WeatherBug offers weather tracking tools
updated 10:30 am EST, Thu February 9, 2006
WeatherBug Lite Mac
WeatherBug today released new weather tracking tools for Mac OS X. The provider of live, local weather information services announced several new innovations from its WeatherBug Labs. The company released a final version of WeatherBug Lite Mac, the Mac version of WeatherBug Lite. The free software installs in the menubar on Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x and 10.4.x and users easy access to several Web-based resources as well as a display of the current temperature in any city. The company also released a WeatherBug Local Weather Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X 10.4 (as well as the Yahoo! Widget Engine), which places detailed forecasts, radar, news and severe weather alerts from WeatherBug’s proprietary network on users' desktops. A new WeatherBug Plug-in for Firefox also delivers detailed forecasts, radar, news and severe weather alerts.
Spyware?
02/09, 12:07pm reply
No thanks, weatherbug. You're notorious for spyware on windows. There are many other options out there that don't have the bad rep and have been on OS X forever.
torifile
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Joined: Jan 2001
My company thinks so
02/09, 03:09pm reply
I clicked on the Weather Bug link at work and got a message from my company's firewall that the site is identified as a spyware/adware site and is restricted.
TheBum
Mac Enthusiast
Joined: Sep 2001
Oh puh-leeze...
02/10, 11:42am reply
Does anyone READ these days?
Weatherbug (AWS) has publicly acknowledged that they USED to monitor activity on users systems, but when the backlash about it occured, they took out that "feature".
They are part of the WeatherWatch system used by television stations around the country - we have it here at the middle school where I work - RUNNING on a PC no less - and not ONE spyware/adware request from the AWS/WeatherWatch server has EVER been logged, either on the system or via our proxy server/firewall.
Reports from our school are used quite frequently by WIVB-TV Channel 4 in Buffalo, more so during the winter time as where we are it's directly in the snowbelt area of Western New York.
fritzw1957
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