martin's blog

23 Jun

The Top 3 Mindmap Programs

in business, freeware, General, Getting Things Done, Mac OSX, Productivity, Windows

Mindmap software has been in an evolution process for a great many years and all thanks to Tony Buzan for such an innovative, revolutionary and natural way of brainstorming. I say natural, as mindmapping really is brainstorming ideas in the way of thoughts behave - unordered and probably chaos based.

17 Jun

Upcoming - Increase Your Event Numbers

in business, eCommerce, Internet, Productivity

With my eye on always looking to provide my 'Solutions Facilitation' expertise to Small, Medium and Corporate customers, I recently came across Yahoo's 'Upcoming'.

21 Feb

What is a Gisteq?

in GPS, Photography

If you're into photography, both iPhoto and the new Aperture 3 from Apple are simply beautiful products to use. Aperture 3 has been out for about 2 days as I type and there's certainly a few performance issues that Apple needs to fix and fix quickly.

10 Feb

Do You Want To Flash?

in Internet, Websites

Quite recently there's been more and more of a push against the usage of Adobe's Flash plugin in websites.
It's become quite an outdated technology actually. It does have bugs, despite Adobe's statements to the contrary.

09 Feb

The One Blog Software You Need To Use

in Blogging, Getting Things Done, Mac OSX, Productivity

Getting my various blogs rekindled, my thoughts naturally wandered into the area of being the most productive which meant both:

06 Feb

More Mac Productivity

in Getting Things Done, Mac OSX, Productivity

One of the more useful productivity hints I have for you today is a 'combo' of 2 free utilities.
Pomodoro and Isolator.

04 Feb

Where Has The Year Gone?

in business, General

My goodness - it's been a little over 12 months since my last blog post and I guess you're wondering what's going on.

05 Nov

Free MS Office - Get It While It's Hot!!

in opensource

Well kinda

Version 3 of the free alternate office suite called OpenOffice has just been released.

30 Aug

Facebook for Business

in business, facebook

faebook logoPreviously, I’ve sledged Facebook for being one of the planet’s biggest time wasters. Facebook does, however, have some redeeming features. It can be good for your business growth. In any area that has a large population of users, you’ll find ways to monetise on that traffic for business and event promotion.

Contact Groups

Now before you get into a friend adding frenzy, it’s probably a good idea to think about ‘friend organising’. Think of it this way …

09 Jul

What Is Web 2.0 ... For The Beginners?

in Internet, Web 2.0, Websites

web-20-imageWeb 2.0 is really one of the most misunderstood terms floating around the Internet at the moment.

Let’s be clear here. Web 2.0 certainly is not a brand new version of the Internet. Fundementally, it’s really utilising existing technologies to benefit people. It’s a movement away from static content and towards interaction with people. Businesses simply need to embrace the ‘web’ as a platform, using it’s many strengths … build their services and apps using the Internet’s unique features as opposed to building apps and expecting the Internet to suit as the platform.
Bottom line here … Interactivity! People can upload as well as download in infinite ways.