Category: IFTTT

Posted in IFTTT, Last.fm, Pandora

The IFTTT Factor: Swapping Out Pandora For Last.fm

Posted on by Darnell Clayton

Sadly it looks like Pandora will not be embracing social networks beyond Twitter, Facebook or email anytime soon.

“‘Social networks don’t matter as much,’ Conrad told me. Instead, he wants to focus on the social interactions each of us have every day while listening to music in the same physical space. Sure, Pandora also offers options to share music on Twitter and Facebook, but Conrad said that only a small percentage of listeners make use of these features. (via GigaOm)”

Unfortunately Pandora isn’t listed as an active channel upon IFTTT, and although others have created an RSS Pandora channel, they tend to be a bit wonky.

I’m currently experimenting with Last.fm, which is slightly “rougher” than Pandora (as Last.fm’s UI and music recommendations are not as refined).

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Fortunately Last.fm has an official channel on IFTTT, which means I can share what I’m listening to upon my ADN stream as well as my personal Tumblr.

I’m still paying for both services (or at least I will be for Pandora until September), but for now it looks like I’ll be using Last.fm as my default radio service.

Posted in App.net, IFTTT, Medium, Twitter

Using @IFTTT to semi-automagically push @Medium posts to Twitter

Posted on by Darnell Clayton

Even though Medium.com lacks an iOS app (which is desperately needed), I decided that I’m going to attempt to include it on “the list” of platforms to write upon. 

That said what really annoyed me about Medium was the lack of a way to push posts upon Twitter (or even the beloved App.net) and since Google’s FeedBurner was not exactly cooperating (sadness) I decided to use IFTTT.com iOS app instead. 
If you’re a geek then you don’t need to RTFM (a phrase often repeated to newbie’s apparently–and Google the acronym for the full meaning).
For everyone else who isn’t a geek and has an IFTTT plus Medium account, here is a step-by-step guide to semi-automagically have your Medium posts tweeted to the twitterverse. 
Here we go!

1) Within IFTTT click on the “recipe bowl” icon located in the top right corner. 
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2) Then click on the “+” icon in the top right corner. 
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3) Search for the orange Feed icon, then tap on the first blue + button. 
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4) Type in medium.com/feed/@username where “username” is the screen name to your Medium profile (mine is @Darnell for instance). Then tap on the blue Continue button. 
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5) Next tap on the red + button
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6) Locate the Twitter bird icon on the slider (slide towards the left to view it on the right), then tap on the first blue + icon.
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7) Last, tap on the Finish button and now the twitterverse can enjoy your meaty messages upon Medium! 🙂
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Note: For those of you on App.net the steps are the same, you just swap out Twitter for App.net. 🙂 
Posted in Evernote, Google, IFTTT

You Win @Evernote. Switching to Google Drive for @IFTTT Recipes

Posted on by Darnell Clayton

So after downloading the IFTTT iOS app (which stands for If This, Then That for you non-geeks out there) I’ve discovered to my horror that using Evernote for anything within IFTTT results in this error below:

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I thought it might have something to do with using 2-factor authentication but then again I use that for other sites as well (like Google Drive). 
Fortunately I have an alternative to Evernote that seems to be working (Google  Drive to be precise) although I wish it was upon Evernote’s servers instead of the Google Goliath’s.