Name: WeatherPop Advance
Price: 8.00 $
Rating: 3.4274 (5 reviews)

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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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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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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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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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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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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Why pay for this when you can get WeatherDock for free here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16027

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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. Sorry to other readers -Mike

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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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The link to the home page no longer works ...

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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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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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Some of us work in basements, with the mushrooms. Hard to tell what the weather is doing outside...

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Look out the window, it's FREE!

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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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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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When you add inline radar maps, I'll buy it. Until then, meteo is my only choice.

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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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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 Joseph McKenna Scotland

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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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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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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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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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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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Never had a problem with this app -- ever. Has worked perfectly for me since day one.

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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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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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Try WeatherMenu instead! No spyware (WeatherPop calls back home...) WeatherMenu works fine with European cities unlike WeatherPop

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A nice and compact program, though it's 8 mb big. I use it all the time.

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This is funny program. Every evening it's show me -15ºC in..... Acapulco! :-)

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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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this is a great app! but the new version cannot find the prefs???

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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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Still sucks for non-US cities... i'll stick with xrg for this

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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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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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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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worked brfore I updated - doesn't work at all. BAD UPDATE - DON'T install

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Works and appears in menu bar if I hold the command key and double click the application.

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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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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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Anyone know what Preview 2 (or even 1 for that matter) of 2.0 is supposed to offer?

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Meteorologist works just fine, has more features and its free. I also find it to more accurate, for me, than WeatherPop.

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Goosem - you need to refresh your cache. 1.8.6 fixes all problems associated with overseas cities. Fantastic program.

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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.

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This just keeps getting better and better. Love this app!

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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.

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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.

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Couldn't find any city in Canada that I typed in. It would be a great application if it worked for all countries.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Great app - updated often.

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I live in Montevideo, Uruguay (South America) and the values WheatherPop gives are the same as shown on the TV screen. Very nice software!!!!!

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Works great for Hamburg, Germany and Romney Marsh, England, whence came my forefathers. 46 degrees in April? Poor blighters!

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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...

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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?

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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!

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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.

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It's great and any bugs are quickly fixed. Unfortunately, Meteo is almost identical and free, so this one loses.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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stopped gettin info over a month ago now for me

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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.

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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 =).

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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.

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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.

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Very Cool, has severe speed issues. and temperarily locks up menu bar. when switching locations.

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