Belkin Computer Service Tool Kit with Soldering Iron
Belkin Computer Service Tool Kit with Soldering Iron
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Complete Gardens Interactive Plant Finder & Gardening Guide (CD-ROM) 
List Price: ?29.95
Amazon Price: ?16.99
Used Price: ?14.99
Customer Review: Good resource but could be much better!
Actually I would give this three stars except that you can’t turn the sound effects off and they’re really annoying! The reason that this product seems to get 5 stars or 1 star on the reviews is to do with how you want to access the material- which does seem to be pretty comprehensive- so it deserves better than 1 star. The database only lets you search in very specific ways - fine if you want use the programme to suggest planting schemes and varieties but not if you want to use it, say, you identify a plant as you might use a field guide or paper encyclopedia - I contacted the author through the website who was very nice about it all but not able to help (search me I’m not the programmer!) I think he should fire his programmer and get someone to install a preferences menu so you can turn the **** sounds off and a browser so you can search through the images in whatever way you need to !!!
Customer Review: A must for the serious gardener and professional alike.
To put the review into context I should explain a bit about myself: I’m a part time student, studying Landscape Architecture, who works as a senior architectural technician in an architectural practice. I bought this software to help me identify plants to include in my planting schemes for University. This software has far exceeded my expectations. A significant part of its development seems to have been based on the end user interface, making it easy to use for all. It contains a mine of information on each plant (complete with a choice of photographs). And simplifies the process of choosing plants for virtually any condition or aspect, to a degree where it almost becomes effortless. A bonus of the software being devolved in the uk is that the plants are specific to our(uk) planting zone, alleviating the need to carry out additional filtering of information, which I know from past experience, is the case with software developed outside this country. I took the software to University for my tutor and fellow students to see, they were impressed enough to buy copies for themselves. A well considered product that has been thoughtfully developed, a pleasure to use.
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