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REMOVABLE DRIVE MAY BE UNRELIABLE Fantom Drive's FireWire Orb 2.2GB removable drive is functional, but it's not faultless. The Radialogic drivers conflicted with some common extensions, causing our G3/450 to […]

Will Napster change the way we buy -- or don't buy -- music forever? TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT. After months of indecision you've decided to offer your hand in matrimony to […]

ENGAGING RUN-AND-JUMP ADVENTURE ANYONE WHO'S TRIED TO TAKE an eight-year-old to the movies in the last couple of years knows that few films at the local octoplex are both appropriate […]

FOUR WAYS WE CAN ENSURE THAT GREAT GAMES KEEP COMING TO THE MAC We Breens are slow to boil. When crossed, we tend to lightly simmer--sending up a single errant […]

INTELLINEWS AND MACTICKER BRING NEWS AND STOCK QUOTES TO YOUR DESKTOP THE IDEA OF RELYING UN A DAILY newspaper to bring you the day's events seems almost quaint, particularly when […]

TOP-OF-THE-G3-LINE PROCESSOR UPGRADES APPLE HAS MOVED ON-FROM beige to blue to the latest graphite-and-white G4 systems--but you and your older Power Mac G3 may not be prepared to follow. If […]

AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE ORIGINS OF MAC GAMES The subject of s-e-x was never d-i-s-c-u-s-s-e-d by my family. Consequently, I, like many of my elementary-school colleagues, relied on the […]

SOFTWARE-SAMPLED PIANO SOUNDS THE BEEFY PROCESSORS IN MOD-ern-day Macs not only help applications run briskly, but also enable Macs to take on chores that were once the domain of peripheral […]

CHALLENGING FIRST-PERSON ACTION/STRATEGY GAME AS YOU SLINK DOWN THE embassy hallway, signaling to your black-clad corps to quietly clear the library of unfriendlies, you peer through the door to your […]

ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK FOR SUITE WE ALL KNOW THAT THE number 13 is considered bad luck, but in the world of software publishing, the unlucky digit seems […]

REAL-TIME SAMPLE MIXER A VISIT TO AN URBAN DANCE club proves that creating a booty-shakin' groove no longer means gathering a group of musicians in a darkened recording studio. Much […]

REDUCE YOUR DOWN-AND-OUT TIME WITH THESE 3-D--SHOOTER TIPS Recently, it dawned on me that I cling to beliefs some might consider peculiar. No, I'm not here to discuss my convictions […]

New Macs and Old Devices Can Get Along--Macworld's Connectivity Guide Shows You How Imagine waking one morning in a foreign land--one where your greenbacks are worthless, people consider your style […]

GET THE MOST OUT OF APPLE'S WIRELESS AIRPORT TECHNOLOGY WITH THESE HANDS-ON TIPS APPLE HAS PULLED ANOTHER FAST ONE. HOW ELSE CAN YOU DESCRIBE the company's ability to successfully market […]

PSYCHEDELIC ART SYNTHESIZER HIGH-SCHOOL TRIGONOMETRY students might take an opposing view, but mathematics can be beautiful. While only the most mathematically adept may grasp this notion when dealing with raw […]

FAMILIAR FUN, NO SURPRISES BY NOW, ACTION GAMES IN which you careen through hallways blasting the bejeezus out of anything that moves are familiar enough that Mac players are in […]

THE GAME BEATS THE MOVIE NOT OFTEN DOES SPIN-OFF MER-chandise outdo the product from which it's spun, but minor miracles do occur. Take LucasArts' new racing game, Star Wars: Episode […]

WHY MAC VERSIONS OF HOT NEW GAMES ARE WORTH THE WAIT A real man--like me, for instance--knows when to admit he's wrong. I was mistaken, for example, when a few […]

BEST NETWORK SHOOTER FOR THE MAC THE FINAL RELEASE OF MACSOFT'S stellar Unreal Tournament lays to rest any concerns that Macworld acted precipitously in giving the then-unreleased shooter a place […]

PRINT YOUR OWN STAMPS FROM A MAC NOTHING MEASURES ONE'S commitment to the maxim time is money like paying for a service that's free but potentially time-consuming. For example, if […]

3-D SHOOTER RETURNS, BUT BUGGY THOSE WHO'VE NEVER HAD THE opportunity to float about in weightless conditions--pinging around the interior of an orbiting space shuttle, for example--may find Graphic Simulations' […]

TURN YOUR OLD MAC INTO A KILLER CUSTOM GAMING RIG Like any columnist who proffers opinions only slightly more controversial than the telephone directory's white pages, I get my share […]

UPDATE INCLUDES FIXES, NEW OPTIONS ALADDIN'S STUFFIT DELUXE, plagued by bugs and a lack of backward compatibility in version 5.0 (see Reviews, April 1999), is back on track with an […]

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR iBOOK WITH THESE EXPERT TIPS Not so long ago, if you wanted to be taken seriously as a commutin', computin', highfalutin warrior of the road, […]

Take Control of Your Music--on Your Mac or on the Road In the past year, the way many of us listen to music, the means by which we obtain that […]

REAL-TIME STRATEGY GAME FINALLY MAKES IT TO THE MACINTOSH THERE COULD BE NO BETTER example than Total Annihilation of why Apple should keep trying to bring PC games to the […]

PERFECT GAMES FOR WINTER NIGHTS WITH YOUR KITH AND KIN Anyone looking at my family from the outside would remark that our clan appears to be remarkably supportive. My sisters […]

MIDI SEQUENCER NEEDS TUNE-UP WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT A company that discards the 500-page manual that graced a fairly complex MIDI application and then 'upgrades' it with 60 pages […]

REWORKED NOW UTILITIES IS AN EVEN SWEETER SUITE AC VETERANS WHO REMEMber Now Software's Now Utilities are likely to have bittersweet recollections of this fabled set of system enhancements. Early […]

SPRIGHTLY AGP SYSTEM COMES WITH QUIRKS APPLE IS PLAYING THE NAME game again. To simplify its product lineup, Apple has placed each model in one of four categories: Power Macintosh […]

WIRELESS-NETWORKING SYSTEM LETS YOUR MAC ROAM AFTER A GREAT DEAL OF FAN-fare at last July's Macworld Expo, Apple has finally shipped the AirPort Base Station and accompanying AirPort card (sold […]

AUDIO EDITOR OFFERS MORE--AND LESS A NEW PLAYER HAS ENTERED the professional two-track digital-audio-editing arena: Spark 1.01, from TC Works. Unlike its competitor Berkeley Integrated Audio Software's Peak, Spark is […]

EFFECTIVE AUDIO CONVERSION FROM OUTWARD APPEARANCES, the latest version of Audio Ease's professional audio-conversion utility, BarbaBatch 3.0, seems hardly different from the last version, and BarbaBatch continues to produce the […]

THE TOP 10 MAC GAMING THINGIES OF THE PAST 1,000 YEARS Attempting to set a proper example, I've taken no special precautions for the flip of the millennial odometer--no crates […]

CLEANER CITIES, NO URBAN RENEWAL MAC USERS REMEMBER FEWgames more fondly than Maxis's original city simulator, SimCity. This delightful toy allowed those with delusions of grandeur to design, build, and […]

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, home of the Macworld Game Hall of Fame, is ordinarily a tranquil town. Citizens of Pittsfield speak in low tones, walk about in soft-soled shoes, and break their […]

TURN YOUR MAC INTO A MONSTER WITH THESE PERFECT PRESENTS Our culture is slathered with hints that growing old is hardly a boomps-a-daisy bacchanal. From Ralph Waldo Emerson's gloomy contention […]

FLAWED NOTATION-SCANNING SOFTWARE MUSICIANS DREAM OF THE DAY they can slap sheet music onto a scanner and have notes translated into information a computer can understand and manipulate. Musitek has […]

DIAGNOSTIC AND REPAIR TOOLS ARE MORE STABLE BUT OFFER FEW NEW FEATURES AT ONE TIME, THE IMAGE OF utilities expert Peter Norton--with sleeves rolled up, ready to work--inspired confidence. That […]

PC SHOOTER FINALLY COMES TO THE MAC GAMERS HAVE WAITED MORE than a year and a-half for the Mac version of. Quake II, Activision's sequel to the classic first-person shooter. […]

IT'S TRYING . . . BUT IT NEEDS TO DO MORE Nobody should be surprised to hear that I care passionately about computer gaming. Give me a choice between hunkering […]

CAPTURE TOOL GOES TO THE MOVIES MOST MAC USERS KNOW THAT capturing screen images is as simple as pressing [GRAPHIC EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]-shift-3 or [GRAPHIC EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE […]

GREAT NEW GAMES ARE ON THEIR WAY. HERE'S A SNEAK PEEK. As I sit in the cramped back bedroom I call my office, I think to myself, 'Thank God summer […]

ADVANCED F-16 FLIGHT SIMULATOR MACSOFT, PUBLISHER OF SUCH Mac gaming staples as Quake and Civilization II, has a knack for unleashing products that tax Macs to their very limits. Last […]

STEP RIGHT UP TO SEE OUR COLLECTION OF THE COOLEST AND QUIRKIEST MAC STUFF AROUND Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Come right this way! Welcome to our Carnival of Computing! Folks, for […]

ALL-PURPOSE SECURITY APPLICATION THOSE WHO OVERSEE MACS IN a shared-user environment, such as a classroom or office, often need to control individuals' access to the data on those computers. One […]

A BARGAIN HUNTER'S GUIDE TO MAC SHAREWARE GAMES My life is nearly perfect. Heck--what could be better than getting paid to play computer games? I'll admit there is one wee […]

PROFESSIONAL CD-MASTERING APPLICATIONS MIND YOUR P'S AND Q'S CREATING CUSTOM AUDIO CD-ROMs is no longer an exotic pastime practiced by those blessed with more money than sense. CD-ROM writers, or […]

SOME GAMES ARE SO DELICIOUS YOU JUST NEED A SECOND HELPING Recently, I engaged in an online chat where the subject of computer gaming cropped up. 'Kee-ripes,' a participant named […]