Weather Watcher
August 13, 2006
For Windows users that want a weather program with an icon in the system tray, but are intelligent enough to avoid the blight on mankind known as Weatherbug, and dislike the cluttered and uncustomizable Weather.com program, try Weather Watcher. I’ve tried just about every other program out there, but I keep coming back to it; I’ve been using it consistently for a year now, and absolutely love it.
Weather Watcher does what it’s supposed to do, and nothing more. “Nothing more” means no advertisements or spyware. You can make the tray icon look however you want. There’s a small tooltip that appears when you hover over the icon, and you can specify what information you want to appear there. There are several different skins available (I strongly recommend “Splendid”). The program interface has only 6 main buttons: Update, Current, Hourly, Daily, Maps, and Alerts. All of them do exactly what you think they’ll do.
There’s not really any more to say. Just download it.
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Jim | August 13, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Any recommendations for those of us who avoid the blight on mankind known as Windows?
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aniruhama | August 13, 2006 at 4:56 pm
My unprofessional recommendations when avoiding Windows:
There’s alway the OS X widget. And you also might try Meteorologist.
For Linux, try the gdesklets weather widget, Gnome Weather, or Kweather.
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Caleb | August 14, 2006 at 4:12 pm
What about the tried-and-true ForecastFox extension for FireFox?
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aniruhama | August 14, 2006 at 4:32 pm
ForecastFox is great, but can only be seen when your browser window is open. Thus, I prefer a program that minimizes to my system tray.