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Task Hammer is an rpg game and a task list app in one. Task Hammer lets you complete your epic quests or daily routines and even gets you awarded for that. You can be a barbarian, a rouge or a sorceress and level up your character by doing real world stuff.
Task Hammer is also really useful todo list: it's simple, it's beautiful and also has alarms, widgets & repeating tasks. We also cruched most bugs before releasing it ;-)
In case of any problems please, send us email. We cannot reply to Google Play comments.
Notice: Task Hammer is not connected to Epic Win, Task XP nor RLRPG.
Keywords: rpg task list, rpg todo list, level up, xp
What's New
https://habitrpg.com (the website) has been around for about one year, and has additional features such as guilds, parties, pets, random drops, tags, difficulty settings, etc. We're going to be pulling in features bit-by-bit into the mobile app - but we wanted to get this initial release out there so people can start using it, and hopefully contributing (open source at https://github.com/habitrpg/habitrpg-mobile). If you experience bugs, please jump into https://github.com/habitrpg/habitrpg-mobile/issues. Android 2.3.x users - we'll enable for devices once we can fix the CSS / Angular issues found at http://goo.gl/p9x2Pz
Content CC-BY-SA 3.0 from Mozilla BrowserQuest & Little Workshop.
HabitRPG Client (unofficial)
HabitRPG is a habit building program which treats your life like a RPG. You can earn money, experience and levels. You can also buy rewards from your money earn, and might lose life points as you fail.
* Add, edit, delete as much task as you like
* Register/Connect to HabitRPG.com
* Connect using the website QRCode
* See your life and experience evolve
* (Premium) Select and see your tags
* (Premium) Use an awesome widget to see how your character's doing1
The client requires an HabitRPG account, and a connection to work. It allows you to interact with https://habitrpg.com, and do things such as upvote/downvote/complete a task, or create new ones. You have also the ability to see the player's avatar, and to see tags (premium mode)
It uses a nice UI based on Holo, and on the card system (like Google Now).
When you open the application for the first time, it will ask you to connect using your API and User token. To do so, just type in the two token you can find on http://habitrpg.com/ -> your avatar -> settings.
There is also a way to scan the QRCode available on the settings page. Just install the required application to do so.
To update to premium, you will need to buy the in-app package inside the application. It will allow you to hide the ads, support development, and unlock some features (tag management, the widget, and more to come!).
If you have any problem, or have a suggestion for an awesome feature about this app, feel free to contact me by twitter (@MagicMicky) or by email (you should find a link on this page).
Raise The Bar - Goal Tracker
Simply put: use bars to track things.
Visually observing progress helps us to feel invested in completing our goals. The short and long term interaction with these goals can help build and maintain focus as well as increase development of solidified habits, all through reminders, statistics, and rewarded progression.
We created RTB to have a fun way to "Level Up" different aspects of our lives.You can use it seriously, for important Goals you want to keep track of, or you can use it playfully, for anything you can think up. Simply make a new bar and start Tracking the amount you do something, start a timer to automatically track the time you spend doing it, or make a List of ToDo's to check off what you've done! What are you waiting for? Go Level Up your life!!
- Active Time Tracking
- Set Goals to Achieve
- ToDo List
- Custom Reminders for Goal/List
- Unlimited Goals!
- Color Your Lists and Goal Bars!
- Daily/Weekly/Monthly Stats
- Editable Data! (edit in daily bar graph)
- Time/Amount Tracking
- Level Up by tracking Experience Points (XP)
- Export to CSV
- FAQ section for help
How does it work?
1. Name the Activity to Track. (Be creative!)
2. Pick category of bar: Level Up, Achieve Goal, or List (more information in FAQ)
3.You choose the type: Time spent or # of "Reps."
(Activities can often be Tracked with either type, so choose freely!)
Time Spent
Amount (#)
*Calories Eaten
*Miles Ran
*Books/Pages Read
*Beers Drank
*Hours Slept
*Cities Visited
*Hotdogs Eaten
ToDo List Examples:
*Christmas Shopping
Help and Support
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
**Please send us feedback so we can make the app even better! Your comments/questions help us make a better game for EVERYONE!! (And seriously, we'll probably implement most things you ask us to...so just ASK!!)**
Habit Streak Plan
✓ Habit Streak Plan helps you achieve your goals (or New Year's Resolutions) in exercise, diet or other areas of your life. Each day you report on whether you succeeded yesterday, building up streaks of habits and ingraining the activities into your life. It is perfect for the start of the new year.
"After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain" (Jerry Seinfeld)
Habit Streak has two key advances on Jerry Seinfeld's original technique. Firstly it allows you to build several chains up at once. Secondly it (optionally) prompts you every day to report on your success (whereas one could easily forget to update or look at a physical calendar).
✓ Habit Streak is simple, clear, easy to use and free; there are no time limits (though there is a Pro version with additional features and functionality).
"Fantastic. Easy to use, and I'm finding it effective for taking on multiple new habits."
"This simple app has altered the course of my life. Thank you!"
"Love this application. It has helped me create many new habits. The sister application Task Life is great as well."
✓ If you want To Do list-like functionality see my other app "ToDo Log" which allows for real time recording, repeated and one-off events along with graphs of your past performance. For less than daily tasks check out "Task:Life", for a different approach, based around the idea of what proportion of days you do something.
Access the help page via the ? button and tap the top right day counter to get a tip for each day to introduce you to Habit Streak.
* Sync with Google Tasks at the core *
Sync with Google Tasks is not just another bullet point in an endless feature list, but lies at the heart of the application. Our goal is to bring all the features you are enjoying online to your Android device.
* Tuned to the whole Android ecosystem *
Tasks uses the modern design language introduced with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich throughout the application. However, that doesn't mean that we compromise on compatibility, as we made sure that Tasks runs on Android 2.2 or later. And whether you have a phone, a tablet or anything in between, the UI just feels right for the screen you are holding in your hands.
* Additional Features *
Due date reminders
Multiple Google accounts
Light and dark theme
Integration into Android sharing system
Sort by rearranging or by due date
* Versions *
Next to the paid version we also offer a free, ad-supported version which will start showing ads after 10 days. Both versions offer the same functionality and features. You won't lose any data if you decide to upgrade from the free to the paid version as all the data is synced with Google Tasks.
* Move to SD card not supported due to problems with widgets *
Pocket Informant-Events,Tasks
Calendar, GTD Tasks and Contacts - all in one! Pocket Informant is a fully integrated calendaring and GTD-based tasks solution for Android. We fuse together best-of-class calendaring with best-of-class tasks into one great solution. Even greater functionality has been added with the introduction of a Contacts view, which allows the user to fully access the Android contacts database from within Pocket Informant.
If you see disappearing sync accounts please install this app:
Version 2.0 is a major upgrade for Pocket Informant with many additional functions and features added.
What's NEW for this release:
* Widget!
* Contacts View
* Multi-Select Mode in Task Views
* Multi-Select Mode in certain Calendar Views
* Pocket Informant Online Sync - Pocket Informant Online is our own Cloud sync service that also has a web interface to provide desktop access to your tasks and events. Pocket Informant is the only sync service that is feature-for-feature compatible with the Pocket Informant mobile application. This service is subscription-based, and is available for the introductory price of $15/year.
* Pocket Informant Online - As mentioned above, Pocket Informant Online is our new cloud sync service. You can sign up for Pocket Informant Online at www.webis.net. Once signed up, you can sync your events and tasks. Unlike Google Calendar/Tasks and Toodledo, Pocket Informant Online is a feature for feature match for task and event syncing. We will be adding features to Pocket Informant Online as time goes on, so please keep an eye on our website for the latest information.
* All Pocket Informant syncing is managed by the Android Sync Manager
* Multiple Accounts of the same sync type can be used at the same time.
* Now supports multiple internal Event and Task calendars
* ICS Support
* Ability to switch view modes on tablets between the Tablet View and Phone View.
❖ Fully integrated Calendar and Task Management
❖ Month, Day, Week, Column Week, Agenda, Task and Contacts Views
❖ Swipe between Months, Days, and Weeks
❖ Pre-made filters to quickly find selected Tasks
❖ Templates for Events and Tasks
❖ Ability to show/hide different Android calendars
❖ Optional Time-Bar and Mini-Text views for Calendar Month View
❖ Custom time/date selection controls for easy modification and navigation in main view
❖ Easily accessible commands for events or tasks directly from main views
❖ Highly configurable interface (with more than 100 different options!)
Proper task management is essential, but it's only part of the picture. Pocket Informant is a full-features PIM, so it lets you focus on everything you do in a day - not just your tasks list. We believe bringing your appointments and tasks together in one place is more efficient than working in isolated calendar and task management systems. Pocket Informant is designed to be completely flexible, allowing you to choose the style of task management that works best for you.
For years, these and numerous other features have made Pocket Informant a must-have tool for school teachers, soccer moms, salesmen and executives alike.
Todoist: To-Do List, Task List
Join over 2 million people who are doing amazing things with Todoist – the world's leading to-do list and personal task manager! Praised by TechCrunch, New York Times, Lifehacker, The Wall Street Journal, Android Authority, Phandroid, Android Police, and many others, Todoist works wonderfully across all your devices and platforms (mobile, desktop, web browser and e-mail) so you can boost your productivity and achieve more each day.
The FREE app lets you:
• Automatically sync your tasks on all your devices
• Never lose track of your to-do list: your data is automatically synced to the cloud
• Get organized by using due dates, recurring dates, sub-tasks, task priorities, sub-projects and colored projects
• Manage your tasks even while being offline
• Plan your days ahead with visual scheduling
• Share projects, assign tasks, and collaborate with anyone
• Get instant notifications for updates and new comments
• Integrate with Dropbox and Google Drive for adding documents to your tasks
• Preview media links and file attachments through inline thumbnails and file icons
• See images, watch videos and play audio directly within the app
• Leverage amazing widgets, actionable notifications, Google Now and DashClock integration, and advanced settings
• Add tasks from any app by sharing with the Todoist app
• Use Todoist with Android Wear: add tasks using voice commands, view optimized notifications at a glance, and send task lists directly to your wearable
With a PREMIUM account you get all of the above, plus:
▸ Set up and receive push notifications, email or SMS reminders based on your physical location or the time and date
▸ Get even more organized using task notes, colored labels, and powerful filters
▸ Add files, sound recordings and photos to your tasks
▸ Add tasks by email and access tasks on your calendar
▸ Track and improve your productivity with Todoist Karma
▸ Extended Android Wear support: add task reminders using voice commands
▸ And much, much more!
❝Todoist gives you a suite of productivity tools in a very elegant, stylish and simple package. Those on Android 4.0 and higher will especially fall in love.❞ — Phandroid
❝This is one of the most complete task management platforms available and they hit that sweet spot of being good for both personal and business use.❞ — Android Authority
Feel free to contact us directly if you need any kind of support: https://todoist.com/Support_Android/
Have a look at how we use the permissions requested by the app: https://todoist.com/android_permissions.txt
We hope you love our app as much as our community and our team does. Let us know what you think!
Any.do Task List & To-do List
Any.do is an all-in-one life manager. Save time organizing your family tasks, work projects and personal todo's in one place, while collaborating with others to be more productive.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPpHp4Yfs_M
Our task planner key features include: seamless cloud sync, speech recognition, customizable time and location reminders, shared tasks, multimedia notes, and gesture support.
*Named a "Top 10 MUST-HAVE App" by the New York Times*
Make every day a success with Any.do:
Clean and smart design keeps you focused on your goals for the day
Collaborate with colleagues, friends, and spouses to get things done together
Update grocery lists, chores, and 'Honey Do' lists in real-time with your spouse and family
Attach video, audio, photo and Dropbox files to any task
Set recurring tasks for regularly scheduled todo's
Access all of your lists at home, the office, or on the go. Your Any.do task manager stays perfectly synced on your mobile, web app, or Chrome
Intuitive drag and drop, swipe to complete, and shake to remove make Any.do a great planner for organizing tasks faster
Use voice entry to speak you tasks into a list, or type with our powerful auto-suggest feature
Any.do Moment, our widely praised daily planner, will make managing your life fun again
When you handle work, family, and personal life in one place, you end up having a lot more time for what matters.
If you're a true pro, Any.do gets even better with a Premium subscription
**Special launch price for a limited time only $2.99/ month or $26.99/ year**
(Regularly $4.99/ month or $49.99/ year)
Enjoy an unlimited amount of our free Any.do features above, plus:
An array of special color themes
Fully customizable reminders for anything from bi-weekly meetings to every-other-day phone calls to Mom
Location based reminders that pop up exactly when and where you need them
Priority support from our in-house team of Any.do experts
Premium subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your Google Play account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel at any time, but we are unable to issue refunds for any pay periods that have already been billed. Manage your subscriptions in the Account Settings after purchase.
NOTE: We are asking for permissions to access your personal information and read contacts. We ask this to enable you to collaborate with your friends. Our FAQ page http://www.Any.do/faq and our privacy policy http://www.Any.do/privacy and Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/+AnyDo/posts
Due Today Tasks & To-do List
Due Today is designed to help you get organized. Create tasks and assign them to projects and contexts. You can also set reminders to help you remember those important things. You can even be reminded daily about things you didn't do yesterday.
** Includes multiple sync options **
Due Today allows you to sync with the award-winning ToodleDo service (with some limitations). We also now support synchronizing using our free sync service. Always keep your devices up-to-date with each other.
* Uses the Getting Things Done (GTD) method
* Set start dates so you won't be bothered by your tasks until the appropriate date
* Set a task as "floating" so that it will remain in your "Today" box until you complete the task
* Daily overdue reminder so you won't forget todos not finished on the previous day
* Create projects and subprojects
* Syncs with ToodleDo
* Syncs with Lakeridge Software's synchronization server
* Provides several different views for organizing your tasks
* Pin projects for quicker access to projects you work on the most
* Long-press the search button to create a task or project without leaving your current app (pre-ICS devices)
* Create daily, monthly, weekly or yearly recurring tasks
Paid Features:
* Subtask support
* A powerful and customizable widget (in various sizes) so you can see what you need to do without opening the app
* Full support for all tablet form factors
* Superior filtering function (and the filtering can be applied to the widget as well)
* Integrated universal search
* Full support for ToodleDo statuses
* Supports the ToodleDo hotlist
GTasks: Todo List & Task List
Latest Update:
** New Material Design update to adapt to Android L (5.0)
** Import tasks from Astrid
** Widget doesn't work if GTasks was installed on SD card. Please move it back to phone internal storage and reboot your device.
1. ICS(Android 4.0) style with bulk indent/move/set due date/delete and so on
2. View your tasks on Google Calendar
3. Synchronize with multiple Google accounts automatically; also support local mode
4. Customize sync mode: auto sync,manual sync or sync when open/exit/background sync
5. Batch add tasks
6. Scroll horizontally to switch between tasks/task lists
7. Sort your tasks by due date/name/create time/priority
8. Re-arrange your tasks easily by dragging & dropping
9. Indent to create subtasks
10. Share tasks with friends, families and colleagues
11. Set customized repeating reminders: daily/weekly/monthly... and so on
12. Quick add tasks by pressing the search key
13. Quick add tasks via 'note to self' voice command with Google Now
14. Quick search tasks
15. Create different home screen Widgets (scrolling in LauncherPro/ADWLauncher/GO Launcher)
User Reviews:
Arlyn: Most useful app on my phone. Best for note taking and tasks, and the Google synchronization is indispensable.
Dennis_ua: Best GTD Android app Works perfectly in pair with GMail Tasks side panel of my Firefox.
Lord : Worth it and the best tool for Android One of my most twice used apps. Simple, fast, complete. Great developer communication. Imprescindible for me.
Robert : Best Task or To Do List Ever. The home screen widget is a must!
GTasks, GTD, Getting Things Done, to do list, todo list, task, tasks, notes, notepad, google tasks, gmail calendar, Dato, Google Tasks client
Wunderlist: To-Do List & Tasks
"The best to-do list app." - The Verge
Wunderlist has also been featured in The New York Times, Lifehacker, TechCrunch, CNET, The Guardian, Wired, and Vanity Fair, just to name a few.
Key Wunderlist Features:
• Create all the lists you need and access them from your phone, tablet and computer
• Easily share lists and collaborate with family, friends and colleagues
• Start conversations about your to-dos
• Attach photos, PDFs, presentations and more
• Share the work and delegate to-dos
• Setting a Reminder ensures you never forget important deadlines (or birthday gifts) ever again
• Organize your projects for home, work and everywhere in between with Folders
Wunderlist is free to download and use. Wunderlist Pro upgrades your experience and gives you unlimited access to Files, Assigning and Subtasks to help you accomplish even more for $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year through an in-app purchase.
Our Terms of Use: http://www.wunderlist.com/terms-of-use
Our Privacy Policy: http://www.wunderlist.com/privacy-policy
Learn more about Wunderlist at www.wunderlist.com
Todo List - Tasks N Todo's
Tasks N ToDo's is the ultimate to-do list app that is designed to be the best personal task manager app for Android smartphones and tablets. Tasks N ToDo's helps you get organized and keep up with life's many tasks and to-do's with minimal effort. Just key in your Google Tasks and to-do list and the app will handle the rest.
Upcoming Google Task lists and to-do's are clearly presented in a logical deadline based layout that helps you better prioritize the things that you need to do.
Setting due dates, notes, reminders for your to-do list are all easily accomplished with the minimal number of taps via the quick action menu and the quick task add interface.
Syncing your task and to-do list with Google Tasks is also extremely easy and ultra reliable. By activating Google Task sync, not only can you automatically backup your task & todo list to the cloud, your Google Tasks & todo list can also be synchronized between your Android tablet and your Android smartphone!
Tasks N ToDo's is also one of the few top android to-do list app that is fully optimized for both smartphones and tablets.
Complete List of Features
- Full synchronization support with Google Task lists using official Google Tasks API
- Setup task reminder notifications for one-time as well as repeating tasks and to-do's
- Tasks / todo entries with due dates can be set to repeat automatically with flexible recurrence schedule
- Send urgent tasks to the top of the list with one quick action
- Filter and sort your Google Tasks / to-do list anyway you want
- Drag and drop your Google Tasks / to-do list to reorder the lists any way you like
- Calendar-style date picker with quick date pickers for Today, Tomorrow and Next Week lets you quickly set due dates for your tasks and to-do's with deadlines.
- Navigate between Google Tasks & todo lists easily using swiping gestures.
- Easy task & todo list management with quick action menus
- Enter tasks into your todo list just by talking to your phone
- Even faster access with home screen widgets with quick shortcuts to add or view tasks
- Backup/restore data to SD card
- Fully optimized for both tablets and phones
This app is brought to you by Handy Apps!
Connect with us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/HandyAppsInc
2Do: To do List | Task List
★ Sync tasks over-the-air on multiple devices running 2Do (including iOS, OS X) using Dropbox or Toodledo. Dropbox sync supports syncing all data, including Smart Lists, across Android, iOS and OS X devices.
★ Projects, Checklists or a simple To do list
★ Repeating tasks with end dates
★ Tabbed Lists for easy organization and grouping
★ Landscape Calendar view with date markers and date-filtering
★ Quick Add: Create tasks directly from the notification area, or glance at the number of tasks due Today.
★ Widgets that allow you to mark tasks done directly from the home screen. NOTE: Widget will not work if the app is moved to the SD Card.
★ Hide or re-arrange lists
★ Password Protection: Lock all your tasks or individually picked Lists
★ Drag & Drop tasks from and to Lists
★ Smart Lists: Dynamic lists based on saved searches with an optional dynamic date range
★ Powerful date range searching and filtering
★ Easy sorting by dates, lists, priority, status, title or manual sorting
★ Scheduling of tasks using Start Date & Time
★ Tags: create keyword tags; search for tags or attach contacts as people tags
★ Alarms: Easily create multiple alarms per task
★ Attach Photos to your tasks using the Camera or the Gallery
★ Instant Previews: Preview and edit notes or attached pictures from the main list with a single tap
★ Focus: Quick toggle between your tasks and a refined 'focus' list from any view
★ Actions: attach contacts or other 'action' information to tasks
★ Starred Tasks
★ Batch Operations: Edit, Delete, Move, Tag, Share and more
★ Multiple Themes: Graphite, Black, Pink
★ Samsung S Pen ® drawing support in Notes. Draw using a finger or a stylus on devices such as Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus.
★ Share tasks
★ Optimized for an unlimited number of tabbed lists with hundreds of tasks per list
★ Backup & Restore: Create easy backups of your database or restore from an existing one at any time
★ Background automatic sync at specified intervals
★ Flexible task manager: Use GTD (Getting Things Done) principals, Franklin Covey or your very own
★ Much, much more.
Please kindly contact us in case you have any issues. We'd love yo help.
Google Sync: This cannot be supported till Google Task API supports meta-data (required by 2Do), which in its current state does not.
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Task List
New features: Share task via Email or SMS, Full Google task sync (multiple lists, multiple accounts, OATH, home screen widget, customized categories, improved sorting, swipe completed tasks, shake to remove tasks, auto-complete, quick edit of tasks information and more!
A top android to do list that actually helps you get your things done.
☞ Get the most out of Any.DO:
■ Speech to text
■ Sync to Google Tasks / gTask / gTasks / Google apps
■ Home screen widgets (4X4, 4X1)
■ Share tasks with your friends via Email or SMS
■ Quick edit of tasks (Priority, Category, Due date, Share and more)
■ Swipe to mark a task as complete
■ Customized categories
■ Alerts
■ Notes
■ Repeatable / recurring tasks
■ Integration with your Facebook friends, Gmail contacts, Google plus+, Twitter followers, whatsapp friends & linkedin contacts.
♥ Our Customers Say ♥
"I want to say that I absolutely love this app and that's an understatement! I love the modern look, ease of use and how much it has helped me already. I just wanted to let you know how awesome this app is and that I have downloaded the Chrome extension as well. Thank you so much!" (Sarah L.)
"What you've developed is awesome and fills a real need in the busy Professionals daily life. Thank you so much for your hard work and I'm so excited to start using any.do frequently. Keep up the awesome work!" (Max N.)
"You have tapped into the awesome." (Erick T.)
Task list plans to sync with: Any.DO To do list, Todo list, Todo, Task List, Remember The Milk, gTasks, RTM, Producteev, Springpad, Catch, ColorNote Notepad Notes, Google Calendar, Astrid, Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Any DO and more.
Tasks: Astrid To-Do List Clone
* In-app billing is for donations only. Donations do not unlock premium features. For more information on app permissions visit https://github.com/abaker/tasks/wiki/App-Permissions
* Tasks contains all of Astrid's core functionality with a fresh coat of paint. There have been several bug fixes and internal improvements, with new features on the way!
* Tasks values your privacy and I cannot access your data under any circumstances. Your data resides only on your device unless you enable Google Task synchronization.
* Tasks can be installed alongside Astrid. For more information on migrating your data visit https://github.com/abaker/tasks/wiki/Migrating-from-Astrid
* To help translate the app visit https://github.com/abaker/tasks/wiki/Translations
* To help beta test the app visit https://github.com/abaker/tasks/wiki/Beta-Testing
* To report bugs or request features visit https://github.com/abaker/tasks/issues
* Astrid third party apps need to make minor modifications to support Tasks.
Some LG devices running Android 4.1 are incompatible with Google's Lollipop compatibility library, causing Tasks to crash on some devices such as the Optimus G and Optimus L9. If you are affected by this issue I could use your help testing a fix. Please e-mail email@example.com
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions feel free to contact me via e-mail at email@example.com
Tasks Free
* Sync with Google Tasks at the core *
Sync with Google Tasks is not just another bullet point in an endless feature list, but lies at the heart of the application. Our goal is to bring all the features you are enjoying online to your Android device.
* Tuned to the whole Android ecosystem *
Tasks uses the modern design language introduced with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich throughout the application. However, that doesn't mean that we compromise on compatibility, as we made sure that Tasks runs on Android 2.2 or later. And whether you have a phone, a tablet or anything in between, the UI just feels right for the screen you are holding in your hands.
* Additional Features *
Due date reminders
Multiple Google accounts
Light and dark theme
Integration into Android sharing system
Sort by rearranging or by due date
* Versions *
Next to the paid version we also offer a free, ad-supported version which will start showing ads after 10 days. Both versions offer the same functionality and features. You won't lose any data if you decide to upgrade from the free to the paid version as all the data is synced with Google Tasks.
* Move to SD card not supported due to problems with widgets *
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Download Blazer
Download Blazer is easy-to-use, free download manager for your Android devices. Downnload Blazer with boost your download speed and make your downloads more reliable with download resume support.
This is free ad-supported version of Download Blazer. If you like this app consider buying ad-free Download Blazer PRO. You purchase supports future development of the app.
Key Features:
• Increased download speed
• Pause/resume your downloads
• Continue disconnected downloads
• Organize your downloads in queue
• Download all file types from the web - except YouTube videos as prohibited by Google
How to use it:
You can start download by pressing the file you want to download in your web browser. In some cases you might need to long press the link and choose "Share Link" followed by "Download Blazer".
Supported browsers:
• Stock browser (simple click OR long press then "Share Link" -> "Download Blazer")
• Chrome (simple click OR long press then "Copy link address", then go to Download Blazer and press the + sign, the like address should paste automatically)
• Dolphin (simple click OR long press then "Share Link" -> "Download Blazer")
• Skyfire (long press then "Share Link" -> "Download Blazer")
• Firefox (long press then "Share Link" -> "Download Blazer")
• Boat Browser (simple click then "Open" OR long press then "Share Link" -> "Download Blazer")
Opera Mini and Opera Mobile are NOT supported, because the way the browsers are coded by their developers.
Download All Files
With Download All Files you will be able to download these files to your device. This app works like a browser plugin and enables you to download all file types and allows you to save them easily to your SD card.
Additionally you will be able to save all your Gmail attachments.
This is free ad-supported version of Download All Files. If you like it, check out the ad-free Download All Files PRO.
*It does NOT work for streaming videos like YouTube because of Google policy.
Slide Notes
- edit notes
- search & sort
- send email, export to SD card
- share notes to facebook/twitter (app required)
Languages: EN, DE, ES, FR & PL.


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Community Art Lab with Vicky Chainey Gagnon and Yaël Filipovic
Thursday October 18, 2012
Vicky Chainey Gagnon (Director/Curator, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University) and Yael Filipovic (former Curator, Education and Cultural Action, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University) will discuss the Community Art Lab – a special mediation project aiming to explore from a creative point of view the pressing social issues of our day and how these affect our direct community. Based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the Lab has been in operation for the past 4 years and under the coordination of a professional Curator of Education and Cultural Action since 3 years. In that time, the Lab has generated contact with over 3000 children, youth, adults and senior citizens, proving that there is a viable dimension and a critical importance to civically engaged public programming.
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England fast bowler Stuart Broad took a six-wicket haul on Thursday to reduce West Indies to 243-9 at stumps on the opening day of the first Test at Lord's despite Shivnarine Chanderpaul's fighting 87 not out.Broad finished with 6-72 from 24.4 overs after claiming five wickets in the final session just when West Indies had started to look comfortable at 181-4.He was unable to shift Chanderpaul, who overturned an lbw decision, survived a review and was involved in a run out during an obdurate and occasionally aggressive 175-ball innings that included 12 fours."He's been doing it for 15 years,'' Broad said of Chanderpaul. "It's quite tricky to find a good line to him because he likes to shuffle around, (but) at the end of the day we've picked up his mates around him so he'll have to play some shots in the morning if he wants his hundred.''Adrian Barath was the next highest scorer with a promising 42 but Broad dragged England back into the contest after its bowlers were frustrated for much of the day.Expecting wickets to tumble under leaden skies, England captain Andrew Strauss opted to bowl after winning the toss. But Barath began his elegant innings with two superb cover drives, and there were few alarms for the batsmen in the opening half hour until the breakthrough came in the ninth over.Kieran Powell was bowled for 5 on the fifth ball he faced from Anderson, a vicious inswinger that clattered his off stump to make it 13-1.Kirk Edwards took 13 balls to get off the mark but was trapped lbw by Anderson on the next delivery with 19 added to the total in the 15th over. It was a decision so clear-cut that the batsman tucked his bat under his arm and shrugged off Barath's apparent suggestion he use a review.Barath and Bravo then survived the occasional scare and began playing with increasing confidence, completing a 51-run partnership from 80 balls in the final over before lunch.Swan spillIn the third over of the afternoon session, Broad appealled against a decision not to give Barath lbw, but replays showed the bowler had overstepped the mark for a no-ball.Four balls later, however, Barath fell when he nudged Broad to Anderson at third slip. Anderson failed to take the catch cleanly, but parried the ball into the air before holding it at the second attempt.Anderson was less fortunate when he drew an edge from Bravo, then on 29, that flew straight to Graeme Swann at second slip in the 39th over.Swann spilled an easy, chest-high catch, but he partially atoned in the next over when he ran out Bravo before the batsman had added another run.
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Chanderpaul pulled a delivery from Swann to square-leg but stayed in his crease while Bravo sprinted down the wicket. Wicketkeeper Matt Prior nearly let Bravo off the hook with an awful throw to the bowler's end, but Swann dived to gather the ball and with both batsmen at the other end had time to run Bravo out.Chanderpaul was then given out lbw to Anderson in the 43rd over, but he successfully referred Marais Erasmus' decision and no further wickets fell in a cagey hour before tea.Chanderpaul reached 50 from 102 balls after half an hour of the evening session, but Broad struck twice in as many overs just when West Indies seemed to be in control at 181-4.Marlon Samuels (31) drove to point and was caught by debutant Jonny Bairstow in the 68th over before wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Ramdin edged Broad to Strauss at first slip two overs later.In the 82nd over, England wasted a referral when Chanderpaul, on 74, was hit on the pad by Broad. But replays upheld Aleem Dar's decision that the ball had pitched outside leg stump.West Indies skipper Darren Sammy was out on the final delivery of the same over - Broad's first with the new ball - when he edged to Tim Bresnan at gully for 17.Broad then took a diving catch off his own bowling to dismiss Kemar Roach for 6 and had Fidel Edwards caught behind for 2 on the final ball of the day.Chanderpaul's lone act of defiance for West Indies, however, has ensured the Test is still poised."It's important for us to bowl well tomorrow and pick up early wickets,'' Barath said. "It was fabulous to watch the way he (Chanderpaul) goes about his innings. Unfortunately, I didn't carry on and get a bigger score but I have to take it in my stride and carry it on in my second innings.''
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Oscar Tabarez's side missed the opportunity to climb into the top four of the Conmebol section when they lost 1-0 to Ecuador last Friday, and that result means they head into Tuesday's game against the pool winners with only the faintest chance of automatic qualification.
Uruguay, who are already guaranteed to at least go into an intercontinental play-off by virtue of finishing fifth, must defeat Argentina convincingly while also hoping one of Chile and Ecuador - placed third and fourth respectively - win their meeting in Santiago handsomely.
The 2011 Copa America winners also had to rely on the play-off route to the 2010 finals, when they beat Costa Rica 2-1 over two legs.
Uruguay went on to reach the semi-finals in South Africa, and Tabarez has resigned himself to his side once again having to do things the hard way against Jordan, who beat Uzbekistan in their Asian play-off to reach the intercontinental stage.
"We've been putting information together because we recently saw that it was most probably we'd be going to Jordan," said the coach.
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Uruguay are sure to look to Luis Suarez for inspiration against their old rivals in Montevideo, with the Liverpool forward having scored 10 goals in qualifying so far.
That tally puts him joint top of the South American scoring charts with Argentina captain Lionel Messi, who will miss the clash due to a hamstring injury.
Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain - who has been in superb form for Argentina throughout the campaign, scoring nine goals in 11 games - is also sidelined with a calf problem.
Midfielders Javier Mascherano and Fernando Gago are also both absent, with Argentina boss Alejandro Sabella likely to give some of his squad players an opportunity to impress after Friday's 3-1 victory over Peru.
Uruguay have no new injury worries ahead of the encounter, but 14 of their squad, including Edinson Cavani and Maxi Pereira, are walking a disciplinary tightrope with being just one booking away from missing their next competitive fixture - likely to be the first leg against Jordan - through suspension.
Tabarez's side will be confident of avoiding defeat at the Estadio Centenario, as they have not lost any of their seven home qualifiers during the campaign.
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A honeypot is the term used for a single computer placed on the Internet for the sole purpose of being compromised. A Honeynet, the subject of this book, essentially is a honeypot writ large. Instead of deploying a single computer to attract the more nefarious elements of computing society, you deploy several computers--an entire network of computers--whose sole purpose is to entice someone into attacking and compromising your systems. The end result of this exercise is to learn more about what kind of attacks you will see "in the wild" and how to defend against them.
The authors of Know Your Enemy: Learning About Security Threats have done a spectacular job of covering both the deployment of a honeynet and the analysis of captured data. One of the book's major strengths is providing an extraordinary amount of examples, sample code and advice on deployment and data analysis. I especially liked that the book uses real data from actual attacks to educate the reader. The authors cover Windows and Linux/UNIX environments, and they are specific about which tools to use and why those are the recommended tools.
This book even brings attention to the legal considerations of running a honeynet, which is a subject that needs serious attention. Perhaps the most entertaining chapter of the book is Chapter 16, "Profiling", essentially a psychological profile of black hat hackers. Hacker, however, is not the proper term to use for someone who illegally attacks and/or gains access to computer systems, and Chapter 16 offers a thorough explanation of proper terminology.
Although I didn't have the resources to test most of the code, examples and advice offered in this book, I believe it is remarkably thorough. The CD-ROM included with the book contains the tools the authors use throughout the text, as well as some sample data with which the reader can interact.
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I plan on overseeding my lawn over the winter with a KBG blend. I live on a wooded lot and have leaves everywhere. Can I just mulch mow the leaves prior to overseeding in a month or 2 or should I rake all the leaves up? My fear is seeding on top of mulched leaves and not having the seed contact the soil. Thanks!
I don't know the answer for sure, but I hope that your plan will work, because I'm doing much the same thing. I'm mulch mowing my leaves and will be putting some seed down soon.
I think that since the leaves are mulched, they're in small enough pieces. Also, the snow melt should carry the seeds further down, so they should get decent soil contact. I think the shredded leaves will be enough like soil that the seeds will sprout if they're in contact with the leaves, also.
I would say it depends on how finely you get the leaves mulched. It's true that the snow melt will help carry the seeds further down, but you could end up with "dead spots" where a piece of leaf gets matted down to the soil first. The snow melt can't carry the seed through the leaf, so it would end up around the leaf. I know that mulching leaves is definitely good for the soil, but if it were me, I would hold off this time around. I would remove as many of the leaves as possible and then throw the seed down.
I saw the garden man on "Ask This Old House" talk about winterizing lawns and overall lawn health for people facing snowy winters. He indicated (and I guess this makes sense, but I'm the farthest thing from an expert) that one should not only rake the leaves as much as possible to avoid the dead mush that would await you in spring otherwise, but also (before the first serious frost ) one should optimally do a really rough, rough rake through to actually pull up dead grass. This aeration, he said, is really good for the spring growth. I would assume, since aeration is necessary for growing anything, this is also true of lawn seed - raking not only the leaves, but if possible a really rough rake through to pull up dead stuff and aerate.
Any more opinions on this? We've had rain or snow over the last 3 weekends and I haven't had a chance to rake or blow the leaves...now I'm afraid it may be too tough to blow them with all the precipitation. Mulch mowing is looking more attractive every day...thanks.
I've done it every year and have mulch-mowed about 75% of all the leaves that have fallen so far, and will continue until the grindings start piling on top instead of meshing with the grass. With regular rain/snow fall throughout the winter period, I wouldn't hesitate to spread some seed, and probably will myself.
The seed should/will eventually work itself on down with contined winter moisture, so the true test will be when spring comes to your neighborhood and you start seeing new seedlings popping up. If you think about it, those seeds do pretty good without our help just about every where else, so why not.
Good question from OP.
I too would like to winter overseed and have some questions.
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It occurs to me, while riding the Microsoft Connector bus (MSFT's private, wireless-enabled buses that shuttle us through a reverse commute between Seattle and Redmond) back to my sublet, that I have changed. When you read what I have to say, you may think that only what I think has changed and that I remain the same. I assure you that's not the case, but that rather, I have changed, my very being is different now than it was. First, I'll tell you how I know this is true. I prefer Ann Arbor to Seattle.
That's right, I admit that I prefer Ann Arbor to a bustling city more than twice its size and complete with public transit, professional sports, excellent restaurants, and a slew of other things I've been missing for years. The trouble is, working a "real†job with real hours means I don't have the time or energy to enjoy these Seattle offerings. At the end of a day like today, what I most want to do is to sit in my yard or one of my friends' yards, drink a beer, grill some meat, and talk about nothing and everything. If I were really lucky, it would be a grilling night at Bill and Jolie's or I'd be sitting outside at Zingerman's.
Ann Arbor and Seattle are the sum of their parts, and right now, I miss Ann Arbor's parts. I miss my roommates, my yard, my friends, my cats, my home office, my 10 minute commute, my kitchen, my chef's knife, my fellow social scientists. Sure, Seattle has fresh food, hiking, Microsoft, old friends I haven't seen in a year or longer, poker rooms, a new and interesting research project, and many other things to recommend it. The trouble is, I made a home in Ann Arbor. I thought I'd made some friends and rented a house, but I made a home. And I miss it.
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Aww! Ann Arbor misses you, too. I can't speak for Zingerman's, the chef's knife, or your fellow social scientists, but the roommates, the grillers, and the yard all miss you very much, and Mario Kart asks about you every day.
Yep, I miss A2 like that as well. Syracuse doesn't have the cultural resources that Ann Arbor does, and I don't have the time to enjoy what Syracuse does have to offer. I spent 7 years making a very comfortable life in Ann Arbor and even after a year, I have none of that here – no local friends, no favorite hangouts, nothing but my house and Hinds Hall and the path in between. But on the other hand, this is temporary and in a few more years, I can find someplace else to call home, even though it just doesn't feel that way.
I don't suppose this means you'll be staying here after your return?
Milo and Oliver miss you, too.
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It's no secret Canadians are facing a retirement problem. Ample news reports, studies and warnings from our own governments caution us of an impending nightmare scenario.
There's been a heck of a lot of fretting and debating about what to do.
The Third Rail: Confronting our Pension Failures, by Jim Leech and Jacquie McNish, 183 pages, Signal: McClelland and Stewart.
By the numbers: Statistics from The Third Rail highlight some of the impending pension problems in Canada.
Baby boomers, ages 45 to 65, account for 42 per cent of the Canadian workforce. Over the next 20 years, seven million of them will retire.
Since 1977, the percentage of Canadian workers covered by a workplace pension has fallen from 46 per cent to 39 per cent of the workforce.
More than 95 per cent of public-sector workers are covered by a defined-benefit pension.
As of 2010, only 12 per cent of workers in the private sector belong to a defined-benefit pension plan.
Of the 19 million workers in Canada, only five million -- about 26 per cent --have a defined-benefit pension. Another 15 per cent are members of defined-contribution pension plans.
Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement payments cost Canadians $36 billion annually, more than spending on health care.
Canada's top-10 government sponsored pension plans have more than $700 billion in assets under management.
From 1996 to 2011, public-sector funds generated investment returns of seven per cent per year compared with private-sector funds, which averaged five per cent.
More than five million Canadians earning between $30,000 and $100,000 annually have no workplace pensions.
But Jim Leech, CEO of one of Canada's largest pension funds -- the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan -- says the time for debate is over. It's time for action, and he recently co-authored with Globe and Mail business reporter Jacquie McNish a book on the subject, titled The Third Rail: Confronting our Pension Failures.
The authors not only describe the causes of the impending crisis and its potential consequences, they offer solutions to avert the disaster.
"We sat down at the beginning and said, 'We really need to be able to engage more people in the discussion -- real people -- and not just actuaries, accountants and economists,' " says Leech. "The target is somebody who is educated and smart, but maybe confused/afraid and doesn't fully understand this full pension debate."
The public needs to be informed and, in turn, motivated to force the hands of those in public office to deal with the problem. Leech says many politicians consider retirement-system reform too hot to touch. That's why they called the book The Third Rail. It's a reference to the high-voltage line of a subway.
"A politician touches it and they're dead," Leech says.
In particular, politicians are unwilling to deal with the looming problems facing retirees' most potent savings vehicle: defined-benefit pensions.
This type of pension pools employee and employer contributions, providing top-notch, low-cost management while guaranteeing an income for life for pensioners.
Once commonplace, these pensions are quickly going extinct in the private sector. Even public-sector plans face problems that threaten their future because a demographic time bomb waits.
Boomers are retiring en masse, creating a losing situation where plans pay out more benefits than contributions they take in from a decreasing number of working members.
"People are living a lot longer than we ever thought," he says.
It also used to be easier for the pension plans' investment portfolios to earn a buck. In the 1970s and '80s, funds invested mostly in government bonds with yields that kept ahead of inflation, even growing funds' assets over time.
But one market calamity after another forced interest rates downward for 30 years, and pension-plan investment boards have had to look to the stock market and other riskier assets to get the returns needed to keep pace with increasing benefits paid out to a growing pensioner base.
This strategy works most years, but every stock market crash pushes funds further into financial trouble. Even the strongest of defined-benefit plans now face an increasingly uncertain future after suffering double-digit losses following the 2008 crash.
Leech says pension plans can shore up their fortunes, and his book focuses on three case studies that illustrate the consequences of a failed defined-benefit system and how this situation can be avoided. One is Rhode Island's pension system. One of its municipal government pension plans did go bankrupt in recent years, resulting in substantially reduced benefits for pensioners and considerable cutbacks in public service.
The Third Rail also examines New Brunswick's pension system. Many of its government plans were in deficit, including the City of Saint John, which in 2011 had a deficit of $130 million, almost as large as its annual revenue of $138 million.
Even the Netherlands -- a pioneer in pension plans -- faced tough decisions to keep its storied system strong. The Dutch system had gone from a healthy funding ratio of assets to liabilities of 150 per cent in 1999 to 110 per cent in 2002 following the dot-com crash, but before the situation worsened, stakeholders took action to fix the system.
And that's largely the crux of The Third Rail -- the pension system can be repaired.
Yet fixing it involves tough choices such as increasing contributions and making some benefits such as cost-of-living increases contingent on pension-plan investment performance.
While painful, Leech says the measures are much less so than the alternatives, such as substantially cutting benefits to existing pensioners.
The fact is, most Canadians could use a defined-benefit plan. Leech says it's the best savings vehicle for retirement, hands down.
But most Canadian workers don't even have a pension plan, whether that's a defined-benefit plan or its lesser cousins such as the defined-contribution plan.
"About 60 per cent of them don't have workplace pension plans," he says.
This is an even more worrisome problem because Canadians in general aren't saving enough for retirement on their own.
"Our savings rate has dropped dramatically," Leech says. "Three or four decades ago, we were saving at the rate of 20 per cent of disposable income, and today it's more like 5.5 per cent."
According to a recent C.D. Howe report, we need to save about 17 to 20 per cent of our income for about 25 years to replace 70 per cent of our working income, he adds.
CPP and OAS can only make up a small fraction of most Canadians' retirement income, and Leech says not enough people contribute to RRSPs. It's a situation with profoundly bad implications for public coffers.
As seven million boomers retire in the next two decades, they will be increasingly reliant on OAS and GIS, programs that are funded by government revenues -- a.k.a. our taxes. Already, these programs are Canada's biggest fiscal expense, but they are expected to triple to $108 billion by 2030.
It's a financial super-storm heading our way, but Leech says we can do something about it. For one, the many Canadians without a workplace pension plan need better savings vehicles. One solution is expanding CPP by increasing contributions from $2,300 annually to $2,930 for workers with $50,000 annual incomes. This would raise their retirement benefit from about $12,150 to about $17,500 annually. With OAS, retirees would have a base income of about $24,000 a year, almost half their working income.
But Canadian workers who aren't part of work pension plans also need another savings vehicle, something akin to a group pension plan, Leech says.
"Membership and contributions would be mandatory, because we've proven that voluntary, tax-assisted savings plans don't work. RRSPs are a dismal failure."
This savings plan would pool member assets similar to CPP, providing access to high-quality, low-cost money management. Once retired, pensioners would have to purchase an annuity with their assets, providing a guaranteed income for life -- an important component.
"On average, you might live to 85, but there still is a chance you might live to 105," Leech says. "By entering into an annuity contract, you hedge some of that bet."
While the problem is ominous, the system can be fixed, providing we collectively make difficult choices today, Leech says.
Reform will involve a little bit of pain today, but it will lead to substantial gain down the road.
"You make small moves today and they have huge payoffs over a long period of time," Leech says. "You do that or you wait until you're facing 50 per cent cuts to benefits and you are forced to take action, and that's truly painful."
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 23, 2013 B12
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The End of an era that happened when Vortex ended in September of this year. I wish this they can come back someday to broadcast Television. -- Submitted By: (NightmareNear) on December 31, 2014, 4:57 am
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I hate how commercialized christmas has become. Just about as commercialized as halloween became. But, it became more about getting the best gifts for people and that's what it boils down to. Buy, buy, buy and buy the best things in order to be festive. It also became a day where we take one day off to be nice to eachother but the next day, it's back to the normal swing of things. One thing that annoyed me the most, is, one of my local radio stations takes it upon itself to pull a 24-hour x-mas music format. Starts on the 21st of November, even before Thanksgiving and ends about a week passing New Years. That's taking the piss for x-mas music. By then, everyone is practically begging the radio station to go back to Top 40s format. -- Submitted By: () on December 26, 2014, 11:54 pm
Grammy Awards - Random Topics
Well, the Grammys, Academies etc. are all pre-decided by the industries running them. Whatever garnered the most money, success or whatever, wins. I think it's a joke whenever they mention that the people voted them to win. When really, it's the industries. -- Submitted By: () on December 26, 2014, 11:33 pm
Christmas - Random Topics
JayD, I did a Google Image Search and I'm really surprised no one has done some sort of "Don Wienhauer Gay Apparel" meme yet. Of course now that we brought it up here, expect some Family Guy hack to steal the gag from Bone The Fish. -- Submitted By: (Travoltron) on December 25, 2014, 4:09 pm
Christmas - Random Topics
I looked at Billboard's Adult Contemporary charts and in the top 15, there are three versions of "Baby It's Cold Outside." Talk about oversaturation of one song. And 80% of commercials use either "Deck the Halls" or "Jingle Bells(esp. the la la la version)," two songs that are definitely overused and brings out the Scrooge in everybody. Besides, doesn't Gay Apparel have a very different meaning these days? -- Submitted By: (JayD) on December 18, 2014, 6:31 pm
Christmas - Random Topics
Hidey ho, folks! Sure as sugar, the methodical Christmas takeover of the rest of the calendar year is indeed alive and well today, in the Year of Our Lord 2014. Soon stores will be putting up their trees in July and stringin' mistletoe on the doorway by Valentine's! When will the pine-scented madness end???????????? See y'all next year! -- Submitted By: (ScottyB) on December 13, 2014, 3:23 am
Tootsie Rolls - Random Topics
I've had Necco wafers on four occasions since Thanksgiving weekend and have enjoyed them. Sorry Pelirojo and Robert but Neccos are tasty..just threw the wrapper of my latest one away AND the date was 2015, NOT 1853!! Shanequia, you don't know HOW bad Tootsies are LOL! -- Submitted By: (PokeyJHorse) on December 10, 2014, 12:33 am
Grammy Awards - Random Topics
"Anaconda," "Bang Bang," "Fancy," "All About the Bass." Those are just a few of the crappy songs nominated for this year's awards. At least Maroon 5 and that awful "Maps" song didn't get any nominees. I can't stand that whiney voice and all their songs sound the same. When it is all said and done, Sam Smith will probably sweep all the categories he's nominated for, including best new artist. Will he have a lengthy career or is he going to fade away like Arrested Development, the group not the TV show. -- Submitted By: (JayD) on December 9, 2014, 7:16 pm
Panda Bears - Random Topics
Despite conservation efforts, I doubt there'd be a panda population explosion. Even if they did increase their numbers, there wouldn't be enough bamboo to go around. -- Submitted By: (JayD) on December 9, 2014, 6:33 pm