Meteorologist unofficially updated to 1.4.5, Universal binary
Many times after posting a screenshot on TUAW I've had people ask about the weather program I run in my menubar. Despite having tried nearly all of the menubar weather programs (of which there are many as we mentioned a while back) I always come back to the open source Meteorologist. As much as I like it, however, it has been difficult to recommend to people because development had almost stopped and no official Universal build was available (though some unofficial Intel builds had been cobbled together, which is what I had been running). A new official version has not been released, but nonetheless there is good news for fans of Meteorologist. In a thread at Sourceforge a new volunteer, Marcus Brenneman, has arisen to help bring the project forward (and the project owner, Joe Crobak, seems willing to accept this help).The first fruits of this is an unofficial build 1.4.5 that solves many of the problems that had arisen as Weather.com changed its weather data server. Furthermore, it is finally a Universal Binary. There are still a few bugs (you can only search for cities by name, not zip code), but the important thing is that it's basically working and Marcus and Joe seem committed to getting the project going again. In the meantime you can now download the unofficial 1.4.5 from Brenneman's personal site here (download link) and once again run the best (free) menubar weather program for the Mac.
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Jørn check out the 2.0 alpha on the meteo site as with Joe's new plugin based architecture it does indeed support wunderground.com and is now undergoing development again - I am getting weather data for the UK.
May 22 2007 at 5:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBoth Meteorologist and Weatherdock seems to use data only from weather.com. Weather.com does not support many Norwegian cities, but wunderground.com does. Weatherpop also gets data from wunderground.com and that makes Weatherpop the best app for me. But it is not free.
May 12 2007 at 5:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGreat, it works like a charm after using the patch! (and it's raining outside btw)
May 12 2007 at 3:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI may be silly, but my current, standard version of Meteorologist is announced Intel in the Activity Monitor.
Is there something I didn't catch?
Neil, can you get any frickin' cooler? I'm saying no at this point, but will probably be proven wrong soon :-)
May 10 2007 at 11:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNeil, are you making builds for everything, now? :)
I know you also do sexy optimized FF builds. (thanks)
You only need to use the update Jay mentions if you want to remain with 1.4.4; the version I link to above (1.4.5) already includes the update, which is a new xml file in the Meteorologist application package.
May 10 2007 at 7:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGot problems, check out:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24171/fix-meteorologist
@7: Did you actually trash the older version? I had the problem too (caused by a change in the weather.com server), but once I actually deleted the older version and installed this new unofficial 1.4.5 everything was golden again
May 10 2007 at 6:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI have been having serious updating problems for several days now, tried installing the newest version, which doesn't seem to solve the problem, there is no information at all. How do I know now if it's raining outside? ;-)
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