Free mindmap software, time limited offer!

[Hans Deventer]

Perhaps something for preachers? Normally $ 119, only free today!

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#more-748

[Gina Stevenson]

Perhaps something for preachers? Normally $ 119, only free today!

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#more-748


'Not a preacher, but sounds good to me, too! In reading about it, it mentions drawing capabilities. If that means mouse-drawing, cool! 'Tend to often grab a pencil/paper/napkin/whatever in trying to "splain" something to someone ... often in black & white, it's easier to just show someone what you're trying to describe than to just keep using words trying to describe it.


WOW! (now I have to remember to do back-up, I've gotten some neat things since the crash last fall ... and when free-just-one-day things are lost, you just can't recover them)

[Gina Stevenson]

Am I ever bummed! Hours after finding your post, on dial-up this thing had still not DL'd. In fact, I'd been kicked off, and it had 55% of it sitting there DL'd, and no more. I hooked back in, tried it again ... and it finally, hours later, was all DL'd.

So, I did the set-up, then it said you have to run "Activate." So, I found that and did it. THEN it popped up this really neat just LOADED page that appeared to be the place where one would work. WOW! the pictures there ... most likely some draw-your-own things, too; couldn't get to it to see!

In the middle of all that was this deal about going to the website for a serial #. 'Figured that if it took you there from the program, they knew you had gotten it/found it in time. When I clicked on it, and it wouldn't let me, telling me I was "late," (hey, I started on the right day! The doggone dial-up, AND DL site did it to me!), I tho't I'd do the "save screen" deal to show them I had the WHOLE thing, finally, and found it on time, so please ... they want a serial # to open it, you see. Last time there was something like this, no # was needed. I'm sooooo bummed, b/c had it DL'd right the first time ... and had I the fast like-lightning like many do, it would've even been DL'd with time to spare for "that particular day." The ONLY part of the screen, tho', that "save screen" would save in that spot was that "serial # box," and left all that neat-looking stuff I WANTED to show them out ... guess the serial # was "top layer," and it ignored all around it.

Is there some way, since I got up in the middle of the night, and found it had stopped on me (kicked off by ISP, like usual a lot lately!), that I could get this file that I really worked to get DL'd --- which it then said totaled something like 99.5 MB (!!!) [zipped up to about 26-27MB] or a # you'd gotten; unless it won't let more than one use it?? 'Could at least see if it would work, perhaps, after really working to get it? 'Figured after I'd set it up, I'd burn a CD to have it if there's a crash here again, but then this weird stuff happened. :(

The 55% DL that wouldn't get going, I'd already sat here clicking "Start" over and over and over when it kept saying it had "Stopped," a second or two after clicking "Start." Finally gave up, starting back at zero!! Here's what I do have for screen shots---that, I hope, will get them to see that I did work on it a LOT, and had dial-up/etc trouble, not that I didn't try on the right day!

The bottom two lines in this first one [in DL mgr] show the one at just 55%, and then another 100% DL. Could NOT, no matter what I did, get that other one going! :(

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THEN here are the other things that showed up ... the green one was the first screen that wouldn't pop up there, unless it had been DL'd, unzipped, and run (bummer that one can try as hard as a faster connection, and dial-up messes you up, b/c you can't afford cable/whatever):

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Then there were these other two ... even a "wrong serial #," because after so much work, I just had to try to punch #'s in to see if I could randomly find the right ones (yeah, right, for probably a 10-digit, or more, number? What are those odds ... one to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000?

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Hope we can somehow get a little for our work ... love to DRAW ideas! ;)

[Michael B. Ross]

Hans, you alerted me to Giveaway of the Day a few weeks ago. I since have downloaded several programs, inlcuding the MindMap. This morning when I was posting to NazNet, by cursor would disappear from the post window about once a minute, requiring me to re-click. I closed any open programs, such as Outlook and Novell, that regularly checks for email etc, and the disappearing cursor continued.

I uninstalled MindMap, and the problem went away, leaving me wondering if the program was connecting to the www even though it was not open. I have not checked my laptop as of yet, but I will and see if the same thing occurs there.

Perhaps something for preachers? Normally $ 119, only free today!

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#more-748

[Hans Deventer]

Micheal, I'm sorry for the problems this program created. I don't test them, I just inform people if it seems like an interesting program. But I do understand it might not always work as expected.

[Michael B. Ross]

No reason to apologize, Hans. In fact, I am grateful you alerted me to this source. The MindMap program works great, but I just wonder if it isn't bugged in some way. I just read the comments on the program, and no one else mentioned my problem. So, it probably is my paranoia.

Micheal, I'm sorry for the problems this program created. I don't test them, I just inform people if it seems like an interesting program. But I do understand it might not always work as expected.

[Gina Stevenson]

BTW, I didn't say, "Thanks," did I, Hans? Even if I didn't get this one OK, per Michael's notes, it may be OK, anyway (tho' I've had that cursor thing "since when," and find myself habitually mousing around until it pops up somewhere, and I go, "Oh, there's my cursor!" So, mine's not attached to that program, & other things perhaps can do that.

Long ago, I had a rainbow-colored cursor, just slightly bigger than the regular one, and it was easy to find, unless it got hidden somewhere. However, someone mentioned being careful of such things as that, WeatherBug, etc, etc, because there was spyware, etc, etc. Now I'm wondering if I was paranoid, too, by taking that off long ago ... perhaps I can find some cursor that's more than tiny-white, so I can know for sure if I've lost it somewhere (off the edge of the screen, etc), or if it's actually there somewhere on the page. ;)