In August, I told you about GyroQ, a new desktop applet from Gyronix for capturing your ideas on the fly and dumping them into a MindManager map, was in beta testing. It has now been released, and is available for purchase from the Gyronix website. The cost for the "essential edition" is $29.95 USD; a […]

Thanks to a comment posted to this blog by its developer, I recently learned of a new, soon-to-be-released mind mapping program called MindVisualizer. What makes this program unique is that it will be launched in both English and Chinese versions. The developer, who is from China, says that the market for mind mapping in his […]

I have recently uploaded a review of FreeMind, the open-source mind mapping software program, to my InnovationTools website. You can view it here. A highlight: "FreeMind offers a lot of functionality for a free piece of software. Best of all, because it’s open source, it should continue to get even better with time. Well worth […]

SmartDraw.com has just released the latest version of its popular business diagramming program, SmartDraw 2007. It may be one the most significant upgrades to SmartDraw ever. The biggest change in this new version is a revised interface, which appears to be inspired by the "ribbon" toolbars that Microsoft plans to launch in its Office 2007 […]

I recently learned that Inspiration Software has published an international version of Inspiration 8 that includes a mind mapping view, in addition to the diagram and outline views in the U.S. version. Unlike the diagram view, which by default places topics within squares, ellipses and other common shapes, the mind map view of Inspiration 8 […]

Labyrinth is a new mind-mapping software program for GNOME, a desktop and application environment written for Linux and Unix. This web page provides a brief overview of Labyrinth version 0.2, which is still very much at the early stage of development (pre-alpha testing). This overview page also contains several screenshots. It doesn’t look like much […]

Mindjet announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with web conferencing and applications sharing giant WebEx to make MindManager Pro 6 available via its new WebEx Connect service. WebEx Connect is a collaborate online workspace that will enable users, even if they don’t own a software program, to use it as an on-demand service […]