gHacks technology news » weather-forecast http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Weather Watcher Live http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/15/weather-watcher-live/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/15/weather-watcher-live/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 09:52:13 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4130 It is extremely important for some businesses and individuals to have the latest weather information at hand. These weather information can be retrieved numerous way, for example by listening to Radio, watching TV or calling a weather hotline. Something that was missing in the picture was a reliable live weather forecast for computers. Most PC applications would display a weather forecast and other information on a daily basis which might be not enough for some businesses.

Weather Watcher Live tries to fill that gap by providing updated weather information throughout the day.The update interval can be anything from realtime to a period between five minutes and five hours. The interval does not only depend on your settings but also on the update frequency of the Weatherbug or local weather station.

The main window of Weather Watcher Live displays hourly forecasts, the current temperature and a wealth of other information like high and low temperatures throughout the day or the humidity level.

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A lot of settings can be changed just like in the Weather Watcher application from the same company. Units can be displayed in the system used in your country, for example Fahrenheit or Celsius for the temperature. The options are also the place where at least one town name or zip code has been entered before the application can be used.

The main window can be minimized and most information can be displayed in a system tray popup by hovering the mouse over the Weather Watcher Live icon.

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Almost everything can be enabled or disabled in that popup to suit your needs. In addition to the weather updates severe alerts are displayed for the United States as well. Those alerts can be filtered to include or exclude specific phrases.

Weather Watcher Live is currently available as a very early beta. It ran stable on my system but the official forum had some posts about problems that users encountered.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/15/weather-watcher-live/feed/ 1 Weather Forecasts with Weather Watcher http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/24/weather-forecasts-with-weather-watcher/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/24/weather-forecasts-with-weather-watcher/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:51:40 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/24/weather-forecasts-with-weather-watcher/ If you would like to take a look at up to date weather forecasts and weather reports for your location you might want to take a look at the software Weather Watcher. Weather Watcher displays all the relevant information that you would expect. You can choose to display the weather forecast for one of the more than 77000 cities that are stored in the database.

Once that is done weather forecasts for today, tonight and tomorrow are displayed with information such as temperature, felt temperature, humidity, visibility, dew point, sunset and sundown. It is possible to display temperatures in Fahrenheit or Celsius as well as to convert other values as well.

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A quick lookup on websites such as weather.com will do it for most users who just want to get a quick weather forecast but those users who rely on weather forecasts and check them regularly will love Weather Watcher.

A nice feature is the ability to add a satellite view of a region that auto updates itself in a set interval.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/24/weather-forecasts-with-weather-watcher/feed/ 3 Weather Forecast for your iPod http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/13/weather-forecast-for-your-ipod/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/13/weather-forecast-for-your-ipod/#comments Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:31:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/13/weather-forecast-for-your-ipod/ The iPod gets more and more functionality that only PDA and mobiles have at this time. Today it is a straightforward weather forecast which can be updated every time the iPod is connected to the computer that is running the weather for me software. Using weather for me is actually pretty simple. After you have downloaded the software you have to enter your name and email (or fake ones).

After that you have to configure weather for me by adding the city that you want the weather forecast for and some other settings. You can choose between English and Metric units and opt to save the forecasts. You will have to supply a city code to the program which can be obtained by visiting the my forecast website and entering the city of your choice. Every city has a code in its url that starts with city= ; the number behind that is the city code which needs to be added to weather for me.

The last step would be to click on the button download weather now to my ipod which will download and add the weather information to your iPod. Weather for me has a autosync option which is a command line parameter. To be able to autosync the iPod with the latest forecasts you have to create a shortcut of the file and add the parameter -sync to it. You still need to add it to the autostart of windows to be able to do it automatically.

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