Once again, that time of the year is here when all of us are running around in a frenzy trying to finish our list of chores, cleaning, planning, decorating, shopping, inviting, etc. The entire city is beautiful, decked up with lights and bright smiles of people. The Christmas spirit is in the air and there is fun and celebration all around you. It is quite infectious and each of you is looking for novel ways to celebrate Christmas. I would like to share some wonderful celebration ideas with you, read along.

1. Send Personalized Invitations: Prepare your list of invitees to start with. Dig out some photos where you and that person have shared a beautiful time together. Make small photo frames in hand painted handmade paper and fit the photo inside it. Attach another piece of handmade paper to the photo, and write the venue, time and date of your Christmas party. Also leave your email ID and telephone number for the invitee to RSVP. The invitation will remind people of the wonderful and memorable times you have shared with them. This type of invitation can also be kept by them for posterity.

2. Open-Air Cooking: Set your courtyard or lawn with small stone or wooden benches and place flowered pots next to them on either side. Arrange some bricks and make place at the centre for a bonfire. Decide on a Christmas menu and ensure you have all the ingredients stocked and ready. You and your dear ones can gather to cook some of the tasty and authentic Christmas dishes out in the lawn.

3. Tree-Trimming Party: Invite your guests to a tree-trimming party. Everybody loves to decorate the Christmas tree and this is more fun when you get together with your dear ones to do it. Children can be distributed craft stationary and their artistic contributions can be used as decorations as well.  Lighting is essential as it adds that extra spark to everything at home and outside. Use lots of lighting and restrict candles to areas where people don’t walk much and away from childrens’ reach.

4. Party Colour and Dress Theme: The season brings in new colours every year. Look up the colour of this season and keep it as the theme for your décor and attire. Purple, violet, magenta, raspberry, chartreuse and white are some of the colours that are your best bet. Dress theme can be retro, fine dining or as your favourite celebrity.

5. Christmas with Love and Care: Ensure your gifts are eco-friendly and do your bit to the ‘go green’ revolution.  Yet another warm way of gifting is by visiting a charity organization and celebrating Christmas with them.

6. Potluck: This is a special and unique way of celebrating. You can invite your guests to pick their own theme to prepare their Christmas dish and dress up according to their chosen theme. Each guest brings their dish to share with others at the party. This is great fun as you’ll end up seeing various characters and tasting traditional and modern Christmas cuisines.

7. Fun with Games: Play ‘secret Santa’ by gifting people without letting them know who gifted them. Organize magic shows for children, they love it any time. Children can also make decorative crafts and you can hide them in the living room, the child that finds his / her decoration first wins a prize.

8. Pamper Yourself: Once you are done with all the cleaning and making your home ready for celebrations, you need to ready yourself up. What better way than to treat yourself along with your friends to a spa and enjoy some refreshing facials, massages and hair therapy.

9. Organize an Office Party: Pool in the money and decide on a budget. Arrange for a moderate sized Christmas tree and call all your colleagues for the tree-trimming ceremony and video-conference it with your other superiors or colleagues who are located elsewhere. Games at office help break the ice and builds team spirit as well.

10. Get away for the Weekend: Enjoy a retreat over the weekend with your family in any of the tropical beaches of Hawaii or Miami. Nothing works better than a little bit of sun shining down on you while it snows back home. Relax and have some quality time before the parties begin.

Frame images are images that decorate the pictures you have taken with the camera on your mobile phone. You can use these frame images when taking pictures with the camera on your mobile phone, or when editing the pictures you have taken with the camera on your mobile phone.

Frame images should be created so they conform to the following conditions.
By downloading image files that conform to the following conditions with a frame image download compatible mobile phone, the image will be recognized as a frame image and saved in the data storage area in the mobile phone.

• The extension of the file is “.ifm”.
• The image is a transparent GIF file.
• The image size is one that can be recognized as a frame image1.

Features of frame images:
FOMA:Besides the pictures that have been taken with the phone’s camera, it is possible to combine frames with any distributable image, including those downloaded from i-mode sites.
Combined files take the attributes of the ones they are created from.
Transferring frame images beyond your mobile phone:Due to the native function operation of the mobile phone, downloaded frame images by themselves cannot be transferred beyond the mobile phone. However, like picture images, frame images combined with picture images can be transferred beyond the mobile phone. When providing frame images as contents, it is a requirement that combined images are able to be transferred beyond the mobile phone.
mova:Frame images cannot be combined with images that have been taken from i-mode sites and i-shot servers (i.e downloaded images).
Combining frame images:Users can combine frame images saved in the terminal with picture images taken with the camera on their mobile phones. The picture image will appear in the transparent area of the frame image. The combined image will be saved in the same JPEG format as the picture image. Frame images are combined with picture images in actual size without being enlarged or made shrunk. Frame images that are different in size from picture images cannot be combined with those picture images.

There are plenty of online image editors out there, but it can be tough to find the right one. If you’re looking for a few filters, a bit of layer support, and a decent range of tools, Pixlr might be the one you want.While it’s not the most full-featured image editor you’ll ever use, Pixlr makes it fairly easy to do some sophisticated (and unsophisticated) things with images online.You’ll be familiar with its tools from using desktop apps like Photoshop and The Gimp, but it’s rare to see so many advances options in a web app.The Flash-based web app has an impressive set of tools, from a text engine that can use nearly any font available on your computer to layers and filters for masking and effects, respectively.Incredibly, there’s even a multilevel undo! You can import images from your machine or via URL, or paint something up yourself, and either way save it to your desktop. It’s fun to play around with, though quickly frustrating if you’re used to more powerful tools.

Some of the Pixlr perks that surprised me: opacity sliders! Layers and transparency! The collection of filters includes halftones, scanlines and pixelation. Common (but useful) features like hue/saturation, resizing, and brightness/contrast are also intact. Next time you find yourself on a computer without Photoshop, you might also find you don’t need it.The application supports layers, filters and most basic editting tools and when you are ready you can save the image to your desktop as a JPG or PNG.