- Reverse phone number lookup
- People finder (enter a name, city, and state and try to find a street address and phone number)
- Business directory
- Weather forecasts by city
- TinyURL creator
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Posts with tag weather
EggJax: Five almost related web services in one
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Google Earth gets weather, new layer layout
For example, Google Earth 4.2 now includes a weather layer with sub-folders for clouds, radar, conditions and forecasts, and information. The clouds information is updated hourly with data from the Naval Research laboratory in Monterey. The radar information is updated every 15 mminutes, while Weather.com provides forecasts.
You can also download KML files showing the last 24 hours of cloud data or 6 hours of radar data.
Google has also added the MDG Monitor, a layer that shows how countries are doing in meeting the Millennium Development Goals to do things like combat poverty and hunger, improve education, fight HIV/AIDS.
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Figure out when the surf's up with WindGuru
It's now safe to say, we've found a noble use for Dashboard: figuring out when the surf's up. WindGuru is a widget that offers one-glance reports on wind direction and speed--useful for figuring out when the waves are big and when they're just knee-high. This is particularly true in places where surfing is a twice-a-year luxury like on Lake Erie. Sadly, Lake Erie hasn't hit WindGuru's list of "spots" yet. Designed by a surfer, WindGuru also offers a five-day wind forecast. Not enough? Try iViewSurf, another widget that lets you check out the live webcams of some surfable beaches (albeit mostly located in France). Oh, and if you can't do Mac widgets, check out Windguru.cz, where you can track the hot spots in your browser instead.
Meteorologist makes checking the weather a breeze
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 hurry, that just doesn't work. Enter Meteorologist. This is a really simple, free user interface for weather.com that circumvents all the advertising and gives you a convenient consolidated weather report, forecast, and radar image all in your OS X menu bar or dock. If you don't like widgets you'll find Meteorologist indispensable. Only 26 sunny days left this year and we don't plan on wasting them.
On the road and at home with Yahoo Go 2.0
We have covered Yahoo's GO mobile application since it first was released in Beta to the public at the beginning of the year. We initially tried the mobile application out on a Motorola RAZR and Blackberry 8700 among other devices, and agreed that Yahoo had developed something rather special. However, it wasn't until we tried it out long term in our everyday lives that we really understood the benefits to the application.
Yahoo GO was developed by Yahoo for users to instantly search and connect to email, news, weather, stocks, finance, and Flickr, all through an intuitive interface Yahoo has named a carousal. After tooling around with the initial Beta release, Yahoo has released yet another version that reduces load times, and adds in some new tools like a calendar and address book to help in day to day time management. However a big integration has to be Yahoo GO's ability to use GPS on select devices, perfect for when on the go, and what makes this application stand out.
Need your umbrella today? Check guiWeather
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 extensive use of Google Earth's ability to zoom in, out, and around a chosen location so you get an up close and personal look at what's happening right in your neighborhood. If you want to access guiWeather without downloading anything, the site also offers a Google Earth-based pop-up applet with current and forecasted conditions for various world locations. Although the website's tools are pretty basic at the moment, there are more in the works including ones that will track tropical weather and wildfire hazards. Overall, guiWeather is good site to keep an eye on when you're not searching the skies outside your house for storm clouds.
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 Map can be viewed in either a "road view", or a much cooler satellite view, with different color blobs from greens to grays denoting the weather conditions. Want to see the directional path of the weather condition in your area? Check out the animation feature in the lower right corner, this plays a cycle of animated satellite imagery data, perfect for scrubbing through time while you watch storms and weather systems progress.
What does this mean for employees calling in late due to "weather"? Watch out; Your boss can track storm systems right down to the block you're on, so you might want to develop some better excuses.
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Weather.com introduces interactive maps
All of this is powered by Microsoft's Virtual Earth, and it is indeed an impressive piece of (beta) work, though I can't find any sort of press release or wiz-bang announcement. Now, if Weather.com could only introduce a new 'Reliable Weather™' option (even an alpha would be fine), we'll be in business.
Weather forecasts for your PocketPC - Mobile Minute
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 basic forecast on your Windows Mobile Today Screen. You can get forecasts for up to three cities at once. If you only need one city, the tabs you see in the screenshot disappear and you get some real estate back on your small PDA screen. There's also a compact view, which uses smaller icons and stacks the three cities vertically.
You can get weather updates automatically when you sync your PDA using ActiveSync, or you can manually update any time your PDA or Smartphone is connected to the internet.
If you click on the weather icon, you get a more detailed forecast for that day. Weather To Go downloads five days worth of data at a time. Updates are super fast, and best of all, the program's absolutely free.
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 basic forecast on your Windows Mobile Today Screen. You can get forecasts for up to three cities at once. If you only need one city, the tabs you see in the screenshot disappear and you get some real estate back on your small PDA screen. There's also a compact view, which uses smaller icons and stacks the three cities vertically.You can get weather updates automatically when you sync your PDA using ActiveSync, or you can manually update any time your PDA or Smartphone is connected to the internet.
If you click on the weather icon, you get a more detailed forecast for that day. Weather To Go downloads five days worth of data at a time. Updates are super fast, and best of all, the program's absolutely free.
Continue reading Weather forecasts for your PocketPC - Mobile Minute
Yahoo adds some features to Yahoo! Mail Beta
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 a Calendar update. Even though most of us never leave our computers, it's always nice to see what the weather is like outside. Now we can, with the addition of a cool little weather display on the top of the welcome page. The Calendar has been updated to allow for setting reminders when adding or editing new calendar events. Yahoo! also fixed a number of bugs that I wasn't aware of, including some IE annoyances like excessive clicking sounds. As for compatibility, no worries--the Yahoo! Mail Beta will work on Windows Vista, as it's on the supported operating systems list now. An extremely useful feature that has been added is the support for keyboard shortcuts. A series of shortcuts using the Ctrl, Shift and arrow keys will allow you to move up and down your lists, or move on to the next or previous messages.
Although I'm a big fan of Gmail, I think I should pay more attention to what Yahoo! is up to; these are some serious releases from the team. Don't have these goodies on your Yahoo! Beta Mail account yet? Ryan Kennedy the official Yahoo! Mail Beta evangelist informs us that the update is being rolled out over time, so sit tight!
Just one more thing....Yahoo!, let us know when this thing is coming out of Beta.
Weather Watcher v5.6.14 is storming in
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 know love it. Weather Watcher is free, and unlike WeatherBug, Weather Watcher is spyware free, both on their website, and in the past several years I have been using it. I do however recommend the "Full Edition" as the "Bundled Edition" comes with a text-based advertisement software program you wouldn't want on your system.
Stay informed with 4INFO mobile search
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 some great easy to use mobile search features. The 4INFO application can directly hook you up with your latest flight status, weather, stock quotes, and yellow page information just from opening the application and using your scroll keys to navigate to your particular category of interest.
There are many different mobile phones that 4INFO's application is compatible with, including Blackberry, Palm Treo, Motorola, Samsung, and Sanyo.
BBC launches distributed climate prediction project
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 computer's spare
processor cycles to perform calculations. The software needed to participate is 
