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TidBITS#188/09-Aug-93
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Macworld Boston news abounds this issue with an in-depth look at
the concepts and analysis surrounding Apple's newest and coolest
device, the Newton MessagePad. Mark Anbinder provides his annual
Macworld superlatives article, and we look at a new company spun
off from CE Software, PrairieSoft. Finally, although merely a
MailBIT, it's important to note that the Newton MessagePad won't
officially ship for several weeks so don't bug your dealer until
then.
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MailBITS/09-Aug-93
Oh Give Me A Home
MacworldBITS/09-Aug-93
Newton Arrives
Reviews/09-Aug-93
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MailBITS/09-Aug-93
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Macworld Boston is over, and only two of the four days were
utterly hot and uncomfortable. Boston drivers were, well,
indescribable, and the city itself continues to bears less and
less resemblance to the published maps. The netters' dinner was a
success, as always, although several of us thought afterwards that
we need to find a company to throw a stand-up party with food for
Internet folks to facilitate mingling. My only regret is that I
couldn't talk with more people at the netters' dinner - I enjoyed
the company of those with whom I did spend time immensely. Several
pictures were taken and I hope they appear on the nets in scanned
form - pretty soon we'll tape the event and turn it into a
QuickTime movie to waste even more net bandwidth than Apple's 1984
commercial.
**Newton Rollout** -- One caveat to all the Newton comments you
hear in TidBITS and other publications. It appears that although
the Newton was introduced at Macworld Boston, the official rollout
will take place in about two weeks. The practical upshot of this
is that dealers won't have any Newton MessagePads for sale until
that time.
Oh Give Me A Home
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by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- mha@tidbits.com
Working full-tilt on products like QuickAccess for Newton and a
Casper-friendly version of QuicKeys, not to mention continuing
development on QuickMail, means that CE Software has much less
time to work on its other products, time which the company feels
these products deserve. Therefore, CE has spun off its non-
messaging, non-scripting products to a new company made up of
former CE staffers and called PrairieSoft.
Announced at Macworld Boston, PrairieSoft takes over support and
development of In/Out, Amazing Paint, Alarming Events,
MockPackage, MacBillBoard, and DiskTop for Macintosh. All of these
products don't quite fit CE's newly-focused, streamlined approach
to messaging, "personal agent," and scripting technologies.
Among the CE veterans at the core of the new company are its
president, Gil Beecher, along with John Kirk, Paul Miller, and
Luke Lund. These and others were among CE's most senior staff
members and were among the staff laid off in CE's downsizing a few
months ago.
PrairieSoft plans to announce itself to its already existing
customer base via a newsletter in the near future. In the
meantime, the company can be reached at:
PrairieSoft, Inc.
P.O. Box 65820
West Des Moines, Iowa 50265
515-225-3720
515-225-4122 (technical support)
515-225-2422 (fax)
MacworldBITS/09-Aug-93
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by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- mha@tidbits.com
Turnabout is Fair Play
There have been several products to let Mac users read DOS-
formatted disks over the years, from the DaynaFile drives to the
collection of software taking advantage of the SuperDrive. Rumor
has it that there have been shareware solutions for DOS users who
wish to read Mac disks, but finally there's a high-profile
commercial product - from the DOS experts at Insignia Solutions.
MacDisk, shipping soon, is a simple, straightforward product that
allows Mac disks and their contents to be accessed within DOS and
Windows; DOS 6.0 is supported (but its compression won't work on
the Mac volumes), and the developers expect to be able to claim
official support for OS/2 and DR-DOS after some extra tests are
completed. Insignia Solutions -- 800/848-7677 -- 415/694-7600
Most Worthwhile "Me Too"
Usually the second company to market with a comparable product
finds itself at a disadvantage. Not so with Stac Electronics,
whose Stacker driver-level disk compression software goes up
against Times Two from Golden Triangle (which we mentioned in last
August's Macworld Superlatives list, in TidBITS #137_). Stacker
uses the same compression engine as Times Two; Stac licensed their
LZS engine, also used in their DOS version of Stacker, to Golden
Triangle last year. The innards may be the same, but Stac points
out a number of interface and implementation differences that they
feel put them in the lead. Initial examination suggests there are
plenty of differences; we'll examine them in depth at a later
time. Stac Electronics -- 800/522-7822 -- 619/431-7474 -- 619/431-
0880 (fax)
Welcome to the 1980s
Aldus has finally shipped PageMaker 5.0, the long-awaited version
that includes an ability perfected in most applications the better
part of a decade ago: handling multiple open documents at once.
Don't get the idea, though, that we don't applaud Aldus's
achievement. We do! In the process of modifying this old
application to handle multiple documents, Aldus software engineers
played leapfrog with much of the rest of the market. PageMaker 5.0
allows any object to be moved or copied from one document to
another in the most intuitive way imaginable - by dragging. Kudos
to PageMaker for extending the desktop metaphor. Aldus -- 206/622-
5500 -- 206/233-7404 (fax)
2 + 2 = 4
PSI Integration wins the award for most intelligent combination of
existing technologies with the introduction of its FAXcilitate
Broadcast product/service. PSI has combined its newly-revamped
fax-sending software with US Sprint's fax broadcasting service to
produce a product that makes it easy to send faxes to as many as
thousands of fax recipients with a single toll-free call.
According to literature distributed at the PSI booth, it would
cost about $140 and take just a few minutes to send a two-page fax
to 200 recipients through the FAXcilitate Broadcast service,
whereas the same fax sent directly to each recipient would take
hours. PSI Integration -- 800/622-1722 -- 408/559-8544 -- 408/559-
8548 (fax)
Best Revival
This close contender for Best PowerBook Product actually deserves
its own category, since it's the best use of old technology in a
new way. Back in 1985, I bought the first scanner available for
Macintosh, and ThunderScan's creators, ThunderWare, have done it
again with the first scanner (that I know of) designed
specifically for PowerBook users. Their handheld, battery-powered
scanner uses a similar design to the popular LightningScan, and
since it sports a serial interface, it should work with literally
any PowerBook (including the Duos) or, presumably, any other Mac.
ThunderWare, Inc. -- 415/254-6581 -- 415/254-3047 (fax)
Best Battery
There must have been a dozen vendors showing or selling
replacement batteries or add-on batteries for PowerBooks, but the
ThinPack from VST deserves special recognition. It's neither
almost as big nor almost as heavy as your PowerBook (as some
add-on batteries are), and you can put it under the PowerBook as
you use it, or leave it connected via the included cord while it
sits out of the way, perhaps in your briefcase or carry-on bag. If
you want to use your PowerBook for several more hours than you
dreamed possible, give these folks a call. (Note that there's no
Duo battery yet, and color PowerBook owners can expect a less-
dramatic extension on battery life.) VST -- 508/287-4600 --
508/287-4068 (fax)
Worst Congestion
After attending several Macworld Expos, I've grown accustomed to
wending my way through crowds of impressed folks trying to look at
the wares at one booth or another. Badly-designed booths can cause
quite a bit of blockage in the aisles. The award goes to Adobe,
though, since at several points when I tried to get by, their
demonstrations were literally blocking the entire aisle. A novice
could be excused for putting a visually-interesting display at the
corner of a booth, with no place for onlookers to stand other than
in the aisle, but veterans like Adobe should know better. Please,
folks, when planning your next booth, if you want show attendees
to be able to stand and watch, provide for some space within your
booth. Don't use all the space out to the edge of the booth so
there will be no place to stand other than the aisle. If you're
hoping that the congestion will get more people to stop and see
what you have, grow up and let your product stand on its own two
feet. [I'd like to give Apple an honorable mention for this as
well - I couldn't even get close the AV Macs every time I tried.
-Adam]
Unfair Competition
It used to be that Global Village Communications offered one of
the strongest fax/modem products, but at a premium price.
Competitors could smugly say, "Yes, theirs is better, but ours is
cheaper." No more, thanks to Global Village's introduction this
week of the TelePort/Bronze II, a redesigned version of the
company's low-end modem without some of the bells and whistles.
Global Village's customer surveys concluded that most people never
use many of the fancy features, so this new $109 modem leaves out
the data compression and error correction from the 2400 bps data
modem, draws power from the Mac's ADB instead of from an
expensive, clumsy power adapter, has no voice/fax switch, and
doesn't include the company's fancy OCR (optical character
recognition) software for turning received faxes into editable
documents. But with a basic product that does everything most
people need, and does it with Global Village's award-winning fax
software, other companies will find they can no longer compete on
price alone. Global Village Communications -- 800/736-4821 --
415/329-0700
Best Newton Vaporware
While we're at it, there were lots of almost-ready add-on products
for the Newton MessagePad being shown, both on the show floor and
at the Newton Showcase at Boston's Symphonic Hall. The most
impressive-looking (given our biases toward universal email
access, of course) was CE Software's QuickAccess prototype.
QuickAccess (invoked on the MessagePad through the use of the
action word "qac," pronounced "quack") will enable roaming Newton
users to access their QuickMail, Novell MHS, or PowerTalk (AOCE)
compliant mail servers. To CE's credit, the prototype sported not
a Newtonized QuickMail interface, but a new approach to mail
access that seemed much better integrated with Newton's overall
design. CE Software, Inc. -- 515/224-1995
Best Old Idea
SuperMac did this years ago with their DataStream tape drive, and
I've been wondering why no one else has. Optima Technology has
just released a new version of its DeskTape software, which will
now be available separately from the company's storage devices.
DeskTape uses the familiar desktop interface for high-capacity
tape storage, allowing DAT cartridges to appear on the Finder
desktop. You can drag files to and from your tape drive, and even
open and use applications or documents that are stored on tape.
The advantages for graphic designers and service bureaus are
obvious, even though the access time for such devices can be as
long as 26 seconds. DeskTape can't work with tape archives created
with backup software like Retrospect, but once you create a
DeskTape volume on a DAT cartridge, you can use just about any
backup software to back up or archive files to that volume. Optima
Technology Corp. -- 714/476-0515 -- 714/476-0613 (fax)
Hungriest
We mentioned Focus Enhancements as being "Most Evident" at last
August's Macworld Expo. They had a slightly lower-key presence
outside the World Trade Center this year (only a few local
youngsters handing out bags and buttons) but an even bigger booth
at Bayside Expo Center. Focus operates by finding good technology
and acquiring it, then selling and supporting it directly. This
month we learned that Focus has just acquired ETC, the mail-order
company seen in the pages of many a Mac magazine. According to
Focus, they're most excited about having acquired ETC's European
distribution channel, since there's a large European market just
waiting to buy high quality products at mail-order prices. Focus
Enhancements -- 617/938-8088 -- 617/938-1098 (fax) --
FOCUS@applelink.apple.com
Long-Lost Cousin Award
While Apple introduced its Newton MessagePad with lots of noise
and commotion, Apple's Newton manufacturing partner Sharp
Electronics quietly released its own version, the Sharp Newton
ExpertPad. The ExpertPad is identical to the MessagePad except for
the name, a hinged door to cover the screen, and (as a result of
the door) a slightly different pen-holder. Newton enhancements
should work equally well on either unit. If past performance is
any guide, Apple's version is likely to be hard to find for a few
weeks (supplies were artificially abundant at Macworld) and the
ExpertPad is likely to be available at just about any Sharp
consumer electronics dealer. Sharp Electronics -- 800/237-4277 --
201/529-8200
Newton Arrives
--------------
At every good Macworld Expo, people talk about the one hot
arrival, an arrival that overshadows everything else, no matter
how cool. This year the debutante was Apple's Newton MessagePad.
Where to begin? A quick course in terminology. Newton is the
machine type, whereas MessagePad is the specific model, much as
Macintosh is the machine type, and Quadra 840AV is the specific
model. So it's perfectly acceptable to talk about the Newton, much
as you would talk about the Macintosh. The fact that only one
model of the Newton exists right now is moot.
For those of you with your heads firmly clamped underneath large
geologic formations for the last two years, the Newton is Apple's
personal digital assistant (PDA), a term for an electronic device
that helps you do whatever it is that you do. I believe Douglas
Adams might have called it "your plastic pal who's fun to be
with." More Newton models will arrive in the future, presumably
aimed at specific market segments, although the current MessagePad
requires more work before we'll see other models. I think it's
important to avoid the term "computer" when talking about the
Newton, because even more so than the personal computers of today,
the Newton does little numeric computing (other than at the lowest
level, of course) and instead provides specific services.
What does it do right now? The MessagePad lets you take notes,
which can be graphics or text, and which in turn can remain
digital ink (pixels) or turn into ASCII characters. You can file
those notes in a single hierarchy of folders; duplicate or delete
them; or fax, mail, or beam them to someone else. Faxing and
emailing require an optional modem, whereas beaming uses the
built-in infrared transmitter/receiver to move data over a short
range (approximately one meter). Along with notes, the Newton
contains an address book and a calendar, and all are integrated so
you can easily snag information from one to use in another, or the
Newton can do that for you. For instance, writing "lunch with Bob
on Friday" and asking the Newton for assistance results in the
Newton looking in your address book to figure out who Bob is
(giving you a choice if several people are named Bob), then
realizing that lunch is usually an hour at noon, and adding an
event to your calendar for this Friday. It sounds hokey, but it
works.
All that functionality aside, I'm not buying one soon. Why not?
Think for a moment about what I do. I sit around all day,
absorbing large quantities of information and creating smaller
quantities of information. I talk on the phone, and I can get 100
email messages in a day, many of which require responses, some
quite lengthy. I use a database for my addresses and a calendar
program for my few appointments and my to do list, but both are
accessible on my Mac at all times, and I seldom leave the house
for anything business-related. So the current Newton MessagePad
doesn't simplify any of my tasks. I don't pretend that I'm in any
way typical though, so I think many people will find the
MessagePad's feature set invaluable. The important thing to figure
out is if you are the sort who communicates, facilitates,
schedules, or manages, because that sort of person will have far
more use for the Newton than someone who spends most of her time
_creating_ information.
If you try out a Newton at a store, keep in mind that the Newton
performs poorly in demonstration mode. The Newton's handwriting
recognition is adaptive, so it improves over time and learns how
you write. In 15 minutes of playing with the Newton, you're
unlikely to find it all that accurate, although your mileage will
vary depending on how closely your handwriting matches one of the
Newton's built-in letterform sets. The first time I tried the
MessagePad it could hardly recognize a thing I wrote, but I only
tried for five minutes. The next day I took Apple's Tips and
Tricks for New Newton Owners class (they didn't check if you had
bought one), and wrote on it for 45 minutes. The second test
worked much better, because it had a chance to adjust to me, and I
to it. [Please note that Adam has certifiably poor handwriting :-)
-Tonya]
The Newton _must_ succeed. Without its fresh view of how we can
interact with electronic devices, the evolution of human-machine
interaction will proceed far more slowly. Even people at the show
who were openly dubious about the utility of the current
MessagePad were thinking of uses by the end of the Expo.
Possibilities like controlling VCRs and TVs and using VCR+ codes
to program the VCR with an improved interface, walking into a
trade show and having a map and directory beamed to your Newton on
entrance, completely up to date and searchable. Someday soon you
might interface a Newton with an ATM machine to get electronic
money, or beam your Newton at a cash register, to pay for your
purchase, complete with RSA encryption. We're talking about the
future.
So again, the Newton _must_ succeed. Not only for Apple, but also
for us. No other computer company has shown the guts necessary to
introduce such a radically new technology in such a big way.
Without Apple and the Newton we would be stuck with DOS-compatible
palmtops, constantly shrinking in size and remaining as stupid as
ever. I'm the last person to pretend that Apple has all the
answers, but I've never seen another company willing to drop the
old and the obsolete along the wayside to keep progress rolling.
And all that even if it annoys some customers. I realize this
sounds like the egomania of Steve Jobs, but some things must be
done because they will change the world, because they are the
right thing to do. Apple must now convince the world that the
Newton is the right thing to do, that the Newton will change the
world. So easy to say, so hard to do.
And how will the Newton change the world? I can't say, and neither
can Apple. Don Norman points out in his latest book, "Things That
Make Us Smart," that in almost no case has a new technology been
used in the manner in which it was conceived. The United States
first thought it could cope nicely with only three or four
computers, and that it would only need one telephone for each city
because information would be broadcast from that point to
surrounding areas. Those initial conceptions were so completely
wrong as to be ludicrous. The PowerBook was a far smaller change
in technology, but even still, the PowerBooks have changed the
face of computing. People no longer must sit at a desk and work,
and more so than preceding laptops, I think the PowerBook created
the first class of users who regularly consider the computer a
device to be used whenever and wherever - from the couch in the
living room, to the waiting room as the car is repaired, to the
airline seat. That's a smaller change, but Apple never suggested
most of those uses in its advertising; instead people invented
them. Similarly, we can only guess at the ways the Newton will be
used and abused.
I see two major hurdles for the Newton in the near future. First,
as many have said, the pen is not the device of choice for
entering large quantities of text (although it is often better for
graphics than the clumsy mouse). Apple has to come up with a
Newton device for creating and manipulating large quantities of
information. The device itself is not so much the problem as the
method of entering data. The keyboard has proved its danger in
overuse and misuse, and voice input faces other problems now that
it has arrived on the scene in prototype form. Perhaps one
consideration is the translation of data from one format to
another - is digital ink necessarily always worse than ASCII text?
Is a digital voice recording worse than ASCII text? Should we pay
increasingly more attention to transmission and manipulation of
data in native formats rather than always translating down to the
least common denominator? I'm certainly no example for this with
TidBITS in the least common denominator setext format, but it is a
valid question.
The second hurdle the Newton faces is scalability of interface. In
other words, the MessagePad interface works well with the amounts
of data that I saw stuffed into it at the show. But will that
interface, with its single level of folders and relatively small
screen for scrolling lists, become overwhelmed with the amounts of
data that users will want? Perhaps not, since the flash memory is
limited to 1 MB and 2 MB cards at the moment, and someone said
that Apple recommends you don't use a card larger than 4 MB
because it would make too much data available at once. One way or
another, this issue will come up, and I hope that Apple has kept
it in mind while developing the Newton, in contrast to the way it
didn't keep scalability in mind when designing the then-innovative
MacOS.
But despite all the negatives to the MessagePad, it is one slick
item. It shows great promise, and I believe that in many ways the
Newton is going to be important, not just important as a hyped
technology, but important as a technology that truly changes our
lives. For all the Mac's power and flexibility, little has changed
since 1984. The Newton represents that next step for Apple and for
us users as well. It's important to remember that the Newton isn't
trying to be a computer as we understand the usual desktop Mac.
The Newton is a Newton, and it needs to succeed on its own terms,
not as a mini-Macintosh.
Reviews/09-Aug-93
-----------------
* MacWEEK -- 02-Aug-93, Vol. 7, #31
Apple Workgroup Server 95 -- pg. 95
TCP/Connect II 1.1 -- pg. 108
Alphatronix Inspire II F 1.16 -- pg. 112
Coactive Connection 1.0 -- pg. 112
BrushStrokes 1.0 -- pg. 116
* Macworld -- Sep-93
Lotus Notes 3.0 -- pg. 50
PowerBook 180c -- pg. 52
PowerDraw 4.0 -- pg. 55
DataPak 105; Infinity 105 -- pg. 57
Icon 7; I Like Icon -- pg. 59
Retrospect 2.0 and Retrospect Remote -- pg. 61
SafeDeposit 1.2 -- pg. 61
Mathematica 2.2 -- pg. 63
EMBARC wireless service -- pg. 65
Video Toolkit 2.0.1 -- pg. 67
FontMonger 1.5.7 -- pg. 69
MarcoPolo 2.0 -- pg. 71
Chameleon 2.0.3 -- pg. 71
CPU 2.0 -- pg. 73
SmartStack -- pg. 83
SoftPolish 1.1 -- pg. 83
SourceSafe 2.1 -- pg. 85
EasyFlow 1.1 -- pg. 85
f(z) 6 -- pg. 87
HiQ 2.0 -- pg. 87
ScanPlus Color 6000 -- pg. 89
Alchemy III -- pg. 91
Spyglass Transform 3.0 -- pg. 91
LabTutor 2.0 -- pg. 93
Magic Typist 2.0 -- pg. 95
Dycam Model 3 -- pg. 97
The Journeyman Project -- pg. 98
Star Wars VisualClips -- pg. 98
Apple Newton MessagePad -- pg. 102
Macintosh LC 520 -- pg. 108
Personal Printers -- pg. 116
(too many to list)
Printing Utilities -- pg. 126
(too many to list)
Paint Programs -- pg. 154
Expert Color Paint 1.0
BrushStrokes 1.0
Color It 2.0.1
Fractal Design Painter 2.
Adobe Photoshop 2.5.1
Draw Programs -- pg. 162
Expert Draw 1.0
UltraPaint 1.05
artWorks 1.0.1
Aldus SuperPaint 3.5
CA-Cricket Draw III 2.0
Aldus IntelliDraw 1.0
Canvas 3.5
* MacUser -- Sep-93
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4ML -- pg. 68
MacWrite Pro -- pg. 70
Tempo II Plus 3.0 -- pg. 76
DeBabelizer -- pg. 77
DayMaker 2.0 -- pg. 78
Kodak PhotoEdge -- pg. 79
DataDesk 4 -- pg. 81
Aldus Gallery Effects; Kai's Power Tools -- pg. 84
Synchronization Programs -- pg. 89
FileRunner
Shuttle Pilot
Synchronize!
Renaissance -- pg. 93
Snooper 2.0 -- pg. 97
A Hard Day's Night -- pg. 105
Wacom ArtZ Tablet -- pg. 105
ClickChange -- pg. 105
How Computers Work -- pg. 106
CD-ROM Toolkit -- pg. 107
Read-It! Pro -- pg. 108
Office Tracker -- pg. 109
PixelPlay -- pg. 110
DupLocator -- pg. 111
InfoLog -- pg. 115
Bestbooks -- pg. 117
Flo' -- pg. 117
Spelling Coach Professional -- pg. 119
PostScript Laser Printers -- pg. 124
(too many to list)
Integrated Programs -- pg. 166
ClarisWorks 2.0
GreatWorks 2.03
Microsoft Works 3.0
WordPerfect Works 1.2
Presentation Packages -- pg. 178
Action! 1.01
Cinemation 1.0
MovieWorks 1.1
Passport Producer 1.1
Special Delivery 1.1
Image Databases -- pg. 190
Aldus Fetch 1.0
CompassPoint 1.1.1
Cumulus 1.1
ImageAccess 1.0
Kudo Image Browser 1.04
Media Cataloger 1.1
MediaTree 1.5
Multi-Ad Search 2.0
Network Backup Programs -- pg. 208
Retrospect Remote 2.0
NetStream 2.1.1
QTBackup 3.02/QTShare 1.1
Memorybank Software 4.2
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