iPad By Davis: “How to check the weather and get forecasts using Siri” plus 2 more

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• How to check the weather and get forecasts using Siri
• Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Homemade Fluid Abstracts
• Star Walk for iPad Updated: New Objects, Effects, Santa Tracking & More

How to check the weather and get forecasts using Siri Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:21 PM PST Siri not only makes for a great digital assistant but a great weather forecaster as well. With a little help from Siri, you can make sure you're never caught without your umbrella, raincoat, snow shovel, or suntan lotion again. How to check current weather conditions with Siri How to view a weekly weather forecast with Siri How to check the weather in a different location with Siri How to check sunrise and sunset times with Siri How to ask Siri other weather related questions How to check current weather conditions with Siri How do you find out about the weather? Just ask Siri. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri. Ask Siri to check the weather. For example, "What's the weather today?" Tap the weather widget to go to the Weather App. How to view a weekly weather or future forecast with Siri If you care more about the entire weekly forecast, or a specific day of the upcoming week, you can ask Siri to show you that instead, and highlight it for you as well. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri. Ask Siri to tell you what the weekly weather looks like. For example, "What is the forecast for this week?" or "What's the weather on Friday?" How to check the weather in a different location with Siri If you're traveling or simply care more about the weather someplace else than you do at home, Siri can give you the same information for another area. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri. Ask Siri to tell you the weather in another location. For example, "What's the weather like in Chicago?" or "Will it be hot in San Francisco today?" How to ask Siri other weather-related questions You can also ask Siri more practical questions, like "do I need a rain jacket today". They'll call up the same weather widget, but they let you ask what you're specifically interested in finding out. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri. Ask Siri if you need anything special to prepare for the weather. For example, "Do I need a coat today?" or "Will I I need an umbrella tomorrow?" How to check sunrise and sunset times with Siri Want to make sure you're up at the crack of dawn, or that you make it home before dusk? Siri can tell you that as well. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri. Ask Siri to tell you when the sun is setting or rising. For example, "What time will the sun set tonight?" or "What time did the sun rise this morning?" How to get more help with Siri If you still need help with setting up or using Siri with your iPhone Calendar, or any other Siri feature, head on over to our Siri Forum and ask away!

Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Homemade Fluid Abstracts Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:09 AM PST This weekend's iPad wallpaper choices are a few handmade, rolled my own style abstract backgrounds. I used the fun iFluids HD app to create these. The app mixes fluid simulation and artwork and lets you play around and create all sorts of funky images with just a few (or many) touches and taps on your iPad screen. I've only spent short blocks of time with it so far, but I've already made several images that I like enough to use on my iPads' home screens. I think my favorite so far is the Cyan and Black image shown above. Hit the break for a few more that are livening up my iPad home screens … Here's a Blue and Gold fluid iPad wallpaper: A Cyan and Green abstract that I let get a little crazier: And finally a Black and White fluid: All of these look great on my iPad 3 and iPad mini home screens – here's a couple examples on the iPad 3: If you like any or all of these, you can find them in a number of iPad-friendly sizes at our iPad Insight Flickr group page. The group is continuing to get a steady flow of great iPad wallpapers and iPad artwork. Please feel free to share some of your favorite iPad wallpapers there – and maybe we'll feature them here sometime soon. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: iPad wallpapers Related Stories Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Retina Stripes Patterns Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Lord of the Rings Theme Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Grey Glow & Simple Color Backgrounds This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Star Walk for iPad Updated: New Objects, Effects, Santa Tracking & More Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:54 AM PST Star Walk HD for iPad, the popular and award-winning star gazing app, has been updated this week, to Version 6.1. Star Walk helps you spot over 200,000 stars, planets, constellations, satellites, and galaxies in the night sky – and now Santa too. Here's a little  more background on the app: Star Walk is a handy astronomy guide that shows celestial objects (stars, constellations, satellites, etc.) in the exact positions on the sky above you, providing comprehensive information about them. It helps anyone even remotely interested in astronomy find their way across the sky, determine where to look for any chosen object, rewind or fast-forward time to see how celestial bodies move. It inspires curiosity about the Universe and helps understand amazing cosmic phenomena. The updated version's notable new features include: New visual effects New asteroids and dwarf planets Optimizations for the iPad mini App size reduced by 50% New calendar for 2013 And of course the Santa tracking feature for those of us who still have believers in our households. Here's an App Store link for Star Walk HD; it's priced at $2.99. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: iPad Apps Related Stories Best Free iPad App of the Week – The World in 2013 from The Economist: Editor's Highlights Dropbox for iPad Updated – New Design & More Google+ for iPad Gets a Great Update, Adds Support for Communities This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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