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StomperTools, the Firefox extension which integrates Scrutinizer into your browser and includes StomperRanker, a visualization of results from the big search engines has been updated. Google has changed their HTML and broken older versions of this tool -- and many others!



Get it on the StomperTools page.

Adobe recently provided the major search engines with code to "crawl" Adobe Flash user interfaces crafted using the FLEX UI toolkit. The Stomper Scrutinizer uses this Flex UI layer though embedded in the AIR platform.

Our Stomper Universe page, your map to freely available content and tools from Stompernet, uses Flex in a web-page based Flash movie.

If your first exposure to StomperNet was the Scrutinizer, you may be a bit puzzled about what this whole StomperNet thing is about. StomperNet teaches online businesses how to get more traffic, and how to convert more traffic into paying customers. Check out our new "universe" page showing off some of our best content available to the public.

Stomper Scrutinizer 1.0 is now available! It features better performance, help content, keyboard shortcuts, and a cooler user interface (UI).

 

If you're already a user, just launch Scrutinizer to upgrade. If not, visit the download form to get the install link.

 

There's a nice podcast from UXPod with Jakob Nielsen. About minute 7:30, Nielsen segues from talking about voice recognition and audio interfaces to the speed of large screens in terms of human input bandwidth. Vision is to hearing as cable modems are to dialup modems. In Nielsen's terms, vision is a "fast, fast input channel".

In our quest to improve the Stomper Scrutinizer vision simulation browser, we've been conducting some tests in our usability lab with the Tobii eye tracker. Here's a look at how the eye moves as a user shops on Amazon while using the Scrutinizer:

Adobe announced the availability of the AIR Runtime Alpha for Linux today. We just tested Scrutinizer and it works just fine.

We've been spending some time in the lab with the eye tracker (and Scrutinizer!) lately. While the study's not done, we pulled few preliminary pics and found this image showing one of our concepts in the Click Fu video.

Check out a 20 minute podcast with Scrutinizer architect Andy Edmonds and Adobe AIR/AJAX guru Andre Charland from Nitobi. Features on Adobe's InsideRIA, this chat covers the core value proposition of Scrutinizer and some of the history in the field.

Congratulations to Adobe for a great new product -- Adobe AIR went 1.0 today. AIR is Flash for the desktop, with a built in web browser engine, and all the normal Flash graphic goodness.