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seriously? Weather Bug? This guy needs to start using the weather widget built in.
I wouldn’t install weatherbug if it was the only mac weather app available. Sheesh.
You must be in bad shape when you have to rely on a utility to show you when it’s time to take a break. The photo aka sounds interesting.
Actually, I hate widgets.So this is cool.
i use Weather Pop Pro. They have a free one. Weather Bug Alerts drive me nuts. That’s why I have a Programable weather station here to program out all the BS. If I want the Temp/Weather around the world at a glance I use Weather Pop Pro
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http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14483
Not sure it’s still made but it runs fine on 10.6.2
I pay good money NOT to use weatherbug.
Weatherpop is a virus. Never again on my machine.
@Jim you must work for Symantec? I use a host of apps that allow me to see what my Mac is doing. I say it is NOT one. So please stop confusing the newbies. They might think you know what you speak of.
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The abundance of good freeware on the Mac (compared to the crappy freeware on Winblows – the exception being Nero) is one of my selling points to switchers (along with Dashboard, Spaces, Time Machine, and the ability to make your own keyboard shortcuts).
What the hell is wrong with WeatherBug? Mind you, I don’t use WeatherBug Alerts, I use their dashboard widget, and it’s awesome! Unlike the Mac’s built-in weather widget, you have your choice of multiple local weather stations, giving you up-to-the-second weather conditions. (Seriously, you can watch the direction of the wind change in real time.)
I also spent 99c to get WeatherBug Elite for my iPhone. WeatherBug rocks, man.
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I agree Cubert! Just the other day, I found a nice utility app that I am testing. If it works as said it might almost replace Diskwarrior along with a major part of my system maintenance apps that I have paid for.
@LordRobin,
On the iPhone yes I agree. I have WeatherBug on it. Check out Weather Motion at the App Store.
I don’t care for Dashboard apps cause I can’t turn them off easily. I am normally choked for RAM and Dashboard is best used for the bigger Map apps that show the weather in RT. IMHO.
Radar In Motion, DoppleViewer & Hurricane Watcher are but a few that I do use once my Emergency Weather Radio sounds off. BTW Hurricane Watcher is powered by WeatherBug.
@iQuack @LordRobin
I find that the AccuWeather.com app for the iPhone/iPod touch is a good choice, as the radar viewer is quite quick and the hour-by-hour and 15-day forecasts are moderately accurate and easy to navigate. The app also adds up the total rainfall etc.
I believe the original Dashboard Weather widget was by AccuWeather and I don’t know why Apple stopped using them. I personally like their style for UK weather at least.
Enough of forecasting talk, methinks.
@iQuack, what are you testing that could replace DiskWarrior? I use DW, and it’s the utility of last resort as far as I’m concerned.
@LordRobin
Agreed on the WeatherBug widget. I like the webcam feature too.
AccuWeather (the Apple supplied weather widget is the slowest to update off of NOAA weather sites.
Also RadarInMotion widget for radar maps is great!
Of course, if you don’t like widgets…
@KenC,
I don’t think it can totally replace DW as DW repairs the Directory File. I have not found any app that can do a nicer or cleaner job at this. However, for the permissions and file/folder utilities I think that OnyX seems to do just that well. And just about everything else.
Check it out here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582/onyx
@ajdowntown
The built-in weather app is rather limited comapred to many other weather apps.
Meteorologist is the best. It’s free and takes up no space, residing in the Menu bar. You can set up a bunch of different cities and customize what data you want to see, including radar images of current conditions.
Weatherbug?
Uh . . . hit the Dashboard hotkey —> Look at the weather widget.
If Bob Levitus recommends it, look upon it with great trepidation. All this guy really is is a name – I have heard (from someone involved in such a situation) that most of the books with his name on them are 99%+ written by other people who never receive credit (and are sometimes either not paid or horribly underpaid).