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January 14

Facebook notifications and other

Hello, I am from Nepal and want to ask few questions. Is it possible to get facebook notifications in cellphone? But it is possible to signup through cellphone number.

And what about gmail and twitter? And people say they earn from liking a page in facebook, twitter and google? How is that possible ?

Is this the right place to ask such questions? Hope to ask more.

Learnerktm 06:31, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is the right place to ask. I get Facebook notifications on Google, then I have to go to Facebook to view them. I'm sure you can get notifications on your cell phone, via email, but not so confident about them texting you. Not sure about Twitter, either. StuRat (talk) 08:22, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Go to the Play Store, assuming you use Android, and download the Facebook and Twitter apps. They're free. KägeTorä - (^影_虎) (Chin Wag) 13:20, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, in addition to what StuRat and KageTora have said, first you have to give us some details about your cell-phone model (not phone number). If it is an Android phone (as KageTora has pointed out) or iPhone (not much sure about it), you can easily enable push notifications there. If you do not have a smart-phone, yes, you can get SMS notifications. Please see if these 1 and 2 help.
Signing up using phone number — yes that is possible on Facebook. Go to sign up page, you'll be asked "either email id or mobile number".
Now, the third part olf your question: earn from liking a page in facebook, twitter and google — I did lots of studies on it. You earn almost nothing from these. You may go to Google (or any search engine you like) and search these, you'll get many results. But, beware of scams. Tell us/me if we/I need to explain more. Regards. --Tito☸Dutta 11:44, 15 January 2015 (UTC) 11:50, 15 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Test overview tool

When a company uses several tools for software testing, it can become difficult to keep track of the tests in different tools. Is there something like meta-Test management tools to gather and process those data? --KnightMove (talk) 14:10, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! For example, a configuration management database! Here's a whole textbook on the subject: IBM Tivoli CCMDB Implementation Recommendations. These tools are pretty ... meta - they are databases to store configuration settings for other test databases... Nimur (talk) 16:01, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]