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Christmas Crisis is a game that needs you to save Christmas, before it's too late. Santa has fallen ill, and won't be able to make all of his deliveries without your help. Players must deliver at least 70 percent of their present quotas to each town while avoiding aircraft in a race against time. Picture
Spinapse has released Christmas Quest, a game that combines scavenger hunt strategy with quiz show competition. Christmas Quest explores the history, traditions, and funny quirks of Christmas celebrations around the world. Play starts with a set of nine photo assignments chosen at random. Players navigate the globe, exploring live-action scenes in search of these items. As assignments are found players snap a photo and drag it to the correct slot on the game board. Each matching snapshot earns quick cash, a spin of the Big Wheel, and a tricky trivia question about the Yuletide celebration. Christmas Quest is available for $15, and requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later. (Screen shots) Download
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Letter perfect. Find-A-Word Wizard Layout tool helps create language worksheets for students to practice their reading and writing skills. Supply your own vocabulary for inclusion, then choose from a range of worksheets. Program controls allow users to create worksheets that suit the length of time you wish students to spend on review.
This version adds colour printing, Internet Find-A-Words, Circle Find-A-Words, Codecracker Find-A-Words and combination weekly worksheets, increased screen size, background music and dictionary generated wordlists.
BoosterElements is an add-on to Adobe Photoshop Elements that provides three plug-ins: Curves, Density Masking, and Color Effects. Version 1.5 creates masks with density or brush, offers color correction with curves, and enables color changes (Sepia, DuoTones).
Montage Librarian Pro combines text indexing and searching together with quick document viewing in one easy-to-use package. Montage Librarian finds files in plain text, RTF, HTML, Adobe PDF, and Microsoft Word (.doc) formats.
Photo Drop creates small, customized droplets that turn the tedious task of modifying a folder of images into a simple drag-and-drop operation. Droplets can resize an image to new dimensions, convert the original image to a new format, or flip the image horizontally.
The X Lab has published "Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Tiger Edition," an ebook dedicated to preventing or resolving common problems with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This is the third e-book in The X Lab's continuing "Troubleshooting Mac OS X" series. According to the company, the e-book format enables the reader to quickly find the solution to any of the numerous Mac OS X problems addressed in the over 600 pages. The book is extensively hyperlinked and cross-referenced, both within the book itself and to some of the best Mac OS X troubleshooting information on the Internet. Pricing begins at for a single-user license. Multi-user licenses are also available. No Download
MutantMaker helps researchers performing site-directed mutagenesis screen their potential mutants with restriction enzyme digests, rather than costly sequencing. The oligonucleotide sequences suggested by MutantMaker will create or destroy restriction sites while both creating the desired mutant and retaining flanking amino acids.
Shrook is an RSS and Atom news reader with automatic synchronization, as well as online access through the shrook.com web interface. Version 2.4 supports categorizing incoming news items utilizing the same Bayesian statistical filtering methods used by Apple Mail's junk mail filter.
CDW Search Widget searches the entire CDW website by keyword, CDW part number, or Manufacturer part number. The widget recalls the past five searches, and offers product promotions.
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