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50 E-business prospects 'bright'

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55 Office Suite Training: Outlook Journal

50 Microsoft expands Project 2002 offerings
62 Liberty Village NewMedia Centre looks beyond Toronto

10 What's New

73 Internet is playing a big role in big decisions

79 Online ad business looking up
95 'Experimental' online ads take on obnoxious tone
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72 Quick Tips: Word formatting

64 ProcessorWars: Via hits the road with Eden

64 ProcessorWars:The usualsuspects,AMD, Intel

96 Music label releasesunenciypted MP3for sale

98 Geekcorpsvolunteers halfway through Ghanastay

68 AppleNews:Jaguara major05 X update

12 The coming world of digital photography
12 Keepingtrack ofyourimages
16 Photoalbums on yourhandhehf
18 Photographs from your inkjet

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76 Photoshop for photographers

84 OX4900 tops Easyghare line

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98 Bookreview: The Web Design CD Bookshelf

99 Bookreview: Physics forGame Developers
100 Career Profile: Creating creatures in virtual worlds
100 Java Tutorials: Finishing duagist

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Increasingly when people think
about taking pictures. digital cameras come to mind. While vinuagy
everyone in the photo businesssees
digital looming large in the future,
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Digital cameras still cost more, often a lot more. than
comparable film cameras. The price dil'terence is
shrinking. and currently seems to be one and a half to
three times more for digital than For Elm a couple of
years ago digital was five to 10 times asexpensive.
Two years ago a two-megapixel camera would set you
back a grand or more; today you an buy four-megapixel models for that amount. Meanwhile, the twomegapixel chip hasn't become obsolete, but rather has
been put into more affordable lines. An entry-level,
two-megapixel digital camera now costsaround $300relatively speaking, a very good price but still higher
than entry-level, point-and-shoot film cameras.
Once you get past the cost. another barrier is the lack
of a photofinishing infrastructure for digital images.
Think for a moment about how easy it is to have a roU
of Ulm processe'd into prints. You can mail it in, drop it
oif at the mall, even take it to your corner onfectionary.
AU those points of service facilitate spontaneous activity. Getting prints fmm a digital camera is still a project
in itself. Inkjet printers allow do-it-yourself printmaking, but that isn't everyone's cup of tea, yet the digital
equivalent to dropping your him off at the mall hasn't
happened yet.

Part of it is the scarcity of retail outlets that will hanthan one percent of images taken with a digital camera
dle Ulm or digital media with equal ease. That's rapidly
are printed at a retail photofinishing outlet iabout nine
changing,asa new study by InfoTrends Reseach Group
percent are printed at home, but 88 percent are not
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printed at ag). Clearly retail digital photog nishing isstill
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InfoTrends states that almost half of the photo kiosks
As (or digital photography as a whole, interest
that will ship this year will be designed specifically for
remains high. For example, at TCP we conducted a
digital camera users.
readership survey last year, and discovered that more
A case in point is the new TruePrint Self-Service Print
than 90 percent of respondents wanted more on digital
kiosks that Olympus iwwwolympuscoml introduced in
photography. As part of our research on how to do this,
Canada at the end of May. The kiosk is PC based, with a
we convenedan advisory councilmade up of representouch-screen menu system and a multi-card reader that
tatives from the photography industry and the informasupports most digital camera memory types.
tion technology industry.
Customers will be able to insert the memory card
O verdinner one evening severalweeksago,we had a
from their cameras and see previews of their images on
wide-ranging discussion about the emerging digital
thescreen.They can make a few choicesfrom themenu,
photography landscape. To those in the IT sector, digisuch as number and size of prints, and can also make
tal photography was seen as simply a natural progresminor adjustments to colour and brightness. Prints are
sion of the digital drive into every industrial sector. For
output on a high quality dye-sublimation printer, but
the photo industry, digital seems more like a new force,
the system will be able to tie into an existing minilab
an encroachment that has to be adjusted to. But both
setup.
groups read the same research, and more or less agree
The kiosk also indudes a CD recorder, so the cuson the future and it is digital.
tomer can burn their digital images onto a CD.
Olympus intends to place these in the usual retail outEnjoy the issue, enjoy the summer!
lets, but also in what it calls "high photo output" places
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I am pleased that there is to be a "royalty tariff" on CDs and DVOs. Now I can
make asmany copies of music and other
CDs as I wish. and
know that the copynght holders have

been fully compensated.

No longer will the

copying of music
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One ofthe things thatalways bothers me
aboutnotebook reviews, (see Lab Report,
June issue) is that display resolution only
evergetsmenffoned in passing.

thestandard XGA screens ofthe same size.

This is especially significant when running Windows programs.
This can mean full or two-page editing
when doing word processing and OTP

We standcorrected onTreo

[desktop publishing], or 50 percent more

In your May editorial you stated that the

Treo won't support GPRSuntil Rogers ATUT
rogsout its network.
Actually the network rogout is not the
issue, it's the Treo software that'
s not

drawing area visible when doing CAD

ready.

[computer-aided design], or the ability to

While the display's physical size is

have several windows and applications

Users will need to upgrade their 05

when Handspring releases it sometime

always documented, display resolution is

open and visible when doing Web devel-

this year.

only presented in the comparision table.

opment.
So, a little less emphasis on benchmarksand OVO movies,and a little more
attention to desktopapplication usability

There is a huge difference in functionalit

y between a laptop that has a 15.1inch XGA (1,024x768) display, and one of
similar size that does SXGA(1,400x1,050)
or UXGA (1,600x1,200).
Higher resolution displays present 50
percentmore screen area and data than

in future notebook reviews, if you please.

Any display looks good with the screen
saveron show me the screen fonts!
Glen C. Taylor

Leo Freeman

TCP repgesi We checked with the companies, ond Mr. Freeman is correct the lock
of availability of GPRS is o functionof
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the rreo. CJ

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OTIAWA, Ont. While the powerful
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Names and Numbers (ICANN) rethinks
the concept of democratic control over
top-level domains like dot-corn and dotnet,the Canadian agency in charge of
that country's domain-name space is
launching its second public election of
board members.
The Canadian Internet Registration
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the ountry-code top-level domain
(ccTLD) known as dot-ca in late 2000
and held ils Urst election of board members e year ego, will collect votes for

elections for a third of the board each

of oulsourced domain-name services

year.

(DNS) company EasyDNSTechnologies

ICANN, whose board is made up of

I9 directors, has just five elected members. chosen during e trial online vote
nearly two years ago.
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in Toronto.

three board seats during the second

drumming up the required 50 endorse-

week in June.
Iniiiagy installed as a group, the nine
elected members of the I 2-person board
were posted in threes to terms ranging
from one year to three years so that the
Internet authority could hold annual

ments for just Ewo additional nominees.

Nominated by members was Richard
Anderson, a well-known political advisor end president of the Ottawa-area
management consulting Urm ASCIAnderson, and March Jefiovik, president

its board appears lo be of less interest to

even Canadian domain-name registrants.
The currentcampaign has attracted
eight candidates. bul six of them were
reommended by the current CIRA
board, with rank-and-file members

While CIRAmay appear

moredemocraticthan
ICANN,the composition of
itsboard appearsto be of
lessinterestto even
Canadia
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registrants.
Those nominated by CIRA indudcd
lwo existing board members: Internet
law expert Michael Geist Rnd Web development company president Denis
Teliguay.
A t h ird c u rrent d irector, Bruce
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director lan MacEachcrn and e-commerce consultant Ramesh Venkat.
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in mid-May, wasbeing conducted largely on the CIRA Web site where candidates fielded questions from members
on an online bulletin board.
Eligible to vote, CIRA says, were the
140,000 holders of d ot-ca domain
names,
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images printed professionally, an

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report, Photo Kiosk and Retail Digital

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make a few copies, or print enlargements, but it expects digital camera
owners will use them as a"high-volume"
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October 2001 issue; both articles are
archived on CanadaComputes.corn).
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terion simply by holding the Control key

and selecting from the usual right-click
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Batch processing is a dream come true:
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media, aUowing you to easily build a catalogue of your images.
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Microsoft Ac cess. Th i s ma k es
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needing to manage huge numbers of
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taken for granted in other image utilities:
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Photographs from your inkjet

may recalla Windows CE-based handheld

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ago that had a built-in digital camera.
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looked like stick people drawings compared to what is available now.

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provider as it's not part of the core appbcationsprovided by Microsoft. However,
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the image.It's fastand free.
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often called "large," or "high quality." Or,

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longer to dry, so make sure a print has
drimpthoroughly before handling.

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print with reasonable care: all photo
prints, whether from a photofinisher or
inkjet printer, are fairly fragile. Framing
ofFers a level of protection, and also
enhances the photo.
Dye-based inkjet inks tend to fade

Tell Rte printer it's a photo Use the

is really just a rule of thumb, so use it as

a starting point with your own equipment.

quickly in sunlight, so keep the print out

printer setting for photo quality or high

quality, and use photo paper. Printing a

of direct sunlight.

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ment-basedinks thatare "lighffast and

tolerate strong light. All other current
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generat
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Applian Technologies' (www.appiian.corn)

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You can purchase and download the software from the company's site for

imagesin 3PEG format, which compresses files to reduce their si

ze.This compression format is called a lossy method,
because some information about the

To get a better look at the broadest

possible range of both paid and freeware
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compressedformat such as TIFF,use it.

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cameras as weg as other pmducts that
integrated digital cameras and digital
video functions.
One hafi
mark of Sony digitalcameras
has been the extensive range of storage
media they use. Not content with the
conventional picture storage options
using solid-state memory cards, Sony
cameras ofier a choice between proprietary Sony solid state memory technology (Memory Stick); picture storage on
floppy disks that can be loaded directly
into the camera; and most recently, storage on CD-Rs or CD-RWs.
In its latest offerings, the low end of

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which offers a respectable two-megapixel picture quality. and 3X mom. In addition to storing pictures on a floppy disk,
this camera has a Memory Stick slot and
comes with a USB connection port for
Bring pictures to yow desktop or note-

book pretty much any way you like.

the range is occupied by S ony's

Cybershot models, starting with the
chunky, but well-priced $399 Cybershot
DSC-P31. This is a decent-looking twomegapixel camera with a simple lens (no
optical zoom but 3X dilp'tal zoom) and a
supplied 8 MB Memory Stick The low
price is achieved by eliminating the LCD
display common on most digital cameras. To look at any pictures you take on
the DSC-P31, you' ll need to load them
onto something else with a display.
Probably the best collection of style
and value in Sony's new range is the $850
Sony DSC-P5, which provides 3.2megapixel picture quality, a 3X optical
zoom, 1.5-inch built-in LCD, and an AVOut socket, so you can plug it directly
into a TV to show your pictures. It's also
a really nice looking camera that's a little
smaller than some other Cybershots and
boasts a brushed silver body.
If money is absolutely no object, you

If you don't want to Sddle with cables

or Memory Sticks to get your digital pictures on your computer's screen, then
Sony's latest Mavica lineup may be what
you' re looking for. Sony has two favours
of Mavica these days: one that writes
your pictures directly to a standard-sized
floppy disk, and another that takes
small-size 8 cm CD-Rs or CD-RWs.
The nicest FD Mavica (i.e., the Soppy
disk model) is the $899 MVC-FD200,

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could splash out on the Cybershot DSCF707, a $1,799 professional-quality digital camera that offers a Sve-megapixel
picture quality, a 5X optical mom, 10X
digital mom, 16 MB Memory Stick,
colour viewfinder (which is a cross
between a traditional viewfinder and the
LCD on the back of most digital cameras), and Sony's Hologram AF technology. The idea behind Hologram AF is

that the camera projects a laser hologram pattern onto the scene you are
shooting, then uses that pattern to read
the contrast between the pattern edge
and the subject to achieve the most accurate possible focus. Finally, this high-end
camera comes with Sony's InfoLithium
M Type battery, which it claims should
give you about 3,000 shots per full
charge.

Meanwhile, anyone who wants a CD

Mavica had better be prepared for a four
Sgure price tag. The coolest CD Mavica
is the MVC-CD400, which will set you
back a cool $1,699. It does, however, take
fow-megapixel pictures and includes an
on-board CD-R drive that saves images
to 8 cm 156 MB recordable or rewriteable CDs. It also comes with a 2.5-inch
LCD on the back for reviewing the pictures you have taken.
Sony has introduced a camera add-on
forits CUE handheld (tbe one based on
the Palm OS). The PEGA-MSC1 is a
$249 attachment that fits into the handhdd's Memory Stick slot. Like aU such
hybrid devices. the specifications are not
amazing with 320x240 pixels being the
maximum capture size but it could be
a fun add-on for those who want to to
take and display pictures on their handheld. For the who sufFer Som gadget
clutter, it would allow them to bring a
digital camera with them by merely
grabbing their handheld computer. Cl

Nikon shakes up Coolpix line

ust as we were going to press, we
received an announcement from
Nikon (www.sion,cs) of three new
models in its Coolpix digital camera line.
These include the Coolpix 5700, 4500,
Coolpix 2000 five-, four-, and two-

megapixel models respectively.

The 5700 is the new flagship of the
Coolpix line. It includes a 8X optical
zoom lens made of Nikon's Extra-low

Dispersion (ED) glass. Nikon joins other

digicam makers bke Fuji Photo, Minolta,

and Olympus in adopting an electronic

viewfi
nder system on the 5700.
Like the 5000, it includes a nifty
swivel-tilt LCD screen (first seen on
Canon's PowerShot line) that allows you
to hold the camera above your head or
at ground level and stiil see your composition.
The Coolpix 4500 is an update to the
995, and incorporates the two-piece

swivelbody design thathas become the

signature design feature of the Coolpix
900 series. It uses a four-megapixel

imagesensorand hasa 4X opticalzoom.

Aimed at novices,the 2000's message
is ease ofuse,with features like a onetouchimage upload system. The Coolpix
2000 usesa 3X opticalzoom lens.
Nikon says aU three models will be
available in July.
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The multi-monitor desktop

TCP Lab looks at graphics cards with dual interfaces
arlier this year at Microsoft's

WinHEC 2002 conference in

Seattle, one of the linal keynote
sessions included discussion about ways
to "increase desktop size" without having to increase the size of the monitor. A
couple of presenters talked about multimonitor support in Windows and how
usersan make betteruseofit.
This month, we*fl look at a few of the
gr'aphics cards that currently support
more than one monitor. These cards
cover the full range of applications, from
business to games.

Visually
flat out
A few flat panels

This monlb'8 lest

Our test bench this month was a 2.53
GHz Pentium 4 in an Intel 850-based
motherboard (D850EMV2), with 512
MB RDRAM running at 533 MHz. The
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one monitor on your desktop,
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most of us barely have space on the
desktop for one full-sized CRT monitor,
let alone two. The multi-monitor setup
is deflnitely one area where flat-panel
monitors really shine.
The compactness of a flat panel is,
obviously, the biggest point in its
favour when a monitor can be tucked
up within a few inches of the wall, it
I'tees up a lot of additional desktop
space. and flnding room for two is lessof
a problem than a dual-CRT setup.
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CRT monit
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power, especially when you get into larg-

er displays.The power consumption ratcan import a vmiety of digital videoformats including MPEG, QuickTime,

AVI, and DVthen, by previewing the

video, quickly adapt asoundtrack to the
length andemphasispoints. Youcan also
Continued on page32

ing of a 19-inch CRT is typically between

100 and 150 W, while an 18-inch TPT
with the same viewing area often checks
in at 50W or lessthat means you could

potentially get three flat-panel monitors

in the same power consumption range as

one CRT. (One other practical upshot of

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that is that you can plug more than one
monitor into a single UPS unit without
worrying about overload.)
Another consideration is radiation:
TFT flat-panel displays have next to no
emissions, which makes them the natural choice whenever radiation is a concern. Whether you' re in a medical office,
working in a science lab, or just want to
remain safe in your home office,a flatpanel display certainly gives you less to
worrv about.

Mekmgthe right choice

W'hen you' re choosing flatpanel for a
dual-monitor environment. you' ll want
to consider two things.
First up is the resolution: flat-panel
monitors have a hard-wired maximum
resolution (typicafly 1,024x768 pixels for
a 15-inch display, 1,280x1,024 for an 18inch, and 1,600x1,200 for larger displays). While you can generally set the
monitor to a lower resolution, the image
may end up on the blurry side. Keep in
mind that in a dual-monitor setup,
you' re effectively doubling one of those
dimensions two 15-inch monitors
would yield a desktop of 2,048x768 altogether, or 1,536x1,024 if both are oriented in portrait mode.
The second thing to consider is the
connectors on the back of the monitor.
Most new graphics cards with dual-monitor output feature one VGA connector
(the standard 15-pin blue connector on
most graphics cards) and one DVI connmtor (digital video interface. or a white
rectangular connector). Most flat-panel
monitors have the VGA connection,
though somecome with DVL Most monitors that ship with a DVI connector,

though. are actually "hybrid" monitors

that also feature a VGA connector.
If you' re getting two identical monitors, make sure you' ll be able to plug
both of them in. Many of these graphics
cards ome with a dongle that will con-

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connectors, one of which is a shared

input with a VGA connector. The monitor also comes with two cables: one is a
DVI-to-DVI cable and the other a DVIto-VGA cable. This meansyou have a fair
bit of flexibility when hooking it up to
one or more computers: two DVI, two
VGA (if you get an optional VGA-toVGA cable), or one of each.

vert the DVI output into a VGA-compat-

ible analogue signal, but the reverse isn't

true if you have two DVI-only monitors, you' ll probably be out of luck. It' s
better to go with two VGA displays or
two hybrid displays. Theoreticagy,,the
VGA connector doesn't provide the sanie
picture reliability as the DVI connector,
but we' ve noticed precious little difFerence between the two in our testing.
Unlessyour eyes are extremely sharp,
you' ll probably get along fine with the
analogue displayjust make sure you
have a DVI-to-VGA dongle!

The downside
Of course, there's still a downside to putting a pair of flat-panel monitors on
your desktop: the price. Many basic 15inch TFT displays have dropped in price
to between $500 and $600, but that will
edge up somewhat as you add more features (the DVI connector, for example,
or multimedia features like speakers or
USB connections). You can look at it this
way, though: you can still get two small
TFT monitors for the same price if not
lessthan one big-honkin' CRT. and
they' ll flt on your desktop more easfly.
Here are a few flat panels we've had in
the lab lately. This is by no means a full
roundup we'll actually be doing a fuU
lab test on flat-panel displays next issue,

so check back for more monitors then!

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get your soundtrack out of the program,
either attached to the videoor as a
soundtrack that can be imported into
your video editing program for further
tweaking. Sonicfire has a variety of
export options for both methods.

that makes musical sense.

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instance, you want the soundtrack to
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playing in the background.
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lines by hitting Command+mouse click
(Mac OS) or the Control key (Windows)
to create break points in the soundtrack
Sonicfire works by breaking a soundtrack into a series of segments. The company calls these Smart Blocks. The software adjusts the length of any sound-

To make finer adjustments, add markers

to your timeline using the on-screen button. or a menu selection. Once a marker
is placed on-screen, it can be moved
around by sliding it along the timeline.
It would be nice if you could delete
these markers by dragging them off the
screen, but it's not that simple. There are
a couple of options, however. The first is
to go to the Marker Settings menu command under Timeline, select the time of
the marker, then delete it. The other is to
select the marker, then press the
key/command combination appropriate
to your OS: Option+mouse click in Mac

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the action climaxes and dovetail with the
end of your video. No more fade-outs on
music that isn't 6nished.
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soundtrack is imported, the screen has
three main windows, Timeline, Video,
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This is a very worthwhile program for
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and iLink connections in new computer
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The only downsides I can see are the
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little high for occasional users and the latter offputting for those who don't want to

be limited to using soundtracks in a proprietary format. Although users can

import Bleu in MP3 and other audio formats, they don't beneht from the Sound
Blocks technology. Ideally, the company
should eventually include a tool that
allows users to import their own soundtracks and have the program break them
into Sound Blocks for easy manipulation.
This is a worthwhile purchase for anyone doing video at the professional level,
but the purchase price makes it more of
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The card features pretty good gexibility in terms of your display consgumtion:
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game titles (our sample came with a

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well as the fan speed, and allows monitoring of those items, the temperature,
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digerent resolutions for each display. The
card also comes with DVD playback software so you can watch movies on your PC.
One interesting feature induded with
the Matrox card is the HeadCasting software, which creates a 3D image of your

Ccnrinued from page 40

card. Though its cards used to be commonly found in home desktop PCs several years back, more recent Matrox

cardshavedegnitely had more ofa focus

on the business desktop.

The company, headquartered in

Montreal, is justly famous for intmduc-

ing a6brdable dual-head technology, and

A quick look at the benchmarking scores

reveals Matrox's current strengths and
weaknesses in the world of graphics. As a
business d esktop s o l ution, the
Millennium G550 comes through nicely,
with very solid results. As a 3D gaming
card, it's not well-suited, but complaining about that would be missing the
point Matrox has never emphasized its
gaming performance, focussing instead
on its suitability for general home and
business desktop use.
Fmm that ~
it ex cels. It has
both DVI and VGA connectors onboard
and mmes with a DVI-to-VGA dongle. so
you can use two VGA monitors. It also
comes with a VGI-to-S-Video/mmposite
adapter, if you want to use a television as
yow semndary display (or output to a

it's something it continues to concentrate on today. While the Matrox cards

you' ll Und at retail are for the most part
business-oriented, keep your eyes open:
it has just announced the Parhelia-5I2
graphics technology, the Urst 5I2-bit
GPU. From a quick look at its specs, it
appears poised to make a serious splash,
and could help Matrox regain its solid
position in the gaming market. It will
also support triple-head mode (three
monitors), which is the 6rst step towards
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are the 6rst name that comes to mind is

nVidia. The company has been pushing

the technology hard. especially since

own head using Digimask technology.

moving to the GeForce naming scheme.

The line is now up to the GeForce4. the
Urst to olfer multi-monitor support on a
single calTL
The multiple-monitor technology
used by the GeForce4 is called nView,

You simply take two pictures of your

which is a sofnvare package featuring a

head (&ont and side views), and it gener-

number of bene6ts to the multi-monitor

ates a 3D version of your head that you

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user. First, you can set up your multiple

displays (at present, a maximum of two
per card, using a combination of DVI
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one of those is the S-Video out connector, though that one will only duplicate
one of the proper monitor outputs). The
nView technology also allows you to
con6gure up to 32 virtual desktops and
switch between them.
The most useful of the new features

Once again, Matrox's packaging is

impressively compact. something the
other manufacturers could learn I'rom.

The price point is also very impressive, at

under $200. Sure, it ain't so hot at games,
but if you' re not interested in them, why
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to Linux fans: this card was the only one
featuring Linux drivers out of the box.

for many users will be window transparency when you drag a window
across your Windows desktop, that window wiU be transparent until you release
the mouse button, which not only aUows
you to align windows, it means you an
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graphs.
The Geporce4 comes in two major
fiavours right now: Ti and MX. MX is the

lower-end version and is based on the

older and slower GeForce2 hardware. It
typically only allows you multi-display
capability using one monitor and one SVideo output. The Ti series (short for
Titanium) is much more powerful. and
most ofthe cards we've seen letyou do
multi-monitor configurations right out
of the box. We'vechosen to look at the Ti
cards'this month for that reason.

score, too.
The card features the standard outputs
on Ti-level cards: DVI, VGA, and SVideo out. The package ships with a
DVI-to-VGA/DVI dongle (though you
can only use one of the outputs on the
donge at a time) and an S-Video-tocomposite adapter for use with older
video technology. The software bundle
includes AsusDVD 2000, Aquanox,

Midnight GT. and more.

If you' re looking for something that' s
nearly as powerful but not quite as
expensive, you may want to cast your
gaze on the Asus V8440, which uses the
Ti 4400 GPU but otherwise has the same
features. The scores were close, but the
V8440 will be available for around $450,
a good savings.

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tor support within the Windows

DSes since Windows 98, there
wasn't a wide variety of consumer-level
multi-display cards available. The first
company to start pushing "dual-head"
displ
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own MatroxGraphics, with the G200
series of cards. Thesecardsallowed you
to hook up two VGA displays, and fea-

allowed those monitors to be sepamte

duced, they revolutionized the graphics

monitor functionabty continued on many

card market, hut were quickly overshad-

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for the loan of the Asussamples.

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20/30 cards pulled away in terms of

gaming performance. The only issue,
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We may as well say it right oif the bat:
Leadtek makescards that look incredibly
impressive. The first thing you notice
when taking an A250 series card out of
the box is the gigantic heatsink, which
wraps around both sides of the card.
Look closer and you' ll see the two cooling fans sunk into the heatsink, both of
which have special fiitering material over

wasacceptable to most users who wanted toplay the occasional game; additionally, it featured connectionsfor two
monitors (one DVI and one VGA), and

dow acrosstwo monitors.

When the Matrox cards were intro-

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We' re rarely disappointed when we get to

look at Asus Ipaphics cards, and this card
doesn't break that trend. This purple
card features the powerful Ti 4600 GPU,
and comes with i28 M B of onboerd
memory. Compared to heatsinks found
on some of the other Ti 4600 boards, the
one included here is fairly restrained.
with a compact design and a fish painted
on the top. That didn't stop the card
fmm turning in the best desktop application 'numbers and e reasonably good 3D

All's Radeon VE. Though the Radeon VE

wasn't the fastest-performing 3D card, it

displays.
Some cards running nVidia graphics
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the blades to prevent gunk from clogging

up the blades and motor. (This is pmbably the best idea we' ve seen for any
device with a cooling fan no matter

how cleanyou keepyour house, chances

are dust will find its way into the guts of
your computer.) The heat sink must be
doing something right, because the

At the beginning of 2002, nVidia finally introduced multi-monitor support in

its GeForce4 hneup, which meant you no

longerhad to choose between gaming

performance and multi-monitor capability.The only catch:you had to pay forthe

privilege.
The highest-end GeForce4 cards with
multi-monitor support am still between
$400 and$600 in a lot of cases, whichis
not exactly spare change.
Seen Canuthers
leadtek card gave us the best 3D performance of the bunch, and the desktop
application side was right up there, too.
The card comes with DVI and VGA
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minutes working with a dual-display
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this is definitely worth consideration,
but like all the other high-end GeForce4
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a bit of money, check out the Ti 4400
version, which is about $450.

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The GeForce4 Ti 4600 solution from
MSI caught our attention for a few reasons: first of which was the design of the
heatsink, which spreads out around the
fan in a spiral pattern. It also has an
excefient software bundle, but probably
the biggest plus is its lower price, despite
afi of its added features.
The 12S MB card comes with the usual
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you can use the card with two VGA
monitors. Even better, it features both
video input and output when you attach

a special connector that adds both SVideo and composite input and output.
Though the card didn't turn in the highest scores in 3D, it was within a whisper
of the top spot, and the application
benchmarking was also very solid.
One thing MSI is good at with recent
graphics card packages is the software
bundle and this card is no exception: in
addition to the drivers. it comes with a
number of g ames (No On e Lives
Forever,
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claw theirway so deeply into the 05 that

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If you' re pianning to upgrade your

with updating drivers.

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remove the driver, rog back, or set the
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complaining from Windows XP that the
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but in the end, we wiped the drive dean
and reinstallad the operating system.
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userswho want to keep theirappbcations

paththat isas obstruction-free as possible,and try to stick with the same GPU
manufacturer
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to a Leadtek GeForces, though we'd recommend updatingto the newest nVidia
drivers first.
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a clean instail of your operating system
to eliminate the possibility of compatibility errors along the way. It means having
to reinstall your applications and putting
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system that wiU run more cleanly after

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undoubtedly heard the name Jim Carroll. He led the charge to explain both
the perils and promise of the Internet to Canadians, and is author or coauthor of many bestselling books includingThe Canadian Internet Directory series and
Surviving the Information Age.
At a recent meeting of Smart Toronto(wwwsmsrtlorooto.cs). a Hogtown-basedassociation devoted to economic development through the use of information technology,
TCP had the opportunity to hear what Carroll had to say about the I'uture of the Web
as a businessmedium.
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of the media. and relentlessly upbeat towards what he regards as the real, largely yetto-be-fulfilled promise of the wired world.
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Microsoft expands Project 2002 offerings

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icrosoft wants to bring project management out of the project manager's

office and into the big wide world. As Microsoft celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Project software, it is rolling out the 2002 version in several
flavours, with the intention of bringing Project management to everyone, from the

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pr ofessional project manager who wants
the best tool available for planning,
managing, and team collaboration.
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things. and you don't want to think
about it the next morning."
Carroll condemns the hype that
helped float the investment-driven
Internet balloon. "There were far too
many people in the dotcoms who were

"Themediahasgonefrom
unrealisticoptimismto unrealistic pess
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technology,Carroll says.
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wentto aparty,youdid alot
of silly things,andyou don't

pretty harsh, Carroll thinks it has resulted in a more supportable climate for the
companies that remain in the game.
"The idiots have left the building,"
Carroll jokes.
The companies with real products and
real customers are still in business and
many are learning to use the Internet
cost-emciently, for tasks it is suited to.
According to Carroll, these viable usesof
the Internet indude customer support;
competitive b usiness i ntelligence;
research and knowledge management;
streamlining ost structures in ordering,
inventory, and sales; businesscommuniations, coUaboration, and mobile work;
employee education and t raining;
recruiting; and marketing and merchan-

dising.

wantto think about itthe

next morning.
driven entirely by greed. They were lazy.
and didn't want to invest the years of
hard work needed to create a real business."
Although the reality check has been

The dlfference between shopping and

buying is one way to understand what
the Internet is good for, he says. "People
are going to shop on the Web, to more
efliciently find something that they may
then want to buy in the real world. For
example, I went online to find some
summer camps for the kids. I quickly
found five good ones, and then contacted them for more information, which

allowed me to make a final decision. The

Internet is perfect for that."
According to Carroll, any size business
can make inexpensive yet smart use of
the Internet. "How a small business can

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greater Torontoarea (or so-cafiedToronto TechnologyRegion) to meet and net-

work with others involved or interested in technology.

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technologypolicy andlegislation.
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organization, and offersregular seminarsand events to allow members to meet and
to have access to industry experts and government representatives.
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developbusinessto business,businessto government,oreducationalorsocialagency

contacts include:
Information Technology Association ofcanada (ITAc ), wwwiiaca
Cite Multimedia in Montreal, wwwatemIJlliinedhcom

Canadian Advanced Technology Alhance (CATA),wwuata.

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yourself to update the site and respond
to potential customers."
Larger companies lind that rather than
build an enormous, standalone Web site
that costs a fortune and generates little
revenue, a more modest marketing,
shopping, and customer support site,
integrated into the company's existing IT
structure and call centre, is better value
for money.
CarroU is generally optimistic about
human common sense making the
Internet work for ordinary people. For
example, as a passionate loverof music,

he believes that reason will triumph over

"old fogsy politicians" and litigious
copyright lawyers to eventuaay create a
more flexible and affordable Web-based
channel for music to reach the fans without shortchanging the creative artists.
The current structure where corporations enforce high monopoly prices
and dictate that consumers must buy
many song tracks they don't want in
order to get the couple they do want,
while passing only a tiny percentage of
gross revenues along to the artistsmakes no senseaccording to the logic of
the Internet age.
Carroll believes much of the confusion
over the Internet's potential versus its
current reality is simply a result of its

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a mass medium since the invention of
the World Wide Web less than a decade
ago. Until five years ago, it was considered rude to do business on the Web. It' ll
take another five, 10, or 20 years to begin
to see what the Internet is really destined
to be."

"Until Ave yearsago, it was

considered rude to do businesson theWeb.It'lltake
another five, 10 or 20 years
to begin tosee whatthe
Internet is really destined to
be."
According to Carroll, there is a lot of
mythology about the Internet that needs
to be dispelled in order to think dearly
about what it can do in the future. For
one thing, e-business has been hyped as
easy to do. "It's not," he says. "There are
lots of disasters: most IT projects are
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business their way, doing lunch and
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other companies.
Although Carroll is a.technological
optimist, maintaining a sprawling personal Web site (wwwjimcarrGS.
LDm) from a
home packed with more than two dozen
networked PCs, he claims not to be a
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A good example is a marketing
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new to using this category of software, so Microsoft has added new
tools to Project 2002 to guide new
users through the steps of planning
and managing a project.
This audience could include small to
medium-sized businesses, which may
in the past have found project management software had too steep a learning
curve to be worth implementing.
Microsoft Projet Standard is suited to
the smallest companies. while a combination of Project Professional and
Project Server could meet the needs of
slightly larger organizations.

Finally, the third group of core customers Microsoft is targeting with this
release is exeutives who need a highlevel view of their organization's project portfolio and the ability to analyze
that data easily. Project Web Access is
made for t his group. To access
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users need a $275 Microsoft Project
Server Client Access license rather
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Galati says managers with a Project
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at portfolio and resource management,
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If there was one tool in this entire
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and manage schedules and resources.
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doccunents you work on. If you remember that you worked on a Word document last Wednesday but can't remember what it was, the Journal can tell you.

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Outlook Folders list, appears as a button
in the Outlook Shortcuts toolbar in
Outlook 98 and on the My Shortcuts list
in Outlook 2000 and 2002. It can record
a lot about what you do in Outlook and
in Microsoft Office programs. For example, you can set it up to track all the office

choosing View, Current View, then selecting an option. The By Type option shows
Journal entries in a timeline view and
gmuped by the type of entry you' ll see
records of emails, Office fiies, and more
listed here. Choose the By Contact view
to see the entries listed by the Contact
they rdate to. While these two are the
most useful, you can also use the By
Category view to see the items grouped
by categories you' veassignecLPhone Calls
view shows the phone calls you' ve logged,
and the last Seven Days and Entry List
views are simple table views with each
entry listed in a row under a series of column headings such as Entry Type,
Subject, Start, and Duration.

You can change the look of any of

these views by choosing View, Current
View, then Customize Current View.
Hereyou can add or remove fi
eldsfrom
the view, and change the sort order and
the grouping of items. You can also
change the way the data is formatted.
When viewing your Journal, doubledick any of the items to look at them.
Depending on how the Journal is set up,
double-clicking an item may open a
Journal dialogue with the item attached
or the item itself. If it opens the former,
you simply double-click the attachment
icon to view the original document. If
this is an Office file, for example. the

is currently recording and to vary these,

c hoose Tools, O ptions, t hen t h e
Preferences tab (Journal tab in Outlook
97), and click the Journal Options buttotx
Here you can see the items that are cur-

rently being recorded to the Journalany

with a tick mark against them. You can

also the Ofilce programs from which
items are being recordeck Access, Excel,
PowerPoint, and Word will appear here,
as well as programs like Visio if you have
them instaUed.
Records of when you worked on these
6les will be kept in the Outlook Journal
even if you move or delete files. If this is
the case, you won't be able to open them
from the Journal, but a record of 6le
names, original locations, and time spent
working on them will be kept.
The list in the top-right of the dialogue displays the contacts from your
default contacts folder. You can select any
or afi of these to track, too. You can't
sperify different items for dilferent contacts though, and whatever items are
selected in the top-left window will be
those that are recorded for afi contacts.
Once this dialogue is set up, the items
you' ve indicated will be recorded even
when Outlook isn't open.

appropriate Olfice program will open

and the document will open for you to
view it or work on it.
When viewing the Journal in any of
the timeline views, the Standard Toogmr
will display the buttons you more typically assodate with the Calendar; Go To
Today, Day, Week, and Month. Click any
of these buttons to vary the amount of
the timeline that is visible click Day. for
example, to view today's entries only, or
click Week to show seven days at a time.
In any of these views, you can also
click the Preview Pane button on the
Advanced toolbar to view the contents of
any Journal entry you select in the timeline or table view in a resizable window
at the foot of the screen.

Manual jaumaling
In addition to having Outlook automaticafiy record items, you can add items to
the Journal manually. For example, you
can record items for contacts that can' t
be added automatically, such as items
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relating to contacts not in your default
Contacts folder, or where you' re sending
email to a contact using an address that
is dilrerent (rom their primary email
address.You can also add manual entries
for items that occur outside Outlook's
scope, such as letters you receive, phone

messages.and incoming phone calls.

One way to do this is from the Journal
itself: open the Journal tool and choose

File then New Journal Entry (or Actions

then New Journal Entry). The Journal

Entry dialogue will open and you can

type the journal details, including a
descriptive subject and notes in the text
area. You can select an entry type from
the drop-down list of types, choose a
Contact (or two) related to the item, and

assign it to any of your categories.

One use for this tool is to record the
time and details of unscheduled meetings or other tasksuse these as a record
of the meeting and use the time details

for billing purposes if you account to

yow clients for the time spent on the
phone to them or on their behalf.
In this situation, open the Journal
Entry dialogue and choose Meeting from
the Entry type list. Click the Start Timer
button when the meeting begins and

take notesduring it using the text areaon

the screen. When the meeting is over,
click the Pause Timer button and save
your entry that's au there is to it. You
can print your Journal entry so you have

a paper copyfor your dient ale.

If you want to add time to an entry later

on, you can open the entry and click the
Start Timer button again this will start
the timer running and the time will be
added to what was already remrded tbr
this item click Pause Timer, Save, then
Close to savethe new time to the entry.
Another way to create aJournal entry is

using dragand drop. Simply pick up any

Outlook item (an email message or

appointment, for example) and drop it

onto the Journal folder in your Folders
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Liberty Village New Media Centre looks beyond Toronto

"The companies that survived were
ones that were not focused on one speci6c technology or industry," Forman

Q TamVanarts
f I had a nickel for every time I
heard that the dot-corn bubble
blowing up wasthe death knell I'or
the new media industry, I'd be a rich
woman," saysICathrine Brown. executive
director of T oronto-based Liberty
Village New Media Centre (LVNMC).
"The fact of the matter is that new

adds. "They were more diversified and

fiexible and could provide what people
werelooking for which were realand
useful businesssolutions."

Frantic Films. This offersreal-time feed-

ferent groups in order to cut down on

the overlap and to better help each other.
Right now, there is no other organization out there in the new media space
that is aswell positioned as the LVNMG

back &om the fiim makers.

"This allows us to do high-quality film
work without having to be in Los
Angeles."

W e havea physicalspace,physicaland

ization like LVNMC trying to bring the

players in the Canadian new media market closer together, since any eifort to
improve the communications and coordination between new media companies

virtual infrastructure, and we have avery

media companieswere doing goodwork

beforethe bubble and there are new
media companies out there that are continuing to do good work and are growing and building the industry even now
after the bubble."
Toronto-based Ddvinia Inc. released
its third annual Interactive Media
Pmducers Survey and found that the
estimated grossrevenues for the interactive media industry in Canada for 2000
came to $1.8 billion, a three percent
increase over 1999. And, despite recent

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good model for operating."

If there is a continuing problem with the

new media market in Canada, Forman
suggests, it is the difiiculty companies
are having in learning to work together
in order to grow the Canadian new
media market and to promote themselves.
Forman says the new media market is

One of the centre's recent eiforts to

bring Canadian new media companies
closer together and to raise their profile
was its sponsorship of the Canadian
New Media Awards, held in late May.
Sixty individuals and companies from
across Canada were nominated in 12
categories.
Some of the companies nominated for
company of the yearwere Halifax-based
Collideascope Digital Productions, a
convergence and interactive television
production company; Calgary-based
Critical Mass, a developer of interactive
products; and Vancouver-based Radical
Entertainment, a developer of interactive entertainment.
JamieBrown. partner and chiefexecutive of Winnipeg-based Frantic Films
says he is Battered to be nominated in
the new media visionary category and
thathiscompany was recognized forthe
visual effects work it has done for television, conunerdals, and film. Some of the
company's most recent visual effects
work was for the movie Swordfish.
Currently, it is working on the visual
eifects for the X-Men movie sequeL
Brown adds that what makes hiscompany unique is that it has developed a
secureWeb sitewheremovie makers can
go to view the daily rushes and the
effects work being done for them by

made up of a lot of smaller playerswho

tend to be "less supportive of initiatives
and otherprograms that can help them."
LVNMCs Brown says that the centre
will soon begin rolling out several new
initiatives that will see it become more
6nancially independent and l essToronto-centric in an elfort to play a
greater role acrossCanada.
The centre wants to help coordinate
the various new media organizations
and support groups across the country
in order to give the industry a more
focused voice and help them make better
use of the financial and technical

problems in the economy,some00 percent of the nearly 300 Canadian new

media companies surveyed said they
achievedmore than $100,000 in revenue
and employee pmductivity. Many of the
companies had also made significant
inroads into the United States, and
about one quarter reported that they
had forged significant international
alliances that helped them open broader
markets.
Adam Forman, president and chief
executive oi6cer of Delvinia. says that
what the dot-corn bubble burst and technology sector crash really did wasremove
the companies that did not have sound
business models and/or had a very poor
understanding of what Canadian customers wanted in new media.

degree of coordination between the dif-

fesollfces.

"A lot of new media groups across

Canadahave been talking forsome time
about some kind of coordinating effort,"
Brown adds."Thingsare extremely fragm entedand when you have many different organizations going afier the same
funding, sponsors, and so forth. there
tends to be a lot of cannibalization.
What we would like to see is a greater

'

can only bebene6dal.

"I'm a big fan of networking and I'm
on the board of a lot of organizations
that help promote and advocate our
business," Brown continues. "And I'm
more than happy to support any new
initiative that helps promote new media
in Canada."
The LVNMC was launched in 2001 as
a non-pro6t business and marketing
hub that offered a variety of teduucal
and business support services to new
media companies in Toronto. It was
started after aTorontoNew Medio Works
study' by PricewaterhouseCoopers IIP
estimated that the dty could be losing as
much as $3 billion in new media revenue
due to a lack of coordination and cooperation between the nearly 400 new
media companies in and around
Toronto.
Some ofthe servicesthe centre created to tackle this problem included meeting and event faciTities: accessto a virtual business network Web site; production of executive seminars and work-

shops to help with ongoing management, marketing, and 6nancing issues;

and referrals to other new media companies and clients in Toronto and across
Ontario.CI

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P4X266 chipset. which brought DDR
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of the Pentium line kom the Socket 370
Pentium Ill to the Socket 423 Pentium 4,
the Celeron was left as the CPU of choice
for those with Socket 370 boards. That' s
about to change.
The new Celeron is now moving over
to the Socket 47$ interface, which is
what the Pentium 4 adopted shortly
after its introduction. This move will
put afi of Intel's mainstream chips into
a single form factor, making CPU-andboard compatibility less of an issue
than it's been over the past year or so:
both the value and higher-end desktops
wifi be able to use the same motherboards, regardless of the choice of Intel
processor.
This will also give Via an opportunity
to gain a greater share of the value segment of the market, as its C3 processor
can step into the Socket 370 slots left
open by the Celeron's migration.
Two new versions of the Celeron have
been introduced, including a 1.7 GHz
model that runs on a 400 MHz bus, same
as the early models of the Pentium 4
(this is not really a big transition, as the

newer Celerons already ran on a 100

MHz bus, and this new speed is reafiy
just 100 MHz quad-pumped). This
Celeron will cost US$83 in 1,000-unit
quantities.
A slower version, at 1.4 GHz, is also
being introduced. but this one is
designed to run on a 100 MHz bus and
features a 0.13-micron manuhcturing
pmcess. For that reason, the 1.4 GHz
costs a bit more, at US$89 in quantities
of 1,000, but the move to the smauer
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somewhat and make the processor run
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Though it's gotten a bad rap in many cirdes, Rambus' RDRAM technology continues to provide an alternative to
SDRAM and DDR SDRAM memory.
When it was first brought to the market,
RDRAM was exceptionally expensive
and didn't provide the breakthrough
performance Rambus was initially
claiming. In fact, RDRAM not only didn't provide markedly better performance
than the cheaper mainstream memory
modules, it was sometimes outperformed by those cheaper components.

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right. Our recent batch of testing with
new Pentium 4 processors teamed up
with RDRAM showed much better performance than similarly configured
Pentium 4 systems using SDRAM or
DDR.
Previously, the highest-performance
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bus. The new Pentium 4 processors,
however, can use a 533 MHz bus, which
lead to the need for RDRAM modules
with more throughput: say hello to
PC1066 RDRAM modules. We recently
received PC1066 samples from Kingston

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pointsin each category.You can expect
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have been any indication, but with the
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we may besurprised.

Technology(www.itngston.com).

AINNvs. Intel, part 524

We did a run with our standard system

application b enchmark, B APCo's
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The test system consisted of an Intel
DSSOMV motherboard teamed up with
a 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 processor,a 64
MB ATI Radeon $500 graphics card, and
a 30 GB IBM hard drive. We bench-

For the longest time, AMD and Intel

were running neck and neck in our system benchmarking, even though AMD's
processors were running at slower clock

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points. With more recent processors,
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nents with the currently shipping
PowerMacs.
The XServe boasts some impressive
specs with dual 1 GHz G4 CPUs. 256 KB
on-chip Level-2 cache, 2 MB DDR Level3 cache, and new 266 MHz DDR main
memory. The XServe is the first Mac to
use DDR memory and it can hold up to
2 GB of RAM in its four slots. DDR
memory runs at double the system bus
and afi
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bandwidth.
With regards to storage, the XServe is
well equipped, with room for four internal ATA drives, each on its own dedicated ATA/100 controller. With built-in
RAID software, the XServe an adueve
better than SCSI access speeds while

and two USB ports, a CD-ROM drive for

installing software updates, and two 64bit 66 MHz PCI slots. The four drives
and two fans in the XServe are all hot
swappable without the need to shut
down the server, and the server's hardware can be monitored remotely over
TCP/IP u sing i n cluded O S X
Administration Tools.
AB this power fits in an industry standard I U r ack mount enclosure4.3x44.7x71 cm (1.7x17.6x28 in.). A

specifications via the build-to-order section of Apple's online store.

standard 2.44 m (8 ft.) high 42U rack

could hold 42 XServe Macs, running a

and view photos, including a function to

email photos I'rom within iPhoto using
OS X's built-in email dicot. Another

total of 84 processors at 630 gigaflops

and up to 20 TB of storage. On hand for
the XServe announcement, software

The first update to iPhoto version

1.1 is now available, and while it' s
mainly a bug fix release, it does add some
new features. The biggest change is in the
editing section, which now allows you to
adjust brightness and contrast from
within iPhoto.

photos in your library.

Apple hasalsoadded newwaysto share

New Igooksget speetLtddeoboost

A month after releasing PowerBook G4s
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bumped up the speed on its consumer

notebook line.
The new iBooks run at 60D MHz and 700

MHz depending on the model, which is

9i server sofiware to OS X, making the

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drives are both cheaper and available in

larger capacity than SCSI hard drives.
Using four 120 GB drives, a single
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(terabytes) of data.
The XServe contains everything you'd
expect on a Mac server including two
Gigabit Ethernet ports, three FireWire

Prices for the XServe start at US$2,999

for a single I GHz CPU, with 256 MB
DDR RAM, and 60 GB hard drive. The
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CPUs, with 512 MB DDR RAM, and a 60
GB hard drive.
Both are expected to ship in June.
XServe can also be configured to your

ApplereleasesiPhoto I.t update

developer Oracle (www.oiacle.com

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announced it will be bringing its Oracle

allowing for greater capacity, sinceATA

built-in option allows you to set any of

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chipset had been around in various iterations since the blue and white G3 towers, so it's good to see it replaced with a
the faster ATI Radeon MobrTlty chip.
This is the same video card used in the
PowerBook G4 550 MHz and 667 MHz
models last year. though current

PowerBook G4s use an updated ATI

Radeon 7500 chip that is even faster and
sports 32 MB of VRAM.
Still, with 16 MB of VRAM, the iBook
has twice the memory of the old Rage
128 8 MB chip set, and in 3D performance it should be more than twice asfast.
Also of note: now that these new iBooks
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The previous iBooks were the only shipping Mac models that did not meet the
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composite output only). The weight,
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are the same as previous models.
Prices are the same as the models they
replace, starting at $1,899 for a 600
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with a 128 MB Leadtek A250 Ultra TD

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digital camera, or scans from photographic originals, there are two main
types of editing you' re going to need
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effort but gives more predictable results.
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of 70percent orhigher.Ifyou work hesitantly with a more transparent brush
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of such chores as removing unsightly
skin blemishes or cleaning scratches and
dust marks.
Simply Alt-click on a clean source
area, then right-drag to paint it on the
area you want repaired. Photoshop
attempts to intelligently combine the
source and destination pixels, healing
the flaws while retaining the subtle textures of the image. Alternately, you can
use the Patch tool, which lets you lassoselect a healthy chunk of the image and
apply it to a damaged area.
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Layers can be a huge help. For example, an easy way to smooth out a face
that's showing undesirable skin detail is
to duplicate the image (or just the afllicted area) onto a new layer (you can just
Paste it into the Layers palette), and
apply a Gaussian Blur filter with a setting of about two pixels. Then right-click
on the entry in the Layers dialogue and
use the Blending Options to fade your
blurred layer so it just nicely fills out the
rough spots in the original image.

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this appmach. After creating your new
blurred layer, go to the History palette,
create a Snapshot, and set it to be the
source for t h e H istory Brush (by
enabling the little icon at the left of the
History entry). Then select everything
on this layer (Ctrl-A) and delete it. Now
paint on this layer with the History
where it's needed.
To lighten or darken specific areas of a
photo, use the Dodge and Burn tools,
respectively. Like the Healing Brush,
these tools are smart enough to blend in
with the image. pmvided you use them
with a smooth, steady hand. and don' t
overdo it. You can lighten a lydcklit face,
but if you try to make it look totally
front-lit, you' ll probably end up with a
M arcel
Marceau white-faceeffect.
When it comes to lightening, darkening or colour-correcting the entire
image, the Curves dialogue (Ctrl-M) is
your best fiT'end. It can seem intimidating, but it gives you far better control
than any other tool.
What you see in the dialogue is a little
graph of image brightness: original values along the bottom, values that will
result from your manipulation up the
side. (Black-and-white fans may be
reminded of Ansel Adams' "zone system.") The default 45-degree line indicates that input and output values are

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identical (X=Y); thus a 50 percent gray
wiB remain 50 percent gray.
When you bend tbe line by adding a
control point with your mouse, you' re
changing that rdationship, selectively.

For example, you can lighten only the

very dark shades. while keeping midtones and highlights constant. The slope
of the curve indicates contrast; a steeper
curve gives greater contrast. (Note that

an S-shaped curve actually has varying

contrast in dark and light areas.)
lf you drop or raise the curve so it lies
entirely above or below the 45-degree
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pixels will ag become black This can
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curves, to alter colour balance. For
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photographs, and boosting Red can put
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an art, but you don't have to be a virtuoso to get presentable results. A good
approach at Brat is to use a maxbnum of
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one at the lower left, thereby Bxing the
dark shades (which usually don't vary
much), then gently push the top end of
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avoidtweaking thecolour curvesunnecessarily.
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C urves d i alogue v i a t he Ne w
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menu. This applies aB your Curves
changes as a new layer, so you can easily
fade them or ehminate them entirely.
The "auto" Color, Leveh. and Contrast
commands try to automate this process.
and can be worth a try before you got
the manual mute. However, with no
understanding of the content of an
image, the software can only guess at
what it's supposed to laok like. For
example, it will assume that the image
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keywords such as family, friends, kids

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Marketing Association t r ade
how in Lss Vegas. That was the
year Kodak launched Advanced Photo
System (APS), the "next big thing" to
carry the photo industry towards 2010.1
remember my skepticism while attending the show. Consumer-level digital
cameras were already in their infancy,
and I sensed that rapid developments in
CCD technology would likely supplant
APS much sooner than later.
Fast forward to 2002: more than 50
percent of all camera sales are digital
cameras. This trend is accelerating, and
by 2005 it is estimated that diip'tal will
almost totally replace APS and 35mm
sales. With the recent introduction of a
new Mac OS X application called iPhoto,
Apple is well-poised to take advantage of
this major trend. IPhoto is the latest
progeny in a series of brilliant mnsumer
"iApps" that are part of Apple's well-publicised digital hub strategy.
As cool as digital photo technology is,
it has introduced a new set of problems
for the consumer. Accomplishing simple

of the window that can contain default

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blank, allowing you to assign your own

keywords. You can also assign multiple

keywords to single images, for example

"family-kids-birthday." In addition to

iphoto's titling capabilities, assigning

keywords gives you the flexibility to easily search your images as your library
grows. Another method for organization
is to create sets of albums in the left pane
of the iPhoto window using simple

drag-and-drop.
With its Edit function, iPhoto offers

simple point-and-click methods for

common image manipulations such as
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to) and a Macintosh running OS X.
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camera into your Mac by USB cable. OS
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of the iPhoto window displays the make
2nd model of your camera. All you have
to do is click the Import button to view
thumbnails of your images as they are
loaded into iPhoto's image library.
Conveniently, each session of images
imported shows up as a date-stamped
roll of film in the library window. One
improvement I'd like to see added is to
give the user more control over which

everyday digital photography tasks can

require cobbling together a variety of
over-mmplicated commercial software
that often don't integrate well with other
tools, or with the hardware they run on.
In trying to tackle this. Apple has
developed iPhoto an application whose
g oes is t o m ake i t easy fo r I o e
Ordinaryman to import, organize, edit,
and share photos using any one of dozens

cropping, brightness-contrast, grayscale

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images they import. A separate window

should open on top of the library window showing selectable thumbnails for
uploading.
To make it easier to browse your
library, iPhoto displays a nifty slider
control that scales your images larger or
smaller in real-time. To the left of the
slider is a button bar containing button
functions that represent a typical workflow process of importing, organizing,
editing, book layout, and sharing.
After importing, you can assign keyword classifications to your images by
clicking on the Organize button. This
reveals a set of t6 buttons at the bottom

m nversion.and red-eye correction. If

you find any of these basic tools limiting,
iPhoto won't fence you in. Simply go to
the preferences dialogue and sdect yow
favourite image-editing application.
I personally love using Photoshop, but
it isoverkill for most of what I want to do
with a digital camera image. Instead, I like
to use a freeware OS X application &om
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called Pixe)NHMce. It uses a really cool
split-pane disp)sy technique for beforeand-after comparisons of image manipulations, It's particularly handy for doing
colour corrections.
The Book function is iPhoto's best feature. In order to utiTize it you must first
create an album that will define the
book's content. From a pop-up menu
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bundles a couple of audio tracks as

Microsoft Entourage, for example, don' t your &iends and relatives to viiw using
despair. Simply drag your selected any Web bmwser on any platform. In
images &om the iPhoto's library window addition,Applehaseven added thecapa-

accompaniment themes, however. you

onto your mail application's icon in OS

can easily convert your own tracks digi-

X's dock and you' re photos are instantly

attached to a newmessagewindow ready

IPhoto also lets you run a slideshow of

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your photos on your computer. Apple

fessionally designed book layouts for

your photographs. The layout includes a
afi
eld beneath each photo where you can
add your own text to tell a story. Once
you've completed your layout, you can
click on iPhoto's Share button to complete your order. You' ll be routed to
Apple's servers to fill out an order form.

tally &om any audio CD.

Also, with a few clicks you can easily

share your images by email using Mac

OS X's bundled Mail application. If you
use any other email program, such as

For US$30, you' ll get a 10-page glossy

1 leW

book, output on an ol&et printer, and

bound with a linen cover in your choice

ate slick homepagesof your images for all

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other amazingly simple capabiTities for

various media. For example,' if you have
an ink)et printer you can output standard sized prints, contact sheets, and
greeting cards. One useful feature that is
absent &om iPhoto is the ability to e?E-

f you are a digital

imaging professional,
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ciently mix various standard picture

Served by another great

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software called iview MediaPro (www.wiew-multimedia.corn). A single-user licence costs
05$65, and afree, time-limited trial version of the software is available at iView'5
Ieb site.I soon plan to putthis softwarethrough its pacesin a photo lab setting,
I' ll be able to report on MediaPro'scapabilities in the nearfuture.

sixes on one sheet of paper more com-

monly known as picture packages.

Until Apple decides to implement this
feature, you can fill the gap with a US$25
shareware utility from Electric Fish
(wwwelw?fidish.com) called PhotoPress. A
30-day download trial version is also
available.

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if you don't like the defaults Apple has

provided.
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The only glanng onusslon I see m
iPhoto is the facility to easily backup your
photo library onto various media As a
matter of Pit, Apple should add a button

labeled Backup to the right of the Share

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of burgundy, navy, light gray or black.

The Share function enables many

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for composition.
If you have set up a &ee iTools account
with Apple, with a few clicks you can cre-

bility to use any of your images as a desktop pattern or a screen saver in OS X. And

button as a reminder to the consumer

who is not familiar with the remote pos-

sibility of corrupting or losing data to be

vigilant. With the market Apple is targeting, the sudden disappearance of a good
portion of important memories would
not be a good exercise in public relations.
As an aside, when I demonstrate
iPhoto to family, friends, and acquaintances it never fails to amaze the audi-

ence. For the casual or amateur digital

photographer, it comes very close to
heing the per&et software companion
for your digital camera and Mac.Ci
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handedgripping somewhat awkward.

The point may be moot outdoors,

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sizeofthe screen makes up forthis,making it a good screen for games as well as
DVD playback.Allthree ofusbought additionalDVD drives forourmachines to take
advantageofthis capabiiity.
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box or buy an old one have to

localprintand photocopy shops to see if

found that a special print job was required

to produce the piastic signs similar to the
ads seen lining the interiors of buses and
subway cars.I also learned that the standard size for this type of print job was
aboutthreetimes largerthan what Ineeded. Thankfully, since I was building my
machine along with two friends, we could
split the printing costs and each get our

they could create something similar. I

own marquee design.

makethe experience as authentic as possible

,there were a few things thatneeded
detailing. One of these was coming up
with a "marquee" the backlit plastic sign

sit
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I still had the original sign for my
arcade box, so with that in hand, I visited

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a designfor the marquee. I came
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sounded like an '80s-era arcade

purchase a monitor separately.

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game.The name, Xexon 1, is in

mock tribute to other "X" games
that were among my Pdvourites,
like Xevious and Xenophobe.
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whereIboughtmy box,Itook pic-

who build their own arcade boxes

getthe largest monitor they can
afford
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burned to a CD and delivered to the print-

ers. Sixty dollars later, some careful cutting, and we each had our own arcade

marquee.
Rememberto geta smaU switch to turn
the fluorescent backlight for the marquee
on andoffseparately from the other components. In our arcade boxes one power

cord (and one switch) turns everything

on.Chances are you'llwant to keep your
computerrunning,but not necessary the

sible, and did additional research

online into '80s-era arcade game

Next time: Finishingtouches.

out from all of the other machines

By this point in our arcade box

at the arcade halL

I showed these to a graphic
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light behind the marquee. It's relatively

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lighting circuit, and then cut a hole for it
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art.Most designs were bold and

colourful, the artists doing their
bestto make their design stand

project the pieceswere beginning

lend his talents to the project. He did us

all proud, coming up with three separate

designs, all of which incorporated game

Thanksgo lo coconspirators Peter lists and

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need to do in most cases is replace the
filter statement in the transitionSpace
object with the new code that's outlined.
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those in this code example if you like. It
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The gradient wipe transition creates a

gradual dissolve using a gradient band
that progressesacmss the original image
and reveals the new one. It takes any of
the fofiowing attributes: duration,
enabled, GradientSize, motion, and the
Javagcript property wipeStyle.
The duration attribute sets the time
value for the transition, specified in sec-

onds and milliseconds (0.0000). The

enabled attribute is a standard attribute
common to most 6lters and transitions,
and is "on" by default. even when not
specified. The Gradientgize attribute sets
the value for the gradient wipe, ranging
&om 0.0 to l. If set to 0.5, the gradient
wipe covers 50 percent of the object during the wipe.
The wipegtyle property works in con-

junction with motion; wipeStyle indir

cates whether the gradient moves hprizontafiy (0) or vertically ( I), and motion
can be set to either forward or reverse,To
see this at work, replace the filter statement in the transitionSpace object with
thefoUowing piece ofcode:
filtetprogid:DXlmageTransform.Microsoft.Wipe(Gra
dientsilo<f.s, vvipestyl~, motioxoforward)
Another type of wipe transition can be
created by using the RadialWipe fdter.
which reveals the content of a new object
using an efict similar to a windshield
wiperblade or the sweeping hand of a
clock. The RadialWtpe filter has the following attributes: duration, enabled, and
wipeStyle (the 6rst two of which have
already been covered). In this ase,
wipeStyle is an attribute instead of a
property, presumably because it takes a
different set of values: clock, wedge, and
radial. The clock value creates asweeping
wipe like the hands of a clock, wedge
sweeps around the centre from both
directions starting &om the top, and radial sweeps from the top to the left side.
anchoredin the upper leftcorner.To see
the clock transition in effect, replace the
filter statement in the transitionSpace
object with this piece of code:
sitarprogittDXtmageTransform.Miaosoftgadia)Wip
e(uipestyle=clodi)
The Strips 6lter creates a saw-toothed
type of wipe.Strips can take on any of
three attributes: duration, enabled, and
motion. The motion attribute takes on a
different set of values from those of
GradientWipe. These values are: leftdown, leftup, rightdown, and rightup. To
see the Strips transition in action, insert
the following code in place of the filter
statement in the transitionSpace object:
gltenprogkf:DXlmageTranslorm.Miaosoftstdps(dur
ation=s,motion=rightdown)
This produces a saw-toothed wipe
leading &om the top-left corner to the
bottom right.

Randomdissolves
There are two types of randomized transitions available: RandomBars and
RandomDissolve. Both are pretty selfdescriptive: RandomBars reveals the new
content by exposing random lines of
pixels, and RandomDissolve reveals new
content by exposing random pixds over
the object. RandomBars can take the
duration, enabled. and orientation
attribute while RandomDissolve only

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RandomBars' orientation attribute can
take one of two values: horizontal and
verticaL
To se e t h e tr ansition e ffect
RandomBars causes, insert this code and
replace the previous filter code segment
in the transitionSpaceobject:

wipe, try out the following piece of code

in place of the 61ter statement in the
transitionSpace object with this piece of
code
filter:progid:DXlmsgeTransform.Microsoft iris(iiis5tyf
a=olde,motion=out)

The Spiral filter reveals a new object

using a spiral motion. The Spiral fdter
can take on any of the following fow
attributes: duration, enabled, gridSizeX,
and gridSizeY. The two unique attributes
here are gridSizeX and gridSizeY, which
determine the size of the grid columns to
be used for the spiral, ranging from 0 to
100. The larger the value set for each of
these, the smaller the size of the "block"
the leads the spiral efiect.
The following code, inserted in the
place of the filter statement in the
transitionSpaceobject creates a relatively
6ne spiral effect:

gfterpiogid:DXfmsgeTie nsfoim.Mictosoft.Raadomg
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insert this piece of code instead:
filtetpiogid:DXlmsgeTransfoun.Miciosof(.RandomD
issolve(dutaiion=0.75)

Shn~hNing Nnnsgions
There are a number of transitions that
allow you to set spei6c shapes, such as
the Iris and Spiral.
If you are looking for a transition like
the effectsused in the opening credits of a
JamesBond film, the Iris filter is for you.
The Iris 6lter can take the following attributes: duration, enabled, irisStyle, and
motion. The only new aunbute here is
irisStyle, which can take any one of six
shape values: diamond, circle. cross,plus.
square, and star. Motion takes the values
out or in. If you want a JamesBond-like

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stretching and sliding e(facts. The Stretch
fifter has three attributes: duration,
enabfwl, and stretchStyle. The latter can

take one of three attributes: bide, push, or

spin. The hide value stretchesnew content
over the old from left to right; push
stretchesnew content "in" while squeezing
old content "out" from left to right, much
like the efFect of a rotating cube; and spin
stretches the new content over the old
from the centre outwards. To see the
Stretch transition filter in action, insert the

followingpieceof codeyou know where:

gfterpiugid:DNmsgeTrsnsform.Microsoft5tretch(sir
elch5tyle=spin)
The Slide Ster works by "sliding" new
content into place. This Ster has four
attributes: bands, duration, enabled, and
slideStyle. The two unique attributes here
are bands and slideStyle. The attribute
bands works by setting a numerical value
for the number of strips the new content
is divided into during the transition, and
slideStyle takes values similar to those of
the Stretch 6)ter: hide, push, and swap.
The hide value slidesbands of the old content out, exposing the new content; push
slides bands of new content in, pushing
the old out; and swapslides in alternating
bands of newcontent while sliding out the
old. To see this in action, try out the following piece of code in the usual place:
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covered that are worth a mention:
Inset: creates a diagonal wipe in the

shape of asquare.
Pixelate: displays the objects as "lowreso pixilated pictures, which then
sharpen to reveal the new object.
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Rob Lancaster, a senior analyst with
technology consultancy The Yankee

great content and information available

online,but not at the risk of alienating
users.
Young insists his company strives for
the proper balance.
"It is important to think of the end
user," he said. "We are trying to promote
productsand buiid brands, but we know
we mustbe considerate."
Klipmart "auto-embeds" TV ads into

Group (www.yankeetroup.com), said online

pageson the Internet.The video ads are

advertising is in the middle of what he

calls an oexperimentai time," when
advertisers try to figure out what works
and what doesn' t.
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businessstrategies sector ofthe Yankee
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people'
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things are intrusive."
When an online ad features music,
speech or sound effects, the "noise is

"playerless," meaning they are not

dependenton the surfer having a media
player installed on his or her computer.
When someone visits a site with an
embedded ad, Klipmart's software automatical
ly detects the connection speed
the person hasand servesthe appropriate
version of streaming video.
The company's advertisers include
Miramax,Lion's Gate, Coca-Cola and the
Diamond Trading Company, formerly
known as Degeers Diamonds. Klipmart
usestheTV spotsforthese companies and
putsthem online.
"We use a tried and true medium televisio
n and bring thatto the Internet,"
said Young."But we factor in user initia-

BOSTON,Mass. Surfi
ng the Web can be
so much work these dayspop-up ads
and animated graphics are beginning to
obscure content.
In some cases, clicking a button closes

the ad, but in other cases readers must

simply wait until the pitch is complete

not always welcomeespecially by those

who have headphoneson, Lancaster said.
He obser
ved thatsome advertisements do
notgive people a choice.
"One ofthe greatassetsofthe Internet
is users have complete control over everythingthey see and do.Ifyou force things
intotheirfaces,sites thatdepend on traffic or subscription revenue risk losing
them," he said.
Gillette made a splash recently when an
ad for it s new razor appeared on
Maxirngnline.
Virtual "shaving cream" appeared to
coverthe entire page, which was then
removed by an animated razor.
Maximgnline has animated ads from
several advertisers including Cingular,
Nissanand the U.S. Army that pop up
on nearly every page as a user clicks
throughthe site.
,Other examples of this trend include
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sshoe ads,which impose themselves
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kernels ofcorn atInstyle.corn.

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of New York City-based Klipmart, which

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optimized for those users," he said.

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ad,muting the sound or dosing the window." said Young.
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spot,which showed two cars apparently
playing one-on-one basketballon a
rooftop, online gives the advertiser a way
to track exactly how many people saw the
ad forhow many seconds something not
available on television.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. For apparently
the 6rst time, a major record-label subsidiary is releasing an uneacrypted MP3
6le onto the Internet, hoping fans will
fork over US$0.99 for the right to own
and use the song without constraints.
Maverick Records an d V i vendi
Universal Net USA jointly announced in
Msy that a special dance remix of
"Earth," a track by bassist Meshell
Ndegeocello, marks the 6rst time a
major-label artist has ever put a down-

ing if the honour system is going to work

online,
" said SteveVonder Haar,an analyst with Interactive Media Strategies in

Arlington, Texas.
Because the track is an unencrypted
MP3. it will be possible for listeners to
burn the song onto a CD and transfer it to
portable players. And, like CD tracks that
easily can be converted to MP3 6Ies, the
song inevitably will End its way onto the
numerous illicit Ble-sharing networks.
Jonathan Lamy, spokesman for the
R ecording Industry Association o f

loadable MP3 song up for sale on the

America (RIAA), said his organization

customarily declines to speak publicly
about the business practices of its indi-

Internet.

The song is available for download for

US$0.99 at a number of VUNet USA
sites,
incl u din g
MP3. corn,
Rollingstone.corn, GetMusic.corn and
MP4.corn. The 30,000 subscribers to the
Emusic MP3 service also will be able to
buy and download the tune.
"This is a case of the music labels see-

Records and Meshell Ndegeocello," said

Derrick Oien, president of VUNet USA's
Music and Media Group, in a written

giving digital music fans asimple way to

collect and enjoy this previously unreleased new song."
GartnerG2 music industry analysts
P.J. McNeely said the move is one other

labels probably will watch closely. But it' s

also an experiment, McNeely said, that
was very late in coming.
Napster, the notorious MP3 swapping
service that set the music industry on its
ear only to be later sued into submission,
launched the MP3-download phenomenon in late I999.
"Unfortunately," McNeely said, "we
didn't see this like two years aga The
labels are slow to embrace new distribution channels and marketing methods.
The fact [that j this technology isn't new
points at the lack of speed with which
the labels have been moving."
Nonetheless, McNeely saluted the

move as at least a step in the right direction I'o r the music industry. "It's good
news," he said. "Hopefully the rest of the
labels are taking note, and have plans to
do the same in the near term."
Brad Hill, a digital-music industry
observer and author of a forthcoming
book, TheDigital SongStream, expressed
doubts about the way Maverick Records
is approaching its MP3 experiment

"The overriding principle here," Hill

said, "is that they' re trying to sell a CD
on the basis of a single. That's what
bothers me the most, The fact that
they're even charging for the single
makes it worse in my mind."
Indeed, Maverick and VUNet USA
used space in their pressrelease to promo'te Cookie: Th e A n thropologicci
Mixtcpe, Ndegeocello's latest CD, which
is due out in early June. The first single

horn the album is not "Earth," but

M A G S T R IPE PO R T A S L E CA R D R E A D E R S

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comment on Maverick's MP3 release.
"This is a bold step for Maverick

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instead a track called "Pocketbook." The
original. unremixed version of "Earth"
will be on the record, however.

"The overriding principle

here," Hill said, "is that

they' retrying to sell a CDon

thebasisofasingle.That's
whatbothersmethe most.
The fact that they're even

charging for the single makes

it worse in my mind."
Hill said that, despite what he considersthe companies'market faux pas,the
mere fact that a label Anally has set at
least one track free onto the Internet is at
least marginally a good sign.
sl'm glad to see that," Hill said. "But it
seems like such a tiny incremental
release. Honestly, I'd just like to see
something more bold. As far as the
major labels are concerned and as far as
the RIAA is concerned, they view the situation as panic in the streetsa collapsing industry. Something like this, which
really just supports older analogue mar-

keting models, is completely unhelpful

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artist, he said. It is also a tentative

attempt to use MP3s to tap into a new
sourceofrevenue,by making people pay
for the chance to hear a portion of a
product that they would then have to
pay (or again. in slightly different form,
on CD.
And, he said, if the song generates
more interest among pirates than buyers,
it will provide ammunition labels can
use to justify their attempts to squeeze
the peer-to-peer pipe shut, Yonder Hear
indicated.
"That's why it's a no-lose situation to
try this on a very limited basis," he said.
"If a lot of people come and buy it, then
PT. Barnum was right. If they don' t
come and buy,or ifonly a few copiesget
sold and it starts showing up on all the
various music file-sharing services, then
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A guide to making game worlds more real

he best computer games combine
such things as great graphics, believablestorybnes, good gameplay, and
the sense that you are entering another
worid.
Oh yeah, and good physics. When you
hit a golf ball, plant a basketball in its
basket,Ry a spaceship around an alien
world, or strike a horrendous beast with
your sword, you expect certain physical
behaviours based on your own experience
ofthings such as gravity,the way dynamic forces act on objects, and how things
move.
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found that the single factor most likely to
ruin a game for them is attributable to
poor physics in other words, things not
workingthe way players expect.
Ifyou are a game designer who wants
to improve the fundamental physics
underpinning your virtual world, this book
is for you.
Rightoffthe bat,Ishouid mention that
thisbook is forthose who are not scared
by pagesof mathematical code the rec-

ommended college-level understanding of

physics, trigonometry, vector and matrix
math,and calculus should not be taken
lightly.
Alongside the mathematical code are
program segments written in C (written
for a Windows environment) that show
how toconvertthe equations and formulae into usable code.
The book has three major sections: a
review of basic mechanical principles; a
look at how physical forces work on realworld objects; and a final section that
puts things together in simulated environments.
The book looks at basic concepts like
Newton's laws of motion, dealing with
vector forces, the underpinnings of inertia
and understanding concepts like the centre of mass.
It then dives into topics like as kine-

meaningthat they're intended as a quick

refresher rather than providing a compre-

tance).
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environments.
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containing vector, matrix and quaternion

sionsaren't as clear-cut as they ought to

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the book.
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matics (vetoctty and acceleration), then

operations.
physhufor Game Dere/opersdoes have

everybody, if you are serious about making

your simulations or games seem more

some drawbacks:it's far from a comprehensive overview of all of the physics

game designersneed to know; its divi-

"natural," this is a good primer for making

your virtuai worlds more reaL
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Ghana is cunently upgrading its domestic

telephone lines, making them more plentiful, reliable, and Internet ready.
There are almost 20 miUion people living in Ghana,sharing about200,000 telephone lines, and only one ISP, making for
about 20,000 Internet users across the

Kumasi to visit the university and found a

computerlab with eight outdated computers shared by over 400 students," he
says."I also satin on a second yearcomputerclass with 250 students without a

computerto be seen. Textbooks feature

[the '80s-era film] Tronas the forefront of
corn puter graphics."
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Finishing
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Creating creatures

in virtual worlds
ly ShgrlggeMygfg
rin Olorenshaw spends her days
immersed in a world of hybrids.
where completely different animals are combined into strange creatures with peculiar talents, forming
armies with a vast array of Eghting tactics and defensive strategies. As a senior
animator fo r R elic Entertainment.
Olorenshaw has been working for years
on the animals and characters in
Impossible Creatures, a video game to be
released by Microsoft later this year. The
job requires a bit of a hybrid person, too,
with skills in both technology and art,
and the ability to negotiate between

what is possible and what is practical.

Olorenshaw sat down with TCP recently
to discuss her animation career. Thefollowing is an edited version of that conversation.
TCPI Did you always want ro be an animator?

EO: No [laughs j. At Erst I didn't really know what I wanted to be after high

school. I was into dancing, and I was on

the dance team that took up a lot of
my spare time as a kid gmwing up. So I
knew I wanted to do something creative.
but I wasn't swe what.
I got into the business side of things
and became an administrative assistant.
I really liked computers I found I
could teach myself programs easily and I
could understand them quite well.
Basically, I knew I was doing well at that,
but at the same time. I didn't like what I
was doing reports and letters and documents. So I just looked for something
creative in a computer-related Beld.
I was looking into multimedia and
I'd
came across animation and
do well at it. I went to VFS [Vancouver

thoug
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Film School), and just started really

enjoying it.
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you're in nowt
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ast month, in
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when to use them

for GUI and applet

programs, we began
to create a program

called duallist.

s'

As noted previously, conceptually

the pmgram is fairly simple. It has one
class, duollisr, which extends the predeGned Appler dass. We showed that we
have to import the awt and awt.event

classesasweg as swing and applet.

We also advocated using Borland's
IBuilder because of'its ability to automate codewriting.
Most of the code in our sample program was automatically generated by
Borland's JBuilder at startup and design
of the applet screen. To igustrate this we
have bolded the code that was handwritten, all of the rest more than half was
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course I basically had to wait about six
months until someone offered me a job.
This was my first job in the industry.
TCPTWhen you started our here, wereyou
in the position you' rein now?
EO:No, I started out as a junior artist,
and I did artwork for space ships and
some texturing. I got into the animation
when they needed an animator.Then
they started up a new project, and moved
me onto that project to start olf the animation. That project had a lot more animation in it it had a lot more characters and animals. I was on that for a while
as animator and then we started hiring
more animators. so I became the senior
animator on that project.
TCP: Tell me about a typical work dayfor
you.
EOTWeg, I get in around 10 o' clockour core hours here are 10 till five. They
want you to work eitdtt hours or more,
but those are the hours they like you to
be in the olFice. I usually go through my
email, just to see what's happening that

day. and if anything needs to be tended

to. and then it depends on where you are
in the project. Some days I'B be animating as day,doing character work or animating animals. Some days I' ll be in
meetings afi day, trying to figure out
design of tools that we may need. I work
with the programmers to build these
tools for aB the animators. Sometimes
I'm researching. Some days it's afi of
them. I have to go over people's work
and make sure that what's happening
and what's going in the game is actually
final and ready to be checked oif the list.

I do scheduling work
So it's a whole bunch of different little
tasks throughout the day, that just kind
of come at you. I probably leave work
around six or seven on an average daysometimes you' re working till 10 or 1 1.
TCP: How long do those busier periods
usually last?
EO:Depends on the project itself. This
project that I' ve been on that's ending
soon I' ve been on it for three years.
which is very long for the video game
industry. And the first year was a lot of
research and devdopment, and it was on
and off, busy. slow. The year after that was

T RA I N I N G 5

ramping up to busy, and then the last year

between 19 and 40. And everyone is play-

has been insandy busysix to seven days

a week, eight to 12 hours [a day[.

ing gamm and having a lot of fun. The

Monthly there's a cycle there's a

milestone we have every month, and at
the end of that milestone we have to ship
a build of our game to the publisher. So
we have to make sure the game's work-

wages are good too. That always helps.

You'm having fun most of the tbne I
mean not as the time of course, but most
of the time and you' re paid wdL
TCP: What do you like?east?

ing, [and] we have to have everything

EO:Least would be the long hours it

that's on our schedule in the game, so

about a week before that it gets busy and

can really stress you out. You have to

really deal with stress levels quite wellyou have to know yourself, make sure

everyone stays, and dinner is bmught in.

and it's long hours. And then after that
you slow down a bit, and take a little bit
of a break, and it ramps up again, so
there's big cycles within the project and
then little mini monthly ones.

you have a life outside of the industry.

TCP: Whar do you like best about your

there for 3D programs. [Relic[ will send

j ob?
EOTIt's very creative, there's a lot of

me to conferences. Game Developer conference just happened last month, and

mom for growth, andespeciagyat this job

you meet up with as the people making

I find I have a lot of input into the project,

and people listen, I' ve only been here for
four years,and I'
m already able to say
what I like and what I don' t, ask if we can

these programs and they show youwhat

they have. We get new programs in and
try them out. It's just consent research-

do something cool, and you just have alot

gy. You do that through work, but you

[need to[ do it in your own time too,

more contml over what you' re doing.

And it's quite fun. Everyone around
you is around the same age level,

TCP: What do youdo ro keepyoursei fup

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yourj ob skiNsand industry?

speedi

EOT I do a lot of r esearch on the

Internet about what new things are out

ing, playing around with new technolo-

sometimes.
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EO: Definitely, I really do. I think most
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dancing, martial arts, sports. It's a general understanding of movement and how
your body works, and how other things
work, how gravity works. You have to
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good eye. And then a general understanding of computer programs. You
don't necessarily have to know programming I'm not a huge technical person
ust an understanding of
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work in a team environment with a lot of
different types of people, so you have to
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biggestchallengesyou'll facein your posiNon i n thenerrrcouple years?
EOI Well for video games in general, I
think it's quite limited in 4 technical way.
There's a lot you can do with these 3D
programs and there's not a lot you can
put into the games just yet. It's getting
better and better, but you really have

thousands of tools at hand that you can

use and make something really cool, and
yet, you can only use five of them. So
that's a challenge that's happening right
now. and that will be going on for the
next five or ) 0 years.
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EOI It's just a function of video games

in general, what people. what their system specs are, how much space they
have, how much space you have to put
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gamethere's the environment, there' s

the characters, the animation, the effects,
and there's all the gameplay. And it all
has to be optimized and fit, and there' s
only certain things that you can do to
actually have a good amount.
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export them [fiom our 3D programj
into the game using tools that all our
programmers wrote, it optimizes all the
bones in the character, so that it 'doesn't
move the same as it used to in our program. It makes it cheaper, so that the file
size is smaller, and it can all fit. And it
can run on people's home computers,
that aren't updated, say. so they don' t
have as much RAM or something, so we
have to kind of keep it in mind. It's PC
games that are definitely like that consoles are a bit difierent.
TCP: When you're nor working. whar's
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EOI I like to spend time with friends
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rofierblade and I snowboard, and I go to
yoga as we)I, and just re)ax. I don't play
video games outside of work. I'd like to
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work.
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describing the event management code
that is automatically generated by
)Builder one for each button, which
must respond to the click event. Aii the
programmer has to do is respond to the
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loptadd('Fortress ); ioptadd('Superfortress);

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loptadd( CNS
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so wecould pick up right-mouse or double-cticks. Unfortunately, a trade-off

immediately arises.
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don't have to program it yomself), but
AWT does not for the List component;
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position and size of a component on the

loptadd("Sabre); loptadd("F86);

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selected.
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name of the > button, we Bnd out how
many items are in the list, then exit if
there are none. Otherwise, we go
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check if the item isSelrdad(), and if so we
transfer to the other list. Then the Rnal
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time in reverse order and remove all the
selected items. This is the for (inr i =

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