User manual MACKIEV WORLD BOOK 2006 EDITION

[. . . ] 2006 World Book User's Guide Credits © 2005 The Software MacKiev Company. WORLD BOOK and the GLOBE DEVICE are registered trademarks or trademarks of World Book, Inc. Software MacKiev, the Software MacKiev logo are trademarks of The Software MacKiev Company. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. Warning Your right to copy the materials contained in World Book is limited by copyright law. [. . . ] To hear sound clips attached to the media element, open the Media Canister and click a sound icon. To find out more about a particular thumbnail, place your pointer over it and read the text that appears in the Status area at the bottom of the Just Looking window. 20 2006 World Book User's Guide Just Listening Just Listening enables you to explore the World Book music content and other sounds by theme while media on the same theme floats by on the Home Screen "waterstream. " Click the Just Listening icon on the Home Screen to open the Just Listening player. Then select a theme and enjoy the music! Just Listening Controls · Theme: Choose one of the themes from the pop-up menu, shown here in the order they appear: · Music Sampler · Classical Music · Opera · Jazz · Rock Music · Country Music · National Anthems · Songs from Europe · African Music · Asian Music · Middle Eastern Music · Latin American Music · Music from the Islands · Bird Calls · Animal Noises Go to previous sound Play/Stop Go to next sound Open to choose a sound theme Drag the slider to adjust volume Click to go to Media Center · Sound Level: Drag the slider to set the volume. This setting does not affect sound levels in other areas of World Book. · Just Listening Player Controls: There are three control buttons at the bottom of the player window: Previous, Stop/Play, and Next. · Display Area: Click the "Now Playing" display area to go to the Media Center for more information about the current sound. If a bird call is playing, for example, you can see a picture of that kind of bird in the Media Center; for a national anthem, you will see the flag of the country displayed. 21 2006 World Book User's Guide Atlas Atlas opens with a map of the world. Begin your review of World Book maps by clicking any continent label; then continue clicking to view progressively more detailed maps, showing countries, states, provinces, and cities. Click to search by maps Click to browse maps Click to show or hide related maps Click to hide or show Atlas Tools Click to zoom map Click to go to the related article Type to filter map list Doubleclick an item to open it Drag to resize a window Atlas Controls Atlas Tools Map Search: Click the Map Search control in Atlas Tools. Type a few letters to filter the map list and the list scrolls to the first matching map title. Double-click an item in the list or complete typing the location and press the Return key to start your search. Now you can navigate through the world by the names of continents and countries. You can drag a place name from any area of World Book or from any place of your system to the Atlas icon on the toolbar to start a map search and go to the Atlas area. The closest matching map appears. 22 2006 World Book User's Guide Atlas Features Zoom Out: Click the Zoom button to move to progressively larger-scale maps containing the originally selected map. When a map for which there are overlays is selected, the overlay canister shows which overlays are available. These may include population density, climate, average temperatures, annual precipitation, agriculture and fishing, mining and manufacturing, terrain, and economy. Go to Article: Click the Go to Article button to go to the article associated with the map in view. Hotspots: When your pointer is over a map hotspot it changes to: Zoom in: Click to reveal a more detailed map. Related media: Click to go to a photo or other media corresponding to the hotspot. All of the maps in the World Book Atlas can be dragged to an open document window of any application that accepts graphics, such as TextEdit or Notepad. 23 2006 World Book User's Guide Time Frame Use Time Frame to locate information related to a specific year, decade, century, millennium, or era. Some articles contain specially prepared Timelines as supplements. Click to search by era Click to search by time period Click to hide or show Time Frame Tools Click to go to related media Type to filter search results Double-click an item to open it Drag to resize a window Time Frame Tools Time Frame provides two methods of searching, by Time Period or by Era. When searching by Time Period, you enter a specific Time Frame, measured in years, decades, centuries, or millennia. When searching by Era, you select from one of the preset eras, such as The Cold War or The American Revolution. Era: Click this control, then select one of the following eras from the Era pop-up menu. · Age of Reason: 1600's­1700's · American Civil War: 1861­1865 · American Revolution: 1775­1783 · Ancient Egypt: 3100­1070 B. C. [. . . ] · · · · · "Look up in the dictionary": Opens the selected word in the dictionary. "Pronounce please": Pronounces the word currently displayed in the front window. "Definition please": Reads the definition of the word currently displayed in the front window. "Go forward": Goes one step forward. 44 2006 World Book User's Guide World Book Atlas Use World Book Atlas to find the distance between two locations. [. . . ]