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TidBITS#135/27-Jul-92
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 Psst! Wanna buy a PowerBook 100 cheap? Read on. We also have a
   report on the 1992 MacHack Conference - including notes on the
   winning hacks, two articles describing how Apple is racing to
   save the environment and only occasionally tripping over its
   shoelaces, and finally, the promised review of two excellent
   trackballs, the CoStar Stingray and Curtis MVP Mouse with Foot
   Switch.


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Topics:
    MailBITS/27-Jul-92
    PowerBook 100... Cheap
    MacHack News
    Apple Toner Recycling, Uh Huh!
    The Apple Environment
    Goldilocks and the Three Trackballs
    Reviews/27-Jul-92

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MailBITS/27-Jul-92
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  Everything approaches normal again now that we have our new hard
  drive set up. Needless to say, we are investigating uninteruptible
  power supplies and would appreciate any information you can pass
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  at <[e-mail]>.


PowerBook 100... Cheap
----------------------
  Bargain hunters would do well to check out the PowerBook 100 4/40s
  being sold at Price Club warehouse stores for around $900. Apple
  pulled that configuration of the PowerBook 100 from the price
  list, recalled all the stock from dealers, and sent it to Price
  Club. It seems Apple felt that the 75 Price Club stores were a
  good place to, well, dump the remaining 8,000 to 18,000 of these
  PowerBooks.

  Needless to say, this move has angered dealers immensely because
  they cannot begin to match Price Club's prices, even with less-
  capable PowerBooks, due to Apple's normal pricing and dealer
  margins. The dealers I've heard complaining fumed because they
  felt they could have sold those PowerBook 100s just as quickly at
  such low prices had Apple allowed them to. The unfortunate
  consequence is that without the profits from selling low-end
  computers and the related training and software sales, dealers
  cannot afford quality staff, which damages the industry-wide
  dealer reputation even further. Nonetheless, Apple feels that it
  must expand its distribution network, and I'm sure that politics
  played a large part in the deal.

  The Price Club stores have the machines now, but early reports
  indicate that the PowerBook 100 4/40 sells incredibly quickly at
  $900. A Price Club phone rep at one store said that she's never
  seen so much interest in a product. You must be a member to shop
  at Price Club, but it's reportedly fairly easy to qualify.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda
    Alton L. Flanders -- [e-mail]
    Larry Reich -- [e-mail]


MacHack News
------------
  Despite several kind invitations, I could not attend MacHack this
  year, where I would have kibitzed for 96 hours straight as the
  programmers created their wonderful hacks. These hacks are still
  being cleaned up and released, so I can't point you to a site that
  has everything, but we have heard that you will be able to buy an
  inexpensive CD-ROM disk with all the hacks and source code. Expect
  to see more of the hacks released to the nets at that point too.

  In any event, Leonard Rosenthol was kind enough to pass on some
  notes about the more interesting hacks.


Winning Hacks
  The five winning hacks ranged from the terribly useful to the
  thoroughly trivial. Mike Neil and David Falkenberg came up with
  IR-Man, a combined hardware and software hack for controlling
  various Macintosh actions with a stereo or VCR infrared remote
  controller. The VCR remote, quite reasonably, controls QuickTime
  movies and can also eject disks. The stereo remote controls the
  volume, window movements, and window and process ordering,
  although I'm curious how they manage some of those functions. With
  a few extra features and a universal remote, you could probably
  control a Mac remotely during a presentation quite easily.
  However, you will probably have to build some of the hardware
  yourself.

  NetMouse, an even more useful utility, came from Jorg Brown and
  Eric Hayes, allows you to control another Mac on a network with
  the mouse and keyboard on your Mac. NetMouse would be wonderful
  for working with a PowerBook and main Mac, or for something like
  testing a multi-user database.

  The next three winning entries move away from the realm of the
  useful, with Dean Yu and Fred Monroe's DylanTalk, a "semi-fake
  text-to-speech system with a really cool interface and multiple
  voices," Bell Choir, which simulates a bell choir using a series
  of network Macs, and MovieFinder, from Leonard Rosenthol and Alex
  Rosenberg, which will play QuickTime movies in the place of boring
  static icons in the Finder. Bell Choir, written by Kathy Brade,
  stands out among the winners for two reasons. It is the first
  winning hack written by a female (yay!), and it is also the only
  winning hack this year written by a single individual.


Hacks of Merit
  Leonard mentioned several other hacks of merit, including Strobe
  from Barry Semo and Flashback from Barry Semo and David Shayer.
  Strobe turns a PowerBook into an expensive strobe light by
  flashing the backlight (good for parties, I suppose :-)) and
  Flashback works similarly, except it works over a network of
  PowerBooks (useful for runway landing lights?). Tom Lippincott won
  the dubious honor of writing the first hack ever to be booed,
  something called "Run & Stumpy," which the hackers considered
  rather sick apart from the terrible pun on the popular "Ren &
  Stimpy" cartoon. Eric Slosser's elaborate joke control panel, "ADB
  Coffee Warmer," simulated control of a fake hardware device - if
  only he'd come up with the device too! Finally, Steve Falkenberg
  presented SloppyCopy, which runs all Finder copies in a separate
  memory partition so you can continue working while copying, a
  perhaps dangerous but useful utility.

  I've run across a couple of the hacks on ZiffNet/Mac as well, two
  of which I found and used briefly before my hard drive's untimely
  (and unrelated) death. StickyClick makes the Mac pretend that
  every click on a menu was the equivalent of a trackball's click-
  lock, but it was well-implemented enough that if you clicked
  quickly and then moved on, StickyClick would realize that it
  shouldn't keep the menu down. I didn't think I'd like it, but
  ended up becoming rather fond of it, especially with long
  hierarchical menus. TrashSelector, which I only used for a day or
  so, also looks useful. When you select Empty Trash, TrashSelector
  pops up a scrolling hierarchical list of files available for
  erasure. You can then pick the ones you want to erase rather than
  erasing everything wholesale.


Conference Highlights
  Leonard also passed on some of the highlights (or lowlights) of
  the conference, which are best in a more-original form.

* Keynote from Steve Weyl, Manager of Apple Developer Tools. His
  talk came very close to being as boring as last year's keynote,
  except that he demoed some cool games, including Prince of Persia,
  and told us how important game development was to Apple.
  Fortunately, most of the attendees had their PowerBooks with them,
  and were able to be productive!

* Friday night movie - Batman Returns. 200 hackers take over most
  of a theatre.

* Tornado, or "The Weather Hack." Touched down two miles from
  hotel. Determined hackers kept right on with their hacks - thank
  G-d for the PowerBook!

* Lighting struck tree outside hotel, tree exploded, big bang
  (System 7 lives!).

* Much sleep lost this year, probably more than any other year.
  Lots of late night discussions in the machine room - oh, and
  hacking too. Usually this is followed by a trip to Angelo's, the
  BEST breakfast place known to man, with a specialty of homemade
  bread with raisins turned into french toast!

* The "Bus Error" or "Double Bus Fault." Two of the buses headed
  for the yearly banquet got lost, drove right past the location (to
  screams of "STOP!"), kept going a couple of miles out of the way,
  and FINALLY found their way back.

  Information from:
    Leonard Rosenthol -- [e-mail]


Apple Toner Recycling, Uh Huh!
------------------------------
  by Don Rittner -- [e-mail]

  Geez, talk about silly policies. It seems that at every chance
  Apple takes one step forward and two backward! I recently called
  the Apple toll free number to request 50 return labels for the
  Apple Toner recycling campaign. If you have a used Apple-label
  toner cartridge, Apple will prepay the shipping for you to return
  the spent toner cartridge. Apple then donates 50 cents to the
  National Wildlife Federation and the Nature Conservancy. Seems
  like a good deal, but wait, there's more!

  I asked for 50 labels since I wanted to pass them out to members
  of my user group at the next meeting. The pleasant fellow at the
  other end said he could only send me one! I said, "One. Doesn't it
  make sense to send more than one, because if 50 of my members call
  and request labels as well, Apple wastes paper, envelopes,
  postage, and so on? Did I miss something here? Isn't this suppose
  to help reduce waste?"

  Well he asked his manager and with the executive decision in place
  I will receive THREE labels!

  Sometimes you have to wonder what goes on in the minds of
  corporate America!

  [Silly as this story is, we encourage you to take Apple up on this
  program if you would otherwise be throwing your Apple toner
  cartridges out. Hewlett-Packard had and probably still has a
  similar deal - ask your dealer for details. -Adam]

    Apple Toner Recycling Program -- 800/776-2333


The Apple Environment
---------------------
  More important than the toner recycling program is an announcement
  from Apple last week that they have completely eliminated the use
  of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in cleaning circuit boards and
  manufacturing equipment. None of Apple's circuit boards require
  cleaning with Apple's new assembly technology, and Apple managed
  to convert manufacturing operations that do require cleaning so
  that they could use water.

  Working with other companies, Apple achieved this goal over a year
  ahead of schedule (sounds like some of those engineers should
  start writing software!) and will now concentrate on disseminating
  the information and helping other companies eliminate CFCs from
  their manufacturing processes.

  Many scientists believe that CFCs contribute to the erosion of the
  Earth's ozone layer, which shields against incoming ultraviolet
  radiation. In 1989, 81 countries "declared their intentions" to
  phase out the use of CFCs by the year 2000, a date which the US
  later moved up to 1995.

  Kudos to Apple for placing an emphasis on this sort of technology.
  It may cost money in the short run and may even contribute to
  slightly higher prices for Macs over cut-rate PC-clones, but in
  our opinion the benefits easily outweigh that cost. Apple reduced
  its CFC solvent emissions from a peak of 270,000 pounds in 1990 to
  less than 2,500 pounds in 1992. That's an impressive drop.

  Other Apple environmental projects include battery and toner
  recycling, product grants to environmental groups,
  environmentally-sensitive packaging, and finally an R&D effort to
  build energy-efficient computers.


Sleepy Computers
  I'd like to see results from this R&D effort in desktop Macs soon.
  The PowerBooks nap quite nicely to save battery power, but how
  about desktop Macs also taking a snooze to conserve power? People
  like me who leave the Mac on constantly would especially
  appreciate this feature, and it might even protect sleeping Macs
  from power problems of the sort that destroyed my hard drive last
  week. The off-on-off power cycle killed the drive, which was
  running at the time. If that drive had been sitting quietly,
  catching 40,000 winks (a unit of time similar to a tick, which
  computers perform very quickly), it might have survived the
  traumatic experience.

  Actually, Apple has joined the Environmental Protection Agency's
  (EPA) Energy Star Computers Program, a voluntary program in which
  members attempt to drop the power consumption of their machines to
  less than 30 watts when idle. Other companies in the program
  include, HP, IBM, DEC, Compaq, Smith-Corona, and Zenith. The
  PowerBooks meet these standards, but if all desktop machines did,
  the EPA estimates a savings of 25 billion kilowatt hours per year.

  Ted Silveira mentioned on ZiffNet/Mac that several years ago he
  used a computer from a company called ON that was on all the time,
  but would go to sleep after about 10 minutes, coming back on with
  the touch of a key. The ON machine didn't offer a lot of features,
  even in 1986, with its Z80 microprocessor, 64K of RAM, CP/M
  operating system, and a separate dumb terminal for monitor and
  keyboard. Mass storage came in the form of 2 MB of RAM, although
  it had a floppy for shuffling files. Nonetheless, the ON had an
  innovative power system. It had no fan, making it completely
  silent, and it could keep data safe for about 24 hours with no
  power using its own internal backup power supply. If the wall
  power went out, the machine just went to sleep immediately, and
  you woke it up by touching any key once the power had returned.
  Finally, the ON had a software-controlled plug in the back where
  you could plug in your printer, take advantage of the built-in
  surge protection, and control the printer from your keyboard.
  Snazziest was the feature that simply turned on the printer if you
  tried to print to it while it was off rather than giving you a
  stupid error message. Where are ON's engineers today?!?

  Obviously, Apple would have a hard time providing this level of
  functionality given the much larger power requirements of today's
  computers, but power technology has advanced along with power
  requirements. I would happily pay an extra $300 to $500 (if not
  more) for such features because it would decrease the amount of
  time I waited for my machine to start up and shut down and
  significantly decrease my electric bill, a direct monetary
  savings, not to mention the ecological benefits of reduced
  consumption. Such power protection features would also prevent me
  from spending $300 or so on an uninteruptible power supply (UPS)
  which I have to purchase to protect my current system. We're
  waiting, Apple.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda
    Ted Silveira -- [e-mail]

  Related articles:
    MacWEEK -- 22-Jun-92, Vol. 6, #24, pg. 3


Goldilocks and the Three Trackballs
-----------------------------------
  So I lied - I only have two trackballs to review. But it's a good
  title and it does illustrate the main principle in buying a
  trackball, which is that trackballs, like porridge and beds, are
  individual and you must try several before you settle down like
  Goldilocks at your Mac.

  I requested several trackballs for review because both Tonya and I
  were experiencing wrist pain, tendinitis for her, carpal tunnel
  syndrome for me. Several people had recommended we try one, and
  this was an excellent excuse. Since this isn't MacUser we didn't
  attempt to compare all the trackballs on the market but confined
  ourselves to two recommended units that looked interesting, the
  $79 CoStar Stingray and the $89 Curtis MVP Mouse and $19 Foot
  Switch (all prices mail order).


CoStar Stingray
  CoStar named this small, sleek device the Stingray for a good
  reason. It sports approximately the same curving shape as its
  namesake, with both "wings" being buttons. Apart from the small,
  PowerBook-sized ball, the two buttons cover the entire surface of
  the Stingray. This is good.

  Perhaps the most stressful action involved with mousing, as I said
  last week, is the click & drag, so making the click action easier
  is all important. By creating such large buttons, CoStar ensured
  that you can hit the button with any part of your hand, including
  the side or back [or even your elbow if your wrists especially
  hurt! -Tonya]. Like most trackballs, the Stingray comes with a
  click-lock function to ease the click & drag motion. Using a
  switch on the bottom of the Stingray, you can set either (or
  neither) button to click-lock. When you click-lock, the trackball
  pretends that you have clicked and have the button held down, and
  a second click on the same button acts as though you have let the
  button up after selecting an object. I highly recommend using a
  trackball with click-lock for presentations where you want to show
  people menu items - it's much easier than holding the button down
  yourself. [After using a normal mouse for some seven years, I
  found the idea of click-lock a bit foreign, and I avoided it for
  some time. One day, though, I started using it, and within about
  three hours I became a click-lock convert. -Tonya]

  The Stingray ships with a Control Panel that lets you adjust the
  tracking to make it faster or slower, which could be useful for
  different environments. We haven't used it much since the default
  settings work fine for our general use. The Stingray works without
  the Control Panel, so you can easily bring the Stingray to a
  different Macintosh and use it without installing software.

  Physically, the Stingray is small and light, with a six inch
  cable. You must plug it into the keyboard's ADB port and it has no
  ADB pass-through, a disadvantage for people using Classics and
  other Macs having only one ADB port. We found the Stingray ideal
  for traveling between home and work because it's light; the cable
  doesn't get in the way; and the small ball must be actively
  pressed out with a tab on the bottom for cleaning. Thus, the ball
  doesn't escape when you unpack it.

  Most importantly perhaps, people with small hands will find the
  Stingray ideal. I can't quite palm a basketball, but I have
  relatively large hands. Tonya's hands match her slight frame, and
  although I found the small ball and small size a bit clumsy, she
  feels that the size is perfect for her smaller hands.


Curtis MVP Mouse & Foot Switch
  In comparison we have the Curtis MVP Mouse, a strangely named
  trackball. Curtis designed it along more conventional trackball
  lines, with a slightly sloped base and a pool ball-style ball that
  is exactly the same size as the Kensington TurboMouse's ball. The
  palm rest on the MVP Mouse has raised bumps on it, which may sound
  uncomfortable but which I find useful for holding my hand in
  place. Three buttons circle around the upper three quarters of the
  ball, and people with small hands may find hitting the top button
  over the top of the ball a difficult task. I, on the other hand,
  like it a lot because the larger ball fits my larger hand better.

  The buttons provide one of the MVP Mouse's two main features. Each
  buttons functions independently, and you can assign any one of a
  number of functions to each button. Currently, I have the left
  button set to click, the middle button set to the Return key, and
  the right button set to command-W (Close Window in most
  applications). These buttons work the same in all applications,
  but needless to say, I find the command-W button the most
  convenient in applications with lots of windows like uAccess. You
  can set the buttons to any command key, as well as click, click-
  lock, Delete, Return, Shift, Tab, Undo, Cut, Copy, and Paste.

  Originally I wanted different button assignments for different
  applications, but with further thought I decided that it would
  probably be too confusing. Apple believes that users find two-
  button mice too confusing, and although I think sophisticated
  users can handle two or three buttons, different definitions for
  each application does not smack of the Macintosh way. Oh, you can
  also control tracking and double-click speed in the Curtis Control
  Panel, but frankly, the defaults work well enough so I've never
  bothered.

  The second main feature of the MVP Mouse is its accompanying Foot
  Switch. You don't have to buy it if you don't want, but I cannot
  recommend it highly enough. I have mine set to a normal click,
  which allows me to move the cursor gently with the trackball and
  then click with my right foot when I want. It's wonderful for
  hierarchical menus or reading a long document, because you can
  just place the cursor over a scroll arrow and click with your foot
  when you want to move the page. There's no need to even move your
  hand for such trivial stuff.

  The Foot Switch is well-constructed of durable plastic and metal,
  and mine has survived several months of clicking quite well. You
  need not worry if you have clumsy feet since the Foot Switch has a
  fair amount of travel when clicking down and it's trivial to use.
  If you can drive a car you can use the Foot Switch. I have no
  difficulty using the Foot Switch even when wearing bulky
  Birkenstock sandals, although it's most responsive when I'm
  barefoot. Either foot works with the Foot Switch, although you
  will probably prefer one over the other. I use my right foot, but
  occasionally switch for the fun of it. Curtis does not mention one
  important fact though, which is that you must adjust your chair
  and desk appropriately. I found the Foot Switch somewhat
  uncomfortable until I adjusted my desk and chair so they were at
  the proper ergonomic heights for typing, which is also the proper
  height for the Foot Switch. Check out TidBITS#134 for more
  ergonomic details.

  The MVP Mouse and Foot Switch travel badly. Unlike the Stingray,
  the MVP Mouse is relatively large, and its ball tends to fall out
  as soon as you take the mouse out of your bag. It has a long
  cable, probably at least four feet long, and an even longer cable
  with a telephone-style connector connects the Foot Switch to the
  underside of the MVP Mouse. Since that cable will always go behind
  your desk to get to the floor, it's a pain to pack up. It would be
  great if the Foot Switch was an ADB device that could attach to
  any Mac, regardless of pointing device. The MVP Mouse will stay
  put at one computer, but it's a good solid piece of work, and I
  have little bad to say about it.


Conclusion
  I did have some problems with both trackballs. The original
  Stingray we tested started squeaking when you clicked one of the
  buttons, which was rather annoying, but we had to return it
  anyway. Then Tonya bought one for personal use because she liked
  it so much. That one would only track up and down and not to
  either side. MacConnection took it back that day and sent us yet
  another Stingray, which has performed perfectly since then.

  We have received a report from a disgruntled Stingray user who
  didn't find the Stingray accurate enough for single-pixel graphics
  work, especially in comparison with the Kensington trackball he
  had used previously. So make sure to check your software with the
  trackball before buying.

  The MVP Mouse at some point developed the annoying habit of
  activating the cursor even when I wasn't touching the ball or
  moving the desk in any way. It doesn't do it most of the time, but
  on occasion I'll place the cursor on a scroll arrow, expecting to
  click only with the Foot Switch, but the MVP Mouse will move the
  cursor off the scroll arrow unbeknownst to me, often resulting in
  an application switch when I click.

  I can recommend both of these trackballs without hesitation, but I
  will add that you shouldn't pay much attention to my opinions
  unless you also try one out before you buy. Hand size, working
  habits, and software use will make a large difference in your
  attitudes toward trackballs. Incidentally, left-handed people will
  find both trackballs equally useful since they are symmetric and
  easily customized. I occasionally switch to the left side, just to
  keep my hand in, so to speak.

  Other trackballs may also appeal to you, such as the EMAC
  Silhouette, which is strangely shaped so that you put your hand
  around the ball on the side, and the Logitech Trackman, which has
  three completely easily customized buttons (in each application).
  Nonetheless, people with small hands who move between two Macs
  will love the Stingray and those of us who see no reason to let
  our legs just sit all day, letting our hands to all the work, will
  truly enjoy the MVP Mouse and Foot Switch.


Tonya adds:
  Before the trackballs arrived, I was having a lot of trouble doing
  my job, (phone tech support) which often involves a lot of mouse
  action and not much keyboarding. In desperation, I put my mouse on
  the floor and moused with my feet. I could do this only by
  scooting my entire setup forward so that my mouse's cord was long
  enough for it to set on the ground, and I had trouble finding an
  adequate mouse pad. I believe that a pointing/clicking device
  operated completely with the feet would be a wonderful thing, and
  I hope to see one some day. Many devices currently on the market
  could be foot-operated with only minor changes. The standard Apple
  Macintosh mouse, for example, only needs a longer cord. If a
  company designed such a device ergonomically for the foot, I'd buy
  it in an instant.

  Even if nobody ever manufactures a pointing device used
  exclusively by the foot, I'd like to see more pointing device
  options. Most trackball ads tout their ergonomic design. But, I
  ask, ergonomic for whom? They offer big balls, small balls, and
  all sorts of different shapes. You'll finally find the one that
  feels ergonomic to you, only to discover that it lacks some other
  feature that you desire, like a second ADB port (which neither of
  these trackballs have), or a foot switch, or an easily-
  transportable design. Given that the standard equipment hurts more
  and more people all the time, I find it frustrating that the
  available alternatives are so limited. Perhaps as more people
  explore the alternatives, the market for trackballs and the like
  will become more lucrative and we consumers will see more choices.

    CoStar -- 203/661-9700 -- [e-mail]
    Curtis -- 800/548-4900 -- 603/532-4123


Reviews/27-Jul-92
-----------------

* Macworld -- Sep-92
    Personal Printers -- pg. 240
      (too many to list)
    Large Screen Monitors -- pg. 254
      (too many to list)
    WriteNow 3.0 -- pg. 272
    AutoDoubler 1.07 -- pg. 273
    More Disk Space 1.1 -- pg. 273
    StyleWriter -- pg. 274
    Outbound Notebook System 2030S -- pg. 274
    Ray Dream Designer 2.02 -- pg. 276
    Components 1.0 -- pg. 285
    21 MB Floptical Drives -- pg. 287
      Floptica
      Floptical 5020FL
      Infinity Floptical 21 MB
    Tabloid-size Laser Printers -- pg. 288
      LZR 1560
      RealTech Laser 400
    Notebook Display Adapter -- pg. 290
    Prince of Persia -- pg. 292
    CameraMan 1.0 -- pg. 292
    Timeslips III 2.1 -- pg. 294
    4-D Boxing 1.0 -- pg. 294
    Bar Code Pro 1.0 -- pg. 297
    Nikon LS-3510AF -- pg. 297
    Capitalist Pig -- pg. 299
    nuBase Pro 1.5 -- pg. 299
    NetMounter 1.00 -- pg. 310
    AgentDA 2.0 -- pg. 310
    EndNote Plus 1.2 -- pg. 312
    Time Treks 1.0 -- pg. 312
    The Secret of Monkey Island 1.0 -- pg. 314
    Blade 1.1 -- pg. 314
    Freedom 120 -- pg. 316
    Perspective 1.5 -- pg. 316
    AudioShop 1.0 -- pg. 318
    Cathy; The Far Side; Random House Word-A-Day -- pg. 318
    Surgeon 3, The Brain -- pg. 322
    Correct Writing 2.0 -- pg. 322
    Cyberblast 2.01 -- pg. 324
    MacPalette II 2.2 -- pg. 324


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