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CUSTOM LICENCES AVAILABLE ON THIS PRODUCT. PLEASE ADD TO QUOTE WITH YOUR REQUIREMENTS. SUPPLIED AS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Mavis Beacon's avatar is so realistic that you'll think she's inside your computer, cheering you on. And there's plenty to cheer about in this new edition. User progress, scores, and settings can now be stored in iCloud for instant access from any computer with this version of Mavis Beacon installed, and Lion full-screen capability is completely supported. Try out the optional Dvorak keyboard, used by the world's fastest typists. Type the lyrics of your favorite songs for practice while listening to your iTunes playlists. Get smarter while you practice typing up-to-the minute news feeds. Type an entire novel for practice, with the full text of dozens of classic novels, from Treasure Island to Les Miserables. Take a break with 17 gorgeous high-resolution action typing games, the most games ever in a Mavis Beacon edition. Set up automatic iCal reminders to make sure you get in the practice time you need, up to three times a day. Also includes personalised progress reports, dictation practice, a custom lesson creator, ergonomic videos, posture exercises and much more. Features More RSS Feeds Keep your finger on the pulse while you practice your typing with four times as many up-to-the minute news feeds as before. Type today's weather forecast from The Weather Channel, the latest science report from NASA, or the top news stories from BBC News — you'll be a smarter and wiser typist for it! Even more games! With seventeen gorgeous typing games, including the new Ragtime Rhythm, this Mavis Beacon has more games than ever before. Mavis Avatar The world's number one typing instructor comes alive in this new edition when she speaks to you as an avatar during your typing lessons. Export Creature Movies! Create an animal or a fantasy creature in the Creature Lab Game, then export it as a QuickTime® movie to post on the Web or send to a friend. Typing practice was never this much fun! Track Your Progress. Chart Your Success! Mavis Beacon tracks your progress step by step and points out the keys you need to concentrate on. And when you pass a major typing milestone you can print out a certificate from the Mavis Beacon Institute. Twice as many classic novels We've added the full text of even more classic novels to keep you engrossed as you type — from Around the World in Eighty Days to Moby Dick. Bookmarks are placed automatically as you pause or stop the lesson, so you can always find your place right away. Song Lyrics Practice Practice typing the lyrics from your favorite music while you listen to the same songs in your iTunes® playlists! Dvorak Keyboard We think August Dvorak would be mighty pleased that the keyboard he introduced in 1936 would be used by the world's fastest typists. Now you can try out the Dvorak keyboard too - as an option to the traditional QWERTY keyboard in this new edition. iCal® Reminders Now you can easily set up automatic reminders in iCal to make sure you get in the practice time you need - up to three times a day! Floating Typing Gauge Measure your typing speed in any application with this new floating menu bar utility. System Requirements Minimum System Requirements System - Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, including OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" Processor - G3 350 MHz or faster, including all Intel Macs Memory - 512 MB RAM Display - 1024x768, Millions of Colors Free hard disk space - 740 MB CD-ROM drive - For installation only Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Ultimate Edition includes: QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts Individually tailored lessons as skills grow More than 1000 text passages for practice Dictation and transcription exercises Ergonomic videos and posture exercises Curriculum map, reports, and certificates 17 typing games including 3 network games Custom Lesson Designer using your own text

CUSTOM LICENCES AVAILABLE ON THIS PRODUCT. PLEASE ADD TO QUOTE WITH YOUR REQUIREMENTS. The wonders of our world are captured in this new edition of World Book. See how a killer tornado is formed. Witness the notorious Berlin Wall coming down. Watch cheetahs running seventy miles an hour. See how ancient Egyptians made mummies. The journey begins here. Just Looking The Just Looking area is where you'll find "the good stuff": Pictures of people and places that interest you - from Rock Stars to Explorers, Skyscrapers to Castles - all from the World Book Media Collection. Just listening You can experience true multimedia with coordinated sights and sounds from World Book's music and photo collections. Copenhagen provides an ideal backdrop for the Danish national anthem, as a farmer tending rice fields in Vietnam does for a Vietnamese folk dance. Webcam The next best thing to being half way across the world is to travel through the magic of Webcams. We have put together a collection of kid-safe Web cameras from around the world, which we update regularly. From the tranquil beauty of mountain panoramas to the bustle of urban jungles, watch life on our planet unfold before your eyes. Articles Every single article from the 22-volume print edition of the 2013 World Book Encyclopedia is included, plus eighty years of archived articles in World Book's online resources. And with automatic Article Updates you'll always be up to date! Surf the Ages In the simulated Web sites of Surf The Ages, even Joan of Arc has her own Web page. Century by Century from 3500 BC, see what the Web might have looked like, from the Black Plague Information Site, to the Leif Eriksen Fan Page. Time Frame Find all the media and articles related to a particular era such as the Renaissance or the American Revolution, or find out what happened the day you were born. Trivia Challenge Test and improve your knowledge with our Trivia Challenge game. It covers a wide variety of topics from history and literature to sports and space exploration, allowing you to match your wits against World Book and maybe discover something new along the way. Movies World Book offers hundreds of videos and animations, including historical footage and animal scenes. See and hear volcanoes erupting and bees making honey. Watch the Tacoma Bridge collapse. Witness the attack on Pearl Harbour.

CUSTOM LICENCES AVAILABLE ON THIS PRODUCT. PLEASE ADD TO QUOTE WITH YOUR REQUIREMENTS. The new STEAM edition of KID PIX enters a world where art and science reunite and critical thinking meets creative making. Young artists can now transform their digital stories and adventures into interactive digital art, science and math projects with the help of STEAM activities tailored to suit the needs of your ingenious young innovators. New button actions enable students to design interactive quizzes or create a learning game. Using a variety of animated costumes and their own recorded videos, students can star in their documentaries or talk to an animated character who shares the screen. Features NEW! Interactivity New button actions enable students to design interactive quizzes NEW! Voiceovers for slide shows Record a full narration for your entire slide show, or give voices to the characters in your animated story. Path Gestures Rotating and resizing stickers, animations, movies and text while moving along a path is as simple as pinching and dragging, making it easy for characters to hop, jump and fly around the screen. Create Stickers Students can use the new Sticker Maker tool to create their own stickers out of anything they see or draw on the screen. Stickers are not automatically flattened to the background so they can be resized, rotated, flipped and assigned a path. Collaborative Video Narration Two students using the iPad’s built-in dual-view camera can create a video narration for their story, and add animated costume frames that let them not only tell their stories on screen, but appear as characters in them as well. Interactive Tappable Objects No longer bound to a linear model, students can create interactive characters that tell their story when tapped, sing a song, play a musical note, make an odd noise, or just fly off the screen. Layer Tools Students will learn simple layering concepts (move to front, sent to back, etc.) with the new Layer Tools in the Grab Tools area. Combined with the 3D characters and 3D backgrounds, they can now begin to explore the relationship of scale and perspective. Presentation Creator Slide shows and stop-action flipbook movies can be assembled on the same screen as the paint canvas with the new Slide Tube, including setting transitions, slide duration, music tracks and how tot advance to the next slide. Mac OSX Edition System OS® X 10.10.5 or later, including macOS 10.13 High Sierra Hard drive space 4.2 GB Display 1024 x 768 display resolution, millions of colors Built-in or external video camera For recording video and taking photos Microphone For Sound Art Tools and recording narration Internet connection For publishing to YouTube™ DVD drive Only if installing from a DVD Windows Edition System Microsoft® Windows 7 SP1 or later, including Microsoft Windows 10 Processor 2 GHz Intel™ 2 Duo processor or equivalent Memory 2 GB RAM Free hard disk space 4.2 GB Display 1024×768, 32-bit color or higher Built-in or external video camera For recording video and taking photos Sound card For sound and video playback Microphone For Sound Art Tools and recording narration Internet connection For publishing to YouTube™ DVD drive Only if installing from a DVD