Harry Tuttle’s busy month

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Stephane Daury

Crafty!

It’s been a busy month for rogue plumber Harry Tuttle. When last heard from, he was deploying a filter to fix broken iCalendar feeds served up by the University of Michigan. His next assignment was at Rice University, where the downloadable sports schedules are available only in CSV (comma-separated values) format. Here are the instructions for how to get one of those CSV files into Outloook:

Select the File / Import and Export… Menu option.
Select “Import from another program or file” and click Next.
Select “Comma Separated Values (Windows)” and click Next.
Find the desired CSV file and select “Do not import duplicate items” and click Next.
Select Calendar and click Next.
The next window will have a title that says ‘The following actions will be performed:’ above an option to ‘Import “(filename).csv” into folder: Calendar.’
Check that box and and click on ‘Import “(filename).csv” into folder:…

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One Time Secret: Share a secret – One Time

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Stephane Daury

Check out Xopher and Delano’s One Time Secret:

When you send people passwords and private links via email or chat, there are copies of that information stored in many places. If you use a one-time link instead, the information persists for a single viewing which means it can’t be read by someone else later. This allows you to send sensitive information in a safe way knowing it’s seen by one person only. Think of it like a self-destructing message.

I love the attention to details like only being available under SSL. Pretty simple, useful and clever tool.