It’s a really cool way to combine ecology with technology:
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) offers you the opportunity to buy a tree which will be planted in a rainforest in Sebangau National Forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. In return, they not only plant the tree, but give you a Google Earth KML file in return with the location coordinates of your tree. Theoretically, as Google continues to update with higher resolution satellite and aerial imagery, you should be able to watch the growth of your tree (and the others who donate trees) over the coming years. To get started, you simply go to the web site mybabytree.org. They have a very cute animation that will guide you through the process, and you can use Paypal to make your donation. You can see the location and list of trees purchased so far here 
. Borneo is another location, like the Amazon, where rain forests are disappearing due to logging at a freightening pace. I hope WWF will extend the concept to the rapidly declining rain forests in the Amazon.
April 08 2008 | Blogroll | No Comments »
We are glad to inform you that the next release of MyInfo will offer a fully functional delimited text (CSV) import. It will be compatible with the CSV exported by MyInfo Professional, Microsoft Excel and almost any other application on the market.
It will offer field auto discovery (automatically map matching field names and topic attributes).
April 06 2008 | MyInfo and Development | 1 Comment »
We are pleased to announce that MyInfo 4.02 is now available! This release includes some new features and a handful of bug fixes and improvements.
Here is what was changed in this release:
- New: export all topic documents to files on your computer (RTF files for the document texts, Internet shortcuts for the web page addresses and the actual embedded files)
- New: specify default font and font size for all your topics in the Options dialog
- Improved: MyInfo now remembers embedded file creation and last modified date
- Improved: MyInfo now remembers tree column widths when you hit the Refresh button in Filter view
- Improved: maximizing the tree or the text editor now activates them too
- Improved: included diary/calendar/journal template for 2008
- Fixed: the problem where Auto Paste could not be turned off
- Fixed: MyInfo Portable now can capture whole web pages without problems
- Fixed: a problem where favorite topics contained garbage characters in Organize Favorites dialog
- Fixed: some errors that appeared after the PC returns from hibernate/logoff state
- Fixed: an error that showed up when trying to click on a state icon in Filter view
- Fixed: a problem with downloading images with non-lowercase file extensions (i.e. .JPG instead of .jpg)
- Fixed: a problem where TreePad files with missing end of item indicators could not be imported
- Fixed: it was possible to accidentally edit group nodes in filter mode
- Fixed: the ‘Cannot focus disabled or invisible window’ error when trying to switch to the filter view via F6
- Fixed: a problem with cloned documents when displaying grouped results in Filter view
- Fixed: multi document lines now calculated more accurately the height of the fields, resulting in less clipped text
- Fixed: last and next 7 days criteria now show results for today too
- Fixed: rare invalid help file error in the text editor
- Fixed: app now warns you if you try to open moved/deleted favorite
- Fixed: a few problems with third-party export plugins
- Fixed: overdue tasks now takes into account the time too
- Changed: updated product license screen
- Changed: Tree Column term to Attribute and Column Value term to Attribute Value term
- Changed: tips now will have Don’t show again box checked by default
If you already own MyInfo 4.x, the upgrade to version 4.02 is free - you should receive download instructions on your email soon.
If you haven’t bought MyInfo yet, the newest version gives you good reasons to do so. Why not download the trial version right now?
January 28 2008 | MyInfo and Releases and Announcements | No Comments »
NewsGator announced that they are making all their RSS readers free. I think that this an exciting news for everybody who loves reading blogs and other RSS feeds, like I do!
FeedDemon is by no comparison the best desktop RSS reader out there and Nick Bradbury announced that although FD is free now, they will not stop developing the product. I personally don’t use any desktop reader, but if you think that the desktop reader advantages are more important to you, then FeedDemon is the way to go. It is definitely one of the best crafted software titles on the Net.
The RSS reader I use, is the online version of NewsGator, which now offers all the features reserved for the paid editions in the past. For example there was a limit of one custom “Keyword Search” feed, now it’s gone! I prefer it to Google Reader, but they have to keep up with the smart new features Google are adding in their reader like shared feeds.
January 12 2008 | Blogroll | No Comments »
Since quite a few people use MyInfo to keep a diary/journal, we decided to make this year’s diary template better then the previous.
In the new template, we have added a quick year/month overview, with links to each day entry.
Download MyInfo Diary template for 2008. In order to install it as a template, copy it in the Configuration/Templates subfolder under your MyInfo installation.
For MyInfo desktop this is “C:\Program Files\Milenix\MyInfo 4\Configuration\Templates” by default
For MyInfo portable it is “<drive>:\MyInfo 4 Portable\Configuration\Template” by default
Happy New Year and let’s hope that the majority of posts in your journal will be positive!
January 06 2008 | MyInfo and Plugins & templates | No Comments »
Merry Christmas to everyone! We hope you will have an excellent year 2008!
As a small gift from us, we offer a $10 (USD) discount to everybody who purchases Milenix MyInfo Pro until 31 Dec, 2007, 11:59 PM Eastern.
To benefit from the $10 discount, enter NWY07 in the Your coupon code text box on the first page of the order process.
Please note that this offer is valid only for MyInfo Pro.
December 25 2007 | MyInfo | No Comments »
Today, MyInfo just turned eight! It’s been a long time, since the first release of MyInfo hit the market on October 29, 1999. The little app back there turned into a complete tool for organizing any kind of information with lots of hard-core fans today.
Those people are the reason why MyInfo survived many other similar products in the years and why it gets better and better with each new release. I want to thank to all of you for the continuing support and for all the praise, suggestions and questions that I get each day on my email.
Talking about this anniversary, let me tell you a little story. Back in 1999, when we first released MyInfo, it was not an instant success. We’ve got a number of downloads, but the sales were low (here is the moment to thank to our first customer, a guy who turned out to be a big visioner - thanks, Wil 
). That doesn’t mean that there was no interest in MyInfo. Just in the opposite - many people were contacting us on the email with suggestions for little improvements. Well, when we released MyInfo 1.1 with these little (according to us) improvements, the orders started to pour in. With the next versions (1.5 and 1.7) things got even better and we were relieved - MyInfo survived and thrived since!
And this is a good thing. I am happy reading all those emails from people that depend on MyInfo for organizing their lives and businesses!
With each new release MyInfo got better and better and soon we had the recognition of the experts too: Software Industry Awards Foundation nominated us for the Best Business Application in 2003 and Jeremy Wagstaff wrote a column for us at Wall Street Journal Online.
With all that said, I have good news for you. MyInfo just got better. Version 4 is a huge step forward and as an appreciation for your continuing support, we will offer it first exclusively to our current customers. It will be a special, time-limited offer, so check your email tomorrow. You don’t want to miss it 
October 29 2007 | MyInfo and Announcements | 4 Comments »
We have just released the public beta version of MyInfo 4. We consider MyInfo 4 to be a huge improvement over the previous versions of the product.
Some of the highlights in the new release are:
This beta version is available to anyone, however please keep in mind that as every beta version of a product, it is highly recommended to backup any important data, if you intend to use it with the beta version of the product.
MyInfo 4 public beta comes in two editions:
If you find any problems with this beta version, please let us know.
October 08 2007 | MyInfo and Releases and Development and Announcements | 1 Comment »
We have just released the last private beta version (limited to current MyInfo customers only) of MyInfo 4. It includes all new features, which will be available in the new edition of MyInfo. We will cover the new features in this private beta on this blog.
The next beta version of MyInfo 4 (and probably the last before the official release of MyInfo 4) will be available August and will be free for everybody to download. We expect to ship the final version of MyInfo late August/beginning of September, 2007.
July 25 2007 | MyInfo and Development and Announcements | 2 Comments »
Send to MyInfo is a handy plugin for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox that speeds up collecting of information from the Web. However, the Firefox version has one significant limitation - it sends only plain text (no text formatting, no images).
Not anymore! We have just released a new version of Send To MyInfo for Firefox, which works exactly like the Internet Explorer plugin: preserving all text formatting and images.
The improved version was originally planned as a MyInfo 4 add-on only, however we have managed to make it work with both versions (3 & 4). This means that you can install it even if you are not a beta tester of MyInfo 4.
Firefox should automatically inform you that there is a new version of the add-on and offer you to update the version installed on your computer. If, for some reason, this fails, you can find the updated add-on in the MyInfo Plugins section on our web site.
July 16 2007 | MyInfo and Announcements | No Comments »
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