue to pay the registration fees of government and military agencies, schools and universities.

Until now, Network Solutions has registered requests on a first-come, first-served basis, "letting individuals grab up corporate names and try to resell them to the actual companies,"the paper notes. "The new fee could curb the practice."

The NSF hired Network Solutions in 1993 to be the official registrar of the Internet. Since that time, the NSF has paid a fee to Network Solutions each time a new enterprise has connected to the data network.

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According tothe study, 23 percent of libraries serving populations of 100,000 or more provide direct public access to the Internet. Another five percent provide public access with staff assistance. '"Libraries are the public's on-ramp to the information superhighway," says Betty Turock, president of the 57,000 member American Library Association.

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Nore Cracking of 'Hackers' Page MGM/UA's World Wide Web site intended to promote the studio's new movie "Hackers" continues to be a digital vandalism target itself. Lately, intruders have added links to stolen credit card listings, drug use and homemade bomb-making information. Invadershave changed textand altered images at the Internet site (at Web address http:/ /mgmua.corn/hackers) to ridicule the movie, MGM/UA Vice President John Hegeman told CMP Publishing's Electronic Engineering Times. Initially, it was reported vandals merely had scribbled mustaches on thc electronic graphics, given them wild neon hair and replaced mug shots of some actors with a snapshot of friends drinking beer. However, the magazine says, intruders now also have added information that directs users to other sites containing the illegal information. Larry Lange, associate editor of the magazine, writes in his story, "A seemingly innocuous Worldwide Web site on the Internet has thrown open the door to the arcane and shadowy world of computer hackers."

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General Likes + Painting Functions At first glance, I was surprised that Claris decided to include painting (or bit mapped drawing) functions. I' ve been working in IIlustrator and Freehand so it's been awhile since I' ve even thought about bit mapped drawing tools. To my delight, I got reacquainted with the spray can which was one of my favorite paint tools back in my MacPaint days.

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• Other Nice Touches Adjustable paint resolution. One unique feature in ClarisDraw is the resolution and depth settings. With these controls you can adjust the resolution of your painting tools and the bit depth (number of colours or shades of grey) of the painting. Now your spray can will paint at laser printer resolution and in full colour. Distort effects. Personally, I don't see much use for the distort effects on painted (as opposed to drawn) objects; you get some pretty ugly results when you distort bit mapped text and graphics. There may be times where, for effect, it works. I have used this feature for creating rough sketches which I then trace over with drawing tools. Kids love the distortion effects but personally, I think the paint module is too cumbersome for kids to deal with and still have fun (it would be an interesting lesson in patience).

ClarisDraw has excellent text manipulation functions considering it is a drawing program. You can bind text to objects to create curved baselines and logotype, wrap text around objects for brochure layouts and convert type to curves in order to add custom strokes and fills to characters or to reshape fonts for custom uses. It also has a spell checker which is useful for layouts with a lot of text. I liked the dashed line, arrowhead and connecting line controls and editors: Claris has made these features actually useful. It's great for maps and technical drawings. Also very useful for technical drawings are the Views, layers and libraries functions. These are well „ implemented and very intuitive (once you know they are there). The shapes feature (which allows you to draw stars, cylinder, boxes, arrows, etc.) is useful and kind of fun (though I would like to be able to add other shapes to the menu).

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edit imported scans with the paint tools but only at a very basic level. Also, with the appropriate translator, Clnris claims you can open graphics created in other applications. The trick to this approach is the "appropriate" translator. When and if they are made available, you will be able to translate other files. Exporting follows the same scheme and the same limitations. I should point out that these a probably temporary limitations for the most common formats; translators will likely be available soon though you wBI have to search them out. Exotic or esoteric formats? Who knows?

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From my view of the graphics production world the best features (and featuresI have not seen on other programs I currently use) are the gradient palette and the gradient editor (which are excellent) and the "making objects the same size" feature. I practically kicked myself as I had just finished work on a 24 page publication where these featureswould have saved me 20 hours of work had I just opened the ClarisDraw box a day earlier.

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to keep my life together. For the first time user, the occasional user or the just for fun user, Claris Draw is great. If you had a desktop colour printer, you could put a lot of miles on it with this program. Maybe if you had a slide printer... If you already own a graphics or illustration program the major attractions might be the ability to create slides and slide presentations, the gradient editor, the text mampulation and the modest drafling capabilities. I wouldn't want to design jet engines with

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About the author. Nichael Narrapese is a Vancouver artist/poet/musician and longtime hfacuser. Along with all that, he doesa lot of work in computer graphics and desktop publishing, as well as teaching and consulting with community-based arganisations, charities, and worker-ownedbusinesses.You can contact him c/a computer~laye~ i n d link bc.ca

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but like the other features, only usable with Win95-compatible applications, like all of OfRe 95. Similarly, right-clicking on the desktop gets you the standard Win95 popup menu — choose New to simply create a new Word or Excel or Powerpoint document. ln fact, as with Win95 in general, right-mouse clicking is implemented throughout Office 95. Office 95 applications also all make use of Win 95's Exchange client — you can send e-inail f'rom any of them, or use it to share information across a network.

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WorkingSeparately The applications in Office95 benefit from being designed for Windows95, and to sharethe common features of Office. Otherwise, the actual featuresets of the separate applications are not dramatically changed &om the last generation, That's not a bad thing — Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 were both rich with features that many users still haven't had a chance to fully get used to. All applications in the suite now sport a '7.0' version nuinber — even though in some cases, this means jurnp-

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atlas, desk encyclopedia, famous quotations, etc). Home users and some small oFices running Win95 may find their needs better served with one of the new generation of all-in-one programs, such as Microsoft Works-95, or the soon-to-bereleased Claris Works 4.0. Even though the biggest improvements users will find with this suite come

fmm Wmdows 95 (like long file names) rather than from the core applications, at the moment, this is the product of choice forbusiness users running Win95. Even when Lotus and Novell release their Win95 coinpetitors, in a few months, this will remain the one to beat.O About the author: Afan Zisman can be reached bye-mail:alan zisman ®computer-player. corn

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TheSLIP/PPPConnection This is the fourth book by Paul Gilster that I've had forreview in two years or so— he's turned himself into a one-person library, all focusing on the Internet.

While all are informative and wellwritten, they seem to follow Gilster's personal on-line odyssey. The first two volumes, The Internet Navigator, and Finding It on the Internet, use the traditional tools that have been evolved by Net pioneers for twenty years or so... Unix textbased shell programs. Even with a Mac or Windows PC, these users connected to the Net as a dumb terminal hooked onto their Internet provider, and typed commands at a Unix command line. There is great power available in this approach, but at a cost of ease-of-use. More recently, with the Mosaic Navigator, Gilster discovered graphical browsing on the World Wide Web, which has led to the explosion of interest and activity on the Net. Finally, in the present volume, Gilster explores the new range of graphically-oriented programs available, for both the Mac and PC platforms, focusingon free and shareware programs. He starts ofF looking at setting up the connection itself — what is SLIP/PPP and how is it different from a traditional shell connection. Separatechapters focus on configuring the shareware Trumpet TCP/IP for Windows. and using Mac TCP/IP and InterSLIP for the Mac. Then he examines the range of Internet services and easily available software, looking

at an example program for each platform... ftp, mail, telnet, archie and wais searches, gopher, and usenet. Finally, he examines the Web. looking at several of the popular browsersMosaic. Netscape, (for both Windows and the Mac), Cello, and WinWeb. Finally, he gives a short peek at TIA and SlipKnot. two strategies that emulate a SLIP/ PPP connection on a standard shell connection. As with all Gilster's Internet volumes, this one maintains a good compromise between the technical and the friendly — I find it a comfortable read, with a good level of information for most users. Inevitably, this 1995 volume was actually researched and written late last year and early this year — some of the software has been replaced with later revisions, and for many people, Trumpet TCP/IP will soon be replaced with the Dial-Up-Networking built into Windows 95. Despite this, The SLIP/PPP Connection will prove useful and timely for at least the next year — which is about the shelf life of any Internet volume these days. I can recommend this for people who are comfortable using Macs or Windows who are new to the Net, and especially to anyone who has to work with users on both platforms.

The Non-Des igner's DesignBook Like Paul Gilster, Robin Williams (no, not THAT Robin Williams) has written a whole series of books, often small books, at a reasonable price, aimed at new users. Her "The LITTLE MAC BOOK" is my favorite introduction to the computer that, despite its image, still needs an introduction. "JARGON" aims at helping users wade through

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at least some of the techno-babble and acronyms that often help make a new user to computers feel like an outsider. And "The MAC IS NOT A T Y PEWRITER", and a companion volume for PCusers spelled out beginning typographical principles, and how to put them into practice... ways that proportional typefaces allow computer users to go beyond the limitations of the typewriter, on which some many of us learned to use a keyboard. This 1994 book is a slim and attractive volume. It is cartying on in the tradition of the TYPEWRITER books, but with more focus on "design and typographic principles for the visual novice", and less on specific computer platforms. Computers, and graphical interfaces in particular, along with reasonable-priced inkjet and laser printers, have given every computer user the power to create complicated page

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that this is tax evasion which is a criminal offence inCanada, you can damage your ability to obtain financing. I remember years ago a gentleman being referred to me to provide a financial statement or letter to the bank supporting his income. He brought me his records, such as they were, and asked me to provide the information. Based on what he gave me, I told him his records showed a loss and consequently the bank probably would be unwilling to provide the loan he requested. His response was, "Oh, that's all I put in the books but I don't record cash payments. If I tell you the amount, can you include it?". Of course I could not, I had no evidence of it. By cheating on his taxes he had in fact reduced his chances of getting a mortgage tobuy the home he wanted. Had he been maintaining proper records and dealing with a Chartered Aeeountant on an ongoing basis, he would have had adequate records and the advantages of planning to legally minimize his tax as opposed to exposing himself to charges of tax evasion. Our firmhas developed a new business kit which we provide to clients starting out in business to assist them in dealing with many of these issues. I am prepared to provide it to readers of this column at our cost of $10.00 a copy to cover printing and binding, If you are already a client, I am happy to provide you with a free copy or if you become a client after receiving the kit, I will be more than happy to refund the SIQ.QQ to you. If you wish to receive a kit, please call our office.

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$1699 US - or roughly 20% lessthan Apple's similar Power Macintosh 7200/90 with 8MB of RAM, a 500MB Hard Drive, a Quad Speed CD-ROM and three PCI-bus slots.

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While Power Computing hasbuilt a machine that seems to be as dependable as a Macintosh, it is not unique in any way, other than the fact that it is less expensive. Since all Power Computing machines are shipped f'rom Texas, add in the shipping and brokerage charges, andtheprice gapnarrows for us Canadians when compared to what a Power Macintosh would cost at the Apple dealer down the street - and you don't have to ship it anywhere for service, nor do you have to

call a long distancenumber in adifferen time zone for support. (It will probably take a while for you to decipher the accenttoo...) If your Power Computing clone ever breaks down, you can kiss goodbye the residual

amount you saved, in shipping chargesback & forth to Texas,andyou may losethousands of dollars in downtime. Power Computing's biggest mistake is its inability to provide a viable program for resellers, which is necessary for any compatibles to besuccessful. Power Computing has chosen to follow the example of Dell, providing products and services directly to end users via telephone and mail order, and Visit our retail store for a has all but shunned any form of reseller disdemonstration of the newest tribution. Although profits are potentially Macintosh Powerbooks, or higher, this form of distribution limits Power view product specs on our Computing's visibility in the marketplace to web site! only well-read, existing Macintosh users (since Power Computing's only advertising vehicle seems to be Mac World magazine) thus Power Computer completely misses out • on the opportunity presented by the plethora of currently upgrading PC users - a market Outside Vancouver call toll & ec.': 1-800-563-MACS that we asdealers have been scooping up for We are Authorized to ship Apple products throughout Canada! several months. (...if Windows 95 makesmy . PC more Mac-like, why don't I just buy a ':Osr'~de p~ eat is opistfar~ ' i n ifiiaa4rltsatj tej'sits'@' oitiirls1 Mac in the first place?...) In speaking with Power Computing, the lack of dealer distribution is strictly a profit issue. Since they 22353Lougheed Highway, Maple Ridge p would have to offer a discount todealers, and with Power Computing already earning such email: sales@macstation.corn slim margins, there just isn't any room to World Wide Web: http: //www.macstation.corn Authorized Dealer move for dealers. When I spoke with one of Power Computing's representatives, he told

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market the product. Even superstores don' t like to market products below 108a,

Power Computing will not succeed in its present state simply because it does not have the foresight nor the experience neces-

sary to succeed in the Macintosh market. Power Computing is attempting to compete

against Apple on price alone and when you compete based strictly on price, rather than value, you die. As resellers it's something we have all learned in competing with superstores, and it's why we have been able to survive even with higher prices - by offering the added value that superstores cannot. Since there are no value-added features in Power Computing's clonesnor their marketing strategy, and Power Computing is either unable or unwilling to distribute through dealers capable ofproviding that addedvalue, Power Computing will soon disappear. Daystar Digital and Radius however,

although small players inthe Macintosh compatible game, will continue to grow and develop slowly in their established niches through their innovation, foresight, experience in the Macintosh market, and their relationship with their dealers.

Surely someone will get it right soon. The "Pippin" product, slated to be released this Christmas, will be a godsend to the Macintosh consumer channel.For those

unaware, Pippin is another Macintosh compatible which covers a specific, and very profitable niche - the video game market. Theoretically, Pippin, which will look similar to a Sega CD, will run standard Macintosh CD-ROM's simply by popping them in - no installations and no doubl~licking required, and at a competitive price in the $400 range. The result will be a huge increase in the number of games available for Macintosh users, and anincrease in theattractiveness in the Macintosh in the consumergames channel - a category IBM compatibles have always been the leader in simply due to the sheer number of gametitles available. Mote Macintoslt-compa6bieproduchfeaturingaddedvalueand functionality will anive over the coming months, but unless Power Computing changes itsfocusand expands the functionality and availability of its chmes, it

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hen Steve Wozniakcreated the Apple computer,he developed an affordable consumer computer which took off after VisiCalc, a spreadsheet, gave people an application and reason to buy computers. Others saw the growing market and an opportunity to meet it In came the Apple cloaca: the Franklin, Orange, and Pineapple which offered mom features and lower prices.

Apple wouldn't build computerscheaper and nfused to license anApple clone. Apple took leld action against the clones and remained the only manufacturer. Apple yunbied that high quality pmduction and control of the hardware design would generate a premier pnxlact and naVm higher markups. In 1984, another Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh, and Apple became ahouM:hold name.

Ten Years After... IBM made the PC market legitimate, Bill Gates through Microsoft made DOS available and clone makers sold most of the hardware to make Intel and Microsoft the standard for PCs. By 1994, 10% of all personal computers sold were manufactured by Apple Computer. However, Apple was suffering from their own success. Demand was more than what Apple's factories could produce. Delays in delivering computers to retailers stretched to months. Apple and IBM's market share have both suffered to the readily available PC clone, and Apple's new models reflects an attempt to reverse the trend.

Today Apple is switching to the industry standard PCI-bus on the latest Macs for faster performanceand because they are a standard, they cost less than the NuBus bus. In addition, Apple is licensing the Mac OS to companiesto manufacture Macintosh clones. At the samt; time, we have witnessed the evolution of RISC technology, incorporated last year into three new Mac models running the Power PC 601 chip. Last year's Macintosh additions were the 6100-66, 710046/So, 8100-80, 100. This first generation of Power Macs, will be real bargains in early 'l996. If you have to buy this fall, I recommend this year's models: the 6200-75,7200-75/90. The new improvements

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for this second generation include increased overall speed (about 20% faster), increased Video RAM for fastergraphics or more colours, and the 7200s ship with telecom software that can allow the built-in modem (GeoPort Pod) to operate as a hands-free phone,answering machine, and fax. The 604-basedMacintoshes are the 7500100, S500-120, 9500-120/132. The 9500 is the fastest Mac, and is considerably fhster than any Pentium at this time. The 9500 is a ten thousand dollar machine, comparable to a Silicon Graphics Indy if you need this kind of power. And in this corner... Radius has an Sl/110, which is analogous to the 8100. You can actually buy an Apple 8500-120 for the same price, so I don' t know why they ofFer the pniduct at this time. IBM has promised to build and sell MacOSloaded CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) machines next year. DayStar has a very unique product: a four-PowerPC 604 CPU "Genesis MP" system. I'm skeptical about the justification for this because the costs for sofhvare that can exploit the multiprocessing architecture may be greater than the economic gains of processing time. Power Computing was first off the blocks with a 601 NuBus (Apple's existing standard) product this summer,and has announced a dozen configurations of PCI, NuBus and even mixed bus machines, running combinations of 60ls, 604s and the cool (as in not overheating) 603e CPUs at prices as much as 10% below other clones and Apples. What this means for buyers is certainly more confusion. Apple's product line has always been &usttating; often incomprehensible. The UBC Bookstore boasts 23 models. Not to mention the possible variations achieved by altering configurations, or adding clones to the inventory. What this means for Apple is that Macintosh is not the platform of choice for firsttime buyers. It means that the user hase is comprised largely of the more careful purchasers, or those who are more certain of their current and future needs.

The improved interface is more productive and intuitive. Despite these improvements, or because of them, Apple will tiy to remind everybody that Microsoft can only be happy when it has re-invented the Mac. You' ve probably already noticed the billboard ads and T-shirts mocking Gates' new product, as Apple sees this transitional period as a real opportunity for increasing hardware sales. The campaign is called 'Windows 95 Assault', and emphasizesfeatures which appear to be plagiarized from the Mac OS: 32 character names, a recycler, hierarchical launching menu, desktop,even a shutdown command. However, I detect sour grapes, and consider the campaign more likely to consolidate existing Mac customers rather than actually convert Windows users. "If anything, Windows 95 will increase Macintosh sales," says Wanen Kobbeltvedt of Byte Computers.Most Apple dealers agree: users are examining the costs of converting to Windows 95 and comparing it to buying a new machine. Apple has increased their advertising presence, and also released a product line designed to attract power-starved businesses, first-time buyers, students in need of a new system and those on Intel-based machines who find their systems inadequate to run Microsoft's new GUI, or don't find the operatingsystem's infamous weaknesses sufficiently addressed and would like to explore other options.

Performs 580CD 8/500 Performs 5200CD 8/500 Performa 6200CD 8/1000 Performs systems complete with Monitor, Data/Pax Modem, CD-ROM, Keyboard, Mouse, software fk 7 CD's 7200/75 8/500 CD 7200/90 8/500 CD 7200/90 16/1000 CD 7500/100 hV 16/1000 CD 8500/120 hv 16/2000 cD 9500/120 16/1000 CD Graphics Card 9500/132 32/2000 CD

Performa... The new Performa line is a very comprehensive package, and that's what makes it so attractive. The 6200CD is the flagship configuration: Motorola PowerPC RISC 75MHz processor (Pentium 120 or so), quad-speed CD-ROM, I Gig hard drive, PCI bus (theor etically compatible with I B M' s P C I architecture). Bonus pack include 20 CD's, as usual only a few of which I would use regularly: Quicken, ClarisWorks, and maybe The Family Doctor. There is a 15" monitor, internal 14.4 fax modem, keyboard, mouse

and System '7.5. The 6200 is pricey (about

Tomorrow. Prices will drop a little; power will increase.The new manufacturers have lower overheads and smaller structure allow changes and improvements to be much cheaper. Competition may play a role, but I don' t expect to see many players. Apple wants to ensure compatibility with their software, so they are going to be very choosy when selecting 'partners'. All the current partners have been building reliable components and peripherals for over seven years. All signs seem to point to Apple following NeXT's lead and abandoning hardware manufacturing entirely. Apple has proven that their hardware design and operating system is leaps and bounds ahead of any competitor (except maybe OpenStep) and reports of Copland look promising: improvements in stability, ergonomics, preemptive multitasking and intuitiveness. Copland is Apple's answer to Windows 95 hype, but don't expect the dialogue to end there. Microsoft has already begun working on their new version of Windows, nicknamed Cairo, and Apple is

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puter, this is a very productive machine. It didn't take me long to find a deckedout Pentium 120 with gobs of sofhvare for $3100. Windows usersmay have more lustration, but they can get help and - let's be honest - 'borrow' software from 80% of their friends. While it is still unconventional to buy Mac, the price/performance ratio has equaled if not bettered comparable Windows boxes. Apple's billboard blitz is testament that they are tired of being the 'alternative', and may still be clinging to that pie-in-the-sky goal of 25% of market share. 0

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