User manual MACKIEV WORLD BOOK

[. . . ] 2005 World Book Reference Suite User's Guide Credits © 2004 The Software MacKiev Company. WORLD BOOK and the GLOBE DEVICE are registered trademarks or trademarks of World Book, Inc. Software MacKiev and the Software MacKiev logo are trademarks of The Software MacKiev Company. Map datasets courtesy of Reto Stockli, NASA Earth Observatory, rstockli@climate. gsfc. nasa. gov. [. . . ] Zoom in and out of a bubble view by pressing the + or ­ keys on your keyboard. You may also use the arrow keys to navigate. Using Drag-and-Drop with World Book Media You can use the drag-and-drop functionality that is built into Mac OS X to copy most World Book media elements. Click a media element to select it and drag it to an open document window of an application that accepts graphics, such as TextEdit or World Book Notepad. Pictures: You can use the drag-and-drop feature to copy almost all photos and illustrations in the World Book media collection. If a picture cannot be copied, all the items in the Edit menu are dimmed when you click the picture. 19 2005 World Book Reference Suite User's Guide Just Looking Just Looking enables you to browse through the content of World Book for ideas, much like flipping through the pages of the paper edition. But Just Looking is also a powerful tool that can be used to search for World Book resources by theme or by category and type of resource. Click to search and display media resources Click to clear the screen Click a thumbnail to view it in the corresponding area How to use Just Looking By Theme Just Looking By Theme allows you to browse through the rich World Book media collection by selecting interesting subjects such as Dinosaurs, Explorers, European Painting, and International Sports. Click the By Theme control and then click the magnifying glass Search control to view a sampling of World Book media. Make selections from the Themes and Subjects pop-up menus to guide your tour. For example, select On the World Stage from Themes and Famous Women from Subjects to get a sampling of photos from World Book articles from Mary Todd Lincoln to Sandra Day O'Connor. Themes: · Animal Kingdom · Art & Architecture ·On the World Stage ·People in the Arts ·Sports & Recreation 20 2005 World Book Reference Suite User's Guide By Category Just Looking By Category allows you to browse through eight World Book categories. Click the By Category control and then click the magnifying glass Search control to view a random sampling of articles and graphics. For example, you could choose the category History and set the content type to Sounds and get a selection of excerpts from famous historical speeches. Categories menu: · Geography · History · Humanities · Industry/Tech · Life Science · Phys. Sci/Math · Recreation · Social Science Content menu: · Animations · Articles · Atlas · Back in Time · Bubble Views · Media · Pictures · Sounds · Special Reports · Timelines · Videos Advanced Search: Click the bottom of the Just Looking device to open an Advanced Search drawer. Type the first few letters of your search and then click an item in the list to place it on the desktop. Click the Clear button to clear the screen. Audio icons Two types of audio feature are available in Just Looking. · Listen Now icon: Appears as a rectangular gray button in the upper-left corner of some text thumbnails. The sound attached to this type of icon can be played without leaving Just Looking, simply by clicking directly on the icon. If you click the text in the thumbnail instead, you jump to the Media Center and the sound automatically starts playing there. · Embedded Sound icon: Appears as a white rectangle embedded in one of the corners of a picture thumbnail. You can play the sounds attached to these icons only in the Media Center. Click the thumbnail to go to the Media Center, where you will see a full-size version of the media element, then click the embedded icon or use the sound control to play the sound. [. . . ] You can restore the deault settings of your Dictionary by clicking the Revert to Default Settings button. Using Speech Commands World Book Dictionary supports speech commands. If Speech Recognition in System Preferences is turned on, you can work with the Dictionary using the speakable commands listed below. · Look up in the dictionary: Opens the selected word in the dictionary. · Pronounce please: Pronounces the word currently displayed in the front window. [. . . ]