Quicken Beam - Mobile Bank Balance Service

Quicken Beam is a free web and SMS based service from Intuit to check Bank Balance & get Payment Alerts on your mobile device.
Using this application you will be able to track your bank account balance, setup payment due alerts, check and log transactions, create reminders and more directly from your mobile phone.

Features:

• Check your bank account balance from mobile phone
• Keep track of your daily spending and transactions
• Setup and receive text message reminders and payment due alerts
• Manage your Quicken Beam account from your PC or mobile phone
• Available only to US users
• iPhone optimized

The application is currently available for beta testing from the Intuit Labs site.
Please read complete FAQ about Beam.

Beam only works with Banks in United States.

Intuit Labs

Intuit (makers of Quicken, TurboTax and QuickBooks) invites customers, friends, fans and employees to offer feedback on new applications in the works at the Intuit Labs Web site.

http://www.intuitlabs.com

You can download and try out the latest products from Intuit, provide feedback and talk online with members of the design team.

Intuit Labs has applications for different categories like Small Business, Personal Finance, Taxes, Mobile, Social and so on.

Webinar: Becoming Agile - Reshaping Testing For An Agile Team

EuroSTAR bring a free live Webinar on topic Becoming Agile - Reshaping Testing For An Agile Team by James Lyndsay

Date: Wednesday, 15th, October, 2008
Time: 10:00am Dublin- London / 11:00am Central European Time
Duration: 30 minutes

Register here.

Webinar: 3 Most Dangerous Software Vulnerabilities:Understanding, Finding & Mitigating Them

This webinar is part of Security Innovation Webinar Series

Presenter: Kevin Poniatwoski, Sr. Security Trainer at Security Innovation
Date: Thursday, August 28
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT (3:30 GMT, 5:30 CET)

Register here.

Call for Speakers at Better Software Conference 2009

http://www.sqe.com/bettersoftwareconf/Speaker/default.aspx

Important Dates for Speakers

Presentation Proposal Deadline: December 5, 2008
Notification Date :February, 2009
Speaker Materials Due: March 23, 2009
Conference Dates: June 8 - 11, 2009

Conference Venue: Las Vegas, Nevada

If your paper/presentations gets selected, you get one complimentary conference registration :-)

Webinar: Test Environments: How to Get it Right!!

A 30 minutes online event on Test Environments,
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/917234073

Time: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 11:00 AM EST, 4:00 PM UK

STeP-IN Forum Evening Talk - Automating software validation process using generic framework with Windows PowerShell

Date: August 27, 2008
Time: 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Venue:
Aztecsoft Ltd.
# 23, III A Cross
18th Main, 6th Block, Koramangala
Bangalore - 560 095

I am taking this session as part of Evening Talks organized by STeP-IN forum. PowerPoint presentation will be posted to the site after the presentation along with Q & A.

The 2008 Software Best Practices Webinar Series

Free Live Webinars from expert speakers - http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/

eRail.in - Easier & Faster

eRail.in is a very good site to check Seat Availability, PNR Status, Route, Fare, Distance, Running Status and so on... It is developed in AJAX fast, simple & consistent user interface. At the back-end the data is pulled from indianrail.gov.in website, but almost all of the functionaility offered by indianrail.gov.in is simultaed in a Single page on eRail.in. It is a great website which helps you to make your rail travel decisions easier & faster. Once you decided the date, class, train you can use IRCTC website to book your tickets online.

Bachna Ae Haseeno - Good movie to watch

Bachna Ae Haseeno is a very good movie to watch. It has a very good mixture of some great Dialogues, Music, Comedy & Dance. It is a complete entertainer. Times of India rated this 4 out of 5. It is well directed movie by Siddarth Anand after Salaam Namaste & Ta Ra Rum Pum

Call For Speakers - STeP-IN Summit 2009

6th International Conference on Software Testing (STeP-IN SUMMIT 2009) is held during January 20-23, 2009 at Bangalore.

Call for speakers
http://www.stepinforum.org/STeP-IN_SUMMIT_2009/callforspeakers.html

Dates to remember
Monday, September 15, 2008: Submission of final paper + Speaker Profile + Speaker Submission form.
Monday, November 17, 2008: Speakers selection and intimation.

STeP-IN Evening Talks

STeP-IN is a forum for Software related TEsting Practitioners in INdia. Evening Talk is one of the activities carried out by this forum. This activity allows you to share best practices, new concepts, innovation in testing field.

Presenting at STARWEST 2008

I will be presenting at STARWEST 2008 Conference at Anaheim, California (Sept 29 - Oct 03, 2008). The topic that I selected is Automate API Tests with Windows PowerShell.

http://www.sqe.com/starwest/Concurrent/Default.aspx?Day=Wednesday#W8