From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 23 3:27:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lyris.bestnet.net (lyris.bestnet.net [216.15.129.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B6BD37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 03:27:17 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: Lyris Web Interface Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 04:47:33 -0600 Subject: Three Free Psychology/Self-Improvement Software Downloads To: "mindmedia" From: "bruce@mindmedia.com" List-Unsubscribe: Reply-To: "mindmedia" Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG MIND MEDIA REVIEW No.43 Introductory Edition Edited by Mead Rose Copy Editor: Will Penna ****************************************************************** When you think about self-improvement, think Mind Media! To visit our site, tune your favorite web browser to: http://www.mindmedia.com ****************************************************************** IN THIS SPECIAL ISSUE! ++ WELCOME TO MIND MEDIA -- HOME OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE WEB by Bruce Ehrlich, Founder of the Mindware Catalog ++ THREE FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS YOU THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE -- DOWNLOAD SITES BELOW ++ FIVE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD WEB SITES WORTH HAVING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE by Bruce Eisner ++ FIVE MINDWARE ONLINE APPLICATIONS YOU CAN VISIT TODAY by Bruce Eisner ++ FIVE FAVORITE MIND MEDIA PRODUCTS by the Mind Media Staff +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-+--+--+--+--+--+--+ WELCOME TO MIND MEDIA -- HOME OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE WEB by Bruce Ehrlich, Founder of the Mindware Catalog This is a special issue of the Mindware Review. The Mindware Review is one of the longest running Internet newsletters -- having sent out its first issue to subscribers in early 1995. The publication is written by the Mind Media staff and is sent to a subscriber list which has now grown to over 100,000. I am sending it to you because you visited Mind Media Life-Enhancment Network so I know you are interested in what I call Mindware. Please excuse me if I sent it to you in error, Mind Media Review is about "Mindware" -- a term I coined back in 1988 to describe software that I had been collecting while I was finishing my doctorate in P.M. Actually, just when I was going to write my dissertation, I decided to start a small "side-business" called the Mindware catalog. The 32 page color catalog grew from a circulation of 5000 for issue mailed out in the spring of '88 to 500,000 mailed in the summer of 1994 -- our last issue. In a strange twist, the first issue of the Mindware catalog was called The Mindware Review -- which was the hot idea of a marketing company I had hired to put out the first issue. When I found out I could print 50,000 catalogs for about twice as much as 5,000, I left that company and found a local designer named Scott Sandow who was a great layout artist but an also had been in business and marketing his entire life. As someone who had come from Grad School (I didn't know the difference between an invoice and a purchase order), I was glad to have him spend hours with me figuring out what this mindware thing was all about and who would be interested in using it. This is an excerpt from the "Letter from the President" from that second Mindware catalog. "Welcome to Mindware! An extra dimension has been added to your personal computer with the arrival of a new genre of software we call mind appliances. These mind appliances cover many areas but share a common purpose: the enhancement of human intelligence in all its aspects - - and so our name became,"Mindware." Mindware was conceived and created to be more than a business in the normal sense. We sincerely believe that anyone can benefit from this new relationship between computers and the mind! By the time we had grown to half a million catalogs, we were the first catalog to have sold a CD-ROM drive along with CD-ROMs to play in them and also the first to sell voice recognition software. In a sense, we were kind of a "Sharper Image" of computer software as well as a self- improvement catalog. One half-million catalogs costs a lot to mail. Our post office bill was so large, I thought we should be given red carpet treatment at the post office -- but we had to stand in line like everyone else. Our team at Mindware was always dreaming of starting something like America Online or even to be given a section of AOL or than equally prominent CompuServe in order to replace or at least supplement the catalog. My main assistant at the time,Thad Atkins had a couple of friends who were starting a company to do catalogs on something called the World Wide Web. When I ordered an ISDN line and started browsing, I was sure that this was where I wanted real estate. So as the web began to become more than just a place for scientists, we were one of the earliest online. Our first web site was at mindware.com but we decided to create a larger site called the Mind Media Life- Enhancement Network so that we could feature more than just the Mindware Catalog Online. In 1995, we stopped printing catalogs and went entirely online. The same year, I came out with the first email edition of the Mindware Review. At the time there were only about a hundred online newsletters and so were actually read and even enjoyed (I got a lot of email asking questions when I wrote something which is how I know). But by the end of the decade, the Internet revolution occurred -- which actually made it more difficult for us in many ways. All of the good programmers and web artists were suddenly working for large corporations that formerly only had stores and advertised on TV. Search engines were selling ranking -- and we didn't have the money to pay. From less than twenty online catalogs that were around when we started, now there were 200,000. Many of them started what became known as the "dot comers" -- people who had made money in other businesses and now were getting Venture Capital which allowed them to out spend us by huge factors. Perhaps the one of the strangest stories of my twelve years in the computer human potential business was an event that took place in the fall of 1999. It was right in the middle of the Internet boom -- when you drove through Silicon Valley and saw billboards from VC companies. A woman called me. She told me that she had an online art gallery but that her first love was personal development -- the kind of products and services that we provide. She then told me she represented someone in the "self-help" field whose name I would instantly recognize. He had acquired a publicly traded shell (a stock in which the company no longer exists but which is still listed on a stock exchange -- a fast way of raising public money is to buy one of these "shells" and put your company and a few others together into it.). She was looking for a few good personal development sites which you could join together under this self-improvement figure. At one point, she had me on the line with a gentleman who asked me what my gross sales were. He had seen my business plan, which is posted on our web site and mistakenly took our projections based on one million dollars investment as our current earnings. When he found out we weren't making the projected figure, he hurriedly got off the phone. Who was the mysterious man? A few months afterward, Anthony Robbins launched his high-profile web site -- Dreamlife.com. And here is an excerpt from a January 10, 2000 Newsweek Magazine (International Edition) -- http://www.rickross.com/reference/general/general162.html -- article: "This much is clear: if success is the goal, the gurus have found it. Anthony Robbins leads the pack. Of all the gurus, he's most focused on the Net. Last summer Robbins took control of a publicly traded shell company whose stock cost just pennies a share and announced plans to build a self- improvement Web site, Dreamlife.com. The site still isn't operational, but investors don't seem to mind. Last week its stock stood at $16 a share, putting Robbins's stake at more than $300 million." Well Robbins site was slick and "did everything right" -- from personalized membership to an online interactive tutorial which identified the parts of life that needed improvement, complete with Tony Robbins voice and picture to guide you. I joined the site and was bombarded with Newsletters on a daily basis. Now in one of the business plans I wrote, before the Internet became so fashionable -- I suggested that Mind Media approach individuals such a Robbins, Deepak Chopra Stephen Covey. In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and John Gray, the former Hindu monk from right here in Mind Media Country, Santa Cruz, California -- who wrote "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," with the idea of Mind Media using its expertise to give them a web presence. So when the VC money flowed like wine and all of the big guys jumped aboard, little Mind Media remained pretty much a slowly evolving web organism as it always had been. Well in mid-2001, a year after its launch, Dreamlife.com was dead. And Mind Media is still here.. Back in 1990, one of the software publishers I featured on in the Mindware Catalog, Bert Shaw, sent me this quotation which still hands on my bulletin board. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proconservation alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts." The saying had nobody it was attributed to, so I decided to look it up on the web as I was wring this, I found out it was said by good old "Silent" Calvin Coolidge himself, so I thought about taking it down since he doesn't have much of a reputation] as he had articulated an idea missed by many in the trendy self- improvement arena. So this special issue is dedicated to the future of what I called Mindware back in 1988. Its come a long way. In this issue, I'll start with three free programs we give away on our site. Then I'm going to take sections of two previous issues to introduce you to five great downloads on the Web (not on our site) and five of the best of the online applications And finally I'll put in a plug for five of my favorite Mind Media Products. So I'm still carrying the torch Mindware. My dream is to make our West into a portal dedicated to the use of computers as mind appliances -- for individual success and personal development and the enhancement of the diverse aspects of human intelligence. How is that for perseverance? +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-+--+--+--+--+--+--+ THREE FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS YOU THAT MAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE Here are three free software give-always from mind media They all can be found on our "Specials Page" http://www.mindmedia.com/specials.html. 1) The first is the ever-popular Mindviewer -- a very close follow up to the original Mind Prober which was published in the mid-1980's: MINDVIEWER GIVES YOU X-RAY VISION INTO ANYONE'S HIDDEN PERSONALITY AND PRIVATE FANTASIES "Gain the advantage in personal and business relationships Reveals the secrets of winning people's trust Developed by an eminent team of psychologists "I was impressed by the reports it produced. In fact, I thought it pegged me pretty darn close to how I perceive myself. After showing the reports to a couple of close (and I mean close) friends, they agreed with Mindviewer's analysis completely. Of course I clipped out the section "Top Secret Sex Fantasies." -- Ron Albright, Computer Shopper Uncover anyone's hidden personality with the best-selling self- improvement program of all time. After using Mindviewer, you will feel like you have x- ray vision into parts of people that normally they can keep hidden. People hide behind masks. With Mindviewer, you gain accurate insight into the true nature of your friends, family, employees, associates. Find out what makes them tick, what gets them angry-- even how to shape their behavior. Developed by Drs. James and Kathy Johnson, a renowned husband/wife psychologist team, the program is both entertaining and enlightening. And its analysis hits home in a big way. Using the program is simple, yet the complex psychometric equations taken from personality psychology make the program uncannily accurate. Mindviewer asks you a series of multiple- choice questions about yourself or someone you wish to know better. Then you get a detailed profile of your subject, which can be viewed on the screen or printed as a detailed 3-5 page report custom-generated from the results. Run Mindviewer on your best friends and see if you get some new angle on them. Run Mindviewer on your boss for advice on important matters like how to get that raise or next promotion. Or try the program on your spouse or lover to reveal some hidden fantasies that just might warm up your relationship. You'll have fun finding out what Mindviewer can do for you! A free download at download at http://www.mindmedia.com/mv.com 2) Another of our featured downloads is called Brainworks and it helps you determine which hemisphere of the brain you use --left or right or perhaps a bit of both. WHAT BRAIN HEMISPHERE DO YOU PREFER? ARE YOU MORE VISUAL OR AUDITORY? DISCOVER YOUR PERSONALITY STYLE Do you know whether you prefer your left hemisphere or your right hemisphere? When you think, do you think visually or in sounds? The answer to these two key questions can unlock important secrets to your personality. Secrets, which can give help you to become more successful and effective in everything that you do. Mind Media Life Enhancement Network is pleased to give you, for a limited time, Brain Works, a simple to use software program which answer the two questions we asked at the beginning, and then give you much more. You'll get a complete report which you can read on screen or print, how your unique preferences for right or left hemisphere and for visual or auditory thinking styles make up your unique personality style. But more important, you'll get guidance and important tips on how you can be more effective in your learning, in relating to others and in achieving your goals with maximum success. When you download Brain Works, you get a free subscription to Mind Media Review Newsletter with information on the cutting edge software, CD-ROMs and new technologies in computers and the mind. Back issues of this important publication are available on our site. The questionnaire is visual, short and fun. And you never get the same set of questions twice. The report invaluable! Print it out and keep it for future reverence. For a limited time only, Mind Media Life Enhancement Network presents Brain Work, a revealing mind revealing software program absolutely FREE! Download it now at http://www.mindmedia.com/brain.html The last is called IQ Smarts and it gives you four IQ scores instead of one and helps you build your IQ by several points -- up to 15 says the publishers. TURBOCHARGE YOUR BRAIN WITH IQ SMARTS MEASURE YOUR IQ - THEN RAISE IT DRAMATICALLY RAISE YOUR IQ BY 15 POINTS OR MORE Discover your hidden strengths At last, here is a computer program that can not only measures your IQ, and whether you are left or right brained-- it actually raises your IQ. And it will raise it not just a tiny amount but to a dimension that you never dreamed possible. From the psychological and programming genius of Dr. James Johnson -- founder of the pioneer Human Edge Software -- comes IQ SMARTS, dramatic new advance intelligence. The software is based on major breakthroughs in the brain sciences. You?ll get exercises specially designed to develop your brain the same way aerobics, Nautilus, and other fitness programs have given us the ability to develop our body. Until now, these exercises have been available only from professionals with programs costing many thousands of dollars. Now these life- changing exercises are available with IQ SMARTS. IQ SMARTS begins by measuring all aspects of your intelligence through a short test. In the multi-page report you print out, you are told: Your overall IQ score Your "common sense" intelligence IQ score Your "book smarts" intelligence IQ Your "thinking creativity" intelligence score After explaining exactly what these scores mean, the program tells you exactly where you are strongest and targets weaknesses for improvement. IQ SMARTS explains what these strengths and weaknesses mean for your everyday life. Then, you are given a personalized training program that includes exercises, skills and procedures that are specific to your unique makeup and that are guaranteed to improve your ability to think and be creative. The user interface friendly and easy to use and you?ll be building brain cells in minutes after running the program. With this remarkable program, you can actually raise your intelligence by 15 points or more in as little as three weeks. This increase can mean the difference between success and failure in many careers and can lead a better and richer life. Download Spot http://www.mindmedia.com/iqsmart.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-+--+--+--+--+--+-- FIVE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD WEB SITES WORTH HAVING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE If you're at all 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. 1. http://www.goalpro.com/index.cfm?ID=50571 The people who publish GoalPro 5.0 calls it "The most effective success- management application available" and the funny thing is -- they may be right! I've been working on a special feature article covering my personal search trying to find the perfect program or combination of programs to accomplish the increasingly difficult task of managing my personal information. And GoalPro software in tandem with Microsoft Outlook is the combo that I use. But you don't have to use GoalPro on a PC. The people at GoalPro have kept up with the state-of-the-art and are offering GoalPro with most of its features intact as an on-line application. So Macintosh and Linux users as well as anyone who has access to the web can begin using GoalPro right now. What does the program do? Well it's hard to describe all of what it does briefly and so next month this publication will have a feature length review of GoalPro. In summary, it guides you through the process of listing and clarifying your most important life objectives. You a set of concrete goals to reach each of these objectives and also create short term tasks for reaching the objectives and goals. The program not only helps you create your "success tree" of objectives, goals and tasks, it sets up a regular daily and separate weekend routine where you visit these lists and determine how you are doing. This is called Success Coach and it's pretty darn useful. There's even a past-due management system where people who set too many tasks or procrastinate -- - people such as myself -- can evaluate and reschedule missed deadlines. Download a free thirty-day trial -- you might want to keep using it. 2. http://www.store-mindjet.com/affiliate.cfm?aff=PEZEVOBFQNFJ 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. MindManager 3.7 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.http://www.brain.com Josh Reynolds's Brain.com 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" http://www.globalideasbank.org/BOV/BV-488.HTML. 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 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. http://www.acal.com Stressmaster by Acel Self-Growth Software 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. http://brainstorming.org/ablemind/index.html ThinkWorld's 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. . +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-+--+--+--+--+--+-- FIVE MINDWARE ONLINE APPLICATIONS YOU CAN VISIT TODAY by Bruce Eisner The Internet is always issuing new and trendy buzzwords and so you have probably started hearing that the next wave on the Web is online applications. In fact, online applications have arrived and will revolutionize the way that you will use the interactive self- improvement and personal-development tools which is the essence of the meaning of this new genre of Mindware tools. Since the beginning of personal computing, there have always been a number of competing operating systems which you can chose from to run your PC. In the past twenty years CPM, OS/2, the BeOS, the Macintosh, many flavors of UNIX along with several flavors of Windows. It has been a situation akin to the Biblical tower of Babel and so computer users for the most part chose Windows along those "who think different" picking the Mac. And the third most popular desktop operating system, Linux. Many people have chose Windows as an operating system because there are hundreds of times as many applications made for it than for the Mac or Linux or the others. Most computer users have dreamed of a day when it didn't matter what operating system you ran, you could use whatever application you wanted on any computer. Online applications are rapidly making this dream a reality. Online applications are built to work within a computer browser so that the application runs on the web server and any web-enabled computer can use them. In addition to their universality of use, these applications can also be upgraded by system administrator of the web server, virtually eliminating the need to constantly buy and install upgrades to every one of your software applications. Confined at first to a small group of mainstream software applications such as accounting software, utilities, online greeting card generators and the like, online applications are now becoming available for the kind of software that I like to write about. So here are five web online applications worth a visit. I've written about some of them before and their here again because they help broaden the range of possible scope of what you can look at today. Five Self-Improvement Online Applications worth a Visit 1.http://www.living-software.com The first personal development online application I'm going to review is by an Israeli team headed by C.E.O Doron Zzur. The link above is to a beta of the most sophisticated self-therapy tool created for the computer and it runs on any machine you care to try it on! After registering, the program prompts you with the question, "How Do You Feel Today." You answer by writing down what psychologists are fond of calling "your issues" and then you are introduced to four helpers in cartoon form. You can choose any of them and they will converse with you and help you clarify your problem and think about it in different terms. Each of the helpers is a different kind of personality and can give advices, which might even contradict the other very different personality. By then noting changes as they occur, you involve yourself in an ongoing process. This process can lead to improvements in attitude and mood as the brainstorming helps you become familiar with your "issue." And with familiarity comes relief by looking at something you here-to-fore avoided. This is a beta and has some rough edges but the good part is that it is free. Also information collected will help to make this site even better. Eventually Mr. Dzur hopes to turn this into a paid service. He was inspired to go into this line of work by a very significant personal crisis in his life, which occurred after his wife passed away with cancer several years ago. He founded this company to make available to the public ways of quickly responding to stressful life crises. His company has board of consulting psychologists and the site is worth a visit or several. 2. http://app.brain.com/member/join.cfm Josh Reynolds's Brain.com focuses on mental performance enhancement with its premier thinkFast software. Now thinkFast is an online application and brain.com has become an online brain-enhancement community. In 1995,the Global Idea Bank listed my idea of the "mini- mind gym" http://www.globalideasbank.org/BOV/BV-488.html was listed for voting.The basic principle is that by using your brain, you can increase your mental fitness by exersing it, just as you do physical muscles. 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 online application 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 online. 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. 3.http://www.goalpro.com/index.cfm?ID=50571 I've written a lot in June and July about GoalPro - which I consider one of the most helpful software programs I've used to help me organize for success. I'm featuring it here again because you've got to look around the site to find that in addition to the software version, there's an online version of GoalPro you can purchase as a subscription which allows anyone including Mac and Linux users to use this significant program. Here's what I wrote in June: The people who publish GoalPro 5.0 calls it "The most effective success management application available" and the funny thing is - - they may be right! GoalPro software in tandem with Microsoft Outlook is the combo that I use. But you don't have to use GoalPro on a PC. The people at GoalPro have kept up with the state-of-the- art and are offering GoalPro with most of its features intact as an online application. So Macintosh and Linux users as well as anyone who has access to the web can begin using GoalPro right now. What does the program do? Well it's hard to describe all of what it does briefly and so next month this publication will have a feature length review of GoalPro. In short, it guides you through the process of listing and clarifying your most important life objectives. You list a set of concrete goals to reach each of these objectives and also create short term tasks for reaching the objectives and goals. The program not only helps you create your "success tree" of objectives, goals and tasks, it sets up a regular daily and separate weekend routine where you visit these lists and determine how you are doing. This is called Success Coach and it's pretty darn useful. There's even a past-due management system where people who set too many tasks or procrastinate can evaluate and reschedule missed deadlines. Download a free thirty-day trial - - you might want to keep using it -- I did. 4. http://www.timecontrol.cc Panella Strategies: Success-Centered Time Management Power and Power Marketing Principles is not an exactly an online application but I put it here because it relies on the multimedia capabilities of the web to deliver an extensive library of time management principles developed by Vince Panella. During the past 18 years, his profit and time-building programs have influenced thousands of companies and tens of thousands of people in 25 countries around the world. The application- like section is called the Time Control Room and it has series of modules which take several days to learn (Panella finds that most people who take other time management courses don't learn anything because they are presented two quickly so they are forgotten just as quickly. Real Audio lectures by Vince Panella are supplemented by written materials available for download and the program together works very well. The cost is $20 per month but readers of this column can email mailto:psi@accelernet.net and get yearlong subscription for only $49.95 if you mention that Robert Galpren, Editor-In-Cheif from the Mind Media review sent you. 5.http://www.ansir.com -- Ashir.com is more than a web site, it is one premier example of Mindware online app. Ashir.com starts with a personality test which uses a unique system called the Ansir Style of Relating. You take the test after registering and are rated on 14 different personality attributes. Here is what they say about their test. "Discover your Self- truth and potential! It's free, challenging, and enlightening! But be warned, this serious test has 2,744 possible combinations and is ranked-by participants and Members alike-among the toughest and most accurate on the Web. Self-honesty is key. Read Profile Briefs first, then learn much, much more with Profiles In Depth absolutely free! Once you take the test, you are presented with a unique perspective on yourself and also become part of the Asir community. It is fun, fascinating and most of all - worth a visit. +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-+--+--+--+--+--+-- FIVE FAVORITE MIND MEDIA PRODUCTS by the Mind Media Staff Here are the most popular Mind Media products of all time favorite from actual sales figures. 1) Most often on the order list -- our Top Twenty Software Programs from the Famous Mindware Catalog http://www.mindmedia.com/catalog/pub/bundles.html 2) For those of you who want the highest quality Mindware CD-ROM based mental tests -- Be Sure to Get the Superstar Suite! Five multimedia tests originally published] by Virtual Knowledge, Inc available at http://www.mindmedia.com/customer3.html 3) Always Popular -- Mind Prober 3.0 at http://wwww.mindmedia.com/probind.html came in third 4) The State-of-the-Art CD-ROM by Psychologist Sam Keen --Your Mythic Journey http://www.mindmedia.com/mythicj.html 5) Five Multimedia CD-ROMs for Personal and Professional Success -- Full Interactive Video Courses on a Disk! Titles: Manage Time, Organize For Success, Manage Stress, Attitude for Success and Communicate! http://www.mindmedia.com/catalog/pub/cdrom.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ Digital River -- the world's largest electronic download company has taken over administration of our electronic download catalog. This means that you get their 30 money back guarantee and their technical support staff is on call 24/7 to insure that if you pay for your download you get your download. Just go to http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_Main.Entry?SP=10007&SID=30169 &CID=0 We hope you enjoy the work our staff has done to enrich the product descriptions of the programs you can download there include Mind Prober 3.0 and our Top Ten Windows Best-Sellers -. . .-- ... --- ..-. - .... . .-- .. .-. . -.. Mind Media, Inc. 849 Almar Ave. Suite C-125 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 You can order securely on our web site or Call toll free during weekdays at 1-800-818-9445 Or Internationally:1+831+4260762 Or FAX 1+831+426-8519 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ Thank you for reading and stay tuned for more! For comments or contributions, send e-mail to Mead Rose mailto:web@mindmedia.com Copyright 2002, Mind Media, Inc. -. . .-- ... --- ..-. - .... . .-- .. .-. . -.. --- You are currently subscribed to mindmedia as: current@freebsd.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mindmedia-462958O@lyris.bestnet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message