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[Michele Waldman]

Browsershots restricts daily usage.  I also paid for extended use of like
$15.  That money was out the window.  I got nothing.

I tried it.  Then I joined browsercam.

Michele

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
> On Behalf Of Artur Marnik
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:50 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
> 
> 
> Hi Michele
> 
> I really like what you are doing. Some tools are just to expensive for a
> casual programmer/designer.
> But if anyone is looking for a free tool take a look at:
> http://browsershots.org/ it has some ads on the page but it does the job
> done as well.
> 
> Artur
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Michele Waldman wrote:
> > Don't work you aren't raining on my parade.  It's more like a trail of
> tears
> > for me.  (If you don't know what a trail of tears is then you can Yahoo!
> > It.)
> >
> > I've had problems with running virtual machines on my computer.  The
> last
> > time I tried it failed on me and I didn't have more time to look into
> it.
> >
> > Using this website saves me from having a ton of more software loaded on
> my
> > one overloaded ancient pc.
> >
> > I don't need it extensively so it's a good solution for me.  If I was
> doing
> > more heavy css testing I might have to consider something else, but it
> fits
> > my needs of periodic testing.  If you have a group subscription then the
> > price is nominal.
> >
> > Plus, I don't test one at a time.  I select many browsers at once and in
> > renders them all about 15 minutes later, while I'm doing something else.
> >
> > If there's a specific problem, then I can put my attention to it.
> >
> > Michele
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-
> bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
> >> On Behalf Of David Krings
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:11 PM
> >> To: NYPHP Talk
> >> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
> >>
> >> Michele Waldman wrote:
> >>
> >>> on with the development.  How many times have you thought, "I wonder
> >>> what it looks like in IE6?"  So, join a group now.
> >>>
> >> I don't want to rain on your parade, but isn't that something a VM and
> the
> >> IE
> >> package from Tredosoft can do? Does browsercam do something that the
> >> regular
> >> IE instances can't do? When I test browser based apps at work I have
> one
> >> Windows VM and a Linux VM with all the popular and not so popular
> browsers
> >> including IE from version 3.0 up. That covers all rendering engines and
> >> about
> >> all OS (after all Mac OS X is just a window manager on top of BSD, but
> I
> >> also
> >> got a Mac for testing). I recently transferred those VMs from
> Workstation
> >> to
> >> Server 2.0 so that I can run it one a different box. And with the free
> >> TechNet
> >> accounts that Microsoft gives out I could even run the IEs natively on
> yet
> >> another set of VMs.
> >>
> >> David
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