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Encyclopedia Britannica 2009 Deluxe

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from: Avanquest

June 02, 2008
As an encyclopedia, it does a great job. At this price you get absolutely a great amount of and CORRECT knowledge. Dictionary, atlas, timelines and online updates are all good features.

I'm not a fun of BrainStormer, but that's fine.

As a simple database + search software, sometimes taking up ~60% CUP power on my laptop with a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo is unbearable. The skin looks nice but I can't read the words on the tag. Searching is slow, not sure it's due to the graphic or the searching itself.

Oh, I'm using the mac version, it may work better with PC.

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Encyclopedia Britannica 2009 Student and Home Edition (Ultimate Reference Suite)

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from: Avanquest

June 02, 2008
The children DO work with this product, much to my satisfaction. I'm sure it will be a wonderful asset for their homework and projects.

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Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary

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from: JC Research

July 01, 2003
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate is the standard for many of us in magazine and book editing. Beware, if you expect to receive an up-to-date rendition of it on disk. I bought the printed Eleventh Edition a couple of months ago, then bought the disk version earlier this week because I thought it would expedite my word checks while editing onscreen. For most needs, this certainly is ample (although I don't like the awkwardness imposed in switching between dictionary and thesaurus). Although the disk box claims it to be the "Eleventh Edition of America's #1 Dictionary," I believe it's four or five years out of date already. Certainly the printed Eleventh Edition which I received contains terms not yet included in this product. Quick test: Look up "blog" in the print ... Read More:

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Palm Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Franklin Thesaurus (P10935U)

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from: Palm


I love Palm Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Franklin Thesaurus; it is the perfect tool to have for tech savey people like myself who do alot of typing, weither it be an email or typing a letter. Is easy to load on to most PDA's, easy use, and most importantly a big help! If you have a PDA, and an SD card slot; this is a must have!

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New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis 5.1 for Windows

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from: Zondervan

November 01, 2004
The NIDOTTE BOOK set is wonderful! Compact, infinitely user-friendly, accessible in every way, and head-and-shoulders above every other Hebrew/Theological dictionary for the Hebrew Bible for beginning and intermediate students. However, this particular SOFTWARE has some built in, severely limiting "gotcha's" that will throw average users off and even make it unusable. Zondervan offers an all-important "patch" on their web site, but it involves a 6-7 step do-it-yourself method in which you have to "open the hood" of Windows more than average users will feel comfortable doing. And even then, for this user, it still didn't work. By "didn't work", I mean that the all important "search" function simply doesn't work! It produces endless loops of error messages. The result ... Read More:

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Handmark Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus SD/MMC Card

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from: Handmark, Inc.

November 01, 2004
This is a very handy little dictionary. It's not meant to be the complete Oxford English Dictionary with every word in it. But it does the average job you expect from any good paperback dictionary. With my pocket pc near by I find reading a book less of a chore when there's a quick way to look up words I'm uncertain of.

However, I had a lot of trouble getting the dictionary installed on my own SD Card. There was an SD CARD that came with the package but I had to remove my own SD card and insert this one before I could use the dictionary. This completely takes all the convenience out of using a PDA while reading a book or magazine.


It took me a number of exchanges over a few days with Handmark's Support technicians to get it to work on ... Read More:

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Encyclopedia Britannica Ultimate 2008 [OLD VERSION]

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from: Avanquest

May 30, 2007
I purchased this software last year because I had to write quite a few papers for a certain college class. I used this software quite frequently. It was a great tool to use to help me get the correct information fast about the topics that I needed to write about. It has different formats so it can be used by children, teenagers, and adults. If you are in school or have a child in school, this product could definitely help you/them with class work or just general knowledge.

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Encarta Deluxe Encyclopedia 2004

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from: Microsoft

June 30, 2003
I do not like this product because it's video is garbled, it gorges hard drive space,it doesn't have world flights, and the articles do not have much detail; they are very short. And if you do not have enough hard drive space to copy all data over to your hard drive, you have to swap CD's to find data (Not very convinient, it scratches CD's and is annoying to do a million times.)I sent it back to Microsoft on their 45-day money back garuntee, and they will send my money back. I will be getting Microsoft Encrta 2004 Library Reference Edition.If I were you, I would do the same thing. If you buy this product you are doing the wrong thing. I do not like anything about this product. Do not get it.

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Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus - iPod enabled

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from: Innovative Knowledge

June 01, 2007
I am always on a lookout for a good computer-based dictionary. I have tested a few different versions by various software publishers. Currently, I am using Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 3.0 and Think Map's Visual Thesaurus 3.0. I was very excited to find this product: a combination of PC/MAC-based and iPod-based dictionary! Inside the box, I also found a code for one year of free subscription to M-W Dictionary online. Wow! Then, I installed the dictionary on my 80GB iPod... And that was it! The iPod went into endless "loading notes" mode (the dictionary installed in the Notes section of the iPod storage). Worse yet, when I reset the iPod, the loading process of hundreds of notes started anew. I am sending this product back.

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World Book Encyclopedia 2006

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from: Topics Entertainment - Software (Consignment)

September 20, 2005
Thought I'd save a few bucks and get a slightly older encyclopedia. Worse mistake I ever made. Nothing worked and nothing was supported. I won't make this mistake again.