Kidspiration is an AWESOME tool. I love it as a teacher for student applications and I love it as a student. It is definitely easier to think about a paper you want to write in a more visual format like that. Then you can convert it to an outline right in the program and you're on your way! I just wish I'd had something like this when I was in high school.
(Which is not to say that the idea of concept maps wasn't introduced, but it seemed like a lot more work the way my teachers explained it then.)
I have mixed feelings about Picasa. As a regular person and a techie, I can see the benefit of uploading pictures to the web for sharing with family and friends, and I do like the desktop organization, but the former US Navy sailor in me screams at the security aspects of such a public display. Government instilled paranoia will probably keep me from ever using such a site for any truly personal photos—you'll probably see mostly my dog or general nature images for assignments—but for other images it might be quite useful indeed.
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