https://blog.thameera.com Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:12:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.12 139676693 https://blog.thameera.com/backup-all-your-stupid-tweets-with-ifttt/ https://blog.thameera.com/backup-all-your-stupid-tweets-with-ifttt/#comments thameera Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:12:35 +0000 Uncategorized dropbox evernote ifttt twitter http://thameera.wordpress.com/?p=854 Update : Twitter’s bullshit policy changes has made IFTTT to remove all its Twitter triggers. So the following works no more. 🙁 IFTTT‘s one of the most powerful tools in the interwebs and it keeps getting better by the day. (Take a look here if you’ve no idea what ifttt is). A few days back…<p><a class="more-link" href="https://blog.thameera.com/backup-all-your-stupid-tweets-with-ifttt/" title="Continue reading ‘Backup all your stupid tweets with ifttt’">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> <p><strong>Update</strong> : Twitter’s bullshit policy changes has made IFTTT to <a href="http://updates.ifttt.com/post/31945038639/upcoming-changes-to-twitter-triggers" target="_blank">remove all its Twitter triggers</a>. So the following works no more. <img alt="🙁" class="wp-smiley" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f641.png" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"/></p> <p><a href="http://ifttt.com" target="_blank">IFTTT</a>‘s one of the most powerful tools in the interwebs and it keeps getting better by the day. (Take a look <a href="http://thameera.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/if-this-then-that/">here</a> if you’ve no idea what ifttt is). <a href="http://blog.ifttt.com/post/25506427600/thenewifttt" target="_blank">A few days back</a> the site got a complete overhaul in the interface.</p> <p>Two new channels to automate <a href="http://www.belkin.com/wemo/" target="_blank">WeMo devices</a> have been added. It’s a set of magic tools that lets you control home electronic devices. This opens a world of ridiculously awesome possibilities. We can only hope these stuff will be available soon in this part of the world. Kudos to <a href="https://twitter.com/drac" target="_blank">drac</a> for pointing out. <img alt="😛" class="wp-smiley" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f61b.png" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"/></p> <figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-855" class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_855" style="width: 508px"><a href="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wemo-ifttt.gif"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-855" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="155" src="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wemo-ifttt.gif" title="wemo ifttt" width="508"/></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-855">Yes, this is really possible.</figcaption></figure> <p>Some really cool ingredients have been added as well. For example, now you can <em>_append_</em> stuff to a note in Evernote or a text file in Dropbox. I was considering backing up all my tweets in Evernote earlier but what kept me away was the fact that ifttt would create 1000 notes for 1000 tweets. But not anymore.</p> <p><a href="http://ifttt.com/recipes/42084" target="_blank">Here’s a recipe</a> to backup all the stupid stuff you tweet. It will create a note titled ‘Tweet Log’ and append all your tweets to that note. This includes all your replies and retweets, but you can opt them out. Feel free to re-use it or create your own.</p> <p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-856" decoding="async" height="68" src="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ifttt-evernote-backup-tweets-banner.png" title="ifttt evernote backup tweets banner" width="300"/></p> <p>The resulting note will look like the following:</p> <p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-857" decoding="async" height="248" src="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ifttt-evernote-backup-tweets-sample.png" title="ifttt evernote backup tweets sample" width="589"/></p> <p><strong>Notes</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>This will log only the tweets you post after activating this recipe.</li> <li>If you’re tweet in high frequency and the note gets bulky after some time, just edit the recipe and give a new name, like ‘Tweet log #2’.</li> </ul> <p><strong>If you don’t use Evernote</strong>, you can do the same with a text file in Dropbox. Use the same trigger and choose ‘Append to a text file’ action under Dropbox.</p> <p>And if you’ve created or come across any cool recipes, please do share! <img alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"/></p> <p>P.S. The same method can be used to log your facebook posts, etc.</p> <p>P.P.S. Yes, you can log the tweets of your twitter-crush as well. <img alt="😛" class="wp-smiley" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f61b.png" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"/></p> https://blog.thameera.com/backup-all-your-stupid-tweets-with-ifttt/feed/ 2 854 https://blog.thameera.com/removing-dropbox-from-the-machine/ https://blog.thameera.com/removing-dropbox-from-the-machine/#comments thameera Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:54:18 +0000 Uncategorized dropbox http://thameera.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/removing-dropbox-from-the-machine/ Last day at the office. I was busy cleaning my personal stuff from the office computer: saved passwords, active logins, browser history, what not. Then came the problem, how do I remove Dropbox? I googled ‘how to clean up Dropbox from a computer’ but didn’t come up with any results. It took about an hour…<p><a class="more-link" href="https://blog.thameera.com/removing-dropbox-from-the-machine/" title="Continue reading ‘Removing Dropbox from the machine’">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> <p>Last day at the office. I was busy cleaning my personal stuff from the office computer: saved passwords, active logins, browser history, what not.<br/> Then came the problem, how do I remove Dropbox? I googled ‘how to clean up Dropbox from a computer’ but didn’t come up with any results. It took about an hour to until it dawned on me that simply uninstalling Dropbox would solve the issue.</p> <p>Btw, I’m posting this especially to test posting via email. <img alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f609.png" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"/></p> <p>IMPORTANT: You have to remove the already synced files in your Dropbox folder, as I found out from the comments.</p> https://blog.thameera.com/removing-dropbox-from-the-machine/feed/ 4 18