“The phrase “if this, then that” is a bit of programming-speak: you tell the computer that if this happens, it should perform this action.
Now, a simple new Web service called ifttt… provides a way for people to easily automate interactions between Web services, like Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist and Tumblr.
For example, the service lets you program a task that will call you if the weather forecast is predicting rain. Or, you could rig a script that will send you a text every time someone tags you in a picture on Facebook. Or you could create a task that automatically saves all pictures you’ve posted on Instagram to your storage on DropBox.”
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Brilliantly simply. I’ve been wanting this for years since being disappointed by Yahoo Pipes.
