Yahoo! Weather Needs Your Photos

Yahoo! Weather – Flickr.com/terencewest

Yahoo! recently launched a new weather app for mobile devices that’s quite beautiful and unique. It’s a weather app so all of the usual suspects are included: current temperature, highs/lows, chance of precipitation, extended forecast, and the app has a very clean and beautiful presentation.

But here’s the cool part: It uses local Flickr photos for the backgrounds! So when you pull up the weather for Twin Falls, you actually get a photo of Twin Falls. Continue reading “Yahoo! Weather Needs Your Photos”

How Much Data Do You Really Need?

On most cellular carriers Unlimited Data has gone the way of the dinosaurs: extinct. Verizon recently announced they are phasing out the unlimited data option even for customers who are “grandfathered in.”

Initially I was concerned about living under a limited data cap–with the possibility of overages and additional fees–but then I endeavored to find out how much data I really used. I was surprised by the findings. Continue reading “How Much Data Do You Really Need?”