Mavis Beacon Typing 17 / Kid Pix Deluxe 4 Bundle
 | Format: CD-ROM List Price: $39.99 Our Price: $24.99 Your Save: $ 15.00 ( 38% ) Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks Average Customer Rating:   |
Features: Practice speed, accuracy and rhythm with more than 250 practice and custom lessons.
Challenge your speed and accuracy with entertaining arcade-style games.
Selecting from an array of art mediums
The software can add special effects (animate, smudge, smear, warp twist, etc.) for a wacky look, suggest ideas and backgrounds to help get creative juices flowing, and import digital photos to personalize.
Hidden tricks deliver extra excitement
Editorial Reviews:
Kid Pix puts an entire virtual art studio right at your fingertips with no messy cleanup! Create dynamic works of art using a huge variety of virtual media - from watercolors to oil paints to collage and beyond. Incorporate photos, text, sounds and a huge array of inspiring special effects to design the ultimate creative masterpiece.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Booo Hisssss
Comment: It took my husband and I about 12 tries to install this product and he is a professional IT worker with 30 years' experience.
The program itself is wonderful once you get it running. However, 9/10 buyers will never get this POS installed.
WARNING!!!
DO
NOT
BUY
THIS
SOFTWARE.
Kid Pix was easy to install but not worth the time.
I didn't read the reviews before I purchased this, because Mavis Beacon is the best of the best typing tutors, and it has been for years. I trusted the name Mavis Beacon. Never again.
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If you have already purchased this software and cannot get it running good luck.
Here's what we had to do:
Go into the setup program's properties, software compatibility tab. Set it for 640x480, AND emulate windows 2000. After this it should install ok with a reboot (or 10).
If you happen to be running a PC from the late 90's you might be OK.
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One final warning - this junk software forcibly installs NetZero and other bloatware on your machine. We found no way to get around it. It's a shame that Broderbund had to stoop to this level and besmirch the name of poor old Mavis.
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Technical Details
Binding: CD-ROMBrand: Encore
EAN: 0705381140504
Feature: Practice speed, accuracy and rhythm with more than 250 practice and custom lessons.
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Encore
Manufacturer: Encore
Model: 14050
Platform: Windows XP Home Edition
Publisher: Encore
Release Date: 2007-04-09
Studio: Encore
