School Zone Alphabet Express Preschool

School Zone Alphabet Express Preschool Review

School Zone Alphabet Express Preschool Feature

• PC: Microsoft Windows 95/98 or higher, 24 MB RAM, 640x480 16-bit Color Video, 16-Bit Sound Card 486 DX-66 MHz or faster processor,
• 40 MB free disk space, 4x CD-ROM drive
• MAC: Mac OS System 7.5.5 or higher, 24 MB RAM, 640x480, 16-bit Color Video, 16-Bit Sound Card, 40 MB free disk space, 2x CD-ROM drive
• School Zone Interact
• Mac and PC
• Education Software

The 26 letters of the alphabet equal 26 opportunities to explore, listen, and learn in Alphabet Express Preschool. Add to this a handful of added-on games, imaginative short films, and freeform activities, and this CD-ROM has both appeal and staying power.

As a trainload of critters chugs around the onscreen alphabet, kids click on a letter, and uppercase and lowercase versions fly, bounce, or pour onto the scene in a Sesame Street moment. The letters dissolve to a garden scene for G, an orchestra for O, and so forth. Click on the onion in the orchestra pit, and a kid's voice intones "Onion!" while the squirrel holding the thing begins to cry piteously. There are similar scenes for every letter of the alphabet--though designers cheated a bit and combined X, Y, and Z. Kids can also paint different alphabet-emphasizing pictures, play a sounding-out/letter-matching game, and look at instructions on how to write each letter. A separate section of activities includes find-the-hidden-letter games, dot-to-dots that teach alphabetizing, and mazes that must be conquered by matching objects to their beginning letter. Finally, and most delightfully, there's a movie theater where kids can watch a couple of priceless animated shorts: one is a James Brown-esque ditty belted out by a chicken, listing the (alphabetized) items that make Hearty Chicken Alphabet Soup so special. Anchors, basketballs, and carburetors are a few of the secret ingredients.

The animation in Alphabet Express isn't smooth, but the audio is lush: O's orchestra section is replete with the dissonant sound of strings tuning up before the symphony; the tired old ABC song gets a hip-hop makeover; a host of different (and non-annoying) kid and adult voices pronounce letters and guide visitors. Even if this weren't a strong CD-ROM, it'd be worth checking out, just to learn the remaining ingredients in Hearty Chicken Alphabet Soup. (Ages 3 to 6) --Anne Erickson Alphabet Express introduces skills that help children learn to read and spell. This award-winning program combines games songs and more for hours of fun practice.System Requirements:MAC REQUIREMENTS Mac® OS X 10.4 10.3 10.2.8 PowerPC™ G3 233MHz (or equivalent). 128MB of RAM. 640x480 32-bit color video. 50MB of available disk space. 8x CD-ROM drive. PC REQUIREMENTS Windows® Vista XP 2000 ME 98 - Pentium® II 266MHz (or equivalent) 64MB of RAM 640x480 32-bit color video. 16-bit sound card. 50MB of available disk space 8x CD-ROM drive.Format: WIN 9598XP/MAC 8.6-9.X (CLASSIC)X10.1 OR LATER Genre: EDUCATION UPC: 076645087010 Manufacturer No: 08701

Excelerator Pre K - 1st Grade

Excelerator Pre K - 1st Grade Review

Excelerator Pre K - 1st Grade Feature

• The perfect mix of education and entertainment!
• More than 20 challenging, multi-level games
• Hours of exciting learning opportunities
• Bonus! Pink Panther: Animal Rescue safari adventure

Have fun learning, playing and exploring! Excelerator Pre-K to 1st Grade was specifically designed to keep kids engaged in learning. More than 20 games with multiple levels feature colorful, exciting animations and teach the essential concepts kids need to grasp in early math, vocabulary and spelling, and to improve memorization, problem solving, creativity and more.

JUMP START 3RD GRADE

JUMP START 3RD GRADE Review

JUMP START 3RD GRADE Feature

• For Ages 7 - 9.
• Kids Learn:Visual Arts; History; Logic; Critical Thinking.
• Numbers & Values; Measurement; Earth Science; Life Science; Music
• Grammar; Spelling & Vocabulary; Addition & Subtraction; Multiplication & Division
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Platform:  WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA Publisher:  KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE Packaging:  JEWEL CASE Rating:  AGES: 7-9 Use your 3rd Grade problem-solving skills to outsmart the mischievous Polly! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning as you solve puzzles unlock secret codes and thwart Polly's time-meddling plan. Master skills in Math Science Reading History and more!Kids Learn: GrammarSpelling & VocabularyAddition & SubtractionMultiplication & DivisionNumbers & ValuesMeasurementEarth ScienceLife ScienceMusicVisual ArtsHistoryLogicCritical Thinking Continuous Challenge:Auto-leveling helps children learn at the pace that suits them.Endless Fun:Creative games challenging activities and exciting adventures keep children involved for hours of learning fun.Varied Learning Styles:Seven different learning styles help kids achieve better understanding.System Requirements for Windows Windows Vista XP 2000Pentium II 266 MHz or faster processor (300 MHz for XP Vista)64 MB RAM (128 MB for XP Vista)10 MB free hard disk space640x480 resolution 16-bit colorWindows-compatible sound card & speakers12X CD-ROM drive

Peachtree Complete Accounting 2010

Peachtree Complete Accounting 2010 Review

Peachtree Complete Accounting 2010 Feature

• Peachtree by Sage Complete Accounting 2010 provides robust core accounting for small businesses.
• Plus features like job costing, time and billing, and in-depth inventory capabilities
• More than 125 customizable business reports and financial statements, user-friendly tools, multiple Help options, and advanced capabilities available
• Save time with simplified navigation, integration with Microsoft Excel, multi-tasking screens, and comparative budgeting
• Designed for owners and managers of service- or product-oriented small businesses who need robust accounting functionality plus in-depth analysis

Peachtree by Sage Complete Accounting 2010 combines robust core accounting with advanced features like job costing, time and billing, in-depth inventory capabilities, and analysis tools. Its multi-user option* helps improve productivity while providing control over who accesses data. Plus, a clear audit trail helps track errors and deter fraud. (*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

Easily and quickly view all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction. Click to enlarge.

Use Business Analytics to help improve your business' financial health and make critical decisions. Click to enlarge.

View the details you need all in one place with the Customer Management Center. Click to enlarge.

Open and work in multiple companies within Peachtree at the same time. Click to enlarge.

Store a virtually unlimited number of contacts for every customer in Peachtree. Click to enlarge.

Product Features

All of the features found in Peachtree Pro Accounting, plus:

• Business Status Center
• Multi-User Option* with Screen-Level Security
• Audit Trails
• New--Open Multiple Companies*
• New--Customer Management Center
• Improved--Employee Management
• 125+ Customizable Reports

(*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

New and Improved Features for 2010

Transaction History

• Easily and quickly view all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction throughout the entire chain of events at any point in the sales or purchase process.
• View forward from a purchase order to a payment or backwards from a receipt to a quote.
• Save time getting to the information you need to take action!

Business Analytics*

• See how your company is performing compared to other companies in your industry or geographic region with the new customizable company dashboard!
• Get instant access to view up-to date key financial trends in order to compare items such as Total Revenue, Gross Margin %, Days Sales Outstanding, and much more.
• Use this tool to help improve your business' financial health and make critical decisions.

* Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.

Customer Management Center

• Save time by viewing the details you need all in one place to better manage and service your customers without missing a beat.
• Create a customizable dashboard view of your customers' information such as their converted and unconverted quotes, invoices, receipts, time tickets, aged balances, items and services sold, and much more. Drill down to the detail and quickly take action too.
• Save time by looking up customers quickly based on their ID, phone number or any of their contact information, and filter further based on date ranges. Utilize the Recent Selections link to quickly pull up customers you have already viewed.
• Easily export customer information to Microsoft Excel or PDF, or launch an e-mail from the Customer Management Center.

Open Multiple Companies*

• Get your work done faster by being able to open and work in multiple companies within Peachtree at the same time!
• Open all of your companies at the same time and toggle in just one click to the company you need without closing your current company.
• If you would rather work in only one company at a time, now you can save time by not having to re-enter your login information when switching between companies. Enter your user id & password once and Peachtree will remember it until you close Peachtree.

* When opening more than one company, performance is not impacted; however, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.

Multiple Contacts*

• Store a virtually unlimited number of contacts for every customer in Peachtree!
• The new "Contacts" tab in the Customers screen allows you to keep track of many specific details you need to maintain your relationships for each of your customers.
• Track more details like contacts' titles, phone numbers, e-mail address, and specify the ship-to addresses.
• A new Notes field allows you to track unique information about each contact, like shipping instructions.

*There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer. Only 2 contacts per customer can be synced with Outlook.

Employee Management

• Save time and reduce errors by keeping track of employees' information all in one place!
• Store additional employee data within Peachtree such as emergency contact, performance reviews, employment details like hiring date and I-9 verification, additional phone numbers and much more.
• Easily stay on top of your employees' records by receiving alerts and reminders for key tasks coming up such as review dates.

Automatic Backup

• No more hassles or worries about safeguarding data in Peachtree. Automate your backup process for any time that is convenient for you and your company!
• With Peachtree Automatic Backup, set up your schedule once, and the rest is taken care of for you. Peachtree doesn't even have to be running to make the scheduled backup.
• Notify users to log out, or automatically log them off in order to run your backup (Peachtree Quantum only).

Password Security

• Secure your company's data from unauthorized access with increased password security options.
• Strengthen your password security with new customizable options such as automatic password expiration, multiple incorrect password attempts lockout, no repeat passwords, and masking passwords from other users in Peachtree.
• Maintenance is easier giving users the ability to change their own passwords without relying on the admin, and requiring strong password compliance.

In-Product Advisor

• Learn the best way to work within Peachtree by leveraging our in-product user tips. These tips will help you discover functions or features that will assist you in learning other areas of the product quicker.
• The Advisor will assist you in pointing out better ways to accomplish common tasks in the program, in areas such as Sales/Invoicing, Inventory, Vendors, Receipts and General Journal Entries.
• Set your experience with Peachtree to maximize the effectiveness of assistance you might require, and set the length of time that each message will be displayed.

Inventory Enhancements

• See what your customers are buying with the new Item Sales History by Customer onscreen view and report.
• Now you don't need to know the official name of an item, or the number, to find it quickly. Search for items by words you've typed into other description or notes fields.
• Streamline your data entry when setting up new items with the ability to set the Item Class default based on your most common inventory type such as Stock, Non-Stock, Service, etc.

Peachtree by Sage 2010 Product Family Feature Comparison Chart

Feature	Peachtree First Accounting	Peachtree Pro Accounting	Peachtree Complete Accounting	Peachtree Premium Accounting	Peachtree Quantum
Easy Start-up and Use	X	X	X	X	X
Accounts Payable: Check Writing, Bill Payment, Purchases	X	X	X	X	X
Accounts Receivable: Invoicing, Receive Payments	X	X	X	X	X
Customizable Reports	35+	100+	125+	140+	140+
Conversion from QuickBooks1		X	X	X	X
E-mail Alerts, Forms, Reports and Financial Statements2		X	X	X	X
Internal Accounting Review3		X	X	X	X
Inventory: Assemblies, Average/LIFO/FIFO Costing Methods, Back Orders		Basic	Advanced	Advanced	Advanced
IMPROVED! Password Security		Module Level	Screen Level	Screen Level	Screen Level
Attach documents to transactions and records		X	X	X	X
NEW! Business Analytics4		X	X	X	X
Comparative Budget Spreadsheet Creator--track 4 years		X	X	X	X
Integration with Microsoft Excel and Word5		X	X	X	X
Payroll Solutions6		X	X	X	X
NEW! Customer Management Center			X	X	X
NEW! Track Multiple Contacts7			X	X	X
NEW! View Transaction History			X	X	X
Electronic Bill Payment through Peachtree Bill Pay8			X	X	X
Integration with UPS9			X	X	X
NEW! Open Multiple Companies10			X	X	X
Sync your Outlook Contacts11			X	X	X
Auto Creation of Purchase Orders			X	X	X
Audit Trail			X	X	X
Fixed Assets12			X	X	X
Job Costing--Phase and Cost Level			X	X	X
Advanced Budgeting				Included	Included
Archive Company Data				X	X
Company Consolidation Wizard				X	X
Crystal Reports 200813				X	X
Departmentalized Financial Statements				X	X
Serialized Inventory				X	X
Developed to handle large data requirements14					X
Exclusive SmartPosting Technology					X
NEW! My Dashboard					X
NEW! Order Process Workflow					X
Product updates and software upgrades for 1 year15					X
Role based security					X
Support for 10, 15, 20 or 30 named users16					X
Unlimited17 access to support for 1 year					X
Includes all industry solution functionality (Manufacturing, Construction, Distribution and Nonprofits					X

Disclaimers:
1. Versions 2006-2009. Excludes conversion of QuickBooks individual payroll transactions. For additional information on conversion limitations, please visit www.peachtree.com/qb
2. Requires Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003 or 2007; Outlook Express 5 or 6; other MAPI compliant e-mail programs.
3. Sage is not liable or responsible for any fines or penalties that may result from errors in your company accounting records. The Internal Accounting Review is not intended to uncover all questionable transactions.
4. Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.
5. Requires Microsoft Excel, Word or Outlook 2002, 2003, or 2007.
6. Compliant tax forms and tax tables require a subscription to Peachtree Simple Payroll. For details see www.peachtreepayroll.com or call 877-231-3761.
7. There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer.
8. Subject to approval and to Sage terms of service. Additional fees, internet access and checking account required.
9. UPS functionality is subject to UPS terms and conditions. Internet access required.
10. When opening more than one company, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.
11. Outlook Sync supported in Exchange 2000 SP2, 2003 and 2007.
12. Regulatory compliance requires paid subscription. Additional fees apply for more than 200 assets.
13. Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Server 2000 not supported.
14. Peachtree does not impose a hard limit on database capacity, however, individual performance will vary depending on actual number of transactions, database size, and number of concurrent users. Data management efficiencies are also realized in the Peachtree 2010 products.
15. The Peachtree Business Care Plan (which includes product upgrades, updates, and customer support) will be renewed automatically each year on the anniversary date of your purchase unless you terminate your agreement prior to that date. Renewal is not required to continued access to product updates for supported versions.
16. Multi User licenses available in of packs of 10, 15, 20 or 30. A maximum of 30 licensed, named users is allowed. Only the first 30 named users selected in the user maintenance screen are considered licensed, named users.
17. Support Specialists are available from 8:30 am until 8:30 pm ET Monday-Friday, and reserve the right to limit calls to 1 hour or 1 incident.

Peachtree by Sage Complete Accounting 2010 provides robust core accounting for small businesses, plus features like job costing, time and billing, and in-depth inventory capabilities. Its multi-user option* helps improve productivity while providing screen-level security and a clear audit trail. More than 125 customizable business reports and financial statements are available. Save time with simplified navigation, integration with Microsoft® Excel® *, multi-tasking screens, and comparative budgeting. Audit Trail helps you track errors and deter fraud. Achieve better business results through accurate accounting and business controls with Peachtree by Sage Complete Accounting 2010.

Speedstudy: Pre-Calculus [Download]

Speedstudy: Pre-Calculus [Download] Review

Speedstudy: Pre-Calculus [Download] Feature

• Improve grades and test scores
• Multimedia learning system makes even the toughest calculus concepts come alive
• Great for new learners or students studying for college entrance exams
• Features report cards to help you track your progress
• Review quizzes and tests provided for each section

Speedstudy Pre-Calculus provides a solid educational foundation that will raise grades and test scores and improve math skills in the classroom and beyond. Using step-by-step animations, real-time quizzes and interactive examples, Speedstudy Pre-Calculus gives students the tools they will need to master key calculus concepts. The curriculum-based lessons are designed by educators to help students understand and practice critical thinking and problem-solving skills in an engaging, self-paced learning environment.

ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid

ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid Review

ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid Feature

• # [Ages 8 - 10] Puzzle of the Pyramid Adventure
• Lesson in Math, Language Arts, Sciences, U.S. Geography, Problem Solving
• 30 Interactive Activities; 75+ Skills Covered; 4 Skill Levels
• Detailed Help; Progress Reports. ADAPT Learning System
• [Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP ~ Macintosh OS 7/8/9]

Younger children can find learning through multimedia software difficult, but ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures wraps its educational material up in an adventure game, the idea being that you hardly notice the educational parts. To that end, our clue-finding heroes get into all sorts of scrapes during their adventures. In this CD-ROM they--and Socrates the dog--find themselves on an archaeological dig in Egypt. While there, they discover an evil archaeologist's plot to unleash chaos on the world. Needless to say, the ClueFinders set out to foil his plans.

ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures incorporates challenges that test skills in logical thinking, math, science, geography, and language. There is a document for parents explaining how these skills are addressed in each of the activities, and the effects achieved by switching between the four difficulty levels in each of them.

A bonus CD, the ClueFinders Adventure Kit, comes with ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures, offering various fun activities, such as an adventure logbook with which to record your own escapades. --Sandra Vogel In this adventure, a wicked archaeologist unleashes chaos. Kids will strengthen reading and math skills while solving puzzles and collecting clues.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Student and Teacher Edition

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Student and Teacher Edition Review

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Student and Teacher Edition Feature

• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography.
• Software also helps you in, if you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.
• Get the absolute best from every image you shoot with world-class editing power and intuitive controls that set your creativity free.
• Breeze through your digital photography tasks quickly and efficiently, so you can spend more time shooting.
• Your core photography essentials are included in one fast, intuitive application.
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography,
• Also showcasing dynamic slide show videos with music, web galleries, and on popular photo-sharing sites.
• Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction.
• Whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.
• Your core photography essentials are included in one fast, intuitive application

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide show videos with music, and on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

Bring out the best in your photography, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Click to enlarge.

Save time with fast image importing. Click to enlarge.

Share your images in style using elegant slide shows with music. Click to enlarge.

Use Lightroom seamlessly with Flickr. Click to enlarge.

Simplify Photography From Shoot to Finish

Nondestructive editing environment
Set your creativity free in a nondestructive editing environment that encourages experimentation. Your original images are always safely unaltered, and it's easy to reverse your steps or save multiple versions of any photo.

Superior image processing
Get the absolute best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls that work with raw files from more than 290 camera models as well as JPEG, TIFF, and other file formats. Make precise overall adjustments or correct targeted areas for just the look you want. Dodge and burn, convert to black-and-white, add grain, reduce noise, adjust sharpness, create vignettes, and more.

Intuitive environment
Be more productive and efficient, and enjoy the freedom and creativity that comes from working with excellent tools designed specifically for photographers. The intuitive environment and controls of Lightroom are easy to master and let you quickly and smoothly accomplish your essential photography tasks.

Accelerated performance
Get your digital photography tasks done fast and have more time to shoot and promote your work. Already quick performance has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image.

Image management
Take advantage of a powerful suite of image management features to organize your photographs, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using a wide range of metadata tags and information.

Superior noise reduction
Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won't need more than what's built in to Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.

One-click adjustments for multiple images
Save time when processing photographs that were shot under consistent conditions by applying the same Develop settings to all the images in a group at once using presets or the sync feature.

Flickr integration
Use Lightroom seamlessly with Flickr, a Yahoo! service. When friends or clients post comments and ratings on your Flickr galleries, you can immediately see their feedback in the Lightroom 3 Library alongside your images.

Fast performance across platforms
Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process your images faster by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support. Use the advanced memory handling capabilities of the latest Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

Develop presets
Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to images. When you've perfected a look that you particularly like for an image—a high-contrast black-and-white effect or a super saturated color look, for example—you simply save the settings as a preset and apply it to your other photographs at any time. Many presets are included with Lightroom, and thousands more are available from the thriving worldwide community of Lightroom photographers and experts.

Easy-to-share slide show videos with music
Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Slide shows are a breeze to create, and you can share them easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition.

Tethered shooting
Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Use it to make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting, or the shooting setup. Or get instant feedback from clients or subjects.

Tight Photoshop integration
Select one or multiple photos and then automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop for detailed, pixel-level editing or to merge multiple photos into a panorama, a high dynamic range photo, or a multilayered file. After making your edits in Photoshop, see the results immediately back in Lightroom. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software is essential for today’s digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images – whether it’s one shot or an entire shoot. Take advantage of a powerful suite of image management features to quickly batch process, convert, and organize your photos on import, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using a wide range of metadata tags and information. Easily make selections with multiple viewing and comparison options. Adjust and enhance color, exposure, and tonal curves non-destructively on more than 190 camera raw file formats, as well as JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide shows, web galleries, and on popular photo-sharing sites. Bring out the best in your photography, whether you’re perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Adobe Student and Teacher Editions are for students, teachers, school staff, and other educators who meet Adobe eligibility guidelines. After you receive your purchase, you will send your eligibility to the third-party verification organization, Identit-e, in order to activate the software. Individuals will be authorized for only one license of each Adobe Student and Teacher Edition title.

Jumpstart Advanced 5th & 6th Grade (PC & Mac)

Jumpstart Advanced 5th & 6th Grade (PC & Mac) Review

Jumpstart Advanced 5th & 6th Grade (PC & Mac) Feature

• Using multiple learning styles, children will discover a world of learning that prepares them for the 5th and 6th grades
• Auto-leveling help children learn at the pace that suits them
• Topics covered include - language arts, ratios, decimals, percentages, biology, critical thinking, ancient history, U.S. history, world geography and reference skills

JumpStart Advanced 5th/6th Grade is a fun 3-CD set that prepares your child for the 5th and 6th grade!

Cluefinders 6th Grade Adventures [OLD VERSION]

Cluefinders 6th Grade Adventures [OLD VERSION] Review

Cluefinders 6th Grade Adventures [OLD VERSION] Feature

• Compatible with Macintosh & Windows

For Ages 10-12+ "Solve a mystery in an underground world! Join the search for the missing ClueFinders in the empire of the Plant People. At every turn, the vines of the mutant plant warriors reach out ot capture you. Uncover clues to the myster of the mutant plant warriors; Search in the underground empire to find the missing ClueFinders; Free Joni from the Plant Queen before she is transformed into a plant forever!"

Special Features: Math; Language Arts; Science; Social Science; Problem Solving; 15 Interactive Activities; 140+ Skills Covered; 4 Skill Levels; Detailed Help; Progress Reports: Compatible with Macintosh & Windows

Special Bonus Includes Kid Pix Deluxe 3 Art Software

JumpStart 5th Grade

JumpStart 5th Grade Review

JumpStart 5th Grade Feature

• For Ages 9 - 12
• Kids Learn: Reading Comprehension, Addition, Subtraction
• Multiplication, & Division, Geometry, Fractions, Decimals
• Art, History, Geography, Critical Thinking, Reference Skills
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Platform:  WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA Publisher:  KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE Packaging:  JEWEL CASE Rating:  AGES: 9-12 Use your 5th Grade problem-solving skills to stop the villainous Dr. X from destroying the city! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning while you search out the clues unlock secret codes and expose the villain's menacing plan. Master over 25 skills in Math Reading History Science and more!Kids Learn: Reading ComprehensionAddition Subtraction Multiplication & DivisionGeometry Fractions & DecimalsEnvironmental ScienceArt History & AppreciationU.S. History & GeographyCritical Thinking & Reference SkillsContinuous Challenge:Auto-leveling helps children learn at the pace that suits them.Endless Fun:Creative games challenging activities and exciting adventures keep children involved for hours of learning fun.System Requirements for Windows Windows Vista XP 2000Pentium II 266 MHz or faster processor (300 MHz for XP Vista)64 MB RAM (128 MB for XP Vista)10 MB free hard disk space640x480 resolution 16-bit colorWindows-compatible sound card & speakers12X CD-ROM drive

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition [Old Version]

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition [Old Version] Review

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition [Old Version] Feature

• Streamlined user interface runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs
• Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and other features that result in compatibility and file fidelity
• Professional design is within your power with hundreds of new customizable templates and suite-wide themes, SmartArt graphics,
• And the new Publishing Layout View in Word 2008
• My Day keeps you connected to all of the day's action. Command your calendar, tackle your tasks, and simplify your day
• Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage

Homework and Home Work will be easier than ever with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition. Get better results faster and create high-quality documents you can be proud of, with less frustration and more enjoyment.

Five Great Reasons to Get Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition: Universal applications: Office 2008 runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. Intuitive interface: Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software and creating documents with visual galleries that present the right tools when you need them. Your Mac, more compatible: Office 2008 for Mac and Windows-based 2007 Office products share the Open XML file formats and features like the Office Art graphics engine, so you'll be confident when sharing documents with colleagues, friends, and family across platforms. Beautiful documents: Good design is a click away with hundreds of new templates, Smart Art graphics, Publishing Layout View, and professional quality clip art and photos. Priced for home users: Don't need Microsoft Exchange Server Support or workflow management? Home and student users pay for just the features they need. Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition comes with three licenses of non-Exchange-enabled Office 2008 licensed for noncommercial computers. Which Version of Office 2008 is right for you? View this comparison chart.

Simplify Your Work
Your presentation will make an impact. Your documents will be professional. Your analysis will be insightful. And Office 2008 will be there.
The latest version of the industry standard for productivity software on the Macintosh platform, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is more powerful and easier to use. Office 2008 combines Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac, Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac and lets you easily create high-impact documents and seamlessly share your ideas with others, whether they are on the Mac or Windows platform.

What's New in Office for Mac?

• Universal versions of the most popular productivity applications on the Macintosh platform (Universal applications run natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.)
• Microsoft Office for Mac natively supports the Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products.
• A redesigned user interface and powerful new tools for simplifying work, creating great looking documents, and exchanging ideas and information with others.

Highlights of Office 2008 for Mac

• Office 2008 is a Universal Binary, was built by Mac users for Mac users, and includes many features which take advantage of underlying technologies of the Macintosh platform.
• Office 2008 uses Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products. XML file formats help reduce the risk of lost information due to damaged or corrupted files and also result in smaller file sizes--up to 75 percent smaller than comparable binary documents. Office 2008 for Mac is backward-compatible with earlier file formats and users can continue to use the older .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary formats.
• Elements Gallery is the foundation of the new user interface, and gives easy access to the most commonly used tools and templates. With the new UI, you'll harness the capabilities of Office for Mac more easily than ever before.
• Office 2008 includes OfficeArt, the powerful graphics engine also used in the Windows-based Office 2007 products. You get great cross-platform file fidelity and easy access to stunning visual and graphic effects.
• Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt graphics, which makes transforming text and bulleted lists into professional diagrams and graphics one-click easy.
• A new Themes capability simplifies the process of applying a consistent look and feel across documents. Easily apply a complete set of colors, fonts, and effects to your Office 2008 documents, and change them as easily as changing your mind.
• Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office enables you to automate Office 2008 with more than 70 pre-defined actions built to simplify your work and extend your productivity. (Available in Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition.)

Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time.

Enjoy powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008.

Entourage 2008
Your e-mails will spark ideas, you'll schedule meetings where creativity abounds. Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time.

• My Day keeps you connected to the action. Schedules, tasks, and priorities in one easy, standalone interface. Time will have no choice but to be well-managed.
• Use color-coded categories, status indicators, and flexible To-Do list management humble even the most hectic schedules.
• Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 Special Media Edition enable users to access their Microsoft Exchange server accounts with Entourage.
• Improved Junk E-Mail filtering capabilities and phishing protection tools help shield your inbox from the scourge of junk. Your inbox will breathe a sigh of relief.
• Projects submit to your superior management skills when you unleash the power of Project Center, With project details like e-mail messages, documents, schedules, and contacts in one convenient place, Project Center helps keep your information--and your stress--under control.

Word 2008
Powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008 will help you to make your ideas look as good as they are.

• When you turn blah into brilliant, Publishing Layout View will elevate the way you think about Word 2008. This new specialized and customizable workspace lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design.
• Great looking document construction won't require a hard hat. New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies make creating professional-looking output a snap.
• Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt, which makes transforming text into high-quality graphics and diagrams as easy as one click.
• Dynamic Guides will help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point.
• Mass mailings will have a personal touch and Word 2008 Mail Merge Manager will guide you step by easy step.

Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout in PowerPoint 2008.

Analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results with Excel 2008.

PowerPoint 2008
Your presentation is a story. PowerPoint 2008 will illustrate it. Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout.

• Great ideas will get their graphic due with SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2008. Start with a blank slide or a bulleted list, and, with a click of a button, you'll have a stunning chart, table, map, or diagram.
• Designer Themes help you give your presentation a creative look, simply and quickly.
• The new Object Palette allows quick access to all your shapes, art, symbols, and pictures--including iPhoto files--in one easy-to-access space.
• Dynamic Guides will help you place and resize your graphic element to create professional-looking presentations in a snap.
• You'll lay out custom designs to showcase your unique content with custom layout capabilities in PowerPoint 2008.
• PowerPoint 2008 integration with Apple Remote Control lets you concentrate on your words, not your keyboard. Now control your presentation and engage your audience unleashed from the podium.

  Excel 2008
  It's a numbers game. With Excel 2008, analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results.

  • Ledger Sheets in Excel 2008 make tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios easy with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations.
  • Charting improvements artfully convey the message your data is telling. You'll see your numbers in a whole new way.
  • The new prebuilt functions tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex conditional formulas easier.
  • Quick access to formulas makes functions more functional with Formula Builder in Excel 2008.
  • Your data will know virtually no limits. Excel 2008 now supports over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows.
  • Whether you're an Excel expert or a complete novice, Excel 2008 Formula AutoComplete simplifies your calculations by providing a dynamic pop-up menu so you can select and complete your formula.

  Messenger for Mac
  Convenience is the name of the game for Mac users who want to communicate instantly with family, friends and colleagues from one convenient place. Messenger for Mac is now a Universal application, and gives you more ways to share what's on your mind or on your plate.

  Use Messenger for Mac to instantly check the status of project team members, streamline workflow by sending documents directly from Word, or offer questions or comments on document changes instantly.

  • Yahoo! Interoperability will allow personal users to connect and message with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users.
  • Your intentions will never again be in doubt when you create your own custom emoticons in Messenger for Mac.
  • Spelling Checker is now included in Messenger for Mac.
  • Let the world know your tastes when you display your iTunes selection with the new "What I'm listening to now" feature.
  Provides the basics of Office 2008 for Mac for home users and students. Whether your projects are around the house or in the classroom, the reinvented Office 2008 for Mac experience makes it easier than ever to create professional-looking work. Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage.

  
  

Math Missions Grades 3rd-5th with Card Game [Old Version]

Math Missions Grades 3rd-5th with Card Game [Old Version] Review

Math Missions Grades 3rd-5th with Card Game [Old Version] Feature

• Build real-world math skills while earning money to run your own arcade!
• Thousands of math challenges and word problems
• 3 levels of play automatically adjust according to your child's progress
• Arcade with seven games to play
• Supports National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards for grades 3-5

Save Spectacle City by disrupting Randall Underling's plan to drive all the stores out of business and take over the city. The citizens are counting on you to solve real world math challenges in the uniquely entertaining stores and make them successful again. For your help, you'll earn money to open your own arcade where you'll choose a name, pick arcade games to play, set prices and more! Free Inside! Snap It Up! A fun, fast-paced card game that builds identification, counting, addition, and subtraction. Includes 85 cards!

Anime Studio Debut 7 [OLD VERSION]

Anime Studio Debut 7 [OLD VERSION] Review

Anime Studio Debut 7 [OLD VERSION] Feature

• Anime Studio Debut 7 offers complete animation for digital artists--perfect for first-time animators, hobbyists, and digital enthusiasts
• Create your own art using intuitive vector-based draw, paint, and fill tools;
• Or easily import artwork from popular graphics programs and use pre-built content to get started fast
• Record your own sound clips inside Anime Studio with integrated Audio Recording and make your characters talk with built-in Lip Syncing
• Export to the most popular web and video formats, or upload and share on YouTube or Facebook directly from within Anime Studio
• Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation

The fun, quick, and affordable way to create animations, Anime Studio is the ideal solution for first-time animators, hobbyists, and digital artists. The new Beginner's Mode helps you start animating immediately.

The Beginner's Mode helps you start animating right away. Easily toggle between the Beginner's Mode and the regular Tool Palette.

Record your own sound clips with integrated Audio Recording and make your characters talk with built-in Lip Syncing.

Easily Create Animations in Minutes

Create Your Own Art or Import Content to Get Started Fast
Make your own characters and objects with intuitive vector-based draw, paint, and fill tools. You can also easily import artwork from popular graphics programs and use pre-built content.

Use the Bone Tools to Quickly Animate Your Characters
Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation. Anime Studio's unique bone rigging toolset allows you to create a skeleton that can be easily manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects in your animation.

Easily Organize Projects with the Timeline, Keyframes, and Layers
Anime Studio moves your character naturally along the timeline with keyframes, creating smooth animations. Use multiple layers to edit your animation, and add sound, special effects, and more. Quickly make your characters talk with built-in Lip Syncing.

Share Everywhere
Export to the most popular Web and video formats, or upload and share on YouTube or Facebook directly from within Anime Studio.

Anime Studio Debut Gets You Started Right Away!

Free Characters
Anime Studio includes Jace, Thorn, Liz, Anime Boy, and many other exclusive, royalty-free, vector-based characters you can use for your own animations.

Free Tutorials
Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio's powerful features and get you animating right away.

Quickly animate your characters with Anime Studio's unique bone rigging system.

Organize and access your content with the new Library. Anime Studio is packed with ready-to-use content.

Bring Photos to Life
Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, attach bones, and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.

Import Your Art
Import your own illustrations or create unique characters for your cartoons. Animate anything within the reach of your imagination.

Features

• New! Beginner's Mode
  Start animating right away. The Beginner's Mode displays the key tools used in Anime Studio, and includes feature rollover descriptions and video tutorials to quickly get you familiar with the program. You can easily toggle between the Beginner's Mode and the regular Tool Palette.
• New! Integrated Audio Recording
  Record your own sound clips right within Anime Studio, and adjust the pitch from high to low to fit your animated characters. Recordings get saved and then automatically added to your timeline for quick lip-synching.
• New! Content Library
  Keeping all of your Anime Studio content organized has never been easier. Quickly browse through existing content or save your own content to the library. Add content to your scenes with a simple drag and drop or search for items by keyword. You can even browse for additional Anime Studio content available on Content Paradise right inside the library. 


  A variety of customizable brush styles make creating original artwork a snap.

  Import and animate your own video and artwork.

• New! Toon Image & Video Filter
  Apply a cartoon-style effect to any image or video with a couple of mouse clicks. Fine-tune and customize the toon filter settings by adjusting the saturation, lightness, edge level, and more.
• New! Brush Styles
  Choose from a variety of customizable brush styles and pattern brushes when creating your own artwork in Anime Studio. Adjust the angle and spacing of the brush style, and see a real-time preview of your customized brush before starting your drawing.
• New! Image Masking
  You no longer need other graphics applications to cut yourself out of a photograph to create cut-out animations. Easily select and remove unwanted background colors from your images using the Image Masking tool.
• New! Follow Path Tool
  You can select any character or object to follow and bend along a pre-drawn path, making animating along curves easy. In addition to bending along the path, you can also choose to have the object automatically orient itself to follow the path it's been assigned to.
• New! More Ready-To-Use Content
  Anime Studio Debut provides an extensive content library with hundreds of pieces of ready-to-use content including fully rigged, vector-based characters like Jace, Thorn, Anime Boy, and Liz, as well as props, scenes, action words, stock video and images, sound effects, and more so you can start creating your own animations right away.
• New! Gather Media
  You no longer have to worry about broken images or missing files in your Anime Studio project file when moving any of the included assets (audio, video, images) to a different machine or location on your hard drive. The Gather Media function collects all files (audio, video, images) that are part of your animation project, and then creates folders for the collected media.

  Easily apply a cartoon-style effect to any image or video.

• New! StuffIt Connect
  Easily share your Anime Studio projects with friends. The integrated StuffIt Connect feature allows you to create an archive of your project within Anime Studio and then seamlessly upload it to the Web. You can then create email invites for friends that you want to share your content with. This serves as a great alternative to an ftp client, since your friends can access the download link from any browser. A free one-year subscription to the StuffIt Connect service is included with your Anime Studio purchase, offering 2 GB of storage and 4 GB of bandwidth per month.
  • Built-in tutorials and sample files get you up and running quickly
  • Easily make your characters talk with built-in Lip Syncing
  • Combine and mix animation with audio and video using the Sequencer
  • Quickly animate your characters using the Bone Tools
  • Motion Tracking lets you attach animated objects to target points in your video and have them automatically track throughout the clop
  • Import Quicktime or AVI video
  • Pen tablet support lets you draw naturally with a pen tablet and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper
  • Import audio files such as WAV, AIFF, or MP3
  • Special effects like motion blur and shadows
  • Export animations in SWF, AVI, or MOV format
  • Upload creations to YouTube and Facebook directly from within Anime Studio
  • Render in popular formats and sizes

Animation & Cartoons