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

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Scott Castaline <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.

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> 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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