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Your Guided Tour to the Exciting World of Multimedia. Learn how to add sound, music, images, and video to your computer. Discover buyer's tips, software tutorials, author recommendations, and more. Master all the key elements of multimedia from hardware and software to accessories. Covers multimedia terms and concepts using common, everyday products and situations. Learn how to create your own multimedia for fun and profit. Get expert advice from a multimedia guru.

Mapping hard drives and creating partitions are made easy, allowing you to do more in less time. Format, label and make your partitions active in one easy step reducing time spent and risk of errors.Manage your data, whether you are splitting, resizing, converting or merging volumes Clone disk to a replacement HDD. No need to spend hours installing your old disk's operating system and applications. Disk cloning returns you to action on the new disk in just minutes.

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For production quality 3D artwork, Adobe Dimensions software offers graphic artists and designers the unique ability to render in both vector and raster format. -Create 3D artwork using the tools you already know! -Easily wrap artwork and images around any shape. -Design sophisticated 3D objects.

Need to spice up your Web site with attention-getting graphics> Let Adobe, the graphics experts, help you stand out from the online crowd. With ImagaStyler, create distinctive graphics and instantly enhance them with sophisticated styles and Web features-without needing a lot of time or expertise!

Adobe Photoshop 2.5 is the world's leading photo design and production tool. It lets your customers create original artwork, correct and retouch color or black and white scanned images with unprecedented control, and prepare high quality color separations and output. All right at their desk. It's a complete paint, professional prepress and darkroom system, ideal for designers creating original artwork, for photographers retouching images, and for prepress professionals producing high quality color separations and output.

AnyTime Organizer has all the powerful tools you need to organize your personal and professional life! The friendly and simple interface makes it easy to access the Calendars, To-Do lists, Contacts, Notebooks, Passwords, Expenses, and hundreds of design combinations for printable calendars. New in version 16, get AnyTime Organizer information on your iPhone & Android Apps! Access your calendar, to-do lists and contacts from your home or office 24/7 from your mobile device. Let AnyTime Organizer help you organize your life and you will see why more people choose AnyTime over any other brand of organizer software.

This CD contains specially remastered and digitally enhanced public domain works and are not licensed by the original copyright holders. The videos have been enhanced (never colorizing) the images for maximum viewing clarity. The sound has been remastered and equalized. You can use clips from these videos in non-commercial, non-profit multimedia presentations royalty free!

With CD LabelMaker you can create and print colorful, customized CD labels and jewel case inserts, Includes DATA BECKER labels and DATA BECKER jewel case inserts so you can get started right away. Use the Quick Layout Assistant to adopt and edit any of the existing sample templates enclosed or create a totally new one. Outline and shadow, create rounded text, and choose an image from one of the 500 pieces of clipart included. Perfect for creating your own music CDs, backing up office files and records, and printing labels for shareware and low cost software. Be as creative and original as you want with CD LabelMaker.

Software and book combination provides a guided tour through the world of #-D computer animation.

Make your multimedia presentations come to life! 75 video clips, 50 bitmaps, 50 voice clips, 20 music clips, and 10 animations.

Create multimedia presentations with the clips on this disc, or simply enjoy hours of browsing through each captivating image. These images can be used as video screen savers in Windows 3.1 with the inclided screen saver application.

Are you looking for original images? Are you looking for an easy to use interface that you don't have to read a ton of documentation to install? Are you looking for real BBS support? Are you looking for a disc that will keep you entertained? Look no further! Digital Dreams 2 is for you? You can look at all of out new images, you make fascinating puzzles out of them, you can read over 1500 fantasy text files, and play mature fantasy games with this one disc! If you own only one mature fantasy disc, this is the one to have.

Digital Dreamware is an interactive album of sounds and visions that lets you take control or go with the fluid flow. Six different brilliant and multidimensional kaleidoscopic blast of pure sensation. A mesmerizing techno-trance soundtrack. You'll be transfixed, transported, transfigured. Digital Dreamware A Hypnotic Visual Trip

REVITALIZE YOUR OLD RECORDINGS With CD Spin Doctor®, you can remove hiss, pops, and clicks from personal cassette recordings and save the cleaned recordings to compact disc. Imagine restoring your cherished music recitals and hearing them from a crystal clear CD! SAVE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS TO CD Get the Deluxe Edition of Easy CD Creator and use PhotoRelayTM to put photo albums and video postcards on CDs. Share these CDs with family and friends so they can play back your personalized message automatically.

Welcome to a new way of drawing. Fractal Design Expression combines the stylistic expressiveness of traditional art tools with the control. editability, and resolution independence of a vector drawing program.

The world's leading visual database for all your digital media.

eZ-Motion has everything you need to create amazing animation and graphics for your Web site. Add the appeal of Flash animation to your site witheZ-Motion--it makes the power of Flash accessible to anyonewithout the need for spending days learning software. Generate a professional-looking Flash animation in minutes, right out of the box.A full library of instant content comes pre-installed. Hundreds of 2-Dimages, 3-D models, and sample animations are included. The complete set ofgraphics creation tools works with both bitmap and vector objects. eZ-Motion also gives you the ability to leverage the graphics and software you already have. Import your Photoshop or Illustrator files and animate them. Take your digital photographs or movies and combine elements like 3-D titles, effects, filters, and then animate and export the file as anything you want. eZ-Motion's easy-to-use, award-winning animation technologyfrees you from worrying about generating frames, maintaining, or modifyingeach individual frame. You just set the animation parameters at the firstand last frame and eZ-Motion animates the in-between frames. eZ-Motion works with popular visual page layout applications includingMicrosoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Adobe GoLive. Importclip art files (WMF) or any files from a host of video and animationformats including: QuickTime, Windows Media, Animated GIF, Photoshop,Illustrator, GIF, JPEG, PNG, Targa, TIFF, and BMP. Export moving images inFlash, QuickTime, RealVideo, Windows Media, or Animated GIF. Export Staticimages in GIF, JPEG, PNG, Targa, TIFF, and BMP. Beatware's products are also the only standalone Web graphics platform that can import 3-D models (Lightwave 3D, 3D Studio Max, and DXF), and create 3-D text without plug-ins.

Face Factory is the coolest. It lets fun-loving kids and adults create, animate, manipulate and share photo-realistic 3-D heads in real-time.

Graphics Suite 2 has everything you need for any kind of graphics. This award winning collection of four integrated applications gives you professional capabilities, Microsoft Office simplicity, and incredible value.

Featuring extraordinary photos of nature and animals.

-Catalog years of photo, sounds, movies and illustrations in an instant -Catalog entire directories or folders by drag-and-drop. -Automatically create JPEG thumbnail previews of all your images. -Quickly find and review the exact images you need. -Create slide shows of your favorite images for family, friends, or colleagues.

The power to import more graphics from more sources than ever before!

JumpStart has a learning system as individual as your child! Take this opportunity to experience for yourself why JumpStart is the #1 Educational Software for kids!

Realtime Liquid Image Funware is Fun. Turn still pictures into images that feel like liquid on your screen. Is Versatile with tools to blend pictures together, combine the eyes of one image with the face of another. Moves, Create movies from your pictures. Save in QuickTime, AVI or 'Goovie" format. Anything, use pictures from the included library, digital cameras, scanners, photo CD, video capture.

Introducing Out Best Securtity Software Ever. The Internet is full of cyberjunk that brings stress, worry and inconvenience, Viruses, spyware, spam - it's what we call digital pollution. At Kaspersky Lab, we work relentlessly to deliver the world's best security software that's easy to use and won't show slow you down - giving you your rightful freedom to enjoy the web to its full potential.

Turn everyday into extraordinary with Key Mega Multimedia for Macintosh. This sensational mega-bundle includes 1,000 stunning photographs, 500 exciting sound clips and 40 memorable videos specially selected to spark the imagination. It's the fun, easy way to add pizazz to invitations and greeting cards, jazz up flyers, newsletters, and announcements-and give your Mac a whole new personality! Turn yourself loose with sights and sounds that range from silly to spectacular. Go wild. There is no limit to what you can create with these royalty free images!

Look, Listen, and Sing! The more you play, the more you learn

-Includes logo objects and artwork designed by professional graphic artists. -Change over 1200 pre-designed logo templates to fit the look of any industry or interest. -Over 5000 logo design objects include professionally drawn logo artwork, spheres, signs, swooshes, shapes, images, flags and other creative graphics. -Import and export your logo in all popular formats including JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, WMF, BMP, PDF and more. -Trademark logo guidelines help secure your identity.

Professional Logos Made Easy!

Instantly recreate your logo in 3-D! It's amazing how easy 3-D can be. Just drop a Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, or Macromedia FreeHand EPS outline into LogoMotion, then watch as it instantly converts to 3-D.

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Explore the magic behind the movies. From contemporary to classic films. It's the fast, fun way to see and hear it all. The reviews, biographies, the faces, and the voices. From the inside stories pour over thousands of reviews by leading critics such as Lenard Maltin, Roger Ebert, and Pauline Leil. More that 1,000 biographical photos, 650 motion-picture stills, and nearly 100 new dialogue clips have been added.

The best way to express your ideas is to show them in action. And the strongest way to do that is with video: Microsoft Video for Windows. Spice up your presentations with live product demonstrations, customer testimonials, animated software and show them right from your PC, without any specialized video hardware!

Now you can change the world in minutes. Turn boys into men, shoes into ships, muscles into mountains... and frogs into princes. With stunning visual effects, Morph Studio makes you the wizard of image transformation.

Enjoy a wide variety of themes, including Arts and Entertainment, Music, Nature. News and politics. Here's how a typical session works: With a baseball theme the MPC wallpaper might be the famous Eakins Painting of the New York Giants at practice. The typical sound files attached to Windows start, critical stop and the default beep may be changed to more creative sounds like "Play Ball," "strike One!" or "Charge!" When users and ther Windows session, a radio announcer says "and that's the final out of the game."

Full multimedia creation and authoring system on CD. Create your own presentations, graphic database, catalogs, or commercial software. Incorporate pictures, sound and animation, music and special effects. Includes royalty free run time engine, for freestanding programs.

Features video clips and editors. Comes with AVI, MPEG, and FLI animations, multimedia authoring programs, sound files, talking clocks, CD audio players, slide shows and image viewers.

Multimedia Platinum for Windows is a collection of multimedia clips, tools, and utilities for Microsoft Windows, assembled on the CD ROM under our easy to use Platinum Interface. Multimedia Platinum contains more than 680 MEGABYTES of multimedia clips and tools. Including full color bitmap images, sound files, video clips, icons, and animations.

Make the most of your multimedia system with three information packed CD's! The MPC Wizard 2.0 test and tunes your multimedia PC. Learn Windows 3.1 at your own pace with WinTutor 3.1. =Space exploration audio and video clips look great in your own presentation with Worldview.

Each set consits of one 4 page Booklet and one Tray Liner (with 2 spines). All perforated for complete and easy separation from printing sheet... scored for crisp, accurate folding.

The all new Nero 2017 Platinum simplifies your digital life richer in technology, stronger in performance, safer, faster, and more mobile than ever before.

Image and photo editing made easy and affordable. With this version, Paint Shop Pro ascends to the next level of image editing and processing tools, all for a fraction of the cost of Photoshop...Professional Web developers, home users, and digital artists alike will appreciate Paint Shop Pro's powerful new features.

Create your own movies!

If you always wanted to be the director of a film, now's your chance. Step into Steven Spielberg's shoes and bring your computer. Roll 'em! With PC Video Madness! you'll get hundreds of video clips, music clips and video applications to use to create your own video masterpieces. Plus, you get a complete book written by a bestselling author to give you the expert instruction you need to truly master the art of creating PC video masterpieces!

Over 3000 Brand New Beautiful Full Color Images!

PhotoGraphics 1.0, from Extensis Corporation, is a new plug-in that puts your favorite illustration tools directly inside Adobe Photoshop by providing a full featured set of drawing tools and advanced text capabilities. With PhotoGraphics you can easily create basic vector shapesSkier that can be filled and stroked, as well as text on a path. Text and graphics created in PhotoGraphics can be edited at any time--even after they have been rasterized in the Photoshop image. Price: $149.95. The program comes in a Windows and a Macintosh version. Extensis has a variety of products: PhotoTools, PhotoFrame, Intellihance,VectorTools, QX-Effects; QX-Tools, PageTools, Preflight Pro, Preflight Designer, BeyondPress, and Portfolio. For information on their products, see our other reviews of Extensis software. We used Extensis PhotoGraphics and Adobe Photoshop for the section headings for this review. Extensis has an excellent Web site were you can get information, examples, and tips on their products:

Extensis Photo Tools 3.0 contains major enhancements to its versatile collection of real world special effects tools for Web and print design, once again showing why it's the premier collection of special effects plug-ins for Photoshop.

Easily create professional-looking images for print and the Web. Now you don't need graphic design training to create eye catching business graphics for use in your documents, presentations, and on the Web. Microsoft PhotoDraw Business graphics software combines powerful illustration and photo editing in one easy to use program and works just like Microsoft Office

Your Favorite Text and Illustration Tools, Right in Photoshop!

Extensis Portfolio 5 Desktop Edition is a drag and drop visual catalog for finding and managing files. Once you've cataloged your digital files, you'll ne able to track them down wherever they are. The powerful previews, searching and keywords make it easy to find exactly what you need.

The Remarkable Figure Design and Animation Tool. Fractal Design Poser" 2 is the fastest, easiest way to introduce the human figure to your digital designs. Whether you are a graphic artist, 3D specialist or master animator, Poser 2 brings humanity to your creative vision.

Print anything you see on the screen. The fast and easy way to capture, print and save your screen. One Keystroke does it all! With one keystroke you can capture and print the entire screen, the current window, select a region of the screen to capture and more! You can even capture videos of your screen activities.

The easiest, most complete publishing suite for your small business

Now you can turn any photograph into a high powered image! Have you ever looked wistfully at fancy publications and wondered how they produce such incredible looking photo? With Professor Franklin's Instant Photo Effects, now You can have that sophisticated look minus the bug budget and his tech know hows! All the fabulous photo effects are created by Professor Franklin's team of graphic and and computer genius - the hardest thing you'll have to do is choose! Use one effects or combine them for thousands of possibilities. These sensational photo effects will quickly transform any publication, home project or web site from plain-Jane to WOW! And when you're done, drag and drop your masterpiece into any Windows document.. just don't tell anyone how easy it was!

The Professor Makes Multimedia Easy! Enter the world of multimedia with Professor Multimedia, today's most comprehensive and interactive learning program. You'll not only learn about multimedia but also experience it first hand.

Pyro provides a complete system for recording, playing, and organizing your favorite digital music. Burn CDs, make MP3s, or turn your PC into a customized jukebox. Start "ripping" songs from your CDs, LPs, and cassettes and turning them into MP3 or WAV files. From there, it's easy to listen to your music on your PC, export to portable MP3 players like RIO and NOMAD, or make a custom CD. Need help? Fast Forward Tutorials are there for you when you need them, and Environmental Sound Processing (ESP) optimizes the sound of your digital music in any environment you choose.

The 1994 edition contains the winners of the annual International QuickTime Film Festival held in Tokyo and San Francisco. This double-CD set ships with all the software necessary to run the CD-ROM on your Macintosh, PowerPC, or Windows computer. Categories include humor, narrative, animation, education, music video, commercial, micro movies, experimental, and documentary. This is the latest addition to your collection of digital video form the world's best QuickTime movie producers.

Export finished artwork as PICT, TIFF, EPS, Adobe, GIF and JEPG files, Export to VRML file format Full support for Adobe alpha channel Support for TrueType and PostScript Type 1 fonts Apple QuickDraw 3D compatible.

Over 600 megabytes of digital video clips from classic movies & cartoons. Includes Microsoft Video for Windows Run time.

How could this fit on one disc! 1,232 sound effects, 1,044 pictures, 100 movies, 214 MODS, 179 books, 114 Hypercard applications and 608 programs. 100's of examples of multimedia.

Delivers more for your office desktop than your office desktop than you can ignore. Sights and sounds of everyday people on the job-construction workers welders a traffic cop and more. Enjoy full motion video metaphors like juggling acts and train crashes. ROMaterial makes your computer come alive with personality.

Jump into Multimedia with more than 500 multimedia clips and programs. Play video clips, listen to music and sound effects, and view pictures like never before!

P51 MUSTANG FLIGHT SIMULATOR Are you ready to make history? P51 MUSTANG FLIGHT SIMULATOR is set in the European Theatre of WWII, during the summer of 1944. As you pilot the era's most successful fighter, you'll challenge German Me109's in breathtaking dogfights and strafe ground targets. FOKKER TRIPLANE SIMULATOR Feel the wind in your face as you take control of the FOKKER TRIPLANE! Northern France is your playground as you learn daredevil maneuvers and become a hero among the ranks of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Captain Brown. In minutes, you are up and flying with simple controls and instructions. You'll feel confident and prepared to engage the enemy, a Sopwith Camel biplane. FERRARI GRAND PRIX Harness the power of Formula One with FERRARI GRAND PRIX. Your adrenaline surges as the engines rev at the starting line. The light blinks, tires burn against the track and you're off in the most advanced racing machine! It's not just the machine that wins the race, it's your intense concentration and high speed riving ability that makes the difference.

More Than 9,000 Videos You've Never Seen Before!

Storymation

Kids turn their own stores into complete multimedia production! Storymation is the educational tool for young multimedia producers; a fun way to learn storytelling, basic sentence structure and computer skills.

Super Sketch sets the standards for affordable, high-performance drawing software! More flexible than a painting program, everything you create in Super Sketch can be accurately moved, edited, grouped and resized until you get exactly what you want! Create your own graphic images or use any of the more than 700 included in the extensive image libraries. And create dazzling type effects for everything you write! Twist, arch or angle text to make it stand up and shout!

More than 50 performance features at your service. Now with more than 50 tools and functions, each designed to restore speed for all major root causes of PC slowdown, no other product even comes close. Not just for power users and experts, System Mechanic gives you the right solution for your situation, whether it requires precision repair or an all-in-one wizard to easily fix many problems at once. Or, with just a click, you can easily and conveniently let System Mechanic run over 200 critical diagnostic tests and then safely and automatically apply any combination of the individual tools necessary to restore speed, maximize performance, and increase stability.

Beautiful photographic images on your computer! That's what Photo CD capability gives you. And Tempra Access gives you the ability to load, manipulate, and save those images onto hard disk of floppy disk in any major file format, including TIFF, TGA, PCX, WIN, AVA, GIF, PCC, HRS, PXL, IMG, VST, BMP, PTN, and EPS. Includes 214 sample Photo CD images.

Games, Graphics & Utilities

New entry into the multimedia presentation field. Over 70 movie clips of time lapse photography. See the demolition of a building, a house being built, a flower blooming, revolving doors, etc. This is a sure crowd pleaser. Both DOS and WIN supported interface. Audio and video full screen.

Choose from more than 200 of the BEST Windows programs available today! A wide selection covering everything from home and office tools, to educational and entertainment programs!

TrueSpace2 expands painting and drawing into 3-D modeling, ray-tracing and animation. Draw in 3-D, paint on surfaces and shape object like clay. Use the real time preview to direct your characters like actors on a film set all in one modeless, integrated and immersive interface.

Whether your goal is to begin your CAD education or complete a custom design, TurboCAD Designer 2D/3D has everything you need. Filled with multimedia learning resources, it features complete 2-D and 3-D drawings, editing, viewing, and rendering tools. Web access gives you thousands of symbols and house plans at your disposal. You can move symbols and blocks with drag-and-drop simplicity, and the use of setup wizards makes getting started even easier. Use the FloorPlan 3D software to design homes with kitchens, baths, and more, easily and quickly. When you need feedback or once you have finished your design, TurboCAD Designer 2D/3D can export it in AutoCAD format, plus many other formats, making it accessible to more people. Once you start using this product, you'll never settle for less and will always have a resource to help you convert your design ideas into reality.

The Easy Way to Display Presentations, Games, or the Internet on Any TV!

Focus Enhancements TView Micro XGA PC to TV Video Converter Includes: - Converter - Connectors for S-Video and RCA AC Adapter Features: Compact and lightweight Supports up to 1024 X 768 resolution True scale digital video processing 4.25" X 2.75" X 0.88"

Vertigo 3-D Words 3-D text & paths in Adobe Illustrator Stop faking it. Use Vertigo 3-D Words to put real 3-D text along 3-D paths without leaving Adobe Illustrator. Vertigo 3-D Words takes your existing font library into the third dimension. Choose from a selection of real 3-D paths and use our virtual camera to create the effect you want. Vertigo 3-D Words works seamlessly with Adobe Illustrator. 3-D was never easier or more fun. There's nothing like the real thing. So stop faking it. Get vertigo and get into 3-D Vertigo. Because life is 3-D...

500 Megabyte Video-Files

Video for Windows (VFW) provides functions that enable an application to process video data. VFW was introduced in 16-bit Windows. Many of its features have been superseded by features in DirectX. For more information, see the DirectX documentation.

Run Cd Applications from your hard drive at 200x without the actual Cd-Rom. For Gamers, Travelers And Music Lovers

Create, explore and interact in Virtual Reality worlds!

100's of Unique Digitally Created Animations And Digital Illustrations.

Visual Communicator is a new kind of software application that allows PC users to create video messages, presentations or shows that have the professional 'look' of network TV -- without the pain of editing. Its intuitive interface lets anyone go from start to finish in literally minutes using just a webcam or camcorder, and it even includes a built-in TV teleprompter and Hollywood green-screen magic to make anyone look like a pro! Visual Communicator Plus includes everything in the standard version PLUS Serious Magic's official V-screen backdrop, which users can hang behind them to instantly appear to be anywhere in the world using Hollywood green-screen special effects. It also includes a professional quality, clip-on microphone that provides the audio clarity of a real TV broadcast.

Tun your ordinary photo into a painted masterpiece!

-Create paintings from your photos with just two clicks of a mouse. -Fun for he whole family. -Included My Portfolio for managing and storing your pictures Easily email paintings to friends and family. -Make prints from your own printer or order fine-art paintings (up to 20x30) from the On-Line Print Shop.

Dazzle your web audience with fast loading color graphics! Enhance your Web site with large full graphic images while actually improving its performance. Emblaze Web Charger uses breakthrough compression technology to easily compress hi-resolution images into fast loading tiny files-up to 400% more than JPEG! Simply open the image into Emblaze Web Charger, click to compress, save it and drop it into your site. Compressed images can then be viewed through any popular browser quickly and effortlessly, even at low bandwidths!

Stream LIVE AUDIO & VIDEO With the World's Only Advanced Webcam Operating Software

Includes hundreds of: Video for Windows (AVI files), animation (FLC files), Bitmapped images (BMP files), digitized sounds (WAV files) and icons for Windows (.ico files). Extremely friendly user interfade.