Weather App ‘Stormcloud’ Adds Multiple Locations, More Weather app Stormcloud – which featured in our list of 2012′s top new applications – has been updated with a number of small new features, and a small new price. Completely re-written from the ground up, Stormcloud 1.2 now supports multiple locations, ‘chameleonic backgrounds’, and boasts some extra animations. The new chameleon background feature matches very closely to that used by Unity: Stormcloud 1.2′s new chamelonic backgrounds in action One ‘removal’ I’m sad to see go is the Unity Launcher badge displaying the temperature. Launcher count: no longer included Although incapable of displaying metrical units due to a limitation of Unity, it was still a handy feature to have, and one that made keeping the app open, albeit hidden, worthwhile. Preferences There is no longer a dedicated button for switching to the Preferences pane. Amongst the settings here you can add or remove additional locations: - Stormcloud 1.2 Preferences – Simple To Use Small Cost Stormcloud on the Ubuntu Software Center
Top 10 Ubuntu Apps of 2012 The last 12 months have been some of the most tumultuous yet tremendous that Ubuntu has ever seen. Before we look back at the highs and lows of Ubuntu in 2012 lets first pay some attention to the bits that help make it what it is: the apps. So here are some of the best app-shaped debutantes of 2012. Stormcloud (First release: October 2012) Like flip-flops in mid winter, the usefulness of a ‘windowed’ weather app doesn’t seem immediately useful. But after downloading and installing Stormcloud, the first of three apps on this list by developers Caffeinated Code, those concerns were moot. Stylish, slick and informative, Stormcloud showed that weather apps don’t have be droll, drop-down menu affairs. Stormcloud on the Ubuntu Software Center Nitro (First release: April 2012) To-do apps are, it’s fair to say, hardly on the ‘urgent’ list when it comes to things Linux users long for on the desktop. And most of them are about as good looking as the aforementioned metaphor. But I was proved wrong. Geary
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