[ale] Weather App (was WAY [OT] but geeky - how do I calibrate GPS barometric altimeter)

[Scott Castaline]

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And don't forget that NBC is now around 98% owned by Comcast or
Xfinity whatever they call themselves.



On 02/28/2013 01:41 PM, Chuck Peters wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com 
> <mailto:ale at sixit.com>> wrote:
> 
> Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 4:07:51 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> I'm only using WeatherBug on my Android tablet.  Have you heard 
>> of problems with that?
> 
> I haven't tried it, but I don't trust them one bit; they used 
> schools to encourage parents to install the WeatherBug spyware on 
> home computers, as well as local media - even the Weather Channel 
> got into the spyware weather app from WeatherBug.
>> Does Weather Underground have an Android app?
> 
> As a matter of fact, they do.
> 
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wunderground.android.weather&hl=en
>
>
> 
I trust them.  I even chose to get a premium account so I can get
> priority radar and satellite images during severe weather.  It's 
> one of the best $10 I spend each year, IMO.  Check out their 
> Wundermap.
> 
> 
> Did you know that Wunderground was bought by the Weather Channel?
> 
> http://www.wunderground.com/about/pr/news.asp?date=20120702
> 
> I'm not sure how that affects the app, but Weather Channel is
> owned NBC Universal and in my opinion the Weather Channel is not
> better for it. We will see what is means for the Wunderground, but
> it is probably not good for the long term.
> 
> Most of the time I just go to weather.gov <http://weather.gov>,
> and it has http://mobile.weather.gov/.
> 
> 
> Chuck
> 
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