The latest update to NovaMind 5 for Windows now gives you an unprecedented amount of control over the relationship lines in your mind maps. You won’t believe what you can do with them.

During the past month or so, Gideon King at NovaMind has been detailing the features that will be coming soon in NovaMind 5 for Mac OS X. As expected, this innovative new release pushes the envelope in numerous areas in terms of functionality, and makes the most of the highly visual Mac interface.

Earlier this week, Mindjet announced that it will release the newest version of its flagship mind mapping program, MindManager 9, in early August. Here’s a summary of what’s new in MindManager 9, and why it’s important to you as a business user of mind mapping software.

Power Markers 2, a new MindManager plug-in from Olympic Ltd., helps you to create more powerful and useful dashboard mind maps and adds value to complex maps.

The NovaMind development team has always been focused on being innovators, and NovaMind 5, released on April 28, 2010, is no exception. This innovative new version makes it easier to create high-impact visual maps than any other program on the market – period.

As a tool for powerful, flexible management of information and projects, Amode 2 has no peer. It’s not quite a mind mapping tool or an outliner or a project management application – but yet it combines the best capabilities of each of these applications to create a truly unique and valuable business productivity tool. Read on to learn more about this “Swiss Army Knife” of information and project management.

SmartDraw is a software program that is designed to help the average person to create great-looking diagrams, quickly and easily. But in my last job, I had very few opportunities to use it, so I really didn’t get a chance to use the latest version, SmartDraw 2010, for some real business applications. All that changed in January.

Late last week, I downloaded a copy of MindManager for SharePoint to install on my laptop for my new job. That resulted in a follow-up phone call by Mindjet SME sales representative Mike Blandford, who did a great job of shedding more light on this new product and what major problem it solves in corporate environments.

Mindjet recently announced a new version of MindManager 8 that enables real-time synchronization of data between SharePoint and your mind maps.

Earlier this week, Mindjet launched a Mac version of MindManager 8 that users of this visually-oriented operating system can be proud of.