Matt Elliott/CNET It takes imagination and creativity to stand out with a weather app, but developer Wolfgang Augustin has done just that with Week Weather. The app costs 99 cents, £0.79, or AU$1.29 –though that is classified as a introductory offer. Week Weather presents a seven-day forecast in a manner resembling a bar graph. Each …

Matt Elliott/CNET One of the best parts of being a parent is reliving little snippets of your childhood through your kids. I was a huge Calvin and Hobbes fan growing up and have recently rediscovered the comic strip thanks to my daughter, who thinks it is as hilarious and touching and amazing as I did when I was young. If …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Calling all Mac multitaskers! If you struggle to juggle all of your open apps, Better Window Manager can help. It lets you save the position of windows and provides shortcuts to restore windows to your preferred states. Better Window Manager is available direct from the developer’s site. It costs $3 but you can try before you …

Now playing: Watch this: Prevent your Mac password from being bypassed 1:57 A nefarious individual could purloin your Mac and bypass your user account password in order to access your data or wipe your system clean and begin using it as their own. It’s possible to reset a password by booting into Recovery Mode or from an external drive. Thankfully, …

Matt Elliott/CNET With a recent update, Dropbox has made it quicker and easier to work with shared links on an iOS or Android device. Now when someone emails you a Dropbox link and you tap on the link to open the file in your default mobile browser, you are offered a button to Open in app. This change means you …

Matt Elliott/CNET I’m writing this one with my wife in mind, who has been using a work-issued laptop with a broken trackpad for nearly a year. She has adapted by using a wireless mouse, but since she also has a work-issued iPhone 6, she could use that instead of the old mouse I gave her and carry one less item …

Matt Elliott/CNET Until now, the songs I asked Shazam to identify sat as a curiosity in the Shazam app. After a recent update, however, I can now listen to them as a Spotify or Rdio playlist. The playlist is created automatically; all you need to do is connect Shazam to either Spotify or Rdio (but not both at the same …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET To force quit a Mac app, you can call up the Force Quit Applications menu from the Apple menu button in the upper-left corner or by hitting Command-Option-Esc. But if it’s a menu bar app that’s hanging or otherwise giving you problems, you won’t find it listed in the Force Quit window. In such instances, you …

Matt Elliott/CNET Suffering from tab overload? If your browsing habits have you opening too many tabs during the course of a day, you can offload some to Air Browser, a Mac app that lets you access up to seven websites from the menu bar. When you launch Air Browser, it puts an icon in your menu bar. When adding a …

Matt Elliott/CNET I often show up at a friend’s house with a five-pack. I intend to arrive with a six-pack of a new or interesting brew, but my curiosity and thirst often get the better of me. If you are a beer lover always on the hunt for new and interesting ales and lagers, I have a five-pack of beer …