VNAMEDIA - Bring the World to your life! http://share.vnamedia.net . Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:44:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Useful Widgets,Add-Ons & Tools for Your Blog,Website http://share.vnamedia.net/20/02/2010/pc-tips/useful-widgetsadd-ons-tools-for-your-blogwebsite.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=useful-widgetsadd-ons-tools-for-your-blogwebsite http://share.vnamedia.net/20/02/2010/pc-tips/useful-widgetsadd-ons-tools-for-your-blogwebsite.html#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:43:32 +0000 admin http://share.vnamedia.net/?p=1116

Adding Widgets, Add-Ons & tools to your blog is not just a lot of fun for your blog readers, but can also be very useful and help you to create a community for your blog or even a loyal reader base.

Here’s a collection of best and most useful blog widgets or add-ons that can be easily integrated with any website/blog. All these below add-ons are 100% Free and they are very easy to install.

Outbrain Star Ratings Widget: Very eager to know what your readers think about your posts?
Here is a cool star rating widget by Outbrain. The insttallation is very simple,
just follow the step by step instructions on their site.

ShareThis or AddThis : Sharethis or Addthis social bookmarking Sharethis social bookmarking buttonbuttons makes it easy for your visitors to share your content with others. It is a good way to increase your link popularity and publicity. Their nice css dropdown icons reduces the clutter on your pages and eliminates the need to add a different button for each social bookmarking service.

whos.amung.us : This is a real time visitor tracking widget and displays online visitor tracking widget
the number of people currently on your site and what pages they are
reading. You don’t need any sign-up’s to grab this widget.

Web2PDF Online : With this widget installed, your visitors can easily downloadSave Page as PDF
your articles in PDF format with just a click. The downloaded PDF’s are
free of any advertising and you can get full access to download stats,etc.

ZOHO Creator: With Zoho Creator, you can create professional onlinezoho creator
contact forms/web forums in minutes. The good things about this is
there are no data limits and readers can also upload attachments while
submitting the form.

Google Talk Badge: Google Talk Badge will let your visitors toGoogle talk badge
chat with you.The badge will active whenever you sign in to
Googletalk. The nice thing is your visitors can chat with you even
if they don’t have a google account.

Yahoo Media Player: With this very useful widget, you canYahoo media player easily add a simple media player to your blog which can auto detect mp3 links and create an embedded player. This tool is very useful for especially audio,music blogs.

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Cbox: Cbox or Chatbox is a chat widget which can be easily embedded
in any web page. It is free and have many features including message
history, spam blocking,etc. It can be easily customizable to fit your
blog layout.

Google Translate: This widget lets your non-English speakingGoogle translate widget
visitors to quickly translate your webpage in their native
language with just a single click.

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Now a days, almost each and every blogger/webmaster is using the RSS Syndication feature to convert their site visitors into regular loyal readers. So, adding a cool RSS Feed Icon to your blog can catch their attention which inturn can make them subscribe to your blog.
Here is the list of Free RSS Icons you can download and use them in your weblog.

Glossy RSS Icons with Reflection

Glossy RSS Icons with reflection

Glossy Web 2.0 RSS Icons

Glossy Web 2.0 RSS Icons

RSS Icons Orb

RSS Icons Orb

RSS Feed Badge Buttons

RSS Badge Icons

Web 2.0 style Feed Icon (psd)

Web 2 style RSS FEED ICON with PSD

Fresh Free RSS Icons

Excellent and Gorgeous RSS Feed Icons by Smashing Magazine… Comes in lot of resolutions including 16×16px, 24×24px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 128×128px, 256×256px and 512×512px.
Excellent RSS Icons

Shiny RSS Icons

Shiny RSS Icons

Multi Coloured RSS Icons

RSS Feed Icons with 4 color variants

Orange RSS Icons

Orange RSS Icons

MyCircles RSS

My Circles RSS Icons

30 RSS Feed Icons

30 Free RSS Feed Icons

Circle RSS Feed Icons

Free Circle RSS Feed Icons

Free Gloss Style RSS Icons

Gloss style RSS Icons

Feed Icons for Guitarists

Feed Icons for Guitarists

Vector RSS Icons

Vector RSS Icons

NewsFire Glossy RSS

NewsFire Glossy RSS Icons

Feed Me Animals

Feed Me RSS Icons

Rare RSS Icons

Rare RSS Icons

Christmas RSS Icons

Christmas RSS Icons

Weird RSS Icons

Weird RSS Icons

RSS Candy

RSS Candy

Love Shape RSS Icon

Love Shape RSS Icon

RSS Feed Tshirt Icons

RSS Tshirt Icons

All the above RSS Icon sets are Free to use and are available in Different formats like Vector,photoshop(psd),eps,ai,png,gif,jpg,etc. So, you can edit them to your needs.

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]]> http://share.vnamedia.net/20/02/2010/templates/rss-icons-collections.html/feed 0 Top 5 Ways to get Free One Way Backlinks to your site http://share.vnamedia.net/20/02/2010/pc-tips/top-5-ways-to-get-free-one-way-backlinks-to-your-site.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-5-ways-to-get-free-one-way-backlinks-to-your-site http://share.vnamedia.net/20/02/2010/pc-tips/top-5-ways-to-get-free-one-way-backlinks-to-your-site.html#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:25:07 +0000 admin http://share.vnamedia.net/?p=1109

One way backlinks are very critical to any website success. The more one way backlinks pointing to your site, the more your Google Pagerank and the more amount of traffic you will get. This should also increase your sales,etc.
But the thing is.. getting the right and quality one way backlinks from high pagerank sites is not an easy task, and in this article, we’ll find out some of the best ways to get free one way backlinks:

1. Try to write as much quality content as you can… that will encourage the readers to link to your site. The more useful, informative content you post, the more likely people are to link it. But, this method can take a while to really pay off because like all the new websites, you don’t get much traffic.

2. Write quality articles and submit them to top article directories like ezinearticles and goarticles. The advantage in this is, you’ll not only get a backlink from high pagerank directories, but also you’ll find that your articles are used on other people’s sites with a backlink to your site.

3. Participate in forums,discussion boards that are related to your website’s niche and add a link to your site in the signature. Make sure that you write quality posts, don’t spam. This will also help you get some decent traffic to your site.

4. There is absolutely nothing wrong to get a backlink from a related blog post you decide to comment on. This is one of the effective way of one way link building especially if you comment often on blogs. Comment on blogs related to your niche with a link back to your site as your signature.. and Again, make sure you never spam.

5. Submit your site link to major, well known web directories. Getting listed in directories related to your site not only bring you tons of targetted traffic, but will also improve your search engine rankings. Some of the popular directories to get listed in are DMOZ directory and Yahoo directory. You can submit your link to both paid and free directories and they worth your time.

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]]> http://share.vnamedia.net/20/02/2010/pc-tips/top-5-ways-to-get-free-one-way-backlinks-to-your-site.html/feed 0 Quick And Easy Way To Create Web 2.0 and CS3 Style Icons In Three Simple Steps http://share.vnamedia.net/19/02/2010/web-development/quick-and-easy-way-to-create-web-2-0-and-cs3-style-icons-in-three-simple-steps.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quick-and-easy-way-to-create-web-2-0-and-cs3-style-icons-in-three-simple-steps http://share.vnamedia.net/19/02/2010/web-development/quick-and-easy-way-to-create-web-2-0-and-cs3-style-icons-in-three-simple-steps.html#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:40:31 +0000 admin http://share.vnamedia.net/?p=1107

If you are looking for the quickest way to create a simple Web 2.0 or CS3 style icon, then here is an Adobe AIR app for you. Icon Generator is the simplest app we have seen so far that lets you create Web 2.0 or CS3 style icons in just three simple steps.

You can choose between CS3 or Web 2.0 style.

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1. Pick the Color

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2. Type the character

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3. Save it!

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It creates four different sizes of icons.

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One of the draw back is there is no provision to provide the name of the icon. So each time after you save, you need to rename the files to prevent overwriting of files.

Also, we would have liked if there was an option to select the shape. However this works great for simple icons. So download and enjoy it!

Download the application from here. Its free and quick to install!

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Hello Twitter API! So, so many out there are fiddling with Twitter APIs, getting their handy dirty to provide more and more innovative Twitter clients. or Are they really getting their hand dirty? :) Well, May be and may be not because there are so many wrappers for Twitter APIs. Tweet# (TweetSharp) is a complete .NET library for microblogging platforms that allows you to write short and sweet expressions that convert automatically to web queries and fly to Twitter on your behalf.

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TweetSharp is actively developed by Dimebrain, licensed under the MIT License, with source code hosted on Google Code.

A lot of examples are also present here that will give a good overview of Tweet#.

Some examples,

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There are other Twitter C# wrapper options like, Yedda C# library, Twitterizer, LinqtoTwitter etc. So, the bottom-line is, If you want to write a C# based client for Twitter, then it

is not that messy! Thanks to all these wrappers.

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OpenOffice 3.1 has been around quite sometime and now there is an updated version 3.2 just released on Feb 11th, 2010. Many companies like Oracle (earlier Sun), Red Hatimage, IBM etc have worked on this community driven Office Software suit. Great features and extra stability have been introduced post OpenOffice 3.0.  Here is our review on OpenOffice Calc, a worthy alternative to the most popular Spreadsheet software, Microsoft Excel.

Calc Features

  • OpenOffice Calc is Open Source and Free software.
  • Calc is cross platform, runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS etc.
  • OpenOffice Calc is mostly able to read Microsoft office format like XLS (up to a certain extent XLSX)
  • Native support for Open Document Format (ODF)
  • Supports Macros, Complex Formulas, Graphs
  • Plug-in or Extension support that gives extra features in the form of 3rd party add-on’s to make Calc more interesting.
  • Export to PDF option.
  • Database support with OpenOffice Base.
  • Word Art, Fancy fonts support.
  • Great compatibility with Microsoft Office 1997-2003 file formats.
  • CSV import facility
  • Auto-correction, Spell-check and much much more…

Graph Support – Calc offers a various graph support just like Microsoft Excel. Very easy to plot Graph, modify, rename axes etc.

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Extension Support – Lots of Extensions available on OpenOffice web page. Plenty of customizations are possible.

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Microsoft XLSX Format support – OpenOffice Calc is able to read Microsoft’s new document format not completely but mostly accurately. Here is a XLSX file opened in Microsoft Office 2010 as well as OpenOffice Calc 3.1.

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Office 2010                                                                                             OpenOffice Calc 3.1

Export to PDF option – OpenOffice Calc is able to directly export the current document to PDF which is very handy most of the times.

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Short-comings of OpenOffice Calc

Well, OpenOffice Calc is highly capable but however, at times, Calc seems to be slower compared to Microsoft Excel. Not much compatibility between Microsoft Excel Macros and Calc Macros. XLSX format support is still improving. Extension feature is great but you will have limited extensions to try out though.

All said and done is, OpenOffice Calc is highly capable and challenger to Microsoft Excel. It is free and can be used in Enterprise environment without any legal obligation.

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We all know the danger of loosing data and loosing data happens easily like hard disk break up, a virus attack, accidental deletion of files and various other calamities. Though the value of the date is price less, we are not ready yet to pay for expensive backup software that backs up our expensive data. In the earlier post we had reviewed online services available to backup your data. In this post we review some open source back up software that will come to use for those of you who don’t want to spend too much in buying backup software. Here are 4 open source backup software for Windows system that one must try before buying commercially available backup software.

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1. Areca Backup

Areca Backup is an Open Source personal backup solution which is released under the General Public License (GPL) v2. It basically allows you to select a set of files / directories to back-up, choose where and how (as a simple file copy, as a zip archive, …) they will be stored, and configure post-backup actions (like sending backup reports by email or launching custom shell scripts). For more features check the site here and download the software from here.

2. Backup PC

BackupPC is an open source  high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and Windows desktop PC and laptops to a server’s disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain. Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now practical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto a server’s local disk or network storage. You can download the latest version of Backup PC software here. For more information on the features, check the site here.

3. Bacula

Bacula is a set of Open Source, enterprise ready, computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. You can download the latest software here. For details on the features, check the site here

4. DirSync Pro

DirSync Pro is an open source synchronization and backup utility for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.. Its small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively. Using DirSync Pro you can make incremental backups. In this way you’ll spare lots of time because you don’t have to copy all the files each time you want to update your backup; only new/modified/larger files would be copied. You can download the software from here. For details on the features, check the site here.

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Sometimes, you need to protect sensitive data from others opening it. Sometimes, friends have this annoying habit of opening files on your laptop or something that might embarrass you. Even company confidential files need to be protected. This will be helpful incase you lose your laptop or something. So, there are so many reasons to encrypt files, folders or even the entire partition for that matter. There are so many utilities. Most famous of them is AxCrypt. We’ve been using it for quite sometime. It is tried and tested by more than 1.5 million across the globe. AxCrypt is Open Source and Free. Very simple to install and use. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.

Features

1. Right-click integration with Windows Explorer makes AxCrypt the easiest way to encrypt individual files in Windows.

2. Double-click integration makes it as easy to open, edit and save encrypted files as it is to work with unencrypted files.

3. AxCrypt encrypts files that are safely and easily sent to other users via e-mail or any other means. Self-decrypting files are also supported, removing the need to install AxCrypt to decrypt.

4. AxCrypt is translated into English, Danish, Swedish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Spanish, French, Italian and Norwegian so chances are it speaks your preferred language.

This tool is very handy. But, There are many such software and here is a partial list;

  1. TrueCrypt – Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
  2. LockNote – If you want to just have a password protected file then this is best. No installation needed.
  3. DiskCryptor – Open Source tool which offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition.
  4. OmZiff – File protection everywhere you go

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]]> http://share.vnamedia.net/19/02/2010/software/how-to-protect-a-folder-with-passwordencryption.html/feed 0 Best free mind mapping tools http://share.vnamedia.net/19/02/2010/software/best-free-mind-mapping-tools.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=best-free-mind-mapping-tools http://share.vnamedia.net/19/02/2010/software/best-free-mind-mapping-tools.html#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:47:13 +0000 admin http://share.vnamedia.net/?p=1096

All about Mind Mapping and Freely available Mind Mapping tools.

What is Mind Mapping?

Quoting Wikipedia :

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

An illustration of a Mind Map on Happiness (Source: http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk)

Why Mind mapping is essential?

The elements of a mind map are arranged intuitively according to the flow of thoughts, and are classified into nodes, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing connections between portions of information. Advantages of Mind Maps are simplicity and the easy graphical representation enables easy understanding and memory retention.

Mind maps are perfect for brain storming as it involves presentation of ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner. Though the branches of a mind map represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework. Mind Mapping tools can either be online or offline.

Top 12 Free Mind Mapping tools

ere we list the best of free mind mapping tools. All of these are really great and worth trying.

  1. FreeMind – FreeMind is a premier open source, free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has turned it into high productivity tool. Operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click ”fold / unfold” and ”follow link” operations. FreeMind is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
  2. Edraw Mind Map – 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 is available for Windows.
  3. XMind – XMind, is an open source brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts, and share them for collaboration. Supporting mind maps, fishbone diagrams, tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and even spreadsheets. Often used for knowledge management, meeting minutes, task management, and GTD. XMind is compatible with FreeMind. The latest version is XMind 3. Xmind is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
  4. Bubbl.us – Create colorful mind maps online, Share and work with friends, Embed your mind map in your blog or website, Email and print your mind map
    Save your mind map as an image. Available on all OS/Platforms via browser.
  5. Bookvar – Bookvar is an extremely easy and funny to use mind mapping tool. Creating mind maps with Bookvar is as easy and funny as playing computer games. You can build your mind maps in a matter of seconds by using handy keyboard shortcuts. You can drag files from your computer and drop them in the mind map. Stunning User Experience, Richer user interface built on top of Windows Presentation Foundation – Microsoft’s next generation UI framework. Slick, user-friendly interface based on the Office Fluent Ribbon. Cool 3D animation effects. Create mind maps together with your friends and colleagues. All you need is connection between computers. Each user receives a unique color which identifies topics created by him. Share thoughts and ideas using the integrated chat support. Add images directly in your topics. Embed and play movies. Attach other resources to your topics as files. Bookvar is available for Windows only.
  6. Ekpenso – Create and share mind maps online, Make mind maps public or share them with groups or make them public, Export maps to XML, PDF, image or Freemind-files, Use ekpenso offline; Edit mind maps offline via Gears or Adobe AIR. Available on all OS/Platforms via browser.
  7. Mind42 – Keep track of all your ideas, whether alone, with colleagues and friends or working together with the whole world. Mind42.com is a browser based online mind mapping application. With Mind42.com installing mind mapping tools is no longer needed – for a hassle-free mind mapping experience. Just open the browser and launch the application when needed. Available on all OS/Platforms via browser.
  8. WiseMapping – Create powerful mind maps using the browser as you would with your desktop application. No installation is needed. publish, Share your mind maps and work with friends easily. Available on all OS/Platforms via browser.
  9. DabbleBoard – Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that’s actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Draw with flexible & smart tools. Reuse previously-made drawings. All as naturally as using a marker or a pencil. And now with chat and document sharing, web conferencing with Dabbleboard is easier than ever. Amazingly smooth freehand mind map tool which is worth trying. Available on all OS/Platforms via browser.
  10. MindRaider – MindRaider is personal notebook and outliner. It can also be used to create mind maps. It aims to connect the tradition of outline editors with emerging technologies. MindRaider mission is to help you in organization of your knowledge and associated web, local and realworld resources in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation and infer referencing. Available on Windows, Linux and Java.
  11. ThinkGraph – ThinkGraph is a 2D Drawing application specialized for Mind Maps and Concept Maps authoring. ThinkGraph lets the diagram to have relations link, Hypertext Links etc. ThinkGraph is available for MS Windows (not available for Linux, Mac).
  12. GnuConcept – GnuConcept is a colaborative mind map tool for complex document creation. GnuConcept lets you draw the document concept map, edit all the concepts content and export it to several formats, like openoffice, xml or html.
    The GnuConcept Interfaz is divided in two frames: the drawarea frame, where you can draw the concept tree; and the textarea where you can write and edit the concept content. Available on Linux.

Other less known free Mind Mapping tools

There are lot many other free mind mapping tools available on the internet. here is a partial list;

  1. Semantik – Semantik (previously Kdissert) is a mind mapping-like tool to help students to produce complicated documents very quickly and efficiently : presentations, dissertations, thesis, reports. While targetted mostly at students, Kdissert can also help teachers, decision maker, engineers and businessmen. Semantik is available exclusively for Linux and other free operating systems.
  2. VUE – The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. VUE is available on Linux, Mac and Windows.
  3. DrawAnywhere – Draw Flowcharts, Process diagrams, Organizational charts online and more. Login from anywhere and modify your diagram. Share your diagram with others or link to your webpage. Export your diagram as an image file (jpg, png etc). No software to download. You just need a web browser with Flash player.
  4. VYM – VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts. Available on FreeBSD, Linux, OS X.
  5. Imindi – Imindi, a techCrunch50 finalist, is a collaborative note-taking system to help you think and connect with like minds in your company, school or organisation.
  6. ThoughtEx.Net – Simple software to capture ideas for Windows Vista and XP
  7. Mapul – Mapul is a single web based project allows you to create completely organic looking mind maps. It is based on Microsoft silverlight technology on web.
  8. Text2Mindmap – Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that creates a mind map out of a list of words.
  9. MindNode – MindNode lets you create easy mind map and is exclusively for Mac user. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple and intuitive user interface that lets the user focus on expressing and developing ideas. Nearly no time is required to learn the interface.
  10. HyperGraph – HyperGraph is an open source project which provides java code to work with hyperbolic geometry and especially with hyperbolic trees. It provides a very extensible api to visualize hyperbolic geometry, to handle graphs and to layout hyperbolic trees.
  11. Chartr – Chartr is another open source mind mapping tool for Linux clones with numerous features like mind maps with curved links, outline, box and color support.
  12. Morcego – Morcego is a 3D network browser written in Java and released under LGPL license. Helps to create 3d Mind maps. Morcego is developed by University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

There are more than 300 (including commercial Mind Map tools) and all are listed in http://www.mind-mapping.org. It is a comprehensive master list of mind mapping tools and a great reference site.

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Five years ago, Gmail was just email. Later we added chat and then video chat, both built right in, so people had choices about how to communicate from a single browser window. Today, communication on the web has evolved beyond email and chat — people are sharing photos with friends and family, commenting on news happening around them, and telling the world what they’re up to in real-time. This new social sharing is valuable, but it means there’s a lot more stuff to sort through, and it’s harder to get past status updates and engage in meaningful discussions.

Today, we’re launching Google Buzz, a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting and share updates, photos, videos and more. Buzz is built right into Gmail, so there’s nothing to set up — you’re automatically following the people you email and chat with the most.

We focused on making the sharing experience really rich by integrating photos, videos, and links. No more fuzzy little pictures: Buzz makes it easy to quickly flip through photos and experience them the way they were meant to be seen: big and full-resolution. And videos play inline so you can watch them without opening a new window.


You can choose to share publicly with the world or privately to a small group of friends each time you post. And you can connect other sites you use, today there’s Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader, and Twitter, so your friends can keep up with what you’re doing around the web — all in one place.

To make sure you don’t miss out on the best part of sharing, Buzz sends responses to your posts straight to your inbox. Unlike static email messages, buzz messages in your inbox are live conversations where comments appear in real time.

You can follow the specific people whose posts you want to see, but Buzz also recommends posts from people you’re not directly following, often ones where your friends are having a lively conversation in the comments. If you’re not interested in a particular recommendation, just click the “Not interested” link and your feedback will help improve the recommendations system. Buzz also weeds out uninteresting posts from the people you follow — collapsing inactive posts and short status messages like “brb.” These early versions of ranking and recommendations are just a start; we’re working on improvements that will help you automatically sort through all the social data being produced to find the most relevant conversations that matter to you.

For all those times when you want to share something but aren’t in front of your computer, Buzz is also available on your phone. When you’re out in the real world, a lot of the information you want to share often has to do with where you are: for example, you may want to talk about a new restaurant you discovered or the score of the game you’re watching. So rather than simply a small screen version of the desktop experience, Buzz for mobile brings location to the forefront and makes it easy to have conversations about places. In addition to checking out buzz from people you’re following, you can also see nearby buzz from the people around you.

On your phone, Google Buzz is much more than just a small screen version of the desktop experience. Mobile devices add an important component to sharing: location. Posts tagged with geographical information have an extra dimension of context — the answer to the question “where were you when you shared this?” can communicate so much. And when viewed in aggregate, the posts about a particular location can paint an extremely rich picture of that place. Check out the Mobile Blog for more info about all of the ways to use Buzz on your phone, from a new mobile web app to a Buzz layer in Google Maps for mobile.

We’ve relied on other services’ openness in order to build Buzz (you can connect Flickr and Twitter from Buzz in Gmail), and Buzz itself is not designed to be a closed system. Our goal is to make Buzz a fully open and distributed platform for conversations. We’re building on a suite of open protocols to create a complete read/write developer API, and we invite developers to join us on Google Code to see what is available today and to learn more about how to participate.

Update on 2/10: The video from yesterday’s Google Buzz launch event is now available:

We’ll be rolling out Google Buzz to everyone over the next few days; you’ll see a new “Buzz” link under “Inbox” when it’s on for your account. We’re still working on some features to make Buzz work well for businesses and schools, so it isn’t yet available in Google Apps, but stay tuned. If you want to learn more in the meantime, visit buzz.google.com or check out the Help Center.

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How many instant messaging programs are there? Dozens, upon dozens but the real problem is managing them all. We all have multiple email addresses and use many web portals and email services. Even those that deny it, will likely have at least 2 email accounts. One for your ISP, and at least one for work, or your cell phone even. At the very minimum, we have 2.

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Features

Instant Messaging

One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts. Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations. Rename contacts with an alias so you don’t have to remember buddy names like ‘giantsfan123′. If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.

Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.

The InfoBox lets you check everyone’s status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.

Changing your status has never been easier. just one click right on the buddy list!

Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM’s. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.

Log conversation history and find the information you need our search-enabled log viewer.

And so much more.

Email

  • Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
  • Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts.
  • The email InfoBox gives you a snapshot of your unread messages with just one click
  • Perform actions such as “Mark as Read” or “Report Spam” right from the email InfoBox.
  • Send emails to your friends right from the IM window. The email is sent directly from any account digsby is tracking for you.

Social Networking

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  • Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.
  • The social network InfoBox gives you a real time NewsFeed of what your friends are up to. Everything from new photos, to status updates, to upcoming birthdays is just a click away.
  • Set your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn status right from Digsby.

Personalize

  • Customize digsby with application skins to give it a personal look and feel.
  • Change the way your conversations look with themes – everything from simple AIM-style windows to 3D conversation bubbles.
  • Complete control over the layout of buddies on the buddy list. Change everything from buddy icon size to whether or not to show a snippet of their away message.
  • Sort your buddy list how ever you want! You can organize buddies manually, by status, by service, by name or by log size to place those you communicate with most at the top. You can even choose a secondary sorting method.
  • Customizable notification system lets you choose what events you want to be alerted about and how.

Other

  • Digsby offers complete synchronization between computers and installations. Everything from the skin you chose to your pre-defined status messages follows you from place to place.
  • You can place a widget on your blog, website, or social network profile so you can chat with visitors right from digsby.
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