Navigating through reference works on disk

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Online encyclopedias are among the most useful CD-ROM electronic reference books that are currently available. Compton's Multimedia Publishing Group Inc's Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia for Windows and Grolier Inc's New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for Windows are the most popular. Both are easy to use, even without consulting the manual. They offer icon- and text-based buttons that users push to navigate through the voluminous quantities of cross-referenced text and linked illustrations, with the Compton's product also offering animations and videos attached to some sections. To locate the article on computers in Compton's, users select Contents on the home screen to bring up an alphabetical list with an entry for Compute. The 7,000-word article is organized into subsections. In Grolier's, users must first go to the Technology section, then the Computer Technologies subsection and finally to the 15,000-word Computers article.

Product/Service Evaluation, Multimedia software, CD-ROM disks, Electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias, Electronic reference books, CD-ROM, Encyclopedia, Compton's NewMedia Inc., Grolier Inc., Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia for Windows (Electronic publication), New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for Windows (Electronic publication)

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Learning the business of desktop publishing

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Business One Irwin's $27.50 Desktop Publishing Success is a new book concerned with the business aspects of desktop publishing. While the focus of the book is on desktop publishing as an independent business, corporate desktop publishing is also covered in an appendix. Osborne McGraw-Hill's $19.95 Teach Yourself GW-Basic is a book on the popular programming language. While QuickBasic is a better language, GW Basic has the advantage of being bundled with almost every microcomputer that uses the MS-DOS operating system. Microsoft Press' $24.95 The Big Book of Amazing Mac Facts is a collection of hundreds of Macintosh software and hardware tips more than 500 pages long. Ralph Blodgett's $39.95 WordPerfect Power Pack is a book/disk combination that seeks to address the word processing software package's diversity by offering instruction on accomplishing specific tasks such as business letters, writing memos, minutes and reports.

Electronic computers, Publishing industry, Microcomputers, Desktop publishing software, Desktop publishing, Study and teaching, Books, Word processing software, Bibliography, WordPerfect (Word processing software), Microcomputer, Review, BASIC, BASIC (Programming language), Book, DTP Software, Apple Macintosh (680X0-based system)

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I left my heart in the land of Cyberpunk, a place of fin de siecle hacking

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Louisa, VA-based Computer Lab's $29.95 Beyond Cyberpunk is a fascinating collection of electronic essays that are highly informative about the Cyberpunk movement. Science fiction, electronic music and comic book art are combined in this assortment of writings. Beyond Cyberpunk has four sections of essays: Media, Street Tech, Cyberculture and Manifestoes. Users can see the first page of each essay by 'browsing', or read the full text with the 'page' command. The text contains boldfaced words for which further explanation is available with the click of the mouse, and a window displays additional terms and names that are also fully cross-referenced. Beyond Cyberpunk is a Hypercard stack that runs on the Apple Macintosh. Minimum requirements include 1.5Mbytes of working memory and 5.5Mbytes of hard disk space. Installing the program is a painstaking process that requires close attention.

Software, Science fiction, Writing, Computer Lab (Louisa, Virginia), Beyond Cyberpunk (Data base)

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