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Well guess what? I clicked on a banner ad. I rarely see one that catches my eye, but this one sure did. It is Visual Thesaurus.

Doesn’t sound catchy yet. But what it does is present looked and related words in a mind-map style. So next time you need to brainstorm, it does it for you! Sure you’ve always been able to do the same with a thesaurus, but because this draws the map for you, it is sooo much faster. And visually, yes, you do spot words of interest much faster too.

It does have a brief trial and thereafter you’ve got to pay either US$19.95 per year to subscribe to the online version, or buy the desktop version for US$39.95. I think the online version provides better value.

Have a look though, if you work with words or ideas, I’m sure you’ll be impressed.

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There’s been silly talk around the place that Apple’s new iMovie, which has a revolutionary new editing interface but is missing many important features of its predecessor, is in fact a sneaky plot by Apple to force people who want to make movies on Macs to buy Final Cut Express.This is nonsense.

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Lately with the resurgence of the Mac, sites are springing up, and articles are being written on switching. To make life easier for switchers, I am going to collate them on this page as I come across them.

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Fascinating how Visicalc, the first spreadsheet was a killer app. Lotus 123 was a killer app, Excel again was a killer app (albeit helped by being part of MS Office suite).Now we find ourselves in 2007 and Apple has revolutionized spreadsheets with its new Numbers application, part of its iWork productivity suite, that includes Keynote for presentations, and PAges for word processing and desktop publishing.

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Joined Facebook today coz everyone - especially Robert Scoble - www.scobleizer.com - keeps talking about it…. Admittedly, that was friends already on Facebook.Then it proposes other ways to make friends on Facebook, such as networking.

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Have spent the last three days trying to get my student edition of Adobe Creative Suite registered. Five emails from two different email accounts with relevant documentation attached failed to arrive at Adobe.Eventually it seems the problem might be Adobe limiting emails with attachments.

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The Nintendo Wii lets you password protect areas you don’t want other people to access. Great, fantastic idea.

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Veteran and hardcore gamers are apparently just as sold on the Nintendo Wii as everybody else, but I’ve noticed one group who seem to get bored easily by it: PlayStation kids.We’ve had 8yo, 10yo and 11yo boys visit who own PlayStation 2…. It seems they are used to lots of carange and explosions, so can’t appreciate any other type of game.

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You’ve heard about ‘em, and I’ve got ‘em too.

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Stumbled across this recent interview, Disposing with Disposability, on Utne which really struck a chord. It’s worth a read.

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