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Installation of Meteorologist is easy; just mount the disk image and drag the application icon to your Applications Folder or anywhere else on your hard drive that suits you.
In order for Meteorologist to be useful to you, it is first necessary to configure it with a relevant city location. Just type a city name or US Zip code into the preferences search field and see if it's supported.
I live in the boonies of Nova Scotia, Canada, and the nearest location support I could come up wih is Halifax, which is 150 road miles away. I didn't realize there are (at least) five Halifaxes in the US, as well as the original in England, the capital od Nova Scotia, and a Halifax Bay in Australia for good measure.
In the Cities pane of the Meteorologist preferences, you can also specify the type of measurement units the program will display. Sharp-eyed Canadian readers will notice that I'm using Imperial/US units (ie: Fahrenheit, miles) rather than metric, although metric is supported of course.
While it's been just about 35 years since Canada formally adopted the metric system (the Syst�me International d'Unit�s or SI) in 1970, this Imperial measure die-hard still measures his height in feet and inches, his weight in pounds, and honestly hasn't a clue what he measures in centimetres or kilos. I early-on memorized the conversion factors for miles/kilometres, gallons/litres, Fahrenheit/Celsius, and still think and function in the Imperial measures. The fact that I�ve gotten along very well in this mode for three decades plus of Canadian �metrification� says volumes. I expect that I will continue to do so till they carry me out. I know 0� Celsius is freezing; at 10� C you still want a warm coat; over 20� is comfortable; and over 30� is really hot, but I think in Fahrenheit and talk about �real� 0� when it gets very cold. As long as I draw breath, Imperial measure will be alive in Canada. End mini-rant.
Clicking on the "Weather For (your city)"selection in the Meteorologist menu opens a Weather Channel Web page in your default browser, which supplies all sorts of weather-related information.
Including a current satellite picture.
The essential weather info is also displayed in a Meteorologist menu submenu. Meteoroligist can reside in the menu bar, the Dock, or both.
You can also display an extended forecast, and the menu label displays an icon indicating current conditions.
New in this version:
� Fixed a bug where the rain icon was displayed during snow flurries
� Fixed a bug where Meteo crashed after wakeup
� Fixed an interface glitch regarding the enabling of Global Units
� Fixed the ability to change the pressure units
� Fixed a bug in version 1.4.0 in converting the pressure units to hectopascals
� Fixed the Dock, re-enabled automatic updates, and redirected Meteo's debug output to a log file
System requirements:
Mac OS X v10.2 with Safari 1.0 installed. Or Mac OS X v10.2.7 and later.
Meteorologist is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/heat-meteo
Charles W. Moore
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Well, my experience with several of these menu bar weather apps tells me that: (1) Meteorologist isn’t the worst, (2) any of them that work today can totally fail tomorrow, often because their data source has suddenly switched its reporting format.
I’ve used WeatherPop (Advanced), Meteorologist, WeatherMenu and WeatherDock in that order over time. The nearest location is Nanaimo (BC, Canada). Currently Meteorologist can give me the temp but not the conditions; WeatherMenu (my previous default weather app) is hopeless currently for non-US locations; WeatherPop is usually useless; but WeatherDock (freeware) is working beautifully. So, if asked today for recommendation wrt a weather app, it would be WeatherDock.