Thanks Ronni and Carlo for your advice, I'm sure I'll get out of trouble and be up to date with weather watching again very soon.
Pete On 10/12/2011, at 5:45 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Like Carlo I use everyday Pocket Weather AU HD for iPad. The Radar is very > handy as well. > And on my MBP I use the standard weather widget in Dashboard. I have quite a > few cities I watch weather. > <http://shiftyjelly.com.au/products/pocket-weather-au-hd> > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 10/12/2011, at 12:38 AM, cm <cm200...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you want to work on WeatherZone, there is every chance that you will be >> able to rehabilitate it because you still have the app file. If you can move >> the window around, there should be a preferences file somewhere to record >> the starting location of the window. You could also try right-clicking (or >> control-click) the Dock icon of the running WeatherZone app and see what >> options can be set there. But, if you feel wanderlust for new unexplored >> software -- a whim that I quite understand... >> >> There are some very good iPad and iPhone apps: in fact WeatherZone itself >> is popular. Or there is Pocket Weather Au HD which I use most every day. It, >> like WeatherZone, gets its information from the Australian Bureau of >> Meteorology. >> >> For the Mac I use the standard weather widget in Dashboard which can be >> configured to point to Perth. I usually run multiple copies, one for each of >> the cities that I follow (at the moment Toronto, Melbourne, and Chiang Mai). >> There are also some offerings in the Mac App Store that I have not tried. >> Just bring up the App Store application on your Mac and search on "weather". >> You'll see Weather Dock, Weather+, a free WeatherEye, and Weather HD among >> other. Of course unlike WeatherZone or Pocket Weather AU, these apps may not >> get their data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. >> >> Apart for that I will leave it up to others to chime in with their favourite >> weather apps. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> On 09/12/2011, at 23:59 , Peter Crisp wrote: >> >>> Hi Carlo, it is an icon which sit is the dock at bottom of screen. When >>> selected, the menu bar shows "Weather tracker" as main menu bar. >>> >>> I am happy to write it off and pick up something that someone recommends as >>> a good desktop weather app. >>> >>> I was unable to locate a plist file reflecting the Weatherzone app. Maybe >>> that suggests a specific issue. >>> >>> Thanks Carlo. >>> >>> PEte. >>> >>> On 09/12/2011, at 11:45 PM, cm wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Peter, >>>> >>>> When you say it is a widget do you mean that it resided in Dashboard? Or >>>> alternatively did it used to show up in the Menu Bar at the top of the >>>> screen, as an icon on the Dock, or as a fixed display area on your >>>> Desktop? Or finally, was it a full fledged window that you could drag >>>> around on the desktop? (Phew! :-) >>>> >>>> If it is a standard window you should see it when you run Exposé, which >>>> shows all running windows in miniaturised form, although it sounds as >>>> though you have done that with the four-finger swipe. >>>> >>>> Another alternative is to delete the preferences file and restart the app: >>>> >>>> 1) Stop the app by right clicking the icon and selecting Quit. >>>> 2) Delete the preferences file that will be something like >>>> ~/Library/Preferences/com.weatherzone.<app-name>.plist >>>> Where ~ represents the path /Users/SWMBO-account-name >>>> and <app-name> could be something like weather-tracker >>>> 3) Restart the app by clicking on the icon in the dock. >>>> >>>> Let me know. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Carlo >>>> >>>> On 09/12/2011, at 23:21 , Peter Crisp wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've had a little app which boots up on start up for about a year on >>>>> SWMBO's Macbook (White plastic one with Snow leopard). It's been very >>>>> reliable and informative. It is a Mac OSX app I grabbed off the >>>>> Weatherzone website way back then. Just today it bounces on the dock on >>>>> startup and then stops bouncing as it would if all were normal, other >>>>> than that the widget is not visible. So either it is there somewhere just >>>>> off screen, I've tried shifting the dock and a 4 finger swipe etc but >>>>> can't get it to show or it isn't there. I don't think the weatherzone >>>>> website has the OSX app any more. Any clues on how I might get it to >>>>> reappear. It is still there listed in Applications folder and it sits >>>>> there on the dock with the light under it indicating its running - but no >>>>> show. I've tried numerous reboot from full shut down as it's set to start >>>>> on "boot up". >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone have a link to a known good aussie app for weather info with >>>>> specific location locked in? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance for any tips. >>>>> >>>>> SWMBO will be most appreciative. >>>>> >>>>> Pete.... >>>>> -- 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> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> >>>> -- 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> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- 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> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- 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> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
