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Weather Watcher Live 6.1.15
Weather Watcher Live is your personal, real-time Windows desktop weather station. View real-time weather conditions in your
neighborhood from WeatherBug weather
stations, or as reported by NWS.
Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, severe weather
alerts from NWS (US only), and weather maps
for thousands of cities world-wide. The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse
pointer over the Weather Watcher Live system tray icon.
Weather Watcher Live 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 Live 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 Live interface and
icons via skins, and much more.
Note: Each purchased license key can be used on up to three computers. Your license keys are transferrable if you ever get a new computer, but they will be automatically deactivated if actively used on more than three computers at a time.
Requirements
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
Features
- Weather as reported by WeatherBug and NWS
- Forecasts available for thousands of cities world-wide
- Current weather conditions
- 60-hour forecast
- 7-day day/night forecast
- Severe weather alerts from NWS (US only)
- 700+ weather maps
- Easy access to weather news, cameras and photos
- 18+ weather unit conversion choices
- Locally export and log weather data
- Skinned interface/forecasts
- Customizable system tray icon/tooltip
- Dual tray icons for temperature and condition image
- Proxy server support
Screenshots
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Latest Changes
[Version 6.1.15]
- ADDED: "Display balloon tip when weather station is unavailable" to "Advanced" section of Weather Watcher Live Options to allow the notification to be suppressed.
- ADDED: "Display upcoming daily conditions icons in tooltip" to "Advanced" section of Weather Watcher Live Options. If using the hourly icon option, daily icons will be displayed when viewing a weather station that is located outside of the US.
- ADDED: "Map Zoom Level" setting to the Splendid and Splendid2 skin settings to allow the map in the NOW section to be zoomed to different levels. Click the "SETTINGS" link at the bottom, right corner of the main Weather Watcher Live window to access the skin settings.
- ADDED: "Low" column in the Daily section of the Splendid2 skin for weather stations outside of the US.
- FIXED: The slider at the bottom of the Splendid and Splendid2 skins was not displaying icons when Internet Explorer 6 was installed. FYI, the best fix for this issue is to install the latest Windows updates (including all Internet Explorer updates).
- FIXED: In the Splendid2 skin, the "Currently" icon in the NOW section was displaying the icon for the current day instead of the current condition for weather stations outside of the US.
- FIXED: Wind speed was always displaying as "0" in the Splend2 skin's wind gauge when the Windows regional settings were using a comma for the tenths place separator.
- FIXED: If using a Tray Icon skin of PNG images, the current condition icon (if enabled) was displaying the temperature in the system tray instead of the condition icon. To work around this issue, the WeatherBug Tray Icon skin's icons will automatically be used whenever a PNG Tray Icon skin is selected.
[Version 6.1.12]
- ADDED: Day names to daily slider in "NOW" section of main Weather Watcher Live window for international weather stations.
- ADDED: "Tray Icon" dropdown to the "Skins" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window to allow the icons to be changed in the tooltip window.
- ADDED: Eight new icon sets. These icons can be selected in the "Skins" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.
- ADDED: New log/export/skin tags: [TEMP ROUND], [TEMP DEGREE ROUND], [TEMP PLAIN ROUND], [TEMP PLAIN NOT CONVERTED ROUND], [TEMP RETURN ROUND], [TEMP PARENS ROUND], [OBSERVED DATETIME], [DOWNLOADED DATETIME]
- ADDED: Splendid2 forecast skin.
- ADDED: Click the weather station name at the top, left of the main Weather Watcher Live window to change the weather station.
- ADDED: When available, the tooltip window will display an up or down arrow to indicate the rate of change for temperature, humidity and pressure. The rate of change is available for most WeatherBug weather stations.
- CHANGED: When running the Weather Watcher Live installer/uninstaller, Weather Watcher Live will automatically shut down if running.
- CHANGED: Redesigned "Severe Alerts" section of Weather Watcher Live Options window to allow alerts to be enabled/disabled by type.
- FIXED: A few of the WSI maps links were pointing to outdated images.
- FIXED: Made changes necessary to allow new forecast skins to be selected in the "Skins" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.
- FIXED: Celsius temperatures were not displaying tenths when the "Display tenths for Celsius temperatures" box was checked in the "Advanced" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.
- FIXED: When searching for US locations, non-US locations are no longer displayed in search results (and vice versa). This change was made to ensure the selected weather station links to the correct WeatherBug map, and other WeatherBug.com pages.
- FIXED: Old severe alerts were being cached and displayed after they have expired.
- FIXED: The barometer gauge was not always displaying the correct color -- indicating an incorrect direction of change.
- FIXED: The color band on the barometer gauge was not always displaying at the level that matched the value in the center of the gauge.
- FIXED: Adjusted the timing of the tray tooltip window to prevent it from opening when single/double left-clicking the Weather Watcher Live system tray icon.
[Version 6.1.03]
- ADDED: You can now access personal weather stations (PWS) that are part of the WeatherBug Backyard weather station network. If you own a PWS, you can add it at: http://www.weatherbug.com/backyard
- CHANGED: Registered Weather Watcher Live users will no longer be prompted to install the Ask Toolbar when upgrading to new versions of Weather Watcher Live.
- FIXED: The machine id was not displaying properly in the "License" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window for some users. This was preventing the license key from being entered.
- FIXED: Some users were being prompted to register before the 30-day trial period had been reached.
- FIXED: The temperature in the large bulb of the main Weather Watcher Live window was not rounding properly after applying real-time weather updates.
[Version 6.1.01]
- ADDED: "License" section to Weather Watcher Live Options window to enter/modify the license key needed for the new Weather Watcher Live yearly subscription.
- FIXED: Dates were not displaying correctly when the Windows short date format included spaces (e.g. 18 Jul 09).
[Version 6.0.34]
- ADDED: Tray icon left single-click and left double-click actions to refresh the wallpaper.
- FIXED: The wind gauge arrow was sometimes a few degrees off due to a rounding error in the Splendid interface.
- FIXED: Applied fix to display wind speed as 0, instead of 0.0 or .00.
- FIXED: The wind speed displayed in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window was not converting properly after real-time weather updates were downloaded.
[Version 6.0.30]
- CHANGED: Adjusted daily forecast high/low temperatures as needed so they match up with the hourly forecast high/low temperatures.
- FIXED: Replaced the Splendid skin degree symbols with the proper HTML special character so they would display properly when Internet Explorer 8 is installed.
- FIXED: For Windows 64-bit users, the Weather Watcher Live system tray icon was reverting back to Italic after retrieving the weather when the Set tray icon to Italic until first weather update option was enabled.
- FIXED: Updated colors of all textboxes and dropdowns on the Weather Watcher Live interface so they will display properly when using custom Windows colors.
- FIXED: The weather data in the NOW section of the main Weather Watcher Live window was not always refreshing properly when realtime weather data was downloaded.
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