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britinusa
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Initially Posted - 05/11/2012 : 08:44:02

Here's another great app.

It has taken Peggy several days to work her way through all of the features. Result: Total thumbs Up, we're thinking of springing for the Pro version at $10 a month.

BTW, Peggy is Graphophobic

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PCP777
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Response Posted - 05/11/2012 : 09:17:35

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by britinusa
 Here's another great app.

It has taken Peggy several days to work her way through all of the features. Result: Total thumbs Up, we're thinking of springing for the Pro version at $10 a month.

BTW, Peggy is Graphophobic

(Unless it's a medical graph like EKG's etc.) but has figured out almost all of the graph displays on the App. Once you have an account, you can see it on both the Android and on a PC.

I've put one of their widgets on my blog: [url="http://jointdecision.blogspot.com"]Joint Decision on Blogspot[/url]
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I noticed a Five9 ad on your blog, was that just random or are you affiliated with them?

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 05/11/2012 : 09:40:15

I have the iPhone version of this app. We use it pretty much every time we go out so we can see what the wind's been doing and what it's probably going to be doing when we're out there.

The iOS version appears to be a bit different from the Android version, at least in it's screen presentation. I don't get the temperature and sky bands that show on your blog post, just wind strengths & directions. Maybe it just needs more configuring on my part.

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PCP777
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Response Posted - 05/11/2012 : 11:43:31

Very cool app but it keeps telling me I have no "spots" yet. I will have to play around with it.

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Response Posted - 05/11/2012 : 12:01:05

If you navigate to any of the wind stations (pointers) on the map, you can set them as a 'Spot'

Dave, which level do you use? (Basic...Enterprise)

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Response Posted - 05/11/2012 : 12:03:41

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by britinusa
 If you navigate to any of the wind stations (pointers) on the map, you can set them as a 'Spot'

Dave, which level do you use? (Basic...Enterprise)

Paul
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terrific, they have a wind station right where my marina is.

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Response Posted - 05/11/2012 : 12:38:34

Not sure which version it is. It's likely to be their free version since it seems to be ad driven, so probably "basic". I looked in Help>About and all it really lists is a giant GUID for the version number, which wasn't much help.

I downloaded it a long time ago and don't remember if I paid for it or not. I download lots of free apps that have up-sell attached to them (freemium apps). If I find them useful and there are features the free one doesn't have, I'll purchase the app. There doesn't seem to be an up-sell on this app, so maybe the Android version is an update to the original iOS version. If I don't find them to be useful, I'll just delete them. Occasionally I'll go through my phone and delete stuff I haven't looked at for months just to free up room.

What I really need to do is whack a bunch of photos, I noticed I have almost 1700 photos this morning.

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