September 25, 2004

WeatherDock 1.0

Weather Dock

WeatherDock 1.0 has been released and it is FREE, yes these are my favorite words as well. WeatherDock uses The Weather Channel's website XML feeds to get weather information and can display the weather details for almost anywhere in the world. The software allows you to choose a single location and will display the current weather information in the dock icon and will also display a 5 day forecast in a new window if you click on the dock icon. Another nice feature is that it uses OSX's built-in speech facilities to speak the weather automatically (timed interval) or manually. Download it for yourself and see what you think.

Links
WeatherDock website
The Weather Channel website

Alternatives
WeatherPop
Konfabulator Mini Weather Widget (requires Konfabulator)
Meteorologist (VERY GOOD)

Posted by Egon Kuster at September 25, 2004 12:43 PM
Comments
I been using son of weather grok. I pull all the same information that the weather channel uses. The weather information is pulled from a many local airports and fed into the federal weather database. the same that is used by the news, military and civilian flight crews. Posted by: Docpsycho at September 26, 2004 01:05 AM
Has potential but doesn't offer nearly as many features as Meteorologist. Missing such things as weather alerts and radar. If the dock has too many icons, the WeatherDock icon is too small to read the temperature. On option to place the icon in the menubar would be a good idea. Posted by: Bryan Kennedy at September 26, 2004 05:50 AM