Push IG photos into ANY facebook page album and how to get an archive of instagram

Remember IFTTT? The worldest coolest little scripting tool for all sorts of magic? Well, here is my post about how to get started with IFTTT - IF This Then That

If you're like me and been completely frustrated by the fact that your Instagram pix do not actually live at Facebook - it's just an embedded slideshow sort of thing, which while nifty is NOT an album. I kept thinking I would get around to figuring it out because for me it is 2 parts: getting the earlier pix in a Facebook album (the archive) and then starting the process for the new ones.

GETTING INSTAGRAM TO LOAD PIX INTO A FACEBOOK PAGE ALBUM
Let's start with the new stuff first - pushing our instagram pix into a Facebook page album.
IFTTT to the rescue. Seriously? Why didn't I think of this earlier? Anyhow you can search through recipes to look for what you need (one caveat: pages and personal account posting is a bit different so make sure to get the right recipe).. and remember, IFTTT calls widgets/scripts = recipes... so here is my recipe (https://ifttt.com/recipes/99108) with directions!

Before you start:

• You need a IFTTT login/account (it's free)
• Instagram app/login
• Facebook account/login

Click on the dropdown menu to activate your Facebook channel (i.e., set publishing permissions between Instagram and Facebook):

Click Activate (if it appears):

Click OK.... (note: you are told what kinds of information might be accessed)

Set audience for your personal timeline (if needed/desired). You can also set it to public.

Set your page access

Note: It's all pages - no choosing individual pages. 

Success! (At least the first part!) 

Step 2: Configuration:

Photo URL. Leave it as the default.

Set up the description for your photo post. The default is caption and URL. If you want to add the Created Date, click on the + , choose Created Date, and then click "Add Ingredient" (remember ingredients are just bits of information, more or less, metadata)

Create the album for your instagram images. To change the name, click on the album name space. Again, you can add ingredients here as well, for example, you want your IG URL to appear on the album description. Finally, click on Use Recipe to get started.

Note: You can test it by posting to instagram. 

So, next step...

GETTING THE INSTAGRAM ARCHIVE INTO THE FACEBOOK ALBUM (same as used above)

I dug around in the the instagram apis (the console is really useful) but it was going to be a LOT of work to get all images because IG throttles the results, so you have to keep adding pagination until you get everything. You can read more about how to do that, here. PIA.  

Easier answer, download all of your IG pix, using Instaport and the upload them to your new folder. Yay!

Sign in using your Instagram and allow access.

Choose your export options: All my photos (if you want everything)

Once you have downloaded your archive, unzip it, and upload it to the new album you created above for IG! Voila -- though you may need to edit your descriptions, etc. 

Simplifying new GMail (removing threaded conversations, make a traditional chronological list of emails, etc.)

One of the things I hate the most about email is threaded conversations.I also can not stand how the new Gmail treats messages in terms of forwarding.

So, thank goodness you can turn that nonsense off in Gmail and if you want an even more clean and simple interface (which in some cases, does mean less "functionality"), try these tips.


1. Turn off conversation view
Settings: General: Turn the conversation view off (you'll still the conversations just not as a thread)

2. Hide what you don't need. 

• Settings: General: Hide Send & Archive Button
• Settings: Labels: Hide anything that is unimportant (or perhaps, not active or critical)

3. Change buttons to text (Settings: General)








4. Turn off the people widget (Settings: General)


5. Get rid of snippets (Settings: General)








6. Minimize your inbox - limit the number of posts to a page (Settings: General)

• Limit the number of conversations on a page (choice 10-100)

7. Organize your inbox 

• Settings: Inbox : Set inbox type (choice of Important First, Unread First, Starred First, or Priority Inbox)
• The default is your tabs> Remove tabs and  you will have a traditional chronological listing
• Priority Inbox is "important, unread, and starred inboxes and adds more customization options" (customized options include specific labels> see More options). 
• Filter! Settings: Filter - setup! (also, you may be able to change some of these at the subscription level - like the twitter notifications...

8. Tighten up settings for other things: (if you use Chat, then make sure take a look at those settings as well.

9. Finally, make it pretty! (Settings: Themes)

Removing posting permissions to Twitter and Twitter security checkup

If you're like me, you've tried a lot of different apps with Twitter over the years. Maybe you've linked your Twitter account to all of your social media sites across the web and you don't want to do that any more. Or maybe you just want to do a settings update to help keep your accounts secure (don't forget to change your password while you are at it).

Let's review those apps and sites which are linked to Twitter. In some cases, these apps/sites post for us (instagram, facebook, etc.), in others they collect analytics about our networks, and much more. They may access our posts, our networks, our contact info -- so always a good idea to review yearly (at least!)

Under Settings  (the wheel icon)

Click on Apps.

Click on Revoke Access to the one you want to remove (note: if you've setup a separate account with the app or site and you don't want to use the service AT ALL vs. just unlinking from Twitter you will need to separately remove your account from the site via their website or app, e.g., I don't want to use Instagram anymore - ha! yeah, right - so I would revoke access via Twitter but also delete my IG account and remove the app from my phone).
Twitter keeps the list of apps, so you can always Unrevoke Access later if you want.
More here at Twitter Apps.

Linking your Facebook Page to Twitter (or edit settings)

If you manage a Facebook Page, you can share updates from Facebook to Twitter including what types of updates to share: status updates, links, photos, notes, events or all of them. If you have multiple Pages, you will have the option to link each of those Pages to different Twitter accounts.

Find this feature at  http://www.facebook.com/twitter or 
Under Edit Page>Editing>Edit settings>Resources

Allow facebook to post to Twitter (if you are already logged in to Twitter, you will only have to click on Authorize App. 

Choose what you want to share (remember it is only public posts) :

Save Changes. 

To edit settings or remove the link:

Edit Page>Editing>Edit settings>Resources
Edit settings (use check boxes to select/unselect)
Unlink to Twitter to remove process.

If the Unlink to Twitter doesn't work, you can also try remove the authorization via Twitter.

Mendeley news - Acquired by Elsevier, Open Data & more

Mendeley has been acquired by elsevier & other tidbits via the Mendeley May Librarian Newsletter (the talk about Mendeley is very interesting):

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This month we're giving a look inside our relationship with open data, looking for your feedback on a new user resource, and inviting you to participate in upcoming programs.

1. Mendeley Vision
2. What do you think: New User Guide
3. Upcoming Mendeley Open Day
4. Supporting Researchers: It's what we do
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