Things I Love – IFTTT

Ever want to program your social media/technology world to work together to save you a step or two? Say you want an email every time someone tweets about kitten videos. Or how about when you upload a youtube video you want it to email your grandmother? Well my friends…there’s an app for that.

Enter “If this, then that” or ifttt.com

 

A glorious bunch of code to make this all possible. They have 58 “channels” to connect. A channel could be Facebook, Dropbox, Evernote, Twitter…the list goes on and on. They interact with the APIs (nerd speak) so you don’t have to. You sign up for an account and start making “recipes” or just use other people’s. I don’t have a lot to say about this app that it can’t do for itself….so here are some recipes your might find handy:

 facebook to twitter

If I update my Facebook profile photo, update my Twitter photo

weather to text

If it’s gonna rain tomorrow, send me a text.

google reader to evernote

If I star something in Google Reader, save it to Evernote.

text to phone

If I text this number, it will call me with an automated message to escape 🙂

So lately the interwebz has been all abuzz about the new change to Instagram that won’t post the photos in your twitter timeline…well? RECIPE THAT SHIT and damn the man!!!!

Instagram photo to Twitter

You’re welcome.

The combinations are really endless. You can use it to be sneaky, smart, backup stuff, blog stuff, reminder your self…just think “if this, then that!”.

What recipes are you thinking about making?

4 thoughts on “Things I Love – IFTTT

  • December 10, 2012 at 3:08 pm
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    wow. i’m super excited about this app. thanks for sharing 🙂

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  • December 10, 2012 at 10:43 pm
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    I was just thinking of how the new twitter Instagram nonsense was annoying.. Thanks! Btw: love “twatwaffle”

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