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Federal Hurricane Response Widgets
Imagine my surprise today as I logged into MySpace this afternoon to discover the US Dept Of Homeland Security issuing hurricane updates through Myspace! What was also of interest to me was seeing the DHS providing their web site visitors with the ability to utilize their own Web widgets powered with iframes. Unfortunately, something the [...]
WeatherBug API Winners Announced
The WeatherBug API contest has been a tremendous success. We had so many entries submitted that even after we have reviewed and judged each of them, I am still working to get each of them posted here at Inside WeatherBug. Having said this, if you find that you did not win this time around, you [...]
AirMe – WeatherBug API Entry
With Apple’s latest iPhone release, the new iPhone App Store has been all the rage. Well as it turns out, one of our entries to the WeatherBug API Contest was an iPhone application that not only adds a whole new dimension to uploading photos to Flickr, it does so while providing a tag relating to [...]
Major League Baseball Weather Widget – WeatherBug API Entry
PHP has been on fire throughout the WeatherBug API contest it seems. And who can blame the developers, it is rather flexible which in turn provides a world of functionality for everyone involved. Today’s WeatherBug API entry is going to grab the attention of most of the baseball fans here in the States in a [...]
WeatherBug In Second Life – WeatherBug API Entry
Long before their was ever Google Lively, there was Second Life. Unfortunately, when one spends enough time within a virtual world, they might not have an opportunity to see what current weather conditions are like in the “real one”. Tony from Cranial Tap has provided a great solution and entered it into the WeatherBug API [...]
WeatherBug For Linux Is Live!
After months of work and beta testing on a multitude of Linux distributions, WeatherBug is proud to redefine the way we retrieve weather data on the Linux platform. Initially launched on Linspire’s CNR.com website, WeatherBug for Linux is the aftermath of the success seen with the previous beta application, WeatherBug Tempest. So what is new? [...]
Latest Firefox Weather Extension
It’s here, the latest WeatherBug Firefox Add-on has officially been released and below, you will find the demonstration video highlighting all that is new with this extension release. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/P_Z-qEASM_Q" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] To recap, new functionality includes: Compatibility with Firefox 3 Improved icons and readability New Options icon New roll over effects Wind [...]
Weather API Solution With Digital Journal
Over the years, the citizen journalist based website, Digital Journal has made accuracy the forefront of their core mission. So when it came time to add a weather function to their offering, the website developers opted to use the web based weather API that provided the most accurate weather available in the US – the [...]
Best Weather Gadget For Microsoft Live
With the release of Microsoft Windows Vista came the ability to add various sidebar gadgets onto a user’s desktop. The idea behind these gadgets is to create a hybrid between the now dated “Windows Active Desktop” and Mac OS X’s own dashboard widgets. Speaking of OS X widgets, WeatherBug is one of the top 25 [...]
Entry Level Application Development 101
If you are anything like me, you have found that working with most mainstream programming languages simply requires too much of a time commitment. The fact remains that there are scores of people out there who simply are not able to get their minds around entry level programming. And this has frustrated many people for [...]
