IF {this} THEN {that}

Internet, its not just a word, its a world. Now a days its growing like anything. There are number of services and applications available to manage, to educate, to entertain, to socialize, to share and to make you available for the rest of the world. But what if you can integrate them?



IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: "if this then that".

IFTTT, the service that lets you automate common tasks on the web, mostly focuses on consumer services like Dropbox, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Didn't get it? Bored for reading this? Now how about a magical trick?

Want to instantly save all your Instagram photos to Dropbox when you take them? What about automatically updating your Twitter profile when you update your Facebook profile? Or, what about sharing any article you read in Read It Later to Twitter and Facebook, staggered by time via Buffer? A small bootstrapped startup called If This Then That has abstracted a simple set of tools to help you do each of these things, and many more.

How this works?











You need to create a recipe, which contain a trigger(this) and action(that).


Recipes: are a combination of a Trigger and an Action from your active Channels.

Channels: are the basic building blocks of IFTTT. Each Channel has its own Triggers and Actions. Currently the are 47 channels supported, that includes facebook, twitter, RSS, sms, call, instagram, email, weather etc.

Triggers: The this part of a Recipe is a Trigger. Some example Triggers are “I’m tagged in a photo on Facebook” or “I post a tweet on Twitter.”

Actions: The that part of a Recipe is an Action. Some example Actions are “send me a text message” or “create a status message on Facebook.”

You can know more about IFTTT at IFTTT.com/WTF

Now some examples:

• If {morning} then {send me weather updates via sms}.
• If {anyone tag me on facebook} then {set its privacy to only me}.

In more simpler words you can do following:-

• iTunes #FreeAppoftheWeek via Email
• Created a photo album "tagged" and set the privacy on it to Only Me. 
• Text me the weather every morning.
• When Facebook profile picture changes, update Twitter profile picture.
• Every time you are tagged in a photo on Facebook, it will be sent to Dropbox.
• Let me know if it's going to rain.
• Keeping all the images you upload to FB photos in one safe place
• Save photo from Instagram to Dropbox

Also, there are many ready to you recipes at IFTTT.com/Recipes

Once you will understand the whole concept, eventually you'll fall in love with it. Like, I am. :)

Use it. Share it. Share happiness.

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