Can anyone recommend a program that will gave me the weather forecast for
the next few days on my desktop? (I have an okay version that is part of
Firefox but I don't have it running all the time), I hear a lot of these
type programs have spyware and other problems to be wary of.
Recommendations please.

Bob

Take a look for Desktop Side Bar, if you are fine it occupied little space
on your desktop ...

http://www.desktopsidebar.com/


"Bob Newman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can anyone recommend a program that will gave me the weather forecast for
> the next few days on my desktop? (I have an okay version that is part of
> Firefox but I don't have it running all the time), I hear a lot of these
> type programs have spyware and other problems to be wary of.
> Recommendations please.
>
> Bob
>
>

Bob Newman wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a program that will gave me the weather forecast for
> the next few days on my desktop? (I have an okay version that is part of
> Firefox but I don't have it running all the time), I hear a lot of these
> type programs have spyware and other problems to be wary of.
> Recommendations please.
>
> Bob
>
>

Sure. Real easy.

If you're in the US, Just go to the US Weather Service and set up
bookmarks for any location you want. You've got a wonderful choice --
there are some web techniques that are under development. For example,
I've been able to get extrapolated multi-day capsule forecasts by the
geographical location of my house -- expressed as a compass direction
and distance from one of their referencec points. Or, I can load the
forecast for the city downhill from where I live.

Now, the bad part:
The system has fallen into a terrible state. The population of the
fields is hit-or-miss, as is the accuracy -- which has become pretty
wild. It's a shame -- they were going so nicely for the last few months.
This may be fallout from the extreme political trend of ripping apart
government departments that's recently come to the US Geological
Service. You can also get plain text forecasts. I hope that they haven't
gotten financially strangled by our President and his cronies -- they'd
been getting really good, forecasting the weather right on the nose for
some time -- and I'm in the San Francisco area where weather can turn on
a dime. I hope that the quality of this service returns, so I encourage
you to check back often.

You can also bookmark a multi-day forecast from your local newspaper,
provided by Weather Underground, or get the same forecast directly from
Weather Underground at their own site (which loads slower). For example,
even though I'm in California, I get the forecast for my city from a
newspaper in Stamford, Connecticut (2,500 miles away): it just loads
faster. I've used The Proxomitron to tame these commercial sites.

How's that?

Richard

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:28:44 -0400, "Bob Newman" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a program that will gave me the weather forecast for
>the next few days on my desktop? (I have an okay version that is part of
>Firefox but I don't have it running all the time), I hear a lot of these
>type programs have spyware and other problems to be wary of.
>Recommendations please.
>
>Bob

Try Weather watcher.
http://www.singerscreations.com/
It even gets a satellite image as your wallpaper

J.

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:16:10 +0300, Jari Lehtonen wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:28:44 -0400, "Bob Newman" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>Can anyone recommend a program that will gave me the weather forecast for
>>the next few days on my desktop? (I have an okay version that is part of
>>Firefox but I don't have it running all the time), I hear a lot of these
>>type programs have spyware and other problems to be wary of.
>>Recommendations please.
>>
>>Bob
>
> Try Weather watcher.
> http://www.singerscreations.com/
> It even gets a satellite image as your wallpaper

Weather Watcher is indeed a good choice. Have a look at Weather Pulse as
well.
http://www.tropicdesigns.net/

Regards
Gordon

Weather Watcher is good, i agree!

www.2-hosting.com

"Gordon Darling" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:16:10 +0300, Jari Lehtonen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:28:44 -0400, "Bob Newman" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Can anyone recommend a program that will gave me the weather forecast for
>>>the next few days on my desktop? (I have an okay version that is part of
>>>Firefox but I don't have it running all the time), I hear a lot of these
>>>type programs have spyware and other problems to be wary of.
>>>Recommendations please.
>>>
>>>Bob
>>
>> Try Weather watcher.
>> http://www.singerscreations.com/
>> It even gets a satellite image as your wallpaper
>
> Weather Watcher is indeed a good choice. Have a look at Weather Pulse as
> well.
> http://www.tropicdesigns.net/
>
> Regards
> Gordon

"Bob Newman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Can anyone recommend a program that will gave me the weather forecast
> for the next few days on my desktop? (I have an okay version that is
> part of Firefox but I don't have it running all the time), I hear a
> lot of these type programs have spyware and other problems to be wary
> of. Recommendations please.
>
> Bob


Here's an idea (being cox.net, I guessed you're in the USA):

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/

Just click through to your closest area, and you got current Wx, one
click to radars which are almost real-time, etc. You could drag a short-
cut(s)to Quick-launch when you get to the page of most interest to you,
or even use active desktop if you want. I like the idea of Quick-launch
because it's so quick, and my resourses or bandwidth are not occupied
needlessly.

Their servers rarely go down, but it's always good to have a back-up if
you're in a volatile Wx area. Ususally a local TV station has an
excellent server for which you can create a shortcut as well.

"Bob Newman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:wD7pe.20846$rb6.8244@lakeread07...
> Can anyone recommend a program that will gave me the weather forecast for
> the next few days on my desktop? (I have an okay version that is part of
> Firefox but I don't have it running all the time), I hear a lot of these
> type programs have spyware and other problems to be wary of.
> Recommendations please.
>
> Bob
>
>
How about the website for your local TV station? Here they have a weather
buddy to dl to desktop.