Sunday, July 5, 2020

Dark Sky weather app for iPhone

If you haven't looked at this particular weather app, I highly recommend it.  It was so popular in the Apple iTunes App Store that I hear that Apple had purchased the company that did the app and thus now "owns the app".  So I don't know if Android users have access or not.

I paid $5 for the app, but I thought Apple was going to make it free after they purchased it.  Maybe not.

Anyway, it is very specific, gives you weather expectations at the exact location where you are standing, and hour by hour predictions of temperature, rain, and wind in that spot.  It also has easy to change parameters, such as "feels like"  temperature, instead of just "the temperature".  It also has excellent forward forecasting, also hour by hour.  Very useful if you are planning an outdoor event at a specific time of day.  It would be nice to know the percent chance of precipitation or the temperature at that hour.

Enjoy.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Coping With The Virus Zoom Video and special music


If you haven’t discovered the now famous ZOOM app for your iPad, or smart phone, please take a look, it is in all the app stores.  It is, I understand, free for users if they limit it to 40 minutes.  But last Saturday Zoom gave my family extra free time for our first ever, three city, Zoom family meeting. 

It is so impressive, I like it much better than Skype or FaceTime.  It is intuitive and has great features.  I will leave some helpful links to “how to improve your use of Zoom” videos below.  But for now, enjoy some music appropriate for the Staying Inside situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmUXntGlqFI   1.5 million views are not wrong.

Some Zoom help videos:

Zoom video, how to use, tips on raising the camera so the camera is not looking up your nose, for example.  Tripod might be a good idea ?  at least for a meeting.

One other video on ways to use Zoom. 

There are many others, on YouTube, just look around.