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purple park
It’s official – we don’t have time to explore everything that’s out there, so my approach to software/freeware is to stumble on it and use it when it’s needed. So I’m not announcing anything earth-shatteringly new here but sharing what I’m up to - which is using free discussion tools from Runboard.com in working on the Barnsley virtual world project (easy to sign-up, easy to use and seems quite secure); I’ve also been experimenting with Visual-Mind as a mind-mapping tool (again dead straightforward and you can download free trials); and Jotlive as a free online notetaking site (simple to sign-up, and has loads of potential). That's it, after all it's Friday!!