During the next week or two, I plan to launch a significantly expanded and updated 2nd edition of my popular Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software e-book. You can get sneak peek at the cover to the right! I just have a few more small pieces to finish up, and then I [...]

The developer of MindVisualizer released version 1.3 of its mind mapping software on June 27th. It features a number of minor improvements, including:

Task and GTD (Getting Things Done) property support for topics.
Users can download an additional 7500+ clip art images from the MindVisualizer website
Pack and/or Email - the ability to pack up the [...]

NovaMind Software Pty. recently reported in its blog that it has released the beta version of NovaMind 4 Express for Mac. What is Express? It is a basic version of NovaMind that will be targeted to the primary and secondary education markets.
This blog post also advises NovaMind users to watch for the launch of [...]

The developers of MindMeister, a popular web-based mind mapping tool, have just announced a very cool tool that can help you to capture your ideas quickly, and automatically forward them to your default MindMeister online map. It’s called GeistesBlitz, which is literally translated as "mind flash" - a sudden insight or idea.
This applet is [...]

The developer of Mindomo recently announced that it has launched a premium version of the popular web-based mind mapping application, which is now out of beta testing. The premium version, available for a US$6 per month subscription, includes the following features that are not included in the basic version:

Unlimited number of private maps
It is [...]

I recently had an opportunity to preview PersonalBrain 4.0, the new visual mapping and information management tool from TheBrain Technologies L.P. What I learned is that this new product, now in public beta, is a major upgrade that solves some of the shortcomings of earlier versions, while adding some powerful new features.
Here is a [...]

According to a post in the ConceptDraw Labs blog, the Mac OS X version of ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5 will be delayed until August.
"With MINDMAP 5 for the Macintosh we are doing a complete rewrite of the product, not only have we upgraded the user interface and the product feature set, but MINDMAP 5 will [...]

Innoductive Software Co., Ltd., developers of MindVisualizer mind mapping software, recently released version 1.2 of their program. This update adds a number of new features:

Ability to change the arrow style/font face/size/color/bold style for the caption of a relation link.
Ability to change the icon size of the map.
Allow mutually exclusive topic icon selection. [...]

When Mindjet introduced MindManager 7 at the end of May, a lot of the fanfare was devoted to the new Windows version. But the Mac version is equally impressive, as evidenced by this nice review from the Assistive Technology Blog.
Brian Friedlander points out that, in MindManager 6, Mindjet provided Mac OS X users with [...]

Varatek Software, the developers of MindApp, continue to introduce new builds of their mind mapping program every month or two. Earlier this month, they launched MindApp 3.0, which includes several new features:

Floating item boxes for brainstorming
Scalable images in enhanced metafile format
Map labels

For an overview of MindApp’s capabilities, here is a 2-minute Flash-based video.