Domain Name Com's Software The Complete National Geographic 110 Years

Software The Complete National Geographic 110 Years

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- good for some uses not others
I got it when it first came out and then for a couple of years I would get the update disk for the latest year. But then NG stopped sending the announcement that the new disk was available. So I wrote them and found out they are having a copyright battle so they're unavailable until it's settled.

Having a pile of CD's is certainly better than having a roomful of magazines. But the search function wasn't that great because it wasn't looking through the text. The pages are stored as photos, the quality not always that great, so a search depends on what keywords some editor assigned to an article. Also there wasn't an easy way to capture the article or picture you wanted, the only output option they offered was to send the article to a printer.

I went to a lecture by the NG editor and he explained the reason why they archived the issues that way. They thought they could avoid having to pay royalties to all the authors if they just copied the magazines instead of converting them to text (ie. it's not REALLY being republished). Apparently the lawyers are still working it out so it's not available now.

Rating:

- Just awful
The software is not compatible with currently updated Quicktime, XP or my monitor. Can't even download. I backdoored some of the files and articles appear to be scanned, are fuzzy and disappointing. Cannot online register and the mail registration address is not valid. Very very worthless in my world.

Rating:

- Neat concept worthless execution
I was very excited about the product. I thought I would spend the next few years exploring the set. I find it impossible to use. It is like reading very poor photocopies of the magazine. the print quality is very poor and the photos are very grainy.

On the bright side it looks great on my shelf gathering dust.

What a major disappointment.

Rating:

- A Nice Wooden Box
This is a decent program although I wouldn't have gotten it had I known the troubles I was going to have. The software is very outdated and does not have a nice presentation for the photos or articles. The big problem I've had, and still have, is that I'm unable to register by modem or mail. The software is designed to only search for dial-out connections and it doesn't recognize broadband. I have e-mailed and snail mailed out 2 copies of my registration form to the Mindscape software company and have gotten no reply. My best guess is that the product is no longer being made and no one will accept responsiblity for the copies still out in the stores. The best part about this program is I can store the CDs in the nice wooden box it came with.

Rating:

- Great concept, horrible execution.....
I bought this set immediately after it was released and was apalled at what I had bought. While the concept of having every issue on disc was a great idea, the use of JPEG images for the data instead of PDF was completely botched.

Tech support, back in 1996, said they could have used less compression on the images of the pages, but they would have had to use even more than the 30+ CDs they had in the set and they decided that merely HAVING every issue would make up for any shortcomings in presentation.

The end result: a [very costly] set of 30 CDs I hardly ever use and it's a shame as I really wanted to sit back and enjoy as many issues as I could but the text, while mostly legible, is a chore to read.

Spend your money elsewhere or go to the library!

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