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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 ...

WeatherBug Elite for iPhone adds real time lightning sensors

by Mel Martin (Aug 28th, 2012)

As I see it there are two kinds of weather programs. There are the 'pretty' weather apps with beautiful animations and graphics that are somewhat short on in-depth data, and there are the apps that dive very deeply into data like precipitation totals and trends. Then there are a lot of in-between ...

Get ready for hurricane season with CaneCast

by Mel Martin (Aug 24th, 2012)

With the hurricane season upon us, you might be looking for a way to get detailed information about the impact a storm may have on you. Fear not: there are plenty of hurricane apps for the iPhone. Some are from newspapers and TV stations rebranding National Weather Service info, while others have ...

Living Earth HD brings the iOS favorite to your Mac desktop

by Mel Martin (Aug 23rd, 2012)

Living Earth for iOS was always a cool app, with a beautifully rendered pic of the earth with current cloud patterns and weather conditions on top of it. It even made our best of 2011 apps list. Now Living Earth HD has made it to OS X app store, and is selling for US $4.99, a 50% off limited ...

Sky Motion for iOS lets you know what weather is coming on a very local basis

by Mel Martin (Aug 17th, 2012)

So many weather apps, so many to answer, "Will it rain/snow/flood/today?" Sky Motion has an interesting approach, with a very localized view and a forecast that only looks forward two hours. The free iOS app updates your personal forecast every 5 minutes, and claims a very high resolution ...

Put stunning weather info on your iPhone or iPad

by Mel Martin (Aug 1st, 2012)

We've praised Weather HD many times here at TUAW, and now the folks at Vimov have outdone themselves with Weather HD 2 (US$0.99), making a gorgeous app even prettier. Weather animations have been completely redone, with 3D maps you'll be proud to have just sitting on the screen when your iPad or ...

Minimalistic weather app does a few things very well

by Mel Martin (Jul 9th, 2012)

Ah, yet another weather app. There are so many, but Weather Neue is free, and rather than having a thousand features, maps, and animations, it does what it is does in a very clean, minimalistic way. When you start the app, it grabs your location. Then it spins up your current conditions and a ...

Daily iPad app: Weather 2X is a beautiful and basic weather app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 6th, 2012)

If you're looking for a beautiful, but basic weather app for your iPad, you should take a closer look at Weather 2X from McLean Mobile Solutions. Every time you launch the app, you will be greeted with a gorgeous wallpaper that matches the time and weather conditions outside. The simple UI ...

Storm Shield is like having a sophisticated weather radio on your iPhone

by Mel Martin (Jul 4th, 2012)

Storm Shield, from E.W. Scripps Company, is a US$4.99 app that keeps track of severe weather for you. It supports up to five locations (besides your current location) so you can keep track of family, friends, or your vacation home. If your location (U.S. only) falls inside an alert area from ...

Lesser known features in iOS's built-in apps

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 3rd, 2012)

iOS ships with a few core apps such as a calculator and a weather app, which are there for your convenience. Yes, you might have found third-party replacements for them, but they're still nice to have when you are in a pinch. And if you spend some time with these apps like Lex Friedman of ...

Yocto Alarm Clock for iOS is free, full featured and very nice

by Mel Martin (May 31st, 2012)

There must be hundreds of alarm clock apps available for iOS. I've reviewed several, both good and bad. The free ones are usually not so great, the paid ones are usually a step up. So along comes the Yocto Clock. It's free, has oodles of features, looks great and works well. The Yocto clock ...

Earthlapse is a window on the Earth from space

by Mel Martin (May 20th, 2012)

Earthlapse is a beautiful US$0.99 app for iOS that gives you an International Space Station view of the earth moving below. There are 8 time lapse scenes of weather, docking spacecraft and aurora in high resolution that is almost lifelike. You can control the speed of the movie, superimpose ...

Daily iPhone app: Rain Aware

by Mel Martin (Apr 10th, 2012)

There are dozens of weather apps for the iPhone, and most are variations on a theme. Not Rain Aware, an extremely interesting weather app that will tell you when it is going to rain, and when it is going to stop. It does it in very plain language, and as near as I can tell it does it pretty ...

Wolfram Alpha for iPhone 1.4 wows with image manipulation, Best Buy purchasing

by Steven Sande (Mar 15th, 2012)

Wolfram Alpha app (US$2.99) fans should be rejoicing today. Version 1.4 of the incredibly powerful analytics app is available and adds a number of new features, including image analysis and manipulation. Among the new goodies in Wolfram Alpha 1.4 are a new look for weather queries and the ability ...