Pegasus Book Club

If you are a student researching for your project, a researcher conducting literature review for your thesis, a teacher preparing notes for your lectures, a speaker noting down a passage or quotation for your speech, or a writer researching for your new book, then this product is ideal for you. I am sure all of you have encountered situations where you have to write down a few passages or sentences from a book, journal, or other print references.

Writing down a few paragraph or a few sentences from large reference books or journals is a time consuming and strenuous task. Now you have an alternative—IRISPen Scanner. IRIS pen scanners are available in different versions. The product reviewed here is IRISPen Executive.

The IRISPen ^TM Executive is the full-featured OCR scanning pen. This scanning pen works just like a highlighter—simply slide it over printed information from newspapers, magazines, faxes, letters, etc. What you get is real and editable text, right at your cursor. The scanner recognizes more than 50 languages.

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Human brain’s thinking pattern can be seen as a gigantic branching association machine (BAM)—a super bio-computer with lines of thought radiating from a virtually infinite number of data nodes. The more you learn/gather new data in an integrated, radiating, organized manner, the easier it is to learn more. From this gigantic information processing ability and learning capacity of human mind derive the concept of radiant thinking of which Mind Map is a manifestation.

Radiant Thinking (from ‘to radiate’ meaning ‘to spread or move in directions from a given center’) refers to associative thought processes that proceed from or connect to a central point. The other meaning of radiant are also relevant—‘shining brightly’ , ‘the look of bright eyes beaming with joy and hope’ and ‘the focal point of a meteoric shower’ (similar to the ‘burst of thought).

How do we gain access to this exciting way of thinking? With the mind map, which is the external expression of radiant thinking, we achieve this feat. A mind map always radiates from a central image or topic. Every word and image becomes in itself a sub-center of association, the whole proceeding in a potentially infinite chain of branching patterns away from or towards the common center. Although mind maps are drawn on two-dimensional pages, it represents a multi-dimensional reality, encompassing space, time and color.

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ConceptDraw 7 is a powerful, feature-rich, yet easy to use business and technical diagramming package. It is available for both Windows and Macintosh. The simplicity of the program combined with its features makes it suitable for a variety of tasks for students, teachers, business executives, professionals, and so on.

The product is versatile enough to satisfy the needs of the beginners to power users with equal ease and perfection. For example, this tool can be used to create complex workflow diagrams, pictures for your school or college assignments, organization charts, business processes, engineering diagrams, dataflow diagrams, network diagrams, flowcharts, technical drafts, landscape designs, floor plans, etc.

The advantage of using ConceptDraw is that you can create professional diagrams, charts, and images quickly and easily. The templates, wizards, and other tools help you create what you want within minutes. Once you are comfortable with the program, you can create diagrams and charts on-the-fly during presentations, lectures and other similar occasions.

This tool makes knowledge dissemination and communication much easier and effective. Gone are the days when one has to sit for hours to create a network diagram or an organizational chart. Now these tasks can be completed in a matter of minutes—thanks to ConceptDraw.

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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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