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Winstep Nexus dock, Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme v19.2 released!

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Winstep Nexus dock, Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme v19.2 released!

And Winstep is celebrating its 20th anniversary, so check out the new prices!

from WinCustomize Forums


Windows 10 Ready The Winstep Nexus dock is a free dock for Windows. Nexus has everything you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, skins, drag-and-drop support, plus many others exclusive to it such as live icon reflections, over 30 different mouse-over effects, in-dock system tray, built-in support for animated icons, full Windows 10 UWP app support, multi-monitor and high DPI support and much more.

Completely customizable, with thousands of different backgrounds freely available online, Nexus is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.

Nexus Ultimate is the commercial version of the free Nexus dock, adding support for multiple docks, categorized sub-docks, multiple tabbed docks (Shelves), Grid Stacks, Drawers (dock + single tabbed Shelf hybrid) plus even more widgets and cool looking mouseover effects.

Supported Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.

Nexus, Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme run on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.x and Windows 10.

To celebrate our 20 years (still can't believe it's been that long!) for a limited period of time Nexus Ultimate will cost $17.95 and the full version of Winstep Xtreme only $29.95. The price reductions extend to upgrade renewals as well as new purchases, so enjoy it while it lasts! 

100% Windows 10 compatible with full UWP (Universal) app support.

Grid Stacks.

Unlimited number of Shelves (tabbed docks) and Drawers.

Over 30 amazing mouse over, attention, launch and delete effects!

Built-in battery, calendar, clock, cpu, email, moon, net, ram, recycler, wanda and weather modules/widgets.

Built in support for system tray icons plus running applications with live window preview thumbnails

80+ built-in docklets such as a compact media player, alarm manager, sleep timer, language bar, cd control, GeoIP location, screen capture....

...and much, much more!

More Information:

Winstep Web Site:
http://www.winstep.net

More information about Nexus/Nexus Ultimate:
https://www.winstep.net/nexus.asp

More information about Winstep Xtreme:
https://www.winstep.net/xtreme.asp

 

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a 'distant' relative....ok...Wife's uncle's son-in-law ... he works for the BOM [Bureau Of Meteorology] in Melbourne, looking after 3 Crays on 24/7 callout.  Apparently they cater for half the planet's weather - something like that.

Now, if only we could 'tap a line' into one of them...;)

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm so sick of weather providers always killing their feeds and taking down myriads of weather widgets with them. How many times has it happened already over the years? Even redundancy only gets you so far, as you can see.

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Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 12

Just uploaded a public beta of Winstep Xtreme and Nexus Ultimate v19.4
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:thumbsup:  :beer:  :pizza:  :grin:  

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Gaspershooters, reply 28
It's not down,it start charging for its service: https://wxdata.com/pricing :(  
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They were already charging, but a sub-set of the Weather.com data had always been free (or at least we could get if for free until now).

The problem is that their pricing is absolutely over-the-top outrageous! For instance, they want $620 per month for a maximum of 20,000  requests *per day* (not even per hour). Free applications like Nexus and ObjectDock have many times that number of users and the weather info is updated *per hour*, not per day. For something like 500,000 daily queries Weather.com basically wants $3,000 USD *per month* - I think with pricing like that they are thinking more of websites, not always-on widgets, especially with many of the latter being free.

Is it any wonder SD decided (IMO) to stop paying Accuweather for the info used by the OD weather widget? It just didn't make financial sense anymore!

For comparison, Winstep pays MaxMind for the Geo location services used in both the web site and the applications, but that amounts to something much more reasonable like $50 USD every 2 months or so (and, of course, it is also less queries since they are then cached locally, but still). Now THAT is reasonable pricing for these type of widgets/applications.

Keep in mind that these days, for less than $150 USD per month you can even rent from any reputable NOC a fully loaded bare metal server with 20TB of dedicated monthly bandwidth on a 1Gbps port.

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

JC just to help you out Rainmeter weather is down, XWidget weather works and even the old Windows sidebar weather still works. I don't know where their feeds are coming from, I just thought I'd give you a heads up. 

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

XWidget used AccuWeather which sometime unreliable.

Yes, Wxdata.com is no longer free:"This service is deprecated as of October 1, 2019".

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nexus weather and Rainmeter weather are working again.

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting ALMonty, reply 33
Nexus weather and Rainmeter weather are working again.
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Wow. Looks like the Weather.com feed is indeed back - color me surprised! :)

Just one question, Al: you mentioned Nexus weather was also back - does it mean it wasn't working for you while the Weather.com feed was down? Here it automatically fell back to the MSN weather feed, but I did notice at least one different location was reporting something like 'Valid name, no data record of requested type.', so there could be others. Most of the locations I tried worked fine using the MSN feed though.

I saw no complains in Winstep support or in the Winstep forums that the weather module had stopped working either, so I assume the transition to the MSN feed during the Weather.com feed outage was seamless for most users.

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 34

seamless
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I use a very basic little module that just shows temperature, humidity, and dew point.  I did notice that the dew point was "N/A", I guessed it wasn't in the alternate feed.

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DaveRI, reply 35
I use a very basic little module that just shows temperature, humidity, and dew point.  I did notice that the dew point was "N/A", I guessed it wasn't in the alternate feed.
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Thanks for the feedback, Dave! :)

That can happen even when using the same feed provider. though - sometimes little bits of info that are usually available go MIA for a while.

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Quoting JcRabbit, reply 34
Quoting ALMonty,
reply 33
Nexus weather and Rainmeter weather are working again.



Wow. Looks like the Weather.com feed is indeed back - color me surprised! :)

Just one question, Al: you mentioned Nexus weather was also back - does it mean it wasn't working for you while the Weather.com feed was down? Here it automatically fell back to the MSN weather feed, but I did notice at least one different location was reporting something like 'Valid name, no data record of requested type.', so there could be others. Most of the locations I tried worked fine using the MSN feed though.

I saw no complains in Winstep support or in the Winstep forums that the weather module had stopped working either, so I assume the transition to the MSN feed during the Weather.com feed outage was seamless for most users.

End of JcRabbit's quote

The temp here was 92 and the weather on the dock reported 83 and  it stayed that way until I noticed Rainmeter was back up. Before it was backup I right clicked on the icon and clicked Check weather. It flashed a couple of times with the same number. then I clicked Detailed conditions and that showed the right temp.

From what I saw when the feed was down Nexus froze with the same temp and stayed that way until the feed came back.

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 36

hat can happen even when using the same feed provider. though - sometimes little bits of info that are usually available go MIA for a while.
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Thanks, good to know.  I just probably hadn't thought anything about it if/when it had happened before.

One thing I am certain of though - you have undoubtedly done your level best to keep that weather module working, no one can say otherwise.  Thank you, good Sir. :)  

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks Al and Dave...

And yes, it hasn't been easy. :)