Tag: weather
Public urged to help digitise millions of historical weather records
APP OF THE DAY: Ducktastic (iPhone)
On the face of things, Ducktastic is a pretty standard arcade game for the iPhone, iPod and iPad. You guide a duck on his annual migration flight, eating bugs along the way and avoiding the bullets of hunters out to…
iPhone App Round-up: Valentine's room, Riddim Ribbon, Postman Pat and more!
This week's trip to Apple's app store finds the shop in a romantic mood. Opening the doors to their Valentine's room reveals a wealth of loved-up e-cards and love poems, as well as apps to make sure you get your…
Met Office launch iPhone app that would have been useful a snow-stricken month ago
While it may have been a tad more useful a month or so ago, the Met Office have today launched their official iPhone app. It features five-day forecasts, national severe weather alerts, national and regional weather maps and a UK…
Avoid getting lost to snow blindness with the ViewRanger "off-road" sat nav
If you're feeling a bit "Ray Mears" and are planning on braving the great outdoors despite the chilly weather, you might want to consider taking the ViewRanger "off-raod" sat nav with you. Running on any S60 Smartphone and now coming…
GMail adds themes
There’s a Firefox extension called Better GMail which Gina Trapani from Lifehacker has put together. It’s a compilation of Greasemonkey scripts that enhance various aspects of the service, from its looks to its functionality.
Google has a history of taking the best bits of the extension and adding them officially to GMail, and now they’ve added the popular ‘themes’ functionality. The themes look damn good – there’s giraffes, ninjas, the themes can change over time, or with the weather, and there’s even an old-skool ASCII theme.
The themes will be rolling out across GMail over the next few days. They’re not enabled on my account yet, sadly. Have they shown up on yours? Which is your favourite? Let us know in the comments.
Related posts: GMail adds voice and video chat | GMail adds yet more functionality – this time it’s SMS
The world's first weather watch – lets you know it's raining when it's all too late
Oregon Scientific, with their firm grasp of the concept of the British summer, are releasing the world’s first weather watch…
CES 2008: Oregon Scientific Weather Center and InstaForecast, for when looking out the window and guessing won't do.
Oregon Scientific – the people responsible for making me look like a geographical moron – are at CES to launch a clutch of new products, including some weather monitors that are perfect for weather-obsessed Brits (go on, you know you love talking about the rain). Right now we only have US prices, but we’ll keep you updated on UK releases…
Wallmounted Weather Station with wireless remote sensor: Forecast your own weather
If, like most of the British population, the weather is important to you, and you’d like to have a go at predicting it – or you just want to know how cold it is outside, then the SM1600 wallmounted weather station is for you.
The SM1600 can track many channels of data. It records the maximum and minimum indoor and outdoor temperatures, humidity, and air pressure. This is used to calculate a comfort factor, which is displayed on several icons. Air pressure is displayed both on a numeric display and on a trend graph.
Melitta "Smart Mill & Brew" system makes your coffee and forecasts weather
Salton have introduced the Melitta "Smart Mill & Brew" coffee maker that, apart from doing what all coffee machines are supposed to do (make coffee), will also forecast the weather for you. No, it doesn't have a barometer hiding next…
