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Are there still no weather apps for Portabler Apps? I know it is hard to find one that does not have spyware. Don't always want to rely on ForecastFox in Firefox. Would be nice if there was a light weight single purpose app such as WeatherPulse. It is free but I don't think it available for conversion.
Dana
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I should add that WeatherPulse seems to run ok in portable apps. It probably is leaving traces behind on the host machine though.
Dana
Weather Watcher, http://www.singerscreations.com/Weather-Watcher.asp, can be configured to run as a portable app, ie run from a USB stick AND leave nothing on the host. It can easily run as a PortableApp app and even be configured to run as a U3 app. Freeware and no spyware. But its not open source so can't be hosted here.
See this thread for how to set up: http://www.singerscreations.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2217&p=12573&...
Ed
Thanks for that suggestion. I installed it on my desktop... and I think perhaps I may like it more than WeatherPulse. Not sure how I missed it when I was searching.
I'm not very good with scripts but it looks doable for me.
Dana
Maybe if you're lucky somebody will be gracious enough to make a launcher for it.
It really doesn't need one. There is only one exe and loading all the required files to a portableapps folder is all it takes to run.
The key is to configure Weather Watcher to store user files in the program folder.
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I take that back. A launcher that would start the app with the "-id" parm would be useful. It would save converting a cmd script.
Ed
I had forgotten about this app. I wanted to do a Sputnik skin for it years ago. I might be up to the challenge now.
I just use the website wunderground.com and have it and its live weather radar bookmarked in my Firefox (and this host machine's IE). I seldom need weather info faster than it takes to load up the browser, and I don't exactly live in a calm-weather area (eastern NC, USA) but YMMV.
Some people get the weather from their local newspaper, some from their local tv station. The almanac is popular too.
Ed
Ed, I may want to talk to you about skinning WW.