October 20, 2007

CD Earth new 10,001 Greatest Recipes with Recipe Manager Software

CD Earth is releasing a new 10,001 Greatest Recipes CD that also includes a recipe manager software to make it easy to search and organize all those thousands of recipes.


You can read the article at:

www.prbuzz.com/cdearth-greatest-food-recipes

You can also read the article at:

www.1888pressrelease.com/cd-earth-recipe-manager-software

October 19, 2007

CDEarth Releases new 3101 Greatest Screensavers & Backgrounds CD

We're very excited about our latest new CD - 3101 Greatest Screensavers & Backgrounds. Its amega collection of 101 screensavers for Windows PC and Mac OSX. As a bonus, there's also over 3000 beautiful computer desktop Backgrounds and Wallpapers.

Checkout the full press release at:

www.prbuzz.com/cdearth-releases-pc-screensavers-cd


You can also find the release at:

www.1888pressrelease.com/cdearth-releases-wallpaper-cd

August 6, 2007

Mahjong Computer Games: Fun with Tiles

Mahjongg, also called Mahjongg or Mah Jong, is a popular Chinese tiles game that involves skill, strategy and bit of luck. In computer Mahjongg, the object is to remove tiles off the screen by matching 2 exact tiles with at least 2 sides free. Like Solitaire card games, this is fun to play alone and is always good for hours of solitaire fun.



Few of the popular Mahjong games: Altar, Arena, Arrow, Beatle, Big Mountain, Boat, Bridge, Castle, Cat and Mouse, Columns, Cross, Diamond, Dragon, Empty Pyramids, Floating City, Flying Dragon, Fortress Towers, Glade, Helios, Hidden Woods, High and Low, Inazuma, Inca, Inner Circle, Kyodai, Labyrinth, Lattice, Maya, Owl, Pantheon, Pyramid, River Bridge, Scorpion, Seven Pyramids, Snake, Stairs, Stonehenge, Taipei, Temple, The Great Wall, Tiger, Twin Temples, Two Domes, and Well.



You can find free Mahjong games online that you can download. You can also find an excellent collection of games on an inexpensive Mahjong CD. With computer Mahjong games, you can usually select from hundreds of games, backgrounds, and tile sets to make the game fun and unique with each play.

July 26, 2007

CD Earth: Freecell, Spider, Pyramid Solitaire and many more

Walk in to your coworker's office or sneak up on your spouse at home and you are likely to see them busy on the computer...playing Solitaire. What used to be a favorite past time for lonely cowboys, has become an obsession for computer users everywhere ever since Mr. Gates decided to include the game in his operating system.


Of course, there are the popular and most played games like Freecell Solitaire or Spider Solitaire because they come preinstalled with Microsoft Windows. But did you know there are literally thousands of solitaire variations now? You can usually buy an inexpensive Solitaire CD or even find a free Solitaire games pack online.

There are classic Solitaire games like Aces Up, Baker's Game, Canfield, FreeCell, Forty Thieves, Golf, Klondike, Pyramid, Scorpion, Spider, and Yukon plus special games like Ganjifa, Hanafuda, Streets and Alleys, Castles in Spain, Blue Moon, Beleaguered Castle, Tarok, Three Pirates, Tipati, Tower of Hanoy, Waterfall and Zodiak.


The games are easy to learn and usually come with a Demo mode to show you how to play. Many of the Solitaire software packages let you customize your games with gorgeous backgrounds and card decks.

CD Earth has a terrific Solitaire CD with over 1000 Solitaire & Mahjongg games that you may want to check out.

June 21, 2007

CDEarth : Sudoku computer game no fad

Sudoku started out seemingly as just another fad. It was already a huge hit in Japan. But then it swept England and within a year was carried by hundreds of newspapers in the United States. Sudoku puzzles have been the focus of dozens of books, many of bestsellers on the top 100 book list.

The press has been equally enamoured by this deceptively simple numbers puzzle. "Not since - well, ever - have the numbers 1 to 9 been so popular" writes Time Magazine. The New York Post raves its "diabolically addictive" and the conservative, staunchly Economist blushes that Sudoku is "nothing short of astonishing".

Sudoku (also called Su Doku or Numbers Place) like many great mind games has simple instructions yet can be quite addicting and with its own levels of difficulty. The objective is to fill a 9x9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3x3 boxes contains the digits from 1 to 9. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid.



New variations on this game include having a larger grid such as 9x9, 16x16 and even 25x25 for those who frankly need to watch more TV. Other variations substitute symbols or pictures for the numbers. The Sudoku craze has also spun new games like Kakuro (also called Cross Sums) and Nanograms.

Since this is a computer and software related blog, we are obligated to mention that the best way to learn and play Sudoku is on your computer. Many great Sudoku computer games can generate new puzzles as fast as you can solve them. That way you don't have to way for tomorrow's newspaper to satisfy your Sudoku addiction.

CDEarth has a terrific Sudoku version you may want to check out. In addition to Sudoku, the CD comes with a bonus 10 additional puzzles games.

June 6, 2007

CdEarth: Personal Finance Software makes money sense

Does anyone actually balance their checkbook? The chore has to be up there with programming the VCR clock and flossing. We know we should do it but we'll get to it tomorrow.

The problem is made worse when we realize we have multiple checking and savings accounts to keep track of. Throw in the retirement accounts (hopefully we have some) and other investments (hopefully they're up) and suddenly we realize we have no idea what is where and, most importantly, how much.

Luckily, inexpensive or free personal finance software can help you organize your finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a big picture of your financial net worth.

There are some excellent products on the market including the two most popular retail packages, Quicken Intuit and Microsoft Money. The inexpensive and even free personal finance software surprisingly have most of the features of these more expensive retail products.

When looking for a personal finance software, some of the features you will want to look for:
  • Manage Multiple Accounts - Create and maintain an electronic checkbook - Checking, Savings, Credit Card or Loans, Stock Investment Accounts, Assets
  • Track your Bills and Deposits - Create bills & deposits to be reminded of your upcoming bills and deposits so you never miss a payment or deposit
  • Importing, Exporting and Printing - Ability to import, export and print your account information
  • Account Summary Views and Navigation - An easy to use tree view navigator to navigate across accounts and summarized views of your accounts, upcoming bills & deposits and income vs. expenses
  • Reporting - Generate reports so you can easily view your spending/expenses in a wide variety of ways. View spending by category over a date range for specific or all accounts. View spending on a single category over time. View income vs expenses. View spending by payee. View expenses and how you are doing on a budget.


CD Earth has an excellent Personal Wealth Manager you might want to check out.

May 25, 2007

CDEarth: OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office

What would you say if we offered you a million dollar house for less then $1000? How about a state-of-the-art large-screen TV worth $7000 for about $50? You'd ask what's the catch, decide there's probably something seriously wrong with the house or TV and most certainly walk away from the offer. When it sounds to good to be true, it almost always is.

The key word is "almost". In the software world, products are often sold for over $500 on the name alone when comparable products exist for few dollars - and even free. These cheaper alternatives may have a few less whistles and bells but you'll never notice because you never use them. We've already talked about many such products in earlier posts. Today we talk about Microsoft Office which can cost $700-800 for the complete licensed suite. But there is a free Open Office suite alternative...

OpenOffice Office Suite is fully Microsoft Office compatible. So you can always open any document, spreadsheet, and presentation created by Microsoft Office and you can always save them so it can be opened in Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org easily creates documents, analyze spreadsheets, produce eye-catching presentations, design dramatic illustrations, and even convert your files into PDFs.

WRITER is a word processor to create documents, reports, newsletters, and brochures. It has everything you would expect from a modern, fully equipped word processor. You can easily integrate images and charts in documents, create everything from business letters to complete books with professional layouts, as well as create and publish Web content.



CALC is a feature-packed spreadsheet. It will calculate, analyze, and visually communicate your data quickly and easily. Use advanced spreadsheet functions and decision-making tools to perform sophisticated data analysis. Use built-in charting tools to generate impressive 2D and 3D charts. Plus, it is fully compatible with Microsoft Excel. So documents created in MS Excel can be opened in CALC and vice-versa.



IMPRESS
is a fast, powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations. It is a truly outstanding tool for creating effective multimedia presentations. Your presentations will stand out with 2D and 3D clip art, special effects, animation, and high-impact drawing tools. Plus, it is fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint. So documents created in MS PowerPoint can be opened in IMPRESS and vice-versa.



DRAW is an excellent drawing tool that compares to CorelDRAW. It produces everything from simple diagrams to 3D illustrations and special effects. DRAW can even manipulate objects rotating them in two or three dimensions.



But as they say on late-night TV, wait that's not all. There's also BASE, a database software much like Microsoft Access, and MATH, a tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor.

It's worth repeating that all OpenOffice software works seamlessly with Microsoft products. So you can always open any document, spreadsheet, and presentation created by Microsoft Office and you can always save them so it can be opened in Microsoft Office.

CD Earth can help you make more sense of this.