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WeatherDock - 1.1.1

weather information in the dock

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All Time:	(4.8)
Version 1.1.1:	(4.7)
Selected Version:	1.1.1
Release Date:	2004-10-02
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.1.1):	5,743
Downloads (all versions):	71,630

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Product Description:

WeatherDock displays weather information based on xml-feeds supplied by weather.com®. It displays textual weather information as well as icon-based. It actively updates the Dock icon based on the current conditions. Next to the current conditions it contains 5 day forecasts.

Key features

Current conditions
5 day weather forecasts
Favorite locations
Automated home/work location
Spoken weather reports
Customizable notifications

What's new in this version:

Version 1.1.1 fixes a memory leak, introduced in 1.0.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.1.1:
Overall Rating:	(4.7)	Features:	(4.6)	Support:	(4.2)
Ease of Use:	(4.6)	Quality / Stability:	(4.9)	Price:	(5.0)

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Great, but lacking in certain areas - Version: 2.5.1, 11/15/2009 11:25AM PST

Cowicide

I've chosen this over all the other menubar weather apps because it seems really stable and it's very customizable to get it how I like it to run for the most part (ironically, killing it from the Dock and have it only work in the menubar for one thing). But it's missing stars for lacking two things that would make me switch to another app if it had feature parity with WeatherDock plus one or both of these two options:

1) An option to show a local and/or state image of radar like the meteorologist app does
Here is an image of it in action here:
http://z.about.com/d/macs/1/0/M/4/-/-/meteorologist450x480.jpg

2) An option to show how many inches of snow accumulation is predicted instead of only saying "light snow", "heavy snow", etc.

If WeatherDock added these two things, I wouldn't be frustrated by having to go to actual weather sites with the Safari browser and could just rely on WeatherDock. While we're at it, another option to turn red or some other type of alert to show when there are severe weather alerts posted.

Good weather app - Version: 2.5.1, 8/8/2009 06:16AM PST

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Hannibal Fortune

After suffering through Weatherpop and having Meteorologist begin locking up daily, I switched to WeatherDock to have weather in my menu bar. It seems to be more stable than either so far and has a more pleasing interface than Meteorologist. The menu icons are not ideal, though. They're designed for the full interface, either after you pull up the menu or you open the regular window. They lost a lot of detail and contrast in the menu bar.

A couple of suggestions for improvements. One is that there should be a variable refresh interval. The other programs have it. This seems to be refreshing once an hour, and that's way too seldom. Up to once every 15 minutes would be better. And right now, the days and nights in the menu blend together. It would be better to have alternating background colors for the rows, white for day and light gray for night. Just for the text, though. Leave the icon column with a white background so the icons don't need to be changed with transparency.

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Also radar image would be great

How can one ... - Version: 2.5.1, 6/30/2009 08:20AM PST