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This week we are anticipating our first snowfall as we wrap up
   another issue of TidBITS, which brings you news of Mac price
   cuts, ClarisWorks 4.0v2, an Asian Macintosh clone licensee, and
   Apple's Chinese Dictation Kit. This week's articles include
   reviews of World Wide Web Weaver 1.0 and Starry Night 1.01, a
   planetarium simulator, and the issue ends with the first part
   of an overview of PPP Internet connection software.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/04-Dec-95
    World Wide Web Weaver 1.0
    Stars on the Cheap
    Macintosh PPP Overview (Part 1)
    Reviews/04-Dec-95

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MailBITS/04-Dec-95
------------------
  Another capitalist feeding frenzy season is upon us, and we at
  TidBITS are going to help in our usual fashion, by soliciting new,
  unique, or interesting gift ideas for the Macintosh user on your
  list. So please send one paragraph descriptions of your favorite
  gift ideas to <[e-mail]> before 10-Dec-95 and I'll compile
  them for the next issue of TidBITS. I'm especially looking for
  ideas that are a bit out of the ordinary, and please include
  contact information for any companies whose products are not
  readily available on the Web or via mail order. [ACE]


**Apple Cuts Prices on Consumer Macs** -- Apple announced Friday
  it was cutting prices on a series of Performa and Power Macintosh
  models (including two DOS Compatible models) in an effort to
  target holiday shoppers and year-end purchasers. Though final
  prices are set by dealers, these are Apple's new estimated street
  prices with the percent change: [GD]

 Machine                    Configuration   Old Price   New Price   Change
 -------                    -------------   ---------   ---------   ------
 Macintosh Performa 640CD   12/500/DOS/15"    $1,999      $1,499     25.0%
    DOS Compatible
 Macintosh Performa 5215     8/1G/4xCD/15"    $2,199      $1,999      9.1%
 Power Macintosh 6100/66    16/500/2xCD/DOS   $2,299      $1,999     13.0%
    DOS Compatible
 Power Macintosh 7100/80     8/700/2xCD       $1,799      $1,499     16.7%
 Power Macintosh 7200/75     8/500/4xCD       $1,699      $1,549      8.8%
 Power Macintosh 7200/90     8/500/4xCD       $1,899      $1,699     10.5%


**ClarisWorks Update** -- Claris's recent release of ClarisWorks
  4.0v2 fixes a number of problems and enables ClarisWorks 4 users
  to save files in ClarisWorks 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1 format. According to
  the release notes the new version also adds support for drag &
  drop, speeds up some features, plus fixes problems with mail
  merging, rotating library images, and the Address List Assistant.
  The new version also comes with new RTF and WordPerfect 3.1
  filters. An updater that updates ClarisWorks 4 is available
  online; the updater has created some confusion over two details:

* The release notes say that the updater updates ClarisWorks
  4.0v1, but, as Claris later explained it, "ClarisWorks 4.0 and
  4.0v1 are one and the same. Sorry. We should have made Get Info
  report it that way." The updater should work fine on any copy of
  4.0, and it did work fine on my copy.

* The updater won't necessarily work unless you move the updater
  file into the same folder as the ClarisWorks application. A Claris
  representative said that a new version of the updater corrects
  this problem; this new version updater has not yet appeared on
  Info-Mac nor in Claris's software library. [TJE]

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/app/claris-works-40v2-updt.hqx
ftp://ftp.claris.com/pub/USA-Macintosh/Updaters/


**UMAX Licences Mac OS** -- On 27-Nov-95, UMAX Data Systems, Inc.
  (UDS) a Taiwanese manufacturer, announced an agreement with Apple
  to license the Mac OS and manufacture machines built to the
  PowerPC Platform beginning in late 1996. Until that time, UDS will
  sell Macintosh clones from other manufacturers to Asian markets.
  UDS currently manufacturers scanners and other computer
  peripherals, and Apple says they awarded the licence to UDS
  because UDS best understands the Macintosh market. UDS plans to
  target the Chinese market with improvements to the Chinese Mac OS
  and more Chinese Mac applications. [GD]


**Apple Announces Chinese Dictation System** -- On 28-Nov-95,
  Apple announced a Chinese Dictation Kit, which converts spoken
  Mandarin (Putonghua) speech into simplified or traditional Chinese
  text. Users configure the system for their speech patterns by
  reading several pages of text into the kit's special Apple
  Dictation Microphone (which comes with the kit); though this
  configuration process consumes almost 30 MB of disk space, the
  result is a 700K user profile that can be moved between machines
  on a floppy disk. Users typically start at about 40 characters per
  minute, and work up to 60 or more characters per minute with
  extended use. The dictation kit software includes over 3,500
  single characters and more than 12,000 multi-character words, plus
  error correction features and the ability to customize the
  system's vocabulary. The Chinese Dictation Kit requires a Power
  Mac with 4 MB of free RAM, System 7.5, Chinese Language Kit 1.1.1,
  and 16-bit sound. It's expected to be available in early 1996 at
  an estimated price of $300. [GD]


World Wide Web Weaver 1.0
-------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  Best Enterprises recently released World Wide Web Weaver 1.0. This
  commercial release looks like Best Enterprise's shareware HTML Web
  Weaver, but its code is totally new. Best Enterprises re-wrote the
  application to eliminate bugs and make general behind-the-scenes
  changes. World Wide Web Weaver (which I will call "Web Weaver" for
  the duration of this review) isn't for Web professionals who
  maintain large sites or who need macros - for those people, I
  still recommend BBEdit or Nisus Writer. However, for people
  getting started with HTML authoring, Web Weaver could be a useful
  tool.

  Web Weaver requires System 7 and comes with a suggested RAM
  allocation of 1700K. The program costs $50, or $75 for an annual
  subscription which includes all releases in that year. Web Weaver
  also has an educational cost of $30 ($55 for a subscription).
  Through the end of 1995, registered users of HTML Web Weaver 2.5.x
  can purchase Web Weaver for $25 (or $15 educational).


**Getting Started** -- Unlike the $99 (list) PageMill (see
  TidBITS-305_), which shields users completely from HTML, Web
  Weaver assists users in directly applying HTML tags, and displays
  tags in HTML documents as users add them. Web Weaver doesn't
  enforce HTML rules - users can apply tags willy-nilly and Web
  Weaver won't complain. This free form approach is 180 degrees from
  the rigid approach of the $199 (street price) HoTMetaL Pro, which
  does not permit incorrect tags.

  As Web Weaver launches, it opens a document called Untitled.html.
  Untitled.html opens with a few tags helpfully pre-inserted. These
  tags - start and end versions of <HTML>, <HEAD>, <TITLE>, and
  <BODY> make up the basic structure that envelopes an HTML
  document.

  Web Weaver displays tags in a different style from text, and it
  displays tagged text appropriately for how it is tagged. For
  instance, <STRONG>-tagged text looks strong (by default, it shows
  in bold). Users can easily customize the font, style, size, or
  color of tags and text. Unfortunately, Web Weaver sometimes mixes
  up its text and tags, and shows text in the colors and format of
  the tags. The Scan for Tags command in Web Weaver is supposed to
  make the tag and text colors show correctly; unfortunately, it
  doesn't always work.

  Web Weaver offers about five different ways to apply tags, and you
  can give any tag a custom keyboard shortcut if you don't like its
  default shortcut. Web Weaver comes with many tags already listed
  in its menus, toolbar, and palettes, and you can add your own
  tags, including highly customized tags, such as an anchor tag with
  a MAILTO attribute and any email address.

  Web Weaver reflects today's melting pot of HTML tags, and users
  can insert tags with no regard as to whether they are HTML 2.0, in
  the HTML 3.0 spec, Netscape extensions, or what have you. In this
  respect, Web Weaver and PageMill share a big problem - the
  programs do not help users determine what flavors of HTML they are
  creating. Web Weaver does have a preview that can show documents
  in different installed browsers, but I'd like it to display
  different flavors of HTML tags in different colors so users can
  see what they are doing.


**Why Care about HTML Flavors?** I'd like the Web and HTML to
  avoid one of the biggest problems with the way word processors
  have evolved. Even now, word processor users find it difficult
  (if not impossible) to convert documents between different
  programs. Oh sure, lots of converters are out there, but few
  reliably translate most layouts and features. I can't tell you
  what Adam and I have gone through trying to find a Word 5/6
  converter that reads and writes Nisus Writer 4.x files and
  reliably retains all paragraph styles. (The DataViz MacLink Plus
  converter is essentially unacceptable, although we've managed to
  make it work sporadically.)

  One great thing about HTML is that it has the potential to become
  standardized in every sense of the word - the potential to be a
  language everyone can write _and_ everyone can display as it was
  written. I fear HTML will fail to become standardized, and we will
  end up with two big end-user headaches: gobs of HTML documents
  that cannot be shared between HTML editors without all hell
  breaking loose, and browsers that use largely incompatible sets of
  tags as multiple companies struggle to dominate the industry.


**More Features** -- Web Weaver comes with a table editor, which
  is quite helpful for simple tables, but not a complete solution
  for complex tables or tables that must be updated from time to
  time. Although I did not test this personally, according to Best
  Enterprises, Web Weaver can import "tables created in Word, Excel
  or any other program that can save tables in a tab separated
  format."

  Web Weaver has a rudimentary Find and Replace command, though it
  desperately needs a Replace Then Find option. It could also use a
  Wrapping option so you can easily start a Find operation at any
  location in a document and finish at that same location. I hope
  future versions will fix these problems and add basic wildcard
  options.

  Web Weaver handles special characters, and it shows them as the
  named entities required by HTML. If you set it up right, Web
  Weaver can also display these characters as the actual characters,
  so users composing HTML documents in languages that use frequent
  upper ASCII characters will find Web Weaver usable. If, however,
  you import a document containing named entities, or you convert
  the display of upper ASCII characters from showing characters to
  showing entities, Web Weaver cannot reverse the operation and show
  the entities as characters.

  I think Web Weaver shows promise, and I look forward to future
  versions. I'd like to see the interface enlarged - the buttons are
  small, the pull down menus in the vertical toolbar are minuscule,
  the palettes have tiny text in them, and the dialog boxes appear
  vertically squashed. I'd also like improvements in the awkward
  dialog box for creating links. The dialog presents different text
  fields for different parts of a URL, instead of providing field
  for entering the entire URL - when I enter a URL, I don't want to
  think about the scheme, path, and so on. If you copy and paste
  URLs into HTML documents, you can work around this process by
  clicking the dialog's Import URL From Clipboard button, which
  effectively lets you "paste" into the dialog.

  In the meantime, HTML amateurs will likely find Web Weaver easier
  to use and more engaging than a text editor or word processor. If
  you have difficulty seeing small objects or reading small text on
  a Mac screen, Web Weaver isn't for you. A bunch of sixth graders,
  though, should have a screaming good time putting Web Weaver
  through its paces.

  A fully-functional demo version of Web Weaver is available.

http://www.northnet.org/best/

    Best Enterprises -- 315/265-0930 -- <[e-mail]>


Stars on the Cheap
------------------
  by Richard C.S. Kinne <[e-mail]>

  Silicon Valley doesn't have a monopoly on good software, of
  course, but when it comes to planetarium simulators, the United
  States may well be trailing behind. Sienna Software of Toronto,
  Ontario, has just released its first product, the $28 shareware
  Starry Night 1.01, and it looks like both the product and the
  company are off to a great start. Starry Night is available for
  both 68K and Power Macintosh, and requires a color-capable Mac,
  System 7 or higher, and 4 MB of RAM.

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/sci/starry-night.hqx
ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/sci/starry-night-ppc.hqx
http://www.siennasoft.com/sienna


**Graphics vs. Features** -- Starry Night isn't the prettiest
  planetarium simulator I've run. As trite as it might sound, first
  impressions do count, and your first impression of an astronomy
  program is going to be based on how the program looks and -
  compared to other programs on the market - Starry Night's graphics
  come off as its weakest link. On the other hand, although the
  graphics might not be photographic quality, they're used well, are
  by no means sub-standard, and (more to the point) they make a lot
  of sense. Also, Sienna Software has programmed in a couple of neat
  graphical tricks (Starry Night is very fast - and try looking down
  through the center of any object you're standing on).

  Don't let the lack of snazzy graphics deter you - get under this
  program's hood before judging it. Starry Night is an easy-to-use
  program that makes sense out of the night sky. It usually takes
  time to learn to use a planetarium simulator, and some of that
  time is spent combing through the program's manual or online help.
  In Starry Night, Balloon Help teaches you everything you need to
  know. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of Balloon Help, but using it
  with this program got me up and running in half the time I
  required for other commercial packages.

  Starry Night sports many of the features of commercial sky
  simulators, and it doesn't even have the advantage of a CD-ROM for
  storage space. The program also has a number of impressive little
  features. For instance, when you wish to go to a specific object
  in the sky, Starry Night pans from where you are to where you want
  to be. This is invaluable for helping you to keep your bearings in
  the night sky. The creative feedback sounds that play when you
  touch a control are always a surprise, and although an adult may
  grow tired of them (they can be turned off) I think children will
  be delighted. Likewise, QuickTime movies can be saved by simply
  selecting the area of the sky you wish to record and hitting the
  "record" button.


**An Interface for the Amateur Astronomer** -- Other packages
  enable you to move around the sky by selecting the azimuth and
  altitude you wish to look toward. Starry Night lets you do this
  "naturally" by grabbing the sky and moving it where you want. This
  method is perfect for people who might not be sure what azimuth is
  but want to move the sky so they're looking toward the south.

  Other programs tend to confuse new users by displaying all the
  constellations at once onscreen. Though this is a valuable feature
  (and Starry Night also has it), Starry Night's "constellation
  tool" allows you to point the mouse at a particular section of the
  sky to display the constellation in that area. I can see
  tremendous educational value to this: point to a section of the
  sky, try to figure out what constellation you're looking at, and
  then point-and-click to see if you're right. What could be more
  Macintosh?

  [Starry Night also lets you "Get Info" on selected constellations,
  bringing up brief descriptions of their origins and member stars,
  and most objects can be double-clicked for detailed information.
  -Geoff]


**For Version 2.0** -- Although Starry Night's interface is among
  the best I've seen for an astronomy program, I do have a few
  suggestions for the program's next version. One minor annoyance is
  that when you enter numeric values (such as a date), programs
  often provide up and down arrows to push. Most programs let you
  hold these arrows down so the values race in the direction you
  wish. Starry Night doesn't do this; instead, you must click the
  arrow multiple times to achieve this effect, or type the value
  manually.

  Starry Night's Find function could also use some streamlining.
  It's difficult to know what can or cannot be found by name. I
  would prefer that the program let you select from a categorized
  list (stars, planets, deep sky objects, etc.), or to let you
  choose objects based on a partial match of an object's name.


**Stellar Conclusions** -- I found Starry Night to be well
  designed, well thought out, accurate, easy to learn, and fun.
  True, it doesn't have hyperlinked photos of the planets or an
  astronomical encyclopedia, but the package is also only 4 MB in
  size. Considering price over performance and features, Starry
  Night holds its own against anything on the market. If you can get
  through the fact that the ground you're standing on isn't rendered
  to the last blade of grass, you'll find it to be a great program.
  Starry Night is Sienna Software's first release; in a way its
  almost a shame since they'll have to work hard to top their first
  product.

  If you or your kids have an interest in astronomy but haven't yet
  completed your doctorate in astrophysics, investigate Starry
  Night. It rates as a first magnitude program.

    Sienna Software -- 416/926-2174 -- <[e-mail]>


Macintosh PPP Overview (Part 1)
-------------------------------
  by Travis Butler <[e-mail]>

  As an increasing number of people access the Internet via a Mac
  and a modem, the software they use to connect becomes increasingly
  important. The connection software combination of MacTCP and
  either a SLIP or PPP program has become popular, because it gives
  people full TCP-based Internet connections that enable them to run
  programs like Anarchie, Netscape, NewsWatcher, and Eudora.
  However, setting up such connections has become confusing: many
  new versions of SLIP and PPP programs have been released in recent
  months, and though Open Transport has replaced MacTCP for users of
  the PCI Power Macs (requiring changes to the connection software),
  a number of compatibility issues have resulted in a flurry of
  maintenance releases.


**How They Work** -- SLIP and PPP are two protocols, or methods,
  of making an Internet connection with a modem over the phone line.
  Generally speaking, a SLIP or PPP program provides a temporary,
  low-speed Internet connection through your modem. Imagine that you
  have no water service to your house, and the only way to take a
  shower is to run a garden hose out to the water main in the
  street. That's similar to what SLIP and PPP programs do for you,
  in conjunction with a modem: they establish a relatively low-speed
  (garden hoses don't carry that much water, and SLIP/PPP
  connections are limited by the speed of your modem), temporary
  (when you're done with your shower, you bring the hose back in)
  connection to the Internet.

  The PPP protocol has slightly better technical specifications than
  SLIP, and in my experience can sometimes be slightly faster than
  SLIP. However, in the real world, the main difference between SLIP
  and PPP (assuming your Internet provider supports both, as mine
  does) lies in the programs that make each protocol run on your
  Macintosh. In this respect, PPP has a significant advantage over
  SLIP: there are several different freeware options for running PPP
  on the Mac (as opposed to InterSLIP, the lone free SLIP
  implementation, written by InterCon Systems), as well as a couple
  of commercial options. There are also a number of different pieces
  of add-on software that enhance the freeware PPP programs.

ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/inter-slip-installer-101.hqx


**PPP and Open Transport** -- Open Transport is Apple's new
  networking architecture. Eventually, it's supposed to replace all
  of Apple's low-level networking code on all Macintoshes; right
  now, it runs only in a preliminary release on the new PCI-based
  Power Macs (the 7200, 7500, 8500, and 9500).

  One of the teething problems PCI Mac owners have with the
  preliminary Open Transport release is a series of compatibility
  problems with Internet software. In particular, InterSLIP and most
  of the basic PPP programs don't work with Open Transport. The only
  dial-up Internet programs known to work with Open Transport are a
  pair of MacPPP derivatives - MacPPP 2.1.2SD and FreePPP 1.0.2 -
  and the commercial programs InterPPP II and MacSLIP. Apple is
  supposed to provide PPP software as part of Open Transport, but it
  isn't included in the preliminary release.

  Please note that I haven't used any of the PCI Macs yet. The
  information I have on Open Transport has been gleaned from posts
  to various Usenet newsgroups.


**MacPPP, the Original and Derivatives -- **The first widely-used
  Macintosh PPP software was MacPPP, written by people at Merit
  Network and the University of Michigan, and released free to the
  public. MacPPP went through several versions before reaching its
  current release, 2.0.1, in 1993. Since then, several people have
  obtained the source code to MacPPP and have written derivative
  versions; unfortunately, each derivative usually had just one or
  two added features, and you couldn't run two versions at once to
  get both sets of features. Two different groups have worked on
  collecting the best features from all of these versions into a
  single coherent release, giving a growth path for the future. [See
  "The Future of PPP Projects" in next week's article. -Geoff]

  Here is a rundown of the MacPPP-based programs that will establish
  a dial-up Internet connection using PPP. All of the programs
  described below are available on the Info-Mac software archive, in
  the MacTCP software directory:

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/

  If I've used a particular piece of PPP software, I'll give my
  opinions on how well it works. However, I haven't used everything,
  and what I have tested has only been used on my old PowerBook 170,
  my new PowerBook 5300, my IIci at home, or an 840AV at work. I
  can't guarantee how well these programs will work on your system.


**MacPPP 2.0.1** is the last official University of Michigan
  release. Its interface is clunky, it's a bare-bones program with
  relatively few features, it hasn't been officially updated in two
  years - but it's the standard. Several people have released PPP
  versions based on MacPPP 2.0.1, and many others have written
  add-on software that works with it, making it the reference
  version everything else is compared to. Unfortunately, it does not
  work with Open Transport. If you're not using Open Transport,
  MacPPP 2.0.1 is still the safest version to use before trying any
  of the derivative versions.


**MacPPP 2.0.1cm4**, by Cliff McCollum, adds three main features
  to the basic MacPPP 2.0.1 release:

* The basic MacPPP has minimal support for entering your user name
  and password as you sign on. If your PPP server supports PAP
  authentication, you can enter your password in MacPPP's
  Authentication dialog; otherwise, you must put your user name and
  password into your connect script. MacPPP 2.0.1cm4 adds a pair of
  tags - $USERID$ and $PASSWORD$ - that allow your connect script to
  ask for that information when you sign on.

* Some internal PowerBook modems wake up slowly from the power
  saving sleep mode; 2.0.1cm4 adds a slight delay that's supposed to
  fix the problem. (I haven't tested this in 2.0.1cm4.)

* The original MacPPP 2.0.1 used a modal dialog box to display the
  connection status, which kept you from doing anything while MacPPP
  was dialing. 2.0.1cm4 allows you to start dialing and switch to
  another application, though the program that you started dialing
  from is suspended until dialing is completed.


**MacPPP 2.1.2SD** is another Merit MacPPP derivative, written by
  Steve Dagley (hence the SD initials at the end of the name). Its
  original purpose was to add support for high-speed serial
  connections on Macs with GeoPorts, and it was later the first PPP
  version to support Open Transport. Several people have contributed
  to it since its initial release. Here are some of the more
  significant features:

* Allows serial-port-to-modem connections of 115 Kbps and 230 Kbps
  for Macs with GeoPort technology (the 660AV/840AV, and most Power
  Macs).

* Supports Open Transport on the PCI Macs.

* Several fixes to provide better support for timing-sensitive
  modems, by John Stephen.

* Includes a fix for PowerBook modems that are slow to wake up.

* Support for PSI's ISDN service, also by John Stephen.

* Improvements to the Terminal window for manual connections.

* Displays the connect speed in the PPP status box.

  I use MacPPP 2.1.2SD on my old PowerBook 170, and it seemed to be
  more stable (and cause fewer problems with the internal modem)
  than MacPPP 2.2.0a on the same machine. With the release of
  FreePPP 1.0.2, also by Steve Dagley and based on the same code,
  MacPPP 2.1.2SD is technically obsolete; however, I'd probably keep
  it around a little while longer until we see how stable FreePPP
  turns out to be. [For more details on FreePPP, see next week's
  continuation of this article. -Geoff]


**MacPPP 2.0.2 (YA 1.0) **-- Also called MacPPP 2.0.1mlb, 2.0.2
  (YA 1.0) was created by Mason Bliss to disable MacPPP's automatic
  connection feature. Although FreePPP includes this option, Bliss
  had problems with FreePPP's stability, so he released this
  version. It's distributed as a patching program for 2.0.1, so you
  need an unmodified copy of 2.0.1 to use 2.0.2 (YA 1.0).


  Other versions of MacPPP have been created, but 2.0.1cm4, 2.1.2SD
  and 2.0.2 (YA 1.0) are the only "first derivative" versions still
  in circulation at Info-Mac.


**Stay Tuned** -- Next week, I'll cover current freeware PPP
  projects as well as commercial PPP implementations. Please note
  that this article is based on information from my Web page on
  Macintosh PPP software. I'll keep updating this page with new
  information on PPP programs as I find it.

http://www.tfs.net/business/tbutler/pppstuff.html


Reviews/04-Dec-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 27-Nov-95, Vol. 9, #46
    FreeHand 5.5 -- pg. 51
    PaperPort Vx -- pg. 51
    Kai's Power Tools 3.0 -- pg. 54
    StatView 4.5 -- pg. 60
    Trackpads -- pg. 62
      Alps Desktop GlidePoint
      Cirque GlidePoint Desktop
      MicroQue QuePoint II
      Touche Touch Pad


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 http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/macintosh-tidbits.html
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