Users who actively use the internet, fans of social networks, cloud and web applications can use a service called IFTTT to integrate all the services together. As already explained, IFTT allows you to connect online accounts with automatic actions and updates so that, for example, if you upload a photo to Faceobok it will also be uploaded, automatically, to Dropbox or other cloud storage.
IFTTT is useful both for synchronizing multiple social networks without having to update them one by one and for backing up photos, videos or other shared content on the internet.
A backup is so important today to avoid losing various activities in case your account is compromised or deleted for some reason.
In IFTTT anyone can use the various "Recipes" (combinations) to automate the different channels of the web.
Only imagination can limit the type and number of recipes in IFTTT so now we see the most useful ones, the best combinations to automate the internet and unify your web accounts, which can be activated immediately only by clicking the Activate button.
Note : to synchronize web accounts automatically you need to register in IFTTT and authorize, from time to time, the various channels to integrate on this application.
- From Facebook to Google Drive table allows you to save and archive Facebook messages in a Google Spreadsheet application table. (Link)
- From Facebook to Skydrive store the photos where you are tagged on Facebook in the Skydrive cloud service. (Link)
- From Facebook to Dropbox: save the photos uploaded to Facebook in Dropbox, (link).
- From Facebook to Twitter, to tweet every status update written on Facebook automatically. (Link)
- From Youtube to Facebook, to share every Youtube video on which you like the Like button, on your Facebook profile. (Link)
- From Instagram to Facebook, to automatically upload the photos taken and shared with the Instagram app even on a Facebook album.
- Create a photo album for all the photos in which you are tagged, in order to copy them to a personal album and, at the same time, set the privacy of visibility to "Solo Io".
Facebook pages
- From Facebook page to Twitter to send updates on Twitter (link).
- From Facebook page to Linkedin, to automatically update Linkedin with an update of the Facebook page.
- From the Blog to the Facebook Pages; depending on the platform used, new posts can be published directly on the Facebook page: Wordpress (link), Blogger (link), Tumblr (link).
- From Youtube to Facebook page, to share the videos uploaded on youtube directly on the page (link)
IFTTT Twitter recipes
- From Twitter to Pocket to save tweets sent in Pocket (link)
- From RSS Feed to Twitter (link)
- From the Blog to Twitter, to automatically send a tweet with the title of the new blog post for Blogger (link) Wordpress (link) and Tumbrl (link)
- Send the same personalized message every day on Twitter
- Publish Instagram photos on Twitter with automatic preview (link)
Flickr (as Flickr is now a limitless cloud service to save photos online, you can use it to keep every personal photo published on the internet in one place.
You can then, automatically and without manual intervention, upload and copy the photographs from Flickr from: Instragram (link), from Facebook (link) the photos in which you are tagged in Facebook (link), from Tumblr (link), from Dropbox (link), from Dropbox if you use automatic upload from the mobile application (link)
Dropbox
- Upload Dropbox files to google Drive for a full backup and keep the two cloud storage synchronized (link)
- Save Instagram photos on Dropbox (link)
- Synchronize Dropbox and Skydrive (link).
READ ALSO: How to transfer photos from Facebook to Dropbox automatically (also on PC and mobile phone)
Other useful combinations in IFTT that do not concern Facebook, Twitter or Flickr are:
- If rain is expected tomorrow, send me an Email, by activating the Weather Weather channel on IFTTT you can receive notifications when rain is expected in your city (link).
- Send birthday greetings by email automatically (link). This recipe is based on the Google calendar but it is possible to import all friends' birthdays from Facebook into Google Calendar.
To do this, go to the Events page on Facebook, press on the wheel at the top right and then on Export .
With IFTT many more combinations can be created and, although not everything is possible, we can all find or create the recipe we need to automate the internet.
