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nirav May 29th, 2007

Yesterday, 27th May 2007, Magnet completed 8 years of building high end web applications. Last 8 years have been a roller coaster ride. We have been at the peak, and we have hit bottoms. But bit by bit, through the hard work of all the people who have worked with us, we have grown. We have grown in experience, size and wisdom.

Thank you, to all the people who contributed. From the college friends who started off, the Magnet e-zine team, initial employees, to clients, associates, families, and everyone else.

We celebrated the 8th Anniversary! Pictures over here!

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nirav April 13th, 2007

The number of unread blog entries was rising high, and I took some time to look at what happened in the last two weeks on my favorite blogs. Started reading, and I have so much to share going through just a few posts. Here are some interesting reads.

• Sujeet wishes a very happy birthday to spam! Yes, thirteen years ago, the first spam post appeared.
• Sujeet also has a good collection of fools day news - including Skype for Cows and Sony-Ericsson’s new phone robot.
• Kapil posted a link to Getting more variety in your travel shots from the Digital Photography School.
• My wanderings then took me off to Seth Godin’s posts and found an interesting one! New Order Business School offers MBA programs suitable for entrepreneurs. Complete in a year, only about a fortnight worth of classes and achieving on top three reasons to do an MBA! Cutting out the crazy ideas, it’s still important to understand the state of MBA education. I am considering doing one
• This led me to Personal MBA, an inexpensive way to get all the learning that you may get in MBA! The list of books is superb and I would go on and read all!
• Rajesh sent a link about Yahoo! opening up their mail APIs. Interesting development. Are you the creative one who’s coming up with a brilliant idea to use them?

And other than that, Magneteers rocked my terrace on 10th April. We celebrated my engagement with Nikita with an energetic DJ party! Pictures are up!

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nirav April 11th, 2007

I have been taking a lot of pictures lately, and one problem I found difficult to deal with was the noise in them. Some of the images come up very clean, but some - especially the ones taken in low light and high ISO are very noisy. I set out to find out how to reduce noise from the images. After a bit of reading and some looking around, I figured there is no simple way to do this for me.

There are some Photoshop plugins and actions available to reduce noise. A lot of tips on how to do this and other techniques of getting better photographs. I couldn’t find something simple that I can do on my Mac! Something that could even integrate with iPhoto.

So for now, I am sticking with better lighting and normal ISO rates! If you expected some nifty tricks on the topic, sorry for letting you down!

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