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Are you looking forward to upgrading to Copland next year? Apple
   suggests you might be waiting a bit longer. Also this week: news
   on Apple's printing fix for PCI Power Macs, the new location of
   the gaea scripting archive, info on AOL's new FTP and Web
   services for members, a followup to Adam's articles on digital
   cameras, and a detailed article on the upcoming version of
   Quicken, the popular personal finance package.

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Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
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Topics:
    MailBITS/16-Oct-95
    AOL Betas Member Web & FTP Services
    Digital Camera Redux
    Intuit Announces Quicken 6
    Reviews/16-Oct-95

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MailBITS/16-Oct-95
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**Copland in 1997?** In an interview in the 16-Oct-95 issue of
  MacWEEK, Vito Salvaggio, the product manager for Copland,
  indicated Apple can no longer commit to a 1996 release for the
  next major version of the Mac OS. Despite public statements from
  Apple officials that Copland was as little as two days behind
  schedule, rumors of schedule problems have circulated for the last
  few months and many saw Apple's move to port System 7.5 to the
  Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) by mid-1996 as a sign
  that Copland may not be ready on time. (The CHRP standard,
  developed jointly with IBM, should allow machines to run the Mac
  OS, OS/2, AIX, or Windows NT; the first systems should be
  available from other vendors by mid-1996.) If you're upset,
  remember Apple originally claimed it was absolutely committed to
  shipping Copland in 1995. [GD]


**Second Time A Charm?** Last Tuesday Apple released version 1.0.2
  of its 7.5.2 Printing Fix, after abruptly pulling version 1.0 from
  its servers the week before. Then, late Tuesday, Apple pulled
  _that_ version, restored it a few hours later, then later moved it
  to a different directory. The extension is supposed to fix a
  crashing problem on the Power Mac 7200, 7500, 8500, and 9500 when
  printing to a busy network-based printer. If you need it, grab it
  while you can. [GD]

ftp://ftp.support.apple.com//pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/printing_sw/
other_printing_sw/7.5.2_Printing_Fix.hqx


**Study Finds Macs Cheaper to Support** -- A study of technical
  support costs in corporate computing by Gartner Group Consulting
  Services found no incremental costs for companies supporting both
  the Mac and Windows platforms, as opposed to the cost of
  supporting Windows alone. In addition, the study found supporting
  Macs costs 25 percent less than supporting Windows, and that the
  higher the percentage of Macintosh computers in an organization,
  the lower the total technical support costs. It's worth noting the
  study was completed before Windows 95 was available, so the costs
  of upgrading to Windows 95 and its long-term support aren't
  included. [GD]


**I Think I Felt the Earth Move** -- Users of the AppleScript,
  Frontier, Nisus, and QuicKeys archives at <gaea.kgs.ukans.edu>
  might be in for a shock: the long-standing scripting archive site
  will soon be gone. However, thanks to the efforts of Fred Terry
  <[e-mail]> and the generosity of Jaeson Engle and Acme
  Technologies, gaea has a new home on a Mac at ScriptWeb. The new
  archive site is running now, and all files should be updated
  within a week. Thanks to all involved in keeping this valuable
  resource on the nets, and thanks to the Kansas Geological Survey
  for letting the archives remain on the original site for the last
  two and a half years. [GD]

ftp://gaea.scriptweb.com/
http://www.scriptweb.com/


**Apprentice 3 Available** -- Following up on the promise of
  twice-yearly updates for its CD-ROM compilation of Mac programming
  and development tools (see TidBITS-263_), Celestin Company
  recently released the third edition of its Apprentice CD. The
  Apprentice CD-ROM consists mainly of free and shareware
  development resources, source code, utilities, programming
  environments, and demos of popular commercial tools. Although most
  of the material is available elsewhere, having it all in one place
  (and with full indexes for Easy View, FileMaker, and On Location)
  makes the disk a valuable resource for programmers and the
  technically inclined. The materials have been updated to the
  latest versions available, including fully-indexed archives of
  valuable digests and mailing lists such as
  <comp.sys.mac.programmer> and the Mac Scripting Digest. Apprentice
  3 is available for $35 ($25 for education users or updates from
  previous versions). Celestin Company -- 360/385 3767
  360/385-3586 (fax) -- <[e-mail]> [GD]

http://www.celestin.com/apprentice/


AOL Betas Member Web & FTP Services
-----------------------------------
  by Les Jones <[e-mail]>

  The number of people who can distribute files via FTP and create
  World Wide Web pages has just increased by three and a half
  million AOL users. Last month, America Online opened a public beta
  test of member-created FTP areas and Web pages. Called My Place
  and My Home Page, respectively, AOL is providing these services to
  its members at no extra charge.


**Using AOL FTP and Web Space** -- To connect to their personal
  directories, AOL members can use the AOL application to FTP to
  <users.aol.com>. Once they connect, they're presented with the
  contents of their directories, and a set of buttons for uploading
  and managing files. All FTP files and Web files are placed in this
  common directory.

  AOL allocates each AOL screen name 2 MB of disk space for both FTP
  and Web files. Since each AOL account can have up to five screen
  names, a total of 10 MB of disk space is potentially available;
  however, there's no way to combine or reallocate disk space among
  screen names except through some creative use of Web pages. If a
  screen name exceeds the 2 MB limit, the next upload is refused
  with a "disk quota" error.

  Anyone on the Internet with anonymous FTP capabilities can access
  all files in the common directory, though a "private" directory is
  provided for limiting access. Other people can access files in the
  private directory only if they know the names of the files - this
  allows members to give access privileges to their friends by
  telling them the names of the files.

  [These "private" directories are only as secure as your friends
  are trustworthy, but should be fine for most people distributing
  private materials via FTP. -Geoff]

  AOL members can also create a directory called "incoming" to allow
  FTP uploads. Files placed in the incoming directory count against
  that screen name's 2 MB disk quota. Files uploaded to a member's
  incoming directory can be accessed only by that member.

  For complete instructions, check out the AOL FAQ. Version 2.6
  explains the process of creating AOL Web pages and FTP areas.

ftp://users.aol.com/macfaq/aol-faq-mac.sit


**Accessing AOL Web Pages** -- To connect to an AOL member's Web
  page, form an HTTP URL using the site <users.aol.com> along with
  the AOL member's screen name. (The AOL screen name is the part of
  the AOL user's Internet email address before the @ symbol -
  remember to remove any spaces in the screen name, as you must do
  for Internet email as well.) For example, my screen name is
  macfaq, so the URL to my Web directory on AOL would be:

http://users.aol.com/macfaq/

  (You may sometimes see <members.aol.com> instead of
  <users.aol.com>. They both point to the same address, and are
  mostly interchangeable. At this time, AOL members who want to
  upload files to their areas must use <users.aol.com>, but AOL's
  FTP administrator says this will be fixed shortly.)

  When you connect, AOL looks for a file called index.html in the
  member's directory. If it can't find page with that name, an error
  will be returned, so AOL members are encouraged to use index.html
  for the name of their home page. Just as with any other Web
  server, members can create other HTML pages with different file
  names, and link back and forth between them or to other Internet
  sites.


**Accessing AOL User FTP Areas** -- To connect to an AOL member's
  FTP area, use the address <users.aol.com>. When you connect,
  you'll be greeted by a sparse directory. Use the command "cd
  screenname" to change to the directory of a particular member. If
  you know the name of a particular file or directory, you can use
  an FTP URL to directly access it.

ftp://users.aol.com/macfaq/


**The Upshot** -- Until now, AOL members could browse content
  created by others, but couldn't create their own. This prompted
  criticism that AOL was taking from the net without giving anything
  in return. With AOL's new service, the doors are open for AOL
  members to exercise their creativity and provide content. Whether
  that content appears on Spider's Pick of the Day or the Netscape
  Hall of Shame remains to be seen.

http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/pick.html
http://www.meat.com/netscape_hos.html

  [Les Jones is the author of the mammoth AOL FAQ for Macintosh,
  thinks HTML is the coolest thing since six color Apple decals,
  and is currently pondering the best way to convert the AOL FAQ
  to HTML.]


Digital Camera Redux
--------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  We received a number of interesting comments about my articles
  relating to digital cameras. Among them was someone who wanted to
  take 5,000 pictures of an entire town (sounded like the QuickTake
  could handle it well), and a note from Chris Kimm
  <[e-mail]> of Kinko's commenting that you can
  test drive a QuickTake 150 from any Kinko's store for $5 per hour
  or $25 per day. Several folks noted that the QuickTake's CCD (the
  hardware that records the image) is probably at fault for the
  mediocre image quality, not its optics. In addition, Bruce
  Norikane <[e-mail]> sent a pointer to a Web page his
  company has created listing available digital cameras. Basic specs
  and prices are included, so you can get a sense of how expensive
  these puppies can get.

http://rainbow.rmii.com/~jburton/PlugInSystems/DigitalCameraGuide.html


**Lee Zimmerman** <[e-mail]> writes:
  You mentioned in your comments about the little Fargo dye
  sublimation printer that it would be nice to have an affordable,
  quality way to distribute digital images on paper. I bought a HP
  DeskWriter 855C a few weeks ago and have been impressed. At $550
  it costs more than the Fargo printer but has the advantages of (1)
  being a near-laser-quality black and white printer, (2) being a
  near-photographic quality color printer, and (3) printing on
  8.5" x 11" media. The color on this printer is not quite dye
  sublimation quality, but definitely acceptable. HP now has a new
  plastic-coated paper that is expensive (about $1 sheet) but makes
  the color output look even more like a photograph.

  My parents are currently traveling the country in their motor home
  and I volunteered to publish a newsletter for them. They send me
  photos and text each month and I distribute the finished product.
  The first production run on the new printer was last weekend and I
  was extremely satisfied with the results. Also, I'm not much of a
  letter writer, but have been using the printer with Avery postcard
  stock to print quick color postcards to send to family members.


**Matthew Hawn** <[e-mail]>, Macworld Online's
  production editor, writes:

  I thought I'd pass on some experiences with the Kodak DC40 and the
  threaded lens mount. Macworld Online is using a DC40 as a down-
  and-dirty option to get photos online fast. We're happy with the
  image quality and the storage the camera offers but less happy
  about the downloads from the camera. Kodak told us there is a new
  version of the Photo Enhancer software in the works that will move
  compression from the camera to your Mac (where it belongs). They
  claimed we'd get something new before December, but they didn't
  mention if it would be Power Mac native.

  When we got the camera, we were working with beta versions of
  everything, so none of the optional lenses were available. Thanks
  to the helpful staff at Adolph Gasser, our local photography
  store, we put together a great collection of lenses for
  considerably less than many of the ready-made kits. Here's what we
  got:

* a $20 Tiffen 37 to 49 step-up ring (this adaptor ring lets you
  use a wide range of standard lenses and filters with the camera)

* a $50 Hoya close-up kit (three 49 mm lenses: +1, +2, +4)

* an $80 Kenco wide-angle conversion lens kit (a 1.5x lens (KCT15)
  and a 0.5 lens (KCW05)). Kenco makes lenses for video cameras but
  they use the same threading as the Kodak camera.

  The only other problem we've had with the Kodak and the extra
  lenses is the time it's taken to adapt to the lack of a decent
  viewfinder. Using a special lens throws off the field-of-view even
  more than normal. It takes a lot of practice to make sure that
  you're framing your subject properly, and we take many extra
  photos to be sure. After all, it's not like we're wasting film,
  just bits.

http://www.macworld.com/

  [Macworld Online requires authentication, but I discovered it
  works with the username "guest" and password "guest". -Adam]


Intuit Announces Quicken 6
--------------------------
  by Stephen Becker <[e-mail]>

  Intuit has announced an October 26th release date for the latest
  Macintosh version of its popular personal finance software. In
  addition to many enhancements to existing features, the latest
  version offers some significant new capabilities.


**General Overview** -- Quicken initially endeared itself to the
  Mac world by providing a powerful checkbook management program,
  which combined a strong feature set and a large selection of
  customizable reports with an intuitive interface and a well-
  written manual. Each successive release of Quicken has included
  refinements to the program's initial strengths, plus an
  increasingly broad feature set including personal investment
  management, electronic checking, personal budgeting, financial
  planning, and some basic tax links to Intuit's MacInTax software
  program. They have also demonstrated creative ways to integrate
  online help into Quicken, while continuing to provide very good
  manuals. To Intuit's credit, these additions to the application
  have been accomplished without losing the ease-of-use in the
  checkbook portion of the software. However, as you would expect,
  to fully utilize all the program now has to offer, there is a
  learning curve to deal with - though this is greatly aided by the
  well-integrated nature of the program's features and the excellent
  implementation of the Mac's user-friendly interface.


**Basic Features** -- One of the problems with a personal finance
  package is that you have to enter quite a lot of information to
  take advantage of its more powerful features. For those of you who
  might be thinking "Sure, it may be a good program, but who has the
  time to enter historical data?" you can relax. One of the
  refinements I was referring to above is called QuickFill. When you
  enter data in your checkbook register once, QuickFill remembers
  the entry. If it is a recurring expense/deposit, the next time you
  start to type in the entry, Quicken fills in the rest of the
  information for you on the fly. Further, Quicken maintains an
  editable list of all these entries. For instance, if you make a
  fixed payment each month (say for a loan), QuickFill can be
  "locked" to always fill in the payment amount along with the
  category and description information. If the payment varies each
  month (a utility bill for example), QuickFill can be set to fill
  in all the fields except for the amount. In practice, this greatly
  speeds up entering data into the checkbook register. If you hate
  to type, Quicken lets you double click items in the QuickFill
  list, or directly drag them to the register.

  Quicken asks you to assign a category to each entry in the
  register. Categories let you organize your entries; you might have
  categories for automobile expenses, travel, taxes, etc. As with
  QuickFill, Quicken will maintain an editable category list for
  you, and to help you get started a list of commonly used
  categories is provided with the program. The advantage of using
  categories is that when you create reports, they provide an
  intuitive way for you to organize, view, and analyze your
  finances.

  Actually, thoughtful and easy-to-use features are the hallmark of
  this program. For example, when you run a report (Quicken provides
  a large list of predefined and customizable templates and graphs
  to chose from), if you double-click the line of data you are
  interested in, QuickZoom creates a detail report to show you where
  the data came from. This can be done through successive levels of
  reports until you reach the register where the underlying data
  entry was actually made. At this point you can update any data in
  that entry, and all the reports you just zoomed through will
  automatically be updated to reflect the modified data.

  For us non-accountant types, QuickZoom allows us to correct or
  update previously entered data with ease and without having to
  deal with double entry accounting. You may also go directly to a
  register at any time to update your data. Quicken has a password
  option for opening files or for changing data entered prior to a
  specified date. I use this feature to prevent me from accidentally
  changing an entry to a previous year's data

  Although there are far too many features and shortcuts carried
  forward from previous versions of Quicken to discuss here, I'll
  list a representative sampling: handling of split entries
  (allocating an entry such as a credit card payment to multiple
  categories); a customizable Icon Bar; downloading stock quotes
  from CompuServe or from the Quicken Quotes Hotline 900 number;
  creation of custom "Memorized" reports based upon criteria you
  select from the large list of report filters; automatic scheduling
  of transactions; creating Transaction Groups; a monthly Calendar
  which displays transactions that have been performed and are
  scheduled to be performed; transferring funds between accounts;
  reconciling accounts; creation and monitoring of Budgets; multiple
  Personal Finance Planners; printing checks; creation of your own
  custom Command Key Shortcuts; customization of font styles and
  sizes used in displaying and printing reports; electronic tracking
  of your credit card purchases through Intellicharge (if you sign
  up for the Quicken credit card), and much more.


**New Features in Quicken 6** -- The first new feature becomes
  apparent the first time you launch Quicken 6: a window appears
  asking if you would like to see an overview of the new features in
  the program. (If you chose to skip this option, you can bring up
  the same item from the Help menu at a future date.) This brings us
  to a major enhancement in Quicken - it now uses Apple Guide
  technology for its help system. Intuit has included many help
  screens that guide you through a step-by-step process to
  accomplish a given task. For users of System 7.0 or 7.1, Intuit
  includes two extensions that bring support for Apple Guide -
  Intuit calls it Quicken Guide - to those systems.

  Power Macintosh users will appreciate that Quicken 6 is available
  in a native version. This is a good thing, because the late beta
  release I tested was disappointingly slow on my 68030-based IIsi.
  Intuit says this is a known issue with data files which contain a
  large number of accounts; hopefully, this will be remedied by the
  time the program is released.

  Some new reports have been added to Quicken 6, along with a new
  tabbed (index card-like) window for selecting and customizing the
  reports. The good news is that some new filters have been added
  along with an "Easy Report" set-up window that should be helpful
  to new users. However, I question whether experienced users will
  appreciate having to negotiate up to three tabbed windows to
  accomplish what they had previously been able to do in just one
  window. Also, the small table that in previous versions listed the
  filters being applied to a report has been eliminated. A long-
  standing concern of mine has been that with so many filter options
  available in the creation of a report, going back to a printed
  report after even a short period of time can lead to confusion in
  interpreting the data. Rather than eliminate the little support
  provided for keeping track of these filters, I would like to see
  at least an option to print a "filter page" with a report. Also,
  since Quicken makes it so easy to modify or update the information
  in its registers, a time-date stamp option for printed reports
  would be a welcome aid in tracking versions of a report.

  A significant improvement to Quicken deals with the Budget
  feature. Creating a budget is now more flexible - allowing for a
  great deal of customization in both the content and appearance of
  a budget - and Quicken 6 supports the creation of multiple
  budgets. A nifty new feature is a window that uses color-coded
  bars to indicate how close you are to the budgeted amounts for
  specific budgeted categories.

  Current Quicken users will notice the Portfolio window has been
  completely revised. Instead of having to open a separate window
  for each portfolio account, all securities may now be displayed in
  one window. I say "may" be displayed, because it is now possible
  to hide individual securities from the window (the data in the
  registers is not effected by this). Also, users can now choose to
  display a nice customizable selection of calculated values for
  their securities right in the Portfolio window. Many of these -
  like average cost per share - were not available in previous
  versions of Quicken. To help make the viewing of all this
  information easier to deal with, the window now has a horizontal
  scroll bar and the ability to click on a column to select its data
  as the basis for sorting the display (this method of changing the
  sort priority is also available in several other lists in the
  program). Columns may also be dragged to a new location so that
  you can prioritize which data always appears on the screen; you
  can even adjust the column field width to further refine your
  control of how the data appears in the window. My only complaint
  with the Portfolio window is that with so much information being
  presented, I would like to see some use of shading or color to
  make evaluating the data easier on the eyes.

  The program's preferences list has been redesigned and refined as
  well. Users no longer need go to several menus in order to access
  different preferences; instead, Quicken now offers one main
  preferences window. In this window, selecting an icon from a
  scrollable list brings up a group of related preferences.

  Over the years, Quicken has added the previously mentioned
  electronic banking features. The unsuccessful merger with
  Microsoft does not seem to have interrupted this trend: new for
  Quicken 6 is what Intuit calls, appropriately enough, "Online
  Banking." As the manual puts it: "Now you can bank online instead
  of waiting in line." The online banking features weren't included
  in the beta version of Quicken I tried, and as of this writing it
  looks like Intuit will be providing them in a free supplemental
  software release by the beginning of 1996. Intuit claims the
  online banking features will include getting up-to-date bank
  balances, seeing which checks have cleared, and transfering money.

  The importance of backing up your data has also been addressed in
  Quicken 6. A thoughtful new preference tells Quicken to
  automatically create a backup of your data file when it's closed.


**Some General Observations** -- Clearly, Intuit has put a lot of
  effort into making their already fine program even better - there
  are more new enhancements in Quicken 6 than space available to
  address them. Although thoughtful features are abundant in
  Quicken, I feel there are still some weaknesses. For one thing,
  the handling of security lots is not very sophisticated. The
  workaround I use is to assign a separate letter designation to
  each lot in a given security. The printing of selected sections of
  large reports is awkward because, although Quicken provides
  visible, adjustable page breaks, scrolling to the needed section
  of the report while maintaining a count of the passed page breaks
  is tedious and inefficient. Page numbers should appear onscreen in
  each page of a report so you can immediately determine the numbers
  of the pages you need to print. Also, tracking the activity of a
  given security in the securities register can be quite a strain on
  your eyes and your patience. The ability to color-code each
  security/lot in an investment register would greatly aid in
  tracking these transactions in the register view. Additionally,
  though the new version of Quicken provides for more ways to
  analyze your investments than previous versions, there is still no
  calculation for the yield on bonds and bond funds. People who are
  more concerned with the cash flow produced by their investments
  than by the theoretical total return that includes unrealized
  capital gains and losses would benefit greatly if Quicken would
  calculate this value for them. Finally, with so many ways to
  configure investment reports, be careful to understand the meaning
  of a report's results before acting on it. I have not seen the new
  manual that will come with Quicken 6, but with previous versions
  of Quicken, I felt this area was in need of more complete
  documentation.


**The Bottom Line** -- When the above concerns are viewed in the
  context of the overall program, Quicken 6 is an impressive
  package. With the excellent integration of the program's large
  feature set and the well-implemented use of the Macintosh user
  interface, the program is both easy to use and very powerful. For
  new users, I would suggest just setting up some basic bank
  accounts to get a feel for the program. Then, at your own pace,
  explore one or two new areas of the application at a time - I
  expect you'll quickly find yourself transitioning into some of the
  program's more powerful features. The Quicken Guide can help you
  perform some tasks if you get stuck. Also, for the cost of a long
  distance phone call, Intuit provides better-than-average phone
  support. Previous users of Quicken will appreciate the program's
  significant added features and refinements. Intuit also plans to
  release a Deluxe CD-ROM version, which is expected to include an
  online manual, some tips, and financial advice. With an expected
  street price of around $50, Quicken 6 is not only the most
  complete personal finance software for the Mac, but also an
  excellent value.

  Quicken 6 requires System 7.0 or higher, a machine with 4 MB of
  RAM (8 MB under System 7.5), and 4 to 8 MB of disk space.

    Intuit, Inc. -- 800/781-6999 -- 415/322-0573
      800/374-7057 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>

  [Steve Becker is the owner of MacEase, a Macintosh training and
  consulting business in Berkeley, California, and regularly
  contributes to the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group Newsletter.]


Reviews/16-Oct-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 09-Oct-95, Vol. 9, #40
    PowerShop -- pg. 27
    Astound 2.0 -- pg. 27
    QLogic Fast!SCSI -- pg. 32
    External 4 GB drives -- pg. 34
      APS Q 4.0
      Mirror 4.2 GB
      PLI Infinity 4.2 GB


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