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Free Mind Map - Freeware

7:35 AM

Free Mind Map allows you to build, save, share and print arbitrary mind maps absolutely free.

Create mind maps (graphical representations of thought processes) for brainstorming, problem solving, rational analysis, and decision marking.

Edraw Mind Map is a vector-based freeware with rich examples and templates. Easy to create basic flow charts, mind map, brainstorming diagram and sketch map.

Edraw Mind Map English Version (freeware)

Ready Made Symbols for Mind Map

The follow template is some logical shapes for draw a mind map.

Symbols for Mind Map

The follow symbols are part of the classic symbols in the mind mapping diagram.

Examples of Mind Mapping

Through our mind mapping software, you can visualize your thinking and quickly arrange and organize your work, all to benefit you as well as people around you.

Mind Mapping Examples in Edraw Max Professional

Mind Mapping Examples

Mind Mapping Software Interface

Mind Mapping Examples in Edraw Mind Map Freeware

Examples of Mind Mapping

Mind mapping (or brainstorming diagram) involves writing down a central idea and thinking up new and related ideas which radiate out from the centre. By focusing on key ideas written down in your own words, and then looking for branches out and connections between the ideas, you are mapping knowledge in a manner which will help you understand and remember new information.

Look for relationships - Use lines, colors, arrows, branches or some other way of showing connections between the ideas generated on your mind map. These relationships may be important in you understanding new information or in constructing a structured essay plan. By personalizing the map with your own symbols and designs you will be constructing visual and meaningful relationships between ideas which will assist in your recall and understanding.
Draw quickly on unlined paper without pausing, judging or editing - All of these things promote linear thinking and the idea of mind mapping is to think creatively and in a non-linear manner. There will be plenty of time for modifying the information later on but at this stage it is important to get every possibility into the mind map. Sometimes it is one of those obscure possibilities that may become the key to your knowledge of a topic.
Write down key ideas - Some students find that using capital letters encourages them to get down only the key points. Capitals are also easier to read in a diagram. You may, however, wish to write down some explanatory notes in lower case. Some students do this when they revisit the mind map at a later date while others write in such things as assessment criteria in this way.
Put main idea in the centre - Most students find it useful to turn their page on the side and do a mind map in "landscape" style. With the main idea or topic in the middle of the page this gives the maximum space for other ideas to radiate out from the centre.
Leave lots of space - Some of the most useful mind maps are those which are added to over a period of time. After the initial drawing of the mind map you may wish to highlight things, add information or add questions for the duration of a subject right up until exam time. For this reason it is a good idea to leave lots of space.

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Desktop Earth - The Earth on Your Desktop in Real Time!

8:31 PM

Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment.

Day and night is accurately represented depending on the Sun's overhead position (which depends on both the time of day and the day of the year) and both the snow cover and the foliage changes with the seasons.

Images are created from high-resolution textures (2560x1280) so it's perfect for that QSXGA display.

An image is generated every month to accurately depict snow and foliage changes, and the night view is simply stunning.

If you just want to stick with one view of the earth, there is a huge stash of wallpapers in the install directory that can be used permanently without being connected to the internet or having Desktop Earth installed.

My Desktop view:

(Click for larger view)

(techsupportalert.com)

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Useful dictionary software - Lingoes - you may like to try ^^

5:32 AM

I posted about Babylon dictionary 7 giveaway event (maybe it's babylon dictionary 8 giveaway) before. It's a really useful software for someone to learn languages. But it's not cheap for somebody to afford. If using illegal licenses isn't not your choice (of cause, I don't like it,too), I'm sure you will
happy to find a free alternative ^^. Even information of this software has been posted on many forums and sites, but for my site visitors' benefit, who may not know about its exist, I post an article about this software on my blog. Not sure about its legal right of its dictionaries, hope its owner deliberated on this issue before giving those dictionaries to its users !

Lingoes is an easy and intuitive dictionary and text translation software, It offers lookup dictionaries, full text translation, capture word on screen, translate selected text and pronunciation of words in over 80 languages. These language are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Thai and more...

Lingoes V2.6.2 is release Jul 16, 2009

New version of Lingoes integrates cursor translator, looking-up in dictionaries and intelligent translation by creative zoned word translator. With selection of word or sentence in screen by cursor, it will translate as many as 23 languages of text into your native language. It's very convenient to use, we believe the new technology will change communication method among people.

Key features

Cross translation over 80 languages
Full text translation over 42 languages
Ctrl + Right mouse button key for the cursor translation
Zoned word translation
Clipboard text capturer
Words and Texts Pronunciation
Free dictionaries and thesauruses
Online dictionaries and wikipedia
...

Click here to go to its website

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Other choice besides antivirus softwares

3:24 AM

How safe is your computer when you're online (even off-line) ? To avoiding many threats out there is a difficult task, even you're an experienced user ! Choosing a good security software or an anti-virus software is a must, but how do you know what is suit to your desperate need to protect your computer now ? Is there another choice ? Yes, of cause, it's using virtualization technology, security software that creates a separate environment allowing you unlimited freedom to enjoy all Internet activities without the fear of external threats !

Currently, there are two choice, one paid software and free software. If you want , try it to see how it works.

Paid software: Bufferzone
Alternative Free software: Sanboxie - click here to download

BufferZone Technolgy

Prevention vs. Reaction

Anti-virus software is based on a concept of waiting and reacting to new malware and other threats developed and released on the Internet. An untold number of computers and computer systems are severely damaged before most anti-virus providers react and race each other to be the first to develop and deliver new security updates to fight new threats.

This reactive concept of traditional anti-malware security technology comes with a built-in and fatal flaw: The constant need for signature updates.

BufferZone Needs No Signature Updates

BufferZone's preventative and proactive security requires no signature updates or reactionary security decisions - ever. Computer systems protected by BufferZone are constantly and automatically protected from any known or unidentified malware such as viruses, spyware, Trojans, rootkits, keyloggers, phishing and more, even if you happen to be the first to download the newest threat.

The Virtual Zone

BufferZone's unique application virtualization technology transparently redirects any potentially threats such as browser based applications or other downloaded desktop applications to an isolated virtual environment called the Virtual Zone protecting your actual system from dangerous Internet threats.

BufferZone's technology should not be confused with PC virtualization software such as VMware or Virtual PC and does not consume resources, memory and CPU space the way PC virtualization software does. Moreover, it fits into your existing Windows environment with no need to create or manage a separate virtual environment.

BufferZone application virtualization merely redirects PC modifications by Internet and downloaded programs to a separate environment labeled C:\Virtual on the hard drive while Windows and its processes continue to run normally within their usual environment. It's as if those programs and files never modified anything on your actual system and your PC's system configuration and registry (OS) stay clean and out of harms way.

BufferZone classifies Internet programs and their downloads as untrusted by default, automatically blocking all entry or writing attempts (modifications) by any form of malware. By isolating untrusted programs and files inside the Virtual Zone, BufferZone prevents hidden and malicious applications from watching or damaging your PC's assets.

The Benefits of Total Internet Freedom

BufferZone Technology allows you to surf anywhere, download anything, open e-mail attachments, share & chat with your friends and colleagues and e-bank with no fear or risk of infecting your PC with viruses, Trojan Horses, spyware, worms, keyloggers or other malicious programs.

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Ashampoo Office 2008 for Windows - 4 Free Again

3:43 AM

Choosing a right office, especially free of charge, is not a easy task for anyone ! Apart from Open Office, there are some other office softwares that you want to take a look at it. One of them is Ashampoo Office 2008, it doesn't has many functions/ features as Microsoft Office, but if you want to find a free office, it certainly is a good candidate !

Ashampoo Office 2008 is supplied with the word processing tool Ashampoo TextMaker, the spreadsheet program Ashampoo PlanMaker and – brand new in the current version – the presentations software Ashampoo Presentations.

4 Free is about giving our feedbacks on the softwares from the free promotions. So , hoping that we’ll have more tech reactions in comments, here’s again Mike’s feedback from the previous article:

—– General —–

– This is the latest version 3.10. (I used the “FREE FULL activation” English link in the “Let’s start with the killer offer!” section near the bottom of Radu’s “Ashampoo: They Trick You, You Trick Them” page.)
– The testimonials at the SoftMaker site the guys listed above indicate this is a very good app. CNet”s Download.com shows a high user rating of 4/5 for 151 votes, with many comments.
– Memory useage tested with same .doc file: OpenOffice ~70 MB, TextMaker ~16 MB. (OO may shed ~20 MB after some time.)
– Installation size (main directory): OpenOffice ~400 MB, Ashampoo Office 2008 ~83 MB. (OO includes Draw, Math, and Base which are modules not included in Ash.)
– I did find that each of the 3 modules started quite fast.
– OpenOffice users that must open complex Excel documents may want to consider this app. See the comparisons for Excel/PlanMaker/OpenOffice 2.3 at Softmaker.com. I downloaded the files that OO 2.3 had problems with and tried them in my OO 3.0.1, and it still does not display them properly.

—– Compatibility with OpenOffice —–

– The Ashampoo link says that it also reads/exports OpenDocument formats, which are used by OpenOffice. But I found it opened only .odt (word processor) files, and not .ods (spreadsheets). I didn’t have any presentation files to test.
– I opened one of my logs which is basically a long 3-column table of date/time/activity. Many activity items include multi-level bulleted lists. The bullets and levels were not imported, which was a dealbreaker for this use.

I don’t use MS Office, so I couldn’t test compatibility, but comments and press indicate it’s pretty good.

How to grabb Ashampoo Office 2008 for free ?

1. Go to this promotion page and submit your registration, after filling in the required fields.

http://www.softmaker.de/reg/ash08_en.htm

( copy and paste in your browser )

2. You’ll receive the email containing the serial number and instructions. Note that there is also a download link for “Additional dictionaries and proofing tools (~ 13 MByte)”

3. Download the good installer ( 46,9 Mo ) from Ashampoo ( not the trial one )

http://download16.ashampoo.com/m/ashampoo_office2008_310_fm.exe

( copy and paste in your browser )

That’s it! Run the installer and don’t forget to register your product!

Note 1: The software has a nice built-in option to make it portable.

Note 2: Once fully activated, download and install the latest SoftMaker service pack for Office 2008 ( 20 MB ) from here.

http://www.softmaker.com/english/servofw8_en.htm

( copy and paste in your browser )

Enjoy!

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