Magnet completed 8 years!

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. […]

Removing the default (annoying) xterm window under Mac X11

If you are like me, you use X11 on your Mac only for OpenOffice (I am waiting for the native build). But when you start OpenOffice, it also starts X11 – which in turn starts xterm – a command line for X11. I just upgraded X11, and the xterm started coming again. I forgot how […]

Hackfest02 Complete!

We had another Hackfest in Magnet this weekend. The last Hackfest was a roaring success. We had only five participants this time, but it was fun as well. For me, it was a “Samosa to Samosa” hack fest. We started at Saturday 7pm, and I really got on after 3 samosas in my tummy around […]

Fast and Simple Usability Testing

If you are working on a software project, usability testing (and understanding it in the first place) is very important. From 24 Ways: Natalie Downe describes a simple approach to usability testing for those of us working to tight timescales or budgets. That’d be nearly all of us then. Learn how to make the most […]

Quick audio conversion

Wanted to transfer some songs to my phone from iTunes. I have the default encoding set to AAC, so songs that I imported from CDs, get stored as m4a (MP4 audio) files. Realized that this format wouldn’t work with my phone, so was looking for some converter. Tried ffmpegX (that I normally use for video […]