Tag: TESTING

Do you remember our youth? The good times we had, the games we played, and that great discussion we had about what makes a window manager different from a desktop environment? Then our relationship sort of got stuck on desktop environments. It's understandable, of course. Most new Linux users feel more comfortable with something a little heavier than a window manager like Fluxbox or WindowMaker. ...

Google has been experimenting with totally different homepages in both Taiwan and in Hong Kong than what other countries have experienced. During a conference call the end of last week, Sergey Brin announced that Google has been testing another version of its homepage that adds a row of icons across the top of the search bar, and animated icons below it. The search giant has been taking advantage ...

Getting your website or blog ready for AdSense isn't always a picnic, and trying to peg the right keywords to generate the best ads for your audience can often prove to be a cryptic game of whack-a-mole. Sure, Google offers their own basic sandbox for building your ad units, but they don't really help you with either of the aforementioned tasks. Thankfully, Amit Agarwal has stepped up to the ...

If you're building a website without a Mac on hand, but need to test how it performs in Apple's Safari web browser, a mere screenshot of how it renders might not be enough. Since a Mac isn't lying around for hands-on testing, what's a web designer to do? Why, install VirtualSafari on your own server, of course. VirtualSafari is a web-based front end to WebKit, the open source rendering engine ...

It seems like every month there's talk of Google testing some new feature on a few randomly-selected users. Until now they've kept to themselves about these things, but today there's a post on the offical Google Blog that confirms and explains what's going on. There's no revelations, here, just what we already knew: "From time to time, we run live experiments on Google—tests visible to ...