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Entries for February, 2010

Online Tool to Convert .ICS file to Excel/CSV

I couldn’t find a decent way online to convert ICS files into an Excel type format for easy manipulation, or adding to documents etc.  So I’ve built a simple one that is now available online: http://csv2sql.evandavey.com/ical2csv.php This takes an iCal URL and provides you with a CSV file as a download.  Makes it much easier [...]

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How-To: Force VMWare Restart/Shutdown (Mac)

I love using VMWare Fusion on Mac, it’s perfect as I can run everything I need on one machine, and minimise my exposure to windows.  However, sometimes things go astray – windows “goes to sleep” and won’t come back to allow me to restart or shutdown the virtual machine.  How do you fix this? Hold [...]

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How To: PHP OAuth Twitter

So, you’re building a web based twitter client in PHP.  Easy, just use a simple Twitter API client and call the Twitter API directly.  But what if you don’t want to store the user’s Twitter authentication information anywhere?  It’s a security risk anyway and some people don’t want to give up their account details to a [...]

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