DANEMCGREGOR  Sweet and simple, like the developer said. Yes, XMind is more complex, but-- it's more complex :-). With MindNode, my kid could sit down, and with less than two minutes instruction from me she was creating mind maps for her class. Try THAT in Xmind.

I also find it great for super-quick brainstorming where I don't want to get hung up on fiddling with the details (font, box shape, color, etc)-- having ADHLAH* makes this an all too common problem for me with XMind.

Great app, thanks for the free version.

*ADHLAH: Attention Defici- Hey Look! A Hummingbird!  
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DANEMCGREGOR  As a long-time DragThing fan, I've always done the following. Not sure if it'll work in Leopard, but in Tiger:

Open Terminal and type in the following lines (each line ending with a return):

defaults write com.apple.dock launchanim -bool no

defaults write com.apple.dock magnification -bool no

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool yes

defaults write com.apple.dock orientation -string top

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start

defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -int 2

Then Kill the dock process (in Terminal, or using TinkerTool), or re-boot, to re-launch the Dock with the new settings.

In order, these command do the following:

*Turns off launch animations

*Turns off Magnification

*Turns on autohide

*Places it at the top of the screen

*Places it at the left of the top (use "end" instead of "start" if you wish it on the right, near spotlight)

*Resizes the tiles of the icons in the Dock to 2x2 pixels; for some reason, if you try 1 or 0, it gets wonky. This makes the dock so small that even if you do accidentally trigger it, it's barely noticeable.

Additionally, go into System Preferences: Keyboard and Mouse, and un-check "Automatically hide and show dock" (command-alt-D) so you don't accidentally un-hide it.

See http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040423170608616&query=dock%2Bterminal%2Bsize

for more details.  
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