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Check the weather in style with the Yahoo Weather app

Yahoo Weather is a weather app that displays stunning Flickr photos as a backdrop to a wide range of weather information on your iPhone -- more than you get with Apple's weather app. There are certainly other options with more weather information, but for a quick look at what's happening in your area, Yahoo Weather is a good-looking and well-made app.

When you launch Yahoo Weather, you'll be asked immediately if the app can use your location so it can give you information on the weather around your area. From there you'll be presented with a … Read more

Visualize the weather through YoWindow

YoWindow is a weather application for your PC that manages to deliver weather data in a unique and fun interface. With its ability to save multiple locations, it makes it incredibly simple to quickly pull up weather reports from anywhere in the world.

The program is about as simple as your typical weather-reporting Web site. Enter a city anywhere in the world, and watch as YoWindow's background image changes to reflect the current weather conditions there. In addition, YoWindow supplies you with all of the hard facts, including high and low for the day, Wind, Pressure, and Humidity. There'… Read more

Windows: The pit stop on the road to open source

Open-source content management and collaboration vendor Alfresco has released the latest results of its Open Source Barometer, a global survey of 25,000-plus respondents within the Alfresco community. The data is skewed by the fact that the participants are clearly interested in open source, Java, and other aspects of Alfresco, but some of the findings (Slideshare presentation) are intriguing, all the same.

For example, consider the fact that 64 percent of those evaluating Alfresco do so on Windows, but deploy on Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, primarily. More interestingly, note these statistics:

92 percent do not use or intend … Read more