I’m at Basil! 1st time! And I got to enter the location into Foursquare. đ #rc
Tag: ifttt
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I’m at Chakeres Cinema 8! The First Purge #rc
I’m at Chakeres Cinema 8! The First Purge #rc
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Updating Twitter and Facebook with blog updates
Now that I’ve switched from WordPress to Pelican I’m face with the dilemma on how to update Twitter and Facebook when I post to my blog. In WordPress I used the Social Plugin by MailChimp to automatically post, but plugins are not an option with a static website.
But as I was working on a recipe in If This Then That – IFTTT this morning it hit me, I can use IFTTT to automatically post a link to my new blog posts in Twitter and Facebook. To create the recipe:
- Create an If This Then That account at IFTTT.
- Click Channels and add your Twitter account and Facebook page (or your Facebook account, depending on how you use Facebook).
- Click Create
- Use an RSS Feed for This and your Twitter account or Facebook account (or page) for That.
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Thursday 3 for May 16, 2013
Forecast.io
I read about Forecast on Macdrifter. This isn’t your everyday weather site. A couple of things make it unique. On the main website there is a time machine button, which allows you to look at what the weather was in the past. The other neat feature is that if you visit it from an iOS device, it asks you to install it as an HTML5 app. Nice, functional and free.
IFTTT
An oldie but a goodie, If This Then That – IFTTT lets you automate web services. For example, I use the Pocket read it later service. I also want to keep a copy of anything sent to Pocket just in case something happens to Pocket, so I have an IFTTT recipe that saves to Dropbox anything that I Pocket.
f.lux – Better lighting… for your computer
f.lux changes the whiteness of your computer after sunset, giving it a yellowish hue. This is more pleasing to the eye in the dark and could help you sleep. Availble for Mac, Windows, Linux and jailbroken iOS devices.