Jul 11
Jul 11
If This, Then That (IFTTT) is a pretty clever system for linking data flows between websites—but until now it’s only been available on the web. Now, it’s been made available for iOS, and it looks set to mine and automate your entire phone.
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Jul 11
IFTTT has been around for a couple of years now as an internet service that lets users customize connections between different apps and devices. The name stands for If This Then That, which encapsulates the idea behind it — users can create automation Recipes that combine a Trigger (the “This”) that’ll result in an Action (the “That”). A popular example is to to have all your Instagram photos (the Trigger) automatically saved to your Dropbox folder (the Action). Services like Instagram and Dropbox are known as “Channels,” and there are different Triggers and Actions associated with each. While it’s a pretty neat concept, the only way to access IFTTT has been via the browser, and even then, Channels are limited to mostly web services.
IFTTT hopes to end all that today with its first-ever mobile app headed for iOS, aptly called IFTTT for iPhone. Not only does it provide a much more streamlined interface for Recipe creation — only five taps required — it also signifies an all-important next step in IFTTT’s evolution: the ability to hook into a device’s native Channels, namely Photos, Contacts and Reminders. Just like with the web services mentioned earlier, you can use them to create Recipes that take advantage of the phone’s capabilities. For example, you can have it so that all the photos you take with the front-facing camera will be sent to Flickr with the “selfie” tag, or you can automatically send new contacts an introductory “Nice to meet you” email. Join us after the break for more of the app’s features along with our hands-on impressions and some thoughts from IFTTT’s CEO and co-founder, Linden Tibbets.
Gallery: IFTTT for iPhone
Filed under: Mobile
Source: IFTTT for iPhone (App Store), IFTTT Blog
Nov 17
Microsoft announces SkyDrive SDKs for .NET and Windows Phone 8, highlights web integration
Posted in: Today's Chili 
After the introduction of new APIs last year, Microsoft has released SkyDrive SDKs for almost every major platform including Windows 8, JavaScript Web library, Android and iOS. Now the cloud service has opened its doors to more of Microsoft’s own with new SDKs for .NET and of course, Windows Phone 8. To entice even more developers to its side, the team at SkyDrive also integrated with services like IFTTT (If This Then That), which lets you customize action triggers between different web services, DocuSign, an electronic signature site and SoundGecko, a text-to-audio transcription service. It’ll likely take a lot of work for SkyDrive to win over fans of Dropbox and Box.net, but opening up its doors to developers is a step in the right direction.
Filed under: Internet, Software, Microsoft
Microsoft announces SkyDrive SDKs for .NET and Windows Phone 8, highlights web integration originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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