Weather and art on your screen? Do it with Locksider+ for Win Phone 8. (Psst it’s free.)

We've already covered the much loved app Locksider form Liquid Daffodil, i of the first apps to give your Lock screen some fresh fine art on an hourly basis (or once a twenty-four hours, if you're more tame). The app went gratuitous for a few days earlier going to $0.99 and received some bully feedback, including a request for weather.

Well, wait no more as Locksider+ is now here, which gives you lot yet pre-selected images to your phone with the additional choice of a weather overlay. Sure, information technology'due south non as robust as Conditions Flow, but being able to peek at the electric current temp as well every bit the day's loftier and low temperature is pretty awesome. It's likewise laid out well, not hindering your view of your data and being easily visible.

Locksider'south wallpapers are some of the best around if only considering they are formatted for Windows Telephone 8 HD displays, pregnant you won't get awkward crops, low resolution pics or images that obscure your detailed data (below the clock). You of course become the same art selection every bit the original Locksider, including Today, Cool, Geeky, Abstruse, Nature and Mellow and the ability to select frequency of updates (every 60 minutes, every four hours, twice a twenty-four hour period, one time a mean solar day).

Commonly, the app will fetch for $ane.49—a $0.fifty price hike for the boosted weather module. But being Liquid Daffodil, you tin can catch Locksider+ right now for the low, low toll of Nada. Yup, it's free through the weekend, then brand sure you become that license at present, considering once you lock it in as free, it's complimentary for life.

Speaking of the original Locksider app, that likewise is free besides for the same time period and it also received a minor update to set up a issues that would occasionally erase the app's settings when exiting. That has now been addressed and the app is back in shape.

You can choice up Locksider+ hither and Locksider (without weather) here. Both are gratis through Mon. And remember, if you lot like both apps (or whatever dev'due south apps) please recollect to leave a positive rating for them in the Store, information technology really helps them out—especially when they give things away for gratis like this!

And check out our other recommended Lockscreen Apps that we've covered, right hither.

PS The bug prepare update for Locksider (original) has *not* gone live all the same, so stay tuned. Locksider+ though is a go...

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