Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware
Meteorologist makes checking the weather a breeze
by Ted Wallingford Sep 7th 2007 at 9:00PM
Here in the rust belt, we often jump on our PCs to check the weather before a surfing trip (yeah, we surf out on Lake Erie, believe it or not), a barbeque, or a Tribe game. After all, we only get 66 sunny days per year and we need to make every one of them count. Problem is, surfing to Accuweather.com or Weather.com forces you to sit through page loads and advertising, and hey, if you're in a hurry, that just doesn't work. Enter Meteorologist. This is a really simple, free user interface for weather.com that circumvents all the advertising and gives you a convenient consolidated weather report, forecast, and radar image all in your OS X menu bar or dock. If you don't like widgets you'll find Meteorologist indispensable. Only 26 sunny days left this year and we don't plan on wasting them.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Eliot said 11:45PM on 9-07-2007
Ohio isn't midwest. It's mideast. Waiting for that geography app eh? ;-)
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Ted Wallingford said 1:43AM on 9-08-2007
Who said anything about midwest? Oh and I think most would agree that mideast is places like Iraq and Syria, not good ol' Cleveland. Thanks for the comm.
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michas_pi said 4:14PM on 9-09-2007
Fuck yeah Cleveland! I live there.
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T. said 4:22AM on 9-26-2007
I've got Weather Alarm Clock, a free download from Respectsoft ( http://wwww.respectsoft.com ). It's a lot nicer-looking, with lots of options and features (calendar, displays temperature, weather forecast, etc.). Also displays in the system tray.
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