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Now, if you have read lots of blogs, you probably saw this icon at least once.








And if you click that icon, you might have seen a website that starts with feedburner.com. First, that icon is for RSS. RSS is a format that contains all the posts from that blog. This is a snippet what my blog in RSS looks like. 
ef="http://feeds.feedburner.com/techytommy" /><feedburner:info uri="techytommy" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878542713109000453.post-7479948654457705158</id><published>2021-07-06T06:59:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2021-07-06T07:11:56.342-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Coding" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ifttt" /><title type="text">IFTTT: Connect Gmail to Google Calendar, Alexa to Blogger, and even Google Calendar to Contacts!</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Now, you may want to connect your devices to&amp;nbsp;each other. Like your smart home to your email to get an email when it is turned on and off! So, before you build a new app, there is already&amp;nbsp;an app for what you want to do. That app is called IFTTT! So, to get started, go to IFTTT and create an account. And then, create a new applet! Now, select what you want to trigger your applet. You could use an Alexa command, sending an email, or even creating a new Google Contact! Now, you need to choose what happens. You could send a notification to your iPad or Fire Tablet, create a new Google Contact, or even create a Google Calendar event! This is the example I will do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTHL3W1g9HKejhnA9DrjeAGN29mJqzpi_IT_jhX_h_RchdrVbDIRI3TsqzmvRs0U7L2L7DvA5XaFehYhhoNZiF6AG0HRiT1odkenOFmDpgUe-JfKXhhQTj783JQwPs1KDmB5PrSBz4xeXz/s1063/Screenshot+2021-07-06+064345.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="A screenshot of IFTTT showing if you say a specific phrase to your Alexa, create a new Google Contact." border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1063" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTHL3W1g9HKejhnA9DrjeAGN29mJqzpi_IT_jhX_h_RchdrVbDIRI3TsqzmvRs0U7L2L7DvA5XaFehYhhoNZiF6AG0HRiT1odkenOFmDpgUe-JfKXhhQTj783JQwPs1KDmB5PrSBz4xeXz/w400-h256/Screenshot+2021-07-06+064345.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Now, before you can use some services (like Alexa and Contacts), you need to link your account. Just log in and allow IFTTT to access your account! After you are done choosing your options, click on Continue. You can receive notifications when it runs. After that, click on Finish. Your applet is now ready! Now, there are 2 kinds of applets you can use. The kind of applet depends on the service. Now, to see this, go to the applet's page, and scroll down. This is what a Realtime applet looks like.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6tiZqyFvV7Q1cAo4O_1xSIv22KXCViTSUmHJrg4FyqpxsYy_xjl9SLP3apXmBFjxExfCHcUNgyd1a3O_f549aWkL4xN0hHg2GAz2FCthXnr-s8VgUEJOZDsR5g6xT_y7GheAAVgHYCfbW/s649/Screenshot+2021-07-06+065026.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="649" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6tiZqyFvV7Q1cAo4O_1xSIv22KXCViTSUmHJrg4FyqpxsYy_xjl9SLP3apXmBFjxExfCHcUNgyd1a3O_f549aWkL4xN0hHg2GAz2FCthXnr-s8VgUEJOZDsR5g6xT_y7GheAAVgHYCfbW/s320/Screenshot+2021-07-06+065026.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what a polling applet looks like.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPb4S7FjyilhLSI0iIoMcShJHoIQyZvt_8K70sd0MYhuCdeOCS3uWlIOt9GSKw3b-q5Fad8FaCWZy_GEW_dJXv8dZhpqaSQJu25GodtEjB4g6jM9Y35dDTHtKPQEkUysvEXGVXauCvMqNX/s652/Screenshot+2021-07-06+065155.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPb4S7FjyilhLSI0iIoMcShJHoIQyZvt_8K70sd0MYhuCdeOCS3uWlIOt9GSKw3b-q5Fad8FaCWZy_GEW_dJXv8dZhpqaSQJu25GodtEjB4g6jM9Y35dDTHtKPQEkUysvEXGVXauCvMqNX/s320/Screenshot+2021-07-06+065155.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, to check if your favorite services are on IFTTT, go to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://ifttt.com/services"&gt;https://ifttt.com/services&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There is IFTTT Pro, which you should get if you want more than 3 applets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techytommy/~4/YQ3fBiF4uLU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://techytommy3.blogspot.com/feeds/7479948654457705158/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://techytommy3.blogspot.com/2021/07/ifttt-connect-gmail-to-google-calendar.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.blogger.com/feeds/7878542713109000453/posts/default/7479948654457705158" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.blogger.com/feeds/7878542713109000453/posts/default/7479948654457705158" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techytommy/~3/YQ3fBiF4uLU/ifttt-connect-gmail-to-google-calendar.html" title="IFTTT: Connect Gmail to Google Calendar, Alexa to Blogger, and even Google Calendar to Contacts!" /><author><name>TechyTommy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05811847061193520044</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDUpT3rmtwJS-SqfmH3BG1MxyjuUzxITQnEhvXDlONK6pxmlvFGmIWhA9GI1Rdis-jRFc_1K3Rra9C0joPCMb-k11IxIX-wUb-YsvRJLYIVWuqd66pcjO-NJAwY3x5bEw8W_lX7znO5Icm/s220/T+is+for+Tommy.jpg" />
Now, your RSS reader can convert that into this!
A part of an RSS reader showing Tommy's IFTTT blog post.










So, if you want to read your favorite blogs better, find your favorite RSS reader and add your favorite blogs to it! And RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
Now, what if you want to add RSS to your blog? While, just burn a RSS from the website! With FeedBurner, just enter in your blog address and configure the settings, and then you have your own RSS feed! Now, what if you want to send emails? While, that's what FeedBurner Email used to do!

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