RRP: £299.00 Price: £213.99
Review VisionLab Studio (Mac) / Fxhome:
Key features Memory-Map
- 3D-World&trade
- - visualise routes in continuous 3D landscape
- Create 3D Fly-through movies of routes and tracks
- Multimedia Route Card &ndash
- Print maps at any scale with automatic paging
- Model: Memory-Map V5 Northumberland OS 1:25,000
RRP: £99.95 Price: £79.99
Review Memory-Map V5 Northumberland OS 1:25,000 / Memory-Map:Perfect for walkers and mountain bikers, schools or D of E participants, Memory-Map offer full GB coverage of the incredibly detailed OS Explorer™ 1:25,000 scale mapping. Choose from the National Park & Recreational area range, Long Distance Paths, or decide on the exact area you want covered with Memory-Map Selections™.
RRP: £9.99 Price: £3.94
Review Driving Test Success Theory 2004/2005 / Focus Multimedia Ltd:Anyone preparing to take the required written exam before putting in for a driving test would do well to investigate Driving Test Success Theory 2003/2004. The CD-ROM includes every question in the official DSA Driving Theory Test Question Bank-over 1,000 of them-and a host of useful extras. The main menu is divided into four sections. From here you can either learn some Highway Code theory, take an exam, run the included bonus "Hazard Perception" CD-ROM (this is now an important part of the theory exam) or look up something in the Highway Code. If you click on the "Learn Some Theory" option, you'll be taken straight to the learning module where there are 20 untimed multiple choice questions. You can click on the answers and plough on through, but if you get stuck there's a Hint button that will help you out, as well as a Highway Code button which will take you straight to the relevant section of the Code where you can find out more; if you get the answer wrong, click the "Why" button and the program will deliver the correct answer along with an explanation. Clicking the "Take an Exam" heading takes you straight to a 35-question, timed test which mimics the actual written exam. Taken together these sections encourage you to brush up on your overall knowledge and provide some useful practice for the test. Under the Information menu you'll find an electronic version of the Highway Code and a whole bunch of other extras including "Show Me, Tell Me", a new part of the practical driving test that assesses your ability to keep your vehicle in a roadworthy condition. This is particularly useful if you're a mechanical duffer and covers basic maintenance such as changing a wheel (it even explains where to find the spare wheel), checking your brake fluid, bump starting, changing a fuse and so on. [+]
You'll also find a list of local test centres, driving schools-this is less useful, Wales only has two listed-and a handy Motoring Information section that includes contact details for accessory suppliers, car makers, rental companies, insurance, government agencies, motoring organisations and so on. The addition of a "taster" CD-ROM containing 50 video clips in the style of those used in the new Hazard Perception test makes this a comprehensive aid to passing your test. -Rob Beattie.
Weight: 0.95 Kg RRP: £149.99 Price: £104.99
Review Auralog Tell Me More Italian (Prestige Edition) (PC) / Auralog 7-004-1234:PRM ITALIAN UK
Price: £149.00
Review MapWise 50: Great Britain (PC DVD) / ISYS:
RRP: £49.95 Price: £39.99
Review Memory-Map V5 West Highland Way OS 1:25,000 / Memory-Map:Perfect for walkers and mountain bikers, Memory-Map offer coverage down to the incredibly detailed OS Explorer? 1:25,000 scale mapping. Choose from the any of the fantastic National Park regions available. Aerial Photography is also included, so you can see the lay of the land with unique digital photographic maps ? fantastic in 3D World. Plan Routes: Now you can use real colour maps on a PC or Pocket PC to help you find your way. Choose from a wide range of maps for Land, Sea, City and Air. Memory-Map? is available with a range of inclusive Ordnance Survey® maps or a European Road Map. Route Planning:- Click on the map to add routes and waypoints or draw a track freehand using the AutoTrack? tool. See leg distance, compass bearing and total journey length. Digital Terrain?:- Check the overall ascent and descent of your route with this interactive hill profile. Save and share routes:- Save waypoints, routes and tracks for future use, send them via email, or even put them on your web page ? great for planning a group trip! 3D World?:- Visualise the terrain around your routes and tracks in a continuous 3D landscape! See the shape of the horizon, change the lighting to envisage the hills during different times of the day or create Fly-through movies of your routes and tracks and save them for future use. [+]
Print Maps Zoom in and print your own custom full colour route maps. Print to scale:- Print maps at the scale of your choice. Multi-page maps:- Customise your printing with the new automatic paging for longer routes. TextNotes?:- Add detailed text to your maps ? useful for creating route finding notes, recording details of hazards or highlighting areas of interest. Route card:- Print your route card detailing waypoints, compass bearings, distances and grid coordinates and include notes & photos. Relief Shading:- Print maps showing 3D terrain on an accurate 2D scale map. Just a glance at the.
RRP: £69.95 Price: £69.95
Review Memory-Map Version 5 Premium Edition - OS Maps 1:50K - Region 4 / Memory-Map:Seamless OS Landranger 1:50,000 maps available for the whole of Britain. Use these detailed OS maps to plan walks, mountain bike trails, print your own maps and program routes and waypoints into a GPS. Not only that but you can also review your performance and actual route taken by importing a GPS tracklog back into your PC and overlaying it on a map of your choice. Offering unrivalled value for money, the new Premium Edition OS Landranger Half country regions are supplied as complete seamless maps (rather than 3 separate regions), have the added advantage that they also include Aerial Photography and are supplied on DVD rather than CD. Plan Routes: Now you can use real colour maps on a PC or Pocket PC to help you find your way. Choose from a wide range of maps for Land, Sea, City and Air. Memory-MapTM is available with a range of inclusive Ordnance Survey® maps or a European Road Map. Route Planning:- Click on the map to add routes and waypoints or draw a track freehand using the AutoTrackTM tool. See leg distance, compass bearing and total journey length. Digital TerrainTM:- Check the overall ascent and descent of your route with this interactive hill profile. [+]
Save and share routes:- Save waypoints, routes and tracks for future use, send them via email, or even put them on your web page great for planning a group trip! 3D WorldTM:- Visualise the terrain around your routes and tracks in a continuous 3D landscape! See the shape of the horizon, change the lighting to envisage the hills during different times of the day or create Fly-through movies of your routes and tracks and save them for future use. Print Maps Zoom in and print your own custom full colour route maps. Print to scale:- Print maps at the scale of your choice. Multi-page maps:- Customise your printing with the new automatic paging for longer routes. TextNotesTM:- Add detailed text to your maps useful for creating route finding notes, reco.
RRP: £14.99 Price: £6.99
Review Art & Craft Fridge Magnet Kit (PC) / Greenstreet Online Ltd:
RRP: £14.99 Price: £4.95
Review Catz 3 / Mindscape:
RRP: £19.99 Price: £11.99
Review Easy Start Russian / Strokes International:
RRP: £9.99 Price: £9.99
Review Discover Dubai (PC) / Absolute Entertainment Ltd:
Dimentions: 0.02 x 0.0794 x 0.09 cm Weight: 1.13 Kg RRP: £29.95 Price: £19.99
Review Nova Berlitz Spanish Premier (PC/Mac) / Avanquest Software ZSX:Now you can learn Spanish the easy way with the straightforwardsoftware that’s been helping people learn foreign languagesfor more than a decade. Berlitz Spanish Premier is fast easy andeffective. Guaranteed! With this unique time-proven learn.
RRP: £9.99 Price: £3.50
Review Your Step-By-Step Will Maker / Avanquest Software 5016488106801:Will-Maker is designed to help you put together a legally enforceable will. This is important because if you die without having made one, you're said to be "intestate" and anything you leave behind (your "estate") gets divvied up according to strict guidelines that can cost your beneficiaries a lot of money-particularly in tax. Will-Maker uses Rapidocs technology, a way of creating personalised documents based on the way you answer a specific set of questions. It's a clear and easy to use program-the actual document appears on the left of the screen, the questions on the right. As you tab between questions, context-sensitive hint panels pop-up and if you need more advice, there's a Notes tab that you can click to get more detail. Be prepared to answer questions you may not feel ready to consider quite yet ("Do you wish to donate your body to medical research?") and consult the notes carefully before filling in each part of the form. Make sure you read the disclaimers thoroughly as well. The authors make it clear what their obligations and liabilities are on numerous occasions. For example: We will not have any liability to you at all if you use any document without obtaining appropriate legal advice as to its suitability for your particular requirements or where there has been any change in the law following the date of publication. Such considerations make it important that you register the product too, so you can receive news of any important updates. [+]
You can appoint an unlimited number of beneficiaries (should you be so flush) appoint executors and trustees, make charitable donations, bestow legacies and make financial and guardianship provisions for the kids. The final document appears in a cut-down word processor so you can edit it before printing out. The result looks as it should-just like a real will. -Rob Beattie.
RRP: £9.99 Price: £1.86
Review John Wilson's Complete Guide To Coarse Fishing / Avanquest Software:
RRP: £9.99 Price: £2.33
Review Bob Vila's Home Design / Softkey:
RRP: £9.99 Price: £0.01
Review Mosby's Medical Encyclopedia / Softkey:Mosby's Medical Encyclopedia on CD-ROM has made it even easier to look up your health problems, containing just about all there is to know in the field of contemporary medical expertise. Mosby's is one of the biggest names in American Medical Reference. For 75 years flu victims in Fresno, syphilitics in Seattle, plague carriers in Peoria and hypochondriacs in Hackensack have been checking its authoritative pages for the right terms, drugs and treatments to go with their condition. The format is admirably clear. A column on the left of the screen indicates the various available sources on-disc. You can click on each to access the subsection you want. Most useful is maybe the encyclopedia, which gives plain, lucid, informative definitions of some 20,000 medically related terms. Below the encyclopedia is a very handy drug guide, affording the scientific background and uses of multifarious pills, medicines and remedies, from Ibuprofen to Intaferon, Temazepam to Tixylix (one problem here for British users is the American bias: occasionally drugs will be listed under their US trade name, which differs from the UK version). Equally interesting is the "human atlas", which diagrammatically maps nervous, lymphatic, musculatory and digestive systems, among others; the on-disc Internet guide, which links you to pertinent Web sites and apposite net-addresses, is pretty cool too. In fact there's so much information here it might prove slightly overwhelming for the layman, and in some ways the CD-ROM is aimed as much at professional users as the needy family or inquisitive individual. [+]
But for those willing to swallow the odd technical term it's still pretty hard to think of a better single-disc medical dictionary on the CD ROM market. -Sean Thomas.
RRP: £19.99 Price: £4.99
Review Lord of the Rings Activity Studio: The Return Of The King / Alternative Software:
RRP: £19.99 Price: £9.98
Review Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover 3 / Mindscape 5390102440534:
RRP: £29.99 Price: £4.69
Review Desktop Lawyer Personal (inc Wills, Divorce, Property) / FastTrak:If you want access to over 60 ready-to-use documents that include complaints, requests for arbitration, contracts, for-sale agreements, house share arrangements, insurance claims, compensation requests-and even undefended divorce petitions and wills-then Desktop Lawyer Home Edition is well worth a look. Once the program's loaded you'll see a list of the available documents on the right of the screen. Double click on the one you want to use, read the disclaimer carefully-because you're creating legal documents, this is extremely important-and you're ready to go. The body of the document then opens in the left hand window while in the right; you'll see a series of questions, a bit like a form. As you fill in the form, answering questions specific to the document you want to create, it takes shape in the other window. So for example, if you want to use the letter designed to refuse receipt of faulty goods, you'll be asked for details like the supplier, the nature of the goods, when they were purchased, when the fault was detected and so on; the final letter refers to the Sale Of Goods Act of 1979 as amended by Section 1 of the Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994 giving the finished product the correct level of legal oomph. You can go back and alter details at any time, save the letter halfway through and finish it later, edit the final document rather as you would with a word processor and print it out. Obviously, when you save the personalised letter or document, the original template remains untouched and can be used over and over again. The range of documents is impressive. Indeed, this product actually combines the content of products sold singly (admittedly at around one third the price) elsewhere as Your Step-By-Step Will-Maker, Personal Letters & Contracts and Create and Print Your Own Divorce Papers. [+]
The results are slick, authoritative, quote the right legislation when necessary and make this a useful personal productivity tool for users living in England and Wales. As the documentation points out however, it's no substitute for taking proper legal advice and you should bear that in mind. -Rob Beattie.
RRP: £9.99 Price: £0.01
Review Family Ancestry / Cosmi Europe Ltd:
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