Reference & Educational Software

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Although I have yet to upgrade to CS2, the editor's review appears to confirm a glaring weakness in Photoshop's interface I've experienced in CS1. Many of Photoshop's features can only be accessed via space hogging palettes. One must keep many palett
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I purchased this program and the install would not work on my computer. I rang the support and they were quick to respond but when the problem could be solved with a couple of tries they were quick to blame my hardware. I was told that they don???t s
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My daughter went from having difficulty in math to being one of the best in the class. Never had a problem with it crashing. Definitely worth the money -- worked better than a lot of programs that cost more.

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This is a very wimpy program. The concept is cute and my son would have benefited from it, but the program kept crashing. The directions say that the setup program is supposed to run so that you can save it to your hard drive, but there is no...
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While I haven't used this course yet I have used the Spanish immersion course offered by Topics Entertainment (Talk Now! etc.) and the course is great. It's a lot of fun to play the games and is very educational at the same time. It's helpful to...
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I bought this program not expecting much because of the low price and my expectations were correct. This program seems to be designed for a person who wants to learn a few Arabic terms that would be useful a couple weeks before traveling to an...
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I give this CD series an average rating. initially i was quite disappointed because there was not an accompanying book to learn script. however, while the information is quite basic, it provides a good foundation for further study.
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I bought this software for my 2 children, they have both used it for schoolwork. I have Office and this software works well with PowerPoint. Encarta is a useful tool for their schoolwork and Microsoft Math is great for help with homework.
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Hey, this could have been a GREAT product!...

Math wise, their "step-by-step" concept is brilliant but the steps are ONLY for those doing Algebra and beyond..and does not help children or pre-teens needing this sort of "steps" help!...
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I really wanted this to work it, starts of good but then bugs start flying,when the intros for most lessons begin it will race trough what they are saying at an unintelligible pace and then freeze the system causing a crash to my Pentium 4 2.6 ghz...
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I loaded this twice on one computer and once on another. All three times the program failed to install completely. There is a Flash player bug that will freeze up your computer when trying to run this software straight out of the box. You have to...
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New maps but not much else new since 2007. They added an unpolished 3D view and MSN Traffic. Traffic is a paid subscription addon that requires an antenna purchase.

Still the best trip planner out there.
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I'm a wrecker dispatcher outside the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I've been using Streets and Trips since 03 or 04. I use the program all day long. The program itself is great. I can map several addresses in seconds. The problem I have is ,Every...
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I didn't think much of the 2007 version of Streets & Trips (see review). It had a lot of mapping errors and a disappointingly low number of POIs.

Well, the 2008 version is basically more of the same. OK, some errors are now fixed,...
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I just purchased Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional used and abused the program without a hitch.. no crashing... an awesome program. I must add I'm running a PC 3.3 Ghz , SCSI HDs with 4 gigs of ram... I have Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 as well as...
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Since version 6.5, each upgrade offers very little in terms of tools or enhancements. However what the motion graphics community can expect with each upgrade of AE, is a more crash-prone product. On a new workstation loaded with RAM, I've...
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What makes education so wonderful is a program's ability to be interactive, diverse and fun. The Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe edition has all the elements required to teach the skills needed, to any student beginning or advanced, at a...
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This program is just "OK". The bad parts about it are that it is a fairly crappy production in its layout and overall quality. You cant control where you want to go in the lessons for example, once you're past a point where it says "lets try...
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I was familiar with this product before I purchased it because a friend had a copy on her computer. So I knew it would help with improving my speed, however, it is a little harder to fix finger placement on the keyboard, which is what I wanted to...
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Konnichiwa! I'm learning Japanese and I want to learn other languages. My favorite languages on here are... German and Korean. I'm teaching myself Japanese and Korean. I may want to teach myself German. I don't think I want to teach myself Chinese...
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This is latin or south american spanish, not the spanish from Spain, that was a big plus for me. The speech software is great, and very user friendly. The "r" sound is very difficult for me to master, even with the help from the program. I...
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Well, the software is interesting and entertaining, but you are not going to learn much more than vocabulary using it. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the presentation of words and sentences. I was hoping for more of a tool that...
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i ordered and it is pretty complex off the start so realized it was going to be a bigger commitment than i was willing to make right now and wasnt ever going to use it so i returned. may do it again in the future as it looked pretty good for the...
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