Each Ordnance Survey Explorer product from Memory-Map comes with our highly acclaimed navigation software for use on both PC and Pocket PC. These unique products also include Aerial Photographic maps of the same area to show all the terrain detail; a full 1:250,000 GB Road Map and a Search & Display Index of 250,000 names, places and map features.

Who says you can't design your own home? With Broderbund's 3D Home Architect Deluxe, you can customize one of 350 preset plans or start from scratch, then print contractor-ready plans when you're ready to build. The learning curve's not too steep; between the manual and the plentiful online help, you'll find answers to your questions in a flash. The ready-made plans vary from Tudor to Mediterranean, with the good old American split-level available as well. If one of these classic designs looks good, then you can redesign it to perfection, easily adding walls, doors, and more. But if you want a whole new look, you can quickly draw a new first-floor plan, then watch as your computer builds a foundation and helps you with additional stories and roofing. Huge furniture, material, and landscaping libraries help you finish your house and keep within your budget. The 3-D imaging is clear and extraordinarily helpful for visualizing the final product, bringing the house to life in a way blueprints can never match. The SmartParts feature is a cool guidance function that makes placing 3-D objects like window frames and countertops simple. Lest you fear that you've forgotten some crucial element that will come back to haunt you during or after construction, the PlanCheck feature will (politely) give you feedback, then help you compose a materials list with local prices. Whether you're building a new house, slapping on an addition, or just putting up a new wall, 3D Home Architect Deluxe will make it easy. [+]

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Keen to try out a new look? Too broke-or cautious-to head out to the stylist and demand an overhaul? Wish you could really get a sense of all of your choices? If so, Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover 2 may be just the program for you-a risk-free means of assessing which hairstyles, makeup combinations, and accessories look good enough to try out in the real world. The first stage of the virtual makeover process involves loading a scanned picture of yourself into the program and providing personal characteristics from your head shape to hair color. From there, an infinite combination of choices can be overlaid onto the photograph. Match bridal hairstyles with designer eyewear, try out hats, experiment with lip liners, or attempt to reshape your eyebrows. The resulting makeover images can be compared with the original picture and printed out; or, if the results are disastrous, they can be discreetly trashed. Only you need know you were never meant to be a redhead! While Virtual Makeover is very helpful in narrowing your fashion choices, the end result of the makeover process is subject to the whims of technology. If your scanned photograph is of poor quality, it will be harder to judge the alterations you make to your look. Every computer monitor distorts colours slightly, affecting the way make-up will look on your skin. Additionally, the program is conservative in the fashion options it provides: the available hair colors are all natural tones and the accessory options are limited to hats, glasses, and the like. This suburban sensibility won't necessarily stop you from creating a hot new persona. [+]

Punch Professional Home Design Suite does something very few home planning applications achieve: it brings together designing both the interior and the exterior-including the garden-of your home on one CD-ROM. While the software is perhaps a bit complex to learn at first, the huge range of features on offer make this forgivable. You can start with a blank screen, work with a pre-drawn plan from the software's library or import scans of the existing floor plans of your home. Whichever option you choose simply clicking the on-screen tabs allows you to switch between working on the floor plans, electrical plans, the plumbing system, roofing arrangements, heating and air conditioning or external decking and landscaping. Getting objects such as furniture into position on a plan is mostly a matter of drag and drop, while you can also use a Computer Aided Design feature to draw curves, arcs and other standard shapes. It is useful to be able to see a flat plan and a 3-D view side by side, and to walk through the 3-D view, or do a fly over. You can even change the light direction, intensity and brightness on the 3-D views to get as close to the real world as possible. With several useful tools above and beyond the designer, Punch Professional Home Design Suite is a rounded application. The 3-D Furniture Workshop lets you edit the library of furniture objects or design your own from scratch. RealModel lets you turn a home plan into a template for making a scale model-you can even print textures onto paper for pasting to the building materials. [+]

Memory MapMemory-Map is the first to bring these desirable IGN Top 25 Regions of France to the UK market as an ideal accompaniment for planning your walking, cycling, camping or even winter trips abroad in the mountains. Each region includes detailed 1:25,000 scale topographical maps, a 1:250,000 Road Map of France and of course our award winning Memory-Map software for both PC and Pocket PC. The Standard Edition is supplied on CD Rom. The first titles in the series are the popular winter and mountain sport areas - the Alpes and the Pyrénées. In the summer, these maps are perfect for walking, mountain biking or off-road driving. In the winter, check out the popular ski and snowboard areas. Using the fascinating 3D World tool, you can impress your friends and family recording 3D Flythrough movies of your favourite routes and tracks. When using a GPS, see how quickly you climbed or descended down the mountain by importing your GPS tracklog. 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. [+]

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