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WeatherBug Brings Live Streaming Weather Data To Second Life
First brought to public light during the WeatherBug API contest, Cranial Tap Inc. has officially released their latest concept into the wilds of the virtual world known as Second Life. Enter the WeatherBug powered weather panel for Second Life! [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/0qDILwBc15U" width="320" height="240" wmode="transparent" /] The motivation for Cranial Tap to develop a weather panel [...]
Scratch Resistant WeatherBug For The BlackBerry Storm
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/AMSqGsIih3k" width="320" height="240" wmode="transparent" /] As you can see from the video above, it is not only the BlackBerry Storm proving that it is scratch resistant, so is the application running on it! All kidding aside, it is great to see that the WeatherBug application for the BlackBerry Storm is being used so early [...]
Temperature-Driven Promotion Hotel Stay With WeatherBug
With the economy slowing down, especially with the holidays coming up, saving on holiday travel is just what we need right now. In this spirit, Fairfax Hotels has teamed up with WeatherBug to give hotel travelers a break this holiday season. In this instance, the hotel stay cost will be determined by the temperature outside. [...]
New Release Of WeatherBug For The iPhone Released!
The latest WeatherBug iPhone app is out! You made it clear the changes you wanted to see take place within the application and WeatherBug heard you loud and clear. Here are some of the most important changes WeatherBug is proud to present. 1) Conditions and Forecast data is now cached for offline viewing. This is [...]
WeatherBug On Your TV
Did you know that WeatherBug provides weather to more than just Windows users? Outside of the various mobile efforts, WeatherBug also has a strong partnership broadcasters throughout the US. Popular networks such as NBC, CBS, FOX among others all have affiliate stations that have signed up to provide their viewers with the most accurate weather [...]
What Is A Non-Precipitation Warning?
Those of you using various WeatherBug applications on your desktop or on your mobile devices, might be wondering what in the heck a Non-Precipitation Warning actually means? Well, WeatherBug issues these Non-Precipitation alerts over their iPhone WeatherBug application or over the desktop application when NOAA has issued a Non-Precipitation alert. As you can see here, [...]
Weather In Your Linux Terminal
Weather info in your command line terminal? You bet, thanks to the efforts of Mike @ The Linux and Unix Menagerie. The script is fairly straight forward – give the command for it to run, then enter the zip code you would like to get the forecast from. As you can see from the video [...]
Meet The Geeks At Weather Geeks!
There has been quite a bit of new activity recently due to hurricane season over at Weather Geeks. Created by WeatherBug on the new “Geeks” network to keep weather fans in the know, the site also acts as a looking glass into real world reactions to the weather as it happens. Recently at Weather Geeks, [...]
Mobile Alerts And Living In Severe Weather Regions
In the past, I have shared my own personal experiences with how WeatherBug alerts have ensured that I was kept safe during what could have been a serious weather related event. And as we begin to see the hard reality behind severe weather taking place in the southeast this year, I cannot help but wonder [...]
Flood Warnings And Hurricane Readiness In Texas
(Red is the area to be hurricane Ike effected) There is old saying that “everything is bigger in Texas”. And clearly, severe weather is no exception here. As you can see from a report earlier, Ike is just beginning to dig its heels into the great state of Texas, among other surrounding states as well. [...]
