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Live tests, screenshots and videos, oh my!

Posted Sat, 05/22/2010 - 21:32 by mike

Well the boys have outdone themselves this time. They just released a new feature that will be sure to impress. You now have the ability to record your live testing sessions! Just click the little film strip in the toolbar and you will start recording your session. When you are done, click it again. That's all there is to it. The videos are currently limited to 10 minutes and work on every configuration except the Win98 and Ubuntu ones.

I made a short video showing off the custom authentication feature for screenshots.

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!

Posted Sun, 05/16/2010 - 09:27 by mike

Yeah yeah, I know. This is a misquote from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." Sue me. ;-)

Well, we were thinkin' (always a scary prospect) and wondered if we DID need some stinkin' badges. I mean, you go through all the trouble of checking your designs and there should be a way for you to show your clients and users that you did all that work.

Here is a sample one to show you how it works:

Growing pains, they hurt so good...

Posted Mon, 03/29/2010 - 20:00 by mike

On Saturday the 20th, we took the site down for about 10 hours (in case you didn't notice). What did you get for that? Not a lot that you can see now really, but you will soon. We disconnected and moved every piece of equipment to new racks. Why you ask? (I'm waiting for you to ask...)

More new features! Custom session timeout and session ready alert.

Posted Sun, 03/28/2010 - 21:49 by mike

Here we go again. Someone writes in asking us to change the way something works and the boys in the back start tapping away at those keys and the next thing you know, I have to write a blog post. =)

New Feature! Add a delay before taking your screenshots.

Posted Thu, 03/04/2010 - 20:04 by mike

Earlier this week, we had some customers ask if we could add a delay in before taking a screenshot. They needed time for some content to load and we thought it sounded like something other users might need as well so the boys in the back room got busy. We just added the feature in production today and it seems to do the trick nicely.

You can find this setting under the Advanced Options section for automated screenshots.

Adding Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar and IE Developer Toolbar to the configurations

Posted Sat, 01/30/2010 - 17:34 by mike

We have received a lot of requests to add developer tools to the browsers, specifically Firebug and the IE developer toolbar. We had initially thought that we should keep the browsers as close to an end user state as possible. However, after having to explain this to the 100th+ customer, we decided that maybe we were wrong and should be listening to what our customers asked us for.

Windows 7 Updated

Posted Wed, 12/16/2009 - 09:23 by mike

Whew! I finally got the Windows 7 configurations updated with some new browsers and tweaked them to boost performance. I'll be adding more configurations shortly, but if you haven't given this one a run yet, try it out and let me know what you think.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!!

Mike

Live testing limit doubled!

Posted Tue, 10/06/2009 - 00:28 by mike

We've had several customers ask about extending the 30 minute time limit on live tests. OK, done. The new limit is now an hour. Anything else? Seriously, we listen and encourage you to give us suggestions to improve our service. If you have one, let us know.

Firefox 3.5 now available

Posted Sat, 05/30/2009 - 22:35 by mike

Firefox 3.5 was released today and we have added it to our XP and Vista configurations. We know that you can't wait to start testing. ;-)

You know that old story about a duck on the pond? Calm on top, paddling like heck underneath. You haven't been able to see a lot of the work we've been doing, but you will soon. We are adding a lot of new functionality and rolling out a new website. You know, one that doesn't look like programmers created it.

That is all for now, I need to get back to work if we are going to make our August release date.

Mike

IE8 and FF 3.1 Beta 3 now available

Posted Sun, 03/22/2009 - 17:00 by mike

I finally got Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.1 beta 3 up today. Sorry for the wait. Guess I was too busy playing with Expression Web SuperPreview. Not!! It is ironic that the company whose products cause the most incompatibility has decided to build such a tool. Seems like the energy would have been better spent on making the browser more standards compliant. But what do I know?

Enjoy,
Mike

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