{"id":18011,"date":"2013-02-15T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T20:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2013-02-15T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T20:54:20","slug":"i-just-found-my-new-favorite-weather-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/i-just-found-my-new-favorite-weather-app\/","title":{"rendered":"I just found my new favorite weather app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber once <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/01\/05\/battelle-claim-chowder\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;In hindsight, I think the use cases for the original iPad are <em>simplicity<\/em> and <em>delight<\/em>.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/gethaze.com\/\">Haze<\/a>\u00a0for iPhone nails that mission for weather:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59023272?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Is it going to be warmer tomorrow? Don&#8217;t read it. See it. The beautifully animated background shows you the trend. Use Haze frequently to unlock colorful themes and customize the look.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The UI rewards exploration with lots of polished details, and the use of theme unlocking is an interesting way to encourage active use.<\/p>\n<p>The one downside I&#8217;ve detected thus far is that the reliance on taps &amp; gestures rather than on traditional buttons &amp; labels leaves some functionality obscure. I feel dumb for not having discovered one of the most basic operations (tapping the central readout circle) on my own. (I hadn&#8217;t seen the video before downloading the app.) Even so, the app&#8217;s easy to navigate &amp; a joy to use.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you like this sort of thing, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/summly.com\">Summly<\/a> for news. It crashes too much &amp; the summaries aren&#8217;t always great, but it&#8217;s lovely enough to explore that I stick with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber once wrote, &#8220;In hindsight, I think the use cases for the original iPad are simplicity and delight.&#8221; Haze\u00a0for iPhone nails that mission for weather: &#8220;Is it going to be warmer tomorrow? Don&#8217;t read it. See it. The beautifully animated background shows you the trend. Use Haze frequently to unlock colorful themes and customize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}