Katie and David dive into web automation tools Yahoo Pipes and If This, Then That (IFTTT).
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Links of note
Yahoo! Pipes
David’s Filtered RSS Pipe
David’s Post on his Verge Ltd Pipe
Dr. Drang on the After Dark Pipe
IFTTT
IFTTT / Channels
Dr. Drang – Archiving Tweets
Send Starred Items to Instapaper
Belkin WeMo
IFTTT WeMo Recipes
Send MacStoriesDeals
Using Pipes and IFTTT to Monitor Site Status
AwayFind
Omnifocus screencasts
MacDropAny
UC Davis Pearl and Unix Primer
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I use ifttt to automate the posting of my blog posts from tumblr to facebook and twitter.
It doesn’t always work exactly how I would imagine it – but otherwise it’s a huge timesaver.
How do you do that? Is it easy to do?
You can simplify your Filtered RSS pipe by using one Fetch Feed module and listing multiple URLs in the one module. This allows you to do away with the Union module and go directly from the Fetch Feed module to the Filter module. Simplified pipe
The idea of IFTT is great, but I dislike the Dropbox integration as it is only able to put files in your public folder where I definitely do NOT want certain files to reside.
What might be of interest is the service of http://www.attachments.me which allows rule based handling of mail attachments AND saving those files into specified folders in Box, GDrive or Dropbox. Not as flexible as IFTT, but safer when only mail attachments are concerned.
What was the name of the application to keep Applications alive, and will relaunch if quit?
Lingon
Very nice, Thanks
And also in the AppStore, perfeckt!
I have my IFTTT set up so that any time I tweet with the hashtag #o, that tweet gets cross-posted to my Facebook, Blogger blog, WordPress blog, Tumblr and LinkedIn profile.
I also created a recipe that allows me to, with a single-click, save web pages to my Dropbox as PDF files (for single-click functionality, you have to grab ZooTool’s simplified heart-shaped bookmarklet and install it in your browser’s bookmarks bar): http://http://ifttt.com/recipes/48577
It meets with the occasional hiccup, but it’s still a huge help. I’m going to use it in conjunction with Hazel rules to create a massive topic-sorted research directory for my fiction writing.
Another interesting automation tool I just found out about is http://dlvr.it. I haven’t played with it yet, but it looks like a handy way to broadcast your blog posts to your various social media outlets. It appears to give a certain amount of granular control over little details like what thumbnail images accompany your Facebook posts, etc.
Evernote users should set up this recipe in IFTTT: http://ifttt.com/recipes/48855
It looks for an email from a specific address (Google Play’s DNR in this example) and creates a note in Evernote that contains the email. The intention is to automatically save receipts in Evernote, and you can tweak this recipe to fit any service that emails receipts or statements.
The only problem is that IFTTT doesn’t support generic placeholders like date, so I can’t set it up with a naming scheme like YYYY-MM-DD.