User-friendliness: book vs. disk
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There are a number of differences between a CD-ROM version of a book and the book itself. A new book called "Material World: A Global Family Portrait" published by Sierra Club Books is also available as a $40 CD-ROM from Starpress Multimedia. The CD-ROM requires installation and configuration while the book is ready for use immediately. The book offers sharper and more brilliant colors than the CD-ROM because the software is limited to the resolution of the computer screen on which it is displayed. The CD-ROM includes 1,400 photographs while the book contains only about 360 photographs and lacks some additional information and a narration by Charles Kuralt. The book is easier to look at because it displays the picture with its caption while the CD-ROM uses small pages of captions that make them difficult to associate with the photographs.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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Home movie: hooray for Hollywood!
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Theatrix Interactive's $40 Hollywood movie processor program masquerades as a child's program but is actually a tool that transforms the user into a screenwriter, director and producer. It will please any user who has ever dreamed of making the next Great American Film. Virtual actors rehearse written dialog, demonstrating the program's amazing multimedia prowess. Hollywood features a new but easy-to-use interface. Users choose one of 20 backgrounds, enter a title and choose one of 10 possible players. Typed dialog appears on the screen's lower half and the action is executed on the top half. Characters can be customized with menus and buttons. The actors perform the piece in its entirety in a theater setting with subtitled lines when the piece is completed. Changes are made as easily as with word processing systems.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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Disaster recovery for 95: there is still a catch
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Users of Microsoft's Windows 95 may experience problems in reinstalling lost files following a failure of the operating system or the hard drive, even if the files were saved with a backup utility. Since the backup software runs on Windows 95, the operating system and the backup utility need to be reinstalled before attempting to restore the files. Users will want to use the Startup Disk they made to handle such problems, but may be discouraged when they find the system will not recognized the CD-ROM drive from which Windows 95 was originally installed. A DOS disk with the necessary information can be used to boot the machine and reinstall Windows 95. The Emergency Recovery Utility cannot be relied upon for this purpose because it does not always work correctly.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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