If you've been following pairwith.us then you may have heard us mention the the pomodoro technique.

If you're a mac user (as I now am) and use the pomodoro technique (or want to try it) you may find this timer dashboard widget useful, that with some minor tweaking looks like this:

I’ve now technoratified. According to websearch.com.au I have invented a new word. Unfortunately, Microsoft finds it 7 times, Ask 15, Google 27 times, and Yahoo 35 times. Webcrawler uses all of those search engines together and finds it 18 times; Dogpile also uses those same search engines and finds it 15 times. Curious. If you click on the links, you can try it yourself, but the results have changed thanks to this post. Anyway, after a conversation with some developers a few months ago about it, and reading about Cem Kaner and Michael Bolton make the move last November, I am also now on Technorati .

December Issue of the Association for Software Testing Newsletter Now Available

Firebug is always just a keystroke away, but it never gets in your way. You can open Firebug in a separate window, or as a bar at the bottom of your browser. Firebug also gives you fine-grained control over which websites you want to enable it for.

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