System Requirements

PC: Windows® 98 or higher, including XP, Pentium® processor recommended, 32 MB RAM, 45 MB Hard disk space, CD-ROM drive, Printer (optional), Scanner or digital camera (optional)

Instant Stitch 2.0

From borders to backstitch, your creative needlework just got easier with Instant Stitch software on CD-ROM. Brimming with updated features and advanced customizing options, Instant Stitch comprises 3 powerful applications in one patterning system. PM Stitch Creator 3.0 imports your favorite photos or original drawings to the program, ready to tailor your template with virtual needles, text effects, color, and major-brand compatibility to create a customized cross-stitch pattern. Reticent about made-to-measure? Then go off-the-rack with the PM Stitch Viewer, enabling you to access over 1,000 existing templates, from animals to the zodiac, included in the PM Stitch Project Collection. Custom patterns from your images or featured images: the feature-packed, user-friendly Instant Stitch software suite is the most useful stitching tool since the invention of the needle!

System Requirements

PC: Windows® 98 and higher, including XP, Pentium® processor, 32 MB RAM, 80 MB available hard drive space, 256 colors, 4X CD-ROM drive, Sound card, mouse, keyboard, speaker, Printer (optional), Internet access (optional)

Instant Home Cooking

From prep to clean-up, Instant Home Cooking offers a satisfying full-course menu of culinary software tools. Home Cookin comes pre-loaded with over 12,000 recipes for starters, main dishes, and desserts, with the capacity to edit and store millions more of your personal favorites! 100,000 Recipes adds to the culinary wealth with specialties for microwave and slow cooker, diabetic recipes, and thousands of non-food instructions for gifts, cleansers, and polishes. Savor the complexities and nuances of more than 11,500 American wines from over 3,400 producers with The Uncorked Cellar: USA Wine Guide 2004, a barrel of viticultural info at the click of your mouse. BarBack comes front and center to offer the ultimate bartending resource, with 24,969 drink recipes, and advanced options for cocktail searches by name, ingredients, or glassware.

System Requirements

PC: Windows® 95 and higher, including XP, Pentium® II class processor with MMX, 64 MB RAM, 100 MB free hard drive space or more, video card, 16-bit color minimum (24-bit true color recommended), 800X600 or higher screen resolution (1024X768 recommended), CD-ROM drive, Mouse, Printer (optional), Internet access (optional), Scanner, Digital Camera (Optional)

Instant Home Design & Remodeling

Go from desktop to dream home with Instant Home Design & Remodeling, the 2-CD-ROM software suite that lets you create customized before & after visuals of your home renovation, in both photographic and CAD (Computer Aided Design) formats. Imagine Exterior Building & Remodeling® 7.0 lets you import a photo of your home, make photo alterations and additions using the extensive visual library of genuine name-brand products from the nation's leading manufacturers, then print out a photo of your finished project complete with a shopping list of materials. DeltaCad® is the user-friendly CAD program that enables even novices to produce accurate, precise mechanical drawings, employing a host of professional CAD editing features in one easy-to-learn interface. And because both programs use the same file format, you can open a project in one program, then add creative touches with the other! Home improvement results in a drawing or a photograph: the choice is yours. Either way, start construction with Instant Home Design & Remodeling software.

System Requirements

PC: Windows® 95 and higher, including XP, Pentium® II class processor with MMX, 64 MB RAM, 100 MB free hard drive space or more, video card, 16-bit color minimum (24-bit true color recommended), 800X600 or higher screen resolution (1024X768 recommended), CD-ROM drive, Mouse, Printer (optional), Internet access (optional), Scanner, Digital Camera (Optional)

Instant Landscaping

Go from screen to the soil with Instant Landscaping, the 2-CD-ROM software suite that lets you create customized before & after visuals of your outdoor surroundings, in both photographic and CAD (Computer Aided Design) formats. Imagine Landscaping & Outdoor Living® 7.0 lets you import a photo of your yard, select plants compatible with your geographical hardiness zone and work area, then make photo alterations and additions using the extensive visual library of flowers, trees, and other landscaping features. DeltaCad® is the user-friendly CAD program that enables even novices to produce accurate, precise mechanical drawings, employing a host of professional CAD editing features in one easy-to-learn interface. And because both programs use the same file format, you can open a project in one program, then add creative touches with the other! Garden makeover results in a drawing or a photograph: the choice is yours. Either way, harvest the possibilities with Instant Landscaping software.

System Requirements

PC: Windows® 95 and higher, including XP, Pentium® II 350 MHz or better, 64 MB of RAM, 30 MB free hard disk space, CD-ROM drive, 800 x 600 resolution, 256 color screen, Sound card, speaker, mouse.

   Instant Play Guitar

Now you can fulfill your dream of learning to play the guitar, for a fraction of the cost of traditional lessons with Instant Play Guitar on 4 CD-ROMs. Guitar Coach™ First Lessons offers the basics, from how to hold the instrument correctly to proper tuning and strumming techniques. Play Guitar features 2,500 playable tracks, a built-in tuner, comprehensive chord directory, and intensive practice exercises. ChordWizard® Silver is the toolbox for learning chords and scales on the fretboard of the guitar and 115 other stringed instruments. Then, enter and edit your musical score simply and rapidly with Guitar Pro Lite. Whether you're a complete novice, or a seasoned player who's been away from the instrument for a while, get ready to jam with Instant Play Guitar on CD-ROM.

Instant Play Piano

Now you can fulfill your dream of learning to play the piano, for a fraction of the cost of traditional lessons with Instant Play Piano on 4 CD-ROMs. Keyboard Foundation™ is the 50-lesson prep course in musical basics, from reading to rhythm, technique to two-handed play. Polish your phrasing and notational accuracy on your MIDI keyboard with the Etude Sight Reader. Continue your keyboard studies with Music Masterworks, the feature-packed program that lets you compose, play, record, edit, and print your finished music. Then, hone your transcribing and sight-reading skills with the Personal Ear Trainer. Swing rhythmically from computer keyboard to piano keyboard, with Instant Play Piano on CD-ROM.

Simple MovieMaker

Even if you're a complete newcomer to digital editing, let Simple Movie Maker guide you through the 3 simple, frame-by-frame steps to create dazzling motion pictures from your digital photos and camcorder footage.

Step 1: Ready For Your Close-up?
Effortlessly transfer your camcorder footage to your computer "editing bay" with one simple connection. Simple Movie Maker does all the work, converting your video into space-saving format ready for your creative touches!

Features:

• Real-time recording & playback
  
• Background recording
  
• Full-screen & window viewing options

Step 2: Fix It in the Mix.
Titles, animation, special effects - Simple Movie Maker puts you in the editor's chair! Airbrush, crop, rotate, or change backgrounds of individual photos and frames; add professional video and audio effects; assemble your new footage and preview your film's "rough cut" with the click of an icon.

Features:

• Easy, intuitive video sequencing tools
  
• 100+ Hollywood-style color, image & transition special effects
  
• 36 advanced title effects
  
• Adjustable effects intensity & screen area

Step 3: Burn, Baby, Burn!
It's almost showtime and the premiere of your cinematic handiwork! Use the picture icons and step-by-step, on-screen instruction to save your edited video, then burn your �nished movie to disc in crystal-clear DVD format. With Simple Movie Maker guiding you, your feature presentation is about to begin.

Features:

• Easy-click DVD & video CD creation
  Compatibility with all popular file formats
  CD erasing & writing

Lights! Camera! Interactive!
The leap from camcorder photography to cinematic presentation is really a simple step with Simple Movie Maker, the novice-friendly editing software that puts you in the director's chair. Effortlessly transfer your raw digital camcorder footage to your computer monitor; then, get creative by adding pans, wipes, visual effects, and titles - all on one screen, all with a few clicks of the mouse! Simple Movie Maker ensures that if you can drag & drop, your home theater viewing will never be the same.

   Simple SlideShow

Step 1: Edit Mode
Import, organize, edit, effects: Edit Mode gets you started by transferring your digital photos from your camera or existing folders, assembling and organizing them according to your specifications, enhancing them with music and narration, and seamlessly blending your �nished shots for smooth presentation.

Edit Mode lets you:

• Import your photos from your digital camera
  
• Organize & customize your slide show pictures
  
• Add titles, 80 transition effects, music & narration

Step 2: Authoring Mode
Your customizing and creativity get a chance to shine with Authoring Mode. Make each page in your slide show unique with your choice of backgrounds, titles, and on-screen viewer guides for digital playback.

Authoring Mode lets you:

• Organize slide show pages by theme
  
• Choose backgrounds for every page
  
• Select the number of images per page
  
• Add titles & custom navigation arrows

Step 3: Burning Mode
Make a permanent record of your personalized slide show for anytime viewing and sharing. With a click of the mouse, Burning Mode takes your completed presentation and presses it to CD or DVD.

With Burning Mode:

• All DVD-burning software is included
  
• All CD & DVD media standard formats are supported
  
• You can preview your slide show & simulate the burning process

Step 4: Sending Mode

Create a wide array of compatible files in Sending Mode, then, get ready to email your customized and completed slide show to family and friends.

Sending Mode features:

• Email-ready conversions to 4 e-compatible file formats