MUMBAI: Checking the weather is part of our daily routine, but who says it has to be routine? For most of us, getting the weather is a moment of anticipation, it's the memory of a great place we’ve traveled to, or it’s even a topic of conversation with a total stranger. Weather is so much more than a forecast of reading numbers and charts. Yahoo! has launched the Yahoo! Weather App for iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch - a window into the places you care about. They have brought together beautiful images from the Flickr community to show current local conditions, with all the details we want to know about the forecast. Instead of reading the weather, we can now 'see' the weather.

Inside you will find stunning snapshots of weather around the world. With a tilt of your phone, get lost scrolling through photos reflecting the current weather in places that matter to you. We like to think of it as flipping through a stack of postcards from your travels. It’s easy to get the details. Tap the temperature for a quick view of the forecast or scroll down for precipitation, wind and pressure, a radar map and more.

Yahoo!’s goal is to have amazing photos for every weather condition that cover the globe -- morning, afternoon, and night -- across every city in the world, and they want your help. Whether you’re simply a daydreamer or an avid photographer, submit photos of your favorite places to our Flickr Group and your image can be seen by tens of millions in Yahoo! Weather for iPhone.

Yahoo! Weather for iPhone, iPod, and iPod Touch is launching internationally in 30 languages, available for free on the app store.

The new app combines Flickr photos with accurate and detailed weather information from around the world. Rain in Tokyo? Snow in Paris? You’ll not only get the facts, but also see what it looks like. For a fullscreen view of the image, simply tilt your phone. To see the photo on Flickr, tap on the photographer’s name that’s displayed with each photo.

With amazing displays, vibrant colors and lifelike images, tablets have changed the way we experience books, photos, movies and more. Yet email, something we do every day, has remained pretty much the same. We’ve been boxed in.

Yahoo! has also introduced the Yahoo! Mail Apps for iPad and Android tablets - a full-screen experience that gets rid of the noise. There are no folders, no buttons, no tabs - just you and your mail - and you can easily flip through it like a magazine. We've designed Yahoo! Mail to take full advantage of the tablet making reading your email faster, easier and just a little bit more fun.

We're also helping you clean up your inbox, so you can get to the email that matters most. With our new Tablet Mail, you can quickly select your messages, automatically group by sender, and with a swipe - delete, star, or move them all. We figured you probably didn’t need those expired coupons anyway.

We're excited to build products that make our lives just a bit more exceptional every day.

As we set out to develop these apps, we wanted to take full advantage of the unique aspects of tablet devices, like the beautiful screens and intuitive gestures, while also making it easier and more fun for you to read and manage your email. Below are our tips for using a couple of our favorite new features.

Enjoy a lean-back, magazine-style experience when reading your email.

• Tap the full-screen button in the lower left corner of your message to expand it across the entire screen. If you want to reply, delete, file or star a message simply tap anywhere on the screen and Yahoo! Mail’s familiar icons will appear.

• To move to the next message on your iPad, simply swipe, as if you’re turning the page in a magazine.

• To flip through messages even faster, simply tap on the side of the screen to rapidly scan through your inbox.

Focus on the messages you care about most with a new feature that lets you easily sort by sender in Yahoo! Mail’s split-screen view.

• Select a message in your inbox on the left side of the screen by checking the box that appears with the email. You will then see that sender’s name appear on the right side of your screen.

• Swipe on the sender’s name and you will see Yahoo! Mail’s familiar icons appear to delete, file, star or mark as unread or spam.

• You'll also see a plus sign that will indicate how many more messages you have from that sender. If you select that, it will pull all the messages from that sender and then you can star, delete or file them all at once. Just think - you can easily take control of your inbox with just a few taps.