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Save Our Tigers

// February 21st, 2010 // 1 Comment » // I Beleive ...

Recently, I had the opportunity of taking my 2 year old son to Bannerghatta National Park on the outskirts of Bangalore. We had taken the Grand Safari and had been fortunate to see /show him three tigers and a white tiger. The recent spate of messages and the campaign in the media supported by Aircel was shocking and an eye-opener. For our National Animal to be on the verge of non-existence is really heart breaking. Hence, I have thrown in my support to Save Our Tigers. Please do visit http://www.saveourtigers.com/WhatCanDo.php to understand your contribution to this campaign. Please find a very tearful video too below this post. So, c’mon in all- Let’s do our little bit to save our Tiger!!!

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Social Entrepreneurs – Creating a Value System in Education

// February 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // Entrepreneurs - Difference Makers

This column is a tribute to the Real Entrepreneurs – as per wikipedia, an entrepreneur is a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the ouBabar Alitcome. For Babar Ali, aged 17, this definition means service to a whole society who does not have the basic access to good education. Entrepreneurship does not mean money or profit to him; it just means sharing whatever knowledge gained.

Knowledge shared is knowledge earned – this, in the modern era, does not mean much, But when we stumble upon people( or should I say angel) like Babar, we do realise that this quote does mean a lot even now.

When I dug further for Babar Ali in Google, I found the following. Babar Ali has been touching childrens’ life through his school Ananda Shiksha Niketan in Gangapur village in Murshidabad district since 2002. Since then, he has been teaching free children from migrant labourers, bidi workers and weavers who are extremely poor to afford formal education. He started the school when he was nine along with attending formal education. Today Ananda Shiksha Niketan has 800 students, even more than most formal schools.
The state government has recognised the school and promised to extend all necessary cooperation. A blackboard was installed in 2005, and a shed added last year to provide shelter from the rains. But for Ali, his dream is to make it autonomous. For him, this would break the way of working currently and would defeat “the principles on which the school is built”

Reading about Babar Ali makes one proud of this Real Hero – whose passion in life is Education for All. Salute You!

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Some more of Christmas theme Wallpaper Calendars

// December 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Resources

Want to spread some Christmas cheer, to your laptop or workstation? Download Imajine’s Christmas themed wallpaper calendar to spruce up your screens.

All the downloadable zip files includes wallpaper calendar of dimension – 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024 and 1440×900.

Christmas wallpaper calendar - White paper cut christmas tree in red background
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Christmas card wallpaper with December 09 calendar
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Christmas wallpaper calendar - Christmas tree in the night
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Christmas wallpaper calendar - Christmas red background with snow flakes
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Free wallpaper calendar December ‘09

// November 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Resources

This holiday season Imajine brings you free downloadable Holiday / Christmas theme wallpaper calendar. Click on the thumbnail image to download the same

Holiday / Christmas theme wallpaper calendar

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Indian Tribal art wallpaper for download

// October 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Resources

Click on the thumbnail images below to download free wallpapers designed by Imajine.in

tribal art wallpaper for download

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tribal art wallpaper for download

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Color Purple

// October 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Color Purple connotes Royalty, Nobility, Spirituality, Innovation and Imagination.

Color Purple is considered royal probably because they are found so rare in nature

In ancient times, purple dye was produced from mollusk shells, which took 12,000 shells to extract 1.5 gram of dye.

For me, even as a child, color purple meant Cadbury :D .

Even logos are so rare in color purple. I have been trying to gather some good logos in purple and all I could retrieve was –

Cadbury logo

Yahoo logo

FedEx logo

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What is Texture and Pattern

// October 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Resources

Texture: Look and feel of a surface. Example – Wooden, wool, leather surface.

Pattern: A small single tile of design, which is repeated on the web page, mainly used for backgrounds.

Textures and Patterns are extensively used by web designers to bring in a professional look to their websites. Largely used in blog, casual and personal websites. Textures and Patterns can never go ignored as they play a huge role to enhance the website theme, look and feel.

Below is a screenshot of textures I photographed and Patterns I created. If you like them and would want to download the same please visit http://www.imajine.in/patterns.aspx.

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Tutorial on how to create smart looking, fast loading table-less web page using CSS, Patterns and minimal effort in creating header design.

// October 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

This tutorial will give a basic idea on creating table less, CSS web page. Helps you understand on how div tags can be placed and effectively used.

I shall go ahead and start this tutorial hoping the readers are comfortable in graphic design tools such as adobe fireworks / adobe Photoshop.

To begin with, I created a simple Christmas theme header design in Adobe Fireworks, reduced transparency of entire vector design to 70%. The image I created is shown below.

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Tips on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

// September 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

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Actionscript 3 based Mini Audio player / MP3 player in Flash

// September 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I have added a new Flash ‘MP3 player’ tutorial in my website ‘imajine.in’, which covers

• List Component
• Loading external XML data to list component
• Sound, Sound Channel and Sound Transform class
• Add Event Listener method
• FLV Components, such as Play / Pause / Stop / Mute / Back button / Forward button / Slider.
• Volume Control

You can go through this tutorial at http://www.imajine.in/tutorials/flash/mp3_player.aspx

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