Lion and Snow Leopard are two different. It's like maintaining two different apps. Plus, I only have one computer, so I can't test MenuWeather on Snow Leopard.
Lion is only $29. If your computer is capable on running it, there's no reason to not upgrade.
Bad attitude, Evan. There's a LOT of valid reasons to stay on Snow Leopard and avoid Lion. A *responsible* developer maintains reasonable access to their software, instead of pushing the bleeding edge and dropping backwards compatibility. You had the option of partitioning your hard drive so that you could have Snow Leopard and Lion on the same machine, and then could have done the necessary programming upon MenuWeather to have it work with both operating systems. How many App Store developers have intentionally chosen to blow off 10.6 compatibility? Very few. You have reduced your market exposure and market share. Please reconsider your decision.
I will look into re-implmenting Snow Leopard support. However, it would be limited. The main issue is the More Weather window which uses APIs that are only available in Lion.
I will chime in and say that there are actually still quite a lot of Mac users with 10.6.8 and for very good reasons. I was interested in purchasing this app until I saw that it wasn't compatible with Snow Leopard. I really don't want to bother explaining why I'm running 10.6.8, but I can assure you they are all valid reasons.
Excellent replacement for the lamentably unviable Weather Dock. Accurate and good range of display options. Also has clean UI and nice icon sets (important when they're going to be visible on your menubar for most of your mac's life).
I don't use the More Weather window as I don't need that much detail, but I don't think its as well thought through as the menubar item.
Stability has come along way since shaky previous versions, which often stalled and crashed. But it still hangs briefly when leaving preferences after changing, and should really deal with loss of internet connection better. Currently when it can't connect, hovering the mouse over it leads to the spinning wheel of death, which is unnecessarily alarming.
Overall though, my favourite menubar app, and hopefully destined to get better.
I'm guessing the free version magically disappeared...
Was looking to give this a try after WeatherDock died but if there's no free version ...that's a shame... could at least put a "LITE" version in the store or something...
I discontinued the free version because I switched over to a premium weather source rather than relying on free sources. This allowed me to add more data to MenuWeather. I suppose I could still have a free version that uses free weather sources and doesn't provide much information. But why spend time maintaining two apps when I can spend more time making MenuWeather an even better app?
You actually are right. I mistook this app for another one.
I remember I had emailed you I think a few months ago and was quite happy with the correspondance that we had about the app when you were still using free sources.
I bought this app from the app store and I am quite happy with it so far.
This is an improvement over the previous version. Added air pressure, radar map zoom in and out, better location search and hourly updates. The developer listens to suggestions and has made this app better. I am still unsure of the use of customweather.com instead of weatherchannel.com which is what used to be used.
I wouldn't worry about CustomWeather. They provide weather to Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies so you can be assured that they're weather is very accurate.
I find this app very useful and prefer it over WeatherDock simply because its handier being able to access the weather immediately from the menubar.
I have the free version 3.12 and don't live in the States, so there's no need for me to upgrade but I'd be quite happy to pay $2.99 if that's what I was charged and the software was as stable as the version I'm currently using.
I agree with Bigboysdad in almost every respect, word-for-word, as British Isles are not covered for Radar etc... But I am not prepared to pay App Store when my MenuWeather works without fault, I have sent donations to Evan Coleman recognising good work he has done already. Thank you for your objective reply here.
I am NOT impressed with presumed-hoax 'Steven P Jobs'.
I have troubles understanding App Store. It seems every minor x.x.x update is payable? I have downloaded the highly useful 'Alfred' which was Free at v0.9. I think I downloaded another "Not-A-Lot' app but my concern is alos for the Dock icon showing a "Red 1". Am I in some way in-hock to Apple App Store?
The App Store will have to evolve to be more transparent and be more clear in Plain Crystal Clear English, NOT legalese. I would welcome an official Jobs' letter via Mobile Me.
A new version which fixes the bugs has been in review by Apple for a week or so. The reason that I overlooked the bugs in 3.2 was because I've been very busy with my school work (I'm in college) and haven't had as much time as I'd like to work on MenuWeather. This summer, however, MenuWeather will be pretty much rewritten.
I have given up on this app as well. While the 2.99 is not a problem. having a functioning app is. MeunWeather simply does not work on my MBP. The lite version does. I will remove both, Apple can keep the 2.99 but from now on I will try to find non-App Store versions of apps. Not having a try before you buy option sucks. Thus the following ratings. This applies to the MeunWeather app, not the lite version.
The untrustworthy developer who provides a non-working spying-ware version of his paid app gets to keep his $2.
You'd think the spyware "phone-hone" fiasco he did would scare folks off his app. But he's still getting folks to give him money to give him for his scam.
What scam? You seem to be the only one who cares about the "phone home" bug which was only present in 3.1.2 and didn't send me any sensitive information. If you really object to spending $2.99, then download the free Lite version.
I am still not able to send report from the application.
Two days ago it could not find Puerto Penasco, Mexico and it crashed loosing its settings. Yesterday it worked just fine, but for the last 16 hours it has not been able to update Puerto Penasco. Maby it´s your update source since Weather Vane updates fine. I would love to use your app instead!
Yesterday it could not find Puerto Penasco, Mexico and it crashed loosing its settings. Today it works just fine! You asked if i could send report from the app, but it reports:
"Error submitting your feedback to the server. Error: The request timed out."
I have tried this many times with the same result.
It also seems to freeze the OS when it has trouble updating.
I love the speed improvement. There is a problem after waking up from sleep though. The app freezes with the spinning beach ball when hovering the icon, and the only way to quit is to kill the process.
MenuWeather freezes a second or two after waking up, so I'm even able to open the menu before it hangs.
It can´t find my location (Puerto Peñasco in Sonora, Mexico). If I set up other locations, it works but crashes after a few minutes and looses all settings.
In my first three hours of testing, the app ended up with 3.5GB of my 18GB real memory. On the plus side, the all black icons are great to look at. I'll try an updated version.
I downloaded v2.1.2 and installed it on my Mac Pro (MacPro1,1, Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 6GB RAM). As the previous poster stated, upon launch, the app freezes and there is no way to pull down the menu.
Furthermore, Activity Monitor shows 100% CPU use. Horrible.
Was impatient to try out this new version. However, when it launches, and after asking me if I allow it to use my current location, it just puts the temperature in the Menubar and hangs, consuming 100% of the CPU, and not giving access to the menu. I tried to delete all the preferences and associated files, but it does not change anything.
Can you open the Info.plist file in the App bundle (control click on the app and show package contents) then change myDebug to true, then open Console (Application/Utilities/) and run MenuWeather. Then search menuweather in Console and copy and paste everything into an email to evan@evancoleman.net
When launching 1.2 appears to lockup. The menubar shows "Loading..." and I can not click on it to bring up the menu. I have reinstalled and deleted the preference files with no luck.
Weather is available in every language through MenuWeather however, the application's preferences are only available in English, Spanish, French, Polish and Dutch.
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Lion is only $29. If your computer is capable on running it, there's no reason to not upgrade.
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taja reviewed on 04 Jan 2012
I don't use the More Weather window as I don't need that much detail, but I don't think its as well thought through as the menubar item.
Stability has come along way since shaky previous versions, which often stalled and crashed. But it still hangs briefly when leaving preferences after changing, and should really deal with loss of internet connection better. Currently when it can't connect, hovering the mouse over it leads to the spinning wheel of death, which is unnecessarily alarming.
Overall though, my favourite menubar app, and hopefully destined to get better.
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Was looking to give this a try after WeatherDock died but if there's no free version ...that's a shame... could at least put a "LITE" version in the store or something...
On to other alternatives...
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I remember I had emailed you I think a few months ago and was quite happy with the correspondance that we had about the app when you were still using free sources.
I bought this app from the app store and I am quite happy with it so far.
Would recommend it to others. ^_^
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tfigs reviewed on 21 Sep 2011
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tmtsui reviewed on 05 Sep 2011
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Bigboysdad reviewed on 19 Apr 2011
I have the free version 3.12 and don't live in the States, so there's no need for me to upgrade but I'd be quite happy to pay $2.99 if that's what I was charged and the software was as stable as the version I'm currently using.
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I am NOT impressed with presumed-hoax 'Steven P Jobs'.
I have troubles understanding App Store. It seems every minor x.x.x update is payable? I have downloaded the highly useful 'Alfred' which was Free at v0.9. I think I downloaded another "Not-A-Lot' app but my concern is alos for the Dock icon showing a "Red 1". Am I in some way in-hock to Apple App Store?
The App Store will have to evolve to be more transparent and be more clear in Plain Crystal Clear English, NOT legalese. I would welcome an official Jobs' letter via Mobile Me.
Meanwhile, Five Stars to MenuWeather. Adrien UK
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Save your money, or at least spend it on things made by people who make an effort. Just don't give it to these greedy, lazy losers.
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Jocatra reviewed on 25 Mar 2011
Thanks, Evan :-)
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Don Trammell reviewed on 12 Mar 2011
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I only keep $1.
The untrustworthy developer who provides a non-working spying-ware version of his paid app gets to keep his $2.
You'd think the spyware "phone-hone" fiasco he did would scare folks off his app. But he's still getting folks to give him money to give him for his scam.
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Two days ago it could not find Puerto Penasco, Mexico and it crashed loosing its settings. Yesterday it worked just fine, but for the last 16 hours it has not been able to update Puerto Penasco. Maby it´s your update source since Weather Vane updates fine. I would love to use your app instead!
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"Error submitting your feedback to the server. Error: The request timed out."
I have tried this many times with the same result.
It also seems to freeze the OS when it has trouble updating.
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MenuWeather freezes a second or two after waking up, so I'm even able to open the menu before it hangs.
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You all should also check your "~/Library/Application Support/MenuWeather/MenuWeather.log" files. Mine was 1.05GB in size...
I've stopped using MenuWeather for now, as these bugs are very troubling.
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Furthermore, Activity Monitor shows 100% CPU use. Horrible.
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Menu Weather just hangs if I try to press the 'Donate' button.
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Greedyfranky rated on 16 Mar 2012
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Elizabethbrooke rated on 21 May 2011
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