If passion for job runs low, refuel inspiration

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 6th, 2010

It is a universal wish to find happiness in one’s job. Nowadays passion for one’s work is vital if we have to be happy. But somewhere down the line lose their passion in the work and are unhappy and even depressed. Yet it is in our hands to bring that zest back into our relationship with work. Here are some suggestions

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Tips for Motivation

Job satisfaction seems to be inversely proportional to the number of years you spend in an organization. After two or three years in a position, you begin to get bored. You can avoid this feeling of dissatisfaction if you can recall your initial expectations from the job and the passion with which you did your work.

  • Motive yourself in a work and hopes you had for a better position and dreams about you careered. This would be the inspiration and motivation for ur involvement with your work.
  • If you feel your job is becoming dull and monotonous, think of ways to make it more interesting. Everybody wants to look forward to in their jobs and maybe through your efforts you can find ways to participate in an exciting project or new venture of your organization. And you can even pitch an exciting idea to the management, get their approval and start working on it. At that time you may feel, the job gives better satisfaction to you.
  • Another way to beat the boredom is to find something extra to do with your skills and talents. And you have to be volunteer for your organization by building projects. Seek out the people in organization who are dedicated to their jobs. Observe and learn from them and probably you can put more passion in your job. Have to make good relationship with your colleagues, who will aid you in putting more enthusiasm and you can find solutions to make the work more rewarding.
  • Taking small breaks in a middle of a workday like a walk around the block, small talk with colleagues or even going out for a quick lunch can break the monotonous routine.
    The power to change your attitude to work lies within you, a little effort on your part can bring back the passion you once had for your job.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.


Courtesy: The Hindu

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The “STEPS” to Live Longer

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 6th, 2010

Walking is the only global exercise that is most flexible, uncomplicated and can easily fit into most demanding lifestyles. Research reveals that walking promotes healthy lungs, increases blood circulation, and deters ailments like high blood pressure, heart diseases, Type-2 Diabetes, glaucoma, osteoporosis, gallstones and cancer. Walking is the only cardiovascular activity that does not overtly strain the heart. It’s even helps you enjoy a better sleep and boosts your memory. It’s the only safe exercise for people who cannot do strenuous activities to flush out some extra kilos.

Medical researchers proved that regular physical activity like walking an hour everyday adds an average of 1.3 years to our lives. Walking even for 30 minutes a day, five hours a week reaps long term health benefits. However a more focused approach is needed when it comes to drastic weight loss. Put simply, walking is the most ideal way to get back in shape, regardless of age or fitness levels.

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In a study published in Sports Medicine, people who clocked 10,000 steps [2 hours of walking] during the course of a day are considered as “active”. This eventually leads to gradual weight loss every month. For any effective exercise, you need to get your heart-rate pumping thereby you are slightly out-of-breathe, but can still comfortably carry on.
For power walking, shorter quicker steps are ideal. A Bangalore based fitness expert says,” Try imagining that you are late for an important meeting. You would walk fast enough in order to be out-of-breathe by the time you finish, but not so much that you gasp, or pant alarmingly.” Another expert says,”When the rounded portion of your foot touches the ground first, it supports your body weight better than your toes or instep. This ensures that you do not tire easily.”

A walker’s requirements are minimal. One needs a pair of cushioned shoes to protect your feet jarring on the gravel so as to avoid knee problems. And the ward robe should include loose-fitting cotton clothing that allows the body to “breathe”.

It is advised that you schedule your walks in the daytime, do not carry your wallet or valuables except a minimal amount of cash for emergencies. Ensure a stress free atmosphere far from crowd instead of public places or noisy streets where you may get bumped into. Keep a log of your walking hours so that at the end of the year, you can calculate and see if it has translated into significant toning of the physique.

It’s good to stick to a diet plan like high-protein foods, grilled fish, cooked dal, low-fat snacks, grilled vegetables and whole grains. As you walk, clear your mind of depressions and unnecessary clutter. Take delight in happy thoughts, be at peace with yourself, relax and allow the rhythm to calm you.

You may have to wait to see the actual results. But, when you do see a change, it will be long lasting. For, every step you walked takes you closer to a sound body and mind.

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes – pills or stairs.” – Joan Welsh

Our thanks to ” The Hindu ” for this wounderful article

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Develop Your Talents

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 5th, 2010

To develop our talents, we should not think of what we have, we must have to think what we don’t have. For that, we must have to invoke our talent. The sad thing is most people have lost sight of human gifts that lie within them and have resigned themselves to spending the best years of their lives watching television in a subdivision.But the mythology is, there is a abundance of potential and ability just waiting to be awakened within us if we only allow it to see the light of day.

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Thousands of years ago, it was believed that everyone who walked the earth was a god. But, the humankind abused this limitless powers.In general, too many people spend more time focusing on their weakness rather than developing their strengths.By concentrating upon the what they don’t have, they neglect their hidden talents they do have. So don’t get stammer to start the work, invoke your hiddent talents and think of urself in a positive way that I CAN.

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New Clipshare theme: The Plaster

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 5th, 2010

Cogzideltemplates.com has added a new clipshare theme titled “The Plaster “. This theme comes with a bright color, flashy and grunge design. You will never regret buying this template!.

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Free Dolphin 7 template: Facebook style

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 5th, 2010

Cogzideltemplates.com is happy to offer a free Facebook style Dolphin7 template. For this template we should give full credit to our customers as they have insisted us to design something like Facebook. To honor them we have offered this template for free, else we could have kept under premium section.

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New Clipshare theme: The Rainbow

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 5th, 2010

Cogzideltemplates.com has added a new clipshare theme titled ” The Rainbow “. This is a very colorful theme which grabs your visitor’s attention immediately. Hope you all love this template. For more information be sure to check our the live demo

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Illustrator Tutorials for Beginners (CHAPTER 4)

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 4th, 2010

This is our Fourth Illustrator tutorials post for the Beginners. Here we have listed very basic method to handle Pen tool.

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Pen Tool:

It is a main tool that helps to define the point for you curves of the desire shape.

Add Anchor Point:

After drawing the shape, if you neeed to add the point to define the proper shape you can used add anchor point where it is clicked on the path.

Delete Anchor Point:

This tool is used to remove unnecessary points from the path that has been drawn.

Convert Anchor Point:

This tool is used to convert the line into curve and vice versa.Click on the point on which you want to convert. So it gives the tangent handle to the point to develop the curve for the corners.

Direct Selection Tool:

This tool helps to give the final touches to the objects, which are createdby the pen tool. It helps to adjust the tangenthandle to define the proper curve. By pressing ALT button you can also move the single tangent handle.

Lasso Tool:

Lasso tool helps you to select the point abruptly, It can be of the same object or different object.

Measure Tool:

This tool helps to get the dimension of any object and also you can fine the angle if the object is tilted. It opens the info panel automatically when you start working with measure tool.

Scissor Tool:

This tool is used to cut the object from path to path. It cuts the object in a straight line.

Knife Tool:

This tool is also used to cut the object but in the free form.you can also extractthe object from within also. While you cut the object it develops the node as per you path of the knife tool.

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Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners (CHAPTER 11)

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 4th, 2010

This is our Eleventh Photoshop tutorials post for the Beginners. Here we have listed very basic method to handle Rasterize, Mask, and arrange.
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Rasterize:

Rasterizes the vector content of the layer.

Type:

Command converts the text to pixels and then they are not editable.

Shape:

Command converts the vector shape to pixels.

Fill Content:

Command converts the vector fill content to pixels.

Vector Mask:

Command converts the Vector Mask to pixels and then they are not editable.

Layers:

Converts all the vector content of the pixel.

Linked Layers:

Command converts the entire vector content of linked layer to pixel.

All Layers:

Command converts the entire vector content of all the layers to pixel.

Mask:

are used to show or hide sections of an image.

Add Layer Mask:

Adds a raster layer mask.

Reveal All:

Create a mask, which reveals the entire content of the layer.

Hide All:

Creates a mask, Which hide the entire content of the layer.

Reveal Selection:

Create a mask, which Reveals the selected area of the layer.

Hide Selection:

Create a mask, which hide the selected area of the layer.

Enable Layer Mask:

Enables or disables the selected layers layer mask.

Add vector mask:

Add a vector layer mask.

Reveal All:

Creates a mask, which reveals the entire content of the layer.

Hide All:

Creates a mask, which hide the entire content of the layer.

Current Path:

Creates a Vector mask from the selected path.

Delete Vector Mask:

Deletes the selected vector mask.

Enable/Disable Vector Mask:

Enable or Disables the selected layers vector mask.

Create Clipping Mask:

Clipping mask is used to mask the layer above it.

Release Clipping Mask:

Discards the effect of clipping mask.

ARRANGE:

Command is use to arrange the layer vertically in the layer stack.

Bring To Front:

Brings the selected layer to the top of layer stack.

Bring Forward:

Brings the layer one step ahead from current position in the layer stack.

Send Backward:

Sends the layer one step behind from current position in the layer stack.

Send to Back:

Sends the layers to the last position in the layer stack.

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33+ Free PSD / XHTML Templates and Counting…

Posted By admin   |   Posted On March 3rd, 2010

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SmartOptimizer : Smart solution for optimizing your code

Posted By admin   |   Posted On February 26th, 2010

Optimizing the code to increase performance of a site is a challenging task for developers. We have to work on the process like compression, caching, concatenation, embedding and also optimizing the images.

Luckily we have found SmartOptimizer [ SmartOptimizer is a PHP library ] to do all this functionalities. This will drop half the Loading time of your site of the previous performance.

SmartOptimizer Features

  • SmartOptimizer increases your website download speed by reducing the size of JavaScript and CSS files approximately up to 80% or even higher.
  • SmartOptimizer reduces count of http requests by concatenating JS/CSS files together.
  • It also reduces http requests by embedding CSS images and CSS imported files.
  • If your website has a large amount of JavaScript and CSS files, SmartOptimizer reduces your monthly bandwidth usage amazingly.
  • SmartOptimizer generates minified, compressed, combined and embedded files on the first request and caches them on the server and uses the cache on future requests.
  • It doesn’t embed duplicated urls (i.e. css sprites) in css files for better performance.
  • It also knows to regenerate already cached files if the originals have been changed.
  • SmartOptimizer handles browsers that doesn’t support gzip encoding and sends them non-gzipped content.
  • It also forces the browser to cache the files optionally forever or until they have not changed.
  • SmartOptimizer removes Etag headers. (for better performance on clustered servers).
  • It is very easy to install and usually there is no need to do any changes on your codes.

Installation Instructions

  • Extract archive file and copy smartoptimizer folder to your website.
  • SmartOptimizer will need write access to the cache folder (placed in smartoptimizer folder).
  • If Apache mod_rewrite is enabled on your website, you should place .htaccess file beside smartoptimizer folder. and if your website already have a .htaccess file, you should properly modify it to add required rules. (to do this copy smartoptimizer htaccess contents and paset it inside your current htaccess at the begining of the file.)
  • If your website has a large amount of JavaScript and CSS files, SmartOptimizer reduces your monthly bandwidth usage amazingly.
  • If Apache mod_rewrite is not enabled or if your web server is not Apache, you should change all of JavaScript and CSS urls used on your website from “path/to/file/filename” to “smartoptimizer/?path/to/file/filename”.

See the following examples :

Script tag:

< <script src="smartoptimizer/?path/to/file/jsfile.js"></script> 

CSS link:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="smartoptimizer/?path/to/file/cssfile.css" />
CSS @import rule:
@import url("smartoptimizer/?path/to/file/cssfile.css");
 Note that the folder structure must be something like this:
/public_html
    .htaccess
    /smartoptimizer
        /cache
        config.php
        index.php

To use concatenation feature, the files should be placed in the same place. and links to the files should be like the following examples:

Read More Information:

Configuration Options SmartOptimizer has a configuration file named config.php. The following configurations can be defined in this file. However it works with default configurations.

debug: true or false

By setting this option to true, In case of error a message containing error details will be alerted. So it will be very helpful setting this option to true if SmartOptimizer doesn’t work for you (that it may be due to a misconfiguration or bad installation).

charSet: utf-8 or iso-8859-1

The character set encoding of your js and css files.

baseDir: base directory for your files

This should be typically root path of your site.SmartOptimizer prevents including files from outside of this directory

serverCache: true or false

You can disable server side cache by setting this option to false (useful for development and debugging purposes).

ClientCache: true or false

You can prevent the browser from caching the files at client side.(useful for development and debugging purposes).

cacheDir:directory where the cached files will be stored.

You can prevent the browser from caching the files at client side.(useful for development and debugging purposes).

Typically there is no need to change this option.

gzip: true or false

You can disable/enable gzip compression through this option.(useful for development and debugging purposes)

gzipExceptions: an array of file formats.

This is an array of file formats that should not be compressed when gzip compression is enabled.

minify: true or false

you can enable/disable minify functionality through this option.

concatenate: true or false

you can enable/disable concatenate functionality through this option.

separator: File names separator

To use concatenate functionality you should separate file names with this separator.

embed: true or false

you can enable/disable embedding functionality through this option.

embedMaxSize: number of bytes

The maximum size of an embedded file. (use 0 for unlimited size)

Download Link: http://farhadi.ir/downloads/smartoptimizer-1.7-beta.tar.gz

Site url : http://farhadi.ir/works/smartoptimizer

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