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About ifttt Heh. Also, when did chrome stop antialiasing text? If I somehow checked a box labeled "make text look worse", then someone please enlighten me. http://bbot.org/etc/aliasing.png EDIT: Ha ha, Windows, you card, always with the case-insensitive file systems. Got me again! Link should work now.
I've been using ifttt to: * Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco * Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote * Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO * Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city. THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!
Thank you! How are you getting the airline fares? Feeds, I imagine, but from where? Lots of people asking how to do that.
Really cool idea, and nice site design except for one glaring thing- the size of everything! What the hell!? Is this designed for the legally blind? There isn't even an option in the settings to make things normal-sized... Fix it!
Thanks for the feedback, will work on tightening the UI a bit and getting a bit more on the screen.
Anyone interested in this may care to read the discussion from 3 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604921 To be honest, I still have a hard time figuring out how, where or why I would ever use this. Maybe I'm just too old, too disconnected, or too stupid to understand what it's all about, but in short, I just don't. I'd love a single, simple, concrete example of a relevant problem this solves. Don't ge…
This is a straight-forward moan about how HN is going to hell in a handcart. If you don't care about the HN community, or you object to meta, stop reading. Still here? OK. When I make a comment on HN I'm about anal about seeing the response it gets. I care about whether things are perceived to be useful. I want to be useful, and helpful, and generally make things better. Really, I do. I take time to give feedback, an…
This is the type of service that really brings the benefit of computing to the masses. Sure, everyone consumes on the internet, but something like this lets everyone experience the joy programmers feel when they make a computer do what they want.
I'm impressed with how simple this product seems to be, and hope they can contain any feature creep.
It's one of those things where you don't really know how useful it is until you see / hear of some examples and start using it yourself.
Anyone interested in this may care to read the discussion from 3 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604921 To be honest, I still have a hard time figuring out how, where or why I would ever use this. Maybe I'm just too old, too disconnected, or too stupid to understand what it's all about, but in short, I just don't. I'd love a single, simple, concrete example of a relevant problem this solves. Don't ge…
This is a straight-forward moan about how HN is going to hell in a handcart. If you don't care about the HN community, or you object to meta, stop reading. Still here? OK. When I make a comment on HN I'm about anal about seeing the response it gets. I care about whether things are perceived to be useful. I want to be useful, and helpful, and generally make things better. Really, I do. I take time to give feedback, an…
Because you got a downvote, you make a statement that HN is going to hell. Honestly, I do not know how much more of an overreaction you could have crafted here.
Anyone interested in this may care to read the discussion from 3 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604921 To be honest, I still have a hard time figuring out how, where or why I would ever use this. Maybe I'm just too old, too disconnected, or too stupid to understand what it's all about, but in short, I just don't. I'd love a single, simple, concrete example of a relevant problem this solves. Don't ge…
This is a straight-forward moan about how HN is going to hell in a handcart. If you don't care about the HN community, or you object to meta, stop reading. Still here? OK. When I make a comment on HN I'm about anal about seeing the response it gets. I care about whether things are perceived to be useful. I want to be useful, and helpful, and generally make things better. Really, I do. I take time to give feedback, an…
2. Once you vote, you cannot unvote.
3. Many read HN on touch devices that make it easy to miss a target.
Result: expect at least a down vote or two by accident from people who wanted to up vote.
A tip for Kindle owners: you can make an ifttt pipeline that sends RSS entries to Instapaper. Then on Instapaper's end, set up automated Kindle delivery. Presto, new posts from your favorite bloggers are now on your Kindle, entirely automatically.