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Techview Web Solutions Launches Mobile Application Development Services
Pune, India. October 24, 2011 -Techview Web Solutions Pvt Ltd, a leading web development and IT outsourcing company has decided to expand its services portfolio to mobile applications market. Company will offer end-to-end mobile application development services as across all major platforms including Android, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Windows Mobile. Along with the core development services, company will also provide value added services such as outsourced mobile application testing services, porting.

“This was a significant step towards business portfolio expansion. It represents a major move in our business strategy, adds an important diversification to our technology services portfolio, creates a new avenue for our customers to promote & grow their business through the biggest market available through Mobile Devices. It is said that Mobile Market will grow quadruples in coming days. So, it’s a right time for us to tap the new business opportunities and bring latest solutions to our consumers.”, commented Santosh Kompalwar, CEO of the Techview Web Solutions Pvt Ltd.

Market studies shows that the mobile technologies have shown prominent growth recently and, apart from continuous advancement in technology, the usage patterns for mobile phones are changed in significant manner. As per the final Q4 2010 global country-level smart phone market data published by Canalys, Google’s Android has become the leading platform. Shipments of Android-based smart phones reached 32.9 million.On future projections, the total revenue from mobile phone and tablet application sales is said to reach more than $36 billion by 2015. This clearly states a huge opportunity ahead in the mobile marketing for all the business houses to promote their products & services.

Techview’s mobile application development service will include design, development and integration of business apps, marketing and advertising apps, entertainment, porting web applications to mobile platforms, business productivity apps, utilities, etc.

About Techview Web Solutions Pvt Ltd:Techview is a global software development and web development company providing comprehensive web services to enterprises worldwide. Techview is well known for its quality IT consulting and Web Development services, providing solutions to the businesses which improves productivity and in turn gives a better ROI.

For more information contact Techview at +91-20-32331101, or visit online at http://www.techview.biz or join Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/techviewwebs
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Usually people are asked to take pay cuts because the company isn't doing well, often with the understanding that pay will go back up if things get back on track.

Here it seems people are being asked to take a pay cut not because their company is having problems buts because is doing very well indeed.
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Yes, languages evolve.

But "gay", "kleenex", and "xerox" (still) mean specific things, even if not what they originally meant, or if their scope has trivially increased. Gay=homosexual, Kleenex=tissue, Xerox=copier.[1]

The problem is when a word is diluted so much that it can mean any number of things, to the point where it's useless as a descriptor of anything because it's too ambiguous.

disruptive=?? Something that displaces an incumbent by changing the game entirely? Something that steals market share? Something that's just done much better than what was done in the past? Useless.

It would be as if "gay" was in as common usage for "happy and carefree" as it is for "homosexual". If you said "Bob is gay", it'd be entirely unclear what you meant.

[1] Although, interestingly, I find the latter two falling out of favor. I much much more often hear "tissue" or "copier"/"copy machine".
>unless you can make it better or cheaper. //

They did say that it's cheaper, no. That can be a form of better.
Why is everyone shitting on this in the comments? It's a demo: you can't complain that it's hindering usability or enjoyment of the pictures when there is no context in which you might use it or enjoy the pictures. When I saw this I thought it might be nice for the website of a magazine like vogue or something: some sites are about decoration and style, usability can be at the back of the priorities. Just because it wouldn't survive A/B testing on the landing page of the most recent groupon clone doesn't mean it's not useful, cool or fun.
The hover is not an iPhone vs developer problem, it's a touchscreen problem. Hover feels very natural with a mouse, but there's no logical equivalent on a touchscreen.

"on hover" is a side effect of pointing at things with a mouse. With a touch screen you touch things directly with your finger, you don't hover. So you have to design your website/app with that in mind: users will touch whatever they want to interact with. That's neither a mouse "on hover", nor a mouse "click".

Of course you can forgo people who use touchscreen, or even mouse and go keyboard only... it's a choice.
This was inevitable, killing Flash just means you're now not going to be able to disable ads with flash block.
When is the last time someone earned a lot of money from blog

Certain blog posts of mine have made several hundred dollars. I refuse to believe that I'm the only one.

Edit: I'm talking about blog posts written in the last five or six months, just to clarify.
For a long while I actually made about $500/month from my blog, webkitchen.co.uk. That was even 2 years after I wrote the last post.

I know this sounds like a "you can too" commercial but I actually did. I posted it on text-link-ads.com and sold a load of text-link ads (i.e. google juice) at the bottom of the page. From that more marketers discovered me and then bought ads direct on a year upfront basis.

The amount paid ranged from about $20/month (of which I'd see half) with TLA to $100/month (I kid you not) for direct sales. It's whittled down to nothing now but it worked out about $10k or so of revenue over the two or three years after I finished blogging which wasn't too shabby.

Obviously Google could wake up one day and kill you for it but since I didn't have any audience I also wasn't bothered by that.

(Great button btw Rob :)
Maybe. This is something I've thought about for a while.
> Some sites are about decoration and style, usability can be at the back of the priorities.

I'm pretty sure this is exactly the problem people had with flash-heavy sites in the first place.
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Why another notebook? Well, I feel happier to divide the systems physically. You know what to do on the one system and you know what you do on the other. Those are toys, so main motivation is fun I would guess. :D

When reading your post, I think you are the efficiency guy, and OS X is for ease of use and both things are sometimes conflicting. But I got around using OS X in an efficient way, so I feel happy with it.

Thanks for your infos.
"There are a lot of companies that aren't 10gen that would take this, go to a court, and try and dig up the person who wrote the article to sue them for libel, whether the article is true or not."

Please show me the cases of a company taking someone to court for libel for making technical complaints such as this.

It happens all the time on blogs and in mailing lists where people sound off like this about products (rightly or wrongly) and I have not heard of a single, solitary case of a person being taken to court for libel by a tech company.

By the way - the odds are that any company that tried that would lose, not only in court but also in public opinion.

Other companies may not handle it as well as 10gen - but I've yet to see a company try to take someone to court.
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The f-word is fuck. Less letters to type, easier to parse, same meaning anyway, less ridiculous. Defining nanny words doesn't change a thing. If you talk to your kid about 'poo' it's still smelly and - nothing but shit.

At least you didn't write 'f-bomb', which is probably the most idiotic thing I've ever read. Now we can file that word next to its siblings 'a-bomb' and 'h-bomb' and hope that it stays underground, hidden, unused. As a message and threat to the world: Don't make us use it ever again! Annoy us and we're going to drop the [ahf]-bomb (depending on scale, I guess) on you!
> ...but there's no logical equivalent [to hover] on a touchscreen.

There isn't now, but there well could be.

Suppose for a moment that you get a good old cursor on iPhone and it follows your fingertip as you move it around the screen. It wouldn't even have to be user-visible. To click, you press a bit stronger, or you raise & lower your finger (`tap' if you will). The hover's back.

There's nothing inherent in touch-based technology that prevents hovers from working. Such behavior has been available way on (decent) touchpads for well over a decade now, modulo user-level configuration.
Events like hover (or swipe, or trying to scroll out of the box) are really good for the experience side of design. It's that leap of faith that works that sometimes creates such a special connection between the user and the interface. If one ignores usability to favor experience then it's inefficient and poor design but I believe sometimes there's a good compromise between both.

It's also important to note that discoverability is really different than it used to be due to touchscreens and that plays a major role in usability.
Edw519 merely stated his opinion that the use of swear words adds nothing to Zach's speeches, and you, instead of writing a post explaining why there's nothing wrong with the occasional use of swear words in presentations, decide to write a sarcastic comment advising edw519 to consider theapy. Why? Do you really think this type of comment adds something valuable to the discussion?
This is a good article. I liked and upvoted it. Nicely done.

Having said that, I feel as if I must in a good-humored way poke fun at this type of article. The vast majority of the articles I see on HN talking about overnight success at something (How I made 30K my first month! How I turned 40K visitors my first week into $3000! Etc) are actually using HN as a marketing channel. So when I see articles that are 30 minutes old with dozens up upvotes, and some kind of promise to tell a tale of high traffic, it makes me laugh. Yes, with that kind of market traction I'm sure you had that many visits. Next month we'll be reading about the really cool traffic stuff that happened this month, and this article is part of that. It's actually pretty cool if you think about it: by providing us with something we want (advice on blogging) the author is actually becoming a better blogger. Lots of nice recursion there.

Please don't take that the wrong way -- I mean no disrespect. I'm certain everything is on the up and up, and like I said, great article. I just think that readers can easily get mixed up, that's all. As a reader you could start thinking that HN was primarily a marketing venue. While I love HN and love promoting my own stuff and seeing other ideas (Need books to learn marketing and start-ups? Try http://hn-books.com), HN is essentially a one-shot deal. As one other commenter pointed out, there are probably better things to do with your time than chase an audience on HN. Blogging is a great activity. Chasing eyeballs, at least to me, turns blogging into something a lot less fun.
There are times when I find hover effects really helpful from a usability perspective. For example, with the right parameters, you can make text preview panes expand to view the entire text panel, and if white space is well used, the hovering doesn't get in the way too much.

This said, and while I realize this is a demo to show what can be done with CSS3, and while it is impressive, it gives me a headache. I wonder how long before we see Pokemon-style photosensitivity-induced seizures from CSS3 in the hands of clueless web devs.
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"The hover is not an iPhone vs developer problem, it's a touchscreen problem. Hover feels very natural with a mouse, but there's no logical equivalent on a touchscreen."

Build your interface around the inputs. One nice thing about using CSS in this manner is one could (along with some discrete use of JS) build equivalent interfaces which are useful on touchscreens.
I don't actually keep track of Apple's designs, so I guess you're right--they've been garish all along. Covering the logo up with a sticker would make sense if there were no alternatives without annoying logos; happily, there are.

I have seen the black MacBooks, and they are better than the normal ones--rather good looking, actually--but I'm not sure if they sell them any more and I was looking exclusively at thin, light laptops akin to the Air. As far as I know, matte black Airs do not exist.

I remember seeing the beta Chromebook and really liking the design; unfortunately, the ones they actually sell now look different and too much like normal netbooks.

Where both fall short is the keyboard--in a perfect world, there would be a version with unlabeled keys. It would match my DasKeyboard :).

The Vaio Z I currently have also comes close. From my perspective when I'm using it, it's actually almost exactly what I want (except for the annoyingly omnipresent labeled keys). The back of the screen is a dark blue with a metal (not lit) logo. I rather like that effect as well, although it doesn't quite have the appeal of a completely blank laptop. Having a plastered-over Apple logo wouldn't do either--all this would ruin the effect I want.

Of course, I recognize that the laptop I picture is incredibly silly and can never be more than a very niche product, but I am perfectly content being silly.
I am bipolar and my sleep is very erratic. I sometimes go 4-5 days without sleep and suffer no loss of productivity. Usually I sleep 3-4 hours a night and feel rested and ready to go. If my sleep goes unchecked, it can throw me into a manic state which is dangerous for my bank account, makes me very aggressive, and leaves me hunting down risky endeavors. I was fine with that on my own, but since getting married I have to work fairly hard to keep more regular hours. My wife wants me to go to sleep when she does and dislikes waking up with me out of bed. Since she can sleep well into the afternoon when her schedule permits it is a challenge for me.

Over the past few years, I have done a ton of research on sleep, tried just about every over the counter and prescription medication, did a few sleep studies, and have tested different tons of sleep hygiene philosophies.

The key to me tuning my sleep has been by recording metrics of how I slept and looking for trends. I record when I sleep and wake, how hard it was to get to sleep and get up, my stress level and mood for the previous day, the medications and sleep-aid methods I am trying, the temperature, darkness, etc. Relying entirely on a subjective rating for sleep didn't work for me, so I use a fitbit to track how much I am moving during sleep, which can be correlated to how effective your sleep is.

In the last few months I have been able to not take any medication and maintain a regular(ish) sleeping schedule for the first time in probably 5 years.

Everyone has different methods that work for them so I will give you a few that work best for most without killing productivity:
-Wake at the same time every morning, sleep when tired(If you don't fall asleep within 15 minutes, you aren't tired).
-When waking, get as much light as you can. Watching the sunrise is both invigorating for your body and mind.
-Exercise daily, even if its just taking a long walk.
-2 hours before sleep avoid anything highly engaging such as media, games, and work(if you can manage). Try writing to empty your mind, or reading something that is not backlit. Dim the lights, stretch or do yoga, etc.
-For those nights you can't stop working for those 2 hours, I use flux(mentioned below) and have found it to work well.
-Don't try the polyphasic sleep except as a last resort.
-Don't nap even for a few minutes.
-Don't drink caffeine.
...the list goes on.

My biggest piece of advice is to systematically try different techniques and to record your results. It will take a while to hone in on what is best since you likely have a schedule that varies daily.

I have encouraged many people to do this, even if they don't have trouble sleeping since you will discover what your body requires and not what your mind wants. Oversleeping can cause almost the same amount of health problems as not sleeping enough.

Fine-tuning your mind(this method is not limited to sleep) and body is one of the most important things you can do to make you healthy and productive. It amazes me that it is not more common...
> However, in my current incarnation as a dainty EECS major, the closest I get to a machine shop is the CS building beside it, so a Toughbook--while indubitably awesome--would be a bit of overkill.

Beware, Panasonic has a bunch of different toughbooks series. I'd expect what you used for robotics was a "fully rugged" series: looks like a small case and can be rolled over by trucks (basically what they use in combat fields, truck shops and whatnot).

Those are pretty much indestructible short of using explosives (and even then), but they're big and heavy. Panasonic also has lines of wimpier "business-rugged" laptops built merely to withstand being dropped from tables, thrown against walls in fits of fury and having mugs of tea dropped on them.

They're also much more lightweight, and somewhat better looking. The one I was talking about is the C1: http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/business-rugged-... which sports pretty standard laptop look (apart from the trackpad) and while pretty solid (certified for 30" drops, 6 ounce of liquid and 225 pounds of pressure) is nowhere near a fully-rugged MIL-STD-810G-certified Toughbook 19 or Toughbook 31.

The C1 is for carrying your laptop a lot and not really caring if it happens to fall or encounter bad juju.
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I'd actually agree with you. On LedgerSMB we made the decision to drop support for IE due to a lack of BUTTON support. Then IE7 came out which was still too broken and we didn't support IE. Then IE8 came out and supported buttons so we could support them again.

The tradeoff was simple: marginally greater market share at the time vs the fact that if we supported IE we would not be able to use BUTTONs to separate labels and inputs for i18n purposes. Really, there was no case to be made for IE support at that point.

So developers hsould consider the tradeoffs carefully.
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I don't doubt there are better laptops than the Air I just can't remember them. Most OEMs are tripping over themselves to pump out SKUs that you really have a hard time remembering which is which. You could get the model X32-GS724X or the X32-GS725T. The higher spec'd one is the one reviewed but the lower spec'd version is what is in stores and may be missing the features the reviewers raved about.

I've been burned like this before, ordering a laptop that was reviewed with bluetooth and receiving one without. My mistake was I ordered version B and not version C.
I read once that the 'under penalty of perjury' was 'linked' to the statement that you were an authorised representative of the company making the claim, not 'linked' to the claim itself.

Having said that, it's been a long time since I've seen a notice :)
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I've been working a lot in China, and there are of course many IP concerns. Document and paper control are crucial as IP valuations are often worth millions. I was thinking of developing a new solution, but was wondering if anything like this exists already. The iPad seems like a good medium for this, due to the remote wipe and location capabilities, as well as its ability to replace paper media.

Are there any applications that allow administrators to control document access very strictly? Something whereby all the documents could be on the iPad, but require specific passwords to access, thus allowing careful control of the documents.
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Ah, you have a good point--the model I used was definitely one of the really tough ones. It definitely had its own charm but was more reminiscent of a tool box than a laptop (not to say that's a bad thing).

I suspect the one you're talking about is one of the few models with that sort of hinge not to fall apart immediately--the others I've seen were very weak.
Wow, they actually are proper CSS hover effects. Worked even though I have JavaScript disabled.
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or you're fired and lose it all

Take note white collar workers & high paying professional programmers, at-will employment and lack of employee rights can screw you too.

If it was illegal to fire someone "for no reason", then it would be much harder for a company to screw employees like this.
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