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  • Saturday, May 25, 2013

How To Use A Mac Weather App That Lives In The Dock And Is As Predictable As Weather

Friday, January 25, 2013 | Alexis Kayhill Posted In Cheap Mac Apps

Live Dock WeatherAllow me to date myself. No, not like eHarmony or Match.com. That’s the wrong kind of dating.

I’m thinking more along the lines of radiocarbon dating, the process that determines how old something is if it’s really old. I’m old enough to remember when TV was three or four channels and there was no weather radar. Oh, the humanity.

Weather On The Mac

In the old days, away back in yesteryear, the way I heard it told, weather was figured out by looking outside, or maybe checking a barometer, or observing the behavior of barnyard animals.

That was before The Weather Channel, before cable television, and long before the Mac and iPhone burst onto the scene with a thousand weather apps.

Mac users today can get weather conditions and forecasts in apps, Dashboard Widgets, the Dock, and the Menubar.

If you don’t mind a totally eye candy app that’s both inexpensive and as predictable as the weather, then you’ll fall in love with Live Dock Weather.

Other than the predictability issue, this is the app to have if you need visual treats and live in one of the 150,000 cities in the world that has a weather forecast and conditions data.

Is this pretty, or what?

Live Dock Weather

This is some quality eye candy.

Live Dock Weather displays weather as an app as well as information in the Dock. It’s the app window that sets it apart from most other Mac weather apps.

You’ll get one click access to current conditions and temperatures (for most of the aforementioned 150,000 or so cities), including 44,000 zip codes.

Weather information for most locales (a big word for places) is updated multiple times each hour, and you can display weather for multiple locales at the same time.

Also displayed are the time, temperature, humidity and self descriptive conditions graphics– clouds, rain, lighting, sunshine, etc. Forecasts are daily or up to seven days in advance.

What’s beyond the eye candy and the low price? Weather information is the same as you’ll find anywhere else, even in free apps or Widgets, but more colorfully and graphically done.

The problems I’ve had using Live Dock Weather are more related to performance that visual accoutrements (another big word; I just love OS X’s dictionary). Sometimes the temperature is off by 10 or 20 degrees. The last update was an improvement, but bugs remain, so don’t use it to predict when you should harvest your crops.

Still, it’s as predictable as the weather.

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About Alexis Kayhill

I'm a 20 year Mac user veteran, writer, photographer, wife, and mommy. I live in sunny San Diego with my husband, three children, two dogs, one mean old cat, and an SUV with a back seat full of beach sand.

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