You can do so much online these days, but sometimes you need to be a programmer to do things.
These sites are like middle men, scripts are setup and you just tell the system what to look out for and then do.
Example:
You could setup automatic SMS messages when the weather tomorrow is going to be above 20c, so you can hit the beach. Or when you get to work your phone automatically puts your phone on vibrate.
Which sites do we use?
We use https://ifttt.com/ & http://zpr.io/Pn64 to do rather awesome things.