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New updates were released by Apple yesterday for MAC OS X LEOPARD and TIGER:

MAC OS 10.5  Updates
-> Mac OS X 10.5.8 Updates
-> About the MAC OS 10.5.8 Updates
-> Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update

MAC OS 10.4 Security Updates
-> Security Update 2009-003 (Tiger PPC)
-> Security Update 2009-003 (Tiger Intel)
-> Security Update 2009-003 (Server Tiger Universal)
-> Security Update 2009-003 (Server Tiger PPC)

In order to accelerate and ease the testing process, +QA has added a new QA Engineer on the team located in South Korea. This addition will allow us to execute testing 24 hours a day. Sung will be leading the testing in the Asia Pacific time zone. Sung received his M.S. in Engineering Management from Portland State University in 2006. Prior to that he received a B.S in Computer Science also at PSU. With 4 years of experience in Software quality assurance, Sung will be rocking the testing! We are proud and happy to have him on our team.

1991 WorldWideWeb (Nexus)
1992 ViolaWWW, Erwise, MidasWWW, MacWWW
993 Mosaic, Cello, Lynx 2.0, Arena, AMosaic 1.0
1994 IBM Web Explorer, Netscape Navigator, SlipKnot 1.0, MacWeb, IBrowse, Argo, Minuet
1995 Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator 2.0, OmniWeb, WebRouser[3], Internet Explorer 2, Grail
1996 Arachne 1.0, Internet Explorer 3.0, Netscape Navigator 3.0, Opera 2.0,PowerBrowser 1.5[4], Cyberdog, Amaya 0.9, AWeb, Voyager
1997 Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape Navigator 4.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0, Opera 3.0
1998 Internet Explorer 5.0 Beta 1, iCab, Mozilla
1999 Amaya 2.0, Mozilla M3, Internet Explorer 5.0
2000 Konqueror, Netscape 6, Opera 4, K-Meleon 0.2
2001 Internet Explorer 6, Galeon 1.0
2002 Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.0, Phoenix 0.1, Links 2.0
2003 Opera 7, Safari 1.0, Epiphany 1.0
2004 Firefox 1.0, Netscape Browser, OmniWeb 5.0
2005 Safari 2.0, Netscape Browser 8.0, Opera 8, Epiphany1.8, Amaya 9.0, AOL Explorer1.0, Maxthon 1.0, Shiira 1.0
2006 SeaMonkey 1.0, K-Meleon 1.0, Galeon 2.0, Camino 1.0, Firefox 2.0, Avant 11, iCab 3, Opera 9, Internet Explorer 7, Sputnik
2007 Maxthon 2.0, Netscape Navigator 9, NetSurf 1.0, Flock 1.0, Safari 3.0, Conkeror
2008 Konqueror 4, Safari 3.1, Opera 9.5, Firefox 3, K-Meleon 1.5, Amaya 10 (est.) Beta Internet Explorer 8, Flock 2.0, Safari 4.0, Google Chrome

Source: wikipedia.org

OS Platform Statistics:
Windows XP => 73.3%
Windows Vista => 13.2%
Windows 2000 => 2.2%
Windows 2003 => 1.8%
Windows 98 => 0.2%
Linux => 3.8%
Mac => 5.2%

Browsers Statistics:
IE7 => 26.3%
E6 => 22.3%
Firefox => 42.6%
Mozilla: 0.5%
Safari => 2.7%
Opera => 2.0%
Chrome => 3.1%

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/

This is what happens every once in a while. The design and development phase took much longer than originally planned, and when it comes to time to test, the time allocated to test the project is quite small. Web testing is quite different than SQA in the way that a team usually thinks “let’s get it up and running then we’ll fix bugs” afterwards. In most cases after a long and intense development phase it’s actually difficult to get enough motivation to go in and fix bugs right away after the launch of the product. So if you and your team have a very small amount of time to test a Web site, here is a checklist you may want to consider prior to start testing:
+ The functionality that could have the most negative impact on the user experience,
+ The functionality or layout issue that will be the most noticeable by the user,
+ The section of the Web site that the development team sees as risky,
+ The part of the Web site that could affect the image of your client,
+ The browser and OS version used by the target audience,
+ The part of the product that is the most important to the user,
+ What was done in similar situation/projects in the past,
+ The functionality or a section of the web site that can be pushed live post launch.

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