The Complete Collection includes all of Nik Software's award-winning plug-in software titles for Adobe Photoshop and Apple Aperture, delivering solutions for every step of the photographic workflow with powerful, easy-to-use image enhancement tools. Includes:
Smilebox is the fun, new way to keep in touch and share life’s moments with friends and family! Perfect for every mood and occasion, Smilebox allows you to create animated greetings, slideshows, scrapbooks and more with your favorite photos, music and video. It's as easy as 1,2,3: 1) Select a designer template 2) Add text and music and drag and drop in photos and video 3) Share your creation by print, email, post to a blog or social network (including Facebook, MySpace and more) or burn it to DVD and play it on TV Smilebox gives you access to 100 templates to use for life, plus a two-month subscription to Club Smilebox.
SampleMoog includes the sounds of all the most sought-after vintage and modern Moog synthesizers spanning the entire Moog history in an easy to use sample-based virtual instrument powered by SampleTank available as a plug-in (RTAS/AU/VST) for the most popular DAWs and a standalone application for Mac and PC. SampleMoog offers over 1 700 basses leads pads and effects sounds from the very first Moog Modular systems to rare MiniMoogs to Taurus Bass Pedals PolyMoogs MemoryMoogs and more.

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Working with recipes Enter recipes with as much or as little detail as you like. Add images to recipes. In fact you can add a main recipe image, a source image and an image for every recipe procedure step, if you want to. Copy recipes from the Internet. Calculate recipe nutrition from the recipe ingredients or enter the nutrition data manually. Calculate recipe costs. Share recipes with others, even if they don't own Living Cookbook. You can export, e-mail or import recipes in all of the major recipe file formats. Add ratings and reviews to recipes. Add audio or video files to recipes. Assign recipe types and categories. Enter the recipe's oven temperature in either Celsius or Fahrenheit. Choose from five degrees of difficulty. Use a recipe as an ingredient in another recipe. Enter preparation time, cooking time, inactive time and total time. Organize recipes into cookbooks, chapters, sub-chapters, etc. according to your needs. Customize recipe displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more. Add any number of tips to a recipe to record recipe variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc. Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any recipe. Print your recipes on any paper format: US letter, legal, A4, 4x6 index card, 3x5 index card and more. Scale recipes to any number of servings. Convert recipe units to and from Imperial or metric units. Eliminate duplicate recipes automatically. Compare any two recipes side-by-side. Publishing Publish your cookbooks with tables of contents and indexes. Print your publication from within Living Cookbook or export it as a Microsoft Word document. Format your publication using your choice of fonts, colors, spacing and layouts. Working with ingredients Choose from over 7000 ingredients with nutrition data provided by the USDA. Enter your own custom ingredients or copy them from the Internet. Import new USDA nutrition as it is made available by the USDA. Add ingredient images and source images. Add any number of custom measures (units) for each ingredient. Assign costs, grocery aisles and preferred stores to ingredients. Enter ingredient nodes to describe the ingredient, record uses and preparation information, etc. Share ingredients with other Living Cookbook users. Organize ingredients into folders and sub-folders. Customize ingredient displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more. Eliminate duplicate ingredients automatically. Compare any two ingredients side-by-side. Copy ingredients from the Internet. Working with menus Create your own menus using any combination of recipes, ingredient, headings and text. Add menu images and source images. Calculate menu nutrition from the menu items or enter the nutrition data manually. Calculate menu costs. Share menus with other Living Cookbook users. Add audio or video files to menus. Assign menu types and categories. Organize menus into folders and sub-folders. Customize menu displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more. Add any number of tips to a menu to record menu variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc. Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any menu. Eliminate duplicate menus automatically. Compare any two menus side-by-side. Working with meals Add recipes, ingredients, menus, headings and text to meals. Choose from nine different meals each day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch, snacks, nightcap, etc.) Add meal headings to organize meals into courses (e.g. Appetizer, Main Course, Dessert, etc.) Use drag and drop or copy and paste to add ingredient, recipes or menus to a meal. Use drag and drop or copy and paste to move or copy a range of days, a single day, a meal or individual meal items. Calculate nutrition for meals, days or a user-defined range of days. Calculate meal and day costs. Share meal data with other Living Cookbook users. Customize calendar displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more. View nutrition and cost summary information for a day or a range of dates. View meal calendar in month, week or day mode. Working with grocery lists Add recipe, ingredients, menus or meals grocery lists or enter the grocery list items manually. Create a grocery list for multiple stores. Calculate grocery list costs and subtotal by store. Automatically organize the grocery list by aisles. Customize grocery aisles by store, including grocery aisle order. Customize grocery list displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more. Share grocery lists with other Living Cookbook users. Create a grocery list to restock inventory. Create a grocery list for a range of meal plan dates. Automatically combine like grocery list items (e.g. "1 cup milk" and "1 pint milk" will be combined automatically to read "1 1/2 pints milk". Compare any two grocery lists side-by-side. Working with inventory Manage your kitchen inventory. Control the ordering properties of any inventory item (minimum order quantity, order at level, order up to level, etc.). Share inventory data with other Living Cookbook users. Customize inventory displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more. Create a printable inventory worksheet to help you take stock of your kitchen. Compare any two inventory items side-by-side. Working with glossary items Enter your own glossary items or copy them from the Internet. Add glossary item images and source images. Share glossary data with other Living Cookbook users. Customize glossary displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more. Eliminate duplicate glossary items automatically. Compare any two glossary items side-by-side. Working with techniques Enter your own techniques or copy them from the Internet. Add an image to each technique step. Share techniques with other Living Cookbook users. Customize technique displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more. Eliminate duplicate techniques automatically. Compare any two techniques side-by-side. Working with the Internet Browse the Internet with Living Cookbook's built-in web browser. Save references to web pages you like in Living Cookbook's database. Share saved web pages with other Living Cookbook users. Working with RSS feeds View RSS feeds with Living Cookbook's built-in RSS feed aggregator. Save RSS feeds in Living Cookbook's database. Share RSS feeds with other Living Cookbook users. Other features Backup your Living Cookbook database. Configure Living Cookbook to backup your database every time you close the application or Living Cookbook can prompt you to backup periodically (you choose how often). Verify the integrity of a backup file before restoring it. Restore Living Cookbook backup files from any version of Living Cookbook. Compact the Living Cookbook database to shrink it to its smallest possible size. Search, filter and saved searches Choose from basic or advanced search modes to find the recipes, ingredients, meals and other data you need. Save advanced searches in your database for future use. Drag one or more saved searches onto Living Cookbook's filter bar to filter all search results. Use Living Cookbook's search and replace feature to replace text anywhere in the database. Use copy and paste to duplicate recipes, ingredients, meals, and more. Use drag and drop to move or copy recipe, ingredients, meals, etc. Use Living Cookbook's undo and redo to undo almost any action. Browse Living Cookbook's comprehensive help file with more than 480 indexed and searchable help topics. Use Living Cookbook's unique Kitchen Calculator tool to convert between units. Flag recipes, ingredient, etc. using one of six color flags. New users can use Living Cookbook's Launchpad feature to help them see all of the actions that can be performed on the selected item. Check the spelling of recipes, ingredient, meals, glossary items and techniques. Choose either standard or as-you-type (wavy red line under misspelled words) spell-checking. Use the Back and Forward toolbar buttons to back and forth to recently viewed items. Use Living Cookbook's built-in database repair tools to fix any potential database problems. Copy and paste or drag and drop recipes to other applications that accept plain text from the Windows clipboard (e.g. drag a a recipe to an e-mail). Open multiple recipe workspaces at the same time. Create links to your favorite or most-viewed recipes, ingredients and other data. Customize and print any list (e.g. recipe lists, ingredient lists, etc.). Print multiple recipes, ingredient, etc. at once. Export to any list to Excel.

PagePlus Essentials makes it a breeze to design and print stunning projects like cards, posters, newsletters and more with its amazing combination of powerful and easy-to-use desktop publishing features. It’s so easy to go from a blank page to a fantastic design just by dragging and dropping whatever you want onto your page – it’s that simple! On-screen ‘How To’ guides can walk you through tasks step-by-step, while the handy Learning Zone contains videos and tutorials as well as access to the community forums and the extensive knowledge base – help is never far away. The professionally-designed, customizable templates in PagePlus Essentials are a great way to produce amazing documents in no time at all – just add your own pictures and words for a polished document in minutes. You also get fabulous effects and instant styles to make your words and logos stand out from the page. Impressive text handling is at the very heart of PagePlus Essentials. You will recognize all the usual writing and formatting controls from a word-processor plus fast-flowing text wraps, customizable paragraph and character styles and the freedom to write text and place objects exactly where you want. It really does have everything you need to create impressive documents. A built-in PhotoLab offers over 70 adjustments, corrections, filters and effects to turn your images into works of art. With the dedicated Image Cutout Studio you can remove photo backgrounds quickly – you don’t even need a steady hand. PagePlus Essentials also supports more than 25 popular image file types so it’s a safe bet that you will be able to use any picture you can get your hands on. After you have finished designing, you can share your projects with friends and family quickly and easily by publishing documents as PDFs that can be viewed and printed on other computers. This powerful and flexible program is indispensable to anyone who creates or designs documents on a computer.
Developed by education specialists, Smart Steps builds a solid foundation in reading, math, science and creativity and more to prepare students for success in new mandatory state competency tests.