ifttt is a free internet service for automating a lot of stuff you do online. There’s often things that you do repeatedly, and ifttt is there to help. For example, when you write a new blog post, you want to post a link to Twitter and Facebook, and this is something that’s perfect for ifttt to do automatically.

To get started, just sign up to the free service. Then you have to add the channels; Facebook, twitter, Dropbox, Youtube and other services you would use.

Currently these channels are available, with new ones added quite often.

Channels

• Boxcar
• Bufferapp
• Craigslist
• Date & Time
• Delicious
• Diigo
• Dropbox
• Email
• Evernote
• Facebook
• RSS Feed
• ffffound!
• Flickr
• Foursquare
• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Reader
• Google Talk
• ifttt
• Instagram
• Instapaper
• Last.fm
• LinkedIn
• Phone Call
• Pinboard
• Posterous
• Read It Later
• Readability
• SMS
• SoundCloud
• Stocks
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Vimeo
• Weather
• WordPress
• YouTube
• Zootools

Receipts

Make your own Tasks

Here are the things I have set up.

• Post new blog post at www.jackenhack.com to Facebook.
• If blogpost on www.jackenhack.com posted, put tweet in buffer
• If RSS article starred, retweet via buffer
• Retweet starred tweets
• Tumblr post to bufferapp
• Email me when a new ifttt channel is announced
• Every time you are tagged in a photo on Facebook, it will be sent to Dropbox
• Post YouTube favorites to Tumblr
• When posting to Vimeo, put it on tumblr blog
• Published flickr photos posted to my blog
• Archive my tweets to a Google Calender
• Save a timeline of facebook statuses to Google Calendar
• Save my instagram pictures to dropbox

I just got Byword and Marked from the Mac App Store because I’m totally addicted to writing in Markdown. I didn’t like the predefined fonts, but found a great typeface called Droid Sans that you can download here.

Byword

Marked

Images

iPad/iPhone

Finishing

Problems

It took longer than I had anticipated, mainly because I had to learn how to set up Nginx, but also because of the trouble of getting answers when searching the net. But here’s my working config (mostly saved for me if I forget

[cc lang="apache"]
server {
    listen   80;
    servername  www.jackenhack.com
            jackenhack.com;
    keepalivetimeout  5;
    tcp_nodelay        on;  

access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;

location ~* ^.+.(xml|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js)$ { root /var/www/nginx-default;

}

location / {
    root   /var/www/nginx-default;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;

gzip on; gziphttpversion 1.0; gzipcomplevel 2; gzipproxied any; gziptypes text/plain text/html text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

#include /etc/nginx/wordpress_params.super_cache
#include /etc/nginx/enable_wordpress;

# rewrite old blog url
rewrite ^/blog/(.+)$ /$1 permanent;

if the requested file exists, return it immediately

if (-f $request_filename) { break; }

set $supercachefile ''; set $supercacheuri $request_uri;

if ($requestmethod = POST) { set $supercacheuri ''; }

Using pretty permalinks, so bypass the cache for any query string

if ($querystring) { set $supercacheuri ''; }

if ($httpcookie ~* "commentauthor|wordpress|wp-postpass" ) { set $supercache_uri ''; }

if we haven't bypassed the cache, specify our supercache file

if ($supercacheuri ~ ^(.+)$) { set $supercachefile /wp-content/cache/supercache/$http_host/$1index.html; }

only rewrite to the supercache file if it actually exists

if (-f $documentroot$supercachefile) { rewrite ^(.*)$ $supercache_file break; }

all other requests go to WordPress

if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite . /index.php last; }

}

setup for jackeniax

    location /jackeniax {
        root   /var/www/nginx-default/jackeniax;
        index  index.php index.html;

        if (!-f $request_filename) {
            rewrite  ^(.*)$  /jackeniax/index.php?q=$1  last;
            break;
        }

        if (!-d $request_filename) {
            rewrite  ^(.*)$  /jackeniax/index.php?q=$1  last;
            break;
        }

    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/nginx-default$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    location ~ /\.ht {
            deny  all;
    }

} [/cc]

My wp-config.php file looks like this:

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); /** MySQL database username */

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

/** MySQL database password */

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘root’);

/** MySQL hostname */

define(‘DB_HOST’, ’127.0.0.1:8889′);