 | Jul 15 2008 |
JOHNNY ROCKET stopped working completely for me today. Goodbye Weatherpop, you were fun while you lasted. I'm off to find a replacement.
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| Jul 15 2008 |
B3NT The WeatherPop/Glu website seems to have been taken down now. That's good if they are no longer going to support they shouldn't sell. The closest replacement I've found is 'Meteo', a free and open-source utility. It's not as straight-forward and user-friendly as Weatherpop was. I miss the old Weatherpop menubar icon pop-down that showed all the local data with one click, and in its latest revision even showed a local radar image in the pop-down. It was great. If anybody finds anything better, or close, I'd like to hear about it. Kendall Hallett
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| Jul 15 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN You might like WeatherDock. Free, and very versatile.
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| Aug 15 2008 |
PSYCHOS WeatherDock seems to indeed be a worthy successor. Thanks!
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 | May 6 2008 |
TANKKNIGHT I really loved this app and really hate that the developer has stopped supporting it. It no longer displays the correct info and ever since I switched to Leopard my logs would several error lines when Weather Pop would call out for data. Features, Ease of Use and Value I rate as a 4, but Stability and Main Rating I have to give a 1. It's a real shame when developers run off.
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| May 1 2008 |
B3NT The WeatherPop developers, Ben and Lisa, claim a hacking of their work and loss of historical data. WeatherPop used to be an EXCELLENT utility with frequent version updates and response to weather data source glitches. Unfortunately, it has not been updated since at least Dec. 2007 according to their own website, and has ceased to be a useful utility because it no longer seems able to obtain weather data from, particularly, weather.gov. It used to be a great little utility but I no longer use it because it is so unreliable as to be easier to look out the window or go the weather.gov website myself for data. I do hope it will return to its former glory, but at this point I am rapidly becoming doubtful. I can not recommend it.
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| Apr 18 2007 |
PMALOS WeatherPop is really buggy, and the developer does not answer emails. Bugs I've found so far, in just a few days use... 1) Didn't automatically register after I paid, 2) Weather details not accurately downloaded from source, 3) Weather source preferences do not work, 4)Frequent crashes & freezes. Sorry to pick on a small developer, but this app should be avoided.
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| Mar 29 2007 |
DANA SUTTON There's a to like about WeatherPop, it's very slick and informative. There's only one problem with it, which makes it totally useless for me. Any weather-reporting software is only as good as the sources it polls, and the one source it uses for my town (Wunderground, no matter how I set the Preferences, and I live in a reasonably large near-metropolitan area) gives wildly inaccurate readings. Right now it's in the high 40's outside (and this is reported fairly accurately by the Weather widget, bearing in mind the nearest reporting station is a few miles from here in a different microclimate), but WeatherPop tells me it's 38.
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| Dec 26 2006 |
NASOWAS hey all, used to love this app, but now it's so buggy for me, i have it running on two computers, set up with the same zip codes, the same sources, etc, but the two forecasts are never the same! and i mean, really different, like one will be for my zip, 50 degrees, etc, but correct, my laptop, with the same settings will say something like 7 degrees. units are the same. i dunno... gonna try weathermenu...
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| Oct 11 2006 |
ROADTRIPDK Why pay for this when you can get WeatherDock for free here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16027
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| Aug 30 2006 |
SYZZYGY This little app is really sweet......gives all the weather info that most folks need for their selected locations. It's got a nice, well thought out and user friendly interface, too....really easy to configure. At $8, it's well worth the money. I got it for $4.95 from Macupdate's daily special(whoopee, such a deal!)
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| Aug 18 2006 |
WEASELBOY Just installed 2.4 and it seems to work okay. Here is a list of 2.4 changes from the Yahoo Group. What's new in this release: * Weather.gov source problems fixed * Wundeground.com source problems fixed * Units selector for "Metric/Standard" fixed * Low-level aspects of WeatherPop have been updated to fix crashing/slowness problems
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| Dec 10 2005 |
BEDSTUY65 Is there a reason this doesn't show SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO yet it shows Vieques! Kinf of absurd since the poulation of San Juan is 1.5 million and is a US territory.
(Version 2.2.1) | |
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| Sep 12 2005 |
MARIUS_TH This weather app has been the only one so far who has been able to find my little home place in my little country, good job!
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| Sep 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Still has same problems with weather.com- says sun for nightime-sunrise at 4.30 AM. Also has thunderstorms listed all week long. Used to be accurate what went wrong?
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| Aug 23 2005 |
DONALD Weatherpop works good for my city Christchurch, New Zealand but temp seem seems to vary slightly depending on what source your getting the weather from & when i try to have any other New Zealand city or town displayed the temp is always in the minus yet go to the web site where the weather comes from & the temp is correct on the web sites.
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| Jul 18 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Crap!? this is silly, now it works. Well hopefully someone will delete this remark and the last one and yet leave the original review and fix or explain whatever the bug is. | |
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| Jul 18 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I'm having the same problems as others. The data in the application has become inconsistent to the point of being unuseable. I've been using this app for so long I can't remember and I love it, but in the last month or so it's gone downhill and I've had to stop using it. I checked out the developers site and needless to say I don't think it belongs to the developers anymore. Either that or they've decided to go in a completely different direction. :( I've just been checking out an app called weatherdock that seems to be like weatherpop on steroids. Plus it's free. The only problem is in addition to the menu (which can display all sorts of weather data), it is an application and must be launched at startup and therefore takes up valuable dock realestate. Am open to other suggestions. -Mike of mmeiser.com/blog
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| Jun 18 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The link to the home page no longer works ...
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 | Jun 5 2005 |
DSOWARDS Yes... never can alter the "source to weather.gov Otherwise I like this program if only because I paid for the advance feature some time ago and I don't really feel like throwing my money away even if it wasn't a lot.
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| Jun 5 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I have used this program for sometime... But, now I can't change the source and the one the program picks isn't correct... I have decided to fine another App... That works
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| Mar 28 2005 |
TERRY I have had this program for some time, and it simply is inconsistent to the point of being worthless. Data is constantly displayed incorrectly, particularly from weather.gov. Complaints to the developer have gone unresolved. I have switched to Meteorologist, a free program using (in my estimation) the more accurate data from The Weather Channel site, and it has been performing well.
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| Mar 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Some of us work in basements, with the mushrooms. Hard to tell what the weather is doing outside...
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| Mar 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Look out the window, it's FREE!
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| Mar 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Jump out the window, it's FREE!!
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| Mar 8 2005 |
RWEHAVINGFUNYET? Zippy the Pinhead sez: Be sure to OPEN the window first...
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| Mar 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Or just tie a string around some rock and hang it from a branch outside your window. If the rock is wet, it's raining. If the rock is white, it's snowing. If you can't see the rock, it's foggy. etc, etc.
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| Mar 13 2005 |
ANONYMOUS L@@K out the window? What if you have the AC on, or what if heater is on, or what if there is a hurricane coming at you, or what if lightening hit your house and fry all of your electronic equipment and computer. I guess you have to look out the window and think, I wish I had the small program called WEATHERPOP : )
(Version 2.0.5) | |
| Mar 16 2005 |
MARCEL Stop it you guys, you're killing me! LOL!
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| Mar 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I had been using this app for a few years and quite liked it. But then one day I looked at another app WeatherDock by chance and I found it to be a lot better. The author of WeatherPop must have been on a very long holiday because it was ages ago that there were any updates and now we get 4 or so in the space of a week or so. Bit like buses.
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| Mar 7 2005 |
EVERBEE I had no problems with this application, and I have been using it for a few years now. I have never had any malfunctions or glitches that others complain about. It has everything I want; current conditions and a brief 5-day forecast, plus a few others like dew point and the barometric pressure. For what it offers, it is a fine program.
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| Mar 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS When you add inline radar maps, I'll buy it. Until then, meteo is my only choice.
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| Mar 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS WeatherPop started off well. But, as stated elsewhere in these review pages, it is on the bottom of the pile. I bought WeatherMenu, which offers much more beautiful icons and an elegant layout. Meteorologist is also good, but the set-up is clunkier.
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| Mar 5 2005 |
ILGAZ I use and support macupdate since its mac focused site so I check here everyday for my licensed sw updates and see whats going on in sw scene. After reading the clueless and amazing misinformation spread about weatherpop by meteorologist fans for days, I gave up taking ANY comments about ANY SOFTWARE serious on this site/others. I bet the good guys offering meteorologist free wouldn't be happy to see this kind of support(!) they get. Its a $8 trial software sits at your menu, installed by drag and drop. Try it one time if there is anyone taking those "reviews" serious. You will understand what I mean. To support opensource/freeware software if you aren't developer: 1) Donate to it, even its not stated anywhere 2) Help the new users in forums, mail lists 3) Advertise it but NOT BY SPREADING WRONG INFORMATION ABOUT COMPETING PRODUCTS
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| Mar 5 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Ilgaz, you're obviously a WeatherPop fanboy. You paid your $8 probably before realizing that there were two menu alternatives: I've tried all three, and WeatherMenu reigns supreme. People reading the reviews here can, luckily, try WeatherPop and then move on to WeatherMenu and Meteorologist before making a decision. Odds are they'll pass on this overpriced and underdeveloped piece of work.
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| Mar 12 2005 |
ILGAZ I use commercial applications which are professionally coded and supported. This applies to every software I use. I use Omniweb over Firefox, Eudora over Thunderbird etc etc. I don't go to the applications pages you refer and spread misinformation like some others here. I say, thing runs for 1 year on my mac. Its at startup, I never quit it, it didn't crash or do other things people say about. This new way of supporting the other applications bothers me. About me? I remember installing/using WeatherDock on GNU Windowmaker in 1996 on a SGI system. I liked the application and selected it over other ones since it featured a screensaver that time. Thanks to CPU cry-babies, it has been removed from application for now.
(Version 2.0.5) | |
| Mar 3 2005 |
JOSEPH MCKENNA All these people who prefer Meteorologistdo not seem to be aware tht it only works for North American users.I have used Weather Pop frm the beginning & found it faultless.Plus it knows that there are Cities in Europe | |
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| Mar 4 2005 |
MISCHIVO I don't mean to be rude, but you're completely wrong about Meteorologist; it very well knows that there are European cities--I for one have it display information about Moscow, of all places.
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| Mar 1 2005 |
DARREN I bought WP as it was the first menu-based weather app I found on the Mac a few years back. Looked for something as good as WeatherBug on the PC. While back then it was decent for a Mac app, today it is, by far, at the bottom of the stack in terms of weather menu apps. Compare it to WeatherDock, WeatherMenu and Meteorologist. The most frequently updated app seems to be Meteorologist, and I like it a lot. WeatherMenu has been my choice, tho (also paid for it) for some time. The new kid on the block, WeatherDock, is sweet, but lacking in a few features. But I would rank it above WeatherPop, for sure. I'm also on the WeatherPop Yahoo! group. It is quite sad to see an app that started with so much potential fall so far by the way-side. It pales in comparison to WM and Meteo in terms of the amount of weather information it can display. For the money, there is no equivalent to WM. And as for frequency of updates ... um, guys, a year? Rather poor for a pay-for app. If I were starting my search today, I would absolutely not bother with this application unless and until they can bother with more frequent updates and more offerings for the money.
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| Mar 2 2005 |
ILGAZ If there is a opensource project you can support it better via donating and helping newbies of that project at forums. This sort of support (!) via bad mouthing others, especially when they are updated via false claims doesn't work.
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| Mar 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Some people would say that the need to update so often is a bad thing. Based on what my meteorologist using friends tell me, it has to be updated often, because it breaks often. For a few bucks on Weatherpop, I don't have to update weekly, and have had a super reliable app for a couple of years.
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Mar 2 2005 |
Are you responding to my comment/mini-review? Your comments need to be clearer. So I'll respond to what it seems you're saying. First, I'm not offering support. I'm offering my OPINION of the product. I PAID for the product in question. Developers read comments on sites like this. I frequently visit MacUpdate, not developer forums. The Yahoo! groups list is not the best place, IMHO to offer feedback of all sorts. Lots of people read this site, including other developers. So I'm hoping to incite them to a better product publicly, not in a members-only forum. Second, WeatherPop is not open source, it is shareware. I paid for it. I'm not happy with the development (and length of time to fix problems) of it since I paid for it. I'm sure Ben and Lisa are quite busy with the other things they do, but they need to realize that the cars that were in their rear-view mirror have passed them. If they never intend to make WP as full-featured as the others, that's fine. Say so. In the mean time, the comparison of WP vs. the others is quite valid. The bottom line is that feature for feature, WeatherPop has been surpassed by the likes of WeatherMenu, Meteorologist and WeatherDock (iffy on that one). I supported WP by buying their product. IMHO, they need to bring the feature-set at least to the same level as the others in order to charge what they do. Granted, I don't have to buy it if I don't want to. So with that logic, they could charge $100 for it and someone might buy it, I suppose. I supported WeatherMenu by buying their product. Haven't donated to Meteorologist yet as I'm not using the product all the time. FWIW, it's nice that WP has updated from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 in one day. So consider my "they haven't updated..." comment revised. Suggestion to the Developers: If you want to put WP way over the top, hook up with the WeatherBug folks for "up-to-the-minute" weather changes. They say a Mac version is under consideration, meaning, "we're making so much money with Windows, we'll think about the Mac (and Linux) after we finish our Krispy Kreme's." Well, there's potential opportunity knocking ... maybe. Of course, they're $20/year for their service. I'd rather pay $8.
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Mar 2 2005 |
ILGAZ I urge mac users using windows too to stay away from WeatherBug and ANY mac developer to stay away from producer of Weatherbug. A simple search of weatherbug and spyware will explain my concerns. I bet they don'T install gator as they used to since people are more aware about the s p y w a r e issue than 2 years before but it doesn't change they had means to do it. OK this was warning part. After seeing the "supporters' and "user profile" of the opensource tool, I am more glad I purchased weatherpop as a newbie mac user a year ago. My Mac G5 is 1 years, 3 months old and weatherpop is at my startup since then. I had 2 kernel crashes to this time but never weatherpop crashes/related problems. So sorry if I as a end user get frustrated about the amazing, meaningless comments and false information on this "comment" zone. I am also SURE that the nice guys offering the meteorologist for free AND opensource aren't happy with such "support" they get. I am also sorry now I got kinda "pre minded" of that product after reading comments. I purchased "earthbrowser" too recently. It wasn'T updated for months or something while I was buying and it got updated. I don't have a single clue how could a weather monitor app must be updated. Like, new conditions happen because of global warming? :)
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Mar 27 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I've been researching ALL available OS X weather apps and I'll have to say the three that impressed me are Meteorologist, weatherpop, and weatherdock. Of the three I found the first two to be the best in terms of: a) ease of use [here weatherpop is slightly better) b) features (here Weatherpop and met are about equal) c) appearance (here weatherpop seems a bit prettier--its menubar icon is in color and it changes according to am or pm which is nice, met's is not colored, and its in-dock icon is poor looking), d) ability to stay visible (here met is CLEARLY the winner with its dock feature which weatheropo DOES NOT HAVE--exactly opposite of what a review I just read reported--although weatherdock also ha the ability to show a floating window above all apps but the window face is garish) e) cost (here met and weatherdock clearly win out because they are full featured and free, weatherpop is not--even if its only $8) f) reliability (I've tested weatherpop the most extensively of all the apps, and its been robust, although the met version [1.4.3] I'm currently using seems to be pretty trouble free. So, which one would I choose? I'm currently torn between Met (it is full featured and free) and weatherpop (its basically nicer looking but for a shareware app asks for money). I guess for the moment I'll stay with Met but if my longing for the changing colored menubar icon of weatherpop grows on me, I'll buy their product.
(Version 2.0.5) | |
| Mar 1 2005 |
WILL GROPER I never have problems with this app, while meteorologist is constantly breaking. In fact, I like this app so much it makes my butt crack a little sweaty. However, I *do* wish they'd add support for radar images.
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| Feb 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS From the Weatherpop developer's page: "We are working as fast and as hard as we can to provide the best possible WeatherPop experience..." Yeah, and the last Weatherpop update was in May, 2004. Starting to look like it is 'abandonware'.
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| Feb 24 2005 |
ILGAZ Its not abandonware, if you subscribe to its mailing list its clear.
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| Jan 20 2005 |
ELROT I bought Weatherpop a couple of years ago, before Meteoroligist existed. I have never, ever had a significant problem. On a couple of occassions (maybe twice), the icon disappeared, but came back when I clicked it. No crashes; always accurate and reliable, as it can access multiple weather reports. I have friends who use the free competition, and regularly complain about problems. Unlike them, I only check here for updates, occassionally, not ecause there are problems, but in case there are new features. When I think about it, I'm not sure how this could be improved.
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| Jan 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I have found that "Weatherdock" does what this is supposed to do without the problems. "Weatherdock" is free and available here on MacUpdate.
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| Mar 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It's also uncustomizable with only one data source, will not allow use of more (this is the Net, you can do better), only displays one location at a time (tsk, see above), doesn't show forecast in a dropdown menu like Weatherpop does (bah). I'm glad I paid the small (sub-$10) fee for an app that has all those features. Sadly, in this case, "free" means "missing good stuff". Too bad; there *are* other programs that offer equivalent features for free (like Meteorologist, but I still prefer Weatherpop's presentation, looks, and reliability.)
(Version 2.0.4) | |
| Jan 9 2005 |
MACMAN Never had a problem with this app -- ever. Has worked perfectly for me since day one.
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| Jan 2 2005 |
JOHN PRITT Menu bar shows current temperature (Luxembourg) as minus 15, whereas pulldown menu shows forecast temperature as between 5 and 2 degrees. Something is screwed up here! Shame: it was good, but now no use at all. So, a weather application that doesn't report the correct weather has to get a bad mark for features and value. Sorry.
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| Nov 8 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Seems like a pretty slick little program until you find that it often reports random data. Worse, the websites from which it supposedly takes forecasts (weather.gov, wunderground.com, usatoday.com) are displaying CORRECT info which is somehow getting screwed up by weatherpop. If this program had one RELIABLE data stream, it would be quite good. And aside from occasional maddening inaccuracy, it's well-designed and useful.
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| Jan 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS If you'll notice, you have a **choice** of one of these sources. So, you can choose one good source from those. Works great for me.
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| Aug 4 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Try WeatherMenu instead! No spyware (WeatherPop calls back home...) WeatherMenu works fine with European cities unlike WeatherPop
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| Jul 8 2004 |
ANONYMOUS I have been looking for a good weather program and I finally found one. I highly reccomend this. Very simple and up to date weather.
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| Jun 6 2004 |
JAAP Good looking program, used to work fine, but the latest version doesn't work for The Netherlands. Temparatures and weatherconditions make no sense. I deleted the prefs, no effect. Sorry, I don't like it anymore
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| May 14 2004 |
RICKY Probably one of my most used menu item apps...I use this application every single day to decide how I dress and go out into the world. The weather on my desktop...without having to open any other windows...I love it. Extremely useful and wonderfully accurate!
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| May 13 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Great program.... only lacks a radar image tab in the drop down menu. Previous review is outdated - there's a Quit option in the drop-down.
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| May 13 2004 |
DSOWARDS The other great thing about WeatherPop that I discovered is if you click on the icon on your tool bar and drag your cursor to the first line (assuming your using weather.gov as the source -- I don't know if it does this for the other settings) it will launch your browser and take you directly to the complete National Weather Service web site specifically for your zip code, along with more detailed 5-day forecasts and graphic links for radar and satellite imagery.
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 | May 13 2004 |
DSOWARDS Is that why MY finder preferences are screwed up all the time too? I love WeatherPop though and have used it now for ages. It's the best of the weather tool bar programs as far as I'm concerned -- definitely worth it for the "Advance" upgrade. But this bothers me if this is what's causing my Finder preferences to NEVER do what I set them to do. I'm going to have give it a "2" for Stability due to this issue.
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| May 13 2004 |
ANONYMOUS A nice and compact program, though it's 8 mb big. I use it all the time.
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| May 11 2004 |
ARTEMY This is funny program. Every evening it's show me -15ºC in..... Acapulco! :-)
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| May 12 2004 |
A MARTIN Happens to me too for Cork, Ireland. Let's see if the just released version 2.0.1 fixes it.
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| May 5 2004 |
IAIN M is anyone else's finder prefs getting corrupted by this program? according to apple tech support, this was the case with each of the versions...i paid for it, too. i will have to go back to Meteorologist...this has a really nice icon set, though.
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| May 2 2004 |
SNø this is a great app! but the new version cannot find the prefs???
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| Apr 29 2004 |
NOBODY This is a great idea, and a fun, nonobtrusive addition to your computer. I've been extending my trial period for a long, long time (money's tight), but I finally paid for it today. They deserve the money. But I'm docking one star in value because the free version should have color icons. Making you pay extra just for color is so 1980s computing. Overall, excellent program.
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| Apr 28 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Still sucks for non-US cities... i'll stick with xrg for this
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| Apr 28 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Works great, and thank goodness you can keep the "classic" icons if you so desire (I do, you may not). Stability has been much better than Meteo, which tends to spontaneously quit every few days, and continues to have problems parsing weather.com. The only feature I'd love to see here is if WeatherPop could show the local weather radar as Meteo can. Really helps to see what's headed your way.
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| Apr 25 2004 |
JVHVR Hold down the Apple-key (CMD) and it will launch fine with X 10.3.3 !!!
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| Mar 1 2004 |
ALEX For some reason every day it displays a high of 10 degrees for the current day but subsequent days and temperatures are accurately displayed. A bug? Location: New York City.
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| Dec 31 2003 |
ANONYMOUS I Don't know what to say other than the new update works fine (2.0), I sure do enjoy your program, keep-up the good work. No problems at all. Using System 10.3.2
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| Dec 20 2003 |
MWH710 worked brfore I updated - doesn't work at all. BAD UPDATE - DON'T install
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| Dec 20 2003 |
JIM Works and appears in menu bar if I hold the command key and double click the application.
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| Dec 20 2003 |
TIMESTER Could not load even after removing the old version 1.8.x? which after quiting I had moved to another folder was not able to load it either - so I am without my weatherpop which is too bad because I think it is a great program - Still some gliches though
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| Dec 20 2003 |
REDCUFF1 Try to load beta version but no luck. trashed preferences.. and held option key on load also but still will not load. The beta version completley took out the earlier version. Best to wait for a non beta version. OS 10.15
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| Dec 20 2003 |
ALEX Unfortunately, it simply won't launch. It appears to install, but when I click on the icon to launch...nothing. I installed the screensaver and it functions but indicates that I need to be running the application which of course won't launch. I hope a fix is on the way. Running: Jag 10.2.8
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| Dec 19 2003 |
SMITHY Anyone know what Preview 2 (or even 1 for that matter) of 2.0 is supposed to offer?
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| Dec 19 2003 |
ANONYMOUS 2.0p2 adds several enhancements, including a screensaver that can "show" you what's going on outside. Rain, snow, etc., depending on your local weather.
(Version 2.0p2) | |
| Dec 19 2003 |
WHAT IS PREVIEW... Yes. Preview is a wonderful Screen Saver that is included with the latest version. Install it and play with it and you'll see what I mean. Pretty cool.
(Version 2.0p2) | |
| Oct 21 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Meteorologist works just fine, has more features and its free. I also find it to more accurate, for me, than WeatherPop.
(Version 1.8.6) | |
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| Oct 19 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Goosem - you need to refresh your cache. 1.8.6 fixes all problems associated with overseas cities. Fantastic program.
(Version 1.8.6) | |
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| Oct 17 2003 |
GOOSEM Would like to try 1.8.6 but keep getting 1.8.5 downloaded from the Glucose site. I question if other reviews of 1.8.6 are accurate at this point.
(Version 1.8.6) | |
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| Oct 16 2003 |
BMALAM This just keeps getting better and better. Love this app!
(Version 1.8.6) | |
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| Oct 16 2003 |
RUDE.BOY this is a great product. the weather reports are accurate, up to date (it would be nice to have a manual "refresh" option, or perhaps i just can't find it), and it looks good too. meteorologist is no longer maintained, and was flaky at best on my machine. weather pop advance seems well worth the registration fee for me.
(Version 1.8.6) | |
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| Oct 12 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Weatherpop was the best of the bunch until a few weeks ago. Still displays the correct temperature, however the 5 day forecasts & misc data for any city outside the US is screwed up and the developer has not responded to any posts on their Yahoo Group.
(Version 1.8.5) | |
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| Sep 17 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Couldn't find any city in Canada that I typed in. It would be a great application if it worked for all countries.
(Version 1.8.5) | |
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| Sep 16 2003 |
TIGGER WeatherPop wasn't able to find my location (Vancouver, BC); insisting that I was located in Vancouver, Washington. There seems to be no flexibility with regard to locations, so I'm sticking with widescapeWeather for Konfabultor - at least it knows where I live.
(Version 1.8.5) | |
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| Sep 16 2003 |
ANONYMOUS WeatherPop is merely OK if you have tried Meteorologist (which is Freeware too). Meteorologist is significantly better and has many more options on what and how to display the information.
(Version 1.8.5) | |
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| Aug 12 2003 |
MACDONATE WeatherPop works for Singapore, and even for different areas! It's remarkable how the desktop weather icon matches the real weather outside. The Advance version is definitely worth the US$8 since all the preference options would be unlocked, and all weather icons are in color, which are noticeable when the sun and moon icons are active. Kudos to the developers for allowing a 14-day trial period to test the Advance version, and the option to keep it at the Free version after that.
(Version 1.8.2) | |
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| Jul 27 2003 |
DON Great app - updated often.
(Version 1.8.2) | |
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| Jul 23 2003 |
ALVARINOX I live in Montevideo, Uruguay (South America) and the values WheatherPop gives are the same as shown on the TV screen. Very nice software!!!!!
(Version 1.8.2) | |
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| Jun 12 2003 |
ESCHER WeatherPop Advance 1.8 brings additional improvements to the user interface. I think it's great that the menu icon now reflects download/update activity and a lack of updates when there is no 'Net connection. WeatherPop is still my favorite weather app and still worth the $8 I paid for it.
(Version 1.8) | |
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| Jun 9 2003 |
THEBIMBO Product works but is still not reliable. It's 11:00 am here and it is still showing me yesterday's weather report - shouldn't regardless of it getting a need feed or not. Probably works fine in the US ;-) Am starting to use Meteorologist (free) instead...
(Version 1.7.1) | |
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| May 21 2003 |
TTX I don't know what everyone is complaining about. I had no problem listing Winnipeg. I also have Vancouver, Taipei (Taiwan), and Beijing & Xi'an (China) on my weather list. It doesn't seem to have a problem forecasting non-US cities.
(Version 1.7.1) | |
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| Apr 6 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Might want to say that this is only for American cities. Just downloaded it, and am in Winnipeg, Canada, and this city is not included.
(Version 1.7.1) | |
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| Apr 4 2003 |
BARROWMERE This is the original program that the others try to copy. It has the most complete set of features, is the most stable, easiest to install. The app. writers also give it excellent personal support!
(Version 1.7.1) | |
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| Apr 3 2003 |
SEACæT Works great for Hamburg, Germany and Romney Marsh, England, whence came my forefathers. 46 degrees in April? Poor blighters!
(Version 1.7.1) | |
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| Feb 27 2003 |
MAX A load of rubbish since it became US only. So does one presume that the world exists only within the US of A? As usual, another xenophobic US product. Worked well when it acknowledged the existance of human life outside the US borders...
(Version 1.6.5) | |
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| Jan 17 2003 |
RAFAEL FISCHMANN Great program, perfect for my needs, but unfortunately I can't use it because it doesn't get info from the two cities I need: Salvador, Brazil and Napier, New Zealand. Should I throw it to the Trash?
(Version 1.6.5) | |
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| Jan 10 2003 |
DONPABLO21 A great program that does everything I want it to -- the advance forecast, the ability to monitor different cities, the customizable display of current conditions, and the recent addition of the "feels like" temperature. I've been using it since the first release, and have been impressed by how quickly they've reacted to fix issues that arise (such as changes in the data sources). Highly recommended!
(Version 1.6.5) | |
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| Jan 5 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Would recommend against this - buggy beyond belief. The approach with www.weather.gov is tenuous at best. And no responses to any bug reports so far.
(Version 1.6.4) | |
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| Dec 30 2002 |
WOLF It's great and any bugs are quickly fixed. Unfortunately, Meteo is almost identical and free, so this one loses.
(Version 1.6.4) | |
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| Dec 13 2002 |
TRUNDLEDRIVER Great design but buggy when working from www.weather.gov. Strange words appear where the temp. should be. Fixes right so with update by hand.
(Version 1.6.3) | |
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| Dec 9 2002 |
JACQUES56 Did not work for me. When I ried to add a location an "application quit" alert was displayed even though said program was still there. Trashed after 3 tries.
(Version 1.6.3) | |
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| Dec 9 2002 |
MACMEND Another of those "life only exists if you live in the USA" apps, no weather for europe, Paris, Berlin London Mosxow don't exist. It crashes all the time, I dumped it.
(Version 1.6.2) | |
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| Dec 8 2002 |
QIMO Get Meterologist instead. It works for all major cities around the world. I have used it for over 2 months now, and is quite nice. A few times, the service is unavailable for an hour or two. Otherwise, great program.
(Version 1.6.2) | |
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| Nov 7 2002 |
MOUNTAINLION Neat little app with a good interface and many features. It could use, at this version, a few more features such as the "% chance of rain" instead of just "rainy." Wind chill/heat index, and UV rays would also be useful. Moonrise/set would help those of us who are athletic after sunset: hikers, mountain bikers, joggers, sailors (you don't race a mountain bike downhill in total darkness). And believe it or not, showing true midday would help teachers show students how to navigate out doors by the sun. The sun at true midday is due south.
(Version 1.6.1) | |
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| Sep 19 2002 |
RYCHIAR stopped gettin info over a month ago now for me
(Version 1.5.3) | |
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| Sep 7 2002 |
PETER When I purchased WeatherPop in July, I was able to bring in the weather for the city of Nanaimo BC Canada. Doesn't work anymore. It appears that they have changed the weather data source to US-only cities. It won't even pull in the info for the example of London, UK that is suggested right in the menu.
(Version 1.5.1) | |
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| Jul 10 2002 |
SLAVA Excellent! A must-have utility especially if you like to have a weather forecast one click away (and if you're too lazy to look out the window to find current conditions, too =).
(Version 1.3) | |
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| Jun 18 2002 |
WHATEVER Nice idea and actually functional and useful --but sometimes it takes **forever** (1/2 hour or more) to connect to whatever site it's connecting to and then to appear on the menu bar.
(Version 1.1.2) | |
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| Jun 14 2002 |
TIM A truly useful little utility. It's very convenient having the outside temperature in plain view and the weather forecast only a click away! The "recent locations" is a nice feature as well. You can use it to quickly access weather data for up to 15 cities around the world.
(Version 1.1.1) | |
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| Jun 12 2002 |
CHRIS Very Cool, has severe speed issues. and temperarily locks up menu bar. when switching locations.
(Version 1.1) | |
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