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Many of us have invested in a high-quality television with the hope that we will receive an accurate and enjoyable viewing experience, yet many television screens purchased are set in a way that won't provide the optimum performance they were built to display. The reason is that the default settings for your TV are set by the manufacturer to make the most impact in the retail store, not necessarily in your living room. Spyder4TV HD is designed to calibrate and make adjustments to the brightness, contrast, colour, tint and colour temperature in order to create accurate colours for the home environment, all with an easy-to-use software program. MacintoshMac OSX (10.4 or higher) WindowsWindows (XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Windows 7 32/64)

Aimed at beginners, Learn Japanese, from Eurotalk Interactive, is a simple, fun way to start Japanese. Start it up, and a window appears in the middle of your screen, where you type in your name, then you are presented with full instructions to get you going. (The instructions are set to English as a default, but you can change this to one of more than 60 different languages, including the obvious European, US, and Scandanavian choices, as well as more unusual options, including Manx, Gujurati, Swahili, Tamil, Arabic, and a whole host of other tongues!) The basic first speaking topics are covered--food and drink, colours, numbers, first words, first phrases, the body, time, shopping and countries. Each topic has five components, Word Practice, East Game, Hard Game, Speaking Practice and... Less