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I have always wondered at the dominance of Photoshop . Almost every web designer, graphic designer, usability engineer has worked on it , almost making it an indispensable tool . However, the price tag for the software makes it prohibitive for startups to use it. Recently I have noticed a good open source software Gimp which has almost all the features of Photoshop. My take on the tool: Easy to install- prereq is gtk+, comes in linux and windows flavors UI is neat, clean and user friendly ( Unlike the commonly held notion of any open source work) Easy to pick and choose the features for a starter.

An inspiring story of an entrepreneur Jignesh shah who has made it big in the commodities market exchange. Its a story of the transformation of a technology company in to a successful trading exchange What is he betting on : “We are getting into mobile-based digital transactions for micro credit; it is a trillion dollar market. It will capture all low-end transactions, mobilising small money at a quarter of the cost.

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When Morgan Freeman says “Sometimes people get Insititutionalized” in the movie “Shawshank’s Redemption”, this is what he means : Close your eyes and imagine a coral reef forming slowly around a tiny tropical island. The coral polyps are small and soft at the start — like your comfortable ways of doing things — but they’re steadily solidifying into a massive wall of rock, shutting off the open sea. Inside the reef, the water’s shallow, calm and safe.