An Italian Tester in London

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• TESTING CIRCUS (http://testingcircus.com/default.aspx)

• THE TESTING PLANET (http://www.thetestingplanet.com/)

• enTest Magazine (http://pentestmag.com/category/magazine/)

• Cartoon Tester (http://cartoontester.blogspot.com/)

• Testing Experience (http://www.testingexperience.com/)

Extensions:                                                                                                  

• BLOG THIS!
• CHROME READER
• CHROME ACCESS
• CHROMODORO
• DELICIOUS BOOKMARK EXTENSION
• DOM SNITCH
• EDIT THIS COOKIE
• GOOGLE DOCS VIEWER
• GOOGLE SHORTCUTS
• GOOGLE SIMILAR PAGES
• IE TAB
• JSBEAUTIFY FOR GOOGLE CHROME Continue reading MY CHROME EXTENSIONS & APP LIST:

Today I’ve assisted to the most fatal Skype crash since I’ve started to use it.

Who knows why…? (ref. in the pics..)

After a glance in twitter seemed like I wasn’t the only one hit from the issue.

And even more strange there was a communicate from the company to say the users how to restore from the situation, but almost hidden and unclear to the most.

The patch consists in the deleting a file “shared.xml” which can be found in my mac pc at this path: /Users/{yourusername}/Library/Application Support/Skype instead in windows by running this command %appdata%\skype from the start->run console.

I hope this may help someone of you….

(in case i’m going to lose my pc, I cannot live without!)

• ADD N EDIT COOKIES (COOKIE EDITOR)
• ADD THIS
• CHAT ZILLA (IRC CLIENT)
• COOKIE EDITOR
• COLORZILLA (COLOR PICKER, PAGE ZOOMER)
• DEFAULT USER-AGENT
• DELICIOUS BOOKMARK
• ERROR CONSOLE
• FIDDLER (MONITOR WITH FIDDLER)
• FIREBUG
• FIRESHEEP (DEMONSTRATE HTTP SESSION HIJACKING)
• FIRESHOT
• HACKBAR (USEFUL BAR TO TEST SQL INJECTION)
• MEASUREIT (RULER TO GET PIXEL)
• MODIFY HEADERS
• MOZMILL IDE (MOZILLA TESTING TOOL)
• PAGE SPEED (DIAGNOSTIC TOOL TO SPEED UP WEB PAGES PERFORMANCE)
• SELENIUM IDE
• TAMPER DATA (VIEW AND MODIFY HTTP/HTTPS HEADERS)
• WEB DEVELOPER (WEB DEVELOPER TOOLS)
• YSLOW (MAKE YOUR PAGES FASTER WITH YAHOO PERFORMANCE TOOLS)

Mind maps are, by definition, a graphical method of taking notes. Their visual basis helps one to distinguish words or ideas, often with colors and symbols. They generally take a hierarchical or tree branch format, with ideas branching into their subsections. Mind maps allow for greater creativity when recording ideas and information, as well as allowing the note-taker to associate words with visual representations. Mind maps differ from concept maps in that mind maps focus on only one word or idea, whereas concept maps connect multiple words or ideas.

Continue reading Mind Mapping: what a great tool for a tester…!

Domain authority is a simple enough concept to understand. It measures the number of quality pages that link to your site domain, and the ways in which they do so. Since it is a way that search engines gauge domain trust, it’s an important part of search engine reputation management.

If you use a search engine optimisation company, you’ve no doubt heard of PageRank and link juice. Page Rank is Google’s own patent for ranking the importance of a particular page, although it is different to the algorithm that decides who gets placed where. Whenever you do a search, even of something quite unusual, you’ll see something like “1 – 10 of about 400,000″ at the top of the Google page. Yet as we all know, it is only those first 10 or so that are important. Few people bother to search further than page 2. The ranking order is decided by Google, but all search engines have a ranking algorithm of some kind.

Continue reading Domain Authority, page ranking and other info about SEO.