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Famous blogger Robert Scoble has published a very interesting post today about Apple’s advertising and brand promise following his experience upgrading his Mac computer with Apple’s latest updates. He is making the point that Apple claims the Apple experience is better, that Apple builds better quality computers, various hardware and software than its competitors. So when he…

Following on my two previous posts on the subject of mind mapping ( here and here ), I have recently found another piece of my “mind mapping for project management” puzzle. I’m currently developping my project planning and tracking methodology based on mind maps made with MindManager   and I am determining both what specific…

My last post described the process of how I chose a mind mapping application . The introduction to that post briefly described why I thought it could be a valuable tool for idea generation and data organization and explained that I would use it as a project planning and management tool for my Web design and development…

In the last few weeks I have been researching and evaluating Mind Mapping software to aid me in the early planning stages as well as structuring of Web site design and re-design projects. I think the concept of Mind Mapping offers a very efficient manner of gathering large amounts of data or ideas quickly then…

…and it’s a screamer! I can’t believe I lived with my other one for this long. The new one is so much faster it’s not even funny. I’ll be keeping the old one as a backup so I got a Belkin swicth to use the same keyboard, mouse and monitor with both and plugged them into…

There’s a VERY interesting new post from ex Adobe Illustrator Product Manager Mordy Golding on how Illustrator gets new features . He goes into great detail into the process of how a new version of an application as complex as Illustrator is planned and developed and what kind of criteria the team needs to weigh to decide what…

Good news! My second article ” Why Choose Fireworks? ” has just been published on Adobe’s Developer Center . Like for my tutorial that was published earlier this year, working with Stefan Gruenwedel from Adobe has made the article better and I want to take this opportunity to thank him publicly. I have had a…

As promised in my previous entry, the reason I haven’t been posting much here recently is that I have been playing quite a bit of music. I’ve also been learning how to use new toys (hence the “Enabling Technologies” title) that will enable me to record easier and with a much broader sonic palette than I…