2008 World Book Encyclopedia

Software MacKiev's new iPod-friendly 2008 World Book for Mac OS X is enriched with thousands of new and updated articles and photographs. This edition packs in loads of new features from a collection of kid-safe webcams to the Media Showcase widget. 2008 World Book includes: Every article in the World Book print edition World Book Dictionary World Book Notepad Student Word Processor World Book Atlas with Translucent Globe World Book Trivia Challenge game This Day In History Widget World Book Librarian research widget World Book Screen Saver Thousands of photos, illustrations, and video clips Sound clips, poetry readings and speeches Music clips from Rhino/Warner Music Collection Bubble View 360-degree panoramas Thousands of editor-selected website links Free online Article Updates (one-year subscription) New for 2008 Webcam collection The next best thing to being half way across the world is to travel through the magic of webcams. Software MacKiev has added hundreds of editor-approved webcams to World Book. Witness the construction of the world's largest ferris wheel in Singapore. Look out for Nessie on Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. See the trains roll into Blumberg Station in southern Germany and the gondoliers navigating the Grand Canal in Venice. The webcams are all kid-safe and updated monthly. Media Showcase widget Do you know where sitatungas live? Find out with World Book's newest widget: The 2008 World Book Media Showcase. With more than a thousand gorgeous images from World Book articles gathered in a quiz format, you'll have fun learning about people, places, and living things across the planet while viewing the best of World Book's media collection. If you're stumped, you can click through to the World Book article to find the answer. Content for iPod and iPhone All World Book media content has been adapted to play on Apple's latest iPod models including the new iPod nano and iPod touch. Exporting World Book content to your iPod is just one...