Mouse! movie! sound! action!

Article Abstract:

Apple's entry into the new multimedia technology market may not lead the pack for long. Apple's QuickTime software is an enhancement to the Apple Macintosh microcomputer's System 7.0 operating system, enabling the user to work interactively with sound, video, animation, music and other functions. QuickTime, scheduled for inclusion in color Macintoshes in early 1992, is aimed at ordinary users. It includes several toolboxes for editing movies, compressing images and performing other functions. It supports the addition of hardware such as specialized boards; Apple hopes it will attract additional application development for the Macintosh environment. Meanwhile, other companies such as Microsoft Corp and Sony Corp are introducing multimedia products at the Comdex-Fall trade show in Las Vegas, NV. Microsoft plans enhancements for its Windows graphical user interface that provide similar functions to those in QuickTime. Sony is working on an interface between computers and video equipment. Tandy Corp is one of several companies making specialized microcomputers for multimedia use.

Usage, Computer software industry, Software industry, AAPL, Operating system enhancements, Product introduction, Multimedia technology, Multimedia systems, Computer graphics, QuickTime (Desktop video software), Apple Inc., Interactive Video, New Technique, User Behavior, Operating System Enhancement

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Double-hard-disk capacity, through software; compression provides more storage, although it sometimes slows things down

Article Abstract:

Stac Electronics's Stacker and Salient Software Inc's Autodoubler data compression software packages are evaluated. The most popular software of its kind for IBM-compatible microcomputers, Stacker costs $149 for software only and $249 for software and a processor that makes the software run faster. Stacker is 'memory resident' and can be posited in 21 to 35Kbytes of RAM. The software stores data in a false partition that it creates on the hard disk. The partition then automatically compresses the data. Users may have problems retrieving data in case of crashes because the compression is too dense for most utility programs to penetrate. The $79.95 Autodoubler package, which includes a handy data retrieval program, is Apple Macintosh-compatible and compresses data using a 'file-by-file' and 'program-by-program' method. With Autodoubler, users can set certain files off-limits to compression. The software is particularly recommended for use with the Apple's Apple Macintosh PowerBook notebook computer.

Evaluation, Software, Disk and file management software, Data compression, File management, Disk/tape file utilities, File maintenance utilities, Software Packages, Disk/File Management Software, Stac Electronics, Stacker (Disk/file compression software), Salient Software Inc., AutoDoubler (Disk/file compression software)

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