Humble Awards

When I was studying 10th standard, I had a bet with my friend Nalin that A.R.Rahman will become very famous (He was telling me that no one can beat Ilaiyaraaja) Since then I thought about appreciating the people that I think are the best and finally here is the effort. Some people are yet to become famous--but I strongly believe and wish that they'll become famous sooner!

Gaana Rahman - Gaana singer

Dr. A.N. Sreevatsan, ENT specialist

OptiPerl, Windows based IDE

RJ Joshua , Radio Jockey of AIR FM, Chennai

RJ Yazh Sudhakar, Radio Jockey of Suryan FM, Chennai

Discovery Channel's Tamil Interpreters, for the superb Tamil voices & modulations

Savukku, WikiLeaks of India, for the brave news coverage on hidden politics of India, especially Tamil Nadu state

Comments

Anonymous said…

As far as SAVUKKU is concerned, it is true that he deserves award and your prediction will be true. Since the site is published from USA, he is free from the dangers associated in journalism. His deep knowledge and understanding of the political matters are amazing. - K. ANANTHA NARAYANAN, MADURAI INDIA. ananthu47@gmail.com

Jun 5, 2011, 3:05:00 PM

Using Sodexo Meal Pass Card in BigBasket.com - How-to

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I was using Sodexo vouchers for longtime, but it was a big letdown when I can't get some of my unused vouchers renewed. And so, I was somehow happy with their new Meal Pass Card. But, again, it was a big letdown as I can't use it with BigBasket--where I usually use most of my meal coupon vouchers.
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Great News! Pay with your Sodexo Meal Card for food items ordered from Big Basket. Choose Sodexo in the payment section & pay on delivery.

And so, this month, I tried to use my Sodexo Meal Pass Card in BigBasket.

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Since, the team wants programming help for converting PSD images, I have tried it (documentation is sparse on PSD handling)

Converting PSD to PNG/JPEG/etc
Note that, flattenImages() is needed for layered/multi-page PSD file.

<?php
$im = new Imagick('test.psd');
$im->flattenImages();
$im->setImageFormat('png');
$im->writeImage('test.png');
?>

Extracting PSD layers
One by one

<?php
$im = new Imagick('test.psd');
$im->setImageFormat('png');
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$im->setImageIndex($i);
$im->writeImage('layer' . $i . '.png');
}
?>

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