Macworld January 1999

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The PowerBook Field Guide page 70.

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Ifyou're a globe-trotting graphics
pro, itinerant executive, or post­
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Graphics Comin' at Ya
79 107 A Strong Batch of By c H R I s T 0 p H E R B R E E N Three­
Road Gear DeBabelizer dimensi onal games require more
BY STEPHAN SOMOGYI Dis­ BY J 1 M HE 1 D Harness the juice to jam, but is your hardware up
cover a wealth of add-on goodies automation power of Equilibri­ to snuff? Macworld Lab helps you
to make your trusty PowerBook um's batch-processing image­ determine which 3-D-acceleration
more travel-savvy. manipulation utility. cards give good game.
83 Web 190
Traveling Light 111 Bring Buttons to Life in The Game Room
By JEFF p ITT ELK Au Feather­ Flash 3 BY PHILIP DYER The unvar­
weight portable projectors really BY KATHERINE ULRICH 1\1ake nished trutl1 about playing PC
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ters. Macworld Lab tests six "ultra­ Macromedia's snazzy little vector
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11 5 Mastering Adobe Premiere 5
88 BY J 1 M H E 1 D Learn expert
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4 January 1999 MACWORLD
Reviews

Opinion
42 .....h Adobe Illustrator 8.0
.Il.lu.s.tr ation software
17 Letters 44 Epson Stylus Color 740
.In.k.- jet printer
29 The Vision Thing
B y AN D R E w G 0 R E T hrow off 45 Wacom lntuos
the shackles of cubicle life. Drawing tablet
Stamp out Office 98 troubles,
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192 The Desktop Critic 46 Norton Utilities for Mac 4.0
B y D Av I D p 0 G u E Lo, reports Disk-repair software
ofMac phaseouts have been greatly
exaggerated. 48 .•.O..v2 EdgeWizard;
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Extensis Mask Pro 2.0;
News 12 How to Contact Macworld Ultimatte Knockout
.P.h.o toshop masking utilities compared
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35 G4 Set to Take Flight 50 .... ix3D Mac Rocket;
Motorola formally announces its ix3D Pro Rez;
next-generation G4 CPU with Vision3D Pro II Lite
speedy AltiVec technology. .G.r.ap.h ics accelerators compared
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36 Spinning a Dynamic Web 52 MaclinkPlus Deluxe
Macromedia, GoLive, and Adobe F.il.e-.t ranslation utility
Systems spruce up their Web
authoring programs. 54 Conversions Plus 4.5;
.....h MacOpener 4.0
37 An Upscale New Canvas .M.a.c.-.d isk-mounting utilities for Windows
SpriteLayers technology in Deneba
Canvas 6 lets you mix vector and 56 LinkUPPP Turbo 3.0.2
raster graphics. A new "launchpad" for your graphics, page 45. Multichannel PPP software
3 7 Product Watch 56 ...y, VivoActive VideoNow 3.0
The latest products for your Mac, Secrets. .S.tr.e.a ming-video software
including a new mouse for your
58 Vpower PM 4400 G3/240
iMac and software that lets you cre­
.C.P.U.- upgrade card
ate double-byte fonts. 95 Keep Your Office Running

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60 Electriclmage 2.8
38 Color Lasers Do Graphics s v TE o LA N o Au How to cope ..
Professional 3-D animation software
Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix when Microsoft Office 98 starts
transform color laser printers from misbehaving.
61 Frontier 5.1.4
corporate stalwarts to graphics­
.C.o.n.t ent-management/scripting software ·
studio sidekicks. 97 Quick Tips
s v Lo N Po o LE Tips, tricks, and
62 Profiler 1.1
shortcuts. .C.o lor-profiling tool
62 Natural Scene Designer 2.0 ·
3-D-terrain generator
ON THE COVER
Photograph by Mark Johann;
63 ....h PageSentry 2.5
mountain and screen images
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by Image Bank
64 ReBirth RB-338 2.0
.M.u.s.i c-synthesizer software
66 Mars Rising
Shoot-'em-up game
Motorola's G4 chip is officially
off the ground, page 35.
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