If you want to work on WeatherZone, there is every chance that you will be able to rehabilitate it because you still have the app file. If you can move the window around, there should be a preferences file somewhere to record the starting location of the window. You could also try right-clicking (or control-click) the Dock icon of the running WeatherZone app and see what options can be set there. But, if you feel wanderlust for new unexplored software -- a whim that I quite understand...
There are some very good iPad and iPhone apps: in fact WeatherZone itself is popular. Or there is Pocket Weather Au HD which I use most every day. It, like WeatherZone, gets its information from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. For the Mac I use the standard weather widget in Dashboard which can be configured to point to Perth. I usually run multiple copies, one for each of the cities that I follow (at the moment Toronto, Melbourne, and Chiang Mai). There are also some offerings in the Mac App Store that I have not tried. Just bring up the App Store application on your Mac and search on "weather". You'll see Weather Dock, Weather+, a free WeatherEye, and Weather HD among other. Of course unlike WeatherZone or Pocket Weather AU, these apps may not get their data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Apart for that I will leave it up to others to chime in with their favourite weather apps. Cheers, Carlo On 09/12/2011, at 23:59 , Peter Crisp wrote: > Hi Carlo, it is an icon which sit is the dock at bottom of screen. When > selected, the menu bar shows "Weather tracker" as main menu bar. > > I am happy to write it off and pick up something that someone recommends as a > good desktop weather app. > > I was unable to locate a plist file reflecting the Weatherzone app. Maybe > that suggests a specific issue. > > Thanks Carlo. > > PEte. > > On 09/12/2011, at 11:45 PM, cm wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> When you say it is a widget do you mean that it resided in Dashboard? Or >> alternatively did it used to show up in the Menu Bar at the top of the >> screen, as an icon on the Dock, or as a fixed display area on your Desktop? >> Or finally, was it a full fledged window that you could drag around on the >> desktop? (Phew! :-) >> >> If it is a standard window you should see it when you run Exposé, which >> shows all running windows in miniaturised form, although it sounds as though >> you have done that with the four-finger swipe. >> >> Another alternative is to delete the preferences file and restart the app: >> >> 1) Stop the app by right clicking the icon and selecting Quit. >> 2) Delete the preferences file that will be something like >> ~/Library/Preferences/com.weatherzone.<app-name>.plist >> Where ~ represents the path /Users/SWMBO-account-name >> and <app-name> could be something like weather-tracker >> 3) Restart the app by clicking on the icon in the dock. >> >> Let me know. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> On 09/12/2011, at 23:21 , Peter Crisp wrote: >> >>> I've had a little app which boots up on start up for about a year on >>> SWMBO's Macbook (White plastic one with Snow leopard). It's been very >>> reliable and informative. It is a Mac OSX app I grabbed off the Weatherzone >>> website way back then. Just today it bounces on the dock on startup and >>> then stops bouncing as it would if all were normal, other than that the >>> widget is not visible. So either it is there somewhere just off screen, >>> I've tried shifting the dock and a 4 finger swipe etc but can't get it to >>> show or it isn't there. I don't think the weatherzone website has the OSX >>> app any more. Any clues on how I might get it to reappear. It is still >>> there listed in Applications folder and it sits there on the dock with the >>> light under it indicating its running - but no show. I've tried numerous >>> reboot from full shut down as it's set to start on "boot up". >>> >>> Does anyone have a link to a known good aussie app for weather info with >>> specific location locked in? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any tips. >>> >>> SWMBO will be most appreciative. >>> >>> Pete.... >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
