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Reunion 9

Reunion is a genealogy software program -- a "family tree program" -- for the Macintosh.
Reunion received the highest rating for genealogy software in MacWorld, MacAddict, and Mac Home Journal magazines.
Reunion helps you to document, store, and display information about your family -- your ancestors, descendants, cousins, etc. It records names, dates, places, facts, plenty of notes, sources of information, pictures, sounds, and videos. It shows family relationships in an elegant, graphic form -- people and families are linked in an easy-to-understand fashion.
Reunion makes it easy to publish your family tree information -- even if you want to share it on the Web or carry it on your iPod. You can automatically create common genealogy reports, charts, and forms, as well as birthday calendars, mailing lists, questionnaires, indexes, and other lists. Reunion even creates slideshows, calculates relationships, ages, life expectancies, and statistics.
Reunion also creates large, graphic tree charts allowing complete on-screen editing of boxes, lines, fonts, and colors. Wall charts for family reunions are one of its specialties.

Tags: family relationships, display information, life expectancies, family reunions, family tree information, genealogy software program

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Final Draft Version 8 for Mac [Download]

Final Draft 8 combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics and stage plays

Tags: draft version, Final Draft Version, final draft, word processing

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Quicken Willmaker Plus 2010

Write your will with America's No. 1 estate planning software!

Help protect your family and your assets, and save on legal fees! Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 provides the legal forms you need to create an effective estate plan. So comprehensive, the software assembles your forms from among 40,000 document possibilities -- but so easy to use, you'll have them finished in minutes.

PLUS! When you register your software, you'll receive a coupon to create a living trust for only $1. And, as a special bonus, download a free copy of our bestseller, Estate Planning Basics.

Simply launch Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 and create the following documents in minutes:

Will
Health Care Directive:

Living Will
Health Care Power of Attorney~

Financial Powers of Attorney
Final arrangements document
Important documents for executors

The software also provides forms you can use every day, such as authorizations and agreements, promissory notes, and child and elder care forms.

For each document, Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 takes you through a step-by-step interview. If you have any questions, simply check out the comprehensive onscreen legal manual. Expert tech support is also available. And, your completed documents will automatically reflect the laws of your state*.

Need to know more? Here are in-depth details about what you can do with Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010:

Your Will

Provide for family, friends and charities. Name a personal guardian to care for young children. Specify the executor (or "personal representative") of your estate. Select a trusted person to manage property left to young people. Revise and update your will whenever you like.

Your Health Care Directive lets people who care for you make important decisions about your life and health when you can't. Create a:

Health Care Power of Attorney

Permit a loved one to make important medical decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself.

Living Will

Specify whether you want your life prolonged through artificial means. Appoint someone to make sure your wishes are carried out.

Your Financial Power of Attorney

Name someone to make your financial decisions, in case you are medically incapacitated. Don't worry, you can grant as much authority as you wish.

Your Final Arrangements

Plan a funeral or other ceremony. Clarify whether you want a cremation or burial. Select someone to oversee your final arrangements -- and more!

Documents for Your Executor

Make sure your executor (or "personal representative" in some states) has all the forms and instructions he or she needs to do the job: Checklists, letters, notices, claim forms -- and more.

Personal Finance Documents

Over a dozen forms that let you handle financial situations you might face on any given day, such as lending or borrowing money between friends or family, creating bills of sale, ending a credit card account~-- and more!

Home & Family Documents

Whether you need to authorize someone to travel with your child to another country, want to lend your car to a friend, or create an agreement with a trusted person to take care of your elderly parent, Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 can handle all these family situations -- and many more!

*Estate planning documents not valid in Louisiana.

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Acoustica Mixcraft 5 Audio MIDI Music Recording Software v 5

Mixcraft 5 is a powerful yet easy-to-use multi-track recording studio that enables you to record audio, arrange loops, remix tracks, compose with virtual instruments, score and edit video, and add effects to create stunningly professional compositions. Easy enough for everyone and powerful enough for the pros. Get a studio for a song with Mixcraft 5! Mixcraft includes over 3000 music loops, sound effects, and music beds that can be easily drag-and-dropped into your project. Combine drum, bass, and guitar loops with synth, organ, pianos, vocals, orchestral and percussion loops to create your own custom arrangement. Set the tempo and key of your choice, and the loops will automatically adjust. Mixcraft supports Acid and Garage Band loops too. Mixcraft 5 offers 8 powerful virtual instruments, including the Acoustica Instruments General MIDI sample library, Acoustica Expanded Instruments sample library, Lounge Lizard Session vintage electric piano, VB3 tonewheel organ, MiniMogueVA monophonic analog synthesizer, Messiah polyphonic analog synthesizer, Alien303 Bass Synthesizer, and Impulse polyphonic analog synthesizer. Mixcraft 5 includes 20 high quality effects, including the Pultronic Tube EQ, which models the classic tube equalizer found in studios throughout the world, and the Shred Amp Simulator, a complete suite of 5 classic amp heads, 17 cabinet models, and 6 powerful effects. Load and edit video files with ease. Easily cross−fade from one video clip to another. Remix the audio, add a soundtrack, and effortlessly render your video project to popular formats for creating your own DVDs or uploading to YouTube and other popular internet video sites.

Tags: Garage Band, internet video sites, Entertainment Culture

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Chief Architect Home Designer Architectural 10

Advanced and easy-to-use software for home design, remodeling, interior design, kitchen and bath design, landscaping, decks, and cost estimation for any do-it-yourself user. Home Designer Architectural offers all of the tools you need to complete your next home project. It’s fun and easy, start designing today!

Tags: cost estimation, do-it-yourself user, kitchen and bath, Chief Architect Home Designer, Human Interest

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Chief Architect Home Designer Architectural 10

Final Draft Version 8 [Download]

Tags: final draft, draft 8, combines powerful word processing, movie scripts, word processing

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CALENDAR CREATOR DELUXE V12.1 (WIN XP,VISTA,WIN 7)

The #1 best selling calendar software program makes it easier than ever to create your own personalized calendars. Choose from 500 templates of daily planners weekly organizers and monthly and yearly calendars including exclusive Franklin Covey layouts. Easily import your appointments and information from Microsoft Outlook . Feature your own photos logos and more with easy design and layout tools. And integrated photo editing allows you to make any image perfect. Then simply print out your calendars to share with co-workers friends and family.Plus Calendar Creator v2 is now compatible with Windows 7 & Vista.System Requirements: Windows XP SP 3/Windows Vista SP2/Windows 7. * Pentium ll 300mhz or faster (1GHz for Windows Vista & Windows 7). 128MB RAM (1GB for Windows Vista & Windows 7). 2.8GB of hard disk space.* 8x DVD-ROM drive or faster. 800x600 display 16-bit color. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher. 33.6 Kbps modem or faster and Internet service provider account required for Internet access.*** A printer is highly recommended but not required. Works with most popular printers (monochrome or color) supported by Windows. * Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows XP Windows Vista and Window 7. ** System Configuration: The amount of hard-disk space required can vary if you already have one or more required components (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) installed on your system. If needed Internet Explorer requires an additional 50MB hard-disk space. May require minor adjustments to the configuration of your system and/or updates to the hardware component drivers. *** User is responsible for all Internet access fees and phone charges configuration of your system and/or updates to the hardware component drivers. Format: WIN XPVISTAWIN 7 Genre: PRODUCTIVITY Age: 705381200505 UPC: 7

Tags: windows xp sp, system requirements windows xp, Internet access fees, component drivers, hard disk space, Internet Explorer

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CALENDAR CREATOR DELUXE V12.1 (WIN XP,VISTA,WIN 7)

Music Ace Deluxe

Music Ace Deluxe teaches beginning music lovers the ins and outs of music theory in a fun, interactive manner! Compatible with General MIDI keyboards

Tags: ins and outs, Entertainment Culture, beginning music

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3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe Version 9

Are you longing for a bigger, better, or brand-new home? Stop dreaming and start designing! Featuring professional grade drafting tools in an easy, intuitive interface, 3D Home Architect Home Designer 9 is the jump-start you've been looking for. Convenient wizards help you create basic plans fast, while 3D walk through tours guarantee a flawless finished project. It's easier to get started, easier to access and use your tools and easier than ever to design the home of your dreams -- down to the very last detail. This DVD based design solution is Powered by Punch! Software – the leader in high-end home design software. Home Designer v.9 is Windows/Mac compatible.

Tags: design solution, finished project, deluxe version, last detail, home, Human Interest, designer 9

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Living Cookbook 2008

Working with recipes

Enter recipes with as much or as little detail as you like.
Add images to recipes. In fact you can add a main recipe image, a source image and an image for every recipe procedure step, if you want to.
Copy recipes from the Internet.
Calculate recipe nutrition from the recipe ingredients or enter the nutrition data manually.
Calculate recipe costs.
Share recipes with others, even if they don't own Living Cookbook. You can export, e-mail or import recipes in all of the major recipe file formats.
Add ratings and reviews to recipes.
Add audio or video files to recipes.
Assign recipe types and categories.
Enter the recipe's oven temperature in either Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Choose from five degrees of difficulty.
Use a recipe as an ingredient in another recipe.
Enter preparation time, cooking time, inactive time and total time.
Organize recipes into cookbooks, chapters, sub-chapters, etc. according to your needs.
Customize recipe displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
Add any number of tips to a recipe to record recipe variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc.
Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any recipe.
Print your recipes on any paper format: US letter, legal, A4, 4x6 index card, 3x5 index card and more.
Scale recipes to any number of servings.
Convert recipe units to and from Imperial or metric units.
Eliminate duplicate recipes automatically.
Compare any two recipes side-by-side.

Publishing

Publish your cookbooks with tables of contents and indexes.
Print your publication from within Living Cookbook or export it as a Microsoft Word document.
Format your publication using your choice of fonts, colors, spacing and layouts.

Working with ingredients

Choose from over 7000 ingredients with nutrition data provided by the USDA.
Enter your own custom ingredients or copy them from the Internet.
Import new USDA nutrition as it is made available by the USDA.
Add ingredient images and source images.
Add any number of custom measures (units) for each ingredient.
Assign costs, grocery aisles and preferred stores to ingredients.
Enter ingredient nodes to describe the ingredient, record uses and preparation information, etc.
Share ingredients with other Living Cookbook users.
Organize ingredients into folders and sub-folders.
Customize ingredient displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
Eliminate duplicate ingredients automatically.
Compare any two ingredients side-by-side.
Copy ingredients from the Internet.

Working with menus

Create your own menus using any combination of recipes, ingredient, headings and text.
Add menu images and source images.
Calculate menu nutrition from the menu items or enter the nutrition data manually.
Calculate menu costs.
Share menus with other Living Cookbook users.
Add audio or video files to menus.
Assign menu types and categories.
Organize menus into folders and sub-folders.
Customize menu displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
Add any number of tips to a menu to record menu variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc.
Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any menu.
Eliminate duplicate menus automatically.
Compare any two menus side-by-side.

Working with meals

Add recipes, ingredients, menus, headings and text to meals.
Choose from nine different meals each day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch, snacks, nightcap, etc.)
Add meal headings to organize meals into courses (e.g. Appetizer, Main Course, Dessert, etc.)
Use drag and drop or copy and paste to add ingredient, recipes or menus to a meal.
Use drag and drop or copy and paste to move or copy a range of days, a single day, a meal or individual meal items.
Calculate nutrition for meals, days or a user-defined range of days.
Calculate meal and day costs.
Share meal data with other Living Cookbook users.
Customize calendar displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
View nutrition and cost summary information for a day or a range of dates.
View meal calendar in month, week or day mode.

Working with grocery lists

Add recipe, ingredients, menus or meals grocery lists or enter the grocery list items manually.
Create a grocery list for multiple stores.
Calculate grocery list costs and subtotal by store.
Automatically organize the grocery list by aisles.
Customize grocery aisles by store, including grocery aisle order.
Customize grocery list displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
Share grocery lists with other Living Cookbook users.
Create a grocery list to restock inventory.
Create a grocery list for a range of meal plan dates.
Automatically combine like grocery list items (e.g. "1 cup milk" and "1 pint milk" will be combined automatically to read "1 1/2 pints milk".
Compare any two grocery lists side-by-side.

Working with inventory

Manage your kitchen inventory.
Control the ordering properties of any inventory item (minimum order quantity, order at level, order up to level, etc.).
Share inventory data with other Living Cookbook users.
Customize inventory displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
Create a printable inventory worksheet to help you take stock of your kitchen.
Compare any two inventory items side-by-side.

Working with glossary items

Enter your own glossary items or copy them from the Internet.
Add glossary item images and source images.
Share glossary data with other Living Cookbook users.
Customize glossary displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
Eliminate duplicate glossary items automatically.
Compare any two glossary items side-by-side.

Working with techniques

Enter your own techniques or copy them from the Internet.
Add an image to each technique step.
Share techniques with other Living Cookbook users.
Customize technique displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
Eliminate duplicate techniques automatically.
Compare any two techniques side-by-side.

Working with the Internet

Browse the Internet with Living Cookbook's built-in web browser.
Save references to web pages you like in Living Cookbook's database.
Share saved web pages with other Living Cookbook users.

Working with RSS feeds

View RSS feeds with Living Cookbook's built-in RSS feed aggregator.
Save RSS feeds in Living Cookbook's database.
Share RSS feeds with other Living Cookbook users.

Other features

Backup your Living Cookbook database.
Configure Living Cookbook to backup your database every time you close the application or Living Cookbook can prompt you to backup periodically (you choose how often).
Verify the integrity of a backup file before restoring it.
Restore Living Cookbook backup files from any version of Living Cookbook.
Compact the Living Cookbook database to shrink it to its smallest possible size.
Search, filter and saved searches
Choose from basic or advanced search modes to find the recipes, ingredients, meals and other data you need.
Save advanced searches in your database for future use.
Drag one or more saved searches onto Living Cookbook's filter bar to filter all search results.
Use Living Cookbook's search and replace feature to replace text anywhere in the database.
Use copy and paste to duplicate recipes, ingredients, meals, and more.
Use drag and drop to move or copy recipe, ingredients, meals, etc.
Use Living Cookbook's undo and redo to undo almost any action.
Browse Living Cookbook's comprehensive help file with more than 480 indexed and searchable help topics.
Use Living Cookbook's unique Kitchen Calculator tool to convert between units.
Flag recipes, ingredient, etc. using one of six color flags.
New users can use Living Cookbook's Launchpad feature to help them see all of the actions that can be performed on the selected item.
Check the spelling of recipes, ingredient, meals, glossary items and techniques. Choose either standard or as-you-type (wavy red line under misspelled words) spell-checking.
Use the Back and Forward toolbar buttons to back and forth to recently viewed items.
Use Living Cookbook's built-in database repair tools to fix any potential database problems.
Copy and paste or drag and drop recipes to other applications that accept plain text from the Windows clipboard (e.g. drag a a recipe to an e-mail).
Open multiple recipe workspaces at the same time.
Create links to your favorite or most-viewed recipes, ingredients and other data.
Customize and print any list (e.g. recipe lists, ingredient lists, etc.).
Print multiple recipes, ingredient, etc. at once.
Export to any list to Excel.

Tags: inventory items, built-in web browser, United States Department of Agriculture, grocery, author notes, Cookbook users, search modes

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Crayola Art Studio

Crayola Art Studio is a powerful software program that allows you to draw and paint using digital art tools with realistic effects. Offers boundless creative expression using Crayola Pencils, Paints, Markers, Crayons and more! Learn to edit and transform digital images with over 1000 creativity starters. Adaptable to any user regardless of artistic ability and level of computer skills. Crayola Art Studio was developed from Core Learning's award-winning corefx Three Level software--Awards from Parents' Choice Foundation, National Association of Parenting Publications, Children's Technology Review and the Association of Educational Publishers.

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RootsMagic Family Tree Genealogy Software

Awarded "Editor's Choice" by Heritage Quest Magazine. RootsMagic is an easy to use family tree program with extensive family history reports, multiple navigation views, photos, publishing, and website creation features. RootsMagic supports unlimited people, families, events, notes, and photos. Users can print complete books (where the program writes the sentences for each event), spectacular charts, forms, lists, and even create custom reports. RootsMagic program also provides multiple database support (with drag and drop), SourceWizard, todo lists, powerful merge features, and more. Full GEDCOM support allows users to easily share their data with others, or to easily import their data from other programs. Import directly from Family Tree Maker (v16 and earlier), PAF, Legacy, or Family Origins. Create shareable CDs of your data and photos to send to your family and friends.

Tags: drag and drop, Legacy Family Tree, family tree maker, heritage quest magazine, RootsMagic Family Tree Genealogy Software

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Microsoft Publisher 2010

Microsoft Publisher 2010 helps you create, personalize, and share a wide range of professional-quality publications and marketing materials. With Publisher 2010, you can easily communicate your message in a variety of publication types, saving you time and money. Whether you’re creating brochures, newsletters, postcards, greeting cards, or e-mail newsletters, you can deliver quality results without needing graphic design experience. Get the job done right the first time with Publisher 2010.

Tags: Greeting card, mail newsletters, time and money

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Turbofloorplan Home & Landscape Pro V12

Designing your dream home has never been easier. Choose from one of the sample plans or build your own from scratch with the powerful House Builder Wizard and create your dream home layout to your exact specifications. Customize the interior and outdoor space by quickly adding walls color furniture lighting landscaping or a deck. Experience your dream home in photorealistic 3D and create a virtual walkthrough to show friends and family. Home Design Remodeling Interiors Kitchens & Baths Landscaping Site Planning Cost Estimating and more Design and Visualize your home in Photorealistic 3D Automatic Building and Design Tools like Home Design Wizard Kitchen Design Wizard Deck Design Wizard Shed Design Wizard Material Selector Brand Name Content Color Chooser and more Over 10000 built-in Library Items Material Selector - point-and-click colors for walls floors countertops and more Accurate Measurements & Cost Estimating Over 1000 Sample Home PlansSystem Requirements: Microsoft® Windows® 2000 (SP4) XP (SP2) or Vista 500Mhz or higher processor 750MB free hard drive space 512MB RAM (*1 GB RAM Recommended) DVD-ROM drive Video Card with OpenGL driver and 32MB RAM (*64MB RAM Recommended) Color monitor with 1024x768 resolution or higher Windows-compatible mouse Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher to access online features (Optional) *Use these requirements to optimize your software experience. Format: WIN XPVISTA Genre: REFERENCE / LIFESTYLE UPC: 730526358162

Tags: RAM, kitchens baths, software experience, designing your dream home, home layout, virtual walkthrough

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Jack 5.0 Computer Bridge Software

Jack is a computer bridge program developed by bridge players for bridge players and has a fully graphical user interface. One of the developers is former world champion Berry Westra (Bermuda Bowl, Chile 1993). Jack uses state of the art computer algorithms. Jack's possibilities exceed those of all other bridge playing programs. Besides its exceptional bidding and playing strength, Jack offers a very user-friendly interface with many interesting features.

Built in convention cards SAYC, Precision, Moscito, Acol, 2/1 GF and many others; Over 80 conventions; Network play; Professor Jack analyzes your play and advices; Play competition on the virtual bridge club; Define computer personalities; adjust playing strength in detail; Many tournaments with frequency charts included; True English playing cards by Carta Mundi; Deals in tournament; random or controlled by deal profile; World Champion Computer Bridge in 2001 (Toronto); 2002 (Montreal); 2003 (Menton); 2004 (New York) and 2006 (Verona); Multilingual CD with English, Dutch, French, German and Polish; Possibility to translate the interface to any other language included; Compose your own convention card; Double dummy problem solver

System Requirements:
Windows XP, Vista (32-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit); Memory: 256 Mb; Hard Disk: 100 Mb; Video: 1 Mb SVGA. Pentium or AMD, minimum 400 MHz, recommened 1GHz

Tags: berry westra, Play, Card Games, english dutch, strength, windows xp, bridge players

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