Welcome to our weekly installment of Picks of the Week at iSource where we provide our expanded coverage of Apple accessories and applications  Here we will promote our favorite iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac and Apple TV related items, as well as bring you occasional tips and tricks.  Hopefully many of our favorite items will also be of interest to you. Please feel free to comment on our selections, and suggest picks of your own.  Check out this week’s picks after the break Picked by: Jay This week, I’m recommending the beautifully designed word game, Pyramix. Imagine dumping 18 letter tiles on a table, randomly arranging them in rows of 6, 5, 4, and 3 letters, and teased with a number possible 3-letter, 4-letter, 5- and 6-letter words there are. As simple as it sounds, that’s Pyramix. Intriguingly, Pyramix shows the changes in possible word combinations as you move letters from the lower Read More

I took a look at Aelios Weather last spring and loved the idea of a weather app that looked like a crafted physical object rather than a bunch of techno dials. Aelios has just been updated, and it retains its unique look while adding some worthwhile features and some under the hood speed-ups. You now get a choice of weather info providers, including AccuWeather. Data sources can be switched with an onscreen swipe. When the app opens, you're presented with an onscreen map and a large circular instrument that you drag over the map. A pointer will seek out nearby weather stations, and when activated you'll get an hourly forecast, a 7 day forecast and what's called a "next week" forecast. You also get sunrise and sunset times and an indication of the hours of daylight. By looking at the screen you'll get current and future cloud cover, temperature, and humidity. Read More

Perhaps it's the fact that summer is just around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, but lately we've been seeing a lot of interesting weather apps for iOS and OS X. A new iPad app called Aelios Weather (available at a special launch price of US$2.99) is a refreshingly unique take on getting the weather info you need. On-screen, you see what looks like a finely crafted piece of jewelry. You move this virtual instrument around the screen over a Google satellite map of the world. The app has a little animated pointer that locks onto the nearest weather station and gives you the current temperature, wind speed and direction. In a few seconds, icons appear and show you the forecast temperatures and winds for the next 24 hours. Changing a setting makes a multi-day forecast available for viewing. The app can figure out your current location and display weather information Read More