Weather application?

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ThinkPad · #1 Post by **ThinkPad** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:31 pm

What is a good weather monitoring application that does not include spyware and annoying pop-ups?

kskim91 · #2 Post by **kskim91** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:53 pm

Try Yahoo! widget engins .

ThinkPad · #3 Post by **ThinkPad** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:48 am

Is that spyware and pop up free

Puttagee · #4 Post by **Puttagee** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:52 am

Nothing is for free so I suspect that it may have something...

I read a few reviews and it seems that you can install the main program without all the extra stuff, which may contain Adware/Spyware. Someone installed just the main program and after scanning for Spyware nothing was found, don't know what was used for the scan.....

DIGITALgimpus · #5 Post by **DIGITALgimpus** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:07 pm

Yahoo widgets should be clean (yahoo doesn't want that reputation). I've used it before.

IMHO all these things are pretty wasteful though (CPU, memory since they poll for weather). I'd just bookmark your weather service of choice and save that to your desktop. Then just double click to get the weather.

weather.com
weatherunderground.com
hamweather.com

All rather good.

revolutionary_one · #6 Post by **revolutionary_one** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:25 pm

I usually just setup either ObjectDock to retrieve weather from weather.com.

Or have bookmarks setup on Firefox to retrieve information from the weatherunderground.com site, they are also nice enough to collaberate with google to provide weather information on your mobile which can ALSO be displayed in a web browser, so it takes less than a second to get weather information in your browser.

Cheers.

mattfromomaha · #7 Post by **mattfromomaha** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:27 am

I've tried several different things over the years, but noaa.gov is, IMO, the best site out there, hands down. Bookmark your city's specific page and you're set.

Other than that, if you use Firefox I'd recommend the ForecastFox plugin.

rcrooks · #8 Post by **rcrooks** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:10 pm

I used to use a program called Samurize, which pins to your desktop and boots at startup... You can program in all kinds of stuff... anyway, people programmed in how to access an RSS weather.com feed and programmed in pictures and such for a pretty sweet looking weather type application...

not sure if this program is still around or if the RSS feed they were working off of is still up

yossarian · #9 Post by **yossarian** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:25 pm

Considered a firefox extension like forecastfox instead of a standalone?

#10 Post by **KristianJ** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:02 am

mattfromomaha wrote:I've tried several different things over the years, but noaa.gov is, IMO, the best site out there, hands down. Bookmark your city's specific page and you're set.

Other than that, if you use Firefox I'd recommend the ForecastFox plugin.

Ditto on ForecastFox - its forecasting ability for my town is a bit poor at times but the current weather condition summaries are usually accurate. However I have a website that I use to give me more up to date data, plus it has a RSS feed option (although I don't use that)

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