Thanks Jennifer and Ronni Thought it might be something like that. Shame really they changed. Oh well,.... Maybe they'll fix it in Lion :) lol. Not a big deal really,...but just interesting to know. At least it still works on my iPhone,.. :)
Kind regards Daniel On 4/5/11 9:34 PM, "Ronda Brown" <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Weather Widget doesn't work as well in Snow Leopard. > > "If you’ve used the Dashboard’s Weather Widget on Mac OS 10.5, you’ve probably > noticed that the provider for weather data used to be AccuWeather.com. With > Snow Leopard this has changed to a combination of Weather.com and Yahoo. > AccuWeather used to have a much bigger collection of cities – including many > smaller cities in India that have gone missing with this change. Case in point > Leh. Here is the listing of cities from the old widget: > > > > And here is what the Weather Widget in Snow Leopard gives: > > > > Copying the old widget from Mac OS 10.5 doesn’t help because it still ends up > fetching the list of cities from the new provider." > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > > On 04/05/2011, at 9:01 PM, Jennifer Lefroy <lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Daniel, Dunedin shows on the Dashboard weather widget on our imac >> version 10.4.8 and, yes, it is colder than here, 8 degrees. >> >> Regards, Jennifer >> >> On 4 May 2011 15:00, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: >> >> On 4/5/11 2:11 PM, "Ronda Brown" <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 03/05/2011, at 11:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >>> >>>> That's all,..back to your normal program. >>>> Oh,..and does anyone know why "Dunedin" (as in Dunedin, NZ) doesn't seem to >>>> work in Dashboard weather anymore? I want to see how cold my Dad is, so I >>>> can hassle him,...lol. :O) Or it does work for others, in which case I >>>> need >>>> to look at all 5 computers here that don't do it,..lol. >>> >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> The Weather widget will normally default to the city selected for theTime >>> Zone >>> under Date & Time in System Preferences. >>> But changing the location to Dunedin New Zealand & then changing the >>> Dashboard >>> Weather widget to Dunedin New Zealand & hitting Œreturn key¹ doesn¹t seem to >>> change the weather widget location :-( >>> >>> But I will tell you your Dad is very cold ;-) >>> <http://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/Dunedin/forecasts/latest> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 ³Thunderbolt" >>> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >>> >>> OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard >>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >>> >>> >> >> Hi Ronni >> >> Yes, adding a new widget and typing in Dunedin, and then selecting it (as it >> comes up as Dunedin, Otago (New Zealand) results in nothing. It spins around >> like it should (and all other cities I have to look at work fine),..it just >> doesn't get anything. Perhaps it thinks it's too cold to display,... ;) >> Oh well. One of life mysteries. Was just to have there, but it hasn't worked >> for a while,..lol. >> Good to see that it doesn't work for you too. At least I know it's not the >> computers here then,..lol. >> >> Thanks though :o) >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Macintosh** >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
