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18 Apr, 2011
The electronic dictionary is great; the hardcover books are a nice backup
This item consists of two hardcover paper volumes (the dictionary and the thesaurus), and a CD-ROM with the contents of the above combined with software which permits them to be referenced on a Windows machine. All three come packaged in a nicely boxed enclosure.
The dictionary is copyrighted 2003 and contains "165,000 entries and 225,000 definitions". It has 1623 pages. The paper is rather thin, almost onion skin, but quite serviceable. There are typically one or two black-and-white illustrations on each double-page, and some interesting information about the English language up front.
The thesaurus is copyrighted 1988 and claims to contain 305,000 synonyms in 868 pages of thicker stock.
Both paper books are well constructed with good spines and covers, and each has thumb-cuts to quickly get you to the desired first letter. The version I purchased was discounted, and as such, has a broad black marker stripe across the bottom near the spine which in no way effects its usability.
The real reason I made this purchase, though, was to get the electronic edition of these books. It was bought to replace an old version of an American Heritage dictionary, which runs on a soon-to-be decommissioned Sun workstation. The Merriam Webster software, ver 3.0, is copyrighted 2003 and is advertised as working on Win 98 thru XP, and Mac OS 9/X.
Merriam Webster has produced quite a nice dictionary/thesaurus program. In addition to looking up word definitions, there are options for solving jumble puzzles and cryptograms, finding crossword entries, rhyming words, and homophones, as well as several other modes of operation. There is a separate tab for Advanced Searches, too. There is also an option during install for integrating the dictionary with MS Office, but I didn't play with this.
There are a couple of areas where the program could have been better designed. First, there is a "Spelling Help" key which does a credible job of finding a misspelled word, even a badly mangled one. However, why not simply integrate this into the normal mechanism for entering a word to look up, like my old American Heritage dictionary does? Another problem I have is that you must explicitly flip to the thesaurus to use it, and I tend to forget to flip back to the dictionary when done. One final "nit" is that the program seems to predate the wheel-mouse, so the wheel is ineffective.
The program installs fine on Win-XP, as advertized. I also had no trouble installing it on a 32-bit version of Windows 7, a pleasant surprise.
Loading the program on Linux, under Wine, proved to be more of a problem. I eventually got it to work, but only by copying over the installed files from my Win-XP box, along with the "msvcirt.dll" file from the Windowssystem32 directory (drop it into the program directory). I also had to install the fonts manually. I invoke it with the following command: "wine C:windowscommandstart.exe /unix /my/homedir/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Merriam-Webster/merriam-webster.exe"
Bottom line: The electronic dictionary and thesaurus is a nicely packaged program which makes a great addition to your desktop. They are faster to use than the paper versions and have a wealth of search and other options that cannot be replicated in paper form. The hardcover books are a nice addition and good backup resource. The $49.95 list price is fair for what you get. However, at the discounts this product has been seeing on eBay, it is a great value.
12 Jan, 2017
A cheap unit that works as advertised
I bought this unit because I needed a visual ring indicator for a phone I use in the ham shack and although this box was sold as a loud external audible ringer, it also contains a visual indicator as well. The unit measures about 4.25 x 2.5 x 0.75 inches. It has a switch which alters the ring tone but has little effect on volume. The visual indicator is a red diode which is bright enough to get your attention without being annoying if it is within your field of vision. The unit is fairly cheaply made. The two pins in each of the two RJ-11 jacks are only attached at one end. The LED flashes briefly when you go on- or off-hook. Internally, there is a cheap circuit board to which everything is affixed. Since I did not desire the (very loud) ringer, and could find no switch to disable it, I opened the unit up and snipped one of the wires going to the sounder. Even so, the capacitive effects produce a very slight but detectable audible ring, which I actually view as advantageous. The unit has been in use for over a week now. It has performed reliably and I cannot detect any degradation in the audio quality with the ringer in-line. The unit draws all its power from the phone line (it needs no batteries). I have no idea what its REN is, but it gets along fine with my VoIP ATA box. Bottom line: It's a cheaply made, cheaply priced device which works pretty much as advertised.
22 Apr, 2011
A small price to pay for a trip down memory lane!
10 of 10 found this helpful The Leave it to Beaver Complete Series consists of 37 disks packaged in six folders of six disks each (one per season). A 37th "bonus" disk is packaged separately. All are enclosed in a nice cardboard case. Each DVD contains six or seven shows, with the ability to watch the whole disk or an individual episode on it. Included with each season is a guide to the shows, including a brief synopsis and pointer to the disk containing it. The videos are all quite well mastered, much better than what you can record off the air, and of course contain no commercials. The bonus material is interesting, and includes cuts of the actors talking about their remembrances of making the show. It also includes the "It's a Small World" pilot. Each season's plastic folder contains two disks overlapped on the inside front and back cover plus a center leaf containing the 3rd and 4th disks. Apparently, there is a tendency for the plastic tabs holding the DVD to break off on the center leaf, either due to an assembly malfunction or during shipment. Mine arrived unopened, but with 4 tabs broken and thus with 4 disks unanchored in their folder. Luckily, none of them were badly marred. Bottom line: If you're a Leave it to Beaver fan, this complete compilation is really well worth the price.