About FreeMind, there is a good article "I use freemind- Wild Road :: Wu Lujia's Blog"

Very classic article:

http://blog.blogchina.com/Article_2503.13486.html

FreeMind Home:

Http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/main_page

Now FreeMind's latest version is 0.8rc 2, it is still very nice. The interface is also very beautiful.