That’s not all – the app also comes with time travel that lets you check the weather conditions from some years ago – it does not quite go as far back as the options indicate (anything beyond 2004 does not get an answer), but every trip is accompanied by a saucy remark. In the current scenario, we have kept the personality at Homicidal and vary the politics depending upon who says what worldwide. It goes from a relatively refined “professional” to a more amiable “friendly,” starts getting sarcastic at “snarky,” turns on the cynicism full blast at “Homicidal,” and really lets you have it at “Overkill.” You can also specify the kind of politics you want – choose from Centrist, Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, and Communist, or just turn it off with the “No politics” option. Be warned you could have to end up hearing stuff like: “ The sun is out! Quick, scurry back into the shadow like a good little cockroach!” We do not mind it at all, but if you are the type that might get offended, you actually can set the level of, well, aggression, to different levels, by adjusting the “Personality” of the app – oh yes, you can do that. Even if it is showing weather information, there will be a saucy quote right at the top, and if you have left the sound on, you will hear a mechanical voice read it out. The graphic at the top of the app reflects weather conditions outside.īut there is no hiding the craziness that lurks below this normalcy. And it does have a very nice uncluttered, and clean interface – you just swipe across different days or tap at a particular time to get more information about it. Of course, it tells you about the weather, giving you the day’s and the week ahead’s information about the temperature, precipitation, wind, visibility pressure, humidity, dew point, and all. The first hint you get of it is while installing it when it will call you “meat bag” (a word you will hear very often, indeed). Yes, you read that right-an app dedicated to something as routine as the weather comes with a truckload of sass. I mean, we are talking of an app that declares: What makes Carrot Weather an app worth getting right now is its insanity. But that is not why we are talking about it again. Interestingly, Carrot Weather used to get its weather data from Dark Sky and will continue to do so until the end of 2021. We had talked of the app earlier but given Apple’s acquisition of Dark Sky (and pulling it off Android altogether), we think it deserves a revisit. Why would we be talking of weather apps at a time when millions of us have been asked to stay indoors? Well, because Carrot Weather is not really your run-of-the-mill weather app.
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