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Product Description:
Kairos is a weather graphing and monitoring application for Mac OS X 10.2 and later. Kairos records the weather conditions for up to 3 locations you specify and graphs the data. Kairos can be programmed with alerts that can send out emails and run scripts when triggered. Kairos can speak the weather and display current conditions in the dock.
- Monitoring of up to three locations.
- 28 days storage and graphing of temperature, dew point, wind speed and barometric pressure.
- Can graph all three locations simultaneously, or any selection of locations.
- Text based XML data format.
- Macro replacement of text in alert email text.
- The ability to launch apple scripts/applications when triggered.
- Two sources of weather data - weather.com and The Weather Underground.
- Three pre-programmed alerts - ice, rain and clear sky.
- Unlimited number of custom alerts.
- In-built test system for custom alerts.
- Programmable dock icon update time.
- Independent units for each of the four main data types.
- Speech of any of the three locations.
- Daily data email; sends tab-delimited data email for any or all locations.
- Much improved location look-up over version 1.xx.
- Can send a daily 'Comfort' email.
- Auto import of Kairos version 1 data on first launch.
Kairos 2 is a free upgrade for existing version 1.xx owners. Kairos 2 will auto-import any existing data set and registration information when it is first run.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed a memory leak when fetching the weather
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
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Kairos User Feedback - Version: 2.1.5, 4/9/2004 11:30AM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
Rob Probin
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- Kairos User Feedback
Would like to capture precip info - Version: 2.1.5, 4/9/2004 06:03AM PST
Felix01
Any plan to capture precipitation info (rain as well as snow) and store those numbers for graphing?
Plus, the storage & graphing capability needs to be extended to a full year and include an export function for archiving (other than manually saving the three XML text files) to be really helpful.
And if precip data is included, also please incorporate the ability to track cumulative data between any two user selectable dates. For example, if I've faithfully tracked and archived a year's worth of my Buffalo, NY data, I'd like to be able to open up that archive file (full year, not merely 28 days) and find out the cumulative snowfall between Nov 15 and March 15. Or maybe the cumulative snowfall data for that last 48 hour storm.
Or the cumulative last 60 days of rainfall in West BeJesus, TX.
Anyway, you get the idea. You're presently capturing four pieces of data that all armchair meteorologists want but for some inexplicable reason you overlooked an absolutely critical parameter...precipitation. I assume that data is readily available since the shareware WeatherMan X presents it but, of course, that program has no storage and graphing capability which is what makes Kairos a standout in this niche market.
Plus, the storage & graphing capability needs to be extended to a full year and include an export function for archiving (other than manually saving the three XML text files) to be really helpful.
And if precip data is included, also please incorporate the ability to track cumulative data between any two user selectable dates. For example, if I've faithfully tracked and archived a year's worth of my Buffalo, NY data, I'd like to be able to open up that archive file (full year, not merely 28 days) and find out the cumulative snowfall between Nov 15 and March 15. Or maybe the cumulative snowfall data for that last 48 hour storm.
Or the cumulative last 60 days of rainfall in West BeJesus, TX.
Anyway, you get the idea. You're presently capturing four pieces of data that all armchair meteorologists want but for some inexplicable reason you overlooked an absolutely critical parameter...precipitation. I assume that data is readily available since the shareware WeatherMan X presents it but, of course, that program has no storage and graphing capability which is what makes Kairos a standout in this niche market.
Minimised state - Version: 2.1.3, 2/9/2004 03:52AM PST
Paolo Cordone
DavidR, you can always hide the application so that the window won't take all your screen estate. The dock will keep showing all details happily.
But I agree, I have suggested a while ago to have some sort of minimised state, so that the entire big window could shrink to a small window with stripped-down information.
Kairos is one of those apps which must be running all the time (otherwise what's the point?) and it is in fact on of the two reasons why my Mac at works is eft on permanently (the other being Timbuktu).
It's a great app, once a less intrusive display is introduced (either, as you suggest, by embedding the data in the menubar, or by having a small floating window) it will be just perfect.
But I agree, I have suggested a while ago to have some sort of minimised state, so that the entire big window could shrink to a small window with stripped-down information.
Kairos is one of those apps which must be running all the time (otherwise what's the point?) and it is in fact on of the two reasons why my Mac at works is eft on permanently (the other being Timbuktu).
It's a great app, once a less intrusive display is introduced (either, as you suggest, by embedding the data in the menubar, or by having a small floating window) it will be just perfect.
As for precipitation info - believe it or not no one has requested it until now! (and obviously we were too stupid (-: ) Obviously we need a data source with rainfall/snowfall as a metric - but I guess if "WeatherMan X" gets it then so can we.
Exporting is also something that we've recently had requested - so are considering it for some future version.
Minimising the display - yes I personnally use hide - but maybe some sort of mini-window would be helpful ... we'll think about it (ideas welcome).
Kairos really is a user driven product. Let us know what you want! Feel free to send feedback or feature requests to kairos_support@lightsoft.co.uk
Regards,
Rob Probin,
Lightsoft