In our daily working with computers, its not uncommon to come across software that provide such obivous benefits that it becomes hard to live without them.of late, with cloud computing, this has also become the case of web services. Below are some utilities that will make your life simpler.
Use IFTTT to build bridges between diferent services
we are well versed with the concepts of 'events' and 're-sponses'. when a phone rings, we pick it up; if the oven's timer goes off, we check on our baking. the web services 'if this, then that' (IFTTT) now brings this concepts of events and responses to the internet.
The resource lets you pick from large number of event sources e-mail services, social networks, online storage sites, photo sites, RSS feeds, etc and supports myriad action and responses that cab be carried out automatically in case a certain condition is met. Take Facebook, for instance. it has a feature that lets people tag in photos. this means your photo collection will not only the pictures you take, but also those in which your tagged. now consider the cloud storage service called Dropbox. Using IFTTT, you can set up an "if-then" condition that will automatically store the picture in which you are tagged to your dropbox account.
So whether its automatically updating your Twitter image when you update your Facebook image, or something more useful as getting an SMS notification of stock/currency rate updates, IFTTT can handle nearly everytning.
The resource offers numerous "channels" which can serve as source of events (most popular web services are included) and also as recipients of actions to be performed.
Website:http://ifttt.com
Use Attachments.me to search within your Gmail attachments
Gmail might have brilliant search system, but unfortunately, it doesn't search within your attachments. The creators or Attachments.me understand this need, and have built a system to index the content of your attachments.
To use the service, create an Attachment.me account by signing up with your existing Google account. It will then being indexing as many as the last 10,000 messages in your inbox. Once it is done crawling through your email, you will be able to search through them through their website or even in Gmail itself if you install add-on (available for Firefox and Chrome).
If you're bothered about privacy, don't worry. Attachments.me downloads a copy of your attachments in order to index them, but it stores them in an encrypted form on a secure server - and your account information can only be accessed by you. Additionally, if you remove your account, Attachments.me deletes all your data from their server. The only thing they maintain are statistics on the kinds of terms people search for so as to improve their systems.
Website: http://attachments.me
Use IFTTT to build bridges between diferent services
we are well versed with the concepts of 'events' and 're-sponses'. when a phone rings, we pick it up; if the oven's timer goes off, we check on our baking. the web services 'if this, then that' (IFTTT) now brings this concepts of events and responses to the internet.
The resource lets you pick from large number of event sources e-mail services, social networks, online storage sites, photo sites, RSS feeds, etc and supports myriad action and responses that cab be carried out automatically in case a certain condition is met. Take Facebook, for instance. it has a feature that lets people tag in photos. this means your photo collection will not only the pictures you take, but also those in which your tagged. now consider the cloud storage service called Dropbox. Using IFTTT, you can set up an "if-then" condition that will automatically store the picture in which you are tagged to your dropbox account.
So whether its automatically updating your Twitter image when you update your Facebook image, or something more useful as getting an SMS notification of stock/currency rate updates, IFTTT can handle nearly everytning.
The resource offers numerous "channels" which can serve as source of events (most popular web services are included) and also as recipients of actions to be performed.
Website:http://ifttt.com
Use Attachments.me to search within your Gmail attachments
Gmail might have brilliant search system, but unfortunately, it doesn't search within your attachments. The creators or Attachments.me understand this need, and have built a system to index the content of your attachments.
To use the service, create an Attachment.me account by signing up with your existing Google account. It will then being indexing as many as the last 10,000 messages in your inbox. Once it is done crawling through your email, you will be able to search through them through their website or even in Gmail itself if you install add-on (available for Firefox and Chrome).
If you're bothered about privacy, don't worry. Attachments.me downloads a copy of your attachments in order to index them, but it stores them in an encrypted form on a secure server - and your account information can only be accessed by you. Additionally, if you remove your account, Attachments.me deletes all your data from their server. The only thing they maintain are statistics on the kinds of terms people search for so as to improve their systems.
Website: http://attachments.me
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