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The number of people unemployed rose slightly in May, and at a slower pace than expected, leaving the rate unchanged at 10.5 percent in seasonally adjusted terms. The Federal Labor Agency said the adjusted number of unemployed people rose by 9,000, to 4.37 million from April, while vacancies did not decline -- the first time since July -- indicating that the market was stabilizing. Petra Kappl (NYT)


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It uses a smart and intuitive interface for easy control of connected devices like lights, locks, thermostats, smoke alarms, cameras, sprinkler systems, and more from these leading brands: Bali, Dropcam, GE, Honeywell, Kidde, Kwikset, Lutron, Leviton, Schlage, Philips, Quirky, Rachio, and TCP.
Wink makes setup clear with step by step guides and videos. If you ever need help with anything, you can talk to a human on our customer support team 24/7.
Wink is free to download and doesn't charge any fees for use.
Many products work directly with the Wink app. Other product use the Wink HUB to get connected. The Wink HUB allows your diverse collection of smart products to speak the same wireless language so you can control them--and customize their interactions-- from the Wink app.
Shortcuts - Make simple buttons to quickly access your favorite settings.
Activity - Schedule and monitor everything in your home.
Robots - Automate your home by building virtual robots to do things for you.
What's New
With the Dropcam Android app, you can also:
- Talk directly to people or pets
- Turn your camera on and off
*Available to Cloud Recording subscribers
What is Dropcam?
Dropcam is a cloud-based Wi-Fi video monitoring service that makes it easy to stay connected with places, people and pets. After your camera is activated, you can drop in live using our mobile and web apps and receive alerts when motion or sound is detected.
What is Cloud Recording?
Cloud Recording automatically saves video on a rolling basis, so you can easily review footage from the past week or month. You can also save important clips and customize motion alerts based on the activities you care about.
To learn more, visit https://www.dropcam.com
This is not the official Belkin app. You will still need their official app at least once to connect your devices to your WiFi (they use proprietary method to set your router password into the device which I cannot duplicate). BUT I will never tell you to uninstall the app, reset all of your switches, reinstall and recreate your rules ;)!
Refund policy: your purchase will be refunded if you are not satisfied with the app, you chose to return your Wemo devices, or if you switch to WemoHome. I would ask that you not give my app a bad rating based on problems with the Wemo switches - there's nothing I can do to help with that, sorry. Email me (developer's email) for the refund procedure.
While not as pretty as the Belkin version, this app fixes many of its problems. It runs on many more versions of Android, is faster, more stable, and uses less than 1/2 the space and footprint of Belkin's app.
- WeMo Motion
- WeMo Switch
- WeMo Insight switch
- WeMo Light switch
- WeMo NetCam (as a motion device)
- WeMo Maker
- WeMo Link with Wemo LEDs
- GE Link bulbs on Wemo Link (see FAQ on developer site)
WemoManager comes with the following:
- WemoManager app to monitor and control all of your wemo devices
- WemoDevice and WemoSwitch widgets to monitor and control any wemo from your home screen
- WemoServer (pc/app) - run your own rules engine and remote server
- WemoRemote app and widgets work with WemoServer for remote access
- WemoScenes for single touch control of multiple WeMos (e.g. "Watch a movie")
- Web, REST and authenticated web servers for browser access
- WemoLog - log viewer
For full, secure, fast, and reliable home automation for your WEMO devices you use the WemoServer by installing it on a dedicated, always on tablet or phone connected to your WIFI network or by using the free WemoServer on Windows or Linux (java, see the MPP developers page for details).
Both versions of WemoServer provide WemoRemote and WemoRules support.
The android version adds the REST server, local and secure remote Web servers, and enables Automagic or Tasker to further automate your home.
WemoRemote plus WemoServer allow you to securely replace Belkin's or any other cloud service, keeping you safe from hackers or other privacy risks. Your important appliances can be safely monitored and managed without depending on slow, unreliable, unsecured internet services like IFTTT.
The WemoServer rule set is here: https://sites.google.com/site/mppsuite/faq/wemomanager/wemorules and you'll find additional information on that site.
Unleash the power! Use with Tasker, Automagic (with built in samples), my other automation applications, and/or Android intents or the REST API with other automation systems to:
- Use your phone location to trigger your switches
- Get a warning via SMS or email if a switch changes state or drops from your network, or power usage changes
- Turn lights on/off or flashing when a security zone is opened/entered/closed or an alarm occurs (using the DscServer)
- Use WeMo motion to trigger alarms, garage door openers, cameras, etc
- Use WeMo switches to trigger other automation in addition to sockets/lights
and more.
For a small investment and no monthly cost, you can set up your own home automation to rival Rogers Smart Home Monitoring, Time Warner's IntelligentHome, and more. Visit my developer's site (link below) or email me for more information.
Garage Door Opener - Ver:2
This App interacts with a Garage Door (GDO) Secure Server Solution enabling your Android to securely control and monitor your garage door using Wi-Fi or an Internet connection. When paired with our GDO Server Solution, this App can be configured to work securely over the internet using an advanced auto-pairing/cipher technology (patent pending) that can be configured to offer over 256 bit encryption. This secure App technology virtually ELIMINATES unauthorized access to your home. We have tested this system for over one year to assure the best possible security, ease of setup and simplicity of use.
Using the App's administrative functions you can remotely (thru the Internet) change the door password at will, thereby controlling when pre-authorized Wi-Fi users can access the door. Other features include the capability to administratively lock out all internet door users that you may have previously authorized, and to disable all paired devices in the event someone lost or misplaced a phone that can open the door.
This App's security model is designed to automatically pair (via Wi-Fi) with a local GDO Server. The pairing process exchanges unique information between the App and the GDO Server (i.e. authenticates a phone). Once paired, ONLY an authenticated phone can access the Garage Door. This means that your phone must physically be at your garage door to pair up with a GDO Server – after that, you can roam the internet and ONLY the paired Phone (given the correct password) will see the door's status and can issue encrypted commands.
The GDO Server is an internet appliance that plugs into your home router and connects wirelessly with 99% of all garage door systems. It is required for operating and monitoring a real garage door – see the WHAT'S NEW section for a link to obtain this hardware. Our GDO Server has an embedded web app page that allows most WiFi capable devices to operate as a WiFi garage door remote. We also offer/develop a variety of low cost, software solutions (source code included) that implement the GDO Server on various platforms such as Linux, Windows, Microcontrollers, Android OS, etc.
NOTE: The level of encryption we have developed for our FULLY ENCRYPTED GDO Hardware Servers may not be sold outside of the United States at this time. However, we do offer non-encrypted GDO Server solutions that can be run on any Linux or Windows server and can leverage your own WiFi router encryption. This software can be licensed/downloaded from our site along with garage door interface specifications.
* Triggers: App, Time, Day, Location, Hard/Soft State, Event, Shortcut, Widget, Timer, Plugins
* Actions: 200+ built-in, plugin support
* Tasks: loops, variables, conditions
* Scenes: design your own screen overlays
* App Creation: create your own standalone apps to share or sell! (Android 2.3+)
Trial: http://tasker.dinglisch.net/dl
Starter Guides: http://tasker.dinglisch.net/guides.html
Queries, Problems: see Menu / Info / Support in-app
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****** Actions By Category ******
[not all actions available on all devices]
* ALERT: Flash, Notify LED/Sound/Vibrate, Cancel Notification, Popup Timed/WithTaskIcons/Names, Torch, Vibrate, Vibrate Pattern
* APP: Calendar Insert, Go Home, Kill App, Load App, Open Map (/StreetView/Nav)
* AUDIO: Alarm/Call/DTMF/Media/Notif./Ringer/System Volume, Haptic Feedback Toggle, Mic Mute, Notification Pulse, Notification(<4.1)/Ringer Vibrate (<4.2 or root), Silent Mode, Speakerphone, Sound Effects toggle
* DIALOG: 28 System Settings dialogs
* DISPLAY: Auto-Brightness, Close System Dialogs, Keyguard, Keyguard Pattern, Display Brightness, Display Off Timeout, Display Rotation, Set Wallpaper, Stay On, Status Bar (expand/collapse)
* FILE: Browse Files, Directory Create/Delete/Move, File Copy/Delete/Move/Open, Write To File, Read Line, Read Paragraph, Zip/Unzip File
* INPUT: Button, Dpad (root only), Type (root only), Input Method Select, Soft Keyboard (show)
* MEDIA: Media Button Events (grab), Media Player Control, Music File/Dir, Play/Forward/Back/Stop, Photo/Series/TimeSeries, Record Audio, Record Audio Stop, Ringtone, Scan Card
* MISC: (Broadcast) Action Intent, Component Intent, Get Location, GPS Status (<2.3 or Cyanogen/submod), Run (ASE) Script, Say, Say To File, Shut Up, Search For, Set Clipboard, Reboot (root only), Set CPU (root only) Set Timezone
* NETWORK: Airplane Mode (<4.1 or root), Autosync, BT, BT ID, Compose Email, Browse URL, HTTP GET, HTTP POST, Mobile Data (on/off), Mobile Data 2G/3G (Cyanogen only), USB Tether, WiFi Toggle, Wifi Disconnect/Reassociate/Reconnect, Wifi Sleep, Wifi Tether, Wimax Toggle
* PHONE: Call, Call Log, Call Block/Divert/Revert, Compose MMS/SMS, Contacts, End Call, Radio, Send SMS, Send Data SMS, Silence Ringer, Take Call
* TASKER: Change Icon Set, If, End If, Goto Action, Perform Task, Profile Toggle, Query Action, Set Widget Icon, Set Widget Label, Stop, Wait, Wait Until
* VARIABLES: Set, Clear, Inc, Dec, Query, Randomize, Split, Join, List
* 3RD PARTY: Android Notifier, Astrid, BeyondPod, JuiceDefender Data/Toggle, Gentle Alarm, NewsRob, OfficeTalk, SleepBot, SMS Backup+, TeslaLED, WidgetLocker
****** States ******
Airplane Mode, BT Connected, Calendar Entry, Docked, Headset Plugged, Incoming Call, Keyboard Out, Light Level, Media Button, Missed Call, Mobile Network, Device Orientation, Power, Various Sensors, Signal Strength, Unread Text, Variable Value, Wifi Network, Wifi Near
****** Events ******
Alarm Clock/Done, Date Set, Time/Date Set, Timezone Set, Display: Off/On/Unlocked, File Closed/Deleted/Modified/Moved/Opened/Attributes Changed, Camera/Search Button Long-Press, Card Mounted/Removed/Unmounted, Gesture,Missed Call, Phone Changes, Received Text, SMS Send Success/Failure, Battery Changed/Full/Low/Overheating, Device Boot, Device Shutdown, Storage Low, Locale Changed, New/Removed/Updated Package, Wallpaper Changed, Button Gadget Clicked, New Window, Notification, Notification Clicked, Zoom Click, Variable Cleared/Set, K9 Email Received, Gentle Alarm, Kaloer Clock, OpenWatch, Reddit Notify, Screebl, Widget Locker
We made A WeMoWay..A WeMoWay....In the jungle...oooooo
-- Features --
* Manage your devices and set a schedule easily and quickly
* Tasker integration. Simple and fast.
-- Usage ---
Since we are using the WeMo SDK, the devices only work after they have been provisioned with the Belkin WeMo App. Belkin does some proprietary magic in the cloud but once the devices are setup in your home network, you are free to use the WeMoWay app.
The WeMoWay app only works when you are connected to the same wifi as your devices. That way no information is sent over the internet and all the connections are handled locally. Even if the internet goes down, your lights can stay lit.
Since this is the first release we are looking for lots of feedback. Let us know how it works and how you are using it. We are always improving the app and new features will be coming out often!
If you want to be part of the Beta Test community email firstname.lastname@example.com and we will put you on the list.
-- What's Coming Up ---
Android Wear Integration. Turn my lights on from my watch...Why Not!
NFC Writes/Reads. Tap your phone to turn on / off anything
Cloud Synchronization. This allows us to backup/restore your settings and sync across multiple devices. As long as one device is connected to your home network you can trigger the switches from anywhere.
IoT Cloud IFTTT OpenWrt Optimizations! No! And I don't even know what that means.
The app uses a lot of permissions. Belkin WeMo SDK (http://developers.belkin.com/wemo/sdk) needs us to include all of them. To that end I have no idea what they are needed for, email firstname.lastname@example.com and ask.
-Our Monkeys collect crash statistics in the really, really unlikely situation that the app crashes. We send that to the internet so the Monkey Handlers can berate the Monkeys.
-Local storage is used to cache images and settings.
Wi-Fi connection information
When you switch between networks, we need to connect to the new WeMo devices. This permission lets us verify your wifi network
GarageMate4.0 Garage Opener
GarageMate is trusted by thousands of users worldwide and is the most secure garage door opener. The simple installation takes 2 minutes. Even if someone else has the GarageMate App they will not be able to open your garage without your permission.
Compatible with Genie, Liftmaster, Chamberlain, Sears Craftsman, Raynor, Wayne-Dalton, Axis Cam, AccessMaster, Somfy, and virtually every garage door open built in the last 30 years. We also work with older openers (50 years), just tell us before ordering.
Only phones that have been previously paired to the GarageMate Receiver can open your garage door. The pairing process requires physical access to the receiver so it it not possible for someone else to pair their phone to the receiver.
The GarageMate App is FREE. And you can buy the latest low-cost Bluetooth4.0 receiver from us or DIY.
We performed extensive fail-safe testing in below freezing temperatures (-40F), above 140F, high humidity, power loss problems, and many other situations. Even under extreme conditions, the receiver never opens your garage door accidentally. Also, because you can password protect your phone and the App, we believe this is the most secure way to access your home. With password protection, if you lose your phone no one can enter your home. The same can't be said for keys and your other garage door remotes.
Thank you for the download and support.
Additional Tags: Garage Mate, BlueMate, BTmate, BlueMate.com, BTmate.com, GDMate, GD mate.
IR Dimmer Remote
Requirements (Android 4.3 Jellybean and older):
- Lutron Maestro IR® Dimmer
- Samsung device with IR Blaster
Requirements (Android 4.4 KitKat):
- Lutron Maestro IR® Dimmer
-Any device with IR Blaster
On some devices (HTC One) if the dimmer does not respond, select the "Alternate" option on the menu.
Gogogate - Open garage door -
Download the GoGogate app to open or close your garage door or gate with your Android.
This App works with the GoGoGate device that can be purchased separately at www.gogogate.com.
The GoGogate app will connect your Android to the GoGogate device via your Wi-Fi home network or internet.
Product details:
-This APP (when used in conjunction with the GoGoGate device) will open up to 3 garage doors
-Garage door status alert: Shows if your garage doors are Open or Closed
-Clean, Intuitive and User Friendly Interface
-Unlimited number of users can download the app and operate a single garage
-100% Secure with 128bits encryption technology
Compatible with all Garage door openers..
Advanced Settings:
The GoGogate device can also be configured via the APP to operate other relay based products such as electric blinds or sprinkler systems.
Installation video link:
Don't have a SpotCam yet? No idea what is SpotCam?
SpotCam is a true cloud based WiFi video monitoring camera that allows you to watch what you care anytime anywhere. SpotCam setup is so easy that anyone who knows how to connect to WiFi can set up SpotCam with ease. Once activated, 24 hours free cloud recording helps you stay connected and never miss a second.
To learn more, visit myspotcam.com.
iCam - Webcam Video Streaming
iCam has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, and Good Morning America - http://skjm.com/news.php
Popular uses include baby monitor, pet cam, nanny cam, spy cam, and security camera.
Record and playback Motion Events and Receive Notifications on your Android device when Motion is Detected by your iCamSource(s) - Visit http://skjm.com/icam/vid.php for video demonstrations.
Please note that to use iCam you will also need to download the free iCamSource software from http://skjm.com/icam/
The iCamSource software supports Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
iCam users also have access to iCamWeb, allowing them to connect to their iCamSource(s) from most any modern, Java-enabled web browser : http://skjm.com/icam/web/
NOTICE: If you are ever having issues please contact support instead of just leaving a bad review as we have no way of contacting you to help resolve your problem. Thanks!
Q : What do I need to do to setup and use iCam and iCamSource?
A : The steps are:
1) Download iCam to your Android device and the iCamSource to your computer.
2) Start the iCamSource, and choose your USB / FireWire / Built-In webcam from the Video and Audio drop-down lists. If you are connecting to an Ethernet / Wi-Fi camera, simply enter the camera's MJPEG/JPEG URL along with the camera's login and password.
3) Enter a Login and Password of your choosing (no need to register or create an account, but make sure they are not easily guessed), and click the Start button. iCamSource is now setup and running.
4) Start iCam on your Android device and enter the same Login and Password from Step 3.
5) Tap Done. iCam is now setup and running, and should connect to the iCamSource running on your computer.
Tap a video thumbnail to Zoom In, press Back to Zoom Out.
Repeat Steps 2 & 3 for any additional computers and Steps 4 & 5 for any additional Android devices, being sure to use the same Login and Password for all of them.
Visit the "Getting Started" section of the iCam Help pages for more information: http://skjm.com/icam/help/
Q : Do I have to configure my firewall or router or know what my IP address is to use iCam?
A : Nope. :)
In most situations, things should "just work" unless your network is particularly complex or restricted.
If you do have problems getting things to work, please be sure to either Contact Support or visit the Discussion Forum.
Q : Does this work if iCam is connected via EDGE or 3G or a different WiFi network than the iCamSource?
A : Yes.
Q : What types of cameras does the iCamSource support?
A : The iCamSource currently supports any Built-In, FireWire or USB webcam supported by Windows XP/Vista or OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and later. It also supports FireWire-connected DV cameras on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and later. Video-only support is also available for most MJPEG/JPEG-compatible WiFi and Ethernet network IP webcams. MPEG-4 and h.264 devices are not supported.
Q : Is iCam "peer-to-peer" or are the audio & video sent through your servers?
A : Yes, iCam is a "peer-to-peer" application. The iCamSource sends its audio & video directly to iCam, and nothing is ever sent through our servers.
Q : Can anyone else connect to my iCamSource and view my webcam?
A : The only way that someone can connect to your iCamSource is if they know your iCam Login and Password, just like every other account you have on the Internet. In addition, your iCam Login and Password are never sent to our servers, so your video feeds are able to be kept completely private.
Chrome Remote Desktop
• On each of your computers, set up remote access using the Chrome Remote Desktop app from Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop
• On your Android device, open the app and tap on any of your online computers to connect.
For information about privacy, please see the Google Privacy Policy (http://goo.gl/SyrVzj) and the Chrome Privacy Policy (http://goo.gl/0uXE5d).
Commandr for Google Now
Android Authority Top 10 Best App of 2014
As Featured on CNET, LifeHacker, SlashGear, Android Police, Android Authority, Android Central, Droid Life, Android Community, Android Pit, and more!
"If you are looking for a way to add a few extra voice commands to Google Now, give Commandr a try!" - CNET
"... if you're using your phone hands free in the car, it can be a life saver" - LifeHacker
"With the 3rd-party-developed app Commandr, Google Now gets a boost" - SlashGear
"... meet Commandr, the new in-between service for flipping hardware switches in Google Now" - Android Police
Google Now Just Got Better
Now you can use Google Now to control your flashlight, toggle settings, control music playback, and much more!
Google Now Just Got Personal
Add your own custom commands through Tasker to make sure your device fits your lifestyle.
Listening to You
Vote on new commands or suggest new ones so that we are working on adding the commands you want.
Improving Quickly
Don't wait for Google! Updates will be quick and support request responses quicker.
Unify Your Smartphone
Access all the features of your device through Google Now so you don't have to remember what app does what.
Setup and Forget
Once you setup Commandr, it will always be accessible from Google Now and will only run when needed. It won't slow down your phone or your boot.
Full Android Wear Support
Either say "Okay Google" + the command to your watch or open up the full Android Wear app and tap on a command!
Commands work fully offline! (have to type instead of speak)
Command List (so far):
- Flashlight On/Off
- Wifi On/Off
- GPS On/Off (some devices)
- Bluetooth On/Off
- Wireless Hotspot On/Off
- Pause/Resume Music
- Previous/Next Song
- Read Unread SMS
- Read Last SMS From Contact
- Play Google Music Playlist
- Chatbot (for Siri-like functionality)
- Cellular Data On/Off
- Read Unread Gmail
- Raise/Lower Volume
- Silence/Unsilence Ringer
- Set Volume to Percentage
- Unlock/Lock phone
- Take a Picture
- Take a Selfie
- Shutdown (Root)
- Reboot Recovery (Root)
- Restart (Root)
- Clear Notifications (Root)
- Wolfram Alpha
- Send Whatsapp message
- Enable/Disable Rotation Lock
- Enable/Disable Sync
- Night mode (Disable wifi, data, and ringer)
- Enable/Disable Airplane Mode (Root)
- Enable/Disable Car Mode
Developer: Ryan Senanayake
Graphic Designer: Adriano Loiacono
Open Source Contributors: Aaron Disibio (firesoul453), Moksh Jawa, flyingtoaster0, Daniel Quah (emansih)
Special thanks to Moksh Jawa for his outstanding work not only in his open-source contributions, but also in his relentless marketing of the product
Source code: https://github.com/RSenApps/Commandr-Android
Do not enable Talkback Accessibility service instead of Commandr. If you do this by accident and notice an orange box around tappable items, please see the Talkback support pages to turn off the service.
Tasker (In-App): Use this for launching a single task
1. Install Commandr and Tasker - [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&hl=en[/url]
2. Navigate to Tasks and press the add button in the bottom-right
3. Configure the command and keep note of the name
4. Ensure that Tasker is enabled (icon in top left is colored)
5. Go to preferences (top-right) > Misc and check "Allow External Access"
6. In the Commandr app click Tasker
7. Find the command you created and enable it by tapping the switch top-right
8. (Optional) edit the phrase that will activate the command
Tasker (Plugin): Use this for launching multiple tasks
1. Install Commandr and Tasker - [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&hl=en[/url]
2. Under Profiles Click Add
3. Event
4. Plugin
5. Commandr
6. Configure the phrase to listen for
7. Add tasks to profile
SilMotion by Silvelox spa
Few examples of the parameters you can set are:
•Timer-to-Close (TCC)
•Door timing
•Current absorption
•Light/buzzer timing
TCP Lighting
Requires TCP product installation and an active account.
Depending on where you are, #SAM can enable or disable automatically the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, ring alarms or display notifications.
All automatically. All SAM with #!
With #SAM you can automatically manage all this things.
It's not a dream. It's #SAM.
An example of an event that you can set with #SAM?
"When I reach home, turn WiFi on. When I leave, turn it off."
"When I reach college, set the brightness to the minimum. When I leave, to the maximum"
"When I reach the place where I work launch Skype"
Set your Favorite Places to access them quickly on the map.
Don't worry about battery drain! #SAM will never drain your battery!
To determine your position, Sam relies on Google's sophisticated and battery-caring algorithms.
#SAM is inspired by the IFTTT logic (If This Then That).
Enjoy the freedom of having all things under your control!
Enjoy #SAM!
Bored of putting your phone on silent every time you get into the office? Tired of turning off Bluetooth to conserve battery every time juice gets low?
This app interacts with your surroundings to configure settings on your phone automatically. Combine triggers and actions to create tasks, then activate the tasks that you create with conditions that you set!
Here are examples of what you can do:
In your car: Use Bluetooth as a trigger to open GPS and launch your favorite music app
On your nightstand: Program an NFC tag to set your ringer to vibrate, dim your display and set an alarm
In your home: Configure mobile data to turn off when your phone detects your own Wifi
The current triggers are as follows:
And as part of our Pro-Upgrade we also have these additional triggers:
-Battery Level
-Time triggers
And here are a few examples of the actions that you can perform:
- Change WiFi, Bluetooth, mobile hotspot, airplane mode (root users in Jelly Bean and up), auto-sync, GPS (root users), and mobile data settings.
- Change your volumes or notification tones.
- Change your display brightness, timeout, auto-rotation, or notification light settings
- Check in on social media like Foursquare or Google Places
- Send messages using Twitter, SMS, Email, or Glympse
- Start or stop Applications (root required for stopping applications), dock modes, open URLs, speak text, or navigate to an address
- Set Alarms or create calendar events
This app allows you to easily program your device to do the actions you do regularly.
So go ahead and create your own combinations to automate your life. The only limit is what you can come up with!
The Wall Street Journal calls it "living in the future."
Additional actions can be found when experimental features are enabled in advanced settings. Auto lock screen and airplane mode are restricted by Android but we've created some work around solutions for these actions. (Note: They aren't 100% reliable which is why they're classed as "experimental features").
Some demos can be viewed on the application website
Note: When using NFC Tags you can create a Switch task that will toggle between two tasks with each tap.
We're always working on adding new actions to Tasks. Please get in touch if there's something you'd like to do that's not currently offered.
This application supports NFC Forum Type 1, Type 2, Type 3 and Type 4 Tags as well as third party NFC Enabled tags like the MIFARE Classic, DESFire, Ultralight and Ultralight C. Now supporting read-only tags & allowing you to write any amount of data to any tag using Tagstand's cloud service. This allows you to use your tags just as you would any writable tag without worrying about size.
All permissions are listed and explained here: https://answers.tagstand.com/q/309-faq-permissions
This app uses Google Analytics for aggregate, anonymous data collection, which can be opted out of from the settings page.
More from developer
Once connected, you can check your coin balance from anywhere, set financial goals, and track your spending. (Piggy) bank robber alerts are triggered by Porkfolio's accelerometer to protect your savings from shenanigans.
Download the app. Then bring home the bacon!
About Quirky:
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In her debut collection, Chloe Honum takes the popular theme of springtime and rebirth, and turns it on its head. Or rather, she digs deeper. Rebirth is only possible—only has meaning and significance—because of the reality of death.
Every year my sister and I
sifted through the clutter
of early spring,
of what the warm earth
coughed up: fresh death,
nothing wasted.
Every year my sister and I
sifted through the clutter
of early spring,
of what the warm earth
coughed up: fresh death,
nothing wasted.
She describes the time between seasons when, in order to make room for new growth, last year's dead is brought to the surface. Having been preserved by the frozen ground, the brown leaves and insect exoskeletons are "coughed up" with the approach of warmer weather. Thus, while spring is a time of new life, it is also a time of "fresh death." This comparison is set against the more specific theme of the sickness and eventual death of the poet's mother.
The first poem, "Spring," begins: Mother tried to take her life. / The icicles thawed. Many of the poems explore this unusual juxtaposition, in the poet's attempt at reconciliation with her mother's eventual success. As the mother recovers from her initial suicide attempt, the mother-daughter relationship undergoes a revolution. The poet becomes caretaker, worrier—mother. Sitting on the edge of her hospital bed, she says, I spoke in whispers yet my voice had never been so loud. Because I asked her to, she said she wanted to live.
The role of nurturing, life-giving mother has been abandoned and is taken up by the daughter. Yet it is not welcomed by her patient, and therein lies the tension: My love was a knife against her throat. Sadly, ironically, the poet realizes that her concern and need for her mother are more threat than inspiration for her mother to go on living.
In "Dress Rehearsal," she describes dancing in a ballet studio.
Branches etch the film of ice
on the studio window. A crow looks in,
hopping and shrieking when I dance
in my black tutu trimmed with silver.
The ballet master says, You are its mother.
Branches etch the film of ice
on the studio window. A crow looks in,
hopping and shrieking when I dance
in my black tutu trimmed with silver.
The ballet master says, You are its mother.
This recalls Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight," in which the speaker describes sitting alone, save that at my side / my cradled infant slumbers peacefully. As he sits in quietude, he observes "the secret ministry of frost" as it creeps over all things exposed. Coleridge and Honum describe similar situations, therefore, but for the fact that Coleridge's speaker has an actual child while Honum's speaker, at this point still a child herself, is identified as the "mother" of a crow. This unnatural relationship, similar to the poet's role reversal with her mother, is both unwanted and unwonted.
Coleridge's poem is a benediction of sorts, with the speaker addressing his son: Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee. But for Honum's speaker, the "blackest / cold-wet air" of midwinter is foreboding. No season can be sweet to her because she cannot escape the pain of abandonment.
Throughout the collection, Honum skilfully employs imagery and symbolism to convey the sense of being untethered:
All that falls is caught. Unless
it doesn't stop, like moonlight,
which has no pace to speak of,
falling through the cedar limbs,
falling through the rock.
All that falls is caught. Unless
it doesn't stop, like moonlight,
which has no pace to speak of,
falling through the cedar limbs,
falling through the rock.
With no mother to guide her—indeed, with that mother the very source of her pain—she is in a free-fall of grief. In one poem, she describes how a large moth collided / with my throat and shuddered / there, as if attached to me, / trapped in a wheel of air. The image of the moth, which appears elsewhere, is especially powerful because of the moth's obvious disorientation: Presumably attracted by the light on the porch where the speaker is standing, the moth becomes "trapped" and flutters around in circles. Yet why are moths attracted to artificial light? Some scientists believe that moths are typically guided by the light of the moon, and in the absence of moonlight, or in the presence of a more distracting light, moths can be misled, often at the risk of being burned.
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GE plan to close Fort Edward plant, move work to Florida, where wages are much lower…
The kind of jobs that Fort Edward will lose if the GE plant there closes as planned by the company pay well, particularly for an area where such jobs are scarce. But those same jobs pay a lot less well in the Tampa area, where the company wants to move the work, ending a seven-decade […] [Read More]
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and two Capital Region companies received a total of about $1.2 million from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for projects aimed at making buildings more energy-efficient. RPI got $509,000 in grants for work on lighting, wind energy, solar cell efficiency and wireless networks. Ecovative Design, a Green Island […] [Read More]
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The Development Authority of the North Country is using $400,000 in state aid to establish a revolving loan fund for North Country movie theaters to purchase digital film projection equipment, according to a release Monday from Empire State Development. The fund fill cover Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Clinton counties. New digital projectors […] [Read More]
The Wercs, Latham environmental compliance company, sold to UL
A Capital Region environmental compliance company founded three decades ago has been acquired by UL, the former Underwriters Laboratory. UL will be using The Wercs, foundedin Latham by local resident Lou DeSorbo, to improve service to global companies that need to manage supply chains. DeSorbo will remain with the company and the purchase price was […] [Read More]
Mushroom-based packaging firm raises investor cash
Green Island-based Ecovative Design LLC, which developed an innovative packaging technology based on mushroom biology, has raised more than $14 million in equity financing from new and existing investors, including existing investors the DOEN Foundation and 3M Company. Terms were not disclosed, but the company press released indicated that it" intends to launch additional protective […] [Read More]
Stuyvesant Plaza pottery studio changes hands
A pottery art studio in Stuyvesant Plaza has been sold to a new owner. Tina Phillips has purchased The Pottery Place from Amy Mazzotta of Mazzotta Associates Limited, according to a statement by broker ThielGroup LLC. The business has been there for 15 years, and offers paint-it-yourself pottery, as well as self-made silver and glass […] [Read More]
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A plant that processes wood into animal bedding faces more than $233,000 in federal fines for worker safety violations that risked explosion, fire, and injury, according to to the U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. RWS Manufacturing, which operates in in the Warren-Washington County Industrial Park, was cited for 28 violations, two of […] [Read More]
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This six-volume series traces the history of imperial China from the beginnings of unification under the Qin emperor in the third century BCE to the end of the Qing dynasty in the early twentieth century. Each book covers a broad range of topics at a concise length and is grounded in the latest scholarship. This is an essential series for everyone interested in Chinese history and culture. The Tang dynasty is often called China's 'golden age', a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional war-lordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Intensive preparation enabled two Menlo Park schools to take first and second place in overall scoring at the recent California Catholic Schools Academic Junior High Decathlon.Tuesday, 4:02 PM | No comments yet
It's no longer "the Gehry building" -- Facebook's newest Menlo Park office has been dubbed "MPK20" as employees start moving in this week.Tuesday, 11:27 AM | 5 comments
Crime reports for Woodside and Menlo Park.Tuesday, 10:40 AM | No comments yet
It's time for the decision-makers to take a first look at what residents have said they hope to see in Menlo Park's M2 industrial district, when the City Council and Planning Commission hold a joint study session tonight (March 31).Tuesday, 8:29 AM | 4 comments
Monday, March 30, 2015
Going to school pays off, both for the students and for the Menlo Park police officer whose mission it is to make sure the kids get to class.Monday, 6:24 PM | 1 comment
Four local elementary school districts -- Woodside, Portola Valley, Las Lomitas and Menlo Park City -- have announced kindergarten registration procedures.Monday, 10:16 AM | No comments yet
A "driving incident" on Crane Street led to the citation of a Menlo Park man for allegedly impersonating a police officer.Monday, 10:08 AM | 2 comments
For the second time in a little more than a week, Holbrook-Palmer Park was the site of a broad-daylight vehicle burglary on Friday, March 27, Atherton police say.Monday, 10:03 AM | 2 comments
The mayor of Galway, Ireland, Donal Lyons, stopped by Menlo Park on March 10-11, at the invitation of Menlo Park Mayor Catherine Carlton. Mayor Lyons was accompanied by Galway Chief Executive (similar to city manager) Brendan McGrath.Monday, 9:51 AM | No comments yet
Second Harvest Food Bank is launching a $5 million Stand Up for Kids Campaign by partnering with schools and community organizations to better connect hungry kids and their families to nutritious food.Monday, 7:59 AM | No comments yet
It's an old dividing line, jobs in the trades that require hand skills with a variety of tools versus jobs that rely mainly on thinking. Hands-on versus intellectual. Are both important?Monday, 7:53 AM | No comments yet
On Monday night, the public can comment on the request by residents of the north side of Menlo Park's O'Connor Street to be moved into the same school district as their across the street neighbors, from the Ravenswood City to the Menlo Park City school district.Monday, 7:51 AM | No comments yet
Sunday, March 29, 2015
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Caltrain in Sunnyvale on Sunday morning (March 29).Sunday, 1:54 PM | No comments yet
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Gary Lindsay is the new director of children's ministry at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, where he will be serving more than 2,000 families.Saturday, 10:04 PM | No comments yet
Two adults were cited for misdemeanors after they bought alcohol for a minor decoy working on behalf of the Menlo Park Police Department on Thursday.Saturday, 5:24 AM | 1 comment
Friday, March 27, 2015
After two full days of deliberation following an almost month-long trial, a jury on Friday found in favor of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers in a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination brought by Ellen Pao, a former junior partner.Friday, 5:16 PM | 25 comments
Update: Expanded story - Nearly six weeks after she first declined interviews with the Almanac, Filoli's executive director, Cynthia D'Agosta agreed to an interview at Filoli on March 26 to discuss how those at the historic estate are working to move past the recent turmoil.Friday, 11:38 AM | 28 comments
Untreated water was mixed with treated water in an East Bay reservoir earlier this month and then went on to the regional water system, which delivers to an estimated 3,500 customers of the Menlo Park Municipal Water District, according to the city.Friday, 9:53 AM | No comments yet
Electric cars and their charging stations have had the alternative-fuel spotlight mostly to themselves in Silicon Valley in recent years. By the end of October, however, they will have challengers, in Skylonda and along the Peninsula.Friday, 9:52 AM | 1 comment
After 15 years of operating out of modular buildings, Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto will host a grand opening celebration for its brand-new, 38,000-square-foot facility on March 28 from noon to 4 p.m.Friday, 9:49 AM | No comments yet
A casino bus caught fire on southbound U.S. 101 in Menlo Park Thursday evening, according to Menlo Park Fire Protection District officials.Friday, 8:29 AM | No comments yet
Thursday, March 26, 2015
With a theme of "Carbon: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" for the 2015 Portola Valley and Woodside Earth Fair on Saturday, March 28, it should be no surprise that cars that run on fuels not derived from fossilized carbon will be on display.Thursday, 9:25 AM | No comments yet
A homeless census in San Mateo County shows around 690 people are living on the streets, in vehicles or in encampments, lower by 47 percent from the 1,299 people counted in 2013.Thursday, 8:40 AM | No comments yet
Mark and Mary Stevens, the Atherton couple who have given $50 million to USC's Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, are among 129 billionaires worldwide who have signed the Giving Pledge started by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, promising to give away at least half their wealth.Thursday, 8:24 AM | 2 comments
My stress began in elementary school, where students were segregated into separate class meetings as "early" and "late" readers, recalls Carolyn Walworth a junior at Palo Alto High School.Thursday, 8:11 AM | 15 comments
Janet Davis of the Stanford Weekend Acres neighborhood, known by many as a watchdog of public works and traffic-related services provided by the county and the city of Menlo Park in the Alpine Road area, deserves a round of applause for her relentlessness in helping to track down the truth of the March 17 herbicide spraying right next to San Francisquito Creek.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Menlo Park City School District Superintendent Maurice Ghysels is back on the job, he announced in a communication to the school community on March 25. He had been on a medical leave since late February after injuring his neck.Wednesday, 6:19 PM | No comments yet
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Keith C. Sorenson, the district attorney in San Mateo County from 1953 to 1982, has died. Mr. Sorenson played a major role in hiring retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor after she graduated from Stanford University law school.Wednesday, 10:51 AM | 2 comments
Menlo Park will be looking at four changes to downtown parking, including letting people park in the downtown plazas for up to three hours for free and funding parking garages.Wednesday, 10:40 AM | 27 comments
Crime and accident reports from Woodside, North Fair Oaks, Portola Valley and Menlo ParkWednesday, 10:20 AM | No comments yet
It's emergency preparedness made easy -- Atherton has planned a "Get Ready Atherton" event for Thursday, March 26, in Holbrook-Palmer Park to give residents "one-stop shopping" for information, supplies and answers to their questions about emergency preparedness.Wednesday, 9:32 AM | No comments yet
Mark and Mary Stevens of Atherton have given the University of Southern California $50 million to endow and name the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, the university announced today.Wednesday, 9:12 AM | 1 comment
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
State Senator Jerry Hill, D- San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, will hold an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 26, at their district offices, 1528 South El Camino Real in San Mateo.Tuesday, 1:07 PM | No comments yet
At the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, staff scientist Siegfried Glenzer has devised experiments to view simulated conditions in the center of Jupiter.Tuesday, 11:08 AM | No comments yet
A man in jail over a break-in at Mike's Camera shop has pleaded not guilty to charges that include burglary, vandalism and possession of stolen property, according to a prosecutor's report.Tuesday, 9:47 AM | 1 comment
Two suspects robbed four people at an auto mechanic shop in unincorporated North Fair Oaks over the weekend, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.Tuesday, 8:38 AM | No comments yet
A lawsuit brought against the Menlo Park Fire Protection District over a collision between a car and an emergency vehicle has been dismissed, but it has led to changes in how emergency vehicles drive to a scene.Tuesday, 6:51 AM | 12 comments
Monday, March 23, 2015
One person was killed and two were injured in a collision that blocked state Highway 1 near Ano Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County on Monday evening.Monday, 8:04 PM | No comments yet
Downtown parking, that perpetual agenda topic in Menlo Park, will reappear yet again before the City Council on Tuesday, March 24, for a study session.Monday, 1:01 PM | 3 comments
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David Poort | 03 Jul 2014 16:44 GMT | Sport, Football, Latin America, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - FIFA President Sepp Blatter has praised the Brazilian people for the organisation of the World Cup, saying that fears of major protests during the tournament have - so far - not materialised. Speaking at a football conference in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, the chief of the world's football body said that with eight more matches to be played, the tournament is already a success. "Where is all this social unrest?" Blatter rhetorically asked the audience, referring to the massive streets protests in the run-up to the tournament in several of Brazil's major cities.
It's exceptional what has been done, really, in all the host cities.
- Sepp Blatter , FIFA President
Up until the start of World Cup, thousands of Brazilians went on strike or took to the streets in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other major cities to demand better public services or higher salaries. The Brazilian passion for football, however, appears to have kept the protest movements entranced as turn-out at anti-World Cup gatherings has not exceeded 300 people since the start of the tournament.
Anti-World Cup protesters had announced that they would disrupt the heavily secured FIFA conference in Rio de Janeiro, but only six activists showed up. "I have to complement the people of Brazil," Blatter said, as the audience applauded his speech. "They have accepted this World Cup and it is a must in this country, where football is more than a religion, that it is a success. And it is a success. And I'm very happy that FIFA is part of it." 'Nothing is wrong' Blatter also lauded the Brazilian local governments for the organisation of the event and said that, in the end, all stadiums were ready in time, mainly due to frantic last-minute construction. "What has been said by the international media about all that would be wrong here (in Brazil)… Nothing is wrong! Everything is good. I wouldn't say perfect, because perfection doesn't exist in this world.
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"The media has said; the stadiums will not be ready - but they were all ready. … It's exceptional what has been done, really, in all the host cities," Blatter said. "We still have eight matches to be played, so let's keep our fingers crossed that also these last matches will occur in the same pattern, with the same atmosphere." Speaking to Al Jazeera at the FIFA conference, Brazil's Deputy Minister of Sports Luis Fernandes said that the fears of large protests during the World Cup were based on a "misconception" caused by the demonstrations during last year's Confederations Cup. The demonstrations, by some referred to as the Brazilian Spring, were initially organised to protest against increased bus fares, but later morphed into a wider movement that also took on police brutality, government corruption and overspending. "There have been protests every day since the start of the World Cup but they have been very small. So that doesn't concern us," Fernandes said. "I think there was a misconception during the Confederations Cup because there was an explosion of protests then. People used the Confederations Cup to highlight what they saw as deficiencies in public services. That scaled down because it was an explosion. And now during the World Cup, the passion for football has taken over."
Police crackdown Outside the conference building where Blatter spoke, one of the few anti-World Cup activists on hand told Al Jazeera that most protesters were avoiding the streets out of fear of the police. "Some of us are in jail, others are just being cautious," Larissa, a 31-year-old activist from Sao Paulo, said. "During our latest protests at Rio's Maracana stadium, fifteen of us were arrested and are now in jail. The police beat many of us."
Even before the World Cup started, the police carried out preventive raids to arrest prominent activist in their homes and they have continued their crack down on dissent throughout the first weeks of the tournament. Hundreds of people have been arrested and some of them have been charged under a law that was orginally meant to target organised crime and streets gangs.
Prior to the tournament Amnesty International denounced the excessive use of force against peaceful protesters, who were shot at by police with rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas."I love football. I actually play football myself," Larissa said. "I just hate the whole industry around it, which - in the name of FIFA - has been eating up whole neighbourhoods here in Brazil. They think they can do anything in the name of football."
Responding to Blatter's comments about the relative absence of social unrest, Larissa said: "The World Cup might look nice from the outside, but we don't live in a theatre. We live in the real world, which has to work for all Brazilians."
Additional reporting by Paula Daibert in Rio de Janeiro.
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I have found some old seeds that I stored and forgot about. My question is how long can seeds be kept, are they no good? some I have are between 2-5 years old. They have been in the dark and dry.
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