Weather Desktops

[Janice]

Is there such a thing as a weather desktop download that shows satellite images. I can get my satellite images to move on websites, but it would be neat to have a desktop that showed it too, keeping the systems of ts, td, and canes constantly moving. This would be great for tracking canes, etc. Live satellite views, I mean.

[Astro_man92]

yes that would be very awsome. dang that would be cool

[Shoshana]

We need a widget!

;D

'shana

[NateFLA]

You could make a simple HTML webpage with a meta-refresh so long as you could find a sat img source (i think the NHC would suffice) that had static live image locations. (The name of the image does not change, the same file is updated with a new image)

This way you could lay everything out and have the page auto refresh every 15 minutes or however long you wanted, and it would be your desktop.

It would probably eat a bit of ram though.

[Pebbles]

I have ram to spare... I have absolutely no idea how to do this.. but would love to set up a screen saver that was actually a sat loop of the Atlantic/gulf/Caribbean that updates itself every 15 minutes or so. I know screensavers can do this because my eye of the storm screensaver gets updates off the net. You also can turn on the screensaver without waiting by clicking on a button on my desktop. How do they do that? Mind you I don't know HTML coding LOL Any ideas?

[Hyperstorm]

This is exactly what I currently have...It is called Weather Pulse. It is a desktop program which shows different satellite images of the Western Atlantic and CONUS and they will update right on your desktop. It is a great little program, which also shows current local temperature and other observations...

Here's the link:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/weatherpulse.html

Please let me know if you encounter any problems trying to set up your desktop satellite image...

[skysummit]

This is exactly what I currently have...It is called Weather Pulse. It is a desktop program which shows different satellite images of the Western Atlantic and CONUS and they will update right on your desktop. It is a great little program, which also shows current local temperature and other observations...

Here's the link:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/weatherpulse.html

Please let me know if you encounter any problems trying to set up your desktop satellite image...

I use it also. You can add what ever radars or satellites you'd like. The real page is Tropic Designs. Here's the link.

http://tropicdesigns.net/index.php

[WeatherEmperor]

I used one of these things before and it totally crashed my Windows operating system. Never again will that happen.

<RICKY>

[Janice]

Thanks so much, Hyperstorm. I will check it out.

[DAVE440]

I tried weather pulse but wasn't crazy about it for a desktop program.

I use weather exchange. Lots of features and it works well. (if u have full AOL 8 or 9 installed WxEx might get buggy sometimes....If you don't subscribe to AOL and just use AIM for IMs WxEx won't have a problem.)

As for putting a looping satellite or radar on your desktop full time.
I thought about doing that....but then decided ....

A. It took up too much deskspace when I could easily go to a Sat./Radar site.

and

B. More importantly....having it run constantly I would be adding to the host sites traffic and didn't want to be uncourteous in tying up someones bandwidth. Imagine if lots of folks trying to play amateur met all had the same idea and ran a loop constantly on their desktop. Might slow down or even crash the site.... And running continuous loops or images from the web also means bandwidth usage....which someone else is paying for...

Just something to think about.

[angelwing]

Going to try that once I get my regular PC set up, can't use it on the work pc

[HurricaneJoe22]

Shoshana, what's a widget?

[Hurricaneman]

Whats a widget

[Shoshana]

Shoshana, what's a widget?

Widgets are cool little apps that are mostly used on Macs running OSX Tiger. They're usedwith an app called Dashboard. Anyway, they're customizable - you can track the stock market, days until school's out, the weather, all kinds of stuff. Yahoo just bought the company (Konfabulator) that invented them.

They're customizable - if you can use HTML, Javascript and CSS — you can make custom widgets.




Dashboard

Widget Gallery

Radar in Motion for the Mac

Konfabulator info The company that came up with widgets (and makes a program for Mac OS ad Windows OS to use them in)

What Is Konfabulator?

Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.

What sets Konfabulator apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of today's advanced graphics. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Windows XP and Mac OS X.

The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task.

For the "skinning" crowd, Konfabulator is a dream come true. You can easily change the look, feel, layout, even functionality of a Widget so that it matches your lifestyle, your desktop, or the pants or skirt you have on that day.

Get Konfabulator Mac or Windows version... download it here. I *think* it's free.

Google widget ... there's more info out there:)

'shana

[mike18xx]

Remove my neekid (except for leis) Tahitian ladies rowing an outrigger-canoe wallpaper?

No way.

(BTW, even if you don't have widgets, you can usually find an app to do anything -- you just need to toss in appropriate terms into the search-engines at download.com and versiontracker.com.)

[skysummit]

GHCCSat is the program I use to keep satellite loops up. It's pretty neat. It's the same data as the NASA satellite website, just in an easier to use format. You can also set it to be full screen.