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[malathion]

http://ifttt.com/wtf

I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned here yet. It's a web service that links user defined "triggers" (such as receiving an email with a keyword in the subject, or posting a facebook photo, or sending a tweet, etc) to "channels" (sending another email, saving the photo to dropbox, etc).

Currently, I have only some rudimentary channels like sending me an email when there's been an earthquake in my area or when the weather or allergy forecast predicts doom and gloom. But there are a lot of possibilities, and users can share their "recipes" and see which are the most popular. Some of the most popular recipes: when facebook profile pic changes, update twitter pic too; star an email in gmail, send it to evernote; archive my tweets to google calendar; monthly reminder to run mypermissions.org; save all photos uploaded to facebook in dropbox, etc.

There may be good ways to dovetail this into AHK, though I haven't explored that yet.

Some links:
How to Supercharge All Your Favorite Webapps with ifttt from LifeHacker
YouTube overview
7 Ways to Automate Your Life With ifttt from New York Times online
IFTTT, A Glue Gun For Sticking The Web Together, Raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors on TechCrunch (discusses features as well)
Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) - Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web's Social Glue by Scott Haselman
If anyone thinks of useful ways to connect this to AHK, I'd love to hear about it in this thread.

[dylansmith]

i'm interested in this too - surprised no one replied to this thread!

[engunneer]

i use ifttt as well, but have not yet thought of how to hook it to ahk. ahk can certainly send email triggers, but having ifttt trigger ahk should also be interesting.

[gwarble]

If ifttt can send triggers via email you could use getmail or other methods to have them trigger ahk

Along with a free gmail account you could read the rss feed availavle to get triggers, im sure there are other ways to avoid an external exe

[fragman]

It might be interesting for me to integrate it into 7plus, but I looked over some example triggers and I couldn't really see anything that would be of use for me personally.

[fragman]

I just added support for triggering recipes of IFTTT with 7plus. A good example for this is a twitter client integrated in the 7plus launcher (called "Accessor") that works with IFTTT.

Pros: Many extra features possible with 7plus without much extra work.
Cons: Requires manual setup by the user and an IFTTT account and is less flexible than direct support (i.e. no retrieval of shared file URLs from within 7plus).

[Wingfat]

"Microsoft’s IFTTT-clone for Android, on{X}, is actually pretty cool"

http://phandroid.com...ly-pretty-cool/

[malathion]

"Microsoft’s IFTTT-clone for Android, on{X}, is actually pretty cool"

http://phandroid.com...ly-pretty-cool/

It sounds cool until you realize you must login with facebook to use it (and therefore potentially give facebook access to everything you use it for). :roll: