Open Source for Mac. Week 1
Let’s take a look at a couple of mind mapping tools for your Mac: FreeMind and XMind. These are both great for planning out your Social Media Marketing strategies. For both of them, I imbedded some links and video tutorials (download flash). I hope it makes it easier and more pleasurable for you to read my blog.
I am going to let the tutorials do their job, but I wanted to let you know that In the tutorials you’ll hear the word “insert.” On Macs, that’s the Tab button. Also, be sure to check out the Help section after you download and open FreeMind. Finally, FreeMind is Java script, so it’ll work with just about any operating system.
Freemind Tutorials:
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Tutorial_effort
http://potentmind.com/content/freemind_gtd_template
http://www.techmindset.net/?p=60
You can download it here. There are Open Source and paid versions, but let’s take a look at the Open Source version. To find out more, read their Blog. I also discovered an XMind Google Groups and Ning community.
Other than some videos for the paid version, I didn’t find any videos I liked; though, here’s the first of a series of short videos:
Okay, that’s it for this week. Who knows what’s coming next week, but I’ll focus on Open Source software for Macs. There’s usually going to be a PC version for whatever I blog about during this Mac series; though, throughout the five weeks of this blog series you can be sure that I am focusing on Open Source software for Mac users. For this week, FreeMind is Java script (it will work with almost any operating system), and I gave you the link to find all versions of XMind above.
Oh yeah, thanks for the comments last week. Welcome to all and thank you for reading. And to that one person who had nothing intelligent to say other than to post multiple comments with multiple links, do you seriously think I’m going to approve your spam? For my faithful readers, tell me what kind of Open Source software you’d like me to review. Do you like my idea of writing blog series, or would you rather me mix it up a little more? I am also going to try to put in more video tutorials. I want to make this blog useful to you, so let me know how I can make this blog more useful to your needs.
See you next week,
Erick
