A few min­utes ago I stum­bled over an inter­est­ing arti­cle over at Life­hacker. The new beta at Bubbl.us allows users to do some pro­duc­tive brain­storm­ing by offer­ing a free, web-​​based and sim­ple to use soft­ware. You can start to pro­duce good-​​looking mind maps with­out reg­is­ter­ing. If you want to save your mind map though, you should reg­is­ter. It’s free and they don’t want your e-​​mail address.

Bubbl.us is very easy to use and you will intu­itively grasp its options. Most options are very stream­lined and can be accom­plished with­out ever need­ing your mouse. Best of all, apart from print­ing your mind map, you can export it to JPG or PNG. If you did reg­is­ter, you are able to share your mind maps with oth­ers. It’s very speedy although it took me a while to prop­erly save a mind map I created.

It’s good to know that there is a free, web-​​based solu­tion out there that’s easy to use. If you are not into web-​​based prod­ucts, take a look at Free­Mind which is a mind-​​mapping soft­ware writ­ten in Java. Free­Mind offers some attrac­tive fea­tures licensed under GPL. Let’s get to work and sketch out your ideas for world domination!

Finally, we get to see more than just a few screen­shots.  As Eidos Mon­treal boss Stephanie D’Astous tweeted a few days ago a ‘sur­prise’ has come this way. Nat­u­rally, the sur­prise is noth­ing more than a trailer albeit a nice one. I already burn to have a copy of the game in my hands. The first install­ment was spec­tac­u­lar, the sec­ond one I found not that well made. Any­way, have a look for yourself:

This morn­ing I went to Gametrailers.com expect­ing noth­ing out of the ordi­nary, like I always do Today, how­ever, my sharp eagly eyes spot­ted a God of War 3 review. This review con­tains minor spoil­ers but you shouldn’t worry if you’ve already played its pre­de­ces­sors. The review does the game credit: You’ll see some stun­ning in-​​game graph­ics and parts of a few cutscenes. Well, I can’t wait for the game any way, espe­cially since the sex mini-​​game has been unearthed, but I want to play this game right now. Just look at it. That’s frig­ging awe­some, people.

Appar­ently, God of War 3 once again fea­tures a sex minigame. Every God of War title, even the PSP ver­sion, has included an optional, hid­den sec­tion where Kratos can please top­less maid­ens. In the third install­ment of the very suc­cess­ful fran­chise game direc­tor Stig Asmussen didn’t want to include the minigame at first. This time around, they decided to inte­grate the sex minigame into the story where it serves more of a pur­pose than in pre­vi­ous titles. In the con­clu­sion to the tril­ogy Kratos beds the god­dess of love – Aphrodite – her­self. He couldn’t pos­si­bly do bet­ter in fur­ther games, could he?

A new Iron Man 2 trailer has hit the web yes­ter­day! There’s more War Machine and more Ham­mer in the trailer. And I absolutely adore the suit­case armor. Funny idea and prob­a­bly rem­i­nis­cent of the Iron Man books back in the day. Enjoy the embed­ded trailer below. If you want more splen­dor, you can find a high res­o­lu­tion quick­time ver­sion of the trailer over at Apple’s. Iron Man 2 will hit a cin­ema near you on May 7th, 2010.

Ever since Mozilla has intro­duced Col­lec­tions I wanted to be able to install a com­plete col­lec­tion with one click. These add-​​on col­lec­tions cre­ated by Mozilla or users are dis­played on the Mozilla web­site but they do not pro­vide an easy way to install a com­plete set. Mas­sive Exten­der is going to change that. Mas­sive Exten­der is a brand new – read: exper­i­men­tal – add-​​on that extends Mozilla’s Add-​​on Col­lec­tor by adding batch install capabilities.

Every add-​​on in a col­lec­tion is included in batch actions by default. You just tick the check box of the exten­sions you’d like to add to your browser. The num­ber of exten­sions marked for instal­la­tion is dis­played in the lower right cor­ner of the header of the sub­scrip­tion win­dow atop the dis­played add-​​ons con­tained in the col­lec­tion. Now all you have to do is to click the Install but­ton and you’re done.

While this add-​​on may not serve any pur­pose dur­ing daily oper­a­tions it will cer­tainly come in handy after the instal­la­tion of Fire­fox or the cre­ation of a new pro­file. This is a won­der­ful idea! Mas­sive Exten­der will cer­tainly become part of my exten­sion. After all, it’s pos­si­ble to dis­able it if you don’t need it. What’s your take on this exten­sion? Will it become part of your add-​​on col­lec­tion too?