Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Launch the program and it'll immediately display an icon in your system tray, indicating the current weather in Codyville, ME. And clicking this reveals more details: temperature, humidity, wind speed, sunrise and sunset times, as well as the conditions for the next few days, and a web link to an even more detailed forecast at weather.yahoo.com.
You probably don't live
in Codyville, of course, but that's no problem. Click Options > Configure,
and you're able to find your home town, and as many other locations as you
like, and add them to the program. The one at the top of the list will be
treated as the default, and you'll be able to switch to the others at any time
by choosing one from a menu.
There are plenty of
other configuration options, if you need them. You can decide how often the
program will download the latest forecasts, for instance (it's hourly, by
default). There's perhaps a useful option to display a location's local time in
the program title bar. And you can choose your preferred units, configure the
program to start with windows, and select a variety of program icon styles and
themes.
And yet resource usage
isn't too bad, with the program requiring only a fraction more than 10MB RAM on
our test PC.
SWeather may not have
the flashy graphics you'll get with the latest Windows 8 weather apps, then,
but it's simple to use, and still manages to cram plenty of functionality into
its lightweight frame.
Platforms: Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit),
Windows 8, Windows Vista (32 bit), Windows Vista (64 bit), Windows XP
Version: 1.3.9
Licence: Freeware
Version: 1.3.9
Licence: Freeware
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