Yesterday, on January 6th, Cultured Code released version 1 of their task management application Things. I have been using the beta version for quite some time and it has become my favorite to-do manager that helps me get things done.

The availability of GTD applications for Mac was pretty small just a couple of years ago, but lately a lot of applications has become available. The most notable ones are iGTD, Actiontastic, OmniFocus, Midnight Inbox and of course Things.  I have evaluated all of them, but Things is the one that I keep coming back to.

When making a software application, especially one like this, it is difficult to get the correct balance of either too few features versus feature bloat. Things, in my opinion, got the perfect balance.
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XMind, the Mind Mapping software based on the Eclipse RC platform has gone Open Source! XMind is definitely one of my favorite pieces of software; though the price has been a bit prohibitive for many people. Now that it is open source, with an optional “Pro” version with some added collaboration features, it should probably get a bigger foothold in the mind mapping echosystem.

If you need a software app that help you structure your thoughts XMind I suggest you try XMind. It is available for download at the XMind website for all major operating systems; Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

All of the websites you visit get their domain resolved to get their IP address so you can actually connect to it, right?That information is stored locally in a cache. Then there is the occasions when you know the IP address of the server has changed but you still got the caches version. What to do? Flush the cache! The way to do this differs from OS to OS. Below I have mentioned how to do this on the most popular systems. If you know about how to do this on other systems feel free to leave a comment.:-)

Leopard: Open Terminal.app (search for it with Spotlight), then write on the command: dscacheutil -flushcache Voilá!
Tiger: Open Terminal.app (search for it with Spotlight), then write: lookupd -flushcache Voilá!
Windows: Click Start->Run. Type cmd into the text field, then write: ipconfig /flushdns Voilá!
Linux: Open your terminal or shell of choice and, run /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart Voilá!