Parson's Technology The Family Home Remedies Guide The Family Home Remedies Guide Brad Mills
The name of this product speaks for itself; it provides information on common ailments and gives solutions to help ease them. Similar to the "Doctor's book of home remedies", although it seems the book has more information in it.
What's inside
The computer program gives a few more useful ways to browse through the information. A list of topics which can be double-clicked to open, provide about 10 sub-topics each to some of the easy tips. An extra section on each topic entitled "Extra! Extra!" contains some more information about things to stay away from, foods to eat, etc. The search is useful for finding things and can be used at any point through your navigation. The font selection utility provides a little extra flexibility to enlarge the font or change it to a larger style. Adding your own special note to any part of the document provides you with an option to customize the program to your needs, and also features a bookmark which can be placed anywhere. Highlighting and/or printing is a snap, the highlight being a nice bright blue. The downfall of this software is the lack of decent looking graphics and design; the clipart graphics just don't cut it. Another difficulty was in installation. In Win95, the program did not create any icons and had to be manually created.
Summary
Unfortunately, what would have been quite a nice set of remedies has turned out to consist of a lack of design with little effort put into the look and feel of the software. Perhaps a future release of this will bring some changes in that aspect. The remedies given are good, and it's worth taking a look at, but only if you're really needy of the information.
