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Daily iPhone App: Road Trip Weather

by Mel Martin (Jan 5th, 2012)

There are plenty of weather apps, and lots of navigation apps, but there are few apps that allow you to plan a road trip taking current conditions or forecasts into consideration. Road Trip Weather does that. The US $0.99 app allows you to input your current location or starting point, a ...

Daily iPhone app: Lock Screen Weather

by Mel Martin (Dec 29th, 2011)

Getting current weather on your iPhone lock screen seems like a really good idea. That's what the US$0.99 Lock Screen Weather app does. Tap a button on your iPhone and you'll get the current weather at your location, plus an extended 5 day forecast. There have been other attempts to do this, ...

Weather Underground releases iPhone app

by Steven Sande (Dec 14th, 2011)

Weather Underground was the first online weather service, but until now it didn't have an iPhone-specific app. That will all change soon when the Weather Underground app arrives on the App Store. The developers of the app provided TUAW with a pre-release version of the software, which is ...

Daily iPad App: Weather Live

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 1st, 2011)

We've reviewed plenty of weather apps for the iPad on TUAW. Matter of fact I think the high number of weather apps we've reviewed is due to the fact that we're still looking for the perfect iPad weather app. Weather Live isn't that app. It's good, just not the holy grail. First the good. I ...

Aelios Weather app for iPad gets more features, retains beautiful look

by Mel Martin (Nov 1st, 2011)

I took a look at Aelios Weather last spring and loved the idea of a weather app that looked like a crafted physical object rather than a bunch of techno dials. Aelios has just been updated, and it retains its unique look while adding some worthwhile features and some under the hood speed-ups. ...

Daily iPad App: The Weather Channel

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 26th, 2011)

Today's Daily iPad App is The Weather Channel for iPad. The Weather Channel has had an iPad app practically since the iPad launched in early 2010, but The Weather Channel has released version 3.0 of the app, and it's a complete rewrite. Besides an entirely new UI, the new Weather Channel for ...

Daily Mac App: Seasonality Core 2.0

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 19th, 2011)

Seasonality Core 2.0 is a Mac app any weather aficionado should have. That's because it's probably the most complete and detailed weather software I've ever seen on the Mac. The interface is simple enough. A list on the left allows you to enter any number of cities around the world you want to ...

Daily Mac App: Social Weather

by Samuel Gibbs (Oct 14th, 2011)

The weather might not be your first priority of the day, but if you ever get caught out of the house in the pouring rain, a good forecast could have helped. Social Weather is great free weather app that gives you detailed up-to-the-minute forecasts with hour-by-hour weather for most major ...

Best apps for tracking Hurricane Irene

by Kelly Guimont (Aug 27th, 2011)

If you're in the path of Hurricane Irene and you haven't gone through the App Store already looking for the best sources of info on the storm, there are others who have done it for you. Information Week, Appolicious, and MSNBC's Technolog have all made lists of apps for various flavors of ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: swackett

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 27th, 2011)

Most weather apps display weather as you might expect with temperature and weather symbols. Swackett, a free (ad-supported) weather app from the Mac App Store, bucks the trend with cute cartoons of people showing the current and forecasted conditions. A "different kind of weather app," ...

iOS 5 weather app to include hourly forecasts

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 16th, 2011)

The weather app in iOS 5 has a new feature that lets you view the hourly forecast of the current day with a simple swipe of your finger. It's a minor improvement that doesn't compare with full-featured apps like Weather HD or Weather Bug Elite. But still, it's a nice touch for those that prefer ...

Talking Weather Alarm is great for summer travel and your nightstand

by Mel Martin (Jun 15th, 2011)

There is absolutely no shortage of alarm clocks for the iPhone, but I have recently tried and really like Talking Weather Alarm. Yes, it wakes you up to a variety of alarm sounds or anything from your playlist, but it also reads the local weather forecast to you and gives you a smattering of news ...

Aelios is a new way to get the weather on your iPad

by Mel Martin (May 23rd, 2011)

Perhaps it's the fact that summer is just around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, but lately we've been seeing a lot of interesting weather apps for iOS and OS X. A new iPad app called Aelios Weather (available at a special launch price of US$2.99) is a refreshingly unique take on getting ...

Forecast looks amazing for Weather HD for Mac

by Michael Grothaus (May 22nd, 2011)

Weather HD is a popular iOS app that we at TUAW have raved about in the past. The iOS app lets you use your iPad or iPhone as a window into a beautiful weather world around you. The app uses stunning full screen animations to show you the weather instead of the numbers and little icons other ...

Weather app uses notifications to display info on home screen

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 13th, 2011)

One area that Apple needs to address is the iOS home screen, which uses icons and badges to display information instead of the more informative widgets used by its competitor, Android. While many apps resign themselves to this limitation, a weather app by International Travel Weather Calculator ...