Comments on: Put a weather man on your desktop with Weather Channel Desktop http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2008/03/30/put-a-weather-man-on-your-desktop-with-weather-watcher/ One great program every day, whether you need it or not Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:16:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: y0himba http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2008/03/30/put-a-weather-man-on-your-desktop-with-weather-watcher/comment-page-1/#comment-21559 y0himba Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:41:10 +0000 http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2008/03/30/put-a-weather-man-on-your-desktop-with-weather-watcher/#comment-21559 I agree 100% with the statement above. This is adware, plain and simple. Another alternative is Weather Pulse, although I don;t if it is stil developed, I have been using it for years and it provides much more information and flexibility. I agree 100% with the statement above. This is adware, plain and simple. Another alternative is Weather Pulse, although I don;t if it is stil developed, I have been using it for years and it provides much more information and flexibility.

]]> By: Richard van Buren http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2008/03/30/put-a-weather-man-on-your-desktop-with-weather-watcher/comment-page-1/#comment-21333 Richard van Buren Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:44:34 +0000 http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2008/03/30/put-a-weather-man-on-your-desktop-with-weather-watcher/#comment-21333 Beware: According to the weather.com web site you will get advertizements with this (you can upgrade to an ad-free version for "just" $ 29.99 p/y, which I harly would call free; besides that: I hate adware for its possible privacy implications! For a "non-adware" program I'd prefer keeping my current weather program: Ravi Bhavnani's Weathermate which gives me the same data (except for the local traffic) WeatherMate also has the tray icon for the temperature (which can change color when the temperature changes); it has a multitude of locations (keeping an eye on the weather in different places is possible in a tabbed interface); it can display small weather maps or satellite images... etc., etc. WeatherMate is available from: http://ravib.com/wm/ Beware: According to the weather.com web site you will get advertizements with this (you can upgrade to an ad-free version for “just” $ 29.99 p/y, which I harly would call free; besides that: I hate adware for its possible privacy implications!

For a “non-adware” program I’d prefer keeping my current weather program: Ravi Bhavnani’s Weathermate which gives me the same data (except for the local traffic) WeatherMate also has the tray icon for the temperature (which can change color when the temperature changes); it has a multitude of locations (keeping an eye on the weather in different places is possible in a tabbed interface); it can display small weather maps or satellite images… etc., etc.

WeatherMate is available from:

http://ravib.com/wm/

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