24May/102
tempalias.com – now with bookmarklet
let's say you want to create one of these temporary aliases, but you don't actually want to leave the page you are on.
Good news is: Now you can.
- Visit tempalias.com once.
- Create any alias you want the bookmarklet to create for you in the future
- In the confirmation screen, you will be offered the bookmarklet to drag to your bookmarks bar.
Now whenever you are on a site you want to create a temporary alias for, just click that bookmarklet, hover the email field and press the left mouse button. The alias will be generated and filled into that email form.
If you are interested in how this was made, read the next entry of my development diary.
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May 27th, 2010 - 22:39
Super News, vielen Dank
Genial wäre es, wenn man seine generierten E-Mail Adressen nun noch über eine Art Backend verwalten bzw. löschen könnte, wenn man dies frühzeitig möchte.
May 27th, 2010 - 22:42
angedacht habe ich es – jedes erstellte Alias hat einen update-key, welcher dann verwendet werden könnte, um das alias zu aktualisieren oder zu löschen. Leider hatte ich bislang noch keine Gelegenheit das zu implementieren. Eventuell wird das auch etwas, was bloss in der API zur Verfügung stehen wird.
or in english:
Jeffrey was asking whether it was possible to have some kind of backend functionality to edit or delete aliases.
I responded that I always had the functionality in mind, but that it wasn’t implemented at the moment. Each alias, on its creation gets a thing called an “update key” which you will have to provide to change the alias later on. As this raises the complexity of the whole service, I’m considering implementing this in the API only so third-party clients can, if they want to, add the feature.