Four principles of Design: Balance, Emphasis, Rythm & Unity. Below are some tips on the same.

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Marrisa Mayer, Google’s Vice President (Search Products & UX) talks about how Google works at Google I/O Developer Conference. There are lot of things which we don’t know run in backgrowund when we search on Google. Marrisa keynote goes in detail from User Behavior to Why Google’s homepage is so small & simple.

Via: Digital Inspiration

Candy Cigarette, One of my favorite B/W Photo, ever… It represents a change… How people change…

This picture reminds me of a close friend, and someone whom I called my lovely sister…  I trusted both a lot… I never imagined they will change, they changed and they changed to me badly…

They changed listening to others… Others, who never mattered to our relation… May be my only mistake was trusting them too much, and when something was not going right… I had legitimate reasons of my anger, which they fail to relize…

Don’t know why people tend to belive others very quckly… Why people prefer their anger & ego more than the relationship they share… How could someone kill a relation like this…

I guess the most constant thing we have in life is “change”…

Isn’t it a chaos, Constant & change! How it could be?… But, it is….

Anyways, may be it’s about time…

…Whatever, F**k the world… and f**k the Candy Cigarette…

May be, It is time for some action!

It’s been great support from all of you… and surely it’s been a roller-coaster journey since we started. Company is moving smoothly, we’re kind of a “brand” now, we’re in the news, in the media and it is simply rocking!… Traffic on the portal is like that graph will never come down, people are just loving the service…

As most of you know, till now I am the single tech-geek around here… I guess, this is the time for me to move-up & release myself from day-to-day development activities as I have other roles to play, mostly on the tech-managerial side. 

Now, I am looking to in-house technical stuff and make a technical team in my company.

Mainly, I am looking for a special breed of technologists, which rarely exist in the tech-industry, even if it exist… it is hard to find such people with mix of both tech & entrepreneurial aspirations.

To start-with I’m looking to hire someone as a Technical Architect in my company. Just explore the info attached below, and just shoot me if you find it in-sync with something you always wanted to do or you find the same thing, same breed in one of your friend.

Just shoot me the CV & other introductory stuff, I always exist on same number +91 9900230494… can get-in touch instantly and we may discuss this opportunity in detail, interview & stuff…

Feel free to forward this opportunity to your friends and surely let me know if you find someone who fits in the role…

Company: RxHCM Corp. // www.HealthcareMagic.com
Industry: Health 2.0 / Web 2.0 / Media 2.0 / Connected Healthcare / SaaS /
Position: Technical Architect
Contact: Send CV to Shekhar@HealthcareMagic.com

Location: Bangalore
Job Profile: Excellent command over Web 2.0 Technologies e.g. J2EE, JSP, HTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX, JAVAScript, MySQL…
Knowledge of new platforms like Google WebToolkit, OpenSocial, Facebook Platform is an advantage.

What I’m Looking For: I am looking for expertise, not for experience.  Even if you’re a school kid with highly skilled in coding & design… I‘d love to hear from you… (don’t worry, we will make sure that you don’t miss your school!!)…

In other words, Mainly… I am looking for a Web 2.0 geek, definitely a geek of very high order with excellent exposure in current web technologies, someone with that "out of box thinking" & that "entrepreneurial bug"… someone who is passionate that Health 2.0 is the next big thing, someone who wants wear multiple hats & someone who wish to be part of which is never been done in India. Passion to work in a start-up, doing something new everyday.

Salary & Stuff: We love OpenSource, but at the end of the day money matters…!! What we can offer you is definitely better than what you are having & you can imagine! …Join us, do something great & if you rock, you’ll also have ESOPs in the company with-in 6 months of work with us… remember you must ROCK!!… You know what it means having ESOPs!… So, here’s the chance to work for yourself… I hope you might have heard about the “joy of working for yourself” & “developing that application/platform by your own hand… and you feel like it is your own baby”… I know you only heard, but here’s the chance to do it & feel it…!!

About HealthcareMagic.com: We’re a 2.0 Company!.. HealthcareMagic.com is the world’s first platform allowing a live interaction between Healthcare Services / Doctors and Patients over Internet as well as phone, Allowing integrated comparison shopping for Health products & services. HealthcareMagic.com enables patients, you & your family and friends to share their experiences with a Healthcare provider like Doctors & Hospitals, to research and purchase Healthcare Products and services with the same ease and transparency as shopping for other products online.

The Economic Times honored us as India’s first Health 2.0 platform. Also, HealthcareMagic.com is a TIE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 finalist.

Click here to know more about the company

What we don’t do:

• Bind you by processes
• Promote you every 2 years
• Send you to class for trainings
• Give you a fancy designation
• Provide cab for pick and drop

What you can expect:

• Quality Work
• Respect for your ideas & creative freedom
• Responsibility and accountability
• Wearing ‘multiple hats’
• Your contributions reflecting in company’s progress

Who We Are: We are the entrepreneurs. We think, think a lot & think big… convert our ideas to action, we have created applications & platforms that not only run a company but build companies. We’re a small team of collectively more than 100 years of experience in technology & healthcare. Team includes rare combination of seasoned technical guys, grads from IIMs & IITs, IT Industry veterans & highly skilled MBBS & MD Doctors… Doctors, who are Doctor+Managers!

More about the team here

Sounds interesting to you?… Why don’t you get in touch with me on Shekhar@HelathcareMagic.com  // +91 9900230494

A demo of an experimental UI for Mobile Firefox by Aza Raskin, Head of UX for Mozilla Labs. Excellent, it is… Zoom, Pan, Throw… Aza posted some prototype concepts for the Firefox Mobile UI/UX.

The user interface shown in the video is a working prototype and will change, but there are some worthwhile concepts—some borrowed from Apple, some borrowed from Firefox. The mobile browser is built for a touch screen and allows scrolling with a flick of the mouse like on the iPhone (although it is single-touch, not multi-touch). The need to type is minimized by displaying any number of pre-defined buttons at appropriate moments, such as “search Google”, “send email,” and “map this.”

Via: TechCrucnch / Mozilla

Well, I love technology in general and yes, I’m going to one of first who buys iPhone 3G when it comes to India. Being an AirTel customer, it is pretty good that I don’t need to change my existing number to move to iPhone 3G, earlier with news that Vodafone will be launching it, I assumed that I might have to move to Vodafone!… And again that updating contacts, new number stuff!

iPhone 3G will come around October this year in India. Earlier there was a news in media that Vodafone will be launching iPhone in India. But it is confirmed now via the PR on Apple web site  that AirTel will be launching iPhone 3G in India later this year. I guess Vodafone will be also launching iPhone 3G for their customers too later this year, but it is not confirmed yet.

Soon customers will be able to purchase iPhone 3G at Airtel Relationship Centers. Details of pricing and availability will be announced at a later date. Airtel customers who wish to receive more information on iPhone 3G can send an SMS with keyword "iPhone" to 54321

More: Press Release by Apple

This is excellent. I am glad to inform you all that my start-up HealthcareMagic.com is one of finalist at TIE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008. We have submitted our Business Plan for the challenge couple of weeks ago and we’re among 8 finalist! Total 140 start-ups from all over India competed for the challenge, and it is great to be one of the finalist.

Let’s see, we’re working on it… we’re the only company representing Bangalore and I feel the concept we’re working on at HealthcareMagic.com is full of potential to to go to a long way!

Here more details & finalists on VentureWoods

Current Firefox version (2.0.x) consumes too much memory (even when it’s being idle). Several improvements have been designed to reduce this memory usage and it will be available when Firefox 3.0 shipped. Still Firefox 3.0 RC2 eats-up lot of memory.

Meanwhile, for you who wanted to optimize Firefox’s performance, you can try this tools : Firefox Ultimate Optimizer. It’s a tool which can work silently to reduce Firefox’s memory usage, thus frees your system with heavy memory loads. With this tool Firefox RC2 in my system is just using ~3-4MB and maxmimum ~10MB with lot of tabs open. This tool really healed my system, otherwise Firefox used to eat more than 30% of system memory. It is available for Windown only and requires .NET Framework 2.0 installed. It will run in your system tray and work in background. Pretty nice tool.

Download the tool

Found something more sweeter than the simple CSS-only Horizontal Bookshelf I posted last week. Mike wrote a versatile 1kb horizontal accordion script can be used for menus.

The front-end mark-up

   1: <ul id="sm" class="sm">

   2: <li><img src="images/1.gif" alt="" /></li>

   3: <li><img src="images/2.gif" alt="" /></li>

   4: <li><img src="images/3.gif" alt="" /></li>

   5: <li><img src="images/4.gif" alt="" /></li>

   6: </ul>

To build the accordion call the function below onload…

   1: slideMenu.build(’sm’,200,10,10,1)

Demo & Download @ Mike’s Blog