Plenty of apps will give you hourly weather forecasts and maps of storm patterns and your horoscope and all that, but what if you just want a huge, gorgeous thermometer? Say Hello to Thermo. It's free! Mercury free, too. OK, the ads are annoying. But $1 gets rid of 'em. Still a very cheap huge, gorgeous thermometer by any standard!
You've seen the commercials; Apps are what makes an iPad come to life. Here are the very best ones for work, play, creation, consumption and everything in between. Twitter: The official Twitter app for iPad packs in the features, giving you a full Tweet-and-browse experience. It can be a little bit overwhelming at first, but powerful things often are. Free. Flipboard: A true testament to the iPad's transformative powers, Flipboard scrapes your Twitter and Facebook feeds for links and arranges them in a...
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I guess there's supposed to be some sort of zen element to surfing, but that doesn't mean you can't obsessively check your smartphone for the surf report beforehand. The Surfline app's extended forecasts and live cameras should do the trick. The companion app to the popular surf site claims to be the only one with live HD cameras (at over 90 destinations around the U.S. and Hawaii) though you'll need to be a premium Surfline member to enjoy them. Free users get a still camera image updated every 10...
Weather HD, the iPhone/iPad's casual weather app, has been updated in honor of Christmasn. Now, you'll be privvied to scenes of snowflakes, ornaments and flying reindeer. The update is free for those who already bought it. Otherwise, its $0.99.
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There's an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you're a salty old dog seeing what you might've missed, here are the absolutely essential apps. Twitter: Twitter thankfully didn't make too many changes when they gobbled up the already-great Tweetie 2 from Atebits—same clean interface, same Tweet swiping, and the same it-feels-so-good pull to refresh mechanism. Free. Facebook: The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're...
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We already showed you the best weather apps on both iPhone and Android, but Weather HD is a weather app in an entirely different category. It's a weather app for people who don't really care about the weather. Just like on the iPad, Weather HD shows you your current temperature, the high, the low, humidity, change of rain and wind speed/direction on top of a soothing video representation of your current weather conditions. If you were interested in just the temperature, you'd bookmark the weather...
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