What's IFTTT you ask? That would be "IF This Then That". Think of it like the internet as you use it already, but automated. Talk about convenient. It works sort of like the human nervous system. When one thing happens, it triggers another, automatically. Take for example your iPhone or Android photos. With IFTTT, you can tell the service to take every photo you take with your smartphone and upload it to a cloud service. Or you can tell it to upload those pictures to Facebook, Picasa, Twitter or whatever else. These automations are called "recipes" and any of them you make can be shared for others to use, as you can use recipes created by other people as well. All the current services compatible with IFTTT are listed here, and the list is constantly growing. And if you felt like browsing the recipes to get an idea of some of the automations you can check those here.
(side note: if you're reading this from the twitter post, click on it and you'll notice that it was posted to twitter through IFTTT, since Blogger doesn't have an auto-tweet option. Nifty eh?)
No comments:
Post a Comment