April 11, 2012
Paper by Studio Fifty Three (iTunes link), which is admittedly a rather un-Googleable name for an app, is the ultimate in distraction-free simplified idea sketching. Your options are ridiculously limited – but that’s part of the beauty. The brushes, available via in-app purchases with only the basic fountain pen free, feel wonderful.
February 10, 2012
Mindjet is the one of the premier tools for mindmapping in the personal and corporate space. Recently, Thinking Space was acquired by Mindjet and combined into Mindjet for Android. The app which is available for free (unlike the earlier Thinking Space Pro and Mindjet’s very own desktop software) is clocking up a lot of downloads. How handy is the mobile mindmapping solution? Do you prefer carrying it around in your pocket? Let’s count the ticks.
August 26, 2011
Are you searching for a simple mind mapping tool that is more traditional in the way it uses non-linear lines and asymmetric shapes? The Chrome Web Store has a handful of mind mapping tools. The choice gets limited further because some like Mindmeister are commercial. A search through the free ones, revealed the well-reviewed Connected Mind.
February 7, 2011
You don’t need to hit a problem wall to start brainstorming. Brainstorming is a way to generate creative solutions by hitting a problem with as many ideas a group can think of. But the free-wheeling exercise is also a great way to see a topic from hidden angles. Physical brainstorming may sound like a carefree [...]
January 30, 2011
If you’ve decided to take the plunge, abandoning the 9-to-5 rat race to launch out on your own, the first step to getting your start-up off the ground is to create a business model. This can be a very daunting task, and rather than start with a completely blank canvas, there are several free online [...]
August 30, 2010
Call them whiteboards or collaborative drawing tools, a browser-based drawing canvas is a must have if you do any sort of work remotely in teams. We checked out the utility of an online whiteboard called Dabbleboard some time back. The online collaboration app has gone from beta to final and from free to a mix [...]
August 18, 2010
Mind mapping applications are usually bone dry, decision making tools. You don’t expect them to be bear a likeness to an arcade style game complete with sound effects. To add to that, you might ask yourself, what’s a mindmap-like decision making tool doing amongst the online offerings from BBC Scotland? Mind maps diagrams are great [...]
February 24, 2010
It is said that an average person has 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts in a day. Of course, a genius might have more than you and I, but the figure mentioned was the hypothetical traffic that goes on in our brain. Our thoughts rarely go from Point A to Point B in a straight line. More [...]
January 25, 2010
The web has been about doing away with distances. Web 2.0 also has been a lot about doing everything in real time. What’s real time, you may ask? Twitter, is real time I would say. Real time is when an action draws an immediate response. When something gets on the web and is received by [...]
