Computer Software Reviews
Copyright (c) 1994, Louis Turbeville
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TIME Man Of The Year - CD-ROM
Compact Publishing, Inc.
PO. Box 40310
Washington, D.C. 20016
(800)964-1518
List Price: $39.95
 
If you need to find information on some of the most influential people during
the last seven decades, this is a must see program.  The Time Man Of The Year
CD-ROM has bibliographical information on the TIME Magazine Man Of The Year
winners dating back to 1927.  There are photographs and video clips of each
person.
 
Besides having the Man Of The Year winners, this program also has information
on some of the most prominently featured people ever covered by the pages of
TIME Magazine, under the section titled Portraits.  The individuals covered in
the Portrait section are very influential and have had far reaching impacts on
the world, but never received the distinction of TIME Man Of The Year.  The
program also has the text of every issue for the past year.  The disk I
reviewed was for 1992 and prominently features President Clinton, who was the
1992 TIME Man Of The Year recipient.
 
The program itself is easy to use.  You can view photos, video clips and text
easily.  There is a search feature that allow you to browse all of the text
related to a particular subject.  Once you find the information you want to
use, getting that information into your document is only a cut and paste away.
 
This program requires a CD-ROM player, Windows and 1MB of hard disk space.
Most of the information is kept on the CD, where is should be.  However, when
viewing video clips you may have to be patient while the program copies the
video files to the HD for quicker playing.  Other than patience, there are no
technological difficulties to contend with.  Everything seems to run very
nicely right from the start.
 
If you like history, you'll enjoy this program.  It is a very useful tool for
the student writing many historical papers or doing research.  There is a ton
of information on some of the most influential personalities in recent history
and a whole years worth of text from one of the best information sources, TIME
magazine.

