Smartphone sensors, readily available feeds of weather data are increasingly good data visualizations are resulting in more and better mobile weather apps. Here are a few to check out for iOS.
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Why is it so hard to pick just one weather app lately? Better design and more data 0
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$10,000: Meet the app developer who’s betting big on promo videos 0
August 2nd at 5:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGoogle recently announced that it had passed one million apps on Google Play, narrowly edging Apple to the magic milestone figure....
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Weathermob Raises $650K More To Turn Smartphones Into Mini Weather Stations 0
July 17th at 10:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWeathermob, a mobile, social network centered around crowdsourced weather reporting, has raised an additional $650,000 in new funding today from a number of angel investors, including Mark Hastings, Lord Waheed Alli, Victoria Hackett, and Drew Volpe, bringing its total raise to date to $1.1 million.
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How to Design Beautiful iOS App Icons, According to Apple 1
July 15th at 11:50pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsIt's no coincidence that the best and most popular apps frequently have striking and memorable icons. It might seem like just a colorful tile, but a good icon is critical piece of an app's design that has a huge effect on how people think about and interact with what's inside. Here's a rare look at how Apple thinks icons should look, straight from one of the company's design gurus....
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iPad Apps of the Week: Guide, WunderMap, and More 1
July 13th at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe iPad offerings were all over the place, jumping from intensive weather details to a news-reading puppy to enough emoji to ensure that you never have to use words for feelings ever again. But then again, that's what life is all about, after all—anthropomorphized dogs and avoiding face-to-face human interactions at all costs. Or something like that....
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Weather Underground upgrades tablet weather app with a lot more sources of data 0
July 11th at 10:10am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsWunderMap brings 30,000 web cams and 13 map presets that should appeal to the weather geek and the casual weather checker.
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App Store at 5: A Good Ride That Could Go on Forever 0
July 10th at 6:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsApple's App Store remade the world of software and mobile and, as I see it, all for the better.
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Thunderspace: A stereoscopic 3D soundscape of thundery weather from the creators of Haze 0
July 5th at 3:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBack in May we brought you Raining.fm, a mobile app that lets you listen to the infinite sound of raindrops. On loop....
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Weathertron Provides Minute-by-Minute Live Weather Forecasts 0
June 28th at 9:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThere’s no shortage of weather apps out there – Yahoo recently rolled out an all-new weather app for iOS, tapping Flickr to bring users’ weather-themed photos into the mix. And YoWindow recently arrived for iPhones too. But Weathertron for iOS might just be worth your time (and money)....
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19 apps that already look perfect for iOS 7 6
June 25th at 10:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsEditor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Ryan Matzner of Fueled. Fueled is a digital product design and development incubator based in New York, Chicago and London....
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Editorial: iOS 7 shows how Apple is leading mobile computing 6
June 22nd at 11:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple's new iOS 7, which the company unveiled last week at its Worldwide Developer Conference, says a lot about the future of mobile devices because Apple owns the future of mobile devices.
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iPhone Apps of the Week: Office 365, Skymotion, and More 0
June 15th at 2:50am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS...
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SkyMotion: Predict the Rain Down to the Minute 1
June 13th at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS Weather apps are a dime a dozen, but accurate weather apps are a little more rare. For most of them, you'd be better off tossing a coin to try to figure out if it's actually going to rain or not. And that's where SkyMotion shines—down to the minute....
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Why iOS 7 will kill some apps (and make others stronger) 2
June 12th at 3:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsThere’s a lot to be excited about after Monday’s announcement of iOS 7. Flashy new design! Panels! Automatic app updates! Voice calls over FaceTime! Such system-wide changes aside, some of the biggest changes to iOS are found in Apple’s own mobile apps. Several of the stock Apple apps for iOS are being revamped, gaining new features and deeper integration with the Apple ecosystem....
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This year’s Apple Design Award winning apps include Evernote, Yahoo Weather, and Letterpress 2
June 11th at 6:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsToday at its WWDC conference, Apple held the latest Apple Design Award ceremony, showcasing apps which it feels offer the best in iOS and Mac design. Since 1996, developers have been recognized for finding creative uses of Apple’s platforms. This year’s winners include Evernote, Yahoo Weather, Letterpress, Badlands, Finish, Mosaic.io, and others....
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10 Apps for Enjoying the Great Outdoors 2
May 25th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhen you think about enjoying the great outdoors, embracing the natural world and soaking up all of the sun's vitamin D, technology doesn't really enter the picture, does it? But using tech and being outside don't have to be mutually exclusive. There are plenty of mobile apps to help you connect with nature, rather than keeping you glued to your virtual life.
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The Week in iOS Apps: Music all around you! 1
May 24th at 9:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsLike music? Like making it? Discovering new artists? Figuring out who the heck is singing that song on the TV commercial? We’ve got you covered in this week’s roundup of new and updated iOS apps....
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The 25 Best Free iPad Apps 5
May 22nd at 3:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThere are more than 300,000 iPad apps currently available in Apple's App Store -- with all those options, how do you find what you're looking for without wasting your hard-earned cash? SEE ALSO: The 15 Best Free iPad Games To help you out, we've compiled a list of the 25 best free iPad apps that you can download at no cost, right now.
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Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time 10
May 20th at 6:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsApple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.
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Yahoo Mail Lands on iPad, While Yahoo Weather Hits iPhone 1
April 18th at 3:46pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsMarissa Mayer seems to have breathed new life into Yahoo since she upped sticks from Google and jumped on board as its new CEO last summer....
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Yahoo releases new weather and mail apps in second phase of rebuilding effort 1
April 18th at 1:00pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsRebuilding Yahoo will require "a series of sprints," CEO Marissa Mayer told investors this week during an earnings call. The first sprint "was all about getting people to believe in Yahoo," she said. The next phase, she said, "is all about building beautiful products and executing well against our business strategy." That phase begins today with the launch of two new apps....
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YoWindow: A Neat Animated Weather App for iOS 0
April 17th at 1:00am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsYoWindow sells itself as a “new generation” weather application, featuring a living landscape that reflects the actual weather outside....
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Good Deal: Solar weather app free on iOS today 3
April 5th at 1:33pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsSolar's $0.99 price-tag didn't put us off buying it when it launched last year, but you'll have no excuse not to try out Hollr Inc's slick weather app now it is free to download. Blending an attractively minimal design with an intuitive and useful UI, Solar won't give you granular details such as wind direction and the level of humidity, but if you simply want to check the temperature, see if it's going to rain, or view the forecast for the next few days then it's a great choice. We have reached out to...
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Dark Sky developers launch Forecast, aim to bring weather predictions to your favorite app 0
March 26th at 9:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsThe developers of Dark Sky — the short-term weather app that tells you exactly when it's going to rain — have released a new, more powerful version of the service called Forecast. Initially released as a web app, the company also wants to have Forecast's data powering a slew of other developers' weather apps as well. Forecast offers improved short-term predictions, seven day forecasts, and reports on up to 100 years of a location's weather history. The free web app works on all desktops, tablets, and...
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Tweetie & Letterpress Creator Will Let Anyone Use ‘Pull To Refresh’ Unless They Are A D*ck 4
March 18th at 9:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsLoren Brichter is a legend amongst iOS developers. The 28 year old developer is the creator of Tweetie, which eventually became the official Twitter app. He’s the guy behind fan favorite word game Letterpress. He’s the creator of ‘Pull To Refresh’, cell swipe and slide-out panels that have become synonymous features in mobile app development. Yet few people who aren’t app and design junkies even know who he is.