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How to prep for severe weather with your Android phone
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There are hurricanes churning up both the Atlantic and Pacific, and if you are in the path of either one, please make sure you and your phone are weather-ready.
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The best weather apps for Android! ⛈
Looking for a great weather app for your Android phone or tablet? Check out this little lot as we've rounded up some of the best you'll find.
Should we talk about the weather
Smartphone tips for hurricane season
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When a hurricane hits, your smartphone is now one of the most important tools in your preparedness kit.
ACHOOO!!!!!
Best apps for allergy tracking
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Spring has sprung, the flowers are in bloom and- ACHOO! Ugh, I’ll be inside until summer comes and this pollen is gone, but if you need to go outside, here’s some apps to track pollen and allergies.
Enhancing the experience
Google enhances weather experience on Android phones and tab
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Google is trying to make it a little bit easier to stay current on the weather conditions, as the company begins rolling out a new weather experience for Android phones and tablets. You'll now have quick and easy access to your favorite locations, real-time weather alerts and more.
Batten down the batteries!
What steps to take to keep you and your phone going strong
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Severe weather takes many forms. Blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, even haboobs can turn a regular day into a disaster, and if you're not prepared, it can turn from disastrous to downright dangerous. While you're stocking up the liquor cabinet, boarding up the windows, and collecting the games/movies from around the house to keep any little ones happy and distracted, don't forget to...
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Decent weather is just a question away.
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'OK Google, what's the weather like?' Weather is important, but sometimes you don't need a full two week forecast with barometric pressure and the exact phase of the lunar cycle. Sometimes, you just need to know if it's warm or chilly outside. Sometimes, you want to know the weather, but you just don't have your hands free. Sometimes, you just need Google. Google Now has always...
Level up your radar
A look at three radar apps for three type of users
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For more than just 'is it raining?' Most weather apps come with radar, but it can leave something to be desired, especially for those who are a little more dependent on the weather's wicked wiles. For storm chasers, meteorologists, and weather enthusiasts looking for more advanced radar on their Android devices, we've looked through the cream of the crop with KXXV-TV Meteorologist...
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Hurricane Arthur approaches: Here's how your phone can help
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Plus more tips and tricks for using your phones during severe weather We've got our first hurricane of the year — Arthur — and he's starting to make his way up the eastern seaboard. That means it's the perfect time to talk a bit, as we do every year, about how your smartphone can help out with the summer scourge. This year, I'm using the Red Cross Hurricane app as my go-to tracker....
Regional weather forecast lands on Google Now cards
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Google has made a back-end change to the way it is delivering weather cards. Rather than displaying stacked cards for nearby cities, a single cards with multiple lines will now display the weather information of nearby cities in a region. The update, which is handled on the server side, doesn't require an update to the Google Search application so user intervention isn't required....
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The best f---ing weather widget you can install [AC After Dark]
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Sometimes a weather widget can exist simply for entertainment purposes Everyone has a favorite weather widget that fits their style or craving for loads of information, but sometimes you want a widget that's made specifically for entertainment purposes. FWeather widget is one of those apps, and if you look closely at the picture above you can see why. The latest update to the widget has...
WeatherBug refreshes user interface in latest update
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Improved navigation, live updating and photos section all included The popular WeatherBug app has just undergone quite a redesign in the Play Store today, bringing in a completely new interface. The overall experience better follows current Android design guidelines, with a tabbed interface that makes it easy to get between current weather, forecasts and detailed information with just a...
Radarscope for Android
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We try out a $10 weather application that's way too much app for most of us Radarscope probably is too much app for you. Let's be perfectly clear about that. (I usually use the screws in my left leg to tell me when the rain's a-comin'; this is way too much app for me, too.) Radar apps are a dime a dozen on Android, and there are some really good ones, available free, or for just a buck...
Google applies for patent to tie weather and location data to camera settings
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Could Google use your location data to make you a better photographer? This patent application shows someone in Mountain View thinks so. Google has filed for a patent that would adjust camera settings for optimal performance based on GPS coordinates and the current weather conditions. Depending on where you are, and what the weather might be like if it's determined that you're outdoors...
Notification Weather: an elegant way to check the forecast
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The release of Android 4.1 and 4.2 Jelly Bean brought several improvements to the handling and functionality of notifications. With expandable, actionable and prioritized notifications, developers can manage their apps and take control of what goes on when a notification is presented to the user. Notification Weather, as the name implies, takes advantage of the new notification options...
Beautiful Widgets 5 released with a new look and full Jelly Bean support
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Android app developer LevelUp Studio has announced the launch of Beautiful Widgets 5, a brand new version of its popular widget and application suite. New features in the latest version of Beautiful Widgets include a visual refresh to many widgets and apps, and full Jelly Bean support, including rich notifications, as well as Android 4.2 features like lock screen widgets and new "...
Weekly photo contest: The weather
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Tuesday means another AC photo contest! This week, let's talk about the weather. Good weather, bad weather, or evil weather like you see above. If it happens outside, we want to see it. This isn't just confined to pictures of rain or snow. Feel free to think outside the box and show us something that makes us think of good (or bad) weather. We love it when you guys get all artistic and...
From the Editor's Desk: When your phone can't do a damn thing to help ...
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When your fair city finds itself getting more than a foot of rain in less than a day, there's no escaping that sense of helplessness. There's not a damn thing you can do, and that's not exactly the sort of thing you can prepare for. Even the hurricanes I've been through haven't dumped that much rain. (Or if they did, the wind kept it moving enough so that the standing water didn't...
Weather Flow a beautiful (and simple) Android weather app
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See that there? That's the Weather Flow app. And that's pretty much all there is to it. Simple, easy-to-read data like date and time, temperature and forecast (daily or hourly). Don't overthink it. The backgrounds (which pan ever so slowly) are gorgeous. There's a typographic theme (available in black or white) that you can switch to in the settings, and there are a couple 4x1 widgets...
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1Weather for Android from OneLouder [Android Quick App]
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When it comes to weather applications on Android there is no shortage of options, and quite honestly that is a good thing. 1Weather by OneLouder is one of the latest weather applications to enter the Android market and it has done so with some serious style of its own. So what's it all about? 1Weather provides you with ready access to a full suite of accurate, up-to-the-minute...