30th
November
2005
We have to thank Tony Buzan for inventing Mind Mapping; we have to thank Mindjet for developing MindManager.In this new millennium of information explosion and ‘accelerated learning’ where the ability to earn is directly proportional to the ability to learn, one has to depend on revolutionary techniques like Mind mapping to collect, collate, assimilate, learn and retain huge amounts of information. This is also the computer era. We now use computers to perform most of our activities—writing letters, sending mails and faxes, conferencing, making telephone calls, managing our finances, and so on.
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15th
November
2005
What happens when two superior technologies converge? You get a superior product. That is just the case of AceReader Pro with text-to-speech add-on. When you combine the best on-line reading software with an excellent text-to-speech technology, what you get is a product so powerful that it will revolutionize the way you read, hear and assimilate information.
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29th
October
2005
ON@CC is the second novel by the ‘Five Point Someone’ fame Chetan Bhagat. It is about the life and work of six people working in a call center in Gurgaon. The story starts at 8.32PM and ends in the early morning next day (less than 12 hours!). The book captures the various issues, fears, frustrations, ambitions and objectives of the call center employees. It also reveals the indignation and condescending treatment that they have to face every night from their customers living on the other side of the globe.
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29th
October
2005
Mistress is a beautiful novel by veteran novelist Anita Nair, with Kerala and Kathakali as the backdrop. It is the story of a great Kathakali artist (Koman) as told to Christopher Stewart (Chris) a travel writer from abroad. It is also the story of Radha (Koman’s niece) and her husband Shyam. It is also the story of the attraction, infatuation and passion between Radha and Shyam. It is also about the marriage of Radha and Shyam and what went wrong and how it is heading for a disaster. It is the story of Sethu (Koman’s dad) and his life.
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