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Meteorologist - 1.2.3

Weather access from the menu bar or Dock

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 1.2.3:	(4.6)
Selected Version:	1.2.3
Release Date:	2003-02-02
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.2.3):	468
Downloads (all versions):	207,237

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Product Description:

Meteorologist is the only full featured free weather program for Mac OS X (that I've seen). It was inspired by a couple week problem with another weather program, and I had the crazy idea that I would right a simple program to take its place. Several months later, Meteorologist has matured into a very strong program, representing not only my efforts, but also the helpful and insightful comments of those who use this program. Meteorologist now supports multiple cities, multiple servers, new version and server error checking, and many more features.

What's new in this version:

Fixed update bug where after changing the order of cities, Meteo would stop displaying any menu at all

Fixed bug where Meteo would have no title or image when launched with no internet connectivity

Fixed bug where cities looked up in NWS system would have first two letters truncated

Fixed bug related to importing other city weather items

Shrunk preference window to help out people with prefer lower resolutions

Added About tab to preferences

Merged cycling controls into Units tab

Added Knots to speed units

Fixed several little bugs in city editor

Fixed bug where if the main city (the one showing in the menu bar), then two instances of the main city will appear - one in the menu bar and one in the menu below

"Update Menu Now" button will cycle the active cities now only if the cycle mode is activated in the preferences

Created "Group" for users to post comments and concerns: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/heat_software/

Forecast inlining is off by default now

Fixed bug where if a user had radar images on, wunderground active, and wunderground didn't have radar images, then no weather info was displayed at all

Removed pointless 10th day forecast option

Improved NWS parser engine (again)

Cycling should now work better now

Added NWS radar images

Created stripped down version (no local images); next version will probably have images installed outside of the application bundle to make updating much easier

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.2.3:
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Very good with one serious annoyance - Version: 1.4.8, 4/23/2009 11:21AM PST

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ziggy29

I love this little menu bar addition -- but it has one significant, annoying flaw.

It seems that the attempt to refresh the weather occasionally hangs -- usually once a day or more on me -- and you have to quit out of the application and restart it. This can happen if you intermittently lose the connection or if the Mac goes to sleep while it's in the middle of a refresh.

It would be much better if it "timed out" of the refresh and tried again a little later.

That is what lowers this from 5 stars to 4. Fix it (assuming it's still being maintained) and it's 5 stars.

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Very good with one serious annoyance

Where in an UPDATE? - Version: 1.4.8, 5/6/2008 03:05PM PST

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terryzx

I really like this but I just can’t get it to work properly on Leppard. Seems like an UPDATE is due ya think?

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Where in an UPDATE?

Where in an UPDATE?

Best - Version: 1.4.8, 4/29/2008 10:06AM PST

Cowicide

Tried all the others and this one is the best. It uses very little CPU and fits perfectly up in the menubar looking just like it was meant to be there (put there by Apple itself). The preference interface is pretty clunky and there could definitely be improvments made there and in the dropdown menu gui. But, this is the only one I use anymore. Love the radar image (which the dev of weatherdock REFUSES to add) and once again, stable... doesn't use up CPU. The best.