Working as a software tester for the last 10 years, I have learned a couple of things that were very much helpful during my career upbringing. Below are the lists that I think are the most important qualities that a software testing professional should have: 1. You have to be very detailed oriented 2. Have to have a keen eye to judge things the right way 3. Good understanding of the software development process 4. No compromise on quality 5. Good communication skills 6. Investigative mind and attitude 7. Patience. 8. Eagerness to learn new things. 9. Mentality to break things in t...

Imagine my surprise when I received a phone call from a friend who told me he'd been the victim of a "spyware" attack that left him shaking at his loss of privacy. I listened to his horror story with a sympathetic ear, but I felt secure since I carry anti-virus software and a firewall (both by Norton). At his suggestion - and to my surprise - I ran a program called "Spy Sweeper" and found a veritable minefield of dangerous and harmful programs lurking on my computer. "Spyware" is software that gets onto your computer and literally "spies" on your activities. ...

Picture this scene, an adolescent boy walks into a barber shop and says to the barber, "Don't touch me, I'm only here because my mom forced me." Search engine optimizers are sometimes put into the position of the barber. They are knowledgeable and willing to work on their client's site, but the client doesn't want any modifications done to the text that is visible on her web pages. This kind of dilemma occurs due to general misconceptions about search engine optimization. Let's look at these misconceptions. 1. SEO only involves writing meta tags and working on "invisible" code Many p...

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Certain problems can cause ZWCAD to close unexpectedly, such as an operating system error, a hardware fault, or even a power failure. When these occur, ZWCAD has the ability to restore drawing files that were open before the crash. It saves open drawing files as DrawingFileName_recover.dwg when the program terminates unexpectedly, where DrawingFileName represents the file names of your drawings. When the program terminates unexpectedly, the drawing recovery feature opens the next time you start ZWCAD. It displays the drawing files were open. Using Drawing Recovery Menu: File -...

Designing an appealing website and put valuable information on it influences social bookmarking list. When your site would be good enough, it would be easier for the users to bookmark your site and to share it with several other people. Complications occur, when you don’t pay much attention to your site due to which users have to face grave disappointment. When social bookmarking list is appeared publicly, numbers of websites are uploaded there in order to give comfort to those people, who want to get rid of pain of making lots of search every day. List of websites are there, through which use...

Are you an eBay seller? If you are, have you been selling on eBay for long? If you haven't been, you may still be trying to figure out the ins and outs of eBay. If that is the case, you may be looking for a little bit of assistance or advice. One of the important things to remember, when selling on eBay, is the importance of paying your eBay fees on time. When it comes to paying your eBay fees on time, there are a large number of sellers who wonder exactly why it is so important. While this may not seem like something that you would ask yourself, it is actually asked quite often. Yes, eB...

Modern call centres work 24/7 and are truly the manifestation of “busy” organization. At any given time of the day, agents are either tapping furiously at the computer keyboard or are talking to the customers. They don’t recognize the notion of off-business-hours. All this is achieved with the help of specially trained personnel and cutting edge call centre software. In this article I will discuss the advantages of call centre software especially those which help manage the workforce such as call centre monitoring software, call centre scheduling software, etc. In general call centre...

Computers are composed of two things namely the hardware and the software. Should something infect the software such as a virus or spyware, the person will soon lose sensitive information or at worse have to spend a lot of money to have it repaired. As more companies and households are using computers for almost everything, people should be vigilant more than ever when it comes to Internet security. This can be done by making sure that there are backup files stored in a safe place as well as setting up certain defense mechanisms from viruses and other threats. One such system is cal...

Marketing your products and services and driving traffic to your website is essential to increasing sales. The challenge is to do it affordably or even for free. While the more “traditional” form of Online Marketing such as Banner Display Ads, Text Links, Email, Classified Ads and Directory Listings have served marketers well, newer methods such as Pay Per Click Search Engines (also known as Sponsored Search) and Article Submission are fast gaining popularity in the internet marketing community. Writing and publishing articles on the internet is one of the best ways to get your website no...