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How to turn off Google Now and keep your battery charged

by Mike Schramm (May 1st, 2013)

Google has recently added its Google Now service into its search app for iOS, but there's one big drawback to getting constant weather, traffic, and other local information on your phone: Location Services runs constantly. You can tell by the little arrow icon up in the corner of your home ...

Daily iPhone App: YoWindow for iPhone is a cute, useful weather app

by Dave Caolo (Apr 17th, 2013)

YoWindow for iPhone ($0.99) is a super cute weather app that combines information with good looks into a handy little utility. I've been using it for about a week and, while it won't satisfy hardcore weather junkies, those who simply want to know, "What's it gonna be like?" should enjoy ...

Forecast is a great little weather web app

by Mel Martin (Mar 28th, 2013)

There are so many weather apps. They tend to fall into two groups. Way too much information for me, or fluffy little icons that are pretty and just don't have enough of the information I want. A friend suggested I take a peek at Forecast, a free web app from the people who make a very serious ...

Weather Tab Pro brings graphical weather to your menu bar

by Mel Martin (Mar 4th, 2013)

There is no shortage of weather apps for iOS. On the Mac side, things are a bit more sparse, so I welcomed the arrival of Weather Tab Pro, a US$2.99 app for OS X. The app lets you create a list of cities, and then you can scroll an animated graphic between them. You'll get local time for each ...

Daily iPhone App: Climate Clock lets you know what you need to wear every hour of the day

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 1st, 2013)

As much as I love full-featured weather apps like Weatherbug or Accuweather, most of the time all I need is a quick summary of the weather for the next few hours and not a detailed forecast for the next few days. One app that helps me figure out whether I need snow boots or an umbrella when I ...

Daily iPhone App: Horizon puts a weather report in a calendar app

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

Horizon is an interesting little app that comes from a very simple idea: To combine your weather report and your calendar in one place. That may not sound like a big innovation, but it's actually not a bad one. Horizon's simple and straightforward design (put together by a young developer named ...

MeteoEarth is a high-end weather app for iPad with a catch

by Mel Martin (Feb 21st, 2013)

MeteoEarth is a US$4.99 weather app with enough visual treats to makes your iPad's screen look like something from a TV weathercast. In fact, much of the display tech in the app was adopted from professional weather applications. The app offers high-resolution animated graphics of ...

Daily iPhone App: Haze weather app shows that minimalist doesn't have to be minimal

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 15th, 2013)

Haze is a new weather app that hit the App Store today. It's a fantastic example of how developers can incorporate a minimalist experience without sacrificing the depth of an app. On the surface, Haze appears to package only a few details about your weather into a colorful, animated screen. If ...

No built-in weather alerts for you if you're on the AT&T LTE Network

by Mel Martin (Feb 9th, 2013)

That headline reflects the sad truth. All Things Digital is reporting that AT&T's new LTE network can't send the highly touted weather alerts from the National Weather Service. The system, which came online last year, allows local, state and federal government agencies to push alert messages ...

GolfWeather is a missed opportunity to help golfers

by Mel Martin (Dec 1st, 2012)

GolfWeather is an outgrowth of GolfWeather.com, which helps you check the weather before you head to the golf course. The app covers more than 20,000 courses in several countries up to a week at a time. You get hour-by-hour temperature predictions, cloud cover, humidity, wind and chance of ...

Apps and tips for coping with Hurricane Sandy

by Michael Rose (Oct 28th, 2012)

All of us in the northeast US (which includes myself and TUAW colleagues Megan Lavey-Heaton, Dave Caolo and Kelly Hodgkins) are keeping a wary weather eye on the approaching maelstrom that is Hurricane Sandy. While we continue to hope for minimal impacts to life and property, it's ...

Seasonality Core is a great, but pricey weather app

by Mel Martin (Oct 10th, 2012)

Seasonality Core is an excellent weather application for OS X. It has lots of detailed information that's presented in a unique and customizable format. We took a look at an earlier version of the program about a year ago and had good things to say about it. The app supports more than 34,000 ...

Weather Live for iOS is complete and a looker

by Mel Martin (Sep 13th, 2012)

Weather apps often sit in one of two groups. A lot of data in a mundane presentation, or beautiful backgrounds and animations but a lack of deep weather data. Weather Live has an excellent mix of both. The US$1.99 universal app has detailed forecasts from anywhere in the world. You can set ...

Daily iPhone App: Weathercube is an interesting but eccentric iOS app

by Mel Martin (Sep 6th, 2012)

Weathercube is an interesting and graphically pleasing approach to giving you the weather on your iPhone or iPod touch. It is not universal, but will run on an iPad in 2x mode. It sells for US$1.99. Weathercube supports several gestures which will get you to extended forecasts, other pre-set ...

IFTTT Recipes: Cool me off!

by Steven Sande (Aug 30th, 2012)

IFTTT Recipes is a new recurring column featuring recipes developed using IFTTT.com and their favorite IFTTT channels. Come see what TUAW bloggers cook up in the IFTTT labs! We don't have air conditioning in our house, but the low humidity in Colorado usually means that a fan is sufficient to ...