Like Carlo I use everyday Pocket Weather AU HD for iPad. The Radar is very handy as well. And on my MBP I use the standard weather widget in Dashboard. I have quite a few cities I watch weather. <http://shiftyjelly.com.au/products/pocket-weather-au-hd>
Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/12/2011, at 12:38 AM, cm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> -- 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>
