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Wouldn't it be nice if all of our gadgets and smarthome devices could talk or work together? If you've got an Alexa device you may know it will not work with Google Nest devices and vice-versa.

IFTTT is shorthand for If This Then That; it's an automation tool for connecting apps and services. IFTTT works with more than 650 services and brands that include web apps, social media, and smart ...

IFTTT stands for, “if this, then that.” It’s terminology often used in programming, allowing software to chain together functions and perform certain tasks if other tasks are detected. For example, if ...

If This Then That (IFTTT), a web-based service that lets you set up useful task flows between popular apps (like sync photos you post on Twitter to your Dropbox storage) is adding a paid tier after a ...

Free users of IFTTT are getting bad news this week, with the web applet service announcing that it will yank their access to all Twitter applets while paring down the already paltry number of other ...

This ingenious tool (which stands for “if this, then that”) lets normal humans hook together their favorite web apps and services. Technically even this is an ultra-simplified kind of programming, but ...