Weather Alarm Clock

Display exact time, add weather, skins and alarms to your windows clock

http://www.respectsoft.com/weather-clock.php
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This streamlined, feature-packed clock utility offers lots of useful information at a glance.

Though it gives the standard digital display, a handful of skins give this application a bit of flair.

Weather Alarm Clock presents you with an enlarged digital display clock along with the date, current temperature, and weather conditions of a user-specified location. Fortunately, you can select what is displayed in case you don't want to give up tray space.

A calendar is easily accessible with a quick right-click of the program's display in the system tray.

Alarms accompanied by pop-up messages and your favorite audio files can be set to launch files, applications, or to shut down operations.

In addition, a snooze feature and synchronization with atomic clock servers are a definite plus. With so many customizations, anyone can appreciate this software's generous output.

Screenshot: of Weather Alarm Clock
Download: Weather Alarm Clock 1.3 MB (zipped setup)
Download: Weather Alarm Clock 1.3 MB (exe setup)
Link: Weather Alarm Clock web site
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks interesting. I'll check it out. Maybe I can finally dump WeatherBug.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That looks pretty neat. Gonna have to play around with that.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
this is pretty cool. I've been playing with it for a few minutes. It's kinda redundant, having Desktop weather max, and rainlendar, and a million other things, but it's a nice little program.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like it quite a bit. We'll see if I get addicted to it in 30 days. Either way, you have a nice little app here.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have to agree with RPGFX...it looks like a cool program...but with all the other free programs out there that tells you basically the same things I can't see spending $20 for it.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I thought you were trying for a free license until I saw your username.

Yes, there are plenty of (free) programs which provide the same information, but how many of them do it while taking up no space on your desktop and very little in your systray?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Seems to be a problem with the hourly chime, perhaps because I didn't install to the default location:

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Weather Alarm Clock
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Cannot determine the device type from the given filename extension.
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OK
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Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Windows systray? It's been a long time since I've even seen the old fashioned Windows taskbar and systray.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well - it looks OK, but it's yet another example of a widget/gadget that can't get out past proxy servers that require authentication. I would LOVE it if all of them (StarDock included) could connect to the internet in exactly whatever way the browser is set up. Sigh...
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hrm. Looks very neat and the design is good, I had a very good first impression!

Unfortunatly... after having it running for a few days, even with all the nice skins, the good feeling started to wear off as I recognized that it seemed more difficult to actually....well, tell what time it is, the original purpose of the 'clock area'. With all the numbers and images and etc jammed into that corner, instead of just a simple clock, I almost feel that the simplicity that was there was ruined. Also, while its neat to see what the weather is now, and maybe even the 5-day (not sure how that would look?) if I was a registered user, it doesn't seem to be something that one would need to have filling space in their already-busy taskbar...unless you're a person who has sudden urges to know the temperature that can't be filled by going to the desktop or pressing a hotkey . Then again my laptop is by a window so I might be out of touch with someone stuck more central-indoors! Really nicly done program and creative idea though I like it for that - much respect!

Any options from other people using it for more than a few days?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm currently using the HerbRemix skin, and I can't see how it could be any easier to read the time. The date and the day are a little small, but the temperature and time are clear and easy to read.

I do have other issues with the program, though:

1. It won't play any sounds at all here. I speculated above that it was because of my install location. But after playing with it some more, it's finding the sounds; it just can't play them.

2. Along those same lines, why is there an MP3 folder inside the Sounds folder, with the same exact files?

3. The shortest update for weather is 30 minutes. I'd like it to update more often, but maybe that's a limitation of the weather server they're using. Not a deal breaker in any case.

4. Although it recongizes my town from the zip code, for some reason it chooses to report the weather from a smaller neighboring town. This results in pretty good size differences from WeatherBug, which among its many weather stations in my town, has one right down the street.

5. No tooltip. Display more weather info or something useful there.

I agree with others that it's a bit overpriced. Perhaps if it was more polished, I still might pay the $20, simply because I'm in love with the concept. But in its current state, no way.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I agree with most of the issues stated above, nice, but questionable at $20.00. I do have one other nagging question. I see that it will allow a free license if you have a link on your website. Their page says it will work until you take the link down. Does that mean it is communicating with a server, other than the weather server, without my knowledge? If it is, what is it communicating? If it is not, how does it stop working when the link is taken down? I was not planning to use the link method, it just struck me as "How does it know when to stop working without having communication with the author's server?" Any software that communicates with an unknown server without very clear information stating it will and how, is suspect right out of the gate for me.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is a piece of S#@t...I loaded it and nothing shows in the taskbar but it does chime on the hour...big deal! Oh, and everytime I bootup it reminds me that I owe them $20 bucks so I will be uninstalling this one...
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think Weather Alarm clock is a good product. Thanks for the link.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not worth the $20, I Live in Oklahoma and NEED weather radar!! It's cute, though not worth the money at all. The skins are nice, however it doesn't update enough and there is no info from it that I need.

Better Luck next time,

Speedy
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Will Rose put together the DX object I use.
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Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I hear you Z.



I get a weather warning scroll on the tube, first thing I do is pop that baby up.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I use the weather channel's desktop weather max.  It's a nice weather proggy.  I've tried this thingy, but certainly will not be paying 20 bucks to keep it.  I don't know that I would pay 5 bucks.  It would be a nice free program, but nothing worth paying for.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
While I agree with some others that $20 seems a bit much for myself to buy this program, I don't think it's right to demand that it be free either. If it were a $5 or $10 program I might actually pay for it. $20 does seem a bit too high, but not everyone should work for free.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I tried this out, but found that I prefer the alarm functions of Chameleon Clock better. However the developers of Chameleon Clock don't seem to want any suggestions unless you have already purchased the software.

When I uninstalled Weather Alarm Clock, it opened a feedback page. I liked that, so I gave them an extensive list of improvements they could make. I'll probably send them some more suggestions. If they can implement the features I need I'll buy it. It's cheaper than Chameleon Clock anyways. Until then I guess I'll stick to the trial version of CC.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Or maybe not... I just checked the website for WAC, it appears they've raised the price
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So much for $20 being too expensive.

It would be nice if the developer would return to this topic and address some of the issues brought up here.  It's beginning to look like simple hit and run spam.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for comments.

Tarkus, issues:
1. Perhaps the clock can't play mp3 files in your system. You are first who point to this problem.
2.
Along those same lines, why is there an MP3 folder inside the Sounds folder, with the same exact files?

These files I added by chance.
3.
The shortest update for weather is 30 minutes. I'd like it to update more often, but maybe that's a limitation of the weather server they're using. Not a deal breaker in any case.

Yes there is a limitation to get weather from The Weather Channel.
4.
No tooltip. Display more weather info or something useful there.

I agree, this is the best place to add useful information.

dragonmage, Thanks for suggestions. Several features will be implemented in the near future.