'Alarm' alerts you to bad weather
A site which alerts you to bad weather, plus other sites and apps reviewed.
With Wimbledon and Glastonbury festival starting next week one thing that is bound to spoil the action is an unexpected downpour. Rain Alarm is a browser tool and free smartphone apps that will warn you if there is any bad weather, like rain or snow, heading your way.
If you cannot make it to Wimbledon to watch the tennis join the 20 million other fans on the revamped website and free smartphone apps, with live video to many regions and lots of analysis, prediction and social tools to bring the whole world together cheering on the athletes.
For front row seats at the Glastonbury Festival without getting your wellington boots out, the 麻豆官网首页入口 has an immense line-up, sending more staff to the event than have been sent to cover the World Cup. A team of 17 presenters will host the weekend鈥檚 broadcast of over 250 hours of Radio, TV, Red Button and online streaming from six key music stages.
History buffs will love the gorgeous interactive content in Roman Ruins HD for iPad. The paid app lets you wander around some of the most awe-inspiring historic sites from the Roman Empire without leaving your front room.
Another fine example in the iPad app range is Interaction of Color. This is the digital interpretation of Josef Albers's famous masterwork of colour experimentation, which is seen by many as an essential handbook for artists and educators. There is a free sampler of chapter 10 and if you like what you see you can upgrade to the full version through an in-app purchase.
If you follow the tech news you have probably heard the term DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service attack in reference to the kind of malicious hacking that can shut down a website or online service. Digital Attack Map is a live data visualisation of the attacks that are happening around the world, and has plenty of information to help you better understand the practise.
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