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ABC Animals  Green Forest Studio

Card matching memory game for children (age 4+). Match up pairs of beautiful animal pictures! It's really easy to play. Just click on the cards to flip them over and try to find the pairs. Your main goal is to find the legendary unicorn as fast as you can. In this way you can earn bonus points. Rate yourself on the High Scores table! The game also helps to learn the letters of the ABC while playing. Ideal preschool or first former educational game for kids - with children's friendly interface and cutting edge graphics. Have fun!

Creative Painter  Moko Interactive

Creative Painter - Painting Program Challenges and Educates Kids The Creative Painter, an easy-to-use Windows program that lets kids have hours of fun painting pictures on their computer screens. Creative Painter is simple to learn and operate. Kids can experiment with happy, kid-size graphics tools to create personalized works of art. Because it's easy for children to make very attractive pictures with Creative Painter, it encourages them to experiment and exercise their creativity. Unlike static coloring-book software, Creative Painter lets kids work with colorful background pictures and engaging cartoon characters. Children can add animated pictures to their paintings, from barking dogs and swaying flowers to swimming fish and flying butterflies. Choose from more than 20 drawing tools, including a paintbrush, pencil, marker pen, crayon, spray paint, and chalk. It's easy for kids to select a tool, adjust its width, and pick its color. The library of 50+ special background pictures provides the starting point, and there is no end to the colors, shapes, textures, and gradients that they can add, including magic patterns not found in other software, or in real life. Creative Painter lets kids add text to their drawings, in an unlimited variety of styles, sizes, and colors. Kids can experiment with embossing, relief, and other special effects. The program even supports popular drawing devices such as the Wacom tablet. As children build a gallery of artwork, they see how their creative skills are growing over time. The program lets you save artwork, so it can be imported into other applications. You can turn your kids' drawings into the Windows wallpaper on the home computer, or on your computers at work. Prints of your children's paintings will look great on your refrigerator. With Creative Painter, parents get the satisfaction of exposing their children to the joy and creativity of painting. And kids learn to appreciate art because, with Creative Painter, art is fun. Creative Painter runs under Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/Vista.

Magic Whiteboard & Surpriise  OrgBusiness Software

Magic Whiteboard is a colorful network drawing program, designed especially for kids' entertainment. It is known that drawing, as well as playing with toys and making something with hands develops children's thinking and logic, allows them to develop their brain with the help of motion activity. Magic Whiteboard is a perfect tool developing your children's abilities. It lets kids express themselves by drawing and is a constant source of fun and joy for the entire family. Magic Whiteboard is designed not only for individual use, but also for collective drawing in a home network. This program can be used in a home PC network with up to 5 computers, so you and your kids can draw pictures all together at the same time. The main feature is that you all are drawing at the same "sheet" or "board" on the screen. So, if you have another PC or laptop, you can play with your kids or let their friends draw something together.

With Magic Whiteboard you can show a real miracle to your kid: you can hide with a laptop in another room and draw some pictures on the screen, and your kid will definitely think that there is a lovely small kitty or a cute dog or one of two nice gnomes that is drawing with him and adding more details to the picture. Or, you can just watch your kids drawing, and surely you will discover a lot of interesting things as children often create very unusual images. Learn more about your kids' way of thinking, worldview, imagination and skills with Magic Whiteboard. It gives a handful of ideas how to spend your spare time having fun with your kids. Magic Whiteboard allows printing and saving drawings in such common formats as BMP, JPEG, and GIF. No doubt, its colorful graphics and amusing cartoon characters make this program a really fascinating pastime. Available for Windows ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

School Calendar  OrgBusiness Software

The Trip Log  Lazy Bayou

The Trip Log is an easy to use program designed for travelers who want to maintain records of their trips be it a short one-day trip or an extended journey lasting many days. Miles, fuel costs, and other expenses incurred can be recorded with ease. If you're being paid a mileage rate for your travels you will find that the built-in expense report will come in handy saving a lot of extra typing and other forms to complete. Expenses covered include fuel, meals, parking, telephone, repairs, towing, hotel/motel charges and other miscellaneous costs of any type. The Trip Report and the Expense Report can be generated with just the click of your mouse. The informative Trip Report includes a history of all your trips and there's no limit to the number of trips you can record.