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Welcome to TheBrain

That’s their title not mine, but that aside.  I’ve been an off and on fan of mind-mapping for some time, but I’ve always craved something more 3-D. Enter Personal Brain 4 which is somewhere in between mind & concept mapping or maybe the best of both. PB4 comes in three flavors including a free version [...]

Air Review & Super Bowl

Jason Calacanis has a review of the MacBook Air which freely translated comes down to, “…it’s game changing because it’s really, really lightweight.”  This isn’t as silly as it sounds; we expected that students would all be carrying their laptops everywhere, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.  Weight is clearly an issue, as [...]

Users Today

I’ve been puzzling about the Learning Aesthetics’ readership.  Ideally there would be some identifiable group possessing some common technical/conceptual foundation that was being targeted.  I’ve come to the conclusion that like so much else that’s old school thinking.  For the foreseeable future things work like this: only part of what you encounter here is going [...]

Free (for now) Screen Capture

Jing Project is a screen capture utility for images and video. It’s currently free and as the example below demonstrates very easy to use. I downloaded and installed it about 15 minutes ago and what you see is my second try (After clicking below you have to wait a few seconds; this is because it [...]

It adds up…

Who knew that Google was a calculator? Check out the new post for the top twenty things everyone should know about what you can do with the “search engine”. This comes from the Dumb Little Man site which like lifehacker offers continuous stream of useful tools and tricks for better living.