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Since the dawn of media, the weather has sustained publishers of almanacs, sold newspapers when nothing was happening, tuned listeners into the radio, and viewers into the television news. Today, we carry all of this media in the form of our smartphones, yet something as primal as our need to know the weather is still important. Today I want to share with you two ways to get the weather, the 3D Weather widget and the AccuWeather.com widget.
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Raining.fm does the next best thing to making it rain: making it sound like rain. No, it's not a joke, this is really all Raining.fm does. It's available for Android and iOS but if all you want is some background rain noise while working, Raining.fm's free Web version is all you need. If, however, you'd like to fall asleep to soothing rain sounds, listen to them while you drive, or anything else that comes to mind, you can shell out $2 for the Raining.fm mobile app.
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A weather forecast website should be designed to make gloomy weather a bit palatable. The appropriately named Forecast.io ticks most of the boxes; including the one that says – elegance. Take the first look at its interface, and I am sure you will agree with me that good design matters. By the time we end this article, I hope you will agree that good design and easy-to-grasp weather data without dumbing it down, matters more.
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Finally, the season is upon us where we get the really cool storms! And by ‘cool’ I mean ‘deadly’. Tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, oh freaking my! Okay, I’m not really sure when tsunami season is, but I’ve been through a few tornadoes and hurricanes. And I LOVE THEM! When no one gets hurt of course. That [...]
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"Will it rain later today?", "What's the temperature outside right now?", "Will it be warm this weekend?" These are just some of the questions we ask about the weather every day. Getting answers to these questions no longer requires turning on the TV and waiting patiently for the next weather forecast. It's all right there at your fingertips, leaving you only to decide how you want to consume it. And there's quite an abundance of choices.
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Are you ready to be introduced to the best New Tab/Start Page since the beginning of Google Chrome? Well you better get ready because it’s coming! Actually, it has already been around for several months now and has built quite a user base of “currently” over 120,000 users. The extension is called Currently and it is a fast loading “theme” for your New Tab page.
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I've never bought a weather app before, and that's because I'm pretty pleased with the one Apple bundled with iOS. It's not going to win awards, but it's simple and it works. So why then, did I buy a weather app called Haze the other day? It's probably got something to do with the rather unique approach Haze takes to telling you what the weather is like. This is to weather apps what Clear is to note-taking apps.
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Check out the weather on your Mac. Whether you want to see the weather in your tray, in your dashboard, or in a regular window, there are plenty of Mac programs out there perfect for helping you know what to expect outside. There are many ways to find the weather. You can check Wunderground, or [...]
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The Weather Channel has just made its biggest update to its apps for Android phone and tablets since 2009. The weather application gets a slick new interface, improvements to maps, and a little bit more in the way of adverts. The list of features that come with this new update is quite impressive, but the [...]
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One of the most underrated types of mobile apps are those that can give you the latest weather predictions. Sure, iOS comes with the weather forecast by default, but the amount of data it provides is most certainly lacking. Thankfully, there are services available such as The Weather Channel, Accuweather, and plenty of others that can help you find out more details about the weather that is bearing down on you.
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It was only a matter of time before the weather became another outlet for crowdsourcers to exercise their collective might, and that's exactly what weather app Wezzoo is going for. In addition to rock-solid reliable data from hundreds of weather stations around the world, users are able to report on conditions in their own back yards.
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So, what’s the weather like? A perennial question indeed, but somehow in winter it seems to loom more important than usual (especially if you’re used to pleasant weather and don’t take kindly to being surprised by rainstorms). If you like getting your weather information from the Web, we’ve got you covered with Dave’s recent post, [...]
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I'm rather obsessed with the weather. It's not my fault, it's just that I was born and brought up in the U.K., and all British people are obsessed with the weather. I think it's because the weather is rather changeable on this little island butting up to the European mainland. Over the course of a single week we can experience hot sun, icy frosts, torrential rain, deep snow, and gusts aplenty.
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You can never be sure about the weather, unless it's happening. Fortunately, today's forecasts are pretty reliable. And while weather reports are all over the place, if you don't consistently listen to the radio or watch TV forecasts, a browser plugin might be a convenient solution. Weather Watcher Live is a Chrome extension powered by WeatherBug that puts a weather forecast directly into your browser toolbar.
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We all have a daily routine of some sort but there are many things that we all do, whether it is checking the weather, managing our finances or making our next meal. I’ve scoured the web to find some of the best websites to help you do these day-to-day tasks. After some research and great results I’ve narrowed down the list to what I think are the best websites in various categories of what we do almost every day.
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