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• 12.12.07 On Mindmeister, XMIND and Mind Mapping posted in Design, Geekery

  It’s my personal opinion that mind mapping doesn’t get enough attention. Of course, I spend a lot of time in the “real world” blabbing on about mind mapping. Evangelizing, even. So I’m going to expound (again) on thoughts and tools for few bytes…

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• 11.28.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Presentation posted in Geekery

  Whether you’re a designer or a software engineer or in some area between the hemispheres of the brain, there are multitudes of reasons why you would want to make a clear and professional presentation, be it a screencast, a software manual, or a quick mockup for a client. These are a few of my favorite tools for making presentations that impress without breaking too much of a sweat. I’m saving online tools until a later part of this series, so the cool online slideshow and PowerPoint replacements are going to wait a bit…

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• 11.22.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Utilities posted in Geekery

  What’s a mac without a good set of utilities? These programs are, just like the rest of this series, the ones that are proven in my workflow to work. Not always beauty contest winners, and not always well known, but tried and tested by me. Not that I’m offering money back guarantees or anything :). The topics range from disk repair and archiving to memory management and there should be something here for any intermediate to advanced mac user.

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• 11.22.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Productivity posted in Geekery

  Well, the year is quickly coming to an end and I thought I’d chronicle our latest Mac app adventures. So what makes this particular list of OS X app picks special? First, I’m not doing reruns, so you’re not going to hear about TextMate and Quicksilver all over again. This list assumes you’ve picked up on the basics from at least one of the gazillion top ten lists on Digg, and made your own decisions. Second, this list isn’t a popularity contest. Some of the apps I’m including aren’t popular (yet), some aren’t even widely known. I dig through a lot of apps to find what’s going to work the best for me (and hopefully look good doing it), meaning I offer this list as nothing more than a documentation of my findings. As always, I’d love to hear what you’re using…

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• 11.15.07 Together at Last posted in Geekery

  Have you ever given up looking for something and then it found you the next day? That’s how I found Together tonight. I had developed half of a new, nearly perfect (for me) project management system using VoodooPad Pro and its awesome ability to turn freeform thought into organized structure. I could link everything I needed to, including images and files, but I desperately wanted something with a sweet GUI to hold and preview project related documents…

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• 7.29.07 Group Productivity On The Web posted in General

  I’ve been working to narrow down the array of possibilities for productivity apps at Circle Six Design. I’ve been looking for solutions that are accessible by both employees and clients, inexpensive and easy to use. Out of the array of possibilities, here’s my current list…

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• 7.13.07 News from CulturedCode posted in Web Design

  It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from them, but CulturedCode has released a new version of XyleScope and has plans to release a GTD-based ToDo manager called “Things”…

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• 6.15.07 WPZipper posted in Web Design

  Just a quick note about a new site: wpzipper.com. It allows you to put together a pre-configured Wordpress install with your choice of plugins and themes and prepares it for installation. Registering for a free account lets you save configurations for repeat usage. Pretty nifty.

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• 5.22.07 Pathway: Wiki Breadcrumbs posted in Geekery

  Pathway is an amazing little OS X tool for surfing Wikipedia. It lets you see a map view of the pages surrounding your search and then creates a breadcrumb trail of your path through the pages. You can add multiple start points, track notes and files for each page, download and preview images and re-arrange the maps by dragging. It’s a sweet tool for research, and great fun for downtime!

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• 4.20.07 Slidez: Quick and Easy Portfolios posted in Web Design

  Slidez is a new tool that has me a little excited. You can sign up for a free account and then batch upload a bunch of photos to create a slideshow. You can customize where the thumbnails go, what font is used, background color, etc. But wait, here’s the cool part: it’s got an embed function for your website/blog and an xml feed. Have fun! [via Lifehacker]

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