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04.11.08First Friendfeed client releasedSaw this one over at FriendFeed Watch: the first desktop client for FriendFeed was released! I was looking forward to this, as FriendFeed is such a nice and well implemented idea that justs begs to become a permanent resident of my system tray, rather than having to keep a browser tab permanently open to check on it. The client is called bTittleTattle (yea, don't ask), and it was made by the guys at Sobees. It is based on the Windows Presentation Foundation so, unfortunately, Windows only forever :( Check out the video below to see what it looks like. I basically ...
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10.07.07Easy tools for Web ConferencingI had two very different experiences in the last few weeks which showed how valuable web conferences can be when working with distributed teams in projects, or for that matter for any technical issue that you need to work on over a distance. The good experience: I had an issue with a portfolio management tool that we are deploying, and after setting up a web conference with the software provider's support team, I was able to show the actual problem happening, my logs, talk to their support people... Overall, just about the best we could get without the ...
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08.10.07Mind Mapping Review RoundupNow that I've written about Comapping's new features, I thought I'd finish the mind mapping review series with a round-up of all the posts I've written on the subject. So here they are, in reverse chronological order: New Features at Comapping Reviewed ConceptDraw MindMap 5 Professional: Another Mind Mapping Tool Reviewed Mind Mapping Revisited: Two More Reviews Mind Mapping Software Review: Organize Your Ideas Go through them again, and maybe bookmark this post to read them one at a time, prolonging your pleasure (ooooh). Or just ignore and move on :P
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08.08.07New Features at Comapping reviewedComapping has released some new features to their excellent online mind-mapping tool, and they asked me to take a look and write a few words about it. Took me a while to do it (seems like everything does lately), but finally I managed to give this the attention it needed to come up with a decent (I hope!) review. Comapping is one of the better online mind mapping tools, and I first heard of it while researching for the first series of mind mapping tool reviews here at Daily Iteration. The newly added features were really important things that ...
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07.31.07ConceptDraw MindMap 5 Professional – Another Mind-Mapping Tool ReviewedApparently someone has been reading my posts, because in the last weeks I received invitations to test out three different tools in areas related to my previous posts. The kind folks at Comapping invited me to check out the new features they have launched - I will do it, as soon as I have time! I also got asked to review a new online project management tool called Wrike - again, I'll get to it... And, last but not least (and not actually last in chronological order), Igor from Concept Draw sent me a free ...
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06.13.07My Day With Safari For WindowsAs you might know, Apple has released a beta version of its browser, Safari, for Windows. Since I'm a huge fan of beta stuff and have been seriously considering whether my next notebook should be a Mac, I decided to test it for one full day - the idea being that during an entire day I would use only Safari, instead of Firefox. I spend most of my time browsing, for fun and work, so this is a major test for me. Here are my conclusions. It looks great The user interface is sleek, nice and simple, and basically feels very nice ...
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06.01.07Google Gears: use web apps offlineGoogle has launched this week a technology (I'll call it technology, as I think "browser extension" doesn't quite fit here) that allows you to use web applications offline. This is pretty cool stuff - imagine writing all your emails on the way to work, on a bus or train or whatever, using your webmail client, and sending them off once you get to your workplace's wireless network - much in the same way that you would do today with your email client such as Thunderbird or Outlook. This feature is actually slated to appear on Firefox 3, due ...
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05.23.07Mind-mapping revisited: two more reviewsI'm returning to the topic of mind-mapping tools motivated by some comments in my previous post on the subject. Two web-based tools were recommended to me, and since they have atually changed my choice of solution, I thought I'd share this with everyone. The new tools are Mindomo and Commaping. Comapping Comapping was recommended at Web Worker Daily (they had a link to me, I've been linked to by one of my favourite blogs, yay!), and I must say it is impressive. Lots and lots of features: importing and exporting map files, collapsing lists, the ability to create ...
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05.21.07Spock, the people search engine, reviewedSpock is, according to their own blog, a search application for people. When you visit their URL, you are greeted by a simple interface which looks like your standard search engine, but shows a few search suggestions under three categories: In the news, People and Searches. From this standpoint, Spock behaves pretty much like a regular search engine. However, start typing and you will get an AJAXified drop down list of names to search for. A couple of interesting features: search results are tagged (ah, the golden sound of buzzwords - Spock has them all), and people can add ...
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05.13.07Mind Mapping Software Review – organize your ideasFollowing up on my recent post reviewing a number of freely available, cross-platform GTD applications, I now present short reviews for a few mind-mapping tools. Again, the criteria were: The tools have to be free (at least as in beer), and The tools have to be cross-platform, either web-based or run in Windows and Linux. I'd love to be able to test also on a Mac, but unless some kind soul decides to give me one, I'm limited to these two platforms for the moment. After some quite extensive searches, I arrived at the following list of tools to test: Web-based: Mindmeister bubbl.us Desktop Freemind Labyrinth Compendium One ...
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