Software MacKiev's new iPod-friendly 2009 World Book for Mac OS X is enriched with thousands of new and updated articles and photographs. This edition packs in loads of new features from a collection of kid-safe webcams to the Media Showcase widget.

Add three widgets, the ability to export the media collection to iPod format, and continuous online article updates throughout the year, and you'll understand why this is the premiere encyclopedia on the Mac platform. World Book contains every article from the 22-volume World Book paper-bound set — plus thousands of photographs, video clips, animations, 3D panoramic views, famous speeches and much, much more. Includes the 228,000 term World Book dictionary and the World Book atlas. One DVD disc. Includes a 45 page, full color printed user guide.

2009 World Book includes:

• Every article in the World Book print edition
• World Book Dictionary
• World Book Notepad Student Word Processor
• World Book Atlas with Translucent Globe
• World Book Trivia Challenge game
• This Day In History Widget
• World Book Librarian research widget
• World Book Screen Saver
• Thousands of photos, illustrations, and video clips
• Sound clips, poetry readings and speeches
• Music clips from the Rhino/Warner Music Collection
• Bubble View 360-degree panoramas
• Thousands of editor-selected website links
• Free online Article Updates (one-year subscription)

New in this Edition

• Webcam collection: The next best thing to being half way across the world is to travel through the magic of webcams. Software MacKiev has added hundreds of editor-approved webcams to World Book. Witness the construction of the world's largest ferris wheel in Singapore. Look out for "Nessie" on Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. See the trains roll into Blumberg Station in southern Germany and the gondoliers navigating the Grand Canal in Venice. The webcams are all kid-safe and updated monthly.

• Media Showcase widget: Do you know where sitatungas live? Find out with World Book's newest widget: The 2009 World Book Media Showcase. With more than a thousand gorgeous images from World Book articles gathered in a quiz format, you'll have fun learning about people, places, and living things across the planet while viewing the best of World Book's media collection. If you're stumped, you can click through to the World Book article to find the answer.

• Content for iPod and iPhone: All World Book media content has been adapted to play on Apple's latest iPod models including the new iPod nano and iPod touch. Exporting World Book content to your iPod is just one click away so you can take World Book's media library with you. Watch a documentary video clip on the Civil War or listen to World Book's rich music collection anywhere you roam. As a bonus, our This Day in History widget is also available as an iPhone application that you can also play on an iPod touch.

• Thousands of new articles and pictures: Each year the editors of the World Book's 22-volume print version update articles and add new ones. Those all are taken word for word into the multimedia edition. For 2009 there are more than 4,000 new and updated articles from Angelina Jolie to Generation Y, Organic food, and YouTube-- as well as lots of great new photographs, illustrations, video clips, and more!

Special World Book Features

• Historical World Book archives offer the possibility to do period research.
• Month In Brief provides a summary of the most important international news stories and photos of the month presented in this time browser so you can keep up on current events around the world.
• Surf The Ages offers simulated websites for historical figures.
• Just Looking, a unique browsing feature that's like flipping through the pages of the encyclopedia to look at the pictures.
• Time Frame Search helps you find all the media and articles related to a particular era such as the Renaissance or the American Revolution.
• Speech capabilities in this new edition make it possible to navigate World Book using voice commands and to have any article read aloud to you. Fully supports Apple's VoiceOver technology.

Minimum System Requirements:
• Operating System: Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later, including v10.5 (widgets require OS X v10.4 or later)
• Processor: 350MHz or faster PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 or Intel Core processor
(iBook and PowerBook G3 - 500 MHz)
• Memory: 256 MB RAM
• Display: 1024x768 display resolution with millions of colors
• Free Hard Disk Space: 1.2 GB
• DVD-ROM drive
• Internet connection required for online features (after one year of free online updates an optional update subscription is available)