Starting today in the U.S., Google is introducing tappable shortcuts on the Google app for Android and iOS and Google.com on the mobile web that give you easy access to many tools and the ability to explore deeper within topics you care about.
Getting up-to-the-minute info is as easy as a single tap. With shortcuts right on the home screen, you now have access to in-depth experiences across sports, eat & drink, entertainment and weather
Android users will find many useful shortcuts like—translate, nearby attractions, flights, hotels, internet speed test, currency converter, and more. And , if you’re looking for fun, there are shortcuts like tic-tac-toe, roll a die, animal sounds, solitaire, and " I'm feeling curious".
You can tap into news, trailers and reviews that are relevant for you or swipe through listings to catch up on your favorite show.
Similarly on sports, whether you love basketball, hockey or football, now you don’t need to type anything when you want the latest scores. Just tap into game times, scores and team news.
Tap the weather shortcut and be ready for the day before you walk out the door. You’ll have access to updated information every time you tap—from hourly sky conditions and chance of rain, severe weather alerts, a detailed 10-day forecast, and more.
To find the most timely and recently used shortcuts, make sure your Google app is updated to the latest version and then look for your shortcuts right underneath the search box.
And Google is planning to add new shortcuts for big moments and events later.
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Just a heads up, there is a BBC news widget in the market now.
Seems pretty good. You will need v1.5 to use it.
yeah it's pretty good but it'd be better if it could open the news stories in the widget, i still mainly use either bbc low graphics or nubinews when i want to scan through the headlines, widgets only really any use to check headlines!
Maybe someone should point the author toward the weather widget someone made and released the source code for, as it opens up the forecast when you click on a day, not that it should be too hard to open in a browser window or similar.
if you single tap the news ticker, it brings up a list of recent stories. If you then single tap a story, it opens up the full story in your browser...
I know you hate me by now, but I have one more app under my sleeve. Err.. Straight from my keyboard. After a quite a few nights of development I’m ready to ask yet for your help once again in beta-testing a completely new application for windows phone 7 – Weather Stats. Weather Stats sources data from http://www.weatherbase.com/ (by permission from the owner) to bring back local (offline) climatological database (temperature and precipitation averages across the world) to your phone. Once released this app will be completely free and will have no advertisements (I hate both of the opposites). This database app will be useful for planning vacations or events and has massive amounts of data, almost 100000 charts among 26820 cities worldwide.
This app allows you to search by city name, navigate by country or search nearest places on map (using Bing maps). Integrates with Wikipedia too. It supports both metric and US units for charts. Finally it integrates with bing local search (place cards) to instantly bring you weather averages of the nearest location to your destination.
I want to make it good and reliable before I try to release it to the marketplace. If you want to help beta test it – please send me the liveid of your phone and I will give you a link to the app (this is needed for private beta-testing).
Thanks a lot for your help,
Nikita
Second Beta is released. Many bugfixes and improvements!
Learn about geography, plan your next vacation or event, or just browse through maps and charts to satisfy your curiosity. Weather Stats is your one authoritative source for finding monthly weather records and averages for more than 26,820 cities in 250 countries worldwide. The climatological information database is used by permission from weatherbase.com. Weather Stats accurately shows high, low and average temperatures and precipitation data.
Most functions of the app (excluding mapping and full-text search) work both offline and online. Various units and search methods are supported. App also integrates with Bing local search to bring you weather history information for your favorite places within one click.
Weather Stats is absolutely free and contains no advertisement.
V1.2:
1- Fix live tiles
2- Flip Tile Icon
3- New Al Jazeera Feeds
4- Much Faster
Make sure you’re always up to date wherever you go, by installing the - Lebanon Today - official Windows Phone 7 app on your device.
Be connected with the world around you every day!
Start the day by reading the braking news section provided or just the day’s top news stories and you’ll be prepared to take decisions accordingly.
The app is free so hurry up and grab your copy from the Marketplace!
With the Lebanon Today News app for Windows Phone 7 – read the hottest stories of the day, browse through photo galleries, all for free!
Live Tile
• Pin the Lebanon Today News app to your Start screen for a snapshot of the top story. The Live Tile updates to bring the latest news coverage to your fingertips.
Photos
• Read the day’s top news stories by scrolling through the latest Local News on the main page. Dig deeper into Entertainment, Politics, Health and more to explore photos and slideshows on your favorite topics.
Breaking News
• Get breaking news delivered directly to the app as you browse your favorite news sections. Tap the Latest news banner to follow the biggest stories as they unfold!
Lebanon Today has most everything you can want in a news app starting with popular topics: News, Life, Tech, Travel, Sports.
This app has many more features, but it's free, and it's the best News app and arguably one of the best Windows Phone 7 News Utility
apps implemented to date so just go download it right now and give Booya a Virtual High Five!
confirm with me in the comments that you LOVE this app as much as me !
Developed by
Ziad Khazzaka
Computer Center
This is well written , nice program , nothing like reading the "real" news , CBS might air some of these stories in a week or two after its already happened !
I'm the developer of atmosHere (play on words of atmosphere) Weather for Android, an Android app to make weather smarter, and simpler. The app is "Card UI" based, similar to that of Google Now, and is powered first and foremost by the hyper accurate Forecast.io. By using Google's Fused location Provider, we can get your exact location and get down to the minute weather information, all while also getting data for the upcoming week! The app prioritizes information based on the current weather conditions. So if there is a weather alert for your location, that will be the first card you will see! Similar concepts are used else where, if it's raining or snowing, you will get a card for nearby traffic accident counts. This pattern is used throughout the app. This makes it extremely simple to get glance-able information about what is going on right now, and other data that applies based on the conditions. The card ui also makes it simple to fling down a little further for the upcoming week weather, chances of rain, device sensor readings (barometric pressure, temps, etc), pollen counts, UV index, astronomy information, and many more! The app is also extremely configurable, by allowing users to toggle what information they want to see, allowing them to personalize the data they get within the app!
Just recently (last night) I added a new feature that I have yet to see from any other Forecast.io powered app. Forecast.io provides TONS of information, but for the normal person it is hard to parse through all the data given and make sense of it and what it means for the weather. So i have taken the data given, and "pre-parsed" it in a sense, and turned it into a friendly, readable, format when needed. For example, forecast.io provides a summary for a given days' forecast, "Breezy starting in the afternoon, continuing until the evening." and then this is where I come in and add additional, relevant information. So if there is a high chance of rain in the forecast, I will add precipitation information, "75% chance of rain, with light rain starting at 5pm". This gives you the chance of rain, how heavy it will be (can range from very light to very heavy), and then the forecasted time of that precipitation! I also do the same for the given temperature. So you may see "High for today of 35, with a low of 25" and if it will "feel" warmer or cooler than the given temperature, it will also let you know! This makes the forecast for every day personalized and relevant, and lets you very quickly flip to a given day's forecast and know exactly what the forecast is. No need to flip through charts of data, and stare at numbers trying to make sense of them!
The app also features data from other services to aid with contextual information, such as traffic conditions, marine and ski conditions, latest earthquake information, and even a feed of National Weather Service Audio Streams! This will be built out even further going forward, allowing users to custom tailor the weather information they are shown!
The app also features radar data of all types, from precipitation, to weather alerts, and plenty more! Your Android standards such as widgets, notifications, and even extensions for the ever popular DashClock and Muzei are included! The app has already been optimized for Android Wear once it is released to the public. Google Glass has not been forgotten either, as there is a build ready to go for when Google Opens up GDK app distribution!
I have a G+ community setup that I am posting information about updates, bugs, and asking random questions for possible future updates. I will also answer any questions or I am open to just good old conversation! I am always open to suggestions of new ideas for the app. It's been extremely enjoyable thus far getting that app to where it is, and look forward to keeping that going. I also have no problem answering any emails if you prefer taking that route. The about section of the app includes all contact information you could ever need.
Youtube Demo video
Play Store Link
G+ Community
I have been doing weekly releases, and the app has improved tremendously over the last few weeks. We are now sitting in the top 30 in free weather app!
I have also worked on a free version, as some people have seemed hesitant to purchase without being able to really try the Card UI style out first.
So atmosHere Weather Free has been published just today!
Google Play Feature!
atmosHere Weather is now being featured on Google Play!
Feel free to join the G+ Community as well to follow development, make suggestions, or report bugs! There's a current Reddit thread right now as well.
I bought this the other day for my brand new Note 4. After installing all it would do is tell me i was running an unlicensed version. Pretty odd behavior considering i bought it via the play store. Had to request a refund pretty much immediately. Shame. I liked the look of this.
As part of my wake up profile, (the tasks for which I have written or poached and modified) the profile resets volumes, display brightness, enables autosync, toggles radios, etc. When the alarm sounds and is dismissed, my phone greets me with well wishes while it retrieves a number of files including a weather.gov RSS forecast for my area. It feeds the result to a text to speech service so that I can listen to my favorite morning weather, news and hear my calendar agenda while getting ready. But there is a problem.
I need different weather updates when navigating just like I only need the next calendar event (Location info is passed to Maps), instead of the whole day's agenda. I don't want to run a weather app because I am trying to conserve resources and most of the good ones are memory and battery hogs. Besides, I'm doing other things with my phone and when driving. I'm focusing on a 'hands-free' experience.
The site: http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/index.xml; is an index of US weather stations tagged with Lat/Lon coordinates that gives current local weather observations. They are ordered alphabetically by <state> and <station_name>, so 'AK' (Alaska) and 'Adak Island, Adak Airport' is the first <station> after the header information. Of the 2257 stations in the file, each 10 line segment looks like this:
<station>
<station_id>PADK</station_id>
<state>AK</state>
<station_name>Adak Island, Adak Airport</station_name>
<latitude>51.87778</latitude>
<longitude>-176.64583</longitude>
<html_url>http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/PADK.html</html_url>
<rss_url>http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/PADK.rss</rss_url>
<xml_url>http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/PADK.xml</xml_url>
</station>
First, what is the best method for searching and parsing a file this big in Tasker?
Second, the task should also use route and speed info (If moving) to facilitate another search to the closest stations to upcoming way-points or destination.
OK, the game has changed...
There may be a simple way around using the NWS XML index file to harvest the RSS link. A Google Maps intent to query for National Weather Service will show the nearest one to the GPS data sent. Each location links to srh.noaa.gov/XXX on its 'side panel' (tap the marker), where the three letter designation for that station can be parsed and substituted in the standard RSS link, e.g.,
Code:
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=HGX&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0
Where HGX indicates the Houston/Galveston station transmitter.
Now the problem becomes how to grab the link displayed on the MAPS side panel for that NWS locations website.
ManagementCritic said:
As part of my wake up profile, (the tasks for which I have written or poached and modified) the profile resets volumes, display brightness, enables autosync, toggles radios, etc. When the alarm sounds and is dismissed, my phone greets me with well wishes while it retrieves a number of files including a weather.gov RSS forecast for my area. It feeds the result to a text to speech service so that I can listen to my favorite morning weather, news and hear my calendar agenda while getting ready. But there is a problem.
I need different weather updates when navigating just like I only need the next calendar event (Location info is passed to Maps), instead of the whole day's agenda. I don't want to run a weather app because I am trying to conserve resources and most of the good ones are memory and battery hogs. Besides, I'm doing other things with my phone and when driving. I'm focusing on a 'hands-free' experience.
The site: http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/index.xml; is an index of US weather stations tagged with Lat/Lon coordinates that gives current local weather observations. They are ordered alphabetically by <state> and <station_name>, so 'AK' (Alaska) and 'Adak Island, Adak Airport' is the first <station> after the header information. Of the 2257 stations in the file, each 10 line segment looks like this:
<station>
<station_id>PADK</station_id>
<state>AK</state>
<station_name>Adak Island, Adak Airport</station_name>
<latitude>51.87778</latitude>
<longitude>-176.64583</longitude>
<html_url>http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/PADK.html</html_url>
<rss_url>http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/PADK.rss</rss_url>
<xml_url>http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/PADK.xml</xml_url>
</station>
First, what is the best method for searching and parsing a file this big in Tasker?
Second, the task should also use route and speed info (If moving) to facilitate another search to the closest stations to upcoming way-points or destination.
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AutoTools has a JSON/RSS/XML reader option that easily parses this kind of information. Give that a shot. It's in beta so you'll have to go to joaomgcd's website to grab it.