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

[Scott Castaline]

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On 02/28/2013 02:15 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Scott Castaline
> <skotchman at gmail.com <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> And don't forget that NBC is now around 98% owned by Comcast or 
> Xfinity whatever they call themselves.
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> 
>> And all of that will be bought up by Taco Bell in the next few
>> years.
> 
>> oh. wrong movie.
> 
Hey! I was born confused, what's your excuse?!?!:-0
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> 
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> On 02/28/2013 01:41 PM, Chuck Peters wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com
> <mailto:ale at sixit.com>
>> <mailto:ale at sixit.com <mailto:ale at sixit.com>>> wrote:
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>> Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 4:07:51 PM, you wrote:
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>>> 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.
> 
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> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wunderground.android.weather&hl=en
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> 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>
> <http://weather.gov>,
>> and it has http://mobile.weather.gov/.
> 
> 
>> Chuck
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