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Elementary Advantage 2010

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[ReviewAZON asin="B001V9TH44"]Advantage provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades. Help your child build a solid academic foundation with Elementary Advantage, a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate your child in reaching his or her full academic potential.

Establish a solid Language Arts foundation with fun lessons that focus on the building blocks of the English language. Click to enlarge.

Develop fundamental math skills through fun and interactive lessons and exercises. Click to enlarge.

Investigate and understand the mysteries of Earth, space and all living things in a fun-filled scientific adventure. Click to enlarge.

Learn basic Spanish through interactive lessons that reinforce spelling and pronunciation fundamentals. Click to enlarge.

The ADVANTAGE Approach to Effective Learning:

ADVANTAGE uses a unique approach that combines interactive lessons, exercises, and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate students in reaching their full academic potential.
  • Engage
    Interactive learning experience engages the student

  • Reinforce
    Standards-driven lesson plan reinforces classroom learning

  • Support
    Study aids & reference tools support the learning experience

  • Motivate
    Brain-building games add fun to studying

Student Benefits

  • Learn At Your Own Pace
  • Build Critical Skills
  • Identify Problem Areas
  • Review Lessons As Needed

Student Resources

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Student Edition
  • iPod study materials

Study Break Extras

  • Brain-building games

Core Curriculum

Math
Develop fundamental math skills through fun and interactive lessons and exercises.

  • Basic Math
  • Algebra
  • Measurement & Geometry
  • Data & Probability

Science
Investigate and understand the mysteries of Earth, space and all living things in a fun-filled scientific adventure.

  • General Science
  • Nature & Living Things
  • The Human Body
  • The Solar System

Social Studies
Travel the globe and discover interesting facts about the United States and other countries across the world.

  • Map Reading
  • Major Landmarks
  • Oceans & Continents
  • Government & Population

English
Establish a solid Language Arts foundation with fun lessons that focus on the building blocks of the English language.

  • Digraphs & Dipthongs
  • Sentence Structure
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Reading Comprehension

Foreign Language
Learn basic Spanish through interactive lessons that reinforce spelling and pronunciation fundamentals.

  • Alphabet
  • Numbers
  • Common Words
  • Phrases & Greetings

PLUS: Brain-Building Games and iPod Study Materials!

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Microsoft Streets & Trips (2010)

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[ReviewAZON asin="B002LLR87E"]Microsoft Streets & Trips makes trip planning easy, so you can relax and drive with confidence. Whether you are traveling across country or across town, Streets & Trips has the easy-to-use tools to help you get there. Streets & Trips requires no Internet connection and includes more than 1.7 million points of interest to choose from--plus additional listings that you can view when you're connected to the Web. The perfect trip is at your fingertips.

Get accurate driving directions to just about anywhere in the United States and Canada. Click to enlarge.

Send your route to your GPS device. Click to enlarge.

Product Features

  • Includes updated street level maps for U.S. and Canada
  • New--Send your route to your GPS device
  • Calculate fuel usage and costs before you leave
  • New--Share trip details or itineraries with friends and family
  • Get free construction updates to avoid potential delays
  • New--Save time by setting your map to always start at a particular location
  • Personalize your maps with comments, phone numbers and notes for planned stops
  • New--Easily delete or hide groups of pushpins
  • Find special savings in restaurants, hotels and events with Entertainment Online trial offer
  • Improved--Choose specific roads to use on your trip just by dragging and dropping the route
  • Include multiple destinations and stops to refuel
  • Improved--Comes with more than 1.7 million points of interest including post offices, pharmacies and more
  • GPS Ready--connect your GPS device to your laptop to get spoken directions including street names, automatic re-routing and large on-screen directions
  • Improved--Streets & Trips now includes more than 300 unique pushpin images to choose from

Microsoft Streets & Trips makes trip planning easy.
Accurate maps and route-planning options help you get nearly anywhere in the United States and Canada. Customizable features let you plot your course down to the last detail. Once you've planned your trip, you can send your route to your GPS device for navigation on the go.

A Great GPS Companion
Streets & Trips is a great companion to GPS devices. Use Streets & Trips to plan the perfect trip, including multiple stops, points-of-interest, and start and stop times. Then export the route to a personal navigation device for easy navigation along the way.

No DVD Drive? No Problem!
If your computer doesn't have a CD or DVD drive, you may still purchase Streets & Trips. Find out more at www.microsoft.com/activate today.

Calculate your mileage, trip costs and arrival time before you leave.
This is a great planning tool, especially for comparing different routes you're considering.

More than 1.7 million ideas for stops along the way!
Looking for an Italian restaurant in Des Moines? A hotel in Vancouver? Streets & Trips comes with detailed information on over 1.7 million locations--ATMs, hotels, restaurants, post offices, pharmacies, gas stations and other points of interest. No Internet connection required.

Comparison to online mapping
Streets & Trips delivers a mapping solution that offers much more than online mapping solutions. It doesn't require an Internet connection to use, and there are no distracting ads. You also get options to customize your trips by start and stop times, driving speeds, or even road types.

Access street-level maps and personalized directions.
Updated street-level maps and turn-by-turn directions make it easy to stay on track. You can also add personal notes to your maps. With addresses, phone numbers and other notes alongside your planned stops, you'll have all the information you need in one handy place.

Spoken street names and automatic re-routing.
With a GPS receiver, Street & Trips can provide spoken directions and street names as you drive. It can also put you back on track if you make a wrong turn!

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Peachtree By Sage Premium Accounting 2010

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[ReviewAZON asin="B0027ELOIE"]Peachtree by Sage Premium Accounting 2010 is a comprehensive solution that provides premium features like multi-company consolidations, advanced budgeting, serialized inventory, and Crystal Reports 2010.* It provides a multi-user option* for improved productivity with screen-level access control, plus analysis tools, and 140+ customizable reports and financial statements. (*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

Easily and quickly view all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction. Click to enlarge.

Use Business Analytics to help improve your business' financial health and make critical decisions. Click to enlarge.

View the details you need all in one place with the Customer Management Center. Click to enlarge.

Open and work in multiple companies within Peachtree at the same time. Click to enlarge.

Store a virtually unlimited number of contacts for every customer in Peachtree. Click to enlarge.

Product Features

All of the features found in Peachtree Complete Accounting, plus:
  • Advanced Budgeting and Financial Analysis
  • Serialized Inventory
  • Cash Flow Forecasting
  • Employee Compensation Tracking
  • Terminal Services*
  • Industry-Specific Versions Available

(*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

New and Improved Features for 2010

Transaction History

  • Easily and quickly view all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction throughout the entire chain of events at any point in the sales or purchase process.
  • View forward from a purchase order to a payment or backwards from a receipt to a quote.
  • Save time getting to the information you need to take action!

Business Analytics*

  • See how your company is performing compared to other companies in your industry or geographic region with the new customizable company dashboard!
  • Get instant access to view up-to date key financial trends in order to compare items such as Total Revenue, Gross Margin %, Days Sales Outstanding, and much more.
  • Use this tool to help improve your business' financial health and make critical decisions.

* Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.

Customer Management Center

  • Save time by viewing the details you need all in one place to better manage and service your customers without missing a beat.
  • Create a customizable dashboard view of your customers' information such as their converted and unconverted quotes, invoices, receipts, time tickets, aged balances, items and services sold, and much more. Drill down to the detail and quickly take action too.
  • Save time by looking up customers quickly based on their ID, phone number or any of their contact information, and filter further based on date ranges. Utilize the Recent Selections link to quickly pull up customers you have already viewed.
  • Easily export customer information to Microsoft Excel or PDF, or launch an e-mail from the Customer Management Center.

Open Multiple Companies*

  • Get your work done faster by being able to open and work in multiple companies within Peachtree at the same time!
  • Open all of your companies at the same time and toggle in just one click to the company you need without closing your current company.
  • If you would rather work in only one company at a time, now you can save time by not having to re-enter your login information when switching between companies. Enter your user id & password once and Peachtree will remember it until you close Peachtree.

* When opening more than one company, performance is not impacted; however, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.

Multiple Contacts*

  • Store a virtually unlimited number of contacts for every customer in Peachtree!
  • The new "Contacts" tab in the Customers screen allows you to keep track of many specific details you need to maintain your relationships for each of your customers.
  • Track more details like contacts' titles, phone numbers, e-mail address, and specify the ship-to addresses.
  • A new Notes field allows you to track unique information about each contact, like shipping instructions.

*There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer. Only 2 contacts per customer can be synced with Outlook.

Employee Management

  • Save time and reduce errors by keeping track of employees' information all in one place!
  • Store additional employee data within Peachtree such as emergency contact, performance reviews, employment details like hiring date and I-9 verification, additional phone numbers and much more.
  • Easily stay on top of your employees' records by receiving alerts and reminders for key tasks coming up such as review dates.

Automatic Backup

  • No more hassles or worries about safeguarding data in Peachtree. Automate your backup process for any time that is convenient for you and your company!
  • With Peachtree Automatic Backup, set up your schedule once, and the rest is taken care of for you. Peachtree doesn't even have to be running to make the scheduled backup.
  • Notify users to log out, or automatically log them off in order to run your backup (Peachtree Quantum only).

Password Security

  • Secure your company's data from unauthorized access with increased password security options.
  • Strengthen your password security with new customizable options such as automatic password expiration, multiple incorrect password attempts lockout, no repeat passwords, and masking passwords from other users in Peachtree.
  • Maintenance is easier giving users the ability to change their own passwords without relying on the admin, and requiring strong password compliance.

In-Product Advisor

  • Learn the best way to work within Peachtree by leveraging our in-product user tips. These tips will help you discover functions or features that will assist you in learning other areas of the product quicker.
  • The Advisor will assist you in pointing out better ways to accomplish common tasks in the program, in areas such as Sales/Invoicing, Inventory, Vendors, Receipts and General Journal Entries.
  • Set your experience with Peachtree to maximize the effectiveness of assistance you might require, and set the length of time that each message will be displayed.

Inventory Enhancements

  • See what your customers are buying with the new Item Sales History by Customer onscreen view and report.
  • Now you don't need to know the official name of an item, or the number, to find it quickly. Search for items by words you've typed into other description or notes fields.
  • Streamline your data entry when setting up new items with the ability to set the Item Class default based on your most common inventory type such as Stock, Non-Stock, Service, etc.

Peachtree by Sage 2010 Product Family Feature Comparison Chart

Feature Peachtree First Accounting Peachtree Pro Accounting Peachtree Complete Accounting Peachtree Premium Accounting Peachtree Quantum
Easy Start-up and Use X X X X X
Accounts Payable: Check Writing, Bill Payment, Purchases X X X X X
Accounts Receivable:Invoicing, Receive Payments X X X X X
Customizable Reports 35+ 100+ 125+ 140+ 140+
Conversion from QuickBooks1   X X X X
E-mail Alerts, Forms, Reports and Financial Statements2   X X X X
Internal Accounting Review3   X X X X
Inventory: Assemblies, Average/LIFO/FIFO Costing Methods, Back Orders   Basic Advanced Advanced Advanced
IMPROVED! Password Security   Module Level Screen Level Screen Level Screen Level
Attach documents to transactions and records   X X X X
NEW! Business Analytics4   X X X X
Comparative Budget Spreadsheet Creator--track 4 years   X X X X
Integration with Microsoft Excel and Word5   X X X X
Payroll Solutions6   X X X X
NEW! Customer Management Center     X X X
NEW! Track Multiple Contacts7     X X X
NEW! View Transaction History     X X X
Electronic Bill Payment through Peachtree Bill Pay8     X X X
Integration with UPS9     X X X
NEW! Open Multiple Companies10     X X X
Sync your Outlook Contacts11     X X X
Auto Creation of Purchase Orders     X X X
Audit Trail     X X X
Fixed Assets12     X X X
Job Costing--Phase and Cost Level     X X X
Advanced Budgeting       Included Included
Archive Company Data       X X
Company Consolidation Wizard       X X
Crystal Reports 200813       X X
Departmentalized Financial Statements       X X
Serialized Inventory       X X
Developed to handle large data requirements14         X
Exclusive SmartPosting Technology         X
NEW! My Dashboard         X
NEW! Order Process Workflow         X
Product updates and software upgrades for 1 year15         X
Role based security         X
Support for 10, 15, 20 or 30 named users16         X
Unlimited17 access to support for 1 year         X
Includes all industry solution functionality (Manufacturing, Construction, Distribution and Nonprofits         X

Disclaimers:
1. Versions 2006-2009. Excludes conversion of QuickBooks individual payroll transactions. For additional information on conversion limitations, please visit www.peachtree.com/qb
2. Requires Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003 or 2007; Outlook Express 5 or 6; other MAPI compliant e-mail programs.
3. Sage is not liable or responsible for any fines or penalties that may result from errors in your company accounting records. The Internal Accounting Review is not intended to uncover all questionable transactions.
4. Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.
5. Requires Microsoft Excel, Word or Outlook 2002, 2003, or 2007.
6. Compliant tax forms and tax tables require a subscription to Peachtree Simple Payroll. For details see www.peachtreepayroll.com or call 877-231-3761.
7. There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer.
8. Subject to approval and to Sage terms of service. Additional fees, internet access and checking account required.
9. UPS functionality is subject to UPS terms and conditions. Internet access required.
10. When opening more than one company, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.
11. Outlook Sync supported in Exchange 2000 SP2, 2003 and 2007.
12. Regulatory compliance requires paid subscription. Additional fees apply for more than 200 assets.
13. Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Server 2000 not supported.
14. Peachtree does not impose a hard limit on database capacity, however, individual performance will vary depending on actual number of transactions, database size, and number of concurrent users. Data management efficiencies are also realized in the Peachtree 2010 products.
15. The Peachtree Business Care Plan (which includes product upgrades, updates, and customer support) will be renewed automatically each year on the anniversary date of your purchase unless you terminate your agreement prior to that date. Renewal is not required to continued access to product updates for supported versions.
16. Multi User licenses available in of packs of 10, 15, 20 or 30. A maximum of 30 licensed, named users is allowed. Only the first 30 named users selected in the user maintenance screen are considered licensed, named users.
17. Support Specialists are available from 8:30 am until 8:30 pm ET Monday-Friday, and reserve the right to limit calls to 1 hour or 1 incident.

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Peachtree By Sage First Accounting 2010

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[ReviewAZON asin="B0027ELNYE"]Peachtree by Sage First Accounting 2010 is an easy-to-use, basic accounting solution that helps small businesses improve their productivity. It provides tools to create invoices, record customer payments, write checks, track expenses, produce customer statements, and generate 35+ reports and financial statements. (*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

Easily and quickly view all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction. Click to enlarge.

Use Business Analytics to help improve your business' financial health and make critical decisions. Click to enlarge.

Open and work in multiple companies within Peachtree at the same time. Click to enlarge.

Product Features

  • Quick & Easy Startup
  • Integrates with Microsoft Excel*
  • New--Transaction History
  • New--Multiple Contacts*
  • New--Automatic Backup
  • New--Business Analytics*
  • Improved--Password Security

(*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

New and Improved Features for 2010

Transaction History

  • Easily and quickly view all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction throughout the entire chain of events at any point in the sales or purchase process.
  • View forward from a purchase order to a payment or backwards from a receipt to a quote.
  • Save time getting to the information you need to take action!

Business Analytics*

  • See how your company is performing compared to other companies in your industry or geographic region with the new customizable company dashboard!
  • Get instant access to view up-to date key financial trends in order to compare items such as Total Revenue, Gross Margin %, Days Sales Outstanding, and much more.
  • Use this tool to help improve your business' financial health and make critical decisions.

* Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.

Multiple Contacts*

  • Store a virtually unlimited number of contacts for every customer in Peachtree!
  • The new "Contacts" tab in the Customers screen allows you to keep track of many specific details you need to maintain your relationships for each of your customers.
  • Track more details like contacts' titles, phone numbers, e-mail address, and specify the ship-to addresses.
  • A new Notes field allows you to track unique information about each contact, like shipping instructions.

*There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer. Only 2 contacts per customer can be synced with Outlook.

Automatic Backup

  • No more hassles or worries about safeguarding data in Peachtree. Automate your backup process for any time that is convenient for you and your company!
  • With Peachtree Automatic Backup, set up your schedule once, and the rest is taken care of for you. Peachtree doesn't even have to be running to make the scheduled backup.
  • Notify users to log out, or automatically log them off in order to run your backup (Peachtree Quantum only).

Password Security

  • Secure your company's data from unauthorized access with increased password security options.
  • Strengthen your password security with new customizable options such as automatic password expiration, multiple incorrect password attempts lockout, no repeat passwords, and masking passwords from other users in Peachtree.
  • Maintenance is easier giving users the ability to change their own passwords without relying on the admin, and requiring strong password compliance.

In-Product Advisor

  • Learn the best way to work within Peachtree by leveraging our in-product user tips. These tips will help you discover functions or features that will assist you in learning other areas of the product quicker.
  • The Advisor will assist you in pointing out better ways to accomplish common tasks in the program, in areas such as Sales/Invoicing, Inventory, Vendors, Receipts and General Journal Entries.
  • Set your experience with Peachtree to maximize the effectiveness of assistance you might require, and set the length of time that each message will be displayed.

Peachtree by Sage 2010 Product Family Feature Comparison Chart

Feature Peachtree First Accounting Peachtree Pro Accounting Peachtree Complete Accounting Peachtree Premium Accounting Peachtree Quantum
Easy Start-up and Use X X X X X
Accounts Payable: Check Writing, Bill Payment, Purchases X X X X X
Accounts Receivable:Invoicing, Receive Payments X X X X X
Customizable Reports 35+ 100+ 125+ 140+ 140+
Conversion from QuickBooks1   X X X X
E-mail Alerts, Forms, Reports and Financial Statements2   X X X X
Internal Accounting Review3   X X X X
Inventory: Assemblies, Average/LIFO/FIFO Costing Methods, Back Orders   Basic Advanced Advanced Advanced
IMPROVED! Password Security   Module Level Screen Level Screen Level Screen Level
Attach documents to transactions and records   X X X X
NEW! Business Analytics4   X X X X
Comparative Budget Spreadsheet Creator--track 4 years   X X X X
Integration with Microsoft Excel and Word5   X X X X
Payroll Solutions6   X X X X
NEW! Customer Management Center     X X X
NEW! Track Multiple Contacts7     X X X
NEW! View Transaction History     X X X
Electronic Bill Payment through Peachtree Bill Pay8     X X X
Integration with UPS9     X X X
NEW! Open Multiple Companies10     X X X
Sync your Outlook Contacts11     X X X
Auto Creation of Purchase Orders     X X X
Audit Trail     X X X
Fixed Assets12     X X X
Job Costing--Phase and Cost Level     X X X
Advanced Budgeting       Included Included
Archive Company Data       X X
Company Consolidation Wizard       X X
Crystal Reports 200813       X X
Departmentalized Financial Statements       X X
Serialized Inventory       X X
Developed to handle large data requirements14         X
Exclusive SmartPosting Technology         X
NEW! My Dashboard         X
NEW! Order Process Workflow         X
Product updates and software upgrades for 1 year15         X
Role based security         X
Support for 10, 15, 20 or 30 named users16         X
Unlimited17 access to support for 1 year         X
Includes all industry solution functionality (Manufacturing, Construction, Distribution and Nonprofits         X

Disclaimers:
1. Versions 2006-2009. Excludes conversion of QuickBooks individual payroll transactions. For additional information on conversion limitations, please visit www.peachtree.com/qb
2. Requires Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003 or 2007; Outlook Express 5 or 6; other MAPI compliant e-mail programs.
3. Sage is not liable or responsible for any fines or penalties that may result from errors in your company accounting records. The Internal Accounting Review is not intended to uncover all questionable transactions.
4. Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.
5. Requires Microsoft Excel, Word or Outlook 2002, 2003, or 2007.
6. Compliant tax forms and tax tables require a subscription to Peachtree Simple Payroll. For details see www.peachtreepayroll.com or call 877-231-3761.
7. There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer.
8. Subject to approval and to Sage terms of service. Additional fees, internet access and checking account required.
9. UPS functionality is subject to UPS terms and conditions. Internet access required.
10. When opening more than one company, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.
11. Outlook Sync supported in Exchange 2000 SP2, 2003 and 2007.
12. Regulatory compliance requires paid subscription. Additional fees apply for more than 200 assets.
13. Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Server 2000 not supported.
14. Peachtree does not impose a hard limit on database capacity, however, individual performance will vary depending on actual number of transactions, database size, and number of concurrent users. Data management efficiencies are also realized in the Peachtree 2010 products.
15. The Peachtree Business Care Plan (which includes product upgrades, updates, and customer support) will be renewed automatically each year on the anniversary date of your purchase unless you terminate your agreement prior to that date. Renewal is not required to continued access to product updates for supported versions.
16. Multi User licenses available in of packs of 10, 15, 20 or 30. A maximum of 30 licensed, named users is allowed. Only the first 30 named users selected in the user maintenance screen are considered licensed, named users.
17. Support Specialists are available from 8:30 am until 8:30 pm ET Monday-Friday, and reserve the right to limit calls to 1 hour or 1 incident.

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Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2010

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[ReviewAZON asin="B001W2Y5Q0"]Autodesk SketchBook Pro software offers best-in-class sketching capabilities for professional designers and artists from all industries. A paint and drawing application designed specifically for use with digitized pen tablets and Tablet PCs, it can be used in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used. With a patented user interface that is fast and intuitive, even new users can be productive within minutes. Autodesk SketchBook Pro represents the next generation of digital design products that focuses on the user, translating technology and functionality into a natural drawing experience.

Best-in-class sketching capabilities for professional designers and artists from all industries. Click to enlarge.

So versatile and easy-to-use, it can be used in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used. Click to enlarge.

The look and feel of traditional tools that experts demand. Click to enlarge.

With 2010's new features, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro continues its tradition of delivering an affordable, easy-to-use, natural drawing experience with the quality expected by professionals.

Your Digital Sketchpad
So versatile and easy-to-use, it can be used in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used:

  • Concept sketching and ideation
  • Illustration
  • Character studies
  • Set and level designs
  • Story boarding
  • Annotation and review

High Quality Results

  • The look and feel of traditional tools that experts demand
  • Custom texture brushes
  • Interactive brush symmetry
  • Interactive rulers and ellipses

Fits into all Digital Workflows

  • Reduce time scanning and touching up paper sketches
  • Reduce the use of paper
  • Open and save common file formats, including Adobe Photoshop: TIF, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD

Streamlined User Interface

  • SketchBook Pro is designed to maximize flow, offering a natural drawing experience
  • Highly discoverable UI

    • So easy-to-use, any user can be productive within minutes.
    • Patented Marking menus provide access to major tools with just one-flick
    • Do-it-yourself custom brush creation

Communicate More Effectively
Share visual ideas quickly with integrated e-mail feature Instantly email sketches and annotations

What's New

With 2010, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro continues its tradition of delivering an affordable, easy-to-use, natural drawing experience with the quality expected by professionals.

New: Rotate Canvas

  • The navigation puck now has a rotate ring for smooth rotation of the canvas view.
  • Automatically snap to 90 degree increments

New: Blur & Sharpen Brush

  • Two new brush types in the brush palette.
  • Paint blur effects directly in SketchBook Pro
  • Use the sharpen brush to tighten imported photos or images.

New: Symmetric Brushing

  • Easily draw anything symmetric.
  • Horizontal & Vertical interactive mirroring brings drawings to life instantly... and fun too.
  • Great for character design, product concepts, graphic design, automotive sketches, and vehicles of all kinds.

New: Custom brush features

  • Create your own Custom Textures
  • Capture and reuse graphics
  • Make specialized brushes
  • Export/Import custom brushes
  • Save out XML with a TIFF map that you can share with other SBP users.

Customizability

  • Set up your preferred tools in the Lagoon, including your custom DIY brushes
  • Access marking menus right at the cursor

    • Hotkeys for each lagoon item
    • Assign these to a pen-button or tablet keys
    • Now you can work completely in full screen mode, calling up tools as you need them.

  • DIY Palette items can be reordered

New: Numeric color input

  • Direct RGB input fields in the Color Editor.
  • To support the custom color palette on Windows, you can now accurately define RBG values before saving them.
  • The Mac version continues to use the Apple Color editor.
  • Preset primary colors & gray scales now available for customizing in the lagoon.

New: Guides

  • Create perfect straight lines, circles and ellipses.
  • The Ruler and Ellipse guide bring a new level of precision to refine your sketches.

New: Scale enhancement

  • The transform puck now allows non-proportional scaling
  • Tweak the horizontal or vertical proportions of a selection or entire image directly in SketchBook Pro

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Hallmark Card Studio 2010

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[ReviewAZON asin="B002N5TCEU"]For more than 100 years Hallmark has designed greeting cards for life's special moments. Hallmark Card Studio 2010 extends this tradition, making it easy to create one-of-a-kind Hallmark cards as unique as the people you care for. In three simple steps you can add personal photos, sentiments and clip art images of your choosing.

The #1 Greeting Card Software

The new 2010 version includes:
  • 6,000+ Hallmark Cards and Projects: Design cards for all occasions--birthdays, holidays, weddings and more.
  • 600+ New Designs
  • 10,000+ Clip Art Images: Complement your cards with sensational artwork.
  • Brand New Animated User Interface
  • 3D Cards and Projects
  • Photo Calendars and Photo Cards
  • Exclusive Hallmark Fonts and Sentiments
  • Event Planner: Stay organized with address books, mailing lists and date notification.
  • Digital Picture Placer: Easily add your own photos to give your cards a personalized touch.
  • Hallmark E-Cards: Send your customized cards and projects via e-mail with just one click.

But cards are just the beginning. Commemorate events and bridge the miles between family and friends with custom calendars, photo frames, stationery, invitations, scrapbooks, certificates and more! It's amazing what you and Hallmark can do together!

Creating Your Own Cards Is Faster, Easier and More Fun than Ever

Create personalized cards in 3 easy steps:

  1. Select from thousands of cards, invitations, stickers and more.
  2. Add your own unique message or personal photos. Then change fonts, colors or graphics.
  3. Print, email or create a PDF of your one-of-a-kind creation.

Also Includes

Event Planner
Keep track of the birthdays and anniversaries of the important people in your life. Date notification means you'll never miss an important Hallmark card event again.

Scrapbooks
Commemorate the special events in your family's life by creating beautiful scrapbooks you'll treasure forever.

Hallmark e-Cards
Email personalized cards for any occasion. Plus, add music and prerecorded sounds.

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Peachtree By Sage Complete Accounting 2010

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[ReviewAZON asin="B0027EFY8K"]Peachtree by Sage Complete Accounting 2010 combines robust core accounting with advanced features like job costing, time and billing, in-depth inventory capabilities, and analysis tools. Its multi-user option* helps improve productivity while providing control over who accesses data. Plus, a clear audit trail helps track errors and deter fraud. (*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

Easily and quickly view all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction. Click to enlarge.

Use Business Analytics to help improve your business' financial health and make critical decisions. Click to enlarge.

View the details you need all in one place with the Customer Management Center. Click to enlarge.

Open and work in multiple companies within Peachtree at the same time. Click to enlarge.

Store a virtually unlimited number of contacts for every customer in Peachtree. Click to enlarge.

Product Features

All of the features found in Peachtree Pro Accounting, plus:
  • Business Status Center
  • Multi-User Option* with Screen-Level Security
  • Audit Trails
  • New--Open Multiple Companies*
  • New--Customer Management Center
  • Improved--Employee Management
  • 125+ Customizable Reports

(*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

New and Improved Features for 2010

Transaction History

  • Easily and quickly view all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction throughout the entire chain of events at any point in the sales or purchase process.
  • View forward from a purchase order to a payment or backwards from a receipt to a quote.
  • Save time getting to the information you need to take action!

Business Analytics*

  • See how your company is performing compared to other companies in your industry or geographic region with the new customizable company dashboard!
  • Get instant access to view up-to date key financial trends in order to compare items such as Total Revenue, Gross Margin %, Days Sales Outstanding, and much more.
  • Use this tool to help improve your business' financial health and make critical decisions.

* Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.

Customer Management Center

  • Save time by viewing the details you need all in one place to better manage and service your customers without missing a beat.
  • Create a customizable dashboard view of your customers' information such as their converted and unconverted quotes, invoices, receipts, time tickets, aged balances, items and services sold, and much more. Drill down to the detail and quickly take action too.
  • Save time by looking up customers quickly based on their ID, phone number or any of their contact information, and filter further based on date ranges. Utilize the Recent Selections link to quickly pull up customers you have already viewed.
  • Easily export customer information to Microsoft Excel or PDF, or launch an e-mail from the Customer Management Center.

Open Multiple Companies*

  • Get your work done faster by being able to open and work in multiple companies within Peachtree at the same time!
  • Open all of your companies at the same time and toggle in just one click to the company you need without closing your current company.
  • If you would rather work in only one company at a time, now you can save time by not having to re-enter your login information when switching between companies. Enter your user id & password once and Peachtree will remember it until you close Peachtree.

* When opening more than one company, performance is not impacted; however, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.

Multiple Contacts*

  • Store a virtually unlimited number of contacts for every customer in Peachtree!
  • The new "Contacts" tab in the Customers screen allows you to keep track of many specific details you need to maintain your relationships for each of your customers.
  • Track more details like contacts' titles, phone numbers, e-mail address, and specify the ship-to addresses.
  • A new Notes field allows you to track unique information about each contact, like shipping instructions.

*There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer. Only 2 contacts per customer can be synced with Outlook.

Employee Management

  • Save time and reduce errors by keeping track of employees' information all in one place!
  • Store additional employee data within Peachtree such as emergency contact, performance reviews, employment details like hiring date and I-9 verification, additional phone numbers and much more.
  • Easily stay on top of your employees' records by receiving alerts and reminders for key tasks coming up such as review dates.

Automatic Backup

  • No more hassles or worries about safeguarding data in Peachtree. Automate your backup process for any time that is convenient for you and your company!
  • With Peachtree Automatic Backup, set up your schedule once, and the rest is taken care of for you. Peachtree doesn't even have to be running to make the scheduled backup.
  • Notify users to log out, or automatically log them off in order to run your backup (Peachtree Quantum only).

Password Security

  • Secure your company's data from unauthorized access with increased password security options.
  • Strengthen your password security with new customizable options such as automatic password expiration, multiple incorrect password attempts lockout, no repeat passwords, and masking passwords from other users in Peachtree.
  • Maintenance is easier giving users the ability to change their own passwords without relying on the admin, and requiring strong password compliance.

In-Product Advisor

  • Learn the best way to work within Peachtree by leveraging our in-product user tips. These tips will help you discover functions or features that will assist you in learning other areas of the product quicker.
  • The Advisor will assist you in pointing out better ways to accomplish common tasks in the program, in areas such as Sales/Invoicing, Inventory, Vendors, Receipts and General Journal Entries.
  • Set your experience with Peachtree to maximize the effectiveness of assistance you might require, and set the length of time that each message will be displayed.

Inventory Enhancements

  • See what your customers are buying with the new Item Sales History by Customer onscreen view and report.
  • Now you don't need to know the official name of an item, or the number, to find it quickly. Search for items by words you've typed into other description or notes fields.
  • Streamline your data entry when setting up new items with the ability to set the Item Class default based on your most common inventory type such as Stock, Non-Stock, Service, etc.

Peachtree by Sage 2010 Product Family Feature Comparison Chart

Feature Peachtree First Accounting Peachtree Pro Accounting Peachtree Complete Accounting Peachtree Premium Accounting Peachtree Quantum
Easy Start-up and Use X X X X X
Accounts Payable: Check Writing, Bill Payment, Purchases X X X X X
Accounts Receivable: Invoicing, Receive Payments
 X X X X X
Customizable Reports 35+ 100+ 125+ 140+ 140+
Conversion from QuickBooks1   X X X X
E-mail Alerts, Forms, Reports and Financial Statements2   X X X X
Internal Accounting Review3   X X X X
Inventory: Assemblies, Average/LIFO/FIFO Costing Methods, Back Orders   Basic Advanced Advanced Advanced
IMPROVED! Password Security   Module Level Screen Level Screen Level Screen Level
Attach documents to transactions and records   X X X X
NEW! Business Analytics4   X X X X
Comparative Budget Spreadsheet Creator--track 4 years   X X X X
Integration with Microsoft Excel and Word5   X X X X
Payroll Solutions6   X X X X
NEW! Customer Management Center     X X X
NEW! Track Multiple Contacts7     X X X
NEW! View Transaction History     X X X
Electronic Bill Payment through Peachtree Bill Pay8     X X X
Integration with UPS9     X X X
NEW! Open Multiple Companies10     X X X
Sync your Outlook Contacts11     X X X
Auto Creation of Purchase Orders     X X X
Audit Trail     X X X
Fixed Assets12     X X X
Job Costing--Phase and Cost Level     X X X
Advanced Budgeting       Included Included
Archive Company Data       X X
Company Consolidation Wizard       X X
Crystal Reports 200813       X X
Departmentalized Financial Statements       X X
Serialized Inventory       X X
Developed to handle large data requirements14         X
Exclusive SmartPosting Technology         X
NEW! My Dashboard         X
NEW! Order Process Workflow         X
Product updates and software upgrades for 1 year15         X
Role based security         X
Support for 10, 15, 20 or 30 named users16         X
Unlimited17 access to support for 1 year         X
Includes all industry solution functionality (Manufacturing, Construction, Distribution and Nonprofits         X

Disclaimers:
1. Versions 2006-2009. Excludes conversion of QuickBooks individual payroll transactions. For additional information on conversion limitations, please visit www.peachtree.com/qb
2. Requires Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003 or 2007; Outlook Express 5 or 6; other MAPI compliant e-mail programs.
3. Sage is not liable or responsible for any fines or penalties that may result from errors in your company accounting records. The Internal Accounting Review is not intended to uncover all questionable transactions.
4. Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com.
5. Requires Microsoft Excel, Word or Outlook 2002, 2003, or 2007.
6. Compliant tax forms and tax tables require a subscription to Peachtree Simple Payroll. For details see www.peachtreepayroll.com or call 877-231-3761.
7. There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer.
8. Subject to approval and to Sage terms of service. Additional fees, internet access and checking account required.
9. UPS functionality is subject to UPS terms and conditions. Internet access required.
10. When opening more than one company, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.
11. Outlook Sync supported in Exchange 2000 SP2, 2003 and 2007.
12. Regulatory compliance requires paid subscription. Additional fees apply for more than 200 assets.
13. Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Server 2000 not supported.
14. Peachtree does not impose a hard limit on database capacity, however, individual performance will vary depending on actual number of transactions, database size, and number of concurrent users. Data management efficiencies are also realized in the Peachtree 2010 products.
15. The Peachtree Business Care Plan (which includes product upgrades, updates, and customer support) will be renewed automatically each year on the anniversary date of your purchase unless you terminate your agreement prior to that date. Renewal is not required to continued access to product updates for supported versions.
16. Multi User licenses available in of packs of 10, 15, 20 or 30. A maximum of 30 licensed, named users is allowed. Only the first 30 named users selected in the user maintenance screen are considered licensed, named users.
17. Support Specialists are available from 8:30 am until 8:30 pm ET Monday-Friday, and reserve the right to limit calls to 1 hour or 1 incident.

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