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Modify every element of your home with ease.

Design your kitchen using a vast library of materials and textures.

Choose the roofing material to build the roof you desire.

Use the plant library to choose the best landscape planting options.

Use the Deck Tool to create the perfect deck or patio.

Take Your Home to the Next Level
Design a floor plan, remodel a room, or create a landscape masterpiece, the possibilities are endless. The new intuitive user interface will make for a quick and pleasurable design experience. You can also look through the library of ready-made plans and rooms.

A complete set of home and landscape design tools will allow you to modify every detail of your home and landscape project.

• Develop the custom frame for your house using the Framing Tool
• View various remodeling options using the wide variety of material templates
• Browse through the large library of appliances and choose the one that's right for you.
• The Deck Tool allows you to customize your deck to any specifications you desire.
• Create the ideal landscape to complement your home, complete with plants and trees, slopes and grades, fencing, gazebos, pools--even exterior lighting!

Additional Helpful Features

• Choose from a wide variety of viewing options as you design the interior and exterior of your home.
• View the outside of your home at night and see how the exterior lighting illuminates your yard.

Take your dream home from an idea to reality when you design it using 3D Home Architect Home and Landscape Deluxe Suite Version 9, the complete and premium quality design solution. Find the architect in you!

Design Home Plans & Room Templates
Edit your design plan to your specifications using the provided structural elements.

• Adjoining walls
• Windows
• Doors
• Stairs & Railings

3D Home Tour
Take a 3D tour inside of your dream home with photo-realistic visuals.

Roofing
Choose the roofing material to build the roof you desire.

• Hip
• Gable
• Free Hand Roofing

Home Blueprints
Create blueprints that include every detail of your home design.

Interior Design
Every room is your canvas! Reinvent the look of your living space to match both your unique style and life. Utilize powerful yet easy-to-use tools to change every element of your room. Include paint colors, flooring, fixtures, furniture arrangements, and more.

• Kitchen & Dining Spaces
• Living & Family Rooms
• Bathrooms
• Bedrooms
• Media Rooms
• Stairways & More

Precision Lighting
Illuminate and create the perfect mood for your space with a variety of lighting options. Create shadows from lighting fixtures or sunlight.

• Floor Lighting
• Track Lighting
• Inset Lighting
• Table & Floor Lamps
• Wall Sconces & More

Customize Every Element

• Crown Molding
• Trim
• Window Sizing
• Door Sizing
• Furniture & More

Use a wide range of color palettes, finishes, and texures.

• Flooring
• Paint
• Wood
• Stone
• Windows

Landscape Design
Your landscape designs will be true to form with topographical options such as:

• Fencing
• Ground Fill
• Edging
• Retaining Walls
• Pathways
• Gates

Expanded Plant Library
Use the plant library to choose the best landscape planting options based on parameters such as terrain, region, climate, and soil conditions.

Custom Outdoor Features
Design your outdoor space with every luxury in mind!

• Pond
• Pool
• Spa
• Waterfall
• Outdoor Grill
• Greenhouse
• Fire Pit
• Patio Furniture

Decks & Patios
Use the Deck Tool to create a deck or patio perfect for your home and outdoor life style

Plant Growth Projection Tool
Experiment and preview different plant options until you achieve your ideal combination. view the growth pattern of your landscape over a period of time.

3D Home Architect Home & Landscape Design Suite 9 does a lot more than lay out your home and landscape designs. It gives you the ability to fine-tune every element of your home design or landscaping project. The wide range of tools & wizards will help you achieve your goals fast. Unlimited customization guarantees that your dream home will be perfect in every detail. Easy to use, yet powerful enough to generate buildable blueprint-style plans, it's the only design program you'll need. Accurate top-down representations of furnishings and other design elements in 2D Designer's View Enhance your home's interior with stylish furniture, lighting fixtures, customized cabinets, new appliances & more Make the ideal landscape to complement your home - complete with plants and trees, slopes and grades, fencing, even gazebos & pools Includes Plant Encyclopedia - Learn about plant care, growth zones, plant diseases, soil concerns and more

Publisher: Encore Software
Author: Encore Software
Release Date: 2007-05-15
ISBN/EAN: 0705381139102

New Price: $11.73 / Used Price: $14.90

The Power of Professional Home Design Software and Master Landscape Software Is Fully Integrated into Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum v12
This updated home and landscape design software is built on the same powerful platform as Punch! Architectural Series 4000, allowing you the flexibility to integrate Punch! PowerTools and much, much more! Version 12 gives you even more features and enhancements. Use new Aerial views to see how your overall design fits together; Color Sampling ensures that all of your colors fit your interior plan perfectly. Auto-elevation makes it easy for you to place objects on your floors or ceilings. Other enhanced components include lighting, editing, rendering, and advanced stair texturing options. Combine these with existing features for boundless home and landscape possibilities. Design with Decorator Palette--change your room colors with just one click! Use Accessories to easily add art and window treatments. Also includes dormer & skylight tools, supports fractions and imports 3DS files. Room Wizard helps you get started fast--just input your room dimensions and the rooms are created for you. Keep your designs up-to-date with brand name content and Punch! Updater.

PowerTools in Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum Version 12: Room Wizard .DXF/.DWG Import/Export Roofing Wizard Deck Designer w/Deck Wizard Topo Designer Cabinet Wizard PhotoView Material Modifier Elevation Editor 3D Custom Workshop RealModel Framing Editor Estimator

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Home Design Software that Lets You Design and View Your Home with Incredible 3D Home Design Realism!
PhotoView technology lets you import real-world photos into your home and landscape designs to create a truly realistic image of your home. You can import a photo of your own home, add landscaping design or deck design, and then view your work from any angle--with realistic, 3D perspective.

The LiveView window continually updates your home designs, in real-time 3D, as you draw.

Interior and exterior 2D elevations are available with a single mouse click and the exclusive ClearView tool renders your design with a "glass house" effect. You can actually see through walls to maximize your design space.

You will be amazed at our powerful 3D graphics engine that lets you create real-time walk or fly-throughs--for a Hollywood-style voyage through your new creation!

The Choice for Complete Garden and Landscape design.
This garden and landscape design software allows you to create multi-level or multi-story decks with 3D photo-realistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement, and color capabilities.

Helpful deck design wizards walk you through railing, baluster options, and more. Choose a basic shape or create one from scratch and watch the program draft a beautiful 3D rendering of your new deck design.

Your deck and landscaping designs come to life with photo-realistic 3D--complete with shadows--giving you a stunning, true-to-life representation of your home design.

Our plant database provides extensive information for a wide plant species including botanical name, soil and moisture requirements, mature height and other facts so you choose exactly what you want for your garden and landscape design. Use PlantFinder to easily locate plants that meet your requirements. Tap into information for over 4,000 selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, ornamental grasses, ground cover, and more. The Plant Inventory Bar helps you keep your favorite plants handy to drag & drop into your designs.

Publisher: Punch! Software
Author: Punch! Software
Release Date:
ISBN/EAN: 0664446941008

New Price: $61.99 / Used Price: $90.46

Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Pro has all the same great features as Architectural Home Designer, Interior Designer, Landscaping and Deck Designer plus advanced CAD tools, advanced building and CAD tools, the ability to create blueprints, manual framing and roofing and much more.

Designing like a professional has never been so easy!

Enjoy the same tools that the professionals use for home design, remodeling, interior design, decks, landscaping and cost estimation. View Product Demo

Manual framing tools for fully editable framing, including joists, rafters, trusses, beams, posts and more.

Design the kitchen of your dreams--move walls, create new cabinets, add appliances.

Glass House View provides a full translucent view of your design.

Professional Home Design and Landscaping Software
Create accurately scaled floor plans that automatically generate 3D models in minutes. Create any detailed view of your design using advanced 3D camera tools like Glass House, Doll House, Framing, Elevation and Cross-Sections. Create the virtual look and feel before you build!

Home Design Software by Chief Architect

• Exclusive Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center for expert design advice
• Choose from over 5,000 Sample Plans
• Design Inspiration Gallery contains photos by type for design and inspiration design ideas
• Choose from built-in style templates or create your own custom home design, or use the House Wizard
• Powerful building tools like automatic roof generation, dormers, stairs, framing and foundations

Integrated Design Tools
Home Designer Pro makes it easy to design and visualize your ideas on your next home or remodeling project with over 8,000 powerful integrated tools. In addition, the Design Planning Center provides advice, decorating guidelines, tips and techniques from the editors of the Better Homes and Gardens magazine.

Get Started Quickly and Easily

• The Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with "How-To" tutorials based on the type of your project
• Use the House Wizard for quick and easy layout of your rooms
• Select from the pre-designed Home Design and Landscaping Style Templates complete with colors, cabinets, decks and more
• Exclusive Design Planning Center for up-to-date How-To and Design Tips from the experts to help in your design process
• Includes Step-by-Step Tutorial DVD Packed with over 70 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home design project

3D Design Tools

• Design in 2D and 3D. 3D Views are automatic with a point-and-click of the camera tool.
• Glass House View provides a full translucent view of your design
• Doll House View, a 3D overview without the roof, is an effective tool for space planning of furniture placement and traffic flow
• Create a Virtual Tour--draw your record line to Automatically Generate; or record your camera movements
• Visualize your home with day and night views
• Assemble a scale model of your design with Model Maker
• Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D views
• Point-and-click to remove wall surfaces, or use 3D Cross-Section Elevation Slider to quickly create a 3D slice of your desired view

Automated and Manual Building Tools

• Design roofs and walls in 3D
• Generate various styles of Automatic roofs or manually design any custom roof including curved roofs
• Use the Automatic Dormer tool to quick place dormers--shed, gable, eyebrow and barrel
• Automatic Structural Dormers
• Unblock and manually edit Automatic Dormers
• Create any custom roof or ceiling plan with the Roof Design Tools. Edit and create roof planes to create a roof of any pitch and shape. Start with an automatic roof and then add custom details, or create the entire roof manually.
• Automatic framing tools
• Manual framing tools for fully editable framing, including joists, rafters, trusses, beams, posts and more
• Choose from several built-in wall styles with individual wall layers or define your own wall style
• Ability to read and edit files by Chief Architect Full Professional Software
• ICC Residential Design Checklist will allow you to check your plan against national building codes

Powerful deck and patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new deck with 3D models and can help you estimate the costs.

Create plot and perimeter plans; automatically generate a 3D model of your actual terrain.

Powerful CAD tools to detail cross-section views with insulation, cross-boxes and more.

Identify the exact placement of framing components, specify wall layers, floor structure platform height, mudsills and more.

Kitchen and Bath Design

• Design the Kitchen of your dreams--move walls, create new cabinets, add appliances--Design your perfect workspace!
• Design your new kitchen or bath using the Cabinet Designer tools
• Plan the new layout of your bathroom with custom cabinets, sinks, showers and garden tubs. It's easy to visualize your ideas in 3D.
• Create custom cabinets in minutes by choosing your own colors, countertops, door styles and more
• Use the Cabinet Designer tools to create unlimited cabinet styles. Choose your own colors, countertops and door styles.
• Design and edit custom countertop shapes and styles

Interior Design

• Use the Better Homes and Gardens Design Planning Center to help guide your designs with guidelines, tips and expert advice
• Design Inspiration Gallery--Our gallery of photos will help you to jump start your design and decorating style ideas with inspirational photos by rooms
• Material Painter lets you apply colors and materials quickly and easily
• Choose from thousands of colors and textures or create your own materials using a digital photograph
• Design for your lifestyle and personality--change colors, add lighting and choose furniture to accent your new room
• Import your own symbols from Sketchup or 3D Studio

Decks and Landscaping

• Powerful deck and patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new deck with 3D models and can help you estimate the costs
• Design single or multi-level decks complete with automatic deck framing and an advanced deck framing option for more complicated deck designs
• Quickly lay out your deck with stairs and arrange furniture
• Deck foundations automatically generate to match sloped lots
• Exclusive Better Homes and Gardens Plant Encyclopedia
• Choose from over 3,700 plants with the Plant Chooser
• Plant Hardiness Zone reference maps
• See what your plants will look like in 0-20 years
• Pathways--Use the Pathway tool to design curb-appealing landscaping using stone, pavers, or sidewalks--line with trees, shrubs, flowers and more

Site Planning & Estimating

• Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregular shaped, or sloped lots--use a GPS to import or enter elevation data
• Create plot and perimeter plans; automatically generate a 3D model of your actual terrain
• Export Material List to spreadsheet programs including Microsoft Excel
• Save snapshot Material Lists for different stages of the project
• Add detail to each individual component in the material list for a comprehensive cost estimate breakdown
• Master Materials List allows you to store and manage commonly used material prices
• Sprinkler Designer tools to easily layout sprinkler zones
• Fences and Driveways--With the Fencing tools you can choose a variety of fencing styles and custom gates. You will also find driveway, sidewalk and curbing tools
• Hill and Valley tools make it easy to add gardens, beds and slopes that automatically appear in 3D views. Choose from landscaping style templates or create your own.
• Define Terrain Elevation lines, Elevation Regions and Terrain Breaks

CAD Tools

• Powerful CAD tools to detail cross-section views with insulation, cross-boxes and more
• Advanced CAD editing tools such as replicate, line weights, point-to-point move, custom patterns and more (Compatible with AutoCAD patterns)
• CAD-to-Walls allows you to convert CAD lines from DXF file format to walls
• Layers can be used to separate key building components such as electrical or framing. Display or hide features of your design, set colors, lock layers and use reference layers for precise editing.
• Create Back-Clipped Cross Section/Elevation Views to limit your view to relevant details for precise plan editing

Building Tools

• Customize construction methods for walls, floors, ceilings and foundations. Identify the exact placement of framing components, specify wall layers, floor structure platform height, mudsills and more.
• Advanced stair tools allow control of shape, starter treads, flaring, tread width and more
• Create pony walls and edit wall shape or create a stepped foundation in cross-section view
• Multiple-select editing. For example, select all your cabinets and change them all with one command.
• Use callouts to reference between details, plans and cross-sections in a blueprint layout
• Create blueprint layouts (up to Architectural C drawings 18" x 24") with 3D, CAD, Cross-Section/Elevation and Plan Views
• Rotate and Flip Plan
• Advanced dimensioning tools include angular, end-to-end and interior dimensions
• Fully editable dimension lines and configurable dimension editing allow you to change where dimensions locate walls, windows, doors and other objects

New Price: $479.99 / Used Price: n.a.

Choose a professionally designed template and add other elements like headlines, text and your favorite photographs and graphics.

Add photos, clip art, sound file and image effects.

Web Easy Professional automatically previews the final version and creates the HTML code for you.

Building a Great Web Site Just Got Easier:

• ENHANCED 135+ Web Site Templates
• New--eBay Web Page Wizard
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• Search engine optimization tools
• E-commerce tools to create your own web store

What's New

Promote Your Products on eBay
Our new eBay Web Page Wizard allows you to generate web pages that are compatible with eBay. Increase your eBay sales with professional looking pages.

Generate Web Page Photo Albums
Use the built-in wizard to select your photos, choose from several photo page themes, insert any descriptions and WebEasy does the rest. Share your favorite memories today!

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Pre-Designed Forms and Objects deliver built-in functionality to your web pages--without programming.

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Web Page Style Designer
Customize elements such as title, navigation menu, header, footer, content and more for a consistent theme.

Key Features

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Choose from over 135 professionally-designed website templates for business, club, team, organization, school and home use.

No Programming Required
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Intuitive Drag-and-Drop Simplicity
Simply drag your photos, forms, gadgets, audio and animations directly into the layout.

Pre-Designed Forms and Objects deliver built-in functionality to your web pages--without programming.

Search Engine Optimization
Promote your site in search engines to bring more visitors and customers to your site.

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Use our built-in hosting service or your own web hosting service. FREE TRIAL HOSTING--No credit card needed!

Flash Animation Tools
Add visual sophistication and impact to your website.

Multimedia File Manager
Organize all your photos, clip art, sound files, animations and design elements for easy access.

Automatic Image Optimization
WebEasy optimizes and compresses images to speed web page loading times-without sacrificing quality.

85,000+ Multimedia Library
Jazz up your pages with web-based digital content including clip art, photos, animations, buttons and backgrounds or import your own.

Web Easy - The Most Powerful, Easy-to-Use Web Design Software Available! Create a great website in one hour with drag-and-drop simplicity. WebEasy includes everything you need in one box to create your ideal website with built-in templates and e-commerce tools. WebEasy automatically generates the HTML code, letting you create the website you want without any programming or technical skills required. BENEFITS: Building a Great Web Site Just Got Easier! Our Helpful Assistant Makes It Easy With Step-by-Step Instructions. 1) Select a professionally designed template and add other elements like headlines, text and your favorite photographs and graphics. 2) Customize by adding photos, clip art, sound file and image effects. Use your own imported files or choose from our included extensive library. 3) Publish and go live to the Internet in one click. Web Easy Professional automatically previews the final version and creates the HTML code for you. 4) Promote Your Products on eBay! Our new eBay Web Page Wizard allows you to generate web pages that are compatible with eBay®. Increase your eBay sales with professional looking pages. 5) Generate Web Page Photo Albums. Use the built-in wizard to select your photos, choose from several photo page themes, insert any descriptions and WebEasy does the rest. 6) Host podcasts for music, videos, news and announcements on your website. WebEasy does all the work for you automatically. 7) Web Page Style Designer - Customize elements such as title, navigation menu, header, footer, content and more for a consistent theme. 8) Ready-To-Use Templates - Choose from over 135 professionally-designed website templates for business, club, team, organization, school and home use. 9) Promote your site in search engines to bring more visitors and customers to your site. 10) One-Click Hosting Use our built-in hosting service or your own web hosting service. FREE TRIAL HOSTING – No credit card needed!

Publisher: Avanquest
Author: Avanquest
Release Date: 2007-06-04
ISBN/EAN: 0018059014213

New Price: $29.96 / Used Price: $23.74

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Get high quality results--fast--with over 2500 professional templates, logos, and gallery graphics. New Design Packs give your document range a full style makeover!

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Beating other desktop publishers at all price points, you can open and fully edit PDFs from anywhere just as if they were regular PagePlus documents.

Powerful graphics
Correct and enhance your images, design outstanding graphics, add impact with galleries of effects, or use class-leading drawing tools.

In-house design studios
PagePlus's unique Image Cutout Studio and Logo Studio make it easy to make your publications stand out from the crowd.

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Create almost anything with PagePlus's flexible document creation and output capabilities. Print publications of any size to any Windows printer.

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Have your designs printed reliably at the highest quality thanks to PagePlus X3; its exceptional PDF exports include everything a commercial printer needs.

Get creative
Design and creativity with PagePlus X3 can also mean stunning websites, emails, even multimedia PDF slideshows and interactive PDF forms.

PagePlus X3 is Serif's award-winning, affordable, Vista certified, desktop publishing powerhouse. With impressive design tools, professionally-produced templates, flexible layout capabilities, intuitive ease-of-use, PDF-editing and high-end output options, PagePlus X3 is the ideal solution for creating eye-catching, quality designs for desktop and pro-printing or the Web! PagePlus X3 brings the power of a professional design studio to any home, business, school, or club, with an unrivalled range of design and layout features alongside friendly tutorials and on-screen guidance and a customizable interface. It's never been easier to produce attractive business stationery, brochures, greeting cards, newsletters, posters, flyers, calendars, labels and even full length books!

Publisher: Serif
Author: Serif
Release Date: 2008-05-05
ISBN/EAN: 0703115681828

New Price: $89.99 / Used Price: $92.94

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Windows Vista Aero provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through.

Compare Windows Vista editions.

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Easier, Faster Access to Information
Windows Vista Business features Windows Aero, a new interface that delivers higher levels of efficiency for any business user. This easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to navigate through the operating system and from application to application. Most importantly, Windows Aero helps you juggle multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all your open applications and documents.

In addition to these navigation improvements, Windows Vista Business makes it easier than ever to manage huge volumes of business documents. By integrating search throughout the operating system and providing new ways to organize files, this software helps you quickly find exactly what you are looking for.

Collaborate and Communicate More Effectively
Windows Vista Business helps your work teams collaborate and communicate more effectively, regardless of their location. By helping users find and use information quickly and easily, this software can dramatically improve how people in your organization access and apply essential knowledge and resources on PCs, in e-mail, from corporate servers, and on the Internet.

Improved Security and Compliance
Protecting your business information and complying with regulations places increased demands on your IT staff. Windows Vista Business' more sophisticated data protection and auditing capabilities help simplify IT management and can help lower costs for regulatory compliance. In addition, with features like the Encryption File system, Windows Vista helps organizations manage security risks by protecting information and services in a more controllable and secure environment.

Safe Operation
For businesses of any size, Windows Vista Business makes it possible for your IT department to configure users' systems so that they can log onto their PCs as standard users instead of as administrators. This helps minimize compatibility and usability issues that might have occurred in previous versions of Windows, while also making those issues easier to resolve. Moreover, this new capability significantly reduces the likelihood of a malicious attack causing damage to your organization's PCs.

Keep Your Network Running Smoothly
For small businesses, Windows Vista Business includes new technology and tools to ensure your PCs are always up-to-date, more secure, and running smoothly. For instance, this software helps make your PCs safer with built-in protection against malicious software, or malware. And because Windows Vista Business warns you of impending hardware failures early on, you don't have to worry about the devastating loss of any important business data. No matter what potential problems arise, an array of sophisticated new backup technologies helps protect your information even in the event of a catastrophic hardware failure. When it comes to management, features like Domain Join and Group Policy support improve the efficiency of your workgroups.

Small Business Resources
And for those who are not full-time IT professionals but have roles that require them to support their organizations' PCs, Windows Vista Business includes Small Business Resources. This built-in how-to guide leads you through everyday tasks and troubleshooting in easy-to-follow, non-technical language. By giving you the ability to solve problems as they arise, you can help keep your business efficient. Windows Vista Business also provides business specific features like fax and scan that increase productivity.

Image-Based Installation
For larger organizations, Windows Vista Business has been designed from the ground up to improve the deployment and management of the central operating system. For instance, image-based installation is now the default method for installing the Windows Vista operating system, and the images are no longer hardware-dependent. These two key design principles enable your organization to dramatically reduce the number of images you are required to manage and streamline the process of deploying new PCs and updating existing PCs. The end result is faster, easier operation than ever before, which helps improve the overall productivity of your business.

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Today, more businesses rely on an ever-expanding mobile workforce as a way to enhance their scope of service and reduce enterprise costs associated with supporting a large on-site staff. Windows Vista Business gives mobile professionals easier and more secure access to corporate resources so they can readily collaborate with colleagues-- both on and off the network. Employees and colleagues will also find it easier to make wireless connections and synchronize mobile devices. The success of any business depends on communication, and Windows Vista Business helps you easily and quickly connect with your organization, your customers, and your partners, whether you are in the office or on the road. This software package includes all of the essential infrastructure required to more securely connect you to your business information whether you are sitting at your desk, working at home, connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot, or even if you are using your cell phone to connect to the Internet.

To help you be more productive when you're away from your desk, Windows Vista Business includes Windows Tablet and Touch Technology, so you can interact with your Tablet PC by using a digital pen, your fingertip, or a keyboard. Improved handwriting recognition and easier ways to browse documents and programs without using a keyboard give you added flexibility and convenience.

Easy Accessibility
Computers that include Windows Vista Business and an auxiliary Windows SideShow display will also allow you to access critical business information even when your computer is turned off. You can also share documents and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and customers--even if a network is not available. Additionally, Windows Vista Business helps you get the most out of your portable PC by making it quick and easy to manage key mobility settings.

Cost Effective
Meeting the increasingly complex demands that are placed on your IT systems doesn't have to be expensive. Designed to be less expensive to deploy and support, Windows Vista Business offers you a better return on your IT investments. By empowering people to work more efficiently, this system helps keep both productivity and morale high.


With Windows Vista Business, it's easier than ever to get the most out of your PC. Manage and share information simply, make your PCs more secure and enjoy personal media - Windows Vista makes it all a snap. Try out a stunning new visual experience with Windows Aero & Windows Flip 3-D. Find what you need quickly with Windows Instant Search, and back up data automatically with Windows Back Up and Restore Center. Windows Defender helps protect private information and removes spyware, and the built-in networking makes connecting to company or school networks easy, fast and safe. Combine Windows Vista with Microsoft Office 2007 to create great-looking documents, collaborate better and organize your schedule. Accomplishing more each day has never been easier. Optimize PC performance and block pop-up ads with Windows Defender Send, organize and share faxes and scans Quickly and easily determine backup status and protect against data loss Advanced networking lets you connect to the Internet easily Control your mobility settings on your notebook, with the advanced Windows Mobility Center Preview formatting changes with a click on Office 2007's Live Preview feature New automated security tools helps you find peace of mind Enhanced backup and restore - Special safeguards help protect against hardware failure, user error and other causes of lost data Connect to a company network or access your PC remotely from home Get up and running with existing data and applications -- fast and easy PC migration, even without dedicated IT support

Publisher: Microsoft Software
Author: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2007-01-30
ISBN/EAN: 0882224172332

New Price: $95.00 / Used Price: n.a.

Take a 3D walk-through of your design

Design any room to your specifications

Drag-and-drop textures, colors, and objects into any room

Design Your Dream Home With Ease & Accuracy
Whether you're designing the home of your dreams, decorating a bathroom or just updating your kitchen, the new intuitive interface provides you with tools to plan, visualize and execute your design ideas. You also have the option of looking through ready-made home plans and rooms.

Product Features

• Create a structural frame for your home use the Framing Tool.
• Use the Roofing Tool to decide on roofing styles and materials.
• View various remodeling options using the wide variety of material templates.
• Browse through the large library of appliances and choose the one that's right for you.

Additional Helpful Capabilities

• Choose from a wide variety of viewing options as you design your home.

This DVD based design solution is Powered by Punch! Software--the leader in high-end home design software. Home Designer v.9 is Windows/Mac compatible. The possibilities are endless with this all-in-one home design solution.

Interior Design & Decor
Design any room in your home to your exact specifications. Choose from thousands of furnishings, textures, and color combinations. Your design options are endless!

3D Home Tour
When your home design is complete, take a 3D walk-through tour of the inside or a 3D fly-around tour of the outside.

Doors & Windows
Customize the size of each window and door using the design tools.

Publisher: Encore Software
Author: Encore Software
Release Date: 2007-05-15
ISBN/EAN: 0705381139201

New Price: $7.62 / Used Price: $15.75

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Update Eligibility
You can upgrade from your current edition of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 (including Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Media Center, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows XP Professional x64, Windows 2000) to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista by purchasing and installing this upgrade copy of Windows Vista. Depending on which edition of Windows you are running and the edition of Windows Vista you would like to install, you have two options for the installation process: You can upgrade in-place, which means you can install Windows Vista and retain your applications, files, and settings as they were in your previous edition of Windows or you can do a clean install. If you are currently using Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional x64, you are eligible for an upgrade copy to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista, but a clean install is required. For versions of Windows earlier than Windows 2000, upgrade copies are not available. These earlier versions of Windows require you to install a full copy of Windows Vista.

Easier, Faster Access to Information
Vista Ultimate features Windows Aero, a new interface that delivers higher levels of efficiency for any business user. This easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to navigate through the operating system and from application to application. Most importantly, Windows Aero helps you juggle multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all your open applications and documents. And for those businesses that do work in other countries, Vista Ultimate supports all worldwide interface languages.

Breakthrough Windows Vista Experience
Designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience, all editions of Windows Vista introduce a breakthrough user experience. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.

Work From Home
Vista Ultimate includes all of the features that make it easy to remotely connect to business networks. This means that when you're working from home, you'll have advanced networking capabilities, such as the ability to join a domain, support for Group Policy, and access to features such as Remote Desktop. Vista Ultimate also includes Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption that provides improved levels of protection against theft for your important business data whether you are at home, on the road, or in the office.

More Entertainment Options
Vista Ultimate delivers all of the entertainment features available in Vista Home Premium, and includes everything you need to enjoy the latest in digital photography, music, movies, analog TV, or even HDTV. Ultimate also has helpful tools such as Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker to ensure that you have everything you need to collect, manage, and edit your digital content. It also includes Windows Media Center for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center.

Versatile Operation
Vista Ultimate truly lives up to its name by delivering all of the features both business and home users want and need. It is the ideal solution for both a small-business owner who wants a single PC that he or she can use at the office, on the road, and at home, and for someone who wants a home PC that will be used primarily for entertainment purposes but that can also be used for business purposes such as connecting to a corporate network.

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Publisher: Microsoft Software
Author: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2007-01-30
ISBN/EAN: 0882224443692

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22,000 Templates and 400,000 Images at Your Fingertips
With 22,000 pre-designed project templates to choose from, it's easy to start your next project from scratch. Design Suite Professional features flexible design and layout tools, more than 850 fonts, a complete logo creator, and several professional quality printing options that will help you tailor your projects to your precise needs. You can design layouts for multimedia presentations, letterhead, business cards, greeting cards, forms, multi-page brochures, stationery sets, CD/DVD labels, newsletters and much more.

When it's time to add the perfect image to your project, Design Suite Professional features a gallery for more than 400,000 premium images, photos, graphics, illustrations, Web art, backgrounds and textures, seasonal images and more. You'll always have the ideal template and the perfect image to complete your project.

Advanced Design and Print Tools
A convenient PDF tool lets you easily convert your projects and images into PDF files for easy sharing while maintaining high resolution and color accuracy. You also have access to tools that let you create sophisticated Web pages with no HTML coding skills required. Simple drag-and-drop capabilities allow you to move images and text to where you want them. Some of the advanced HTML features include dynamic web templates, rollover effects, hotspots, online form creation and spell check.

Professional graphic tools give you the power to manipulate your images so that you can take your business communications to the next level. With Design Suite you'll master tools that let you create and edit vector art, create 3-D shapes, add 3-D texture effects, and even draw using pastel, charcoal and watercolor. And when it's time to print, Design Suite Professional offers the advantages of several professional print options, such as borderless printing, and printing directly on printable CDs/DVDs.


Publisher: Encore Software
Author: Encore Software
Release Date: 2006-08-15
ISBN/EAN: 0705381109303

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