Once again, your intrepid heroine finds herself cruising dangerous waters of the Pierian spring …..
42.) Google Groups and Usenet–a blast from the past, but I prefer listservs.
43.) Midi files–not really useful unless you are a musician.
44.) Jott.com–Interesting. I can see this service being useful to people who are on the road a lot, have a long commute, or are doing other things that takes them away from their office and the handy communication devices therein. For a look at how one Middle Eastern dancer uses Jott, check out this article by Woodrow Hill who dances under the stage name Asim.
45.) Flowcharts & Mindmaps–First, let’s get our terminology right. A “mindmap” is actually a “brainstorm” and the process of generating ideas by writing them down and then connecting related ones together with arrows is called “brainstorming”. I learned how to this in college English class with the most widely available tech tools there are–paper and pen. Brainstorming is a handy way to organize ideas for papers and presentations and to break through those mental blocks that always seem to accompany writing same. Why programmers had to change the name just because they invented a way to let you create one on your computer, I don’t know.
If you’ve done time in a bureaucracy of any sort, you know all about flowcharts and you may have even had to create some. If you aren’t into going on-line just to do a flowchart, you can go into Microsoft PowerPoint, create an equally cool looking chart there with boxes and arrows, and then print off just that slide.
