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Recent months, exchange rate of different currencies has big change. This kind change even has affected the justice of our price system. Some customers also sent emails to question us.

So we do the fine tuning on price system, which has token effect from June 1st 2010. Now 1 Year Subscription Code will cost
USD 49.00 OR EUR 40.00 OR GBP 35.00 OR JPY 4900.00.

And the coupon code “PRO10OFF” is still available, has no purchase amount limitation.

Some users have reported that they paid the money via Paypal. But after finishing the payment, they still did not receive the Subscription codes. This brings much trouble for users, esp some people are very urgent to enjoy the Pro features, such as Presentation, Audio Notes, TaskInfo and Gantt Chart.

This turned out to be the problem of not finishing the full procedure. The entire procedure to subscribe XMind Pro with Paypal is below:

1. Visit the Purchase page, http://www.xmind.net/pro/buy/
2. Click “Buy Now” button
3. Confirm the order quantity and Fill the simple form, and click “Continue” button below.
4. Now, you are on the Paypal page. Please fill paypal account and password to finish the payment here.
5. After finishing the payment, Please do not close the browser, and wait the browser back to the “Thank You” page of XMind.net.
6. When you see the “Thank You” page, XMind system will automatically send Subscription Code(s) to you via email within 8 hours.

Note: Your code(s) will be sent to Paypal account email, not the registered email on XMind.net.

Some users just didn’t wait for the browser back to “Thank you” Page. As a result, our server wouldn’t receive the sign to send out the subscription code automatically.Once this happened, do not worry, please send an email including the purchase date, receipt no., paypal account to Sales@XMind.net.  You will get the Code(s) within 24 hours.

Tonight is the Chinese New Year’s Eve.
The coming is the Year of Tiger. Wish all people have a Prosperous new year!
Tiger Hu Sheng-wei!

BTW, XMind team will have one week vacation.

Here, we would like to share 2010 Calendar with you. Hope it can be your great Personal Management tool in 2010.

Click and download here.

Friday, 4 December, 2009 — XMind, a leader in mind mapping, visual thinking and collaboration software, today announced XMind 3.1.1, with many important

Improvements:

1. If your account has been renewed, after signing in, your XMind title will become “XMind Pro”.
2. XMind shows the Path of current XMind file in the window title.
3. XMind prepares the description file about “XMind File Format” for Developers.
4. While launching XMind, you can enable “Do not show this again”. Then you can sign in under Help menu when you want to.
5. Every Pro feature is labeled “Pro” in Menu.
6. If you sign up an account in the inside browser, XMind will sign in automatically.
7. If you renew you account in the inside browser, XMind will enable all Pro features automatically.
8. Improve some translation.

and fix some Bugs:

1. When adding local files as hyperlink in XMind for Windows version, if the path has “space”, XMind will not work well.
2. If using Spreadsheet structure, we can not edit the column name via double-click.
3. If showing the Legend in the map, we can not edit the description of markers in legend via double-click.
4. While signing into your account on XMind.net, we can not unsubscriber the newsletter/tips at the Setting page.
5. After extracting a new Theme or Style, we can not rename them via double-click in the theme view or style view.

Another important thing we would like to share with you is:
Our website, XMind.net has been revised successfully.

Here I list some major changes of our website:

1. More attractive Home page: More friendly and good-looking design. You will find the target information easily.
2. New website with many improvements, especially can work fluently on any browsers.
3. New Downloading: Save your time, be nice, considerate to you. Two editions, one Package only.
4. Better viewer for your online maps: Make every effort to build perfection.

At last, on this Thanksgiving Day, we also would like to take the opportunity to thank you, our friends, thanks for all your support, thanks for being with XMind for so long time. We believe that with your support, your understanding, your patience, XMind can get better and better. We are so deeply grateful to all of these, and we will take this as our forward momentum!
Wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving Day!

November 23, 2009 — XMind, a leader in mind mapping, visual thinking and collaboration software, today announced XMind 3.1, a major release of its award-winning product. New XMind will be more accessible to a broader audience and more powerful for professional users.

Here let’s know about the changes in this powerful new version:

New Features

1. Default Theme, now makes it easy to use your favorite theme and even your own designed theme in new maps.
2. Brainstorming Mode, help you get sparkles easily and save more time.
3. Powerful Search, now works among all workbooks, which means you can fast find out useful information in all open XMind files.
4. Relative Link, lets XMind be able to your assistant to manage files better.
5. Export to PDF(Map), offers another option to share our maps with the world.
6. Sorting Topics, helps us review the whole plan handily.
7. Enhanced spellchecker, could be our great assistant in work. It not only tell us which is wrong, but also what the right is. Another good news is that we can add our own dictionary file(.dict) into XMind.
8. XMind has the new online update system.

Fixed bugs

1. Fishbone: If changing map’s structure to fishbone, add summary to a topic, drag and add more topic into this summary, click print, the layout is chaos. When reopening this map, the layout will be chaos too.
2. Extract Theme: If we extract a theme(named theme 1), close and reopen xmind, then extract another theme(its name will be the theme 1 automatically,), change its name (like to be theme 2).Now when we reopen XMind, the theme 2 is lost.
3. Context Menu: Only in the first sheet of the first workbook, select a topic and right-click mouse, you can see the full context menu(including markers, and structures).
4. Upload map: If we add some special theme or style to a map and upload it to http://share.xmind.net/, then download this map and open it, all special theme and style will disappear.
5. Import XMind 2008 file: If the map has wallpaper, that wallpaper will lose after being imported.
6. Import FreeMind 0.9: Some Freemind 0.9 files can not be right imported into XMind.
7. Extract style: Sometimes, your extracted style will disappear after re-launching XMind Pro.
8. Export dialog and others works well on Ubuntu, esp 9.10.
9. Copying multiple lines which begins with “Tab” will cause XMind crash.
10. Some other bugs fixed.

Improvements

1. You can open XMind files via double-click on Mac OS.
2. XMind works fluently on Mac OS 10.4.
3. Improve the Spell Check in XMind.
4. Improve the Find and Replace.
5. Improve the Notes.
6. XMind Pro users can use XMind Pro offline.
7. Some other improvements.

Want to know more? Download and try Now. It’s our honor to hear your voice.

With an XMind account, you can present your map anywhere.

Firstly, with the account, you can upload your maps online and share with people all over the world. Also, you can choose the map you like and add to favorite, then you will see the map in your account, staying in “My favorites”. If you are an XMind Pro user, your online maps can even be shared privately as you wish. In fact, the inspiration to write this blog is from the questions raised by one XMind Pro user.  He who is a CEO from a UK company, a mind mapping fan, began to use XMind by recommendation from his friend. Later, he consulted with us about how to cooperate with his colleagues by using XMind. After knowing about the Private Sharing, and even the other one whom he wants to share with doesn’t have to pay to be a Pro user, just needs to sign up an XMind account, he was very glad about it and felt it’s very convenient.

Secondly, the account is very important to use XMind Pro. You should use a code to activate your account, and then use the activated account to sign in when launching XMind Pro. With this account, the greatest benefit is that you can use XMind Pro anywhere! No geographic and time limitations, XMind is somehow close at hand.

How convenient it is! It only takes a little bit time to sign up a free account. Why don’t you have a try to sign up an XMind ID, then enter into this wonderful mind mapping world.

Interested in it? Get you own XMind ID at: http://www.xmind.net/signup/

Recently, many XMind friends ask about the affiliate program of XMind Pro.  And XMind Pro affiliate program is available now.

Every affiliate will get an unique purchase link, the XMind logo and a buy button, and an online account to trace the sales from this link.
After listing this link on the website/blog, you can trace the sales online and get the commission every month. No other things to do. There are no cost.

If you are interesting interested in, please send an email to “sales@xmind.net” with subject “XMind Pro Affiliate” to join our Affiliate Program. Please also list below information:
Your Full name
Your website/blog
Your other contact information besides Email, such as Skype, Gtalk, Phone number

The wise had told us communication is very important in our life.
We also know Presentation is an important way to communicate with others, esp in work. There are many companies designing and developing the tools to let us perform better on presentation. And so do us.
Mind map brings us a great way to catch inspiration, organize sparkles, plan project, and more other things. While we designed it in 2007, we asked ourselves, since mind map is so powerful and useful, why don’t we present the map directly. Then managers, colleagues, customers,and clients can understand us more clearly. How perfect! From Oct. 2007, XMind 2008 Pro has a special feature, Full Screen Presentation. A brand-new method.
With many follow-up hours’ work, now Presentation is very stable. Here are some key points to present your map in XMind Pro:

Below are three screenshots:
1. Beginning. all topics are hidden, only central topic is highlighted, centralized and zoomed in:

2. During presentation. topics which have been navigated will be shown too.

3. Sidebar and Button panel. Move mouse to the bottom, you will see the panel button. Click sidebar button, you will see the powerful sidebar at the left side. Here, you can navigate, filter, and record.

This presentation mode is popular used to make speech in meeting, report in hall, etc. Maybe you’re willing to share some your experience with us.