Family Tree Maker 2009can help you build your family tree, gather stories and photos and create charts and books to share with your family. The Essentials Edition includes a one-month subscription to Ancestry.com ? the world's largest online collection of family history records with more than 7 billion ancestors' names. Enter facts about your family and Family Tree Maker will automatically connect to the site. From there, Family Tree Maker 2009 will let you quickly add historical records and facts from Ancestry.com to your tree. Publish your tree online to share with the whole family. You can also preserve your heritage by adding photos, video and audio clips to your tree. Or use Family Tree Maker's interactive maps, timelines, charts and more to help bring your story to life.

The Essentials Edition also includes:

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Family Tree Maker 2009 by Ancestry.com, the #1 selling family history software, can help you easily discover, preserve and share your family history. It can help you build your family tree, gather stories and photos and create charts and books to share with your family. The Essentials Edition includes a one-month subscription to Ancestry.com--the world's largest online collection of family history records with more than 7 billion ancestors' names. You'll also receive an interactive training tutorial and The Family Tree Maker Little Book of Answers.

What's new in Family Tree maker 2009? Exciting new charts and reports Improved data editing and manipulation Enhanced maps, charts and reports A robust "find and replace" functionality Expanded RTF and HTML export Improved file merging and memory usage A way to copy and paste source citations The ability to save and apply templates Increased overall performance

Bonus materials inside: The Getting Started Guide to Family Tree Maker Follow simple directions to begin a project and master the program's basic features Interactive Training Tutorial Get step-by-step instructions and tips that will help you easily build and grow your family tree. The Family Tree Maker Little Book of Answers Read short sections that will tell you how Family Tree Maker can work best for you.

Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting on your family tree, Family Tree Maker 2009 can help you create a family tree faster, easier, and better than ever before. The end result is a family history that you and your family will treasure for years to come.

Family Tree Maker 2009 lets you easily:

• Organize your family story privately and conveniently on your personal computer
• Create charts and reports in a variety of formats to share with friends and family
• Discover new information anywhere on the web and add it to your tree instantly
• Integrate with the 7 billion names in historical records on Ancestry.com. Even receive hints linking you to matching records.
• Incorporate photos, documents and audio, video and other files into your tree.
• View timelines and interactive maps.

How can you make the most of Ancestry.com? Family Tree Maker Deluxe 2009 comes with one month of free access to Ancestry.com, the world's largest online collection of family history resources. Your software works seamlessly with the site so you can easily search for your ancestors and add the information you discover to your tree. You could find missing facts about your family in census records, draft cards, passenger lists, image collections and other historical resources.

What's New?

• Create essential genealogy reports (Register and Ahnentafel)
• Share your family tree with several new charting options: hourglass, bow tie, and fan. You can also use custom templates or design your own
• Streamline your data entry with one-click editing of individuals from any workspace in the software
• Simplify sourcing with "cut and paste" source citations
• Track AND print your ancestors' migration paths on interactive maps
• Enjoy faster startup times and improved file performance
• Find your ancestors more easily with improved Web Search. You can even choose to ignore irrelevant results.

And don't forget the features you've come to rely on:

• Dynamic user interface that lets you quickly switch between important features
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestry File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree
• Powerful sourcing tools that let you document AND rate each of your citations
• Interactive maps and lists that give you a bird's-eye view of where members of your family come
• Place authority database of more than 3 million names that helps you standardize your place entries
• Photo AND file management features so you can easily incorporate all types of media files into your charts and reports
• Timelines that highlight personal, family, and world events
• Easy-to-use tools for merging duplicate individuals, calculating dates, creating to-do lists, and more

Use Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker together to get the most out of both.

• Search the extensive record collections at Ancestry.com without ever leaving your family tree! And, when you find new records, you can quickly merge them into your tree.
• Take advantage of Ancestry Hints--Family Tree Maker automatically suggests records that may match people in your tree
• Share heirloom-quality books and attractive posters that you create with the self-publishing tool at Ancestry.com

Your Family Tree Maker 2009 software also includes:

• Training Tutorial for Family Tree Maker 2009 (included on Family Tree Maker disk)
• Getting Started Guide (included on Family Tree Maker disk)

14-day free trial subscription to Ancestry.com.
Search the world's largest online repository of family history records.

Keep your PC as safe as your home is with 360 Version 2.0 for Windows. With a single subscription, you can protect up to 3 PCs. It safeguards your family by verifying trusted Web sites, blocking fake ones, and securely managing user names and passwords so that they can safely shop, bank, or browse online. Norton 360 V2.0 also helps keep your PCs running at peak performance and protects your data by making it easy to automatically back up and restore files locally or to a secured online storage service.

One-click access to expert support right from the software 1-year protection for up to 3 PCs Faster scans and browse speeds, faster start-up times Identity Protection securely manages all your user names, passwords and sensitive information Browser Protection defends against malicious programs that use vulnerabilities in your browser to insert malware Network Monitoring helps protect your home network against unauthorized access Backup provides support for new backup destinations including Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs and iPods Registry Cleanup helps optimize performance by removing unneeded Windows registry files Phishing Protection for Firefox guards online attempts to steal your personal informationSystem Requirements Windows XP Home/XP Pro/XP Media Center Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows Vista Home Basic/Home Premium/Ultimate/Business/Starter Edition Phishing Protection requires Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0 or higher or Firefox v2.0 or higher Email scanning supported for POP3-compatible email clients Online backup requires high-speed Internet connection 300MHz or higher processor 256MB of RAM minimum 300MB of free hard disk space

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Norton 360 Version 2.0 provides reliable, industry-leading protection for everything computer users care about--without sacrificing PC performance. Running quietly in the background, it stops viruses, spyware, and other online threats, delivering comprehensive protection without confusing security alerts that interrupt your computing experience. It protects you from identity theft and phishing scams by verifying trusted Web sites and blocking fake ones, and its new Identity Safe securely manages logins, passwords, and other sensitive information such as credit card numbers whenever you shop, bank, or browse online. Norton 360 also helps keep PCs tuned for peak performance and protects important files by automatically backing them up and letting you restore them at any time.

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Key Technologies

Antivirus Antispyware Email scanning Antiphishing Rootkit detection Identity protection Web site authentication Network monitoring

Firewall protection Automatic backup and restore 2 GB of secure online storage PC performance tuneups Automatic updates Embedded support Optional Antispam and Parental controls

Comprehensive, automated protection.

Enhanced performance
Provides industry-leading protection without sacrificing performance:

• Fast scan and browse speeds
• Less memory use than the average used by competing products
• PC Security with industry leading virus, spyware and firewall protection

Identity Safe
New--Protects your personal information and your identity when you buy, bank, and browse online:

• Blocks fraudulent Web sites and verifies trusted ones
• Conveniently and securely manages user names and passwords for you
• Phishing Protection guards online attempts to steal your personal information by blocking fraudlent websites and verifies trusted ones.

Backup and restore:

• Protects photos, music, and documents with automated backup
• Supports new backup destinations including Blu-ray Disc, HD-DVD, and iPod
• Automatically detects and backs up your critical files
• Includes 2 GB of secured online storage (with option to purchase additional storage)

Network monitoring:

• Lets you view your wireless network and each device connected to it
• Displays the security status of all the Norton products on your network
• Alerts you when you connect to an unsecured wireless network

Browser Protection
Protects against Web-based drive-by downloads that use vulnerabilities in your browser to insert malware on your PC

Easy protection of your PC and online activities
Norton 360 threat handling, scans, and tuneups are conducted quietly in the background:

• Automatically optimizes and maintains your PC for peak performance
• Automatically cleans up unnecessary Internet clutter and temporary files
• Helps optimize Windows¨ performance by removing unneeded registry files

One-click support
Provides one-click access to expert support right from your Norton product:

• Fast access to expert support through email, live chat, or phone

Protection updates
Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period 

Ongoing protection
Keeps your computer protected from the latest Internet risks by automatically renewing your subscription at the regular subscription price (plus applicable tax), so you don't have to do it. For more information, click here.

Optional antispam and parental controls
Enables you to download antispam and parental controls via the Norton Add-on Pack

Free Technical Support
NEW! Free tech support delivers the help you need, however you need it.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best, share them in imaginative ways, and easily find and view all your photos and video clips. Get tips and tricks, download video tutorials, and a free issue of the Photoshop Elements Techniques newsletter. Register online for free eSeminars that help you get the most out of Photoshop Elements 6. Easily order prints, share photos on the web or on CEIVA Digital Photo Frames, and more. See a full list of books, DVDs, and other materials that will help you get the most out of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Express your ideas in customizable layouts Create photo books with greater ease and flexibility Entertain friends with custom slide shows and interactive web galleries Share with family and friends using a variety of fun options Instantly download photos from your camera Categorize photos and video clips with easy-to-use visual tags Group photos into convenient Albums Develop creations more quickly by gathering the photos you need for a specific project in one place View and organize your photos quickly, even when your library grows to include thousands of photos System requirements - PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor, Mac OS X v10.4.8 through 10.5, 512MB RAM minimum, 64MB RAM, 1GB free space, 1,024x768 display resolution, DVD-ROM drive, QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features, and Internet connection required for Internet-based services

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can go beyond the basics. Make your photos look their best, share them in creative ways, and easily find and view them. Photoshop Elements also works great with iPhoto.

Bring out the best in your photos

Make your photos look their best

• Create amazing composites with easy-to-use tools
• Get greater control over color and lighting
• Brush away wrinkles, unwanted objects, and other flaws
• Make selections in a snap so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo
• Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look

Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before.

Get exactly the look you envision with flexible layout options.

Do more with your photos

• Start creating quickly, no experience necessary
• Express your ideas in customizable layouts
• Share printed photos in creative scrapbook pages, cards, CD/DVD labels, and more
• Share photos with family and friends via a personal online album
• Make the most of your photo paper by printing multiple photos in flexible Picture Packages

Easily organize your photos with visual tagging options.

Create the perfect group shot Never let a frown or a closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. Enhanced Photomerge technology lets you easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single, perfect composite.

Easily find and view your photos

• Download photos from your camera to your computer in a snap
• Categorize photos with easy-to-use keyword tags
• Group related photos in convenient stacks
• View photos just the way you like, every time, by creating a custom workspace
• Easily view and rate your photos in full-screen mode

Make your photos look their best

• Experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos, seamless panoramas, and more.
• Easily make adjustments to color, lighting, and exposure. Convert color originals to rich black-and-whites; fine-tune color, brightness, and contrast; and get the highest quality results by editing the raw image files from your digital camera.
• Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. Now when you use the Healing Brush, you can take advantage of visual guidance from an overlay that makes it easy to get the results you want.
• Make image selections in seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Simply brush your selection, and then use sliders to make the selection blend perfectly with the background.

Do more with your photos

• Easily make photo creations like scrapbook pages, cards, and CD/DVD labels. Simply choose the type of item you'd like to make and the appropriate tools and instructions will appear at your fingertips.
• Find inspiration in professionally designed, color-coordinated layouts that make it easy to put together great photo creations in minutes.

Or spend a little more time and customize all the elements of your chosen layout.

• Easily upload photos and order professional quality prints, photo books, and more. (Services vary worldwide.)
• Quickly and easily share your photos on the web, via e-mail, and on CD or DVD.
• Easily upload your photos to a personal online album. Friends and family can view your photos and instantly order prints.

Easily find and view your photos

• Quickly transfer photos from your digital camera's memory card to your computer so you can get back to taking photos sooner. Automatically copy photos to your preferred storage area, rename photos as they download, and even automatically tag photos with your name and copyright.
• Easily tag photos with keywords that represent people, places, or events. You can instantly view every photo you've ever taken of your family pet, for example, by simply clicking on its tag.
• Group related photos into stacks to find what you need faster and reduce clutter.
• View your photos just the way you want to by creating and saving your own custom viewing workspace.

Microsoft Outlook 2007 is a comprehensive time and information manager for your busy digital life. You'll never have problems with personal information again. Take control of the tools you need to prioritize, organize and search. Schedule and block off time to follow up on items, manage your daily priorities and use Windows SharePoint Services technology to manage every aspect of your digital life more effectively. Manage your shared information and content in one interface, through SharePoint Services -- documents, calendars, contacts, tasks, and other information are easier than ever to handle Stay safe from junk mail and phishing Web sites - The improved junk e-mail filter and has added new features that disable links and warn you about threatening content within an e-mail message Color-code your information for easier organization -- it's a simple, visual way to distinguish items from one another Manage all your blogs to RSS feeds directly through Outlook 2007 New Attachment Preview helps you see your Office Outlook 2007 attachments with one click directly in the reading pane, saving you time and effort

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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provides an integrated solution for managing your time and information, connecting across boundaries, and remaining in control of the information that reaches you. By delivering innovations you can use to quickly search your communications, organize your work, and better share your information with others, this software keeps you connected and up to date, at work dealing with colleagues and customers, or at home corresponding with friends and family.

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Keep Better Track of Your Daily Priorities
Outlook 2007 now features a re-designed interface within the authoring experience, making composing, formatting, and acting on e-mail an easier and more intuitive experience. Specifically, all of the rich features and capabilities of Outlook 2007 are now accessible and easy-to-find within the message. For instance, you can use the To-Do Bar--which gives you a consolidated view of your calendar, upcoming appointments, tasks, and flagged mail--to organize your day and manage your priorities.

Manage Your Time and Information
Outlook 2007 gives you a wide variety of time-saving options, including Instant Search to help you quickly locate all the information you're looking for right from within the Outlook 2007 interface. Not only can you search by keyword through your information, but Instant Search also looks for those keywords within your e-mail attachments. For more directed search results, the Instant Search pane provides helpful criteria to narrow your entry.

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Visually Identify Information
Using Outlook 2007 Color Categories, you can easily personalize and add categories to any type of information. Color Categories give you an easy, visual way to distinguish items from one another, so it's a snap to organize your data and search your information. Preview attachments in one click with Attachment Preview and avoid having to re-send attachments repeatedly.

Connect Across Boundaries
Outlook 2007 lets you share all types of information with coworkers, customers, friends, and family. First, you can create and subscribe to Internet calendars (which provide a way to view and remain up to date on industry events) or personal interest calendars and schedules. Then, send your calendar information to anyone with calendar snapshots, an HTML representation of your calendar that lets you share this information with anyone. Or you can publish your Internet calendar to Microsoft Office Online. Using Microsoft Passport credentials, you can then invite a group of your coworkers, customers, friends, or family to view and work with your calendar so that everyone has the latest information.

Enjoy Full Integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Technology
With Outlook 2007, you can fully interact with information stored in Windows SharePoint Services technology anywhere, anytime, and connect Windows SharePoint Services calendars, documents, contacts, or tasks. Once you've done so, you'll enjoy full editing capabilities, so that any changes you make to the information stored in Outlook 2007 can be reflected in the server version.

Increased Functionality and Collaboration
You also have the option of enjoying increased functionality and collaboration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Using Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in conjunction results in increased collaboration capabilities and security enhancements. Exchange Server 2007 provides the latest in dynamic mailbox connections, unified messaging features, and improved protection from junk e-mail.

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You can also send text messages from Outlook with one easy click, thanks to Outlook Mobile Service, a feature that allows you to send and receive text and picture messages between Outlook 2007 and any mobile phone. Outlook Mobile Service also enables you to forward Outlook e-mail messages, contacts, appointments, and tasks to yourself or other people as text messages. You can even set Outlook 2007 to automatically send e-mail messages, reminders, and your daily calendar as text messages right to your mobile phone.

Work With RSS Feeds
You can now fully subscribe to and interact with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds right from Outlook 2007, the most natural place to manage this kind of information. It's easy to get started adding RSS Feeds using the RSS Subscriptions home page within Outlook 2007.

Electronic Business Cards
Outlook 2007 lets you customize and share electronic business cards so you can create, customize, and share your information with customers, clients, or friends. Effortlessly add photos, company logos, or other personal information to your card so that the recipients have an easy way to identify and remember you and your business.

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Improved E-Mail Control and Protection
Outlook 2007 helps you control your information while keeping you safer from junk mail and malicious sites. The junk e-mail filter, introduced in Outlook 2003, helps prevent junk e-mail messages from cluttering your Inbox. Outlook 2007 also features new anti-phishing features that disable threatening links and warn you about possibly malicious or phishing content within an e-mail message. For additional protection and security, Exchange Server 2007 acts as the first scan on incoming e-mail, determines the legitimacy of the e-mail message, and if applicable, disables links or URLs present in the e-mail message to help protect users.

Control Distribution of Sensitive Work
Help protect your company assets by preventing recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important e-mail messages by using information rights management (IRM) functionality. You can even specify an expiration date for the message, after which it cannot be viewed or otherwise acted upon. (IRM functionality requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later running Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services).

Maintain Compliance With Managed E-mail Folders
Exchange Server 2007 offers managed e-mail folders, a new approach to document retention, archiving, and regulatory compliance. You'll be able to see and interact with these folders just like any other mail folder, but the messages stored within them gain retention, archive, and expiration policies defined by the administrator. With managed e-mail folders, users and administrators can easily comply with various forms of external regulation and internal company policies regarding message retention.

Outlook 2007 E-mail Postmark
The Outlook 2007 E-mail Postmark helps ensure that e-mail reaching your inbox is legitimate and that e-mail you send will be trusted by the recipient's client. Creating mail with E-mail Postmark uses new technology that Microsoft has developed as part of the ongoing effort to curb junk mail. This technology asks the sender's computer to perform a computation or puzzle, and then assigns this work as a token of legitimacy to the e-mail message. These e-mail postmarks are designed to make it very time-consuming and technologically detrimental for users to send mass e-mail like spam, yet they do not change the user experience of sending e-mail.

The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn a New Language

Proceed at Your Own Pace
Rosetta Stone is considerate of your time. Anytime, anywhere, you can learn a new language with Rosetta Stone. You learn comfortably without feeling pressured or overwhelmed. Rosetta Stone provides guidance to make your language learning effective, fast, and enjoyable with a process that is intuitive, interactive, and visually engaging. At the end of each lesson, you are given the opportunity to test your new skills. And, since Rosetta Stone automatically records your progress, you can easily pick up where you left off, when other priorities arise.

Make Language Learning Intuitive with Dynamic Immersion
Rosetta Stone uses rich visual imagery to help you learn. You will be presented with sets of images to match correctly with a spoken or written phrase in the new language. You will advance to the next set of prompts once you've successfully matched words and images and pronounced the words correctly. With Dynamic Immersion, you learn by directly associating your new language with images--nothing is lost in translation.

Fun, Easy, and Immediate Reinforcement
Interactive exercises create a learning environment that is engaging and game-like--it's fun!

How It Works

Rosetta Stone recreated this natural way of learning by developing a method that uses a computer to mimic the environment in which we learned our first language. We call this Dynamic Immersion. A simple, intuitive interface and advanced technology confirms learning at every step of the process by prompting you to make connections between images you already understand and the new language. You receive immediate feedback, which helps you to reinforce learning. This systematic structure builds from simple nouns and verbs to more complex concepts and phrases very quickly, helping you achieve your language-learning goals faster than you ever thought possible.

Level 1, 2 & 3--Connect With the World

Features & Benefits

Faster and More Effective
Rosetta Stone will teach you as fast as you can learn! Leveraging your natural language-learning ability, Version 3 immerses you immediately in the new language, providing just the right context to prompt you to speak, pronounce, read and write in the very first lesson! Intuitive, sequential learning builds progressively and makes every lesson count. Our Dynamic Immersion method is so fast and so effective, it's used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.

Convenient
You pick the time, the place and the pace! We are ready when you are because there are no class schedules or missed lessons to make up. From your desk or your dining room, your valuable time can be turned into productive language learning that fits your lifestyle.

Enjoyable
When something is fun, it captures your attention...and holds it! The interactivity in Version 3 instantly engages you. Rich, vivid imagery, real-life context and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone different from any other product out there--never tedious or boring. Rosetta Stone provides a captivating, game-like experience.

Milestones
Learn and apply! Our MILESTONE feature lets you try out your new language knowledge in real-life situations.

Track Your Progress
New ADAPTIVE RECALL feature tracks your progress, reinforcing your strengths and revisiting your development areas.

New Speech Recognition Technology
State-of-the-art new speech recognition technology helps you learn to speak your new language even faster. And our new Speech Analysis Tool compares your voice to that of native speakers, helping you perfect your pronunciation.

Life-like Context
Our New CONTEXTUAL FORMATION feature uses real-life simulations and vivid imagery to give you exactly the context you need to produce new language--all on your own!

Level 1, 2 & 3 Set Includes:

The Basics
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, numbers, questions, colors, clothing.

Friends and Family
Ages, family relations, household items, introductions, landmarks, states, descriptions.

Work and School
Times of day, greetings, calendar terms, body parts, speaking, personal hygiene.

Shopping
Buying, selling and shopping; entertainment and sports; merchandise, speed and weight, comparing and contrasting.

Travel
Destinations, transportation, directions, locations, telling time, distance, cost, weather.

Past and Future
Tenses, letter writing, school subjects, signs, workplace terms, polite requests.

Friends and Social Life
Months of the year, arrivals and departures, social interaction, celebrations, meal courses, quality terms, apologies.

Dining and Vacation
Future tense; terms for art, architecture and music; emotions, places of worship, travel and lodging.

Home and Health
Terms for home, garden and backyard activities; household items and appliances; terms for strength and physical activity.

Life and World
Emotions, continents, life milestones, oceans, botanical terms, terms for animals.

Places and Events
Opinion and judgments, currency exchange and transactions; measurements, household repair tools, culinary terms.

Talking About the World
Nationalities, governmental leaders, political terms, media terms, business terms, religious terms. Doing things!

Audio Companion allows you to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go.

Audio Companion--Taking Rosetta Stone to the Next Level

What is Audio Companion?
Audio Companion CD-ROMs enhance language learning anytime, anyplace. You can learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce them with Audio Companion. Play the CDs on a stereo, or download them to a MP3 Player and go!

Enhance the Rosetta Stone Learning Experience
Audio Companion activities correspond to Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. You can listen to Audio Companion and practice what you've been learning, turning travel time into productive language learning time.

Extend Study Time
Now, you don't have to stop learning when you leave your computer. Audio Companion lets you access lessons whenever and wherever you want. It empowers you, and works within your busy lifestyle!

Build Vocabulary and Pronounce Words and Phrases
Audio Companion features distinct words and shorter phrases to make them easier to hear and repeat. Build good enunciation habits by hearing native speakers pronounce them first.

Speak and Converse
The speaking portion of Audio Companion lets you listen to questions and answers, repeating them to use later. To help them build your conversation skills, first you'll listen to a conversation and then repeat phrases individually.

For media-savvy Mac users and professionals working with libraries of images, video, music, and digital assets, the reinvented Office 2008 for Mac experience with Expression Media achieve simple life digital asset management.

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition. The power of the Office 2008 applications plus Expression Media, the powerful asset management tool to visually catalog, organize and present all of your digital assets. Simplify your work and visualize your success.

Simplify Your Work
Your presentation will make an impact. Your documents will be professional. Your analysis will be insightful. And Office 2008 will be there.
The latest version of the industry standard for productivity software on the Macintosh platform, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is more powerful and easier to use. Office 2008 combines Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac, Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac and lets you easily create high-impact documents and seamlessly share your ideas with others, whether they are on the Mac or Windows platform.

What's New in Office for Mac?

• Universal versions of the most popular productivity applications on the Macintosh platform (Universal applications run natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.)
• Microsoft Office for Mac natively supports the Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products.
• A redesigned user interface and powerful new tools for simplifying work, creating great looking documents, and exchanging ideas and information with others.

Highlights of Office 2008 for Mac

• Office 2008 is a Universal Binary, was built by Mac users for Mac users, and includes many features which take advantage of underlying technologies of the Macintosh platform.
• Office 2008 uses Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products. XML file formats help reduce the risk of lost information due to damaged or corrupted files and also result in smaller file sizes--up to 75 percent smaller than comparable binary documents. Office 2008 for Mac is backward-compatible with earlier file formats and users can continue to use the older .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary formats.
• Elements Gallery is the foundation of the new user interface, and gives easy access to the most commonly used tools and templates. With the new UI, you'll harness the capabilities of Office for Mac more easily than ever before.
• Office 2008 includes OfficeArt, the powerful graphics engine also used in the Windows-based Office 2007 products. You get great cross-platform file fidelity and easy access to stunning visual and graphic effects.
• Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt graphics, which makes transforming text and bulleted lists into professional diagrams and graphics one-click easy.
• A new Themes capability simplifies the process of applying a consistent look and feel across documents. Easily apply a complete set of colors, fonts, and effects to your Office 2008 documents, and change them as easily as changing your mind.
• Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office enables you to automate Office 2008 with more than 70 pre-defined actions built to simplify your work and extend your productivity. (Available in Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition.)

Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time.

Enjoy powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008.

Entourage 2008
Your e-mails will spark ideas, you'll schedule meetings where creativity abounds. Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time.

• My Day keeps you connected to the action. Schedules, tasks, and priorities in one easy, standalone interface. Time will have no choice but to be well-managed.
• Use color-coded categories, status indicators, and flexible To-Do list management humble even the most hectic schedules.
• Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 Special Media Edition enable users to access their Microsoft Exchange server accounts with Entourage.
• Improved Junk E-Mail filtering capabilities and phishing protection tools help shield your inbox from the scourge of junk. Your inbox will breathe a sigh of relief.
• Projects submit to your superior management skills when you unleash the power of Project Center, With project details like e-mail messages, documents, schedules, and contacts in one convenient place, Project Center helps keep your information--and your stress--under control.

Word 2008
Powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008 will help you to make your ideas look as good as they are.

• When you turn blah into brilliant, Publishing Layout View will elevate the way you think about Word 2008. This new specialized and customizable workspace lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design.
• Great looking document construction won't require a hard hat. New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies make creating professional-looking output a snap.
• Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt, which makes transforming text into high-quality graphics and diagrams as easy as one click.
• Dynamic Guides will help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point.
• Mass mailings will have a personal touch and Word 2008 Mail Merge Manager will guide you step by easy step.

Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout in PowerPoint 2008.

Analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results with Excel 2008.

PowerPoint 2008
Your presentation is a story. PowerPoint 2008 will illustrate it. Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout.

• Great ideas will get their graphic due with SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2008. Start with a blank slide or a bulleted list, and, with a click of a button, you'll have a stunning chart, table, map, or diagram.
• Designer Themes help you give your presentation a creative look, simply and quickly.
• The new Object Palette allows quick access to all your shapes, art, symbols, and pictures--including iPhoto files--in one easy-to-access space.
• Dynamic Guides will help you place and resize your graphic element to create professional-looking presentations in a snap.
• You'll lay out custom designs to showcase your unique content with custom layout capabilities in PowerPoint 2008.
• PowerPoint 2008 integration with Apple Remote Control lets you concentrate on your words, not your keyboard. Now control your presentation and engage your audience unleashed from the podium.

  Excel 2008
  It's a numbers game. With Excel 2008, analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results.

  • Ledger Sheets in Excel 2008 make tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios easy with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations.
  • Charting improvements artfully convey the message your data is telling. You'll see your numbers in a whole new way.
  • The new prebuilt functions tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex conditional formulas easier.
  • Quick access to formulas makes functions more functional with Formula Builder in Excel 2008.
  • Your data will know virtually no limits. Excel 2008 now supports over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows.
  • Whether you're an Excel expert or a complete novice, Excel 2008 Formula AutoComplete simplifies your calculations by providing a dynamic pop-up menu so you can select and complete your formula.

  Messenger for Mac
  Convenience is the name of the game for Mac users who want to communicate instantly with family, friends and colleagues from one convenient place. Messenger for Mac is now a Universal application, and gives you more ways to share what's on your mind or on your plate.

  Use Messenger for Mac to instantly check the status of project team members, streamline workflow by sending documents directly from Word, or offer questions or comments on document changes instantly.

  • Yahoo! Interoperability will allow personal users to connect and message with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users.
  • Your intentions will never again be in doubt when you create your own custom emoticons in Messenger for Mac.
  • Spelling Checker is now included in Messenger for Mac.
  • Let the world know your tastes when you display your iTunes selection with the new "What I'm listening to now" feature.

Your life will never be the same once you move into a new apartment. With The Sims 2 Apartment Life, you will meet new people as you explore your new neighborhood. Adventure, fun, and drama await you. Will you take your kids to the local playground, mingle in coffee shops, or hit the park to learn from the breakdancers? Close quarters mean new opportunities. Move in with compatible roomies for a thriving social life, advance your career with the right social network, or find true love just down the hall. Whether you live in an artsy converted loft, the ultimate studio bachelor pad, or a luxury apartment with your own butler, you will experience all of the excitement of apartment life.

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Moving Day is Here

Your Sims are moving into a brand-new apartment, and their lives will never be the same! Adventure, fun, and drama await them as they meet new people and explore their new neighborhood.

Will they take their kids to the local playground, mingle in coffee shops, or hit the park to learn from the breakdancers? Close quarters mean new opportunities-move in with compatible roomies for a thriving social life, advance your career with the right social network, or find true love just down the hall.

Whether they live in artsy converted lofts, the ultimate studio bachelor pads, or luxury apartments with their own butler, Your Sims will experience all of the excitement of apartment life!

Key Features Move into the perfect apartment: a spacious loft, a cozy place for a young couple, or a multi-bedroom flat-share with friends. Mingle with Sims from all-new social groups: stylish socialites, artsy bohemians, sports jocks, gadget-collecting techies, or edgy gearheads. Take advantage of apartment life: form social networks to make new friends, advance their careers, or look for love. Build your Sim’s new reputation meter: with a good reputation, your Sim can find the right friends to help them achieve their goals! Control multiple households: will you make your Sims live in happy harmony or comical conflict?

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