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| Ventura
Educational Systems
Curriculum Software Tools
for Active Teaching and Active Learning |
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AutoCAD
is the 2D and 3D design and drafting tool of choice used by millions of professionals.
AutoCAD 2006, the fastest, easiest AutoCAD release ever, is packed
with new and enhanced features that help users, create, share, and manage their
design easily. |
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Alibre
Design 3D CAD Software: POWERFUL. EASY. AFFORDABLE. 3D mechanical design
software for everyone — regardless of budget or CAD experience level. |
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Vue 6 is the ideal tool for 3D scenery. With a rich but incredibly easy-to-use feature set and heaps of content to get you going, Vue 6 will let you create breathtaking images and animations of your own 3D worlds within minutes!. |
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TurboCAD
Deluxe 9 is the best way to design and present your ideas in full photorealistic
3D. Easily access over 250 2D/3D precision design tools, including advanced features
like Lightworks, to create impressive sketches, drawings, and 3D surface models. |
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Design at a Higher Power
Have you ever wished that there was a 3D application that was as easy to use as Photoshop and had the precision of Illustrator? Strata 3D CX is the answer to your design needs with the ability to link to Photoshop files, import Illustrator art, and create photo-real images and animations. |
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| Classroom
Font Collections |
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| Fonts
for Creative Teachers is an exceptional collection of creative fonts and includes
handwriting and cursive fonts, special math fonts including fractions and geometry
and a delightful library of decorative fonts. [Download
here] |
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| Quality
fonts and graphics utilities for classroom teachers. Get these fonts immediately
by downloading them from our website. |
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| 31
fonts designed especially for teachers. |
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| Digital
Video and Digital Audio Creation |
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| Power
Tools for the professional video editor... |
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Learn by Video DVD - Structured around the objectives of the Adobe Certified Associate level certification; the series teaches not only the fundamentals of Adobe Software but also how to create effective forms of visual, web and rich media communication. |
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| Graphics
effects for all your video editing projects. |
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| The
fastest, easiest way to share digital photos by email... |
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| Professional
music production software... |
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| Canopus
- No Limits Video Technology |
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| DAZ
Bryce - Awake to a new world of creativity. |
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DVD Training for Adobe Creative Suite , Photoshop CS Extended and Indesign CS with a fresh and effective approach to learning. |
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Digital Video Software Developer |
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innoheim offers liteCam Screen Recorder for recording whatever you see on your screen as video with audio and liteRecorder which will record streaming audio even while your sleeping. |
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MovieWorks provides you
with all the tools you need to make a QuickTime movie, video or multimedia presentation,
with unprecedented ease and affordability. |
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If you are into editing
music or video, check out the new products from Magix, the worldwide leader in
personal rich media content creation software. |
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Spice up your video
projects with Spice Master 2.0 and Spice Filters. |
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Real-time animation evolves with 3D Video FX, motion paths, HDR and rapid drag & drop creation inside iClone4. |
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| Unleash
Creative Potentials and Talents with Professional Level Sound and Video Editing
Products: Vegas, Sound
Forge and ACID. |
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| Sorenson
Squeeze 4 Compression Suite Windows includes
Sorenson Video 3 Pro, Sorenson Spark Pro, Sorenson MPEG-4 Pro and Sorenson AVC
Pro video codecs. |
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| particleIllusion
is a standalone particle effects application that is easy to use, fast, and powerful.
Use it to quickly add amazing particle effects to any image, animation or video. |
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| Award-winning
early learning programs. |
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| Jumpstart
and Blaster programs get students off to the right start. |
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Four Popular Early Learning Titles: Bailey's Book House, Millie's Math House. Sammy's Science House, and Trudy's Time and Place. |
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| "Making
Learning a Lifetime Adventure" |
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The award-winning Earobics software provides individualized, explicit instruction in all areas of reading, plus writing. |
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Virtual
Labs and Classic Learning Programs for Elementary Students |
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Athena Classroom - A New Way to Facillitate Teacher / Student Communication. |
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| IngenuityWorks
Award-winning Educational Products... All the Right Type, Crosscountry USA 2,
Crosscountry Canada 2, Mathville and more... |
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SAT, ACT and PSAT Platinum for Mac and Windows. FEATURES include: Test Questions, Complete Score Analysis & Performance Feedback, Interactive lessons, Exam Strategies & Hints and includes prep for the NEW SAT. |
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Training DVD's for most major software applications. |
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| Master
essential programs with these DVD training videos. |
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| The
fun way for kids to learn a new language KidSpeak is a language- learning breakthrough
that makes learning a second language easy for kids of all ages. |
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Endnote - Formats and keeps track of references for research papers. |
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| Tools
for Active Teaching and Active Learning |
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| Visions
Technology in Education - Tools for Teachers, Designed by Teachers! |
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| Social Studies - Geography & History |
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The American Institute for History Education (AIHE) is a leading provider of K-12 educational classroom resourc- es and professional development services for History and Social Studies teachers. AIHE’s award-winning cross- curricular resources have been adopted throughout the nation by high school, middle school, and elementary school teachers. |
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| Mission
Possible - World Geography and GeoCycle - USA are two outstanding,
award-winning programs to help students learn, discover, find and explore while
building geography skills. |
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| WorldandISchool.com is the perfect cross-curriculum resource, providing 20 years of thought-provoking reading and visuals for Social Studies, Language Arts, Science and The Arts. |
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| Our
new exceptional line of history software for middle schools and high schools meets
state and national standards. Click here
to learn more about WorldView Software. Award-winning curriculum-based software
in U.S. and World History (grades 7-12)! |
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| UltraKey
- The ultimate keyboard tutor. |
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| Roller
Typing helps students type faster and more accurately. For students 8 years
old to adult. |
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Keybo
Typing Adventure. A keyboarding program for elementary and middle school age students. Now distributed exclusively by Ventura Educational Systems |
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| Enter
a wonderful new world of learning with JumpStart Typing. |
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| Mavis
Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe provides dynamic one-on-one keyboarding instruction
and assessment that adapts to individual student needs at all levels. |
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| SpeedSkin
Peek-Proof Keyboard Covers + TypingMaster/SpeedSkin Edition = the Complete Keyboard
Instruction Solution. |
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| PAWS
in Typing Town - Improve Typing Speed and Accuracy with this popular keyboarding
program. |
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| Software
for Advanced Chemistry including ChemSketch. |
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| Human
Anatomy Reference Materials. |
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Earth
Science, is an interactive multimedia CD-ROM that helps users explore
our Earth system. The CD-ROM presents information on 10 areas of earth phenomena:
clouds, earthquakes, forests, global warming, great lakes, the ocean, ozone, polar
ice, volcanoes, and wetlands. |
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| New
Volume Pricing for schools, districts and states! Call for details. |
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| Create
Mathematical Equations for your Technical Documents |
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| The
ultimate science pack! Every one of these 10 subjects is an essential part of
any middle school science curriculum. |
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| For
college and university level mathematics educators, Derive 5 offers an easy to
use, powerful CAS teaching tool with maximum computational power and 3-D graphing
capability at an affordable price. |
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| Our
new product from Primal Pictures, the highly acclaimed human anatomy software,
which has wide use in the college and graduate market, is now available for the
high school biology classroom. |
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| New!
Soccer Math builds math skills by helping students practice at their own
pace. Key Topics: Place Value, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division,
U.S. Measurement, Metric Measurement, GCF/LCM, Fractions, Decimals and Perscents. |
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| powerOne®
Graph simplifies TI, HP and Casio graphing-scientific calculator functionality
by utilizing the touch screens and larger displays of Palm OS handheld computers.
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| Jumpstart
K, 1 & 2 help students prepare for success in math and reading. The popular
Blaster programs give students help with the basics math and reading. |
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Transform the
way you work and learn with our tools for scientific creativity. Scientific
WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific
Notebook make creating mathematical documents easier. |
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| Mathcad® is the industry standard calculation package for technical professionals and the
technical academic community. Unmatched in breadth of functionality, Mathcad provides
an environment of inherent interactivity. |
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Our
new product from Primal Pictures, the highly acclaimed human anatomy software,
which has wide use in the college and graduate market, is now available for the
high school biology classroom. |
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Star Gazer - Your window to the stars, user friendly educational astronomy
software. |
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Specialized Scientific Software for the Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Medical Research and Engineering. |
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Tools
for Active Teaching and Active Learning. |
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Mathematica and other tools for advanced mathematics... |
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| Multimedia,
Art and Creativity |
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| Graphics
Tools to Enhance Creativity |
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| 3D
Choreographer is an animation program designed for non-artists. You can use the
animations (AVIs) in PowerPoint presentations, CD-Rom applications, corporate
training, educational software, or on the Internet. |
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| Featuring
America's Favorites - Kid Pix and Logical Journey of the Zoombinis |
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Order the UltraKey typing program here. MP
Express - The premier tool for creating multimedia presentations. |
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| CeledyDraw
is a drawing and publishing software tool that is perfect for schools, small businesses
and home users. |
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| Powerful
tools to help capture, store, organize and present ideas and information effectively. |
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| Affordability
and power, Image Broadway offers great features for enhancing any image. |
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| Express
your creativity with Krazy ArtRoom and learn to use PhotoShop more effectively
with these outstanding products. |
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| Inspiration integrates an expanded range of visual learning and thinking techniques with the
latest standards in graphics and Internet technology. |
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| MindManager
6 - The New Visual Thinking Tools that give you the power to capture and communicate
creative ideas visually! |
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Great add-on products for Flash and/or Flex users. Zinc works seamlessly alongside these products, and therefore maybe just the perfect tool to streamline your multimedia production projects. |
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Art Explosion 200,000, Art Explosion 600,000, Art Explosion 750,000, and Art Explosion 800,000, lots and lots of quality images for your desktop publishing and web development needs. |
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Turn
your digital images into YOUR own personal comic books with Comic Book Creator. |
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Introducing the award-winning range of DTP and graphics software. |
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| HyperStudio
- Websites and Multimedia You Can Make! |
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Music
Creation, Instruction and Composition |
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| Adventus
- The World Leader in Music Education Technology |
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Storm
- An incredibly fun music creation program, also, the new, incredible
MOOG Modular V virtual synthesizer. |
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DART produces award-winning digital audio recording and noise reduction software products for users of all levels. Whether you're into audio restoration, CD ripping and burning or you want to make a karaoke CD, we have the audio control software you need. |
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eMedia Piano and Keyboard Method CD-ROM offers over 300 step-by-step lessons starting from the basics; such as hand position, rhythm, and playing on black keys; followed by music notation, sight reading, scales, and much more! |
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Does the world really need a new sampled piano? In a word, yes. This is the only virtual piano with Steinway's name and approval. Hearing is believing. |
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MakeMusic!
Music notation, like music, should be an experience. Finale is the world
standard for creating, editing and printing sheet music. |
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M-Audio is a leading provider of creative tools for computer-centric musicians and audio professionals. M-Audio is the driving force in the industry empowering musicians to create, perform and record with complete mobile hardware/software solutions that have forever changed when, where and how music is made. |
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Native Instruments is the pioneer and market leader in the field of software instruments, and one of the key players in the market of computer-based audio production technology. |
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| Sibelius
offers an elegant, intuitive interface for creating beautiful music scores. |
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 | MiDisaurus
is the award winning multimedia music learning system designed for music beginners
by music educators. With over 500 entertaining activities in MiDisaurus
provides a complete basic music curriculum for children ages 4-11. An edutainment
approach holds the child's interest with colorful animation, fun-filled games,
songs and activities. |
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| Personal
Productivity Tools |
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| Corel
Painter, Corel Draw Graphics Suite, Word Perfect... great products at affordable
prices. |
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| Mariner
Calc and Mariner Write are two productivity tools that offer teachers
and students excelent number crunching and word processing capabilities. |
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| If
your into screenwriting then you'll want to know about Final Draft, the premiere
screenwriting software. Also available is Final Draft AV, a full-featured script
processor specifically designed for audio/visual scriptwriting. |
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With InvestinTech products you can recover and reuse PDF content. Preserve layout, graphics and text for easy editing in Word & analysis in Excel. |
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| Professional
Graphics Tools and Web Design |
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| Creative
Tools Enabling a Digital Future: Collage Creator, FunHouse, Greeting Card Creator,
Panorama Maker, Photobase, Photo Impression, Photo Montage, PhotoPrinter, PhotoStudio,
Showbiz 2 & Video Impression |
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 | Creative
tools, Painter and KPT Effects, give you the power to produce fantastic computer
graphics. | |
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Affordable and accurate color calibration. |
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| Designed
as add-ons to FrontPage, Java Effects and Page Effects give web sites a professional
makeover quickly and easily. Java Effects and Page Effects let you insert eye
catching animations and stunning sound effects to keep your web site visitors
mesmerized. |
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| EasyPano
offers a broad selection of tools for creating panoramas. Panoweaver provides
an easy and powerful way of creating a panorama and brings you to the full immersive
virutal world with a full 360 degrees horizontal movement and 180 degrees vertical
movement. |
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| DeBabelizer:
The World-Standard Automated Media Processor for Mac® and Windows® |
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| Make
your web site stand out with these easy-to-use companions for Microsoft FrontPage.
Turn images, logos, and text messages into animated visual effects in minuts using
a point-and-click interface. |
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| Any
image, Any time. Anywhere... |
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| VectorWorks
ARCHITECT streamlines every phase of the design and production process. |
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| Netstudio:
Easy Web Graphics in 10 Minutes...
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| LightWave
3D - Ultimate Tool for Rendering 3D Graphics. |
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| Now
students, teachers and professors can enjoy the benefits of QuarkXPress at special
academic pricing. |
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| Rhinoceros
3D - Start with a sketch, drawing, physical model, or only an idea—Rhino
provides the tools to accurately model your designs ready for rendering, animation,
drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing. Rhino can create, edit, analyze,
and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids in Windows. |
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Introducing the award-winning range of DTP and graphics software. |
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| Freeway
Pro 3.5 - Web Design in the Fast Lane |
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| Unleash
Creative Potentials and Talents with Professional Level Sound and Video Editing
Products. |
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| The
ideal choice for organizations looking for an affordable, powerful, and easy-to-use
stand alone digital identity and photo card management solution with local ID
card production capabilities. |
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| Developers
of Wired Media Authoring Tools - Check out these cool tools... |
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| Professional
Video Effects Libraries - Add awesome effects to your video editing projects.
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| The
VR Worx offers an entire suite of tools, the perfect solution for users who require
all the power that QuickTime VR has to offer. |
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| Auralog
- Award-winning software for learning languages. The popular Tell
Me More series helps kids learn English while having fun. |
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Hop! Writing is designed to stimulate literary creativity and help compose structured stories. |
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Sight Words with Samson is an educational software program that helps students learn how to read. |
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Read, Write & Type Learning System™ adventure takes place in a fantasy world inside the computer. In the RWT!™
program CD (steps 1-7), a mischievous computer villain called Vexor tries to steal
the letters and prevent the storytellers from writing down their stories. |
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| The
fun way for kids and adults to learn a new language. Transparent Language products
are a language-learning breakthrough that makes learning a second language easy
for students of all ages. |
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| Got
a great idea for a Hollywood blockbuster? Sitcom? School play? |
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| These
Quality Products Combine an Easy-to-Use Interface with a Contextual Timeline |
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| An
incredible resource with a wealth of information at an unbelievable price. |
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Formatting software products used for writing academic papers in APA Style, MLA Style, Chicago/Turabian Style, and Seminary Style. |
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| Encyclopedias,
National Geographic and more... |
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| Panda
Security offers a variety of essential protection utilities. |
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| Norton
SystemWorks! The ultimate in system protection. |
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Make every desktop Windows-compatible! |
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Vision 6 - Classroom control software to aid instruction. |
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SANAKO Study 500 is performance improving software for teaching, combining the use of multimedia and the internet with a suite of essential classroom management tools. |
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| New
software from Aladdin to compress files, clean up your hard drive and protect
your files. |
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Specialized utilities to more efficiently and more effectively manage your classroom
and school computers. |
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Internet security tools that protects against viruses and other threats to your valuable computer data. |
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Nero 8 brings the digital world to your PC. |
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| Protect
your network from damage caused by computer viruses. |
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Now it is easy to run Windows on your Intel Mac - right alongside Mac OS X. Parallels Desktop for Mac lets you switch back and forth between Mac OS X and fullscreen Windows XP with a simple keystroke. |
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| Advanced
Screen Capture Software...
Camtasia
Studio simplifies the creation of successful software training, demos
and support materials. Anyone can create compelling screen videos-- just click
Record to capture all your on-screen activity. Anyone can view screen videos created
with Camtasia Studio, which supports Macromedia Flash and streaming video output
formats. |
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Award-Winning System Optimization Software for Windows Computer Systems. |
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