I’ve been looking for a light-weight piece of software to handle basic image conversion, preview and manipulation function. Fireworks MX is good but it seems to suck the resources out of my laptop and Apple’s Preview application is often slow and handles multiple files erratically. Then today I find Toy Viewer for Mac OS X>.…

A great site dedicated to Outlining software (especially older versions). Covers both Mac and PC (DOS & Windows) with downloads. See Outliners.Com: Welcome to Outliners.Com! Sure you can do outlining in Word but I’m a big fan of many small, different, efficient and dedicated pieces of software working together to get the job done (as…

For those of you using Macs but not Mac OS X then Acta, one of the earliest outliner programs is available here. Acta, the easiest outline processor Snappy and still very useful.

I love outliner software. Just the way I think and organise my information. Came across this gem the other day that is both an outliner and an image map generator. So a quick (and limited) outline of my web site and we get the following graphic with hyperlinks. Cool. The software is called myMind, it’s…

In a lecture the other week a student asked me in a lecture whether I felt any pressure to write blog entries. Did I feel incomplete or stressed if I hadn’t posted anything for a day or so? My answer was, in good lecturer fence-sitting style, “yes” and “no”. I don’t think that I need…

Newsgaming.com is a group based in Uruguay producing video games with a political edge. They argue that the medium is useful for communicating and exploring issues based on current events. Certainly their September 12th game is disturbing, with its exploration of collateral damage in the war against terror.