Software Gadgets

I've gone through a number of programs to display the current weather over the years, but I've only recently found a program that I really like: Weather Watcher. Actually, my wife discovered this program. She had been using the ad supported weather program from the Weather.com -- until she upgraded to a new version and discovered that afer it had ran for about 12 hours it was using about 300 megs of memory and had slowed her system to a crawl. As she did not like the program I was using at the time (Weather Pulse), she went out to Download.com to see what she could find and discovered Weather Watcher. It worked so well that I switched to it the next day.

Here's the description of the program from the Watch Watcher web site:

Weather Watcher is your personal Windows desktop weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts, and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon.

Weather Watcher will allow you to automatically retrieve your weather data at a set interval, display the current temperature in a customized tray icon, display the current condition image in a tray icon, designate which weather information is displayed in the Weather Watcher system tray tooltip, convert the weather data using almost any conversion, display a weather map as your desktop wallpaper, log the weather data in any format, export the weather data in any format, customize the look of the Weather Watcher interface and icons via skins, and much more.

Extra skins are available if you download the "Bundle" version. unfortunately, it's called the "Bundle" version because it bundles adware (WhenU SaveNow) with the program. The basic version (same features, just no extra skins) does not have the adware. To the author's credit, this is clearly stated on the Weather Watcher web site.

Rating: 4.5 Stars
Operating System: Windows
License: Freeware
Price: Free
Version Reviewed: 5.6.5
Web Site:
http://www.singerscreations.com/AboutWeatherWatcher.asp
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