Peter's Blog

Pocketpc news:

• I bought myself a copy of pocketpc mindmap. This is a neat little mindmapping/outlining application. I like mindmapping for brainstorming things and this tool does it well. It's got many features in a small size. Some features:
  • Can flip between a mindmap and a regular tree-like outline. This makes it useful for either or both purposes
  • Useful 'add multiple' mode gives me a text box where I can enter multiple entries in one go, one entry per line. Any indented lines become sub-entries. Much quicker than creating nodes one by one.
  • Can quickly assign icons to nodes
  • Can assign 'scribbles' to nodes: good for displaying my lack of artistic skill
  • Can export maps to pictures:
    
• Bought tengo. Trial period ran out and I was lost without it.
• Battery life seems to have got better: two or three days use between charges. Or am I using it less? Anyway, I don't feel tied to a battery charger.
• Still fed up with applications randomly terminating when I power it up. Windows Mobile is not the most robust OS I've ever used, wouldn't want it on my phone. I read that microsoft have spent $1 billion developing the Windows CE/Mobile line of OS's. Where does that kind of money go?