A new Google gadget! It’s been a while but I got the urge to put a new gadget togther.
So it’s a weather gadget, oh yawn! don’t we have a tonne of those already? Isn’t the official Google gadget for weather good enough? Well yes and no. I’ve been using the official Google weather gadget for ages but I’ve recently found that it no longer works with locations in the UK! So here’s my take on a weather gadget - it’s using the Google weather API (which is used on the iGoogle personalised site). To use it you simply enter your location as a city in the options - e.g. “London, UK” or “Cupertino”.
The weather icons come for a set on deviant art by JyriK I’m using them under the Creative Commons license
Download - New Weather Google Desktop Gadget v1.0.0
Features
- Weather for any city in the world
- Show the forecast 3 days in the future
- User selectable colour
- User selectable transparency/opacity
- Configurable update interval
- Notification of weather condition changes via the Google Desktop alert
Support
Nothing at this stage
License
This software is released under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License
Change Log
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | 02-July-2008 | Initial first release… |
I’m afraid the answer to this is going to be horribly obvious, but how do I get it to show the forecast three days into the future? I can only get it to show the weather for the current day.
In order to show the forecast, click the graphic on the left representing the weather condition.
how do I know what city the weather is showing.I”m from Toronto. Is that the weather shown?
how do I know what city the weather is showing? I”m from Toronto. Is that the weather shown?
I like the gadget! The official Google gadget doesn’t know about Cambridge for some reason. It looks hackable but I don’t quite have the skills
One enhancement request: when you resume from standby your gadget displays ?, presumably it doesn’t retain the previous weather data or thinks it’s expired. Could you fix it?
Thanks
Just added this, but it’s missing one feature…the name of the place you’re watching the weather for! I live in one place, but work in another, and then visit another on a regular basis - so I have several feeds.
This would make it perfect, and would replace my Google Weather feeds (for cities that aren’t even close to me..!).
Cheers!
I like the weather gadget better than the standard Google gadget, but there’s one thing I’d like to see you add: I’d like to see the graphics change at night so you’re seeing the moon (or the moon behind clouds). It seems strange at night to be seeing the sun in the gadget…
I love this gadget. Like others have said it’s ability to look up locations as opposed to offering a brief dropdown like the official Google ones and it’s simplicity make it stand out.
Often though, I lose the (sun etc) icon on the left for some reason. Anyone have any ideas as to why? Entering a differnt city can bring it back as does rebooting but not always.
For the poster wondering about the city name, while not perfect, you can expand it out and the location is given in the title bar of the window that slides out.
I want to use this weather gadget over others because it will show temp and humidity without expanding. However, the humidity is cropped off so I can’t see all of it. I use XP, latest SP, version 5.8 desktop.
I downloaded New Weather but it hangs on “Fetching Weather Data” with a big “?” on RHS. I also have similar trouble when I install ANY gadget that depends on an internet feed! (Yes, I have broadband connected all the time!)
Please canb someone advise me what has gone wrong.
PS: Another weather gadget also does not now get the data downloaded, as it used to. All my gadgets depending only on my computer resorces work perfectly)
Thanks.
Hi. Nice gadget, but I have a heigth problem when the temperature wraps. The wind and humidity line is cropped. How can I fix this?
Thx
Great gadget Ben, though I commented out the low/high temps to get rid of the word wrap problem. An average temp will do me fine.
much thanks, Twig.
I have changed my igoogle weather city but the weather gadget city did not change. How do I change it?
A couple of questions about the gadget.
Firstly, it doesn’t display the name of the city in the docked form, meaning that you can’t meaningfully have more than one of such gadgets in the dock. Is there a possibility to have city name display in the future?
Secondly, this gadget is included in the “Configure Gadgets” list as one with alerts. I can’t seem to find any info on what kind of alterts these are and when they are produced. Any help?