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Synthis Process Modeler - Today's Free File
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 6th 2006
Similar to Microsoft's
venerable Project app, or (my favorite) FastTrack Schedule, Synthis Process Modeler is a flowcharting/process
modeling/doc manager app that is free for the price of an email address. I said similar, becase this is more document
and process management, and isn't really designed for timelines. It's pretty robust for a freeware app, but the catch
is, for the true ISO9000 or Sarbanes-Oxley features, you'll wind up paying for a server edition, or at least some
consulting time with Synthis. It's an interesting way to sell services (not that it's unique), giving away the client
software to tantalize the user into the larger products or services. Would you like to super size that?The Process Modeler itself looks like a pretty good product by itself, however. If you're a one-man show having to manage some project assets, or if you manage a smaller project, I can definitely see this as being useful. Process mapping is drag and drop, linking elements is a right-click away, and publishing to a website (the HTML anyway) is a simple menu button affair. It's hard to make process management exciting though, which I guess explains the monochromatic look of the app and it's icons. Worth a look for small teams though.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
