If you're like me, you love to download and try new
software. However as you might have discovered, you only
really find a few programs that you continue using and want
to keep on your hard drive. Today, I'm going to show some
of the programs that I kept on my computer.
In addition to being winners, I have tried to choose
programs from a variety of different sub-categories of the
genre that I call "mindware." They are all worth a download.
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Mindjet MindManager Pro v8
A mind map is a visual representation of the relationship
between related ideas. The typical map starts with a central
idea, word or concept. Then, around the central word you
draw five to ten main ideas that relate to that word.
You
then take each of those child words and again draw the five
to ten main ideas that relate to each of those words until
you have an excellent visual model of the idea you are
trying to understand or express.
Mindjet MindManager Pro now in Version 8 is perhaps the best tool for creating mind-maps
that has yet been devised, Whether you're trying to solve a
problem, prioritize your daily activities, organize
multiple projects or make a simple to-do list, MindManager
will help.
Here's some of the wide range of uses for the program: you can
prepare speeches and presentations quickly and easily,
plan and track complex tasks and projects, share project information
with others, via MindManager's unique Internet
conferencing, create web sites and/or site maps using the
web site export features, track progress on projects
visually, to quickly see how far along you are, organize
multiple projects at once, take notes efficiently and
easily reorganize them and more.
Download a free full-featured demo -- or a smaller version
which downloads quicker and try it for 21 days.
There are a wealth of resources on-line to help you learn the
skill of mapping your mind. So if you want the big picture,
he's a place to start drawing it.
3. Josh
Reynolds's Brain.com (Note: no longer functional) focuses on mental performance
enhancement with its premier thinkFast software. Now
thinkFast is an on-line application and brain.com has become
an on-line brain-enhancement community.
In 1995, the Global Idea Bank listed my idea of the "mini-
mind gym".
The principle is that by using your brain, you can increase
your mental fitness. Mind Media's IQ Builder and thinkFast
software featured on brain.com work along these principles. They
both give you a variety of mental tests which focus on a spectrum
of mental abilities. By increasing the difficulty over trials,
you "build mental muscle."
Now thinkFast has become an on-line application called MyBrainTrainer and added
features which take the idea of mental fitness workouts further.
ThinkFast is the perfect mind-mini gym and allows you to
measure and save your improvements on-line. It "works you out"
on a wide variety of mental skills. The program even
includes your own Personal Tutor who coaches you to
greater mental heights.
4. Stressmaster by Acel Self-Growth
Software Note: (link no longer works) is about more than just stress. Modules contained
within this ambitious Windows program include: Define Goals,
Design Life, Overcome Additions, Change My State of Mind,
Calm Anger, Cope with Daily Stress and several more.
Some of the modules take you through interactive exercises
that help you deal with various problem areas. Each of the
modules written output is recorded in a master Self
Discovery Journal. This is one of the best of the growing
number of programs aimed toward self-therapy, StressMaster
is available for a 30-day free trial.
5. ThinkWorld's (link no longer works) Ablemind Streaming Idea Generator< is the
latest in the genre of brainstorming software and works in
conjunction with the company's Brainstorming 101 seminar.
You can download a demo version of the program, which
contains a subset of the program's 87 million idea cards.
The idea cards, which the program generates upon demand,
consist of three words - a verb adjective and a noun. For
example here are a few of the cards I drew: bevel
postmodern shirts, lighten leather cans, vibrate instant
televisions,
These phrases might seem a bit meaningless but they are
there to make you think. The company gives a few examples.
Pump basketball shoes, they say, would have made people
laugh twenty years ago. Now, after tens of millions of
basketball shoes sold, people would think the idea pure
genius. A few more examples among the millions possible
from Able's software: project celluloid images, navigate
electronic documents.
Well the arguments pretty convincing that this software
can make me money. I'm going to file my patent for a
vibrating instant television tomorrow.
