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Nice tool! It is the perfect addition to this AWS load time test: http://www.alertfox.com/Tools/LoadTime/

The Firefox password sync comes preinstalled and is very secure.

In addition, for complex logins, we use the iMacros for Firefox (open source) "bookmarklets", they can be sync'ed via Firefox as well.

mike4u2on Skype banned from China

Your post is interesting but it misses a key point: Selection bias is everywhere, but in the US and most other countries you do not get run over by a truck if you watch Fox News, run your own blog or decide to make fun of politicians.

mike4u2on After correcting for demographics, US schools fare better than EU/Asian schools

"After correcting for demographics..."

GOOD students will do fine in almost any school system. I think what makes a difference is how you motivate the kids with problematic backgrounds.

Excluding them from studies is certainly NOT the solution.

mike4u2on A Year Of Scala

I did a few spare time projects with Scala, but does (did) anyone use it for commercial applications? If so, what kind?

mike4u2on Sikuli (automated GUI testing tool) releases v. 1.0 RC1

It seems Sikuli was inspired by iMacros:

http://wiki.imacros.net/File:Image-recognition-plugin.png

http://wiki.imacros.net/Image_Recognition

mike4u2on Chrome Extension: Python Shell

It seems this shell does not automate the browser, or?

I use iMacros for web browser automation. Now, if iMacros would understand Python... ;)

mike4u2on Skype brief post-mortem

Because Germans tend to complain the most if free stuff does not work ;-)

mike4u2on Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts (YC W10)

That explains it.

mike4u2on Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (YC W09)

> Make a plan with 2 or 3 servers of full monitoring for $30 a month

In that price range you have Pingdom and AlertFox...

mike4u2on Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (YC W09)

Yes, and for free :)

Plus there is always Pingdom, AlertFox, Webmetrics, Keynote...

mike4u2on Linode giving $100 credit to first 1,000 new customers to sign up this Friday

I am not sure why you need a sign up script, but you can make one with the iMacros Firefox extension in minutes: http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/

mike4u2on Xmarks Acquired by LastPass

Not really...

I use iMacros for Firefox + Dropbox for all web logins

and Keepass + dropbox for all other passwords.

Both programs store the passwords AES encrypted, and are thus safe to use with dropbox

mike4u2on Wiki for tools to scrape website data

Interesting. Can it be used to post and request iMacros macros too?

If so, I can donate at least 10 web scraping macros right away.

PS: The software I refer to is http://wiki.imacros.net/Data_Extraction (open source and commercial web scraping browser addon)

mike4u2on How To Protect Your Login Information From Firesheep

You can simply use "iPig"

http://www.iopus.com/ipig/