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

Software The Complete National Geographic 110 Years

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- This software is not produced properly.
Like other reviewers, I found this set of CD ROM hard to use. Its quality of text and photo are poorly made. Worse, it may have some bugs in its program that I can only zoom to the point of full pages, no zoom in further. The print out is very bad too. So it is hard to read both on screen or on pages. I tried some later years, the quaility doesn't improve much.
The program like to ask for registration but failed to log on to its server through my cable connection.
By buying this set of CDR, I was hoping I can get something useful, but now, I have to find out a way that 'unlock' it photos like NG claimed to be one benefit of registration but I never was able to.

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- Great content, but horrible print quality
I can hardly begin to say how nice it is to have all these wonderful articles at my fingertips. Unfortunately, the print is practically illegible. It looks like the print from a typewriter ribbon that has been used much too long. The pictures are very grainy. Don't but this until you borrow a friend's set and see how it looks on your computer. I'm amazed that National Geographic is willing to sell it.

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- A Rich, Visually Stunning Reading Experience
I was excited when I saw this collection on sale. I remembered pouring over my father's collection that took up a large part of a bookshelf, but only represented a few years of the magazine's history. Now here was a more-or-less complete collection (every issue to the end of 1998) that only took up minimal shelf space.

The only bad thing that can be said about this package is that, as noted below, the picture quality is at times annoying. (I recommend viewing it at smaller than 800x600.) Basically, in order to see the photos at their best, the darkness option at the bottom of the screen must be slid all the way to the lightest setting (then it looks excellent), but then to set the text at its most visible, it has to be slid back to the darkest or next to darkest setting (and even then, it can look slightly smudged). Unless you read first, then look at the photos afterwards, you have to keep switching back and forth. Also, when the text is on a non-white background, as for text accompanying diagrams and charts, it is a strain to read. But even then, it is not difficult to read most of the text, and this is still a worthwhile package. After all, you get an (almost) complete collection of the wonderful photographs and fun, educational essays that is National Geographic Magazine (note: you do miss out on things you can only get with the hardcopy like special scented features, holograms and 3D effects (buy the hardcopy if you need such gimmicks), and for the map inserts you need to purchase another cd-rom collection). Even the old ads are a hoot to look at, and the search engine is excellent. And sure, there are 30 cds to switch between, but imagine trying to track down an article amongst hundreds of magazines filling up a room instead.

When you consider all of the text you get (110 years worth of magazines, many of which are extremely rare), the price is a great value. Knowing the excellent quality of the magazine, my one fear in laying out the large amount of money necessary for this collection was that say, in 5 years, it would be necessary to buy it again to get those newer issues on cd, but so far I have gotten an update cd that covers the year 1999 and hopefully more will be released.

This excellent (though flawed) product is highly recommended.

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- An invaluable source of knowledge and a bargain to boot!
National Geographic has been, for over a century, a wonderful repository of photographs and text on virtually any subject imaginable. Its combination of great writing and stunning illustrations has made it a mainstay in innumerable homes since its inception in 1888.

Recently the National Geographic Society released this near perfect digital incarnation of every page of its entire collection of journals. I first picked it up as soon as it was released back in 1996. Back then, its 31 CD-ROMs ran for $149 and I happily paid it for the collection. While the quality of some of the older pages' text left something to be desired and the constant swapping of discs was a tad annoying, the wealth of information more than made up for it.

When the DVD-ROM version appeared I eagerly snatched it up. Now, the only trade is in the quality of the images. That, coupled with the bargain price, makes it such an excellent and invaluable product that everyone should own it.

Unless you are lucky enough to own every paper issue of the National Geographic Society's journal (and even then the search tool would be immensely useful) this product is virtually a must-have.

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- Poor Quality
We purchased this product to do some research for a trip which we are planning. While we found the search facility to be acceptable, the technology used to display the articles is generally deplorable.

Our plan was to look at the information using a laptop which has a screen resolution of 800x600. At this resolution, articles from the present back until 1970, can be read, but with some eye strain. From 1969 back until 1940, it is almost impossible to read the articles and from 1939 back until 1888, forget it.

We did find that on a desktop machine with a better resolution, readibility did improve somewhat, but the pre-1970 articles are still tough and the pre-1940 are still really bad.

The manufacturer of this product should be ashamed by the lack of quality. They apparently simply scanned in every page of every article without ever looking at the result. The company must have no quality control. I cannot understand how a reputable organization like the National Geographic Society could allow their name to be associated with this amateurish product.

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