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Monday, June 26, 2006
I’ve been playing with YouSoftware’s YouControl for the last couple of days and my major problem with it is I can’t justify the $30 price tag. Sure, it has a lot of neat modules, but I can think of other applications that are free that would replace at least half of them right of the bat. For $30, this application not only has to equal, but excel over the free-bees in my book.
One freeware item I found that I feel is far better than one of YouControl’s module is Meteo, short for Meteorologist. Meteo bills itself as the, “The Weatherman without the man.” Boasting this is not, but truth in statement. Mmm, that sounded a bit too much like Yoda. Sorry. With full weather information at the touch of your mouse, Meteo gives you more than high/low for the day and if you’ll be seeing sun or clouds. Digging deep into the weather center, Meteo, a Sourceforge project, lets you, “Simultaneous[ily] [view] interlaced weather reports from multiple weather servers, multiple weather locations, weather alerts and much more.” Take a look at the Meteo page and you’ll swear indeed that you are looking at NewsCenter 4’s weather guy’s studio. Detail, detail! All this from a drop-down on your menu bar, too. You can track multiple cities while keeping your city of interest on the menu bar with its current temperature. Nice.
While YouControl does have a nice weather module, Meteo takes the winner on this one. Drenched in information and roasting with detail, Meteo pulls it all together with its price of zippo.
Now excuse me while I turn down the AC as Meteo is telling me that it is 104° currently and that’s a bit too hot for even me. 
June 26th, 2006 at 8:03
As nice as Meteorologist is, nicer still is the FREE Weatherdoc that can be downloaded either from: http://www.versiontracker.com or http://www.macupdate.com, or directly through the author @: http://www.alwintroost.nl/content/weatherdock/home.xml
This is, by far, my favorite weather monitor. Check it out, you won’t be disapointed.
June 26th, 2006 at 12:17
I have primarily used the free basic version of WeatherPop, from http://www.weatherpop.com/ - but recently I’ve begun to use WeatherBug Lite (no adware or spyware in the Mac version) as a backup when/if WeatherPop won’t load the weather data for one reason or another.
My experience with Meteo was that it had too many bugs & crashes for me at this stage of the game. When development reaches a “rock solid” stable release version, I’ll give it another shot.
June 26th, 2006 at 19:48
Look like a nice product (if it worked) Won’t work for Seattle zip codes, or Alaskan ones for that matter. Needs some work I’d guess.