Pedro’s 629, originally uploaded by Shameel Arafin.

Cuban sandwich!

Those of you who’ve been following our tweets (@signalfive) know that in mid-December, we moved to a new office. Our old building is being converted to luxury condos, so everyone had to move out. Fortunately, we secured a spot in 55 Washington Street. So, we’ve moved one block up the street to the commercial hub of DUMBO, home to Etsy and various other tech startups. The address and map can be found on our contact page.

For a while, it looked like we might have to leave DUMBO. We looked at spaces elsewhere in Brooklyn, and found one in Bushwick that seemed promising. However, the prospect of Shameel living three blocks from the office was too much to bear. (Especially for Shameel). It turned out to be a blessing when the Bushwick deal fell through, and the 55 Washington deal came up.

We moved in, and set up shop in the new space. It has been recently constructed, along with a dozen or so other spaces on the floor. New walls, new floors. The sunlight is blazing in the mornings and afternoons — that special winter light streaming in through 7′ windows.

DUMBO is great, we’re able to participate in events such as Digital Dumbo at Galapagos Art space, other startup-type events. We hope to be even more productive in the new space. Swing by to say hi, or check us out on Google Maps for that ‘virtual tour’. Happy New Year everyone.

Celina Alvarado & Bombonia

Tim: You should tell people who you are and what you’ve been working on lately.

Celina: Who am I? Celina or Bombonia?

SignalFive Conversations #2: @bombonia from SignalFive on Vimeo.

Tim: You tell me! Are you both?

Celina: This is Celina Alvarado and Bombonia.

Tim: Ok so this is an interview with 2 people, cool..2 interviews

Celina: Like 2 interviews in one.

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Here at SignalFive we do lots of cross-browser testing. The funny thing is, we have been reliant on all sorts of Virutal Machines (read: Parallels) to get the job done. The annoying thing about cross-browser testing is that you have to boot up an entire operating system just to see your site or application render in a simple browser, such as IE7 or IE8.

CrossOver helps when you’re in a pinch: It runs off of X11, and recreates from scratch a working version of your Windows app (those that are supported by the company that makes CrossOver, that is..). It surely isn’t a replacement for a full-fledged virtual machine such as Parallels or VMWare, but it does the job when you don’t want to wait for a whole new OS to load up.