Browser cookies and its contents

Are you cookied? Tips to look for your cookies:

in chrome browser: chrome://settings/cookies, click on individual cookies to know its contents

in Firefox browser: options -> privacy -> remove individual cookies, click on individual cookies to know its contents

in IE 9: tools->internet options->general->settings->view files -> all files starting with cookie:

GooglePlay and its bugs

I found these bugs with Google Play:

1. Google Support page link from the Google Play has this JavaScript error(and the support page comes blank in Internet Explorer 8):


Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:00:17 UTC


Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)
Line: 0
Char: 0
Code: 0
URI: http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1229970

2. In Google play, I see that while its uploading my music from Itunes, the music file number being uploaded is different from the one I see in the taskbar(screenshot shows file #88 while taskbar Googleplay icon says#92):

Time to say 'Goodbye USA'

It has been almost 8 yrs since I came to study in US. Now, after this long time, I'm excited because I'm going back to my home country- India on 23rd March.

It is time to say 'Goodbye USA' as I don't know if I will be back or not. Right now, I can only think of good memories of this country. It has been a long journey here as I got my MS degree, good job in NYC, my better half  and visited many beautiful places here. I learnt a lot of good things from this country and will always remember them and use them in India.

India has become a land of opportunity now with its booming economy with billion+ people and its billion possibilities in any field. Specially in the field of new businesses, its a hot market. A lot of startups are coming up everyday and indian market is so big that it can digest even more of them in future.

I see a lot of opportunity to work, invest, start something of my own soon in India.

Thanks to USA and I'm coming back, India!!

Mobile Testing on DeviceAnywhere and Gmail bug

These days I am testing some softwares on mobile phones/tablets/smartphones. I'm using DeviceAnywhere tool for this purpose.  DA is good tool to test softwares on mobile but it has several limitations. Like it has poor keyboard interaction and some keys don't work. Sometimes, you type something and something else gets written on mobile.

Other issue is bad graphics of mobile phones. Sometimes phone screens look blurry. Another issue is trying to navigate to the web browser on mobile phones. There is no step by step process or guide. It assumes you know the phone that you are testing on. This is ridiculous as nobody can know 2500+ models in the US market.

One more issue with DA is slow response time of its website or acquiring any mobile device. Slow response time is also evident during device's interaction.

In short, you got to have lot of patience to play with different devices on DA.

Today, I found a bug in Gmail on mobile phone. Try this:

1. Open gmail in iphone in safari browser with cookies enabled for it
2. Disable cookie in settings for Safari
3. Try logout from gmail, you will see that it does not let you, it takes you back to inbox page.

Superbowl Ads 2012

Check out some cool Superbowl ads for 2012(found on youtube): 1. Official 2012 Honda CR-V Game Day Commercial - "Matthew's Day Off":

2. 2012 Acura NSX Super Bowl Commercial: