At the moment we have a UW Weather Station iGoogle gadget and the one for the MacOS one (and there is a second one for the Mac that someone wrote that I'll get out soon) but I want more.
There appears to be demand for apps on the following devices or operating systems:
Blackberry
iPhone
Yahoo widget
Vista sidebar
(If you have any suggestions for others leave a comment to this post)
So if anybody has the notion to write some of these, go crazy.
And before anybody is thinking they are going to get rich on this, be warned that we are only going to link to apps from the weather station that are free.
I don't want to have to judge any particular one to be the "official" weather station choice, so I'll try and put them all out there and let the interweb decide which one is best.
I'll make a separate blog posting for each app so that there is a place that people can leave feedback. This has worked well with the MacOS one, as it has been updated a few times based on feedback.
If you make an app, send me a description to weather (at) civmail.uwaterloo.ca and also be sure to include exactly how people can download the necessary files.
Submitted so far:
iGoogle gadget
MacOS application
MacOS application II
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Have you thought about a Twitter feed? May be too noisy every quarter-hour but perhaps an hourly Tweet.
Please make a vista gadget!!
It will be very useful.
Thanks.
Twitter feed would be great!!
As you appear on wunderground (www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IONTARIO230) there's a few options at http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/stickers.asp?ID=IONTARIO230&units=metric - not apps as such, but, y'know, widget things.
There's this iphone app called "Thermo" that's really nice for checking the temperature... if they had one like that for UW that would be so cool! Or something that could tell you what the weather is like in the morning before you go to class so you know what to wear...
Someone should make it! I'd use it :)
And also they could have a simple animation/icon in the background with rain or snow depending on what its like outside
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