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The TVNZ iPhone app is excellent

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The TVNZ iPhone app is a winner.

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Add a weather forecast to iCal

I need to know the weather forecast when planning meetings. Surely I can see the weather in iCal?

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Predict Wellington’s weather by astronomical events

I’ve made a very interesting discovery over the last few years, since I started to revive an ancient interest in astronomy: it’s possible to predict Wellington’s weather by astronomical events. Lunar eclipse: cloudy. Closest approach of an interesting celestial body: rainy. Comets: cloud and wind. Transits: wind. Other phenomena: mist and or fog. And on [...]

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When Edit is right before your eyes

One of the most consulted apps on my iPhone is Peter Watling’s WeatherNZ. It tells me the weather forecast, shows me the current situation, and most importantly tells me the tides so I know the best times to take the dogs for a walk at Lyall Bay. With a recent update he added in information [...]

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Paid software upgrade adds features to iPod touch

After watching the Macworld 2008 Keynote live blogging I found that Software Update wasn’t bringing up the goods so I downloaded and installed iTunes 7.6. That gave me the 1.1.3 update for my iPod touch, and offered me a paid software upgrade. After a bit of updating and unplugging I now have fancy new features [...]

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The weather — in Google Earth

Fer heaven’s sake, will Google ever stop adding useful features to its products? Now I can find out what the weather is / will be, right in Google Earth: …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 [...]

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