Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Online Mind Mapping – MindMeister.com

Published on June 24, 2007 in General Items and Mind Mapping. 5 Comments

I was a private beta tester for MindMeister and I have been using it for some development planning for RandomStorm, one of my new business ventures.

I must say that I am very impressed with what has been achieved by MindMeister.

Now, it is pretty obvious that I am a huge fan of Mind Mapping. What MindMeister gives you is an online system, in true Web2.0 style for creating and managing Mind Maps.

Where MindMeister really comes into it’s own is the online collaboration. For example, seven people from RandomStorm have got access to the development Mind Map that I have created. I simply created this Mind Map, and then I shared the Map with the other users. Two of the other employees were already MindMeister users and five were not. The five that were not were first sent an invitation to join MindMeister and then they are sent a link where they can join and share my map. I can collaborate with all of these people at once and the online collaboration is really cool, being able to see other people editing the Mind Map in real time.

Again, what a fantastic tool for group collaboration. You can even Skype call or Skype IM from directly within the Mind Map to other users of the Mind Map.

The AJAX interface of MindMeister is great. Amazing how far technology has come in order to facilitate something like this. Sure, there are not as many features as MindManager from MindJet or the other desktop based Mind Mapping applications that I would still use on my Mac. However, for a free online collaboration tool, keeping with the Mind Mapping tradition then MindMeister blows the socks of any other online tool I have used and it safely in place for my list of applications that will become my corporate standard.

Visit the site now, and see why I am ranting on about how cool this is

New Cisco Blog – Cisconews.co.uk

Published on June 24, 2007 in Certifications, Cisco Resources and General Items. 1 Comment

Cisco News A couple of friends of mine have just launched a new blog called at Cisconews.co.uk.

The guys who run the blog are all Cisco qualified and also busy working on furthering their certifications. The site is worth a look, with some good custom written content as well as syndicated news from various other resources.

Hopefully we will see some Cisco Certification resources on the site in the not to distant future.

Certified Ethical Hacker – Module 4 – Enumeration Mind Map

Published on June 14, 2007 in Certified Ethical Hacker, General Items, Mind Mapping and Mind Maps. 1 Comment

Here is the fourth Mind Map in the Certified Ethical Hacker CEH series of Mind Maps aimed to help you pass the exam by improving your study retention, a lot more than practice questions do.

This Mind Map covers Enumeration, which is the fourth module in the CEH. Enumeration is where you use active connections to identify resources on a given host. These resources may be network resources, users and groups, as well as applications and banners.

This Mind Map covers the main forms of Enumeration such as NetBIOS Enumeration, Null Session Enumeration, SNMP Enumeration as well as Active Directory Enumeration. Sample tools that can be used to Enumerate in each instance are also provided.

As always, I hope you enjoy this Mind Map and please comment to let me know your thoughts as you are all rather slow at letting me know if this work is appreciated.

Proceed to download the Mind Map on Enumeration for the Certified Ethical Hacker.