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From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#250/31-Oct-94
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 11:24:37 PDT

TidBITS#250/31-Oct-94
=====================

For Star Trek and virtual reality (well, QuickTime VR) fans out
   there, we review Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive
   Technical Manual. We also review Mac Control, a utility for
   preventing unauthorized changes to public Macs, and Mark
   Anbinder looks at PageNOW from Mark/Space Softworks along
   with the new TelePort Gold II modem from Global Village.
   Finally, the Power Mac 8100/110 appears, along with notes
   about free Internet initiatives.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/31-Oct-94
    International Internet Initiatives
    The Gold Standard
    Page When? PageNOW!
    Macintosh File and Application Preservation: Mac Control
    Beam Up QuickTime VR
    Reviews/31-Oct-94

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MailBITS/31-Oct-94
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  Just a quick note to let people know that the mirror script for
  the utilities directory on <ftp.tidbits.com> now works properly,
  so it holds Internet and communication utilities from various
  parts of the Info-Mac Archive.

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/util/


**Power Mac 8100/110** -- Look for Apple to announce a new, faster
  Power Mac 8100 next week. The Power Mac 8100/110 uses a 110 MHz
  PowerPC 601 chip, has a 256K cache, and will ship in a
  configuration with 16 MB of RAM, a 2 GB hard drive, and 2 MB of
  VRAM. Apple claims a 30 percent speed increase over the 8100/80,
  which is not yet being discontinued. You'll be able to order the
  8100/110 as of 07-Nov-94, but don't expect availability to be good
  for a month or so.


**The Connectix QuickCam** (see TidBITS-235_) ships 31-Oct-94,
  just in time to be a last-minute Halloween treat. The company says
  the initial batch of finished cameras will go to customers who
  placed orders with MacConnection during the Macworld Expo in
  Boston this August, and they hope to have all existing orders
  filled by the end of November. With luck and careful planning,
  dealers will have them on the shelves for the holidays. Connectix
  -- 800/950-5880 -- 415/571-5100 -- 415/571-5195 (fax) --
  <[e-mail]> [MHA]


**Gavin Eadie** <[e-mail]> writes:
  There has been an increasing amount of interest expressed in the
  Apple Open Collaboration Environment (AOCE) in various newsgroups
  recently. I've decided to sponsor a mailing list that covers these
  topics.

  The list's purpose is to provide a forum for discussion for
  PowerTalk users, PowerShare administrators, and software
  developers within which they can share advice, problems, and so on
  with each other and with Apple. Topics include Apple products that
  form the core of AOCE, including the system software components
  and PowerTalk and PowerShare, third-party "mail-enabled"
  applications, specific third-party applications like PowerRules
  that are dedicated to AOCE usage, AOCE programming, gateways
  (P/CSAMs), and AppleScripts.

  I have a commitment from Apple and StarNine to monitor the list
  (there are already several subscribers from both these companies
  on the list) as well as people from other companies and users and
  administrators from around the world.

  If you want to request membership send email to <aoce-list-
  [e-mail]>, and if you want to send a message to everyone
  on the list use <[e-mail]>.


**Karl Bunker **<[e-mail]>, the author of the freeware
  After Dark module "Barney Blaster" last week released Barney
  Blaster 2.0, an updated version of one of the most popular After
  Dark modules featuring everyone's favorite purple dinosaur.
  Barney Blaster 2.0 is still free; it is available on the major
  commercial online services, and is on the Internet at:

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/ad/barney-blaster-201-ad.hqx


**PlainTalk Easter Egg** -- Marcus Stewart <stewart-cic-
  [e-mail]> passes on an Easter Egg that we hadn't
  heard about yet. Apparently, if, using PlainTalk 1.3, you ask,
  "Computer, are there any Easter Eggs?" it will respond with "If
  there were any do you think I would tell you?" Nice to have
  computers that are up front about all this. [ACE]


International Internet Initiatives
----------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Last week's article about free Internet access in Bologna, Italy
  prompted a number of responses from other parts of the world that
  are also providing free Internet access to citizens, as well as a
  comment about Bologna's history of innovation.


**Frans Hoffman** <[e-mail]> writes:
  The Digital City in Amsterdam has been offering free access in
  Amsterdam and surroundings since January 1st, 1994. Approximately
  10,000 people have registered as citizens. The City of Amsterdam
  (city council, archives, political parties etc.) and the Dutch
  Senate (Archives and Senators) are among the available services.

http://dds.nl/home.shtml/hoofdmenu


**Cheinan Marks** <[e-mail]> writes:
  The state of Maryland offers a Gopher server containing
  information about Maryland, state and local government, and
  Internet access. The state is also in the process of providing all
  Marylanders with a free local access number. Six counties already
  offer connections locally, and the whole state should be connected
  in a year or so, although the major population areas should be
  done this year. Additionally, Baltimore's library currently offers
  email service for $35 per year and FTP and Telnet for $100 per
  year.

gopher://sailor.lib.md.us


**Jack Machiela** <[e-mail]> writes:
  New Zealand's capital, Wellington, has a fairly progressive City
  Council, who have had their publicly accessible Citynet system up
  and running for some years now, giving free access to email,
  Archie, Usenet, IRC and a few other services. And when I say free,
  that includes the phone lines - New Zealand Telecom appears to be
  one of the last in the world to provide free local calls for
  residential customers. Citynet is provided as a VT-100 compatible
  menu driven front end over about a dozen phone lines. You can also
  telnet to it or access the information via Gopher.

gopher://gopher.wcc.govt.nz


**David Peterson** <[e-mail]> writes:
  Last week's TidBITS (TidBITS-249_) describes how the City of
  Bologna in Italy is providing free/low cost Internet service to
  its residents. But this shouldn't surprise us. Bologna has had a
  reputation for innovation for over 900 years. In 1076, Irnerius, a
  liberal arts teacher, found the summary index to Roman law, which
  had been lost since the year 603 (Dark Ages and all that). He
  established a law teaching facility in a monastery, which evolved
  into one of the world's first law schools by 1088. Benefiting from
  its location at the crossroads of "real" highways, the city soon
  had more law students than residents, and an international student
  body. By 1158, the law school had expanded into one of the world's
  first universities, run by the students, who hired the teachers
  and wrote the rules. In the 1300s, the issue was "paper versus
  parchment." Bolognese took the radical "pro-paper" position, in
  spite of arguments that it was too fragile and would never last.


The Gold Standard
-----------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  Expressing a tongue-in-cheek belief that "everyone should be able
  to afford gold," Global Village Communication earlier this month
  announced its new TelePort Gold II modem, with a suggested retail
  price of $155. The new modem replaces the popular TelePort Gold,
  offers most of the same features, and adds greyscale fax
  capability.

  Physically, the TelePort Gold II resembles the TelePort Bronze II,
  the $109 2400 bps modem that replaced Global Village's original
  line of ADB-connected modems. Unlike the Bronze II, though, the
  Gold II does not draw power from the Mac's ADB port; it has its
  own AC adapter. The new modem replaces the original Gold's AT&T
  modem chipset with a Rockwell V.32bis chipset. The Rockwell chips
  have appeared in several popular modems, such as those from Supra.

  Although the TelePort Gold II has the same basic specifications as
  its departing sibling, such as 14,400 bps data communications and
  14,400 bps send and receive faxing, it lacks the OCR (optical
  character recognition, or text scanning) feature previously
  included with the TelePort Gold. The OCR functionality is now
  available only with the TelePort Mercury, the company's top of the
  line "V.32terbo" 19,200 bps modem that sports 14,400 bps faxing.
  Gold II owners will also be able to purchase the GlobalFax OCR
  software for $49 plus shipping. The TelePort Gold II includes
  Global Village's popular GlobalFax software for sending and
  receiving faxes, and a free (fully licensed) copy of Dave
  Alverson's ZTerm terminal software.

  Global Village says the TelePort Gold II requires some version of
  System 7, up to and including 7.5. This requirement should only be
  relevant if you use the fax software, since for data
  communications it's just a serial device. The GlobalFax software
  does not support QuickDraw GX at this time, though the company is
  working on a GX-compatible driver.

  For the first time, Global Village is shipping its GlobalFax 2.1
  software with a stand-alone modem. Version 2.1.3 provides
  greyscale fax sending capabilities at two quality levels
  comparable to the "best" and "faster" modes in Apple's ImageWriter
  driver. It also offers intelligent requeueing of unsent or
  incomplete faxes and better handling of the memo text on cover
  sheets. Previously, GlobalFax 2.1 was bundled only with the
  OneWorld fax servers (see TidBITS-232_ and TidBITS-236_ for more
  details).

    Global Village Communication -- 800/736-4821 -- 415/390-8200
      415/390-8222 (sales fax) -- <[e-mail]>

  Information from:
    Global Village propaganda


Page When? PageNOW!
-------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  This July, Mark/Space Softworks announced that its new wireless
  messaging software, PageNOW, would soon be available. Mark/Space
  showed a pre-release version at August's Macworld Expo in Boston,
  and soon thereafter shipped an "Early Adopter" version while
  continuing development on a final version. The software can send
  messages to alphanumeric pagers, or to PCMCIA messaging cards such
  as Motorola's Newton MessagePad messaging card.

  PageNOW is a scriptable application and supports a variety of
  custom Apple events, so it can be controlled from other
  applications and automated in several ways. The scripting feature
  takes advantage of AppleScript, and Mark/Space expects many users
  will create custom solutions for automatic paging in response to
  external circumstances. For example, PageNOW could be configured
  to forward electronic mail messages, report on the status of
  backups or other long procedures, or send appointment reminders.

  In addition to providing documentation on the AppleScript and
  Apple event features that permit creative users to invent their
  own customized paging systems, Mark/Space includes samples that
  can be modified for a given circumstance or used as-is.

  PageNOW 0.9, the Early Adopter version, is a fully-functional,
  fully-tested application that can be installed in 68000, PowerPC
  native, or fat binary versions. Version 0.9 does not yet support
  one-step group paging or full logging, and does not yet have a
  colorful box. Version 1.0, which will be provided to Early
  Adopters at no cost, will also include support for additional
  Apple events and more sample scripts and solutions than are
  provided with 0.9.

  Mark/Space has released a demonstration version of the PageNOW 0.9
  application that supports sending pages to a single subscriber,
  and adds a message to each page. The demo versions of this and
  other Mark/Space products are available on popular online services
  and on the Internet at:

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mspace/

  PageNOW has a suggested retail price of $79.95, and volume pricing
  or site licenses are available.

    Mark/Space Softworks -- 800/799-4737 -- 408/293-7299
      408/293-7298 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>

  Information from:
    Mark/Space Softworks propaganda


Macintosh File and Application Preservation: Mac Control
--------------------------------------------------------
  by Ed Palmer <[e-mail]>

  "I hate surprises."

  At least that's what I tell my high school students when they want
  to change the Macintosh environment in the eighty or so computers
  for which I am responsible. I teach six classes and take care of
  the machines in my "free" time, so I require a security program
  that lets me teach my students and keep them from making
  undesirable changes. Before I found BDW Software's Mac Control, I
  tried everything from making folders invisible, to shareware and
  freeware programs, to other commercial security programs. Most had
  so many drawbacks that they made using the Mac more work than
  necessary. I finally found Mac Control, an easy-to-use program
  which seems to answer all my needs - no more strange sounds,
  hidden messages in the desktop, or unwanted startup screens.

  After I set up Mac Control, students could make many changes (but
  Mac Control locks them out of dangerous places), but when the Mac
  restarts, everything returns to exactly how I last left it. Mac
  Control uses the desktop interface without resorting to a menu-
  driven system or to brute-force methods.

  The Mac Control Manager can set users and passwords to determine
  who can use desk accessories, documents, control panels, and who
  can see inside the System Folder. The Manager can protect the hard
  disk from the moving, renaming, deleting, or addition of
  unauthorized files. This is a great deterrent against piracy as
  users can be prevented from copying applications to disks or
  running programs from their own disks. Mac Control can direct (or
  force) users to save their work only to floppies or servers or to
  their own areas in a locally shared folder. A master password
  overrides all other passwords, allowing the Manager to log in as
  any user, without keeping track of individual user passwords. You
  can lock icons so your hard disk doesn't suddenly sprout a face
  you don't want. Users can use servers and copy files to and from
  the personal folder if they want.

  Users have sufficient access to delete, rename, or duplicate
  documents on their disks or in their folders, but not elsewhere.
  You can set up the shared folder so that each user automatically
  has his or her own folder inside the shared folder. Each user only
  sees what is in his or her folder, and can't peruse others'
  folders. You can create drop folders and have Mac Control keep a
  user log that shows which user did what, and when it was done
  (this feature gave me great information in tracking down abuse).
  You can also set the user definitions so certain users can use
  only certain applications at certain times of the day.

  Installation and removal is simple, although you can lock the hard
  disk so that if the Mac starts up from a floppy the hard disk is
  unavailable. The Mac Control INIT takes 24K of RAM and works on
  all Macs from the Plus on up. Updating is easy because one set of
  users can be defined and then copied to the other Macs. If the
  Manager forgets the password (or students figure out the password,
  as has happened to me), you can reset the program with the
  original startup disk. There's always a way around anything, but
  this one is tough. Anyone going to such extremes might as well do
  physical damage rather than try to bypass the program.

  I currently have eleven users defined under Mac Control for each
  Mac in my classroom lab - one per class period, one for the Band
  director, one for myself (Manager), one for the local community
  college, and one for the technology coordinator and the technician
  to use. I demo lessons on the overhead using one of the student
  users, and before each class change, I simply restart and things
  revert to the original settings for the next class discussion.

  Mac Control Remote, a useful additional option, enables you to
  control all the Macs on a network from any machine. The Remote
  program gives the Manager special abilities, including freezing
  all keyboards and mice (which you'd want during instructional
  time), raising all Macs to Manager level (to add files or make
  changes), restarting all Macs with a single command, shutting down
  all Macs (but it won't flip off the switches for you!), and
  reversing all of these controls. The Remote program has saved me
  an amazing amount of time and energy. I recently taught a class
  first period and had neglected to set the memory for ClarisWorks
  high enough to work properly with graphics. Mac Control Remote
  helped me set all 27 Macs to the proper memory, restart, and be
  ready for the next class in nine minutes from start to finish.
  Without Mac Control, I would have lost the effectiveness of the
  lesson or would have taken most of the next hour to correct the
  situation.

  A reduced version of Mac Control, Mac Control Junior, has all the
  security of the full version at a reduced price and with users and
  abilities preset. It is easier to use, but if you prefer to set
  things up exactly as you desire, the full version is great. I
  personally prefer the full version as I can set users and
  privileges in detail. BDW Software offers a fully functioning
  version of Mac Control Junior as a demo with the manual and full
  access to testing the features of the Junior product. The demo
  functions for thirty minutes after each restart, but can give the
  user a good feel for what the product can do.

  Mac Control Junior costs $49 for use on one Mac and $299 for one
  building; Mac Control costs $59 for a single copy and $399 for a
  building. The building version covers all current and future Macs
  within the building (no need to purchase additional licenses when
  adding Macs). BDW offers many other pricing options for larger and
  smaller installations. Adding Mac Control Remote to Mac Control
  brings the building cost to $499. Competitive upgrades are
  available, and when I purchased a single copy to evaluate, BDW
  also applied that cost to the building price. I've found BDW's
  support outstanding, and they are receptive to suggestions for
  future improvements. In fact, when I last called about a need I
  had, the request had already been incorporated into an update and
  within a few days, I had the new version.

  I think the package and the associated benefits are worth the
  relatively minimal cost and the savings to my time. Compared to
  other products I've evaluated, Mac Control is outstanding and will
  save teachers or other Macintosh administrators significant time
  and effort. While allowing the user full use of the benefits of
  the Macintosh interface, the product halts the abuse of the
  friendliness and openness of that same interface.

  [To compare Mac Control with a competing product, check out the
  review of MacPrefect in TidBITS-242_. -Tonya]

    BDW Software -- 800/726-5462 -- 612/686-5462 -- 452-4902 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Beam Up QuickTime VR
--------------------
  by Richard C. S. "Doc" Kinne <[e-mail]>

  When I learned that my personal hero, Professor Stephen W.
  Hawking, had sat in the center seat of USS Enterprise and looked
  around from that vantage point, I was jealous. I'm not as jealous
  any more, now that I've done the same thing - virtually - thanks
  to Simon & Schuster Interactive's first virtual reality offering,
  Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual.

  The Interactive Technical Manual was a hotly anticipated product
  for several reasons. First, now that the television series Star
  Trek: The Next Generation has ended, this CD becomes the
  definitive reference for the series. Second, this CD debuts
  Apple's QuickTime VR technology. QuickTime VR extends the
  animation functions of QuickTime with the awareness of spatial
  relationships needed for virtual reality programming.

  I waited with bated breath for this CD-ROM and - when I opened the
  package - my heart was pounding because I feared I'd hyped the
  product in my own mind so much that I'd be disappointed when
  trying it. I wasn't disappointed!

  Installation of the program is simple. You copy QuickTime 2.0 from
  the CD to your Extensions folder and then copy one of two software
  folders to your hard disk, depending on how much disk space you
  wish to devote to the program. Once that's done, you double-click
  the Interactive Technical Manual icon to run the program. Simon &
  Schuster provided both 68K and PowerPC versions of the software;
  the version you don't use needn't be copied from the CD, or you
  can keep both on a hard disk that travels between computers.

  When you launch the software, the "LCARS" computer system from
  Star Trek's USS Enterprise appears to take over your Macintosh.
  The futuristic user interface even includes the computer's voice
  as portrayed by Majel Barrett (Gene Roddenberry's wife). You can
  go on a guided tour of Enterprise or go off on your own to explore
  the ship. You can also use an alphabetical index to jump right to
  information you're interested in, from warp propulsion system
  theory to the personal files of Lieutenant Commander Geordi
  LaForge. After you find something of interest, the LCARS interface
  makes it easy to access related areas.

  Jonathan Frakes, in his TV persona of Commander Riker, narrates
  the guided tour of Enterprise. Riker takes you through such areas
  as the exterior of Enterprise, the Bridge, the Captain's Ready
  Room, Ten Forward (the ship's laid-back tavern), Sickbay,
  Engineering, and the Holodeck (a 24th century form of virtual
  reality). Upon entering each area, Riker describes the area and
  explains its purpose on the ship. During the commentary, the
  point-of-view pans the entire area in question so you see
  everything. You can wander around and explore every area of the
  tour at any time.

  What makes all of this work is Apple's (as yet unreleased to the
  public) QuickTime VR technology. QuickTime VR is based on
  QuickTime 2.0, but includes important additional capabilities.
  Rather than just offer video sequences, QuickTime VR incorporates
  spatial information about each locale and what surrounds it. As a
  result, the user can pan through two 360 degree axes (horizontal
  and vertical), and can move around the "floor," providing a view
  of any corner of each room. With this technology you can walk
  yourself from the main turbolift door on the bridge, across the
  back railing where the Security and Tactical station is, down the
  starboard ramp (turning your head to take a look at the Enterprise
  dedication plaque as you pass by it), to the Captain's chair where
  you can look around to the chairs to either side, look up to the
  transparent dome above or down to the instrument panels located on
  the arms of your command chair. Software such as Virtus
  Walkthrough has offered such capabilities for mathematically
  rendered environments, but didn't provide a way of incorporating a
  real location into the tour.

  As you walk about Enterprise you can examine individual objects
  like the dedication plaque mentioned above. When you do so, text
  appears describing the object in question, and the computer offers
  a spoken summary. With some objects and rooms you can to punch up
  production notes that tell you "behind the scenes facts" about
  them. (Do you know after whom Captain Picard's pet fish is named?)

  QuickTime VR enables you to handle certain objects by grabbing
  them with the mouse and rotating them in three dimensions. In the
  case of a medical tricorder, the simulation is so good that lights
  and dials continue to blink while you manipulate the object! Also
  visually impressive is a user-controllable exterior view, in which
  the USS Enterprise, a large Starbase, and a planet appear. Apple's
  QuickTime specialists believe this feature will be especially
  useful in museum catalog CDs. Such products will allow museum
  virtual visitors not only to walk from room to room viewing the
  exhibits, but also to pick up sculptures and other artifacts for
  closer examination from any angle, a luxury most museums don't
  dare offer.

  What kind of resources does a program like this take? The
  Interactive Manual requires at least 8 MB of memory and about 1.5
  MB of hard disk space all told. (You can copy less to your hard
  disk, but the program's responsiveness will suffer.) The native
  PowerPC version requires comparable resources. Testing on both a
  Power Mac 6100 and a Quadra 660AV showed good performance in both
  environments, though some canned video sequences (from Commander
  Riker's tour) jumped a bit on a Quadra 610 that was also handling
  some background tasks (not surprising). The virtual reality pans
  were good on all of the tested systems, as was the ability to
  handle objects and rotate them to view all sides. If you don't
  have 8 MB to play around with the program will run in as little as
  5 MB, but the virtual reality features may be unavailable.

  So what's the final word for the Star Trek: The Next Generation
  Interactive Technical Manual? Easy. If you are a Mac-owning Star
  Trek fan with 8 MB of memory and a CD-ROM drive, or you know such
  a person, then I've solved your Christmas gift-giving problems
  this year. This CD is simply a must have! The subject matter is
  elegantly handled, the user interface is well thought out and
  totally in character, and with over 630 MB of raw data they've
  included nearly everything that could be included. My only
  complaint is that I wanted the CD-ROM drive to access information
  faster than it was designed to.

  Even if you're not a Star Trek fan this CD-ROM is worth seeing
  just to view the incredible potential offered by the QuickTime VR
  technology. If Apple plays its cards right this technology could
  take the educational and architectural markets by storm. Imagine
  being an automotive student and viewing car engine parts from all
  sides simply by dragging your mouse. The real estate industry
  could likewise be transformed. As you walk through Enterprise
  imagine being able to do the same thing with the design of your
  new house before you lay the foundation! Apple did QuickTime VR
  right.

  The Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual is
  published by Simon & Schuster Interactive and is available now;
  the street price is about $40. Rush right out; you won't regret
  it! And now, if everyone will excuse me, I'm going to take a walk
  down to Main Engineering. Mr. LaForge promised me a lesson in warp
  field dynamics.

  [Doc's gushing seemed a bit excessive until I saw the CD last
  night. I've known for a while what QuickTime VR can do, but seeing
  is believing. This thing screams. -Mark]

    Simon & Schuster Interactive -- 212/698-7000 -- 212/698-7555 (fax)

  Information from:
    Simon & Schuster Interactive
    Apple Computer


Reviews/31-Oct-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 24-Oct-94, Vol. 8, #42
    Face to Face 2.0 -- pg. 29
    PhotoEngine -- pg. 29
    Joule Modular Storage System -- pg. 30

* InfoWorld -- 24-Oct-94, Vol. 16, #43
    FileWave 2.0 -- pg. 139


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