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 […]

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 […]

A UK developer is working on an application called MobileMind that will enable you to view and edit FreeMind files on Nokia 9500 and 9300 handsets, which run the Symbian operating system. To make the best use of the Nokia’s limited screen real estate, MobileMind actually converts FreeMind files into a hierarchical outline, with topics […]