The snapshot summary of our head-to-head user test of the two programs is that they fundamentally do the same thing, and do it well, but Keynote does it with a superior elegance and simplicity of use that is Apple's design trademark.
The system allows the user to test endless combinations of products without causing a mess, using up samples, or demanding extra help, and the "before and after" feature should do a number on same-store sales.
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But instead of encrypting the traffic in both directions, it instead spoofs the traffic from a Web site to a user to make it seem to be coming from any Web site that the user wants to test.
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Ridley Scott might like to say no one can hear you scream in space, but another application loaded onto the device will put that to the test by playing user-submitted shrieks and recording them with the handset's microphone as they playback.
But I remember hearing a story about a decision to test the Macintosh graphical user interface that I think says a lot about what made Steve Jobs different.
"The average user wants to up the resistance and test the limits and see how much they can send back, " Harr said.
In addition to Wind River's Android software platform and services and support, Clarion is using Wind River FAST to test for device software quality and user experience.
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Census determined during the spring pilot test that the online census forms were user-friendly, Leslie said.
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You'll find the requisite shoulder strap in the box, this time with a nifty connector that simply slides onto the camera and locks into place with a thin coin or key, along with a USB cable, AC adapter and, in the case of our test model, a Japanese-language user manual.
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Anritsu's RTD delivers a rich set of test features using its fast and flexible flowcharting user interface.
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The iPad is new, and will have a small initial user base, so it makes sense for developers to test the waters with higher-priced apps.
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My test taxes the computer more than a normal user and involves keeping Wi-Fi on, cranking the screen to full brightness, turning off all power-saving features, keeping email retrieval going in the background and playing an endless loop of music.
Facebook recently clamped down on developers' ability to automatically post items on a user's wall and customize messages for people, and ran a test that limited how some developers can send alerts to members.
But he says that the real acid test for exoskeletons of the future is whether the device can interpret the user's intent effectively into action.
If they know they are going to be focused on the mainstream business end-user, not on the IT geeks, the way they are going to have to test the product is going to be different.
Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that there was a security hole in Yelp -- one of the test partners in Facebook's "Instant Personalization" program -- that put Facebook user data at risk.
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