Mindjet: Software for Visualizing and Managing Information

Mindjet’s site is showing an NBC news video that walks through the recent FOSE show in Washington. Halfway through the snipped they discuss groups of Universities, Government and Medical researchers attempts to study Bird Flu using Mindjet’s MindManager to map out the situation.

This is a great application of Mindjet being applied to the intelligence of studying or tracking a potential pandemic. Its not difficult to see the pure intelligence and military applications of using this same tool to study various things from the Strategic Level down to the tactical level, whether its an intel analyst in the field attempting to determine battle order, hierarchy of an enemy organization, communications network or even helping to anlayze or coordinate battle damange assessments. Similarly, strategic uses of the program to analyze things from money laundering to terrorist cells are easily adaptable to mind mapping software.

For more information on Intelligence uses of MindManager please contact Softduit Partners.

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Firefox (which is available for free download from this site) is reviewed by CNET, where they identify some of the more useful functions that can be optimized to get the most efficient web surfing experience. One of the best functions that comes with Firefox is the ability totoggle through multible Tabs of Web Pages as opposed to having multiple windows open, such that you can’t navigate your Windows toolbar anymore. Eliminating the garbage from your toolbar is one of the great things about Firefox.

So when you are ready to leave Internet Explorer user’s in the dust pick up Firefox and don’t forget to check these tips!

Some of the tools that are mentioned include:

PDF Download Optimization options
Java Script blocking and enabling options
FlashBlock- don’t want a flash screen slowing you down? This option puts a play button up, and requires you to push play instead of having to opt out with a “skip intro” click, you can save a click and only opt in when you like
FireTune - helps you optimize your browser according to your connection type (dial up, dsl, T1, Wireless etc.)
Control unwanted animations
Clean up Downloads
Back-Forward Cache
Zap & Bookmarklets

There’s also a couple functions for people that like to experiment with various web software tools:

Disable/Uninstall
Start in Safe Mode

These functions allow you to turn off that latest shareware/plugin that you aren’t using after all.

Reviews and free downloads at Download.com

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I’ve become a recent fan of Digg.com as an additional source of information. Digg is a source of news aggregation where its members submit stories for review of importance by other members.

Instead of an editor picking what the members read or how important it is, other members vote and this drives placement.

One of the great features about the site is that it will show you where the masses are reading news. It gives a count of the number of members that have read an article. You can “spy” on the movement of news as well, watching a real time counter of the articles and how many times they have been read.

Any information maven worth their salt, needs to check into Digg and start capturing their news a little closer to the source.

From a traders perspective, there was some speculation a few weeks back that Digg was a potential prospect buy for Yahoo.

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