Apps

Smartphone sensors, readily available feeds of weather data are increasingly good data visualizations are resulting in more and better mobile weather apps. Here are a few to check out for iOS.

Google recently announced that it had passed one million apps on Google Play, narrowly edging Apple to the magic milestone figure....

Weathermob, a mobile, social network centered around crowdsourced weather reporting, has raised an additional $650,000 in new funding today from a number of angel investors, including Mark Hastings, Lord Waheed Alli, Victoria Hackett, and Drew Volpe, bringing its total raise to date to $1.1 million.

It's no coincidence that the best and most popular apps frequently have striking and memorable icons. It might seem like just a colorful tile, but a good icon is critical piece of an app's design that has a huge effect on how people think about and interact with what's inside. Here's a rare look at how Apple thinks icons should look, straight from one of the company's design gurus....

The iPad offerings were all over the place, jumping from intensive weather details to a news-reading puppy to enough emoji to ensure that you never have to use words for feelings ever again. But then again, that's what life is all about, after all—anthropomorphized dogs and avoiding face-to-face human interactions at all costs. Or something like that....

WunderMap brings 30,000 web cams and 13 map presets that should appeal to the weather geek and the casual weather checker.

Apple's App Store remade the world of software and mobile and, as I see it, all for the better.

Back in May we brought you Raining.fm, a mobile app that lets you listen to the infinite sound of raindrops. On loop....