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Weather Station Pro

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

My new favourite “quick reference” weather App is Weather Station Pro from Toopia; it’s so attractive and easy to use, it’s perfect! No, it doesn’t have animated maps showing radar heading for you, or any maps at all – but it does have a pristine display of all the weather data you need to know, [...]

Wundermap – not this weather!

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

This is definitely a MISS for me! Weather Underground has a very popular weather website, but WunderMap disappoints me! The App starts well enough, with a scrollable map and temperature / forecast display – tap the “locate me” button and you get local info abbreviated (current temp only) or full, including a forecast: The map [...]

Which Weather – The Weather Channel Max

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

When I started writing up weather Apps tonight, The Weather Channel App was my preferred – mostly because of the nice “local” screen with clear weather forecasts for the day, and the next 10 days too: Tap on the map, and it opens to a full scrollable display offering display of radar history for the [...]

Which Weather – Weatherbug

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Having deleted Accuweather, I tried WeatherBug, another weather App that I’ve used successfully on my iPhone … sadly WeatherBug doesn’t really satisfy me, either! Happily, I can freely scroll and re-center the WeatherBug map, so finally I can see what the weather is like in Gloucester, MA! By default, WeatherBug does not show radar, so [...]

Which Weather – Accuweather

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Apple did not include Weather with the iPad, so there’s a need to find a good weather App … my first stop was Accuweather Cirrus Free, since I use it regularly on my iPhone. Sadly, it’s quite awful on the iPad! The initial screen is OTT, with huge graphics conveying the forecase – have you [...]