Ten Completely Free Self Improvement Software and Services
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MIND MEDIA REVIEW No. 83
January 2006
Ten Completely Free Self Improvement Software and Services
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You don't have to spend a lot of money to get high quality self-improvement software and services. To paraphrase an old saying, "Sometimes the best tools in life are free." On the Mindware Forum, we are constantly posting a great variety of great such tools.
The best of them are the subject of our newesst top ten list.
1) Free: Imagination Engineering Creativity Software
The Imagination Engineering software package takes the concepts from the best-selling book Imagination Engineering and puts them into an easy-to-use software package.The full version of Imagination Engineering is available for free trial. If you like it, all the publishers ask is that you buy at least one of their books within 4 weeks.(Continue reading at this link)
2) HipCal: Free Online ToDo List, Calender, Address Book and More
HipCal is a free online service which features a calendar service that handles your appointments, contacts, and to-do lists in one simple interface. Here is an excerpt from the LifeHacker post about HipCal:
HipCal has cool features like Group calendars, which allow you to join or create a group calendar to keep up with a project, class, etc. The system also allows you to send alerts of important appointments or events to your email or cell phone.If you’ve tried other online calendar programs but are still looking for that special one, give HipCal a try. (Get the full story at this link)
3) Stop Waisting Your Valuable Time! Free Software: Temptation Blocker from WebJillion
If your like me, having a modern computer with so many applications and the amazingly vast web, full of intellectual goodies and endless eye candy can be a big drain on your productivity.
Well here is a free software product which you can download for free by WebJillion. the company who developed the Time Tracker web application which I recently wrote about ... I have used the software and I find it useful in many ways but also agonizing. (Find out the full story at this link )
4) Free Online Memory Program -- Memory Master
Memory Master is a free online memory course that aims to help you remember a wide range of things. You will learn powerful mnemonic methods for recalling names and faces, jokes and stories, foreign vocabulary, speeches and presentations. For those that put some work into Memory Master, there is even the promise of doing impressive memory stunts for your friends. (Get more info at this link)
5) Free Windows Outlining Software KeyNote in the 46 Best-Ever Freeware
At number eleven on the all time most popular list at del.icio.us links (as rated by populicio.us) is The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities. On this list of mostly freeware versions of mainstream programs like word processors and graphic editors is some software of great interest to readers of the Mindware Forum, a free and open source outliner with note management features called Keynote. (Continue reading at this link)
6) Free Web Service: Remember the Milk .. and Everything Else
If simplicity is the key to success on the web, then Remember the Milk will succeed. They state their mission simply: "Remember The Milk is the best way to manage to-do lists online." (Continue reading at this link)
7) Time Tracker - A Personal Time Management Application
Here is a cool free online application: Time Tracker - A Personal Time Management Application - The Form Assembly.According to the developer. Cédric Savarese... this tool was designed to help you keep track of the time you spend on any given task. Use it for time management, to improve the accuracy of your time estimates, or for any other purpose you may find useful. (Learn more at this link)
8) New 3.1 Version of Nelson Email Organizer Now Free And You Can Download NEO 3.1 Free Here!
Those of you who read Mindware Forum regularly know that I personally use Nelson Email Organizer. I try a lot of programs and a few of them stick with me. Neo is one of those that I use every day along with Microsoft Outlook,the mail program that Neo works so well in combo with.
Like any good program, it has a little learning curve which the people at Neo minimize by providing a wealth of tutorials and learning aids. But once you get the hang of it, Neo can help people like myself who are inundated with valid emails (I use Cloudmark Desktop to clean out the spam). With Neo I can respond to priority emails quickly and organize the ones that I need to keep effortlessly by letting me file them more easily. (Get the details at this link)
9) FreeMind - Free Mind Mapping Software
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. The software comes in multiple operating systems versions including these downloads for Windows, Mac OS X, two form of Linux and an open-source binary.
FreeMind says "recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of Mind Manager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and"follow link" operations. The program is written in Java and seems relatively bug-free after testing it on both Windows and Mac computers. (Read the entire article at the following link)
10) Discover Color's Hidden Meaning -- Free: The Complete Luscher Color Test of Personality
Psychorr.Com, a Russian site offers the full version of the Luscher Color Test as well as two other versions. For more information about the Luscher Color Test, see Lüscher color test on Wikipedi.(Continue reading at this link)
