lkplake.blogg.se - Mavis beacon teaches typing mac

Needs uninstaller, none provided, no uninstall directions: -1.

Excellent web site and a current updater: +1.

Once I had the package in hand, but before I bothered to use it, I could score this product using Gordon's Laws of software acquisition:

It took me quite a while to sort out the Encore vs. By the way, Mavis Beacon is an invented person, but her i mage is from a 1985 picture of Renee Le'Esperance. We are so pleased and proud to be bringing the kind of quality you’ve come to expect from the creative labs of Software MacKiev to this new edition.They really should change the name of the product.

Then, a decade later, we had the opportunity to get involved with Mavis Beacon again - this time as the developer and publisher of a new generation of Mavis Beacon software for Mac OS X. Software MacKiev’s involvement goes back to 1998 when our company developed version 9 for the Macintosh - both the US and UK editions. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was created more than twenty years ago, and was first published in 1987. This is a new version of an old product, as noted in the manual. I think they're confused.Īpple sells the MacKiev version. Sadly, that's the only version Amazon ships directly. (There's an interesting back story to this - note the MacKiev Mavis Beacon manual still says "Broderbund" on the front.)Īs best I can tell the Encore Mavis Beacon OS X software is a derelict and abandoned product that's sold cheaply but worth nothing. This product is not to be confused with the similar sounding "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" product sold by Encore. After evaluating much cheaper alternatives, I purchased the $40 Software MacKiev version of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing".