Category: Api

What historical weather data can tell developers

The life of the average app developer can be tough. Not only do you have to contend with an ever-crowded application marketplace, but you also have to keep abreast with an expanse of new technologies in order to offer up something fresh for the market. And whilst changes range broadly, from the hardware of the average Smartphone right through to...

Weather app development: It’s raining money

Application development is probably one of the fastest paced industries of all, even within the world of IT where technology is constantly advancing. What’s more, with hit applications such as Flight Track (with an estimated $5 million worth of sales), and RealMac Software’s Clear (with an estimated revenue of $1.5 million) it’s pretty clear that app development can equally be...

The most lucrative apps in the world

In today’s world the Smartphone application realm moves apace. For the right team of developers with the most astute of application ideas there can be literal overnight success (as well as self-made millionaires who are enriched over in just a few days, following an intense development period over a course of months, or even years). So we wanted to take...

The ever changing impact of the weather

The past decade of weather has been filled with plenty of changes, from the last few years being the warmest in history to the all-important ice filled Northern hemisphere being subject to the most dramatic of temperature changes.   With such significant developments occurring on a regular basis, it’s relevant to ask just what this predicted future of unpredictable weather...

Taking weather apps into the 21st century

Gone are the days of simple weather apps that merely predict tomorrow’s weather and instead today there is a world of innovative weather apps that are truly shaping everything from the logistics of global companies right through to the strategies of emergency aid charities. With such a breadth of different weather apps, and with technology and APIs that are always...

Five weather apps that are working up a storm

Weather apps. Do you think that they’re just going to tell you whether you should wear a coat tomorrow, or predict how your hair will fare on that Friday Autumn’s evening? Well, think again! The weather apps of today are changing and, in some instances, are even saving lives. So here we take a look at five of the very...

Five ways apps have changed the way we live

The Smartphone has truly revolutionised the way we live and whilst many a pessimist would describe such changes as decidedly anti-social (pointing to society’s seeming addiction to social media) there are many, many ways in which Smartphone applications have changed our lives for the better. So here we take a look at just five, life enhancing positives of Smartphone applications....

New API Offers Intriguing Alternative to Cloud-Based Data Storage

APIs can offer intriguing opportunities for developers, with some services becoming particularly influential even in established markets, allowing new platforms to emerge and challenge incumbent solutions. A good example of this emerged last week, when BitTorrent announced the arrival of the latest update for its Sync API. Sync is intended to be a rival to standard cloud-based data storage platforms...

Getting over the Google weather API

The Google Weather API can be considered as somewhat of an API that never really happened. Officially, at least, Google never launched the API, and instructed devs that discovered it to use it only for hobbyist coding projects. Yet despite this coders flocked to it and over the course of its run it gained serious ground in API popularity. So...

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