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March 26

Weather forecast

An accurate weather forecast displaying app for android phone please. There are many available but unsure which one is reliable... 123.108.244.105 (talk) 13:58, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

This is dependent on where you live. Use forecastadvisor.com to see which service is most accurate for where you live. For me, it is Weather Underground. For my sister, it is Accuweather. 71.85.51.150 (talk) 00:17, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Bangladesh Meteorological Department measures weather for your area. http://www.bmd.gov.bd/?/home/ has a local forecast for different regions. It is a website, not an app though. This page talks about an app http://www.bmd.gov.bd/?/p/=MobApp ?BMD App or Bangladesh Weather App perhaps you can understand what it says. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:17, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Graeme Bartlett: I've been searching for an app that I could keep forever, or at least for some time. This app I'm looking for should work in any country, giving accurate and appropriate forecast every 1+ minute or so. A widget I used in PC awhile back used to update weather forecast every 15 minutes or so. Searching for something alike. Could you help me please? 123.108.244.186 (talk) 15:55, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

You do understand that weather forecasts are not updated in real time, don't you? The weather services update the values every X minutes, where X is usually about 20 minutes. Some are as long as once per hour. So, it would be a terrible waste to have your weather widget updating itself every single minute. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 16:10, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Dropbox

Yeah, I fucked up: I deleted a column of information in a Quattro Pro file that I need to retrieve. I save my stuff in Dropbox--is there a way to get earlier (archived?) versions? Thanks...! Drmies (talk) 16:50, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

@Drmies: Found this on their website, which suggests you can do that: [1]. RudolfRed (talk) 19:44, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

RudolfRed, thank you so much! I guess we get spoiled on Wikipedia, always having the history at hand. Drmies (talk) 02:20, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Paperwhite's enmity with page-numbers

Why it is so [2] (the ereader's inability to show page-numbers) with all ebooks I upload from PC/laptop or buy from the internet ? And what is the solution, please ? 124.253.249.31 (talk) 17:00, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

I don't know if there's an official answer to this, but I've always assumed it was a trade-off between battery life and an item that was mostly meaningless. At any point, you could change the text size or line spacing and reset the whole thing. So what does "page" even mean? Word does the same thing of course, and it does give you a page count, but it's a processing-intensive exercise to do (even with Word there's typically a delay and complicated changes may not reflect in the page count until you've literally paged through the document. Matt Deres (talk) 17:37, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Basically, most eBooks don't have page numbers. Each chapter is a solid mass of text with no page breaks. ApLundell (talk) 13:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

The kindle user's guide says "Many Kindle books also contain page numbers that correspond to the real page numbers in an actual print book." Publishers can choose whether or not to include these. I can't think of many cases where this information would be of interest. Henry^Flower 10:43, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Textbooks, I'll bet. ApLundell (talk) 13:10, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

You're probably right, but my experience is that even dead tree textbooks mostly use chapter/section nomenclature everywhere except the index. (See Chart 15.4 for more details, Table 2.3 has the breakdown, etc.) Matt Deres (talk) 17:06, 29 March 2018 (UTC)