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Notes from The Cutting Edge of Personal Computing
August 3, 1997
Issue 90

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CONTENTS
My Notes:
1=> New Clickable Mailing List and Email Resources You Need, 
mailto:pgrote@i1.net
2=> This Issue's Winner!

Reviews:
3=> Product: Better Homes and Gardens Healthy Cooking Deluxe,
productivity/home
Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org
4=> The Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible By Winn L. Rosch, book/hardware
Reviewed By: Don Hughes, mailto:dhughes@wwdc.com
5=> Product: SmartSuite 97, software/productivity
Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org

8=> Clickables!

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3=> Product: Better Homes and Gardens Healthy Cooking Deluxe,
productivity/home
Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org
Reviewed on: 486DX/133, 16 MB RAM, Windows 3.1, 2x CD-ROM, PAS-16
sound card

This is the deluxe version of the original Better Homes and Gardens 
Healthy Cooking CD-ROM. This version includes over 1,000 recipes, and 
over 150 video demonstrations. Most recipes include a full-color 
photograph that can be expanded to about one-quarter the size of the 
screen. Healthy Cooking Deluxe also allows you to enter and store your 
own recipes, which are then accessible from this program. Some other 
major features are shopping lists, a meal planner, and a "What's For 
Dinner" selection of recipes by various options.

All these features and more will be described below. But first a word 
on installation and performance. I started out this review on the 
minimum recommended system - a 486DX/33, and did the minimum install, 
which took up 4.5 MB of my hard disk. Performance seemed sluggish, so 
I went back and did the full install, which took a whopping 45 MB! I 
can't say that this appreciably improved performance of the product, 
other than improving the initial load time. What did help was the 
upgrade of my system to a 486/133 in the middle of the review process. 
(This is another story, but I recommend the Kingston Turbochip 133 if 
you have an older system like mine that will not take a Pentium chip.) 
I suspect that Healthy Cooking Deluxe is a processor resource hog, but 
now it performs like it should. One example should explain what I 
mean. With my previous configuration, when printing a shopping list, 
my printer would print at an incredibly slow rate, unless I exited the 
Healthy Cooking Deluxe program, at which time the printer would resume 
its normal performance. On my current system, there is enough 
horsepower for the printer to go at a normal speed, even while I keep 
working in the cookbook program.

The main attraction of this program is the large number of recipes 
available to choose from. An index groups the recipes by chapters 
(breads, meats, desserts, etc.). These are all light, healthy meals 
that have been tested for taste and quality, and can be viewed and 
printed. I must confess that I did not prepare any of these recipes, 
but I did eat meals made from them, and they were delicious. In 
addition to the ingredients and preparation instructions, you also get 
the following nutritional information: calories, cholesterol, 
carbohydrates, protein, sodium, fat, saturated fat, and fiber, in both 
raw counts and a percent of daily values. These features would be very 
helpful to someone on a restricted diet.

The video techniques are also useful. I initially thought "why would I 
want to watch someone chop onions?" So I randomly selected some 
videos, and I actually learned how to make frozen drinks with ice 
cubes in a blender the correct way. So that's what the removable top 
in the center of the lid is for!

Like any respectable cookbook program, this one has a shopping list. 
And like others that I have used, you have no way to save your 
shopping list. Which means if you print it, get out of the program, 
and then lose the list, you have to go back and reselect your recipes. 
I would think they could let you save at least your last shopping 
list. On the positive side, Healthy Cooking Deluxe has "drag and drop" 
capabilities. You can drag a recipe and drop it on the shopping list 
menu bar, or the meal planner, or even to "My Recipes". Within the 
shopping list, you can vary the number of servings from the default, 
and the program automatically recalculates the ingredients for you. 
Unfortunately, the recipe instructions themselves do not vary, so if 
you double the size of a pork roast, for example, it will not convert 
the cooking time for you.

The "What's for Dinner?" feature can search for recipes based on your 
individual needs. You can choose recipes by type of dish, preparation 
time, or the nutritional criteria mentioned above. The meal planner 
feature lets you organize your selected meals by day or by week. And 
being a heathy cooking program, you can see how your menus stack up 
nutritionally, with individual and total counts of calories, fat, and 
sodium.

An "About Cooking" section contains cooking charts, conversions of 
volumes before and after cooking, substitutions, a glossary, 
descriptions of utensils with pictures, and a few other features. I 
found this to be a useful reference guide to cooking.

The program starts with an introductory audio-visual presentation that 
is only worth viewing once. After that, you can click with your mouse 
when it begins to skip past it. I don't know why Multicom left it on 
as a default though, since it is akin to viewing a commercial for the 
product. Likewise, when you exit the program, a credit screen starts 
up. This can also by bypassed by clicking with the mouse. One other 
minor annoyance was the inclusion of "sponsors" on some screens. For 
example, Equal sweetener sponsors the Main Index screen by having 
their logo show up. I expect these kinds of ads on commercial on-line 
services, but not in a product you buy for your home computer. When 
you print the shopping list, a large Better Homes and Gardens logo 
prints at the top, so that people in the supermarket can see where you 
got your list from. I would like the option of choosing to advertise 
this product for Multicom, not always printing their logo.

Help is included within the program. But it does not have any 
navigational options, such as backtracking. If you go too far down a 
help index path, you cannot back up. Your only option is to exit help 
and start again from the top. So while it's nice to have this within 
the program instead of in a manual, the implementation of it is 
unsatisfactory.

This program also includes the capability to link on-line to the 
Better Homes Kitchen area on CompuServe for more recipes and ideas. It 
comes with the software to install Compuserve on your computer. I 
chose not to install and evaluate this option, as CompuServe does not 
have a local phone number in my area, and I would have racked up toll 
call charges. The help screens list two other on-line options, 1) 
http://www.home-and-family.com - a Better Homes and Gardens site that 
had no cooking or recipe information that I could find, and 2) 
http://www.multicom.com/cdjg/hcd - which seemed to be a bad URL.

It's hard for me to judge the technical support provided by Multicom. 
I had one problem which I emailed to their technical support address. 
Surprisingly, I received an answer that night saying "I'll have to 
check with the programmers... maybe there is a patch...". Not 
surprisingly, I have not heard from them since. I thought the problem 
was caused when I reinstalled at the maximum hard drive usage over top 
of the initial minimum install. So I used the included uninstall 
program, and then reinstalled again, but that did not solve it. The 
uninstall program worked fine, and only left one user file in the HCD 
directory. Multicom also has a free tech support 800 number, but I did 
not want to make a phone call for a minor problem that does not 
prevent me from using the product.

One other time the program did crash and hang my system, but I was not 
able to recreate the problem. The only troubleshooting help provided 
with the CD-ROM is the ridiculous suggestion to only run Program 
Manager and Healthy Cooking Deluxe, and no other startup applications. 
For a program that runs under Windows, is it not very Windows-
friendly. I guess that's why it does not have the usual Windows 
interface with maximize and minimize functions. You can swap to other 
applications by hitting Alt-Tab, but perhaps this does not sit well 
with Healthy Cooking Deluxe.

My final opinion is that Healthy Cooking Deluxe has wonderful content, 
both textual and multimedia. I would recommend it for someone looking 
for a cookbook program with healthy recipes. But the occasional 
problems, Windows stand-alone mode, and an unfriendly help system kept 
this from being an outstanding CD-ROM product.

Multicom Publishing
110 Olive Way
Suite 1250
Seattle, WA 98101
(800)-850-7272
http://www.multicom.com

Installation/Ease of Use: Silver
User-Friendliness: Bronze
Quality: Silver
User: All

4=> The Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible By Winn L. Rosch, book/hardware
Reviewed By: Don Hughes, mailto:dhughes@wwdc.com
MSRP: $34.95 US / $43.95 CAN

The Hardware Bible is not, nor should it be perceived as a How to 
Book. The Hardware Bible is a large How it the PC Works encyclopedia, 
almost two inches thinks and 1060 pages in length make up this 
sparsely illustrated hardware guide. If you are searching for Quick 
Fix reference work on computer repairs and specific repair problems 
then you may want to pass on this title. However, if you have the 
yearning to learn more about the inner workings of that mysterious 
thing called a Computer then you should read this book.

Think of the Hardware Bible as several stepping stones of wisdom that 
opens the mysterious world of computers to the lay person and explains 
its fundamental workings in plain English.

The Hardware Bible starts at the dawning of the commuter age. The 
section Origins of the PC is an overview of computer history starting 
in the early 1980s. Computer companies and different versions of 
software / hardware, such as: IBM, Apple, Tandy/Radio Shack, CPM, 
microprocessors, the Z80, 6502, 8088, display systems, Mono, CGA, EGA, 
VGA, SVGA, Motherboards, Instruction sets, Registers, Micro-code, CISC 
and RISC, Machine language, Assembly language, COBOL, FORTRAN, and 
PASCAL.

Hardware is covered in enormous detail and explained in layperson 
terms, and many varied topics: Microprocessor construction, Logic 
Gates, Analog and Digital, Semiconductors, Integrated Circuits, and 
the CPU family tree from the 4004 by Intel in 1969 to the 
microprocessors of today. The following is an example from Page 175 of 
the Hardware Bible, best represents how author presents a detailed 
explanation of memory errors:

Memory chips (and memory modules) sadly seem to be the most likely 
solid-state part of your computer to fail. they can fail in one or two 
ways with soft errors or hard errors.

SOFT ERRORS...a soft error is a transient change. One bit in a chip 
may suddenly, randomly change state. Typically, one of the slightly 
radioactive atoms in the epoxy case of the chip will spontaneously 
decay and shoot out an alpha or beta particle into the chip...if it 
hits a memory cell in the chip, the particle can cause the cell to 
change state, blasting the memory bit it contains...this error can be 
detected thanks to the parity check bit assigned to each byte of 
memory...as the error is detected, your machine shuts down...There is 
nothing you can do to prevent soft errors.

HARD ERRORS...when part of a memory chip actually fails, the result is 
a hard error...a jolt of static electricity can wipe out one or more 
memory cells...initial symptom is that of soft error...your computer 
shuts down...the difference is that the hard error recurs....Your 
machine may not pass its memory test...you may encounter repeated, 
random errors...hard errors require attention...the chip should be 
replaced.

FINDING A BAD BANK...IBM standard facilitate finding memory errors by 
putting diagnostic messages on the screen...sometimes, these 
diagnostic errors codes appear after a parity error...the memory 
failure messages are designed for service technicians rather than 
normal human beings...with modern SIMM based PCs...the math of The 
chip finding formula often takes longer than swapping a few 
modules...if you encounter a hard error in one of your systems Simms, 
just exchange one module from inside your PC for a known good 
one...and work your way through a memory bank.

WinnL. Rosch, author of the Hardware Bible, merits high marks for all 
his research and efforts translating difficult technical into 
nonprofessional's terms. The reader does not need an engineering 
degree nor a technical background to comprehend the subject matter. 
However, the reader does need to have the ability and patience to read 
through this large guide chapter, by chapter. No mistake about it, 
this is not a quick fix type reference guide.

If you are involved with computer operations: system maintenance or 
repair or just a PC user that wants to learn more about what is inside 
the case, how it works. Or your thinking about purchasing a new system 
and want to comprehend what the computer sales person is telling you, 
then The Hardware Bible is necessary read and a great addition to your 
book shelf.

The WINNL. ROSCH, HARDWARE BIBLE bestows the reader a wealth of 
computer research and technical information contained in one handy 
source. An added plus is that the text is written both for the 
professional and novice in unpretentious English. The price for all 
this valuable information is $34.95 in the USA and $43.95 in Canada 
and worth every penny.

At first glance in a book store you will be tempted to put the book 
back on the shelf as it has the look and feel of a high school or 
University text book. That was my first impression as I started to 
read the book for this review--the word boring came quickly to mind. 
However, I was soon impressed with the amount of technical information 
(in plain English) contained within the book. Everything you will ever 
want to know about your PC and more is in this book.

Brady Publishing, division of Prentice Hall Computer Publishing
15 Columbus Circle
New York, NY 1003

Ratings:
User Friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
End User: Novice or Professional PC user or New buyer

5=> Product: SmartSuite 97, software/productivity
Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org
Reviewed on: 486DX/133, 16 MB RAM, Windows 95, 2x CD-ROM
Requires: 486DX/50, 12 MB RAM and Windows 95 or 16 MB RAM
and Windows NT 4.0, 82-220 MB hard disk space
MSRP: $399 street price, $149 upgrade price

Lotus SmartSuite 97 includes 32-bit versions of five major 
applications for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. Word Pro 97 is a word 
processor, 1-2-3 97 is a spreadsheet, Approach 97 is a relational 
database, Freelance Graphics 97 is a graphics and presentation 
application, and Organizer 97 is an information manager. Also included 
for Windows 95 is ScreenCam 97, which is a multimedia tool that lets 
you capture movies of screen activity for demonstrations. Space does 
not permit an in-depth review of each application, so I will focus on 
the entire suite and how the applications work together.

Installation went smoothly, and I chose the default installation, 
which requires 133 MB of disk space. You can choose not to install 
certain options, or not install all of the applications to use less 
than the minimum required above. SmartSuite really wants to make sure 
that you can find its applications, as it installs a SmartCenter (see 
below), icons in the Windows 95 taskbar, and the usual program icons 
in the Windows 95 Start menu.

The best desktop interface to the applications is through the Smart- 
Center, a thin cabinet toolbar that sits at the top of your screen. 
Pull-down drawers in the cabinets give you access to SmartSuite's many 
features. All of the application can be started from icons in the 
Lotus Applications folder, or by clicking previous documents in 
individual application file folders. Separate folders exist for each 
SmartSuite application, which will also give access to subdirectories 
within the main application work directory. I found this filing-
cabinet interface to be very clean and intuitive to use. Other 
SmartCenter drawers are Internet, Addresses, Reminders, Reference, 
Business Productivity, Suite Help, and Calendar. The Internet drawer 
give you access to Yahoo news headlines, PC Quote stock quotes, 
Intellicast weather reports, bookmarks from you Web browser, and Web 
reference sites. Clicking on one of these selections will download 
that information from the Internet, assuming you are already 
connected. The reference drawer hold icons for a dictionary and a 
thesaurus that reside on your SmartSuite CD-ROM. The Business 
Productivity drawer has SmartMaster templates organized by business 
functions to get you started. You can also create your own additional 
drawers or folders for files you want to access through Smart- Center.

The applications themselves have a common look and feel, now that they 
have been converted to 32-bit versions. SmartMaster templates exist 
for all the applications except Organizer 97. These provide common 
formats for many useful document types, including Web pages. Many have 
"click- here" type buttons to prompt for the insertion of text. 
SmartMasters can also be applied to an existing document to change its 
format quickly. The applications also use the Lotus Infobox, a tabbed 
dialog box displaying properties of the selected objects. Through the 
Infobox, you change the font/color combinations for text and margins, 
and change the color depth, connector style, and sizes of drawings, 
among other properties.

In addition to the application help and tours supplied with the 
product, the help menu within the applications have options to link to 
the Lotus Internet Web sites. The support Web site includes knowledge 
databases and user discussion groups in addition to the usual product 
support and download libraries.

OLE 2.0 is supported in SmartSuite 97. One example of what this 
enables is the editing of Approach mail labels within 1-2-3. A BASIC 
object-oriented language, LotusScript, is also supported throughout 
the SmartSuite applications. With LotusScript, you can develop 
applications across the SmartSuite products and Lotus Notes. The CD-
ROM has pdf versions of the LotusScript reference manuals, and Adobe 
Acrobat Reader is included to read or print them.

SmartSuite 97 is geared towards collaborative computing. TeamReview 
allows a document, spreadsheet, presentation, or database form to be 
distributed to others for comment. After any changes are returned to 
the document's author, TeamConsolidate can be used in Word Pro 97 and 
1-2-3 97 to include or ignore any of the suggested changes. TeamMail 
allows parts of all of SmartSuite application files to be mailed via a 
VIM or MAPI-compliant mail system. SmartSuite is also integrated to 
Lotus Notes, although this option was not reviewed. Within the file/ 
open file/save dialog boxes, there are option to use Notes databases. 
TeamSecurity allows passwords to be assigned to files. Versioning in 
Word Pro 97 and 1-2-3 97 allows you to store different versions of a 
document, recording changes, dates, and authors. TeamShow let you 
deliver a Freelance Graphics presentation to remote locations.

Internet publishing capabilities are other major features of 
SmartSuite 97. Every application has an optional Internet toolbar. You 
can select text in a document, then access an Internet search engine 
to find matching information. Documents can be opened from or saved to 
Internet FTP or Web servers, and can include active URL addresses 
within them. All of this can be done from within your application. 
Word Pro 97's Web authoring tools enable you to easily create Web 
pages from within your word processor, then preview them locally using 
your browser. HTML 2.0, 3.0, and imbedded Java applets are all 
supported. SmartMaster templates are provided for common Web page 
formats, including those with tables, and allow you to insert your 
text at "click-here" tags. Freelance Graphics 97 allows you to convert 
presentations to Web pages, including an interactive table of contents 
and a navigation bar to advance slides.

Now I will briefly touch on some of the other new application 
features. In addition to the Word Pro 97 HTML publishing capabilities 
mentioned above, you can now flow text from page to page within a 
frame, and create booklets. Hyperlinks to other Word Pro documents can 
be created. 1-2-3 97 is finally a 32-bit application, and has an 
automatic way to total columns. A dynamic print preview allows you to 
update a worksheet from the print preview screen. An outlining feature 
allows you to view only those parts of the spreadsheet of current 
importance. Approach 97 comes with a database of US zip codes on the 
CD-ROM, and support for DB2, including Binary Large Objects (BLOBs). 
Organizer 97 is the new 32-bit version of the popular information 
manager. You can use drag- and-drop capabilities to reshape your 
schedule, including placing reminders on your desktop.

Freelance Graphics 97 has added new SmartMasters, bringing the total 
to 134. Freelance helps coach you through creating a presentation by 
suggesting types of information to include based on the type of 
presentation you are creating. I decided to test Freelance Graphics by 
designing a presentation for work under a deadline. I had never used 
it before (or any graphic presentation software), but found the 
interface easy to learn, and was very pleased with the result.

With it's focus on team collaboration and Internet publishing, Lotus 
SmartSuite 97 has to be a consideration for those selecting a business 
software suite. All the applications are well integrated to each 
other, with a consistent interface. I did find a few minor bugs in the 
programs, but nothing worth mentioning here.

Lotus Development Corporation
55 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
(800)-343-5414
WWW:  http://www.lotus.com
CompuServe: GO LOTUS

Installation/Ease of Use: Gold
User-Friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
User: Business or Home Office

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