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Creative Problem Solving

Theory and methods on mastering the skill of creative problem solving.

Introduction
A Working Definition of Problem Solving
Human Information Processing Systems
Problem Space and Goals
Searching the Problem Space
Biological Aspects of Problem Solving
Developmental Factors in Problem Solving
Characteristics of Problem Solvers
Blocks (Cultural, Perceptual, Emotional) to Creative Problem Solving
Memory: Simple Tools to Improve It
Creativity
Change Attitudes in Problem Solving Via Affirmations
Writing Logically
Bibliography

The Iron Book

Around 1970, this book was used with two other workbooks to begin a social experiment in producing social/cultural leaders. These leaders were the Cosmic Warriors or Social Ninjas of the day...and as with the martial arts...before one can become a Master...he/she must first master the Self via self-discipline. Here are the tools...

Courage
Dialog: "Courage"
Urban Survival: 10 Steps
Privacy
Maturity

More to come...

Parenting

Brain Baby
Tips On Infant Massage
Infant Massage Research
Smart Parenting Techniques
Helping Your Child Read
Pre-school Children
Helping Your Child Succeed
Helping Your Child With Early Adolescence
Helping Your Child With HW
Helping Your Child Become Responsible Citizens
Why Should a Child Learn Music?
The Religious Affiliation of Guitarist
John McLaughlin
The Effects of Music Training On Children's Brain and Cognitive Devlopment
Food in the first year of life
Healthy eating for kindergarten
Healthy eating in pre-kindergarten years
Healthy eating for young toddlers
Healthy eating in the primary school years
Healthy lunch boxes for children
'Try it - you'll like it!' Vegetables and fruit for children
Why no sweet drinks for children
Milk: Fact and Fallacies

Brain Self-Control

Brain Self-Control Table of Contents
Lesson 1: Universe
Lesson 2: Backward Self-Therapy
Lesson 3: Consciousness
Lesson 4: Thought
Lesson 5: Value System
Lesson 6: Freedom from Parents
Lesson 7: Meditation
Lesson 8: Child Cognitive Fix
Lesson 9: Ego
Lesson 10: Sleep and Dream Analysis
Lesson 11: Morning Pre―Conscious
Lesson 12: Daily Sensitivity Measurement
Lesson 13: Daily Power Measurement
Lesson 14: Forward Self-Circuiting
Lesson 15: Methodology; Scientific Method of Inquiry
Lesson 16: Electrical Property of Nerves
Lesson 17: Schematic Diagram of the Nervous System
Lesson 18: Peripheral Data Processing
Lesson 19: Automatic Control Circuits
Lesson 20: Permanently Wired-In Behavior
Lesson 21: Electrical Nature of Conscious Mental Processes
Lesson 22: Control Centers of Emotion and Consciousness
Lesson 23: The Frontal Lobes
Lesson 24: Memory
Lesson 25: Automatic Learning
Lesson 26: Higher Learning
Lesson 27: Computers and the Brain
Lesson 28: Homo Novus

BSC Extras

Self-Transcendence Workbook
This 420 page workbook is all that you need to reach the stars.

Quality Brain Work
Exercises for improving the qualithy of the brain. Good for both the worker and the emloyer.

Brain Baby
Kick-start your children into Whole Brain Power. Simple tools to help bond parent and child. Love.

Catastrophe Amongst Our Children A radical perspective of what our society is doing to kill the spirit of our youth. The problem is real, as are the symptoms...the solution is easy...

Brain Self-Control Goals
The goals from which this entire programs is built. It is along with the goals, and the need for individual creative self-expression that drives each of us towards attaining life meaning and happiness. The ultimate goal is self-realization, Nirvana, Cosmic Consciousness, and higher states of consciousness.

Introduction
Know this: Whole brainpower can be learned. Once you make the decision to accept the free gift of your natural curiosity and enthusiasm about understanding your brain cell neurons, then all you need to do is the work.

Emotion Curve
Emotion Curve Graph "Paper"
One of the first things you need to do is to track your daily emotional levels.

Inner Journal
To complete all of these lessons successfully you will need to write and keep a Journal. Your Journal is your most important tool right now, and for the remainder of your Life. In this lesson you will be given some simple directions, and asked your first Journal questions.

The Universe and You
The Universe and You, is a worksheet that will help you define yourself within the context of the Universe. There is also an excellent reading list to keep you busy for a year or two.

Tech-Neurobics and Brain Related

How We Think
Transactional Analysis and the Triune Brain
Brain Boots up to Process Sensory Info
The Utility of a Neuropsychology of Religious Experience
Creating Melodies With Evoloving Recurrent Nerual Networks
Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
Three-Dimensional Structure of Synapses in the Brain and on the Web
Brain Self-Control
BSC Disclaimer
BSC Goals
BSC Introduction
Inner Journal
Chapter I: Introduction to Your Personal Bio-Computer
Chapter II: "Who Am I?"
Chapter III: Objective Reality and Rational Thought
The Universe and You
Science, Philosophy, Cognitive Sciences, and Pseudo Sciences Links
The Triune Brain
The Self
Self-Realization and Social Responsibility
Making for a Better Brain With Walking
Creativity Links Mycoted
Future Human Evolution
Self-Directed Evolution
Creative and Strategic Thinking
Theories of Brain Organization
Training With The Brain
A Computational Model of the Brain
A Biologically Based Computational Model of Working Memory
Whole Brain to Work Model
Connectionist Mechanisms for Cognitive Control Dual-Core by Intelligence
Meditation Found to Increase Brain Size

Transparent Recording Software Applications
Detailed comparisons of neurologically based software by Transparent.

NP2 comes with unique sessions designed to optimize the brain for creative ideas, brain storming and out of the box thinking. Much like the Study Helper and the IQ Increase sessions, it is based on stimulating the brain to produce brainwave patterns similar to those exhibited by the great creative thinkers of our time.

Mind Stereo is a fully functional media center for your mind, allowing you to listen to musical playlists, internet radio and watch mesmerizing visualizations while enjoying the many benefits of brainwave entrainment, affirmations and other audio/visual brain-enhancements.

Health, Neurology, and Exercises for Musicians

Musicians Health and Exercises Index
Links & On-Line Articles
Health for Guitarists
Musician Health Exercises
Musician Exercise Links
Musicians and Injuries
Why is it That Musicians Suffer An Extraordinary Amount of Physical Discomfort?
Curved Fingers and Tension
Safe Gigging
External Links Addressing the Health of Musicians
Why Physical Exercise for Artists?
A Ten Point Plan for Fitness to Play
Stretching
Rotation Exercises While Playing
Stretches and Back Care Exercises
The Effects of Stress on Music Performance
FAQ Relaxation Techniques
Relaxation Techniques I
Relaxation Techniques II
Stress in Piano Playing
Beta Blockers and Performance Anxiety in Musicians
Alexander Technique for Musicians
Everything You Need to Know About Sleep
The Benefits of Better Breathing
Teaching Whole Music Literacy
Music, Development, Aging and the Brain
The Brain of Musicians: A Model of Functional and Structural Adaptation
Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions
The Effects of Music Training On Children's Brain and Cognitive Development
Creating Melodies with Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks
Benefits of Learning Music

Science

The Elephant and the Event Horizon

Audio and Recording

Audio Index
Audio and Home Recording Links
Reorganized Sound: Effects by Established Technques
Creative Commons Licensing and Copyright
Guide to Buying Pro-Audio Equipment
Installation Basics for Studio Wiring
Protein Storage
Freakin' the Faders
High Fidelity
MIDI In Session
Links to Acoustics, Music, and Science
Brass Recording Tactics
Creating Effect Via Established Techniques
Bias Voltages and Tube Amp Maintenance
The Technical Features of Monitoring
Strings, Standing Waves and Harmonics
What is a Sound Spectrum?
What is a Decible?
Brass Recording Tactics
Multimedia Articles
Acoustics, Music, and Science
Reducing Studio Noise
Phantom Power and Microphone Interconnect Basics
Audio Room Acoustics
Speaker Impedance
Differences Between CD-R/CD-RW Discs and Standard CD
What to Do With Extra Computers
Resonance and Radiation
Audio Gear Modification
Recording the Electric Guitar
Build a Budget Studio
Good Reference Monitors
Plug-ins
Mic-mix
MySpace for Musicians
Sonic Mayhem
Mic Specs
Samplers

The Tools: Photoshop CS3, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver

The Fireworks Pages
The Photoshop Pages
Index Dreamweaver

Making a Web Photo Gallery
Logo Design Tips
How to Design and Create an Effective Logo
Create for Web
Design a Website In Photoshop
Turning A Sliced Image Into An HTML Webpage
Defining a Site in Dreamweaver
Create a Professional Website Layout
Tableless Layouts with Dreamweaver
Links Without Underline
Creating Anchor Links
An Introduction to Dreamweaver Templates
Site building with DW's power tools: templates
Consistent Web Design with Dreamweaver Templates
How to Use Templates to Manage Your Website in Dreamweaver CS3
The Easy Way to Add Dynamic Elements to Web Sites
Using a Behavior to Launch a New Browser Window in Dreamweaver
Working with Banners
Flash Text Rollovers
Image Gallery Using Spry Framework
Template Parameters
What is Expanded Tables mode?
Dreamweaver Design Challenge: Tables vs. Layers
Create Non-Moving Wallpaper
Embedding Music into a DW Page
Embedding Video and Audio into Dreamweaver Pages
Performing Full-Featured Form Validations
Close Window With Javascript
Building Better Forms with Dreamweaver CS3
Using CSS To Display Elements and Align
Website Design Mockup Tips Using Photoshop
Web 2.o Design Kit for Photoshop
Create Image Gallery using Spry framework

Tools

Download YouTube Videos
Embedding Audio and Video into Dreamweaver Pages
Using Flash and Video in a Website
Videography and Cinematography Basics

Web 2.0

MMORPGs and the Virtual Sweatshops of the Digital Empire
Content Migration between 3D Online Learning Environments
When Worlds Collide - Exploring the relationship between the actual, the dramatic and the virtual
Bumping Into Ourselves: Individual and Virtual Worlds
The Network Really Is the Computer
Riding the Waves of “Web 2.0”
Web 2.o Software: Best Of
Web 2.o Definition
Web 2.o HackerNews Definition
What Is Web 2.o? Design Patterns and Business Models
The State of Web 2.o
Google Aims to Break Open the Closed World of Social Networking

Class Projects

Planning Your Web Site
Web Site Specification
Important Links
The Complete Fireworks Tutorial
DMS Main
Principals of Copyright
Creating a Logo
Creating a Page Banner
Optimize Images
Using Fireworks
Setting Up Dreamweaver
Using Dreamweaver
The Insert Bar
Web Design and Development Process
Production Storyboard
Using Flash and Video in a Website
Create Image Maps
Create Rollover Images
Create pop-up Menus

Web Design

Getting Started

Firefox Tutorial
Six Essential Firefox Extensions for Web Designers
File Management

Web Design Tutorial Links
Web Design Links and Tools

Graphic Goals

About Goals
Your Goals
Your Site's Goals
User Goals
Win Win Solutions
About Personas & Scenarios
Site Personas and the Dialogue Process

Know and Target Your Viewers

How People Use Web Pages
Content
Don't Decorate...Communicate
Branding
The Golden Rule
Conventions
Factors That Influence the Browsing Experience
Design Engineering

Understanding Design

Scanning
Content
How People Use Web Pages
People Are Impatient
Factors That Influence the Browsing Experience
The Brain's Strengths

The Design/Plan Stage

Planning Your Web Site
Principles of Copyright
Planning Your Website
Ten Steps To A More User Friendly Website
Web Design: Rules to Code By
The Golden Rule of Website Building
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
10 Tips on designing a fast loading web site
Web Site Specification PDF
Web Design and Development Process PDF
Site Structure PDF

Graphic Design Basics

Graphic Design Basics Index
Clarity in web page design
Colour
Contrast
Readabilty
Effective text
Imagery
Attention Map

Page layout

Layout for web page design
Containment
Alignment
Grouping
Rhythm and repetition
Logical order

Visual techniques

3D Effects in graphic design for the web
Logo design
Text-based logos
Favourite logos

Case studies

Artorg: Worked example
Case study: Business Improvement Network
Case study: Foruse

Web Accessability

Usability for the Blind and Low Vision
Color Vision Confusion
The Elderly
Developing For Low Education/Motivation
Children On the Internet
Universal Usability Guidelines for Users with Slow Connections
Customer Service for Web Developers

You can use BSS for:

Relaxation / Meditation
Improved Memory and Concentration
Hypnosis & Self-Hypnosis
Headache Relief
Euphoria / "Spacey" Mental States
Exotic, Spiritual Mental States (some have reported lucid dreams and OOBEs)
Making your own Brainwave Transforms to stimulate the brainwaves of your choice!
Adding an "edge" to your music that other musicians / bands have never even heard of!
Making your own brainwave entrainment CDs, which can then be sold!
Stimulating brainwaves while listening to your favorite tunes!

Neural Noise Synthesizer stimulates the brain by generating noise which is embedded with brainwave entraining frequencies, using our unique filtering system. For example, one NNS filter removes and replaces the higher frequencies generated by the Noise, in a circular pattern over time. Because NNS is generating noise that is structured to stimulate the brain over and over each second, the brain fires neural responses to the same rhythm. After about 6 minutes, brainwave entrainment is established, and the brain of the listener is synchronized to the frequencies embedded in the noise.

NS can also generate binaural or monaural beats, which are the most commonly used brainwave entrainment techniques.

Using brainwave stimulation and dynamic psychological techniques, the NeuroProgrammer enables you to rapidly achieve profound and long lasting results.

Brainwave stimulation increases cerebral blood flow, the production of neurotransmitters, growth of dendrites, axons, neurons and more. In other words, when you use NP your brain is being trained and encouraged to build connections and neural structures to support your goals. Transparent provides software applications at an affordable price.

Photoshop CS3 Tutorials

Easy

A Simple Layer Mask
Five Great Background Masking Techniques
Creating and Duplicating Layers
Get Organized in Photoshop
Creating and Duplicating a Layer Mask
Building Accessable Menu Tabs
Creating Glass
Matrix Text
Plastic Engraved Type
Brushed Metal Texture
Converting to BW
Glass Text
English Tea Can Painting
Beveled Steel
Persepective Grid
Warholesque Color
Realistic Spotlight Effect
Creating Starburst Glints of Light in Photoshop
Double Beveled Outlines
Chrome Effect
Screw Heads
Photoshop Alchemy: Apply Image
Rusted Type
Merging Drew and Bouguereau Combining Images
Creating Wood
Realistic Rock
Outline Text

Moderate

Superman 3D Extrude Text
Brick Wall/Layer
The Channel-Bevel Trick
Cast Shadow in Photoshop
3D Effect Using Channels
Graffiti in Photoshop
Reflective Liquid Type
Make a Cone
Interfaces and Basic Shapes in 3D
Original Gangsta Bling Diamonds
Realistic Microphone in Photoshop
Wrapping Objects with Displacement Maps
Segmented Tubes

Difficult

Chrome Cherries
Anime Beads
Kiosk Orbs
Realistic Rope in Photoshop
Golf Ball

Advanced Projects

Using Vector Designs & Customizing Text in Photoshop
Airbrushing an Image in Photoshop or PaintShopPro
Build a Mercator
Using Vector Designs & Customizing Text

Web Tools

Web Design Pages
Design a Website In Photoshop
Turning A Sliced Image Into An HTML Webpage
Making a Web Photo Gallery
Morning Drink

Web 2.0

Web Candy Like Badge
Web Content Box
Web 2.0 Text
Web 2.0 Badge
Web 2.0 Graphic Element
Web 2.0 Button
Web 2.0 Button II
Create for Web

Tools for Game Design or Just for Fun

Modern Ruins
Chocolatized Skull
Zombifying Mandy Moore
Smoking with Photoshop
Turning People Into Statues
The Making of a Robotic Frog
Kristin Kreuk as a real Manga Gal!
Laser and Shiny Things
Fire in the Night
Create a Cyborgenic Leopard
Faceswapping
How to Create Rain

Software Downloads

Free Windows XP Downloads
Free Open Source Software
Free Open Source Portable Media Software
Free Portable Software
Free Music Software
Free plugins, mp3 Players, and browsers
Open Source Downloads
Flock

Operating Systems

Windows Software

The Best Free Windows XP Software and Opensource Software Available This is where we go for our must have software when we rebuild a system.
Free Open Source Software...an extensive list of software and resources.
Free Open Source Portable Media Software...media geek's on the go.
Free Portable Software...geek's on the go. OSes to Browsers.
Free Music Software...music only software.
Free plugins, mp3 Players, and browsers

Vista

Tweak Vista ...free utility download.
Customizing Your Aero
Control Vista...this is how you turn off those frustrating dialogs you keep getting every time you try to do something. Improve your Vista experience.
Vista Diagnostics are light-years beyond anything you ever saw in Win XP.
Vista Gadgets...everyone loves a gadget, and MS came through for us.
Taking Screenshots with Vista...just as easy as it is with Win XP.
Vista Tweek: Turn Off User Account Control...and stop being annoyed.
TweakUAC is a sweet little application that will give you total control over the Vista User Account Control... It is free.
Vista Drivers are easy to take care of.
Searching in Vista is easier than it ever was in XP.
Dual-Boot to Vista ...it does not get any easier.
Vista Parental Controls ...sorry kids, but the "liddle" one need protection.
Working with Windows Defender ...not much use if you do no know how to use it properly.
Managing Windows and Using Flip 3D is one of the coolest new features of Vista.
Vista Sound and Volume Controls...time to rock.
Resize Your Vista Partitions
Turning Vista Features Off
Vista Program Compatibility
Vista: A Double Dose Recovering documents, and sound tips. December 31, 2007
Screen Font Size, Quick Launch, and Log On Message January 2, 2008
Vista 3D Desktop January 2, 2008
Ten New Vista Tips January 2, 2008
Vista AutoRun January 2, 2008
Vista Disk Cleanup January 2, 2008

Hardware Benchmark Tools and More

Test your computer hardware for free.
The Intel® Processor Identification Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to identify the processor inside a system.
PC WIZARD 2008 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system.
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
Fixing Your Flash Drive..."waste not want not."
KeePass Password Safe Slap it on your USB memory stick for the ultimate experience.
AutoGK Quick DVD-to-Div-X rips and power user features.
Auslogic Disk Defrag Wow, free defragger for Vista!
DoubleTwist An iTunes DRM stripper. More iTune tools: iPod, iTunes, MP3s
ThreatFire

Development

VirtualPlastic

Mac Software

Mac Software an exhaustive list of the best free software in the Mac world.
MacDesktops almost...almost an infinte source of desktops. (External link)
iPhone Wallpaper some great wallpapers. (External link)
the iconfactory tools for building icons for both Mac OS and Windows (External link)