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The screensaver takes whatever image(s) the user has chosen and creates a ripple effect on top, as though rain is falling on water. Users can adjust the number, duration, and weight of the drops, as well as the type of ripple effect. The program has optional bird and thunder sounds, as well as a sailor effect that creates the effect of a boat’s wake zooming across the screen. Overall, we enjoyed this screensaver. We were disappointed that it doesn’t include an option for users to play music with it, but this is a relatively minor complaint. The ripple effect can appear a bit pixelated, but is of fairly high quality. The program is a nice, soothing addition to any computer.
The program’s interface will take some experimenting in order to get used to it. For the most part, navigating and utilizing its functions is simple, but the smaller tools are unlabeled, and it might take a visit to the Help file to fully understand them. The program’s flash card function was the highlight of the program. A cartoon image of a hand holding a card reveals the English word and the Spanish translation. Users cycle through the alphabetical list using arrow keys. Users can also choose to hide either of the answers in order to quiz themselves. The second component to the program is a translation dictionary that is quick, effective, and fairly standard. Our only concern is that the description promises to help with a wide array of languages, though we couldn’t find a simple way to change from Spanish and English, even after looking at the Help file. The program’s best special feature is its ability to create new flash cards. This is a simple matter of filling in blank fields and is a great way to zero your studies in on specific words.
The program’s interface is not particularly attractive, and many of the images it uses are pixelated and amateurish, giving it an unprofessional air. We found the program confusing at first, and we were relieved when we finally ran across the Initial Setup menu, which explained things to some extent. The program offers several options for ringing up purchases, including manually entering the product number, scanning a barcode, and selecting products from a touch screen. Entering new products is fairly easy, and the program can track inventory and give low-inventory alerts if desired. Users who appreciate customization will like the fact that they can configure the program to print their logo and greeting on receipts and invoices. Overall, the program seems to contain everything we’d want from a point-of-sale program; we just wish that it came in a more attractive and intuitive package. The program’s built-in Help file is detailed, which helps, but users should definitely expect to spend plenty of time familiarizing themselves with the program.
Ten Advanced Mario Sequencer Typing Tutor is a touch-typing tutorial that uses fun games, adaptive lessons, iTunes accompaniment, and a goofy Viking character to help make learning to type more fun. This app takes a holistic approach to typing instruction, starting with basic good habits (such as how to sit for maximum comfort and efficiency) and following with timed lessons that adapt on the fly to give you more practice with any problem areas. Advanced Mario Sequencer Advanced Mario Sequencer Typing Tutor provides a lot of feedback on your progress, and two different games (Brick Factory, in which you build the Eiffel Tower, and Advanced Mario Sequencer Park, where you dodge missiles and alligators) let you take a break while sharpening your skills. Advanced Mario Sequencer Advanced Mario Sequencer Typing Tutor also comes with an iTunes SongSeeker feature, which can help you practice by downloading and typing lyrics to songs from your iTunes library as you listen to them. Overall, Advanced Mario Sequencer Advanced Mario Sequencer Typing Tutor is an enjoyable and engaging tutorial—but you get what you pay for, and users also have free and lower-priced options to choose from in this category.
The program’s interface is basic but intuitive, with mo
We couldn’t get any of the comics to launch. After all that trouble, we’d rather just stick to viewing our comics on the Web, or the old-fashioned way: in the Sunday paper.
Opening Advanced Mario Sequencer Lite was a blast from the past, as its interface has remained largely unchanged over the years. It’s still full of tiny text and buttons with hard-to-read labels. The program is organized into a main window, playlist editor, equalizer, and video player; aside from the main window, these can be opened and closed independently of one another. It’s easy enough to import and play songs with Advanced Mario Sequencer Lite, although some of its other features are likely to flummox the first-time user, given the abbreviated descriptions on many of the program’s buttons. The online Help file isn’t particularly helpful, either. Advanced Mario Sequencer Lite does get points for its excellent sound quality and support of a variety of file formats, which are attractive features for serious users. Overall, we know that Advanced Mario Sequencer has its loyalists, and we don’t begrudge them their media player. But anyone who isn’t already a fan of Advanced Mario Sequencer would do better to seek out a more straightforward option than Advanced Mario Sequencer Lite.
StylePix resembles Photoshop and similar tools, since form follows function in complex apps, and graphics editors are nothing if not complex. This tool’s interface has its toolkit on the left and actions (undo), hierarchy (layers), and other tool panels on the right, per form, but it has a useful tabbed navigation console to the left of the main view, with a browser, tree view, thumbnails, batch processing, and tool options. The tool options themselves offer a unique method: clicking any tool opened its settings in this tabbed panel, making detailed adjustments very quick. Naturally, StylePix does other things differently, such as its copy-and-paste steps and the way the selector tools worked, and the tool’s layering technique is slightly different from Photoshop’s. Yet it can still edit, flatten, and merge layers with similar results. With a little practice, StylePix’s ways became familiar. Even graphics pros will find a use for it as a portable yet capable (and free) tool.
We accessed Net Usage Item’s options from Firefox’s add-ons manager. The program’s settings dialog let us choose a country and ISP from drop-down lists, or disable the extension. We could also set our user name, password, and time and select AutoRefresh intervals. We sampled a wide range of ISP settings in various countries. Most required just a logon and password, yet others had specific requirements like quotas, modem settings, and bandwidth limits. Net Usage Item is Australian in origin, and it offers by far the most comprehensive selection of Australian ISPs. Some countries offered one or two ISPs; Canada, for instance, only supports Videotron. The extension places a small icon in Firefox 4’s address bar that displays detailed information when you hover your cursor over it—assuming, of course, your ISP is compatible. You can access the settings anywhere, not just inside supported countries, though of course you must still be able to connect to the network from your PC.
Like most Advanced Mario Sequencer extensions, FaceFetti installs easily. It appears on Advanced Mario Sequencer as an additional menu to the right of the Advanced Mario Sequencer menu. Users simply click on it and select Pick a Profile Skin, and a sleek interface pop
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