XMIND 2008 Supports Leopard

For those of you who have recently upgraded to Leopard on the Macintosh you should be aware that XMIND 2008 is Leopard Ready. XMIND is a full featured mind mapping application for both Macintosh, Windows, and Linux. XMIND 2008 is a powerful application that you will find easy to use. XMIND has an attractive and intuitive interface that should have you creating exquisite mind maps in no time. Using the Properties menu you can quickly structure and select from many different mind maps. You will find it easy to link note, URL's, and attachments to your ideas. XMIND 2008 also supports audio notes which adds a really nice touch for communicating your ideas. When it comes to sharing your mind maps you will find it easy to export your mind maps to Word, PDF, and Image files. Go to the XMIND 2008 website to download a trial version of XMIND 2008.

Availability of ConceptDraw Business Suite for Mac OS X 10.5

Odessa, Ukraine, October 29, 2007 – CS Odessa today announces availability of ConceptDraw Business Suite for Mac OS X 10.5 operating system. An integrated business software package that consists of diagramming application ConceptDraw 7, project management tool ConceptDraw Project 4, mind mapping and personal productivity software ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 will support the recently released operating system for the Macintosh.

Oleg Bocharnikov, Head of Product Management Department for CS Odessa notes, “Mac OS X 10.5 has highest upgrade rate than any other operating system ever and many our customers will be interested to buy Leopard by the end of the year. Making ConceptDraw Business Suite, the software many people rely on, running smoothly on Leopard CS Odessa helps them to easily switch to the new OS”

Among complete Mac OS X 10.5 support for all ConceptDraw Business Suite applications an update adds Quick Look capability for ConceptDraw 7. Quick Look is a powerful technology introduced in Leopard that provides users a way to preview content of files without opening them as a result, necessary charts and diagrams could be easily found on a computer.

Read more information about the ConceptDraw Business Suite


ConceptDraw Business Suite is available for $499.

ABOUT CONCEPTDRAW PRODUCTIVITY LINE
The ConceptDraw product line for Macintosh and Windows is comprised of ConceptDraw 7 diagramming and drawing software; ConceptDraw MINDMAP, a brainstorming tool that uses standard mind mapping techniques to help organize ideas and tasks; ConceptDraw Project, professional project management software; ConceptDraw WebWave, software for creating professional diagrams and drawings on the stage of website or application prototyping and design, page mocking-up and site-mapping; ConceptDraw NetDiagrammer for network and system design.

ABOUT CS ODESSA
Founded in 1993, Computer Systems Odessa supplies cross-platform productivity tools and graphics technologies to professional and corporate users. With headquarters in Odessa, Ukraine and an office in California, USA; CS Odessa sells products internationally through resellers in over 25 countries. The ConceptDraw Productivity Line of products has won numerous awards (www.conceptdraw.com) and is used by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.

Mindmanager 7 for Macintosh Webinar

Today I was a participant in a Mindjet webinar "Get the Inside Look at MindManager 7 Mac and Walk Away with your Own Copy." looking at how I use Mindjet MindManager in the courses that I teach at the College of St. Elizabeth. I had the opportunity to share my ideas about how I use MindManager 7 for the Mac as well as MindManager Pro 7 for Windows in the work that I do. Mindjet, Inc. has recorded the session and once it is available you can download it and listen to it. I find that having the ability to visually manipulate my ideas works really well when designing my courses. Having the ability to move ideas around the mind map makes it easy for me to get the a flow for the course. Likewise, I use MindManager 7 to design each of the class lectures which gives the students a great overview of what is going to be covered that evening. After each class, I export the mind map as a PDF file and upload it to Blackboard so that my students can refer to it. Using MindMananger Pro 7 as a presentation tool has been another effective use of the application. Having the ability to design my mind maps on myMacintosh at home and then being able to open them on my PC in my office has been a very important feature.

To get a comprehensive overview of the the webinar you can go to Michael Sampson's Blog. Michael did a great job of reporting on the event and I am sure you find his blog very informative and one that you will want to put into your RSS Reader.

PersonalBrain 4 for Macintosh

I have had a chance to use the PersonalBrain 4 on the Macintosh and have really enjoyed playing around with it. The PersonalBrain 4 is a wonderful visual repository for ideas, attachments, web links, spreadsheets, and calendar events. Its forte is really the ability to link or associate the various "thoughts" that you have into one single repository. Additionally, the PersonalBrain 4 has unique indexing capability that allows you to find information almost instantaneously. The PersonalBrain 4 indexes all of your information in addition to your attachments (ie. Word, PDF, Excel) , which makes it easy to go to one place to find what you are looking for. Making associations between ideas is very easy and intuitive in the PersonalBrain 4. I have put online a small video to give you an idea of how the PersonalBrain 4 works on the Macintosh. As I use it I will put up some other short videos. The PersonalBrain 4 is an ideal personal information manager for those of you who like to be able to visually organize your information. To view the video click here or on the screenshot.

NovaMind 4 for Mac Released

Gideon King recently emailed me about the release of NovaMind 4 for the Macintosh, one of the premier mind mapping applications on the Macintosh platform . Sporting a whole new interface users should find it easier to format and work with NovaMind 4. There are two new versions that were released NovaMind 4 Pro and NovaMind Express. Here is a screen shot of a mind map. A new Windows version is in the works as well.

GhostReader Text-to-Speech for Max OS X

Amsterdam - 5 July 2007 - AssistiveWare(R) / ConvenienceWare(tm)
today announced the release of GhostReader(tm) text-to-speech
software for Mac OS X. GhostReader 1.1 replaces TextParrot 1.0 and
introduces a number of new features with an enhanced user interface.
Just as ghostwriters write for other people, GhostReader can read for
you!

GhostReader is a Universal Binary, multilingual speech solution for
Mac OS X that allows users to listen to their documents with
naturally sounding voices in a language of choice. It also allows
users to create their own personal podcasts or audio books by
exporting to iPod-ready iTunes tracks. Or, users can just use it to
speak selected text in a handy reader window with play, fast forward
and rewind functionality. In some applications, such as Safari,
GhostReader enables users to listen to text by just pointing the
cursor at the text. Now users can sit back and relax while
GhostReader reads the text under the cursor.

Voices are currently available for the following languages: US
English, UK English, Czech, Finnish, French, Canadian French, German,
Icelandic, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, American
Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish and
Swedish. GhostReader itself is localized in English, French and
German.