About This Particular Macintosh™ 4.12: About the personal computing experience™ Volume 4, Number 12 December 6, 1998   Send requests for free subscriptions to: subscriptions@atpm.com Cover Art ©1998 Jamal Ghandour We need new cover art every month! Write to us! Contributors Jamal Ghandour Edward Goss Tom Iovino Robert Paul Leitao Mike Shields Michael Tsai Macintosh users like you Please write for ATPM! Check out the Guidelines Editorial Staff Publishers - Michael Tsai & Robert Paul Leitao Editor - Michael Tsai Managing Editor - Robert Paul Leitao Opinionated Associate Editor - Mike Shields Reviews Editor - Daniel Chvatik Copy Editor - Christopher Turner Interviews Manager - Vacant Publicity Manager - Vacant Welcome Author - Robert Paul Leitao List Server Manager - Michael Tsai Webmasters - Michael Tsai & Evan Trent Beta Testers - The Staff Columnists Jamal Ghandour Edward Goss Tom Iovino Robert Paul Leitao Mike Shields Michael Tsai Belinda Wagner Artwork & Design Graphics Director - Jamal Ghandour Layout/Design - Michael Tsai Blue Apple Icon Designs - Marc Robinson Typewriter-Style Section Headers - RD Novo The Tools Anarchie Pro AppleWorks BBEdit DOCMaker Emailer Frontier Illustrator LetterRip Mailsmith Myrmidon Nisus Writer Online Army Knife Photoshop ResEdit Snapz Pro StuffIt The Fonts Carbonated Gothic Cheltenham Cloister Foundation Frutiger Garamond Geneva Gill Sans Helvetica Isla Bella Marydale Where to Find ATPM Online and downloadable issues are available at the ATPM Web Page: and via anonymous FTP at: Info-Mac and all its Mirrors The CD-ROMs Accompanying: MacFormat, Macworld UK, Inside Mac Games Any others? Let us know! ATPM is an MT/RPL Production © 1995-98, All Rights Reserved Reprints Articles and original art cannot be reproduced without the express permission of ATPM, unless otherwise noted. You may, however, print copies of ATPM, directly from the DOCMaker stand-alone edition, provided that it is not modified in any way. Authors may be contacted through ATPM’s editorial staff, or at their e-mail addresses when provided. The Legal Stuff About This Particular Macintosh may be uploaded to any online area or BBS, so long as the file remains intact and unaltered, but all other rights are reserved. All information contained in this issue is correct to the best of our knowledge. The opinions expressed in ATPM are not necessarily those of this particular Macintosh. Product and company names and logos may be registered trademarks of their respective companies. About This Particular Macintosh is published with DOCMaker 4.8.4, and owes its existence to the program’s author, Mark Wall. May his camels never have fleas. Thank you for reading this far, and we hope that the rest of the magazine is more interesting than this. Thanks for reading ATPM. • • •