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Dec 5 2009

RORO01  THANKS TO THE DEVELOPER FOR RESTORING THE CURRENT FORECAST BUT...

... when the previous version showed the current forecast it also showed the update time in the tooltips. I remember that sometimes it wasn't updated for hours and in a few instances even for a whole day. Therefore, the current forecast without indication of when it was updated is simply useless. I hope the developer will address this and make it a five star widget again.  
(Version 1.0)

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Dec 5 2009

SHIELDJAGUAR2002  Thankyou at last its been updated an now works properly again :)

Still the best weather widget-Thanks  
(Version 1.0)

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Mar 10 2009

RORO01  NO LONGER SHOWS CURRENT LOCAL TEMPERATURE

I have noticed the BBC have recently changed the layout of their local weather page. I don't know if this has caused the current local temperature to disappear on the widget but I hope the developer can fix this.  
(Version 0.9.7)

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Nov 8 2008
*****

RORO01  MANY, MANY THANKS

This is a perfect widget which shows the weather in my location in England. All the features are as described by the developer and more - humidity, visibility, pressure and time of observation.  
(Version 0.9.7)

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Jun 3 2008

XYPHER  Needs an update. Will crash Amnesty Singles. Impossible to choose a City location other than Edinburgh.  
(Version 0.9.7)

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Nov 8 2008

RORO01  Turn it over and choose any location.  
(Version 0.9.7)

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Nov 29 2005
****.

FRY86  The Widget looks great and is accurate. Unfortunately, it has stopped working. Back to Apple Weather it is.  
(Version 0.9.4)

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Dec 8 2005

COCOACODER  If you're having a problem with the widget do let me know so I can investigate the issue.

Thanks,

John  
(Version 0.9.4)

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Nov 25 2005
*****

TIM PUTNAM  Absolute widget perfection. Get it.  
(Version 0.9.4)

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Nov 24 2005
****½

ANONYMOUS  Fantastic - such a quick way to access this simple but targetted and often used Info -Thanks!  
(Version 0.9.4)

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Oct 20 2005

ANONYMOUS  Nice widget, although it gives the forecast only (Highs and Lows), rather than the current temperature... it'll co-exist with Apple's widget on my Dashboard.  
(Version 0.9.3)

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Oct 20 2005

ANONYMOUS  this is great... apple's widget says 7ºc and rain, this one says 11ºc and sunny for toronto (which it is).

and celcius as default to boot! woo hoo.  
(Version 0.9.3)

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Oct 20 2005
*****

ANONYMOUS  Brilliant, just brilliant. The included Tiger weather widget is useless, this one is spot on. Nice design. Great widget. 10/10  
(Version 0.9.3)

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Oct 20 2005
*****

RONAN  Excellent performance!

Beats Apple's offering hands-down. Apple's widget misidentified Dublin as being in the US somewhere, failing to read my localisation data.

The Beeb's widget allows me to chose between Dublin and Dublin Airport for weather.

Most important, it's right. If a widget gets the current weather wrong, what hope has it of getting the forecast right?

Clunk. The Apple weather widget just hit the bin.  
(Version 0.9.3)

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Oct 14 2005

ANONYMOUS  I can't get the wind speed to show up. The description says that if you go into tooltips, you can have wind speeds shown, but I'm not sure where the tooltips are loocated. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  
(Version 0.9.2)

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Oct 20 2005

ANONYMOUS  Simply hover your mouse pointer over the weather symbol and the tooltip will appear after a second or so.  
(Version 0.9.3)

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Aug 15 2005
*****

LJ  0.9.2 seems to have fixed these problems. Now works fine for me.  
(Version 0.9.2)

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Aug 14 2005
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STRC  Had to uninstall since it was eating up almost all of my processing power. Pity.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Aug 13 2005

ANONYMOUS  Same for me... seems to have stopped working a couple of days ago...

Worst thing is I'm gonna have to go back to Apple's inaccurate Widget until its fixed...  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Aug 13 2005

TOURNESOL  It has stopped working. Keeps Loading...  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Aug 2 2005

ANONYMOUS  I am probably missing something. But today is clearly Tuesday and its showing me weather for Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday.

So basically could you make it so it shows tomorrows weather!  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Aug 3 2005

JOHN  The BBC update their forecast around 22:00 BST each day; so you then end up with the situation that 'today' is really 'tomorrow'.

You're right that it's confusing; it's something I'll fix in the next release.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Aug 2 2005
*****

IAN  Great widget with much more accurate weather for the UK.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Aug 1 2005
****½

ANONYMOUS  Great. Much more accurate than Apple's widget. Even for Prague. Prefer the look of apples version though, silghtly. But then it's more about how right it is after all.  
(Version 0.9)

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Aug 1 2005
*****

DJDARLEK  Nice, clean, accurate, and great for UK dwellers - fully recommended.   
(Version 0.9)

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Aug 1 2005

THEBRIX  I'd been looking for something like this - the source used by the Apple widget might as well be renamed inaccuweather.com, for UK locations at least, as it is often way off. And the Apple widget silently elides "London" to London, West Virginia, which gives unexpected results anyway!

Great work, looks good, and takes me back to the days when I used Linux.  
(Version 0.9)

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Aug 1 2005

TOURNESOL  Apples Weather Widget looks better, but this is more precise if you live in Denmark, Europe. Great work!  
(Version 0.9)

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Aug 1 2005
*****

LJ  Lovely! MUCH better than Apple's version.  
(Version 0.9)

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Aug 1 2005
****½

WESTY  Works fine for me, even asking which Gillingham I mean.

The Icons are cool, and the general look and feel is really nice.

I prefer this to the standard Apple icon.

Good Work.  
(Version 0.9)

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Jul 31 2005

ANONYMOUS  Press Return after you typed in the city name.  
(Version 0.9)

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Jul 31 2005

WTMCGEE  Be sure to type in your city name, press 'enter' to validate the city ... THEN you can use it.

I had to just type 'Orlando' then press enter to get mine to work.

I love BBC's iconography ... very nice widget.  
(Version 0.9)

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Jul 31 2005

ANONYMOUS  If you want to input, say, Buenos Aires Argentina, how would you do that? What kind of code doe you supply, because simply typing in "Buenos Aires, Argentina" doesn't work. No, that would be too simple. Silly me!  
(Version 0.9)

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Aug 1 2005

JOHN BUCKLEY  Just "Buenos Aires" does the trick (and press enter to validate/save the input as noted above)  
(Version 0.9)

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Jul 31 2005

ANONYMOUS  You're right, previous poster, it doesn't work. It always defaults back to Edinborough. I can't get any city besides Edinburgh, making this pretty useless. Anybody can make a pretty widget. The trick is to make it work.  
(Version 0.9)

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Jul 31 2005

JEAN-PAUL  Very nice-looking, but not working for me on first try. i live in Tokyo and the widget does not accept any location change -i tried different combinations with Tokyo, Paris & London- it reverses everytime to the default "Edinburgh". The theme selection is not working either.

Could the failure to update the forecasts be due to maintenance on the BBC server side (?), since 08:50 Japanese time is 00:50 in the UK, Sunday night. i hope nobody else will have this problem, i would love for it to be better than the US Weather widget which for us in Japan is often ludicrously inaccurate. To be rated later...  
(Version 0.9)

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