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Umbrella Etiquette: Four Things To Remember When You’re Using A Brolly

As rainy days become more prevalent, taking an umbrella with you makes good sense, but too many umbrella owners don’t stop to think about how their behaviour impacts others. Make sure that staying dry doesn’t ruin the day for everyone in your vicinity by remembering these simple guidelines.


May 21, 2011
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Why Heat Fatigue May Be All In Your Head

That extreme heat you’re feeling on a disgustingly sweaty summer’s day? It might be all in your head. Well, mostly.


May 18, 2011
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MyWeather Is A Customisable Weather App For iPhone, Android, Online

iPhone/Android/Web: There are so many weather apps available that weather is its own category in the mobile app stores. MyWeather is a new app that promises 6x better precision than The Weather Channel, Accuweather and others, as well as more personalisation.


April 27, 2011
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Weddar For iPhone

The weather is easy to come by these days, what with mobile apps and desktop widgets and the windows in your wall and all that. But sometimes that dry meteorological data can be deceiving. Weddar tells you how it feels outside.


April 20, 2011
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Pocket Weather Brings Accurate Aussie Weather To Your iOS Device

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iOS: Weather apps aren’t exactly uncommon on the iPhone, but Pocket Weather stands out from the crowd for two features: accurate Aussie data and a neat home-screen indicator of the temperature in your chosen location.


April 19, 2011
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How To Avoid Getting Soaked In The Rain Without An Umbrella

It’s raining out and you’ve forgotten your umbrella. You don’t have a hoodie. You’re going to get wet. What do you do? Apparently the key to avoiding the rain as best you can with nothing but your human body is to lean forward and run as fast as you can.


April 14, 2011
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Celsius Puts The Current Temperature On Your iOS Home Screen

iOS: Apple doesn’t allow apps to keep their home screen icons regularly updated with data — just notification badges for alerts and the like. Clever weather app Celsius (which does, indeed, have a “Fahrenheit” cousin) uses that notification badge to give you the temperature in degrees, no extra click needed.


March 16, 2011
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Weatherspark Forecasts And Averages Historical Weather Data

Current conditions and five-day forecasts? Every site has those. Historical data and averages dating back to the late 1940s, laid out in charts, graphs and averages? That’s what Weatherspark is offering up to people looking for some context on their weather.


January 31, 2011
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Google Tweaks Mobile Weather Search

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Searching Google for weather information is easy — just search for ‘weather city’ to find predictions for a specific place. For mobile devices, Google has tweaked its results to produce easier-to-browse forecasts.


January 25, 2011
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Google Updates Weather Searching For Mobile Devices

One of the coolest things about Google search is that it immediately recognises searches like “weather” and, instead of just providing a bunch of links, will actually give you a weather overview for your location right on the home page. This didn’t work quite as well on their mobile site, but today they updated it with a whole new weather UI.