Tag: WEATHER

Here in the rust belt, we often jump on our PCs to check the weather before a surfing trip (yeah, we surf out on Lake Erie, believe it or not), a barbeque, or a Tribe game. After all, we only get 66 sunny days per year and we need to make every one of them count. Problem is, surfing to Accuweather.com or Weather.com forces you to sit through page loads and advertising, and hey, if you're in a ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/DownloadSquad_On_the_road_and_at_home_with_Yahoo_Go_2_0'; Over the past few weeks DLS has had the chance to check out Yahoo's GO 2.0 application for mobile devices at home and on the go with a Blackberry 8800 and a Nokia 6126. So how did the application fare out? Is it worth having on your device? What were the benefits and downfalls? And what would we ...

Between your television, radio, newspaper, and the Internet, there are hundreds of ways to get the weather forecast for your area, but few are as cool as guiWeather. This free download works with Google Earth to bring you information on the current conditions in your area, complete with radar and weather alerts. It even keeps track of global lightening strikes all over the world. guiWeather makes ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/03/06/weather-com-releases-real-time-weather-for-your-street/'; Bosses everywhere are going to love The Weather Channel. With maps being the number one draw for weather.com visitors, they have teamed up with Microsoft's Virtual Earth to offer users the ability to see real time weather reports for streets in the U.S. The Interactive Weather ...

I admittedly don't spend any significant amount of time at Weather.com, but a little birdie who does just tipped us off to a new Interactive Weather Map beta that still has that new feature shine to it. The map offers full drag-able goodness, with the ability to swap between Radar, Clouds and Clouds + Radar coverage. On-the-fly transparency of said coverage is also present, as well as a ...

Ever wish you could get a quick weather forecast in the morning without having to check the paper or turn on your computer? Sure, you could leave the local news running on the television in the background, but that's so old fashioned. Here's a couple of programs that let you carry a local forecast with you wherever you go. Tonaya Weather To Go Weather To Go is a great program if all you need is a ...

Yahoo! is rolling out some nice new features in their Yahoo! Mail Beta. Their first issue fixed was the service's loading speed. This new update seems to have sped up the time it takes to load new messages and send new messages, areas that once seemed too slow for me, that now seem to be quite substantially faster. The Yahoo! team has also added some new features, including a weather display, and ...

Weather Watcher is a great little program that watches your weather for you. It sits in your system tray and shows the current temperature, pop-ups severe weather alerts, has 77,000+ cities forecasts around the world, satellite and radar weather maps. You can even set the current weather map for your area to be your desktop background. While I am not a fan of this particular feature, many people I ...

Getting up to the minute news and accessing information on your mobile device is great. Always being up to date by accessing all the hottest news, sports, movies, flights, and your package deliveries are great features to have on a mobile device. One company that provides this mobile service is 4INFO. Through downloading the 4INFO search application onto your mobile device, you are presented with ...

The BBC has launched what it's calling "the world's largest ever climate experiment," a distributed computing project that will use thousands of volunteered home computers, a la SETI@Home, to predict climate change. The climate experiment, which apparently lacks a snappy name (or any name at all), utilizes a fancy screensaver that, like other distributed computing projects, uses your ...