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Yweather Puts The Weather On Your OS X Desktop
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Mac OS X only: Reader Daniel used his ubergeeky perl skills combined with GeekTool and created a more powerful way to display the current weather conditions on his desktop. More »
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9:10AM Angus Kidman | Reader Rob writes in with a simple tip to add up-to-date weather information to your Outlook calendar using the Weather Underground calendar feed. More »
Add Local Weather To Your Outlook
9:10AM Angus Kidman | Reader Rob writes in with a simple tip to add up-to-date weather information to your Outlook calendar using the Weather Underground calendar feed. More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | There are plenty of sites that will let you check the weather, but the domain ‘thef**ingweather.com’ is one you’re unlikely to forget in a hurry, even if prevailing social mores mean we can’t reproduce it in its entirety. While the site looks US-centric at first glance, you can enter Australian cities and get suitably accurate results (and choose the Celsius option so the results make sense). Suffice to say any weather site that’s detailed enough to cover Bellingen is OK by us.
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TheF***ingweather.com Tells You The Weather (NSFW)
3:00PM Angus Kidman | There are plenty of sites that will let you check the weather, but the domain ‘thef**ingweather.com’ is one you’re unlikely to forget in a hurry, even if prevailing social mores mean we can’t reproduce it in its entirety. While the site looks US-centric at first glance, you can enter Australian cities and get suitably accurate results (and choose the Celsius option so the results make sense). Suffice to say any weather site that’s detailed enough to cover Bellingen is OK by us.
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12:00PM Angus Kidman | Cricket tragics will put up with just about anything to get a fix of willow on leather, but if you’re going to take the day off work (or stay up half the night) to watch a televised match, it helps to know if it’s likely to be rained out. Weather Underground’s provides forecasts for all scheduled ICC matches, with hour-by-hour predictions and Google Maps links to the venue. The same site also offers weather predictions for a bunch of other sports, but cricket is the most relevant to an Australian audience. For further cricket tech, don’t forget the official Cricket Australia YouTube channel and the cricket travel tracker
Cricket Weather: Weather Underground
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Cricket Weather Provides Predictions For Upcoming Tests
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Cricket tragics will put up with just about anything to get a fix of willow on leather, but if you’re going to take the day off work (or stay up half the night) to watch a televised match, it helps to know if it’s likely to be rained out. Weather Underground’s provides forecasts for all scheduled ICC matches, with hour-by-hour predictions and Google Maps links to the venue. The same site also offers weather predictions for a bunch of other sports, but cricket is the most relevant to an Australian audience. For further cricket tech, don’t forget the official Cricket Australia YouTube channel and the cricket travel tracker
Cricket Weather: Weather Underground
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Predict Weather with the Clouds
8:00AM Adam Pash | DIY web site Instructables details how to predict the weather by glancing at the sky and—more specifically—the clouds. Being able to predict the weather by observing cloud formations is a skill that is somewhat lost on us modern humans. Most of us can easily look at a cloud and see the unicorn or ice cream cones, but very few of us can look at clouds and see the approaching cold front. The post focuses on first highlighting and identifying different cloud formations and what they mean to the weather, then describes how to put that information to use. You may not be able to out-forecast your local weatherperson off the bat, but a better knowledge of the clouds and climate can’t hurt. While you’re at it, check out a few other methods (like smell) of predicting the weather without checking the forecast. Predicting the Weather with Clouds [Instructables] More »
Google Maps Adds Weather and Gas Prices to My Maps
10:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | US-centric: Google Maps has joined forces with The Weather Channel to offer a new My Maps overlay of current weather conditions and forecasts. Just head to Google Maps, click the My Maps tab, and select The Weather Channel from the list of maps. You can turn on different overlays (like clouds and radar) and highlight different points of interest. My Maps has lots of other worthwhile featured content, like Gas Prices from GasBuddy, Google Real Estate Search, and geotagged photos from Picasa Web Albums. If you haven’t already taken a closer look at the impressive range of features offered by Google Maps’ My Maps feature, these built-in maps are a good place to start. Google Maps My Maps [via PC World] More »Make a Heating Pad for Next to Nothing
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Whether you’re trying to keep warm or dull aches and pains, a heating pad can offer some soothing relief. Before you head to the store, open your dresser and cupboard, and you might find everything you need to make one yourself. All it takes is two pieces of cloth (or an old sock), any of a number of grains such as rice, oatmeal, or flax seed, and a tiny bit of sewing or cutting. The TipNut blog includes a number of ingredients you can throw in to make your DIY heating pad into a headache reliever or a fragrant relaxing helper. For someone just getting into the shoveling routine again, this sounds worth having on hand. Make Your Own Microwave Heating Pad [TipNut via Dumb Little Man] More »
Google Earth Forecasts and Displays Current Weather
10:00AM Adam Pash | The recent Google Earth update introduced lots of new layers, but one extremely useful layer that passed under our radar (as it were) at first glance was the addition of a new weather layer. The layer includes radar information, current conditions, and forecasts pulled every 15 minutes from Weather.com and a cloud layer that updates hourly from the Naval Research Laboratory. So if you’re already obsessed with Google Earth for its stargazing and live flight tracking features, now you’ve got one more use for the freeware, cross-platform atlas. How’s the weather? [Google LatLong via Download Squad] More »
