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. 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. [+]

Dance fans beware, you could soon be exchanging your nightlife for a night in front of your PC with Dance eJay 4-another CD-ROM in the phenomenally successful eJay range. If you're a fan of dance masters such as Cut La Roc or Milk & Sugar you're going to be very happy indeed-updated features mean Dance eJay 4 comes with 5,000 royalty-free, exclusive Trance, Latin, Brazil, Europop, Tech House, Disco House, 2-Step and Garage club sounds (including exclusive samples from Cut La Roc and Milk & Sugar); a voice generator that will create robotic voices and cool electronic voice samples; an e-card generator that allows you to send your mix to friends, and a "Vocoder" that will add that classic touch by compressing and synthesising your samples. Designed to bring the technology of thousands of pounds worth of equipment to the desktop for less than £30, the buzzword for this program is undoubtedly "easy"-it is simple to install and ridiculously straightforward to operate thanks to drag-and-drop features. As with previous versions, just select a loop, base line and drums (a drum computer, 16-track drum sequencer and more than 500 special drum grooves mean you won't miss a beat) then start adding vocals and rifts from the samples provided. (The more experienced and adventurous eJays may prefer to record their own. ) Forty-eight tracks-50 per cent more than previously-mean your mix can be as complicated as your imagination will allow. As with all eJay products, Dance eJay 4 is fully compatible with others in the series, and together with the eJay Online Sound Archive, you will never run out of samples or inspiration. -Lucie Naylor.

Here's a CD-ROM that's harder than most to categorise. Mind-Gym won a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award in the Comedy Category in 1998, and while it is certainly funny (comedian Tim Wright is lead writer), it offers more than plain comedy. The creators call it a personality test-but there aren't the straightforward questions you expect from a personality test, of the is-the-glass-half-full-or-empty type. Instead, you are taken through a series of fast-paced, graphically rich games in animated environments, at the end of which your mental fitness is assessed in five categories open to new ideas challenger to received information experimental proactive empowered Once you've been assessed, you can visit the Games Room, the Pool and Ideas, and the Think Tank, where games and activities are designed to develop your weaker points. The games-and the voices and graphics that accompany them-are witty, challenging, fun, campy and unpredictable. Take the challenge. -Kathleen Keefe.

Talk to Me English is a well-composed CD-ROM programme with some quite flashy graphics, good video learning aids and an online resource centre. The language learner is provided with a map on which they can chart their progress from beginner to advanced in a variety of subject areas, including the supermarket, the post office and the aftermath of an accident. Like Transparent Language, Linguaphone, and other programmes in the field, Talk to Me English comes with voice-recognition software that will monitor your pronunciation. At the lower level, you participate in an interactive dialogue and select your response from three options. As things progress, you move to rearranging words in sentence order when they are thrown at you all jumbled up. Like other Talk to Me products, this is a highly competent software package. -Toby Green.

Not too long ago, Zoombinis enjoyed the good life. Though they all looked slightly different-different eyes, noses, hair, feet-such differences meant nothing to the Zoombinis. And so they lived happily on Zoombini Isle, making small, useful products, which were prized the world over. So begins an unsuspectingly addictive CD-ROM, featuring uncommonly fun reasoning games that require serious problem solving and maths work. Yet the perils that face this cheerful society are not as fearsome as the amount of time you'll potentially spend on this pursuit. Beware the chubby, chattering Zoombinis if you don't want to get hooked to your computer for at least 90 minutes a session! Adored by educators and parents alike, Zoombinis Maths Journey challenges children to employ such basic fundamentals of mathematical thinking as organising information, reasoning of evidence, finding and making patterns and systematic testing of hypotheses. The journey follows four puzzle-filled trails, each exploring related mathematical ideas. The fundamental data and variables for all this work are the variations in the Zoombinis' features. Their "feet", for example, can be shoes, skates, whirligigs or coiled springs (the sound effects for these items are particularly great), while their "eyes" may be heavily lidded, enhanced by glasses, blocked by dark shades, or limited to just a single eyeball. Sorting and arranging these variables in order to solve puzzles requires concentrated effort from the players, and the game rewards them well with inventive scenarios that evolve in fabulously curious ways as skills are gained. [+]

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