IFTTT....if this then that

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I don't know about y'all but I have so many online accounts and profiles that I use daily to manage my life and my work. I have often wished that some of these programs could communicate with one another to make my life easier.

Well look no further, today I stumbled upon the coolest thing I have seen in a while.

www.IFTTT.com

The whole idea is that you use this website to authorize your accounts to work together for your benefit by creating custom recipes. For example, here is a shot of my recipes I created today. First if I star an email in gmail, then it will automatically make that email into a note in evernote. Also, I created a recipe to automatically tweet the title and url for any blog post in blogger.

The possibilities are endless. Tell me how you are using ifttt.com 


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