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Old December 28th 18, 03:25 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J.B. Wood[_2_]
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Hello, all. I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget
"WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or
so ago. I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com"
but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com,
accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com. The gadget
is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it
doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end. Does anyone know how
to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop
gadget/widget that works? Thanks for your time and comment.

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Old December 28th 18, 06:57 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J.B. Wood[_2_]
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On 12/28/18 11:19 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-12-28 09:25, J.B. Wood wrote:
Hello, all.Â* I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget
"WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month
or so ago.Â* I'd been getting weather updates from
"theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to
connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or
weatherbug.com.Â* The gadget is now unable to establish connection with
any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my
end.Â* Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or know of
an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works?Â* Thanks for your
time and comment.



If you can stream your local radio (or TV) you can probably get to their
weather forecast page, which will be at least as good as a weather
widget for local forecasts and may be better.


Thanks for the quick reply, but to be clear, I'm not seeking
alternatives to desktop gadgets/widgets. There's lots of places to get
local weather reports on the web; I liked the convenience of having an
auto-updating small display on my Win7 desktop with current temp,
humidity, wind speed, etc. Sincerely,

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Old December 28th 18, 08:11 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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J.B. Wood wrote:
On 12/28/18 11:19 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-12-28 09:25, J.B. Wood wrote:
Hello, all. I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget
"WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month
or so ago. I'd been getting weather updates from
"theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to
connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or
weatherbug.com. The gadget is now unable to establish connection
with any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue
on my end. Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or
know of an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works? Thanks
for your time and comment.



If you can stream your local radio (or TV) you can probably get to
their weather forecast page, which will be at least as good as a
weather widget for local forecasts and may be better.


Thanks for the quick reply, but to be clear, I'm not seeking
alternatives to desktop gadgets/widgets. There's lots of places to get
local weather reports on the web; I liked the convenience of having an
auto-updating small display on my Win7 desktop with current temp,
humidity, wind speed, etc. Sincerely,


The only thing wrong with this article, is it's four years old,
and the landscape could have changed a lot in those four years.

https://www.ghacks.net/2014/08/24/th...s-for-windows/

You can use a win32 application, but it's a lot of extra work for
the developer to make such a program look like a "gadget" with
custom window masking. That's why the programs listed on that
web page are "rather rectangular".

Paul
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Old December 29th 18, 02:15 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Zo[_2_]
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J.B. Wood formulated the question :
Hello, all. I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget "WeatherCenter"
for several years without a hitch until about a month or so ago. I'd been
getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also
be configured to connect to weather.com, accuweather.com,
weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com. The gadget is now unable to
establish connection with any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a
firewall issue on my end. Does anyone know how to get this gadget working
again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works? Thanks
for your time and comment.


Just curious, did you check the Win 7,8,10 Gadget Site?

http://win7gadgets.com/weather/

I've been using the Main Weather one for a few years and it's still
working.

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Old December 29th 18, 05:15 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Stan Brown
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:19:37 -0500, Wolf K wrote:

On 2018-12-28 09:25, J.B. Wood wrote:
Hello, all.* I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget
"WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or
so ago.* I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com"
but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com,
accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com.* The gadget
is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it
doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end.* Does anyone know how
to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop
gadget/widget that works?* Thanks for your time and comment.



If you can stream your local radio (or TV) you can probably get to their
weather forecast page, which will be at least as good as a weather
widget for local forecasts and may be better.


And the NOAA (weather.gov) is better still, IMHO. When storms are
pending, and broadcasters like the Weather Channel are warning of a
snowpocalypse, weather.gov takes a more measured tone, usually
predicting lower winds and less precipitation than broadcasters, and
usually coming closer to what actually happens.

And weather.gov has a nice line graph of almost a dozen measures,
hour by hour, over the next 48 hours. So you can tell how warm it
will be at any time of the coming day, what the chances are of rain
or snow at any time, how much rain to expect in intervals, etc.

And you can customize the forecast to your exact location. We have
microclimates around here, so the forecast for the airport (which is
what I get if I just enter a zip code) is significantly different
from the forecast at my house.

I've got a Chrome bookmark on my phone, and a Firefox one on my PC,
for my "extremely local forecast".

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http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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Old January 2nd 19, 01:29 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J.B. Wood[_2_]
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On 12/28/18 8:15 PM, Zo wrote:
J.B. Wood formulated the question :
Hello, all.Â* I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget
"WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month
or so ago.Â* I'd been getting weather updates from
"theweathernetwork.com" but the gadget can also be configured to
connect to weather.com, accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or
weatherbug.com.Â* The gadget is now unable to establish connection with
any of these sites and it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my
end.Â* Does anyone know how to get this gadget working again or know of
an alternate Win7 desktop gadget/widget that works?Â* Thanks for your
time and comment.


Just curious, did you check the Win 7,8,10 Gadget Site?

http://win7gadgets.com/weather/

I've been using the Main Weather one for a few years and it's still
working.


Thanks for your reply and those from others to my OP. I did try
installing several (other than "WeatherCenter") of the Wx gadgets at
that URL you provided but they failed to connect to whatever site was
being used to provide the Wx data. Now, for some unknown reason my
favorite "Russian" Wx gadget that I'd been using for several years,
"WeatherCenter", is getting data again (currently from "The Weather
Network") as of this moning, 1/1/19. For how long, who knows?

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