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WeatherDock 2.5.1 for Mac OS X

Developer: Alwin Troost
Last updated: December 29, 2008
License: Freeware
OS Support: Mac OS X
File Size: 4.4 MB
Downloads: 1,633
∟ Last week: 0
User Rating: 5 / 5    (2 votes)

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WeatherDock displays weather information based on xml-feeds supplied by weather.com

It displays textual weather information as well as icon-based. Next to the current conditions it contains 10 day forecasts with 2 day-part's weather information.

For the current conditions it displays the current temperature and feels like temperature and the current sky conditions. It displays the current pressure, wind speed, wind direction, the humidity, Dew point, visibility and UV-index.

The forecasts for today and the upcoming nine days, contains per day-part information on the temperature, condition, wind speed and direction, the humidity and the chance of precipitation, as well as sunrise and sunset information for that particular day. Main window

The main window shows all sorts of information. It displays the current condition as a big icon and contains all sorts of detailed information. WeatherDock shows 5 or 10 icons containing forecasts for the upcoming 5 or 10 days.

Informative Dock icon

WeatherDock updates it's application icon with an icon representing the current weather conditions. You can customize this icon by adding 'badges' to them representing all sorts of weather information.

Desktop icon

Next to the Dock icon, you optionally can add this icon to your desktop, this icon will then allways be visible on top of your other applications on a location you desire, but will hide itself when it could get in the way.

Status menu item

WeatherDock can add a menu item to you menu bar. This item contains direct information on the current conditions, but when selecting it you have instant access to more detailed information as well as forecast information.

What's New:

  • Fixed incompatibilities with the new weather.com feeds
  • Removed 6-10th day forecast (information is no longer available)
  • Fixes to german localization

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