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Interactive games, learning tools abound By Steve Rosenthal Cupertino, Calif. -- "Pow!" "Zap!" and "Wow!" You may soon be hearing a lot more of these sounds -- as well as […]

By Steve Rosenthal and Andrew Gore Las Vegas -- Apple will enter the consumer electronic market in a big way, CEO John Sculley told a packed audience in his keynote […]

When it comes to in-house video production, integrating the Mac can be easy. Getting the other required equipment and finding the money to pay for it is the challenge. By […]

... a Quadra instead of a workstation? Workstation makers claim to produce similarly priced machines that are simply more powerful than the Quadra. Apple says yes, but ... the Mac […]

By Steve Rosenthal Whatever the dangers of Kaleida, Apple and IBM Corp.'s multimedia venture, it may be the best way Mac multimedia can withstand an onslaught of competition. That's what […]

By Steve Rosenthal Paris -- A bevy of new graphics programs from Europe are slated to make a U.S. appearance over the next few months -- providing their authors can […]

By Steve Rosenthal While the Apple-IBM alliance may eventually bridge the gap between Macs and IBM PCs and compatibles, many designers have already come up with ways to handle graphics […]

By Steve Rosenthal Tomorrow's front-page news in desktop publishing: group publishing, color and electronic output. That's the word from developers and analysts as they look at how System 7.0, QuickTime […]

By Steve Rosenthal Extra hardware alone won't guarantee memorable and effective presentations, but it's a big help if you can also afford the time and learn the necessary skills. But […]

Amiga system still a Mac experiment By Steve Rosenthal Mac users who are driven to produce desktop videos right now might well consider NewTek Inc.'s Video Toaster -- even though […]

Video production on a $30K desktop By Steve Rosenthal If Mac-based desktop video promises professional-level video production without the usual racks of equipment, the Video F/X system from Digital F/X […]

Lack of JPEG rules still causes conflicts By Steve Rosenthal Almost a dozen image-compression products for the Mac have been announced or delivered in the past year, but the resulting […]

By Steve Rosenthal San Francisco -- Graphic arts shops and suppliers confirm there will be industry demand for the three new Mac models but mostly by supervisors, copywriters and support […]

By Steve Rosenthal Not every hard disk drive for the Mac is precisely equal, but it's steadily getting harder to buy a bad drive. As both drive makers and independent […]

Mac and Windows: Different Singers of the Same Tune With Windows 3.0, DOS and the Macintosh are now variations on a single theme rather than opposite extremes in user-interface design. […]

MaraThon 030 SE Dove Corp. List price: $699 +Economical 68030 upgrade for SEs; provides moderate speed increase; includes Symantec's SUM II and SAM 2.0 utilities. -Does not provide full SE/30 […]

By Steve Rosenthal Cupertino, Calif. -- Earth Day activities blossomed last week at Apple, where a grass-roots alliance of employees organized informational activities for co-workers "who want another way to […]

Compression chip price decline predicted By Steve Rosenthal San Francisco -- The promise of color-image compression solutions for the Macintosh certainly isn't diminishing the size of the controversy about how […]

Not only did I get the September 26 issue and raise a jaded eyebrow, I let it sit for a couple of days, wondering if I was even going to [...]

Special-access Mac still evolving For a growing number of people with physical disabilities, personal computers have become a major tool in creating a more independent, interactive way of life. With […]

THE LANGUAGES OF LOGIC In artificial intelligence, as in poetry, how you say something is often as important as what you say. That's why the quality and type of computer […]

SORTING OUT THE CABLES All Macs come with the basic internal hardware to link with networks and modems. But you still need the right cabling to make the connections work. […]

Disk Firms Design Systems To Break 32M-Byte Barrier Despite a widespread impression that MS-DOS in general and PC-DOS in particular can't work with single-disk volumes larger than 32M bytes, several [...]

Plethora of Video Adapter Boards Widen Choices Video adapter boards for IBM PCs originally came in just one style each for monochrome and color displays. Now, however, there are probably [...]

Contenders Strive To Become the Communications Standard If you're sending data over a communications link and you want it absolutely, positively to get there right, you need a communications protocol. [...]

The Graphics Master video board from Tecmar gives you high-resolution graphics on the IBM Monochrome Display, 16 colors at the full 640-by-400 graphics resolution on a color display, and can [...]

The parts that make the whole: A product lineup From the dedicated programmer's point of view, a sufficient selection of tools has always been available to make multimedia on the […]

The Taxman Goes High-Tech as IRS Accepts Electronically Filed Returns Tens of thousands of taxpayers will be sending the Internal Revenue Service formatted electronic files instead of bulky paper tax [...]

WRITING UTILITIES PC wordworking tools carve their niche among perfectionists Like so many other PC users who work with ideas and words for a good part of the day, computer [...]

Printers for Publishing The electronic production of publications may require a machine of an entirely different type Printers for electronic publishing must meet a whole new set of requirements, in [...]