Turn Evernote Into An RSS Reader In A Few Easy Steps
Evernote's flexibility allows the service to be used in a wide variety of ways. Let's see how you can turn Evernote into an RSS reader using a few simple IFTTT recipes.
How to Issue a Command to Your Computer With a Text Message
You're out the door in a hurry as you realize your computer is still running. Not wasting any time, you send a quick text stating "shutdown #mycomputer", and continue on your way.
Become a Boss on Craigslist With These Apps and Services
Sellers on Craigslist usually want to sell as quickly as possible, meaning if you find an item before anyone else you're more likely to actually get it. Job searches, similarly, offer an advantage to the quick. So be the quick. A variety of apps give you super powers when it comes to Craigslist. If you love the things you find on Craigslist, but hate the process of actually finding them, these are the tools you've been looking for.
5 Unusual IFTTT Recipes You May Not Have Thought Of
You've got the folks at IFTTT who make web automation look like childs play. It's quite impressive. I decided to finally start digging through IFTTT to see if I could come up with a few more creative ways to mix and match services in unique ways. In this article, I'm going to offer you 5 creative ways to build IFTTT recipes that you're going to find so useful, you'll keep using them every day.
9 IFTTT Hacks To Superpower Your Life With Google Calendar
Your calendar is a big part of your productivity, and managing it right can make a real difference. The right IFTTT recipes can help you take charge of your Google Calendar, and make it perform feats you didn't know were possible. Use them.
10 Of The Best IFTTT Recipes To Bring Order Into Your Online Social Life
Tell yourself how many minutes of the day you give to the time sink that goes by the name of Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or any other. The minutes add up. Wouldn't it be wonderful to balance social media and productivity with a bit of automation that can do all the grunt work for us while we can sit back and enjoy its tidbits? We really can because we came to know about IFTTT around 2011…which its creator Linden Tibbets aptly calls a "digital duct tape".
Put Your iPhone To Work With IFTTT
IFTTT is an acronym for "If This, Then That" and it's pronounced like the latter part of the word "gift". The service promises to put the web to work for you, using a system of triggers and actions to automate a huge range of actions. Finally, IFTTT has released an iPhone app along with some iOS-only channels. The iPhone app marks the first mobile outing for the platform, a result of our increasing eagerness to be able to control everything using our phones.
Use IFTTT To Save & Make Money
Perhaps the best way to stay informed of special offers online is to embrace IFTTT, the popular data combination service that allows you to process data from websites and RSS feeds into something useful for you. Did you know that IFTTT can also help you to save money, and even make some extra cash?
Posterous Might Be Gone But Here Are 6 Alternatives To Replace It
We all knew it was coming. Back in February Twitter announced that it would be shutting down Posterous by the end of April. Some bloggers saw it coming from the day that Twitter acquired the popular blogging platform. With that day finally here, if you’re still looking for an alternative to meet your blogging and automated sharing needs, we’ve come up with a list of 6 viable alternatives.
Turn Your Email, SMS Inbox, Or Anything Into A Scoreboard With IFTTT And ESPN
Keep up with your favorites sports team, however you like. The new ESPN channel for If This Then That (ifttt) means you can easily set up SMS, email and even phone notifications for your favorite teams. You could even automate Twitter to send up updates every time your favorite teams scores, if you want – the only limit is your own imagination.
Supercharge Your Pocket Experience With These IFTTT Recipes
Between the two of them, Pocket and IFTTT are excellent services that do their part in making their users more productive. Pocket gives users a one-stop shop to access all of the content - articles, videos and more - that they want to save for later viewing. Combine that with IFTTT, the ultimate automating service, and you have the ultimate way to automatically save content to your Pocket account, and more.
Want The Hottest Phone Not On The Market? 5 Tips To Get The Nexus 4 Before It Sells Out Again
Are you waiting for a Nexus 4? You might wait a great deal longer if you don’t get one immediately after the Play Store restocks in mid-February. Fortunately, we don’t have just one method - this article presents six absolutely rock-solid strategies of becoming one of the first in line when the Nexus 4 arrives.
The Secret To Getting The Best Deals On All The Stuff You Want
If you make frequent online purchases using big-name retailers, such as Amazon, BestBuy, and Walmart, then you probably know about the deal finding sites SlickDeals and Fatwallet. A little known secret is that all the deal-hunting websites publish their best finds online through RSS feeds. The amount of deals found in these feeds staggers the mind. This article will explain two methods for extracting great deals from sites that specialize in finding sales.
IFTTT Automation For Your Facebook Page [Weekly Facebook Tips]
Facebook Page administrators realise that it takes time and effort to create a vibrant, useful page for fans to enjoy. While some administrators are paid for their efforts, many more are merely volunteering their time for a cause they believe in - their band, a local club or a cause. For these page admins especially, it's incredibly useful to be able to automate as many of their tasks as possible. Now, when it comes to automating social media tasks, the best place to turn is IFTTT.
How To Use Dropbox's Enhanced RSS URLs To Get Notifications When Your Files Are Changed
With Dropbox introducing enhanced RSS URLs for your 'Recent Events' page, there are quite a few ways you can put this new feature to good use. Dropbox is already a must-have productivity tool, but with this new feature, combined together with a handy IFTTT recipe, you can easily power-charge how you and your friends or colleagues use the backup service.
How To Be Completely Portable Without Your Own Computer Or Smartphone
This day and age it’s pretty uncommon to not see someone with a smartphone, tablet or laptop in a public place like a library. We’ve become quite reliant on them, wouldn’t you say? So reliant, we often say we "couldn’t live without them". In my experience, I have never owned a smartphone or tablet. And there have been occasions where I’ve been without a laptop for weeks at a time, usually due to it being repaired.
How To Create Your Own IFTTT Recipes For Automating Your Favorite Sites & Feeds
There are a few web services that can be considered "priceless" and IFTTT is one of them. The service, which stands for "if this then that" has the power to automate common tasks and help you discover better uses for services you already use. If you’re sick of manually doing things, IFTTT is a breath of fresh air. The service uses two main elements called triggers and actions which are organised by channels.
Did You Know Twitter Deletes Your Old Tweets? Here's How to Back Them Up
The importance of backup can never be overstated. No matter what it is, if it’s important to you, back it up. You never know when something might fail, and you’ll find yourself wishing you’ve taken the time to back up your stuff. Your Twitter presence is no different. In the several years Twitter’s been around, many of us have collected thousands of tweets, followers, DMs and lists. While not all of these can be backed up, why not save what you can?
Distributing Your Blog Content: The Best Auto-Posting Services
Are you a blogger? What about a blogger of multiple blogs? If you have several blogs to share and all of the popular social networks (e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to share them on, you might be a bit overwhelmed. However, there are some excellent services to assist you with this process. I will show you both what the services themselves look like, as well as how the shared blog post appears.