Other Sites
The Software MacKiev Company's World Book is an Apple Design Award winner contains every article from the 22-volume book set, plus thousands of photos, maps, animations, video clips, 360-degree panoramas, and more.
New in this version:
World Book is more powerful and convenient to use as you can now choose to open articles in separate windows and resize them when necessary, instead of having a single World Book window occupying the whole screen.
Customize World Book appearance to suit your taste. You can change the classic World Book Water look to Black Pearl, Daisy Field, Cherry Wood, and even Swiss Cheese theme!
Notepad has been enhanced with lots of new features. You can now resize images directly in the document, set line spacing, wrap text around images, and much more.
Now you can use dictionary that comes with World Book without having to launch the World Book application - it's now a separate application for your convenience.
Added the Map Browse feature to the World Book Atlas so you can easily browse through continents and countries.
Sticky Notes were enhanced so that users can decide which folders of sticky notes they want to share and even require a password.
New World Book features search through articles by letter. You can display a list of all articles starting with a certain letter, just like going through real encyclopedia volumes.
World Book fully supports the new VoiceOver feature of Mac OS X Tiger. You can use the VoiceOver cursor to move around the World Book screen and hear descriptions of the items it lands on. You can also activate buttons, read and edit text.
Added sounds from the Warner/Rhino Music Collection to World Book media. As you browse through articles, you will see music icons that take you to the Media Center, where you can listen to sound clips from famous artists such as Madonna, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Cher, George Benson, Linda Ronstadt, and many others.
With the Tool Kit you can easy navigate through contents of specific World Book areas, and keep your Sticky Notes organized. The most frequently used controls have been moved to the Tool Kit so that they are always at hand.
The media canister animation is greatly enhanced, and larger thumbnails and text under the media items make navigating through the article's media more convenient.
New for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", this widget shows significant events in history that took place on the current day or any selected day. Click any link on the widget page and you are taken to the corresponding World Book article.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
If you have a previous World Book edition for Mac OS X (2002, 2003, 2004 or 2005), you can order the upgrade for $39.95
For more information, visit:
http://www.mackiev.com/world_book.html
Tags: News ď Software News ď
