About This Particular Macintosh™ 5.05: About the personal computing experience™ Volume 5, Number 5 May 1, 1999   Send requests for free subscriptions to: subscriptions@atpm.com Cover Art © 1999 Jamal Ghandour We need new cover art every month! Write to us! Contributors Eric Blair Daniel Chvatik William Gordon Edward Goss Jens Grabenstein Tom Iovino Juri Munkki Robert Paul Leitao William Lovett Mike Shields Francis Tamburrini Michael Tsai Macintosh users like you Please write for ATPM! Check out the FAQ Editorial Staff Editor/Publisher - Michael Tsai Managing Editor - Daniel Chvatik Copy Editor - Christopher Turner Reviews Editor - Evan Trent Shareware Reviews Editor - William Lovett Opinionated Associate Editor - Mike Shields Contributing Editors - Robert Paul Leitao & Eric Blair Webmasters - Michael Tsai & Evan Trent Page o’ Linkers - Daniel Chvatik & Christoph Neef Interviews Manager - Vacant Publicity Manager - Vacant List “Mom” - Michael Tsai Beta Testers - The Staff Artwork & Design Graphics Director - Jamal Ghandour Layout/Design - Michael Tsai Blue Apple Icon Designs - Marc Robinson Typewriter-Style Section Headers - RD Novo Columnists Jamal Ghandour Edward Goss Tom Iovino Robert Paul Leitao Mike Shields Michael Tsai William Lovett Editors Emeritus RD Novo Robert Madill Belinda Wagner The Tools Anarchie Pro AppleScript AppleWorks BBEdit DOCMaker Emailer FileMaker Pro Illustrator ImageReady LetterRip Mailsmith Myrmidon Nisus Writer Photoshop ResEdit Snapz Pro Spell Catcher StuffIt The Fonts Carbonated Gothic Cheltenham Cloister Foundation Frutiger Garamond Geneva Gill Sans Helvetica Isla Bella Marydale Where to Find ATPM Online and downloadable issues are available at the ATPM Web Page: and via anonymous FTP at: Info-Mac and all its Mirrors The CD-ROMs Accompanying: MacFormat, Macworld UK, Inside Mac Games Any others? Let us know! ATPM is a product of ATPM Publishing © 1995-99, All Rights Reserved ISSN: 1093-2909 Reprints Articles and original art cannot be reproduced without the express permission of ATPM, unless otherwise noted. You may, however, print copies of ATPM, directly from the DOCMaker stand-alone edition or from the Web, provided that it is not modified in any way. Authors may be contacted through ATPM’s editorial staff, or at their e-mail addresses, when provided. The Legal Stuff About This Particular Macintosh may be uploaded to any online area or BBS, so long as the file remains intact and unaltered, but all other rights are reserved. All information contained in this issue is correct to the best of our knowledge. The opinions expressed in ATPM are not necessarily those of this particular Macintosh. Product and company names and logos may be registered trademarks of their respective companies. About This Particular Macintosh is published with DOCMaker 4.8.4, and owes its existence to the program’s author, Mark Wall. May his camels never have fleas. Thank you for reading this far, and we hope that the rest of the magazine is more interesting than this. Thanks for reading ATPM. • • •