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AccuWeather – A Must-Have Weather App For Your Windows Phone 7

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If you are a Windows Phone 7 user then you have to learn to live with somewhat limited options when it comes to the choice of available apps. Although there is still a long way to go for WP7, the Marketplace has finally started to catch up with other platforms like iOS and Android. Major popular smartphone apps are now available for WP7. In recent months there has been a flurry of official WP7 app releases. AccuWeather is not a new name both in weather forecasting and in the world of smartphones. They have a worldwide network and have been around in the weather world for decades. That’s proof enough that they know their business pretty well. The good news is that the official app for AccuWeather is now available for WP7, and it’s free! Read More

The Weather Channel For Windows Phone 7 [Review]

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Windows Phone 7 is a relatively new mobile platform and thus has fewer apps compared to some other operating systems. But some things in life are absolute constants. No matter how advanced we become, how modernized and automated our daily lives are, we will always depend on weather in some way. To integrate this primal need with our smartphone gives the perfect combination of convenience and usability. There are a number of weather apps available for WP7, which keep you up to date with your area’s current weather. Among such apps, one free app is the official mobile client for The Weather Channel news network. So what exactly does Weather Channel do? Read More

Smart Desktop Adds Important Shortcuts In Tabs On Your Desktop

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Smart Desktop is a dynamic application to overhaul your desktop by replacing your desktop shortcuts with a feature rich overlay menus. It contains weather, calendar and system monitoring widgets, as well as time and date display. The system monitoring widget contains information regarding CPU and RAM utilization, Network traffic and used disk space. Numerous shortcuts within the Home tab are divided into convenient sub-tabs which allow easy access to browsers, MS Office programs, Google Search, Dictionary Search, media players, system utilities, Windows accessories, etc. Similarly, the Weblinks tab from the top of the interface provides quick access to commonly used search engine, social media, news and other related websites. Smart Desktop seems to be a viable replacement for the previously reviewed Rainmeter. Smart Desktop can not just be a good replacement for multiple application shortcuts on the desktop, but also a useful way of monitoring essential system components such as the CPU and memory utilization. Read More

Get In Depth Weather Information In Ubuntu With My Weather Indicator

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Just recently, we reviewed Forecaster, which is a Windows application for obtaining weather information from the system tray. My Weather Indicator is a similar tool for Ubuntu, which displays in depth weather information of any selected city, including, current temperature, dew point, wind details, sunrise and sunset time, four day weather forecast and periodic prompts for weather condition changes. Read More

Forecaster Shows Weather Updates For Different Cities (Time Zones)

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Just a few days back we covered WinThunder which showed both the weather and allowed you to create shortcuts in a jumplist from system tray. Unfortunately, it had limited weather-related functionality. Deviantart user laushung, inspired by WinThunder has now developed a similar app which focuses on Weather updates only. Forecaster is a portable application which displays a four day weather information from multiple locations (cities) simultaneously. The forecast can be viewed by clicking on the system tray icon, which changes its look according to current weather conditions. Read More

GO Weather Update Brings 3 More Awesome Widget Skins

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The GO dev team has updated their prized Android weather app to version 1.9.1, finally adding the three widget skins that you have been drooling over for so long. GO Weather for Android now has a total of five awesome skins for its widget, namely the Default Style, Simple Style and the new MIUI, M9 and HTC Style skins. Each skin is significantly different than the other, in both look and layout, unlike the downloadable skins that come with Beautiful widgets and its free version, which are essentially variations in font and color. Join us after the break for more. Read More

Beautiful Widgets For Android – Free Version Released

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Beautiful Widgets, one of the most popular and applauded widget suites on the Android Market, now has a Lite version. Though Beautiful Widgets Lite sports less than half the features of the full version, it is still better than most other free clock and weather widgets out there. If you’re new to Android, live in a region where purchasing from the Market isn’t supported or simply want to try out the widget sensation without having to spend a dime, here’s your chance. And you might want to hurry up. The Lite version “might be a limited offer”. Read More

Mach Weather Shows Latest Weather Information On Mac Menu Bar

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Mach Weather is an app for Mac which resides in system menu bar for showing current weather information along with forecast for 5 next days. The developer has kept configurations to bare minimum, requiring just the zip code of your area to fetch weather information from online resources. Additionally, dynamic satellite view is also provided to view the weather conditions across the globe. The main interface shows some extra useful information which are related with current weather conditions of your area, such as, wind speed and direction, pressure, humidity, dew point, and visibility. Read More

Metro Home Is Windows Phone 7 Metro UI Gadget For Desktop

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A while back we reviewed the visually appealing HTC Home widget, this time we have an even better and more attractive weather and clock gadget by the same developer called Metro Home. It comes with a Windows Phone 7 Metro user interface that displays current and four day weather forecast , as well as time, date display and a picture slideshow. Metro Home has more enhanced options than HTC Home and the default Windows 7 weather gadget with the utility of viewing temperate in both Fahrenheit and Celsius formats. Read More

Automatically Rotate Desktop Wallpapers According To Weather Conditions

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Earlier, we covered AeroWeather – an application which changes your Windows 7 desktop themes according to the weather conditions. The application seems awesome, has an intuitive mechanism to look up temperature of specified area for changing Windows Aero theme. Since every application has some shortcomings, AeroWeather doesn’t allow any sort of customizations from user’s end. To change desktop background, try Weather Desktop Background Changer, which lets you pick a set of custom wallpapers which will be applied automatically according to weather condition of user-defined city. Read More

Automatically Change Windows 7 Aero Colors According To Weather Conditions In Your City

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AeroWeather is an interesting application which looks for temperature or weather condition of your city and change the Windows Aero theme color according to it. The application sits silently in the system tray, retrieving the temperature in real-time. Overall, it makes an appealing connection with the temperature of your location with Windows Interface to give the real-life experience of knowing the weather conditions. With AeroWeather up and running, you can just look at the Windows current color scheme to know the temperature of your current location. Read More

YoWindow – A Beautiful Weather Monitor Application

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Many of us like to keep tabs on the latest weather updates. We plan our days and events around the forecasts, we decide our schedules based on how the skies would fare. For this purpose we use various tools, web services, television forecasts and what not. Almost all mobile phone platforms come with native weather applications, and so do operating systems. Keeping this in view, a weather application running on our PCs doesn’t sound out of place at all, especially when it combines usefulness with a beautiful aesthetic sense. Read More

Install Weatherbug In Ubuntu To Get Live Weather Updates

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Weatherbug is a service which manages and operates its own weather network. It pin points the weather conditions in your area. One feature that makes it stand out from other similar services is that it provides live weather information, other weather services never provide live data and their data is usually one or two hour old. Lets see how we can install it in Ubuntu. Read More