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Living Earth HD

    Hey, everyone. I bought a cool app last night for 99 cents. It's called Living Earth HD and it has rushed into the top three or four apps on the app store in recent days, garnering many 5 star reviews, and for good reason.
   It is awesome visually with an animation of a spinning earth fading into darkness, then light. You can select any cities you want and obtain current and forecast temperature, weather, winds, time, and other cool stuff. I put it on a regional temperature animation that showed Earth's hot spots; very cool looking, ha, ha. I don't mean night clubs or celebrity sightings but rather things like a big, red blotch over Northern Africa. Speaking of big blotches, you can keep up with hurricanes and typhoons as well.
     One thing I love about this app is that I can see what time it is in any city, like Sydney, Australia, and the revolving Earth shows if it is in sunlight or nighttime. The bottom line is that it is a great 'show-off app' for your I-Padster and/or retina display. The app is on sale for 99 cents but is normally twice that amount.
    By the way, a truly great game, Razor Salvation, is free today only, so you might want to grab it. If you snooze, you lose.
    Catch you later!
    I'm CE Wills.

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