The Mac OS X version of World Book has been developed to take
advantage of the power and elegance of Apple's next generation
operating system.
The new Macintosh edition features a new Interactive Home Screen
which presents a unique way to browse the encyclopedia. Photos,
videos and illustrations from the World Book appear along the
bottom of the screen for a few seconds each while music from the
encyclopedia's music collections plays.
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- Article Updates may be downloaded seamlessly
with the enhanced Update Now feature to keep the user's World
Book current.
- Expanded multimedia elements which now include thousands
of maps, photos, illustrations, videos, animations, music
and other sounds, and 3-D interactive "bubble view" panoramas
from the World Book Collections.
- Enhanced versions of World Book's acclaimed Homework Wizards.
- A special "Surf the Millennium" section that invites students
to visit each century of the past millennium, beginning with
the year 1000, on simulated Web sites.
- A completely new World Book Notepad word processor which
is fully customizable to account for the level of the user
thanks to the power of Mac OS X. Young students will find
it to be the easiest word processor to use, while older students
and family members may add more advanced tools easily to enhance
the formatting of their documents.
- Accommodation for Multiple Users in Mac OS X so that each
user will see only their own highlights and "sticky note"
bookmarks. There are now four colors of highlighters so that
students can mark different kinds of content in different
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