New: Brain Workshop Portable 4.8.4 (dual n-back brain trainer) Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on December 26, 2022 - 2:07pm

logoBrain Workshop Portable has been released. Brain Workshop is a dual n-back brain training exercise which may allow you to improve your own working memory and fluid intelligence. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

ScreenshotBrain Workshop is a dual n-back brain training exercise which may allow you to improve your own working memory and fluid intelligence. The dual n-back task involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of positions of a square at the same time, and identifying when a letter or position matches the one that appeared earlier. Brain Workshop can closely replicate the conditions of the original study. In addition, it also includes optional extended game modes such as Triple N-Back and Arithmetic N-Back for extra challenge. It also includes features such as statistics tracking, graphs and configurability.

Learn more about Brain Workshop

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Brain Workshop Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Brain Workshop Portable is available for immediate download from the Brain Workshop Portable homepage. Get it today!

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Comments

John T. Haller's picture

This is a warning to stop these kinds of hostile interactions that add nothing to this site or the discussions around apps. I'm not sure why you're so angry but it has no place being vented here. An app having some typos on a website or having been built for a previous OS has no bearing on whether it is useful.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Or do you think that developers know their program worse than you?
I spent time downloading and installing, after which I made sure that under the modern operating system this old thing does not work. It is sad that you do not write about it honestly.

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I'm running it on Windows 10 64-bit right now and it's fine. That still changes nothing in my warning. Your post wasn't a bug report. It was an angry rant. If you'd like to make an actual bug report including facts like your operating system, the error or issue you see, etc without any of the ranting or whining, that would be great and can be done in the Education support forum. But do not continue as you have been.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

It is just designed for outdated operating systems. This is written right on the developer's website. You had to read this before offering this program to others, because when running on an inappropriate operating system, this program can be dangerous. It seems to me that decent people do just that. The error is not in the program, but in you.

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The app was last updated in 2010. It worked fine on the existing versions of Windows at the time (through Windows 7). Since then, 10 and 11 have been released and the app works fine within both of them as well.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

1500 million Chinese consider China good. 150 million Russians consider Russia good. I find them not just bad, but terribly bad. The same goes for the quality of the programs.
Do you want me to admire any and all of your actions and everything you like?

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Look back at your original post and tell me why you made it? What were you hoping to accomplish? You claim the app should be thrown in the trash. You also claimed it was useless for modern operating systems You also claimed it did not work. Then you claimed it was dangerous. As far as can be determined from the remainder of your comments, all of this can be summed up as "I don't like the way it looks". If you don't like the way a specific app looks, I'd suggest simply not using it.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

I do not understand why you're creating a problem from scratch. If you do not like my comment, you can delete it. If you do not like criticism, you can ban me. What are you missing?

You are referring to their use of "gmail |d0t| com" to obfuscate their email address from email scraper bots. They trust that their readers are sufficiently intelligent to understand this.

This is an open source project. Any problems that you perceive with it can be addressed by supplying improved code to the maintainer.