Macworld January 2001

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Opinion
7 The Vision Thing
ANDREW GO RE AB a Mac
user, it's easy to support a
good cause.
15 Feedback
Readers respond.
97 The Game Room
AND Y IHN ATKO Powerful www.m~cworld.com Incorporating MacUser
game consoles are on the
way, but don't count the Mac
out just yet.
164 Desktop Critic
Buzz
Get It Together
20 3Com's new Internet appliance,
TO M NE GR IN O The new year
Adobe Photoshop creator John
is right around the corner, and
Knoll, MadSci.org, and robots
Microsoft's new version of
built from Legos.
Office for the Mac-shipping
just in time for the real
How-to millennium-can help
you get organized and
be more productive.
48 Photoshop's New Frontier
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56 Organize with Entourage
MACWO RLD STAFF Use a new
Microsoft Office program to
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and correspondence.
60 Starving for Storage?
JOS EPH SCHORR Expand
your options by adding a
second internal hard drive to
certain G3s and all G4s.
64 Slide Show to Go
STEVE SCHWARTZ Share
PowerPoint with everyone­
turn your presentations into
QuickTime movies.
69 Mac 911
CHRI STOPHER BREEN
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t's cold. But that's OK, ANDREW GORE distinguish themselves, and show
because the constant that our innate sense of superiority
Charity

is more than mere posturing.
patter of rain on my
Bondi Blue poncho Givin' Time
keeps my mind off the Time is money, or so they say. And
giving doesn't have to be expen­
cold. However, it's not quite Case

sive, or for that matter, cost anything
enough to keep my mind off
at all. All around the country there
the fact that my toes are
are organizations that put together -I
soaked and freezing and that :::r
groups for special projects, from
I've lost feeling in them. But at CD
USE YOUR
beautifying the landscaping of a
<;
least I've had about nine hours
CREATIVE SPIRIT
developmental center to helping
to get used to the sensation. U>
TO GIVE
sort food for the Food Bank. I've
0
And then, of course, there's
SOMETHING
done both of these; both activities :J
the hillside I'm sitting on-the
BACK TO
took only a few hours on the week­ -I
constant rain and the constant end, and I got to meet some new :::r
THE COMMUNITY

milling about of 20,000 feet people who hadn't heard any of my :J
co
have turned it into chocolate jokes yet. (Although by the end of
pudding. But then the next the afternoon they'd had more than
band starts playing-Tom Petty their fill, I'd wager.)
and the Heartbreakers-and As Mac users, we have special
skills that many organizations are
everything's OK. Like the last
dying for. We know how to use a
half-dozen bands to play that
computer, a skill many in our soci­
afternoon, they're great.
ety lack. Users groups are always
As the sound rises and my
in search of instructors to help new
lawn chair sinks further into the
members get the knack of using
mud and another accidental
their Macs. Many schools, public
bodysurfer skids past me, I remind
and private, want mentors to help
myself it's all for a good cause.
students after class with typing,
Because this is more than a regu­
programming, graphics, even
lar concert-it's a charity concert.
reading and writing. And most
benefiting the Bridge School, a
schools have a significant invest­
local school for children with
ment in Mac systems.
severe communication disorders.
Even senior centers often look
Caring and Sharing
for volunteers to help introduce their
Standing there in the rain got me thinking about charity.
clientele to the intimidating world of the Internet. Imagine
This last year has been especially good to me. as it has
the sense of accomplishment you would have if you
to much of the Mac world. And I've begun to develop a
showed an older person how to use e-mail to keep in
real appreciation for exactly how good it can feel to
touch with grandchildren and other distant family.
give back to your community when your community has
Make whatever you do a social event. Get your
given you so much.
friends together and form a team-you'll be amazed
Donating your time, sharing of your knowledge,
how easy it can be to get started. It may even turn
contributing your old equipment. even doing something
into a regular happening.
as simple as taking a walk, all these things can help
Working Assets
others and give you a real sense of accomplishment. Mac
I've often thought of turning my garage into a Museum of
users like to think of themselves as being slightly more
Macintosh Technology. From that original l 28K Mac
evolved. Well, nothing could be more evolved than to
give of yourself. Think of it as another way Mac users can continues
www.macworld.com January 2001 7
case I've been meaning to turn into right foot. Step Two: Put right foot in Macworld

an aquarium for ten years now front of left foot. Step Three: Repeat
(apologies to Andy Ihnatko, but he Step One and Step Two as fast as you
was not the first person to think of can for as long as you can.
turning a Mac into an aquarium) to It was only recently that I found
the half dozen Power Computing a way to put running to a use other VP Of CONTINT/IDITOI IN CHllf Andrew Gore
clones in various states of disrepair, than making up for a wasted adoles­ IXICUTIVE ASSISTANT TO
THI VP OF CONTINI Shone Clark
my storage shelves are packed with cence. And that is running for charity.
IDITOR, MACWOILD.COM Jason Snell
-I the flotsam of a Mac aficionado with I found that. without much effort. EXICUTIV! IDtTOI Scholle Sawyer Mcfarland
:T more .dollars than sense. And we I could find a !OK race almost every SINIOI IDITOIS. llVllWS Lindo Comer,
CD
won't even talk about the Newtons, month within driving distance of David Weiss
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except to say I have at least one of my home that I could participate in SENIOR IDITOR, MACWORLD.COM Lisa Schmeiser
(/) SINIOR IDITOI.. HOW.JO Terri Stone
every model ever created. including and raise money for a good cause.
0 ASSOCIATE IDITOIS lotus Abrams,
some that never shipped. From the Senior Center in Half
:i Jennifer Berger,
I've recently started the process of Moon Bay, California, to The Mathew Honan,
-I
:T divesting my Mac assets, because I've Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Kelly Lunsford,
Philip Michaels,
:i discovered that many organizations there are races and walkathons
ca Jonotho n Se ff
out there are delighted to receive going on year-round.
ASSISTANT EDITORS Brett Lorson,
machines I've long since cast off. My Best part is, you don't even have
Adrienne Robillard
garage has become like the Island of to spend your own money if you IDITORIAL ASSISTANT Bonnie Huie
Misfit Toys, and I'm playing Rudolph. don't want to. Many races encourage
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
True. I have no real use for a PowerPC participants to collect money from
Henry Bortman, Christopher Breen, Adam C. Engst, Bruce Fraser,
60!-based clone, but my local public sponsors, usually friends and cowork­
Jim Heid, Ted landau, Deke McClelland, Tom Negrina, Nancy
school is still trying to get by with ers, who agree to donate a certain
Peterson, David Pogue, Stephan Somogyi, Franklin N. Tessler
classrooms full of Mac Ilcx machines. sum based on the distance you cover.
LAB
(W'nere do they find the gerbils to You'd be amazed how much money
DIRECTOR Of PRODUCT IVALUATION Kristina De Nike
keep those antiques running?) you can raise just by going for a walk
TUT MANA.OH Jomes Galbraith
If you have a Mac you no longer in the park with a few thousand SINIOR LAI ANALYST Jeffy K. Milstead
use because it doesn't have a G3, or friendly striders. LAI ANALYST Gil Loyola
enough storage or enough RAM or If the spirit of the Macintosh is ASSOCtAn TICMNICAL ANALYST Ulyssis Bravo
LAI ADMINISTRATOR Jason Cox
an AirPort slot. don't dump it at your one of creativity and individualism,
next garage sale, donate it. I can we should remember that we're not COPY EDIT
almost guarantee your local church, the only ones who should benefit MANAGING IDITOR Jennifer Scholl
community center. even public from those traits. W'nether we're ASSISTANT MANAGING IDITOR Charles Purdy
COPY EDITORS Dione Ollis,
school will be happy to take it off giving Macs away, teaching people
Sue Voelkel
your hands and give you a great tax how to use computers more effec­
write-off in the process. tively, or just using the Web to find ART AND DESIGN
a nearby charity to support. this time DESIGN DIRECTOR Sharon Anderson
Donate Your Body
ASSOCIATl DESIONH Jackie Goodmon
of year we should all turn some of
I'm what you might call coordination
DUION ASSOCIATES Amy Conger,
our creative energies toward help­
impaired. I like sports. but lack the Alissa Moch
physical coordination to do anything ing other people. m PHPRISS CONSULTANT Stephen Sugg
but be an easy target in most team
ANDREW GORE is editor in chief MACBUY.COM
or individual activities. Ifs pretty sad.
ASSISTANT PRODUCH Cathy Begien
of Macworld. To comment on this
actually. The one sport I do excel at
is running. Because, really, how much column, please visit the Vision Thing INTERNATIONAL EDITORS
coordination does it really take to forum at www.macworld.com/ Steven Noble, Australia; Bernard le Du, Fronce; Andreas
run? Step One: Put left foot in front of columns/visionthing/ Borchert, Germany; Enrico Lotti, Italy; Yoshie Mariya, Japan;
Tomosz Bitner, Poland; Doniel de Blas, Spain; Nils HolmlOv,
Sweden; Anderson Huong, Taiwan; Bohottin Apok, Turkey;
Simon Jory, United Kingdom
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