WeatherPop - A menubar weather monitor
Jan 10, '05 09:00:00AM
Contributed by: robg
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[Score: 9 out of 10]
Curious about the weather in various spots around the country and/or globe? WeatherPop, available in both a free and paid "Advance" version, puts an icon in your menubar that shows the current weather, including time of day (via the icon's background), temperature, and cloud cover. In free mode, that's about what you get, though you can store multiple locations and switch to them via a menu selection.
The Advance version, as seen at left (larger image), has all the bells and whistles. You can see the five-day forecast for the active city, as well as show the current conditions in up to two more locations, in the drop-down menu. In Advance mode's prefs, you can control which elements of the weather show up in the menu -- if you don't want to see dewpoint or the visibility, just disable them. You can also control the amount of color in the icons and the forecast update frequency.
I wish Advance would let you show more than two cities in the drop-down menu (it only takes one more row per city), and the prefs program (the prefs run as a separate application, complete with dock icon, as the main program is a faceless background app) quit on me once for no apparent reason. Other than that, though, it's worked great, and WeatherPop is a good way to keep an eye on the weather without a visit to a forecast website.
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