Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Visionary Networks
EAN: 0720329001020
Label: Visionary Networks
Manufacturer: Visionary Networks
Model: VN-2
Packaged Height: 140 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 870 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 730 hundredths-inches
Platform: Macintosh
Platform: Windows 98
Platform: Windows Me
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Windows 95
Publisher: Visionary Networks
Studio: Visionary Networks
Product Description:
We wanted to like this software, at least for the promise mentioned on its cover: "Better Decisions. Better Relationships. Less Stress." Who wouldn't want those things? Software based on the I Ching has limitless possibilities, allowing simplicity to be brought to this ancient means of self-realization. Again, the software promised thousands of readings of the I Ching, in versions that are "poetic, relevant and non-sexist." With academic interviews tossed in for good measure, it would seem like a package most could benefit from. The problem lies in the execution: tinny, MIDI-like music, for example (Peruvian flutes being the best, the option for adding "Random Frogs" the worst). The choice of warm earth tones for the image palette was a good one, as was the strong black border, which transforms the ordinary white space of computers that normally house Microsoft Word documents and Web search engines. But ultimately, it's the small things that disappoint: the interview with a professor where the narrator sits in front of what appears to be a cubicle wall, for example, or the smallness of the font in the book's layout. As a chance to take a break, breathe, and think about life's choices, The Oracle of Changes could prove quite useful. But as a gift to a friend in need, or to yourself, you'd be best off curling up with a copy of the book itself, in any of its many translations. --Jennifer Buckendorff
Customer Reviews:
2 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 A Big Wish List, 2003-10-03
Wishes:
1. I wish I could enter the results I got using the yarrow stalk method into the program, and have it prepare the report.
2. I wish the report could be "saved as" in a format that popular word processor programs could open and edit.
3. As The Tarot program of his allows you to use different decks, and select different elements in the prepared report, I wish different translations of the I Ching were available in the program, and could be selected in the report.
4. I view the I Ching as the "Urim and Thummim" and the "Ephod" used by Moses, Joshua, Kings David and Solomon, and the only way to make Jesus's Biblical statements about prayer work every time.
5. I pray this way a lot; I've found using 12" bamboo skewers to be the best for me; I wish I had a program such as this.
6. Where does he get the artists?
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