Weather Forecast Browser shows current and up to 5 days weather forecast based on data from Yahoo! Weather. Windows application included to retrieve weather reports and create a .pdb to HotSync to your Treo. One awesome feature is the plug-in available to show the weather reports in
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Great freeware weather app! - Written by developers who have catered to the rest of the world, unlike the glut of other weather apps that are limited to the US only.
sylvin: I loaded it but can not work how to get it to display on my Treo 650. I have pointed the exe. to pdb file but no luck. Can someone lead me in the right direction.
jamesnmissy: Good app if your at home and can download from a p.c. the whole point of a treo is to access things when your on the go. I'm a trucker and I do almost everthing OTA I'm sure you can't download a months of forcasts in one sitting. WHY WOULD YOU NEED THIS SITTING AT HOME, IM SURE IF YOU HAVE A TREO THEN YOU HAVE A T.V.!!! make one that updates OTA and ill be impressed
seeker2k: The program is great but thats a strange way to add cities
NeedMoreSleep: Good program, easy to use, but there are a couple of things that are annoying.
1. Documentation isn't very helpful. When trying to add add'l cities to the .cfg file, it makes the update program read the URL from the previous entry, so you end up looking at a forecast for somewhere else. I ended up just editing over some cities that I didn't want.
2. PLEASE ADD SUPPORT FOR UPDATING FAHRENHEIT FIGURES DIRECTLY FROM YAHOO! The app pulls only Celsius figures from yahoo's server, and since they are whole numbers, the Farhenheit conversion is innacurate. For example, Yahoo's site shows Hi: 93F or Hi: 33C. Since WFB only pulls the Celsius figure, when it converts it to Farhenheit, it shows as Hi: 91F and not the correct Hi: 93F. I'm in Texas, so this will be a problem for me later this summer, as 98F and 104F is a pretty big difference.
3. Yahoo provides the current wind conditions in MPH, but WFB still converts it to KPH. Can we leave it in MPH please?
4. Visibility is just plain wrong. Yahoo reports in Miles, yet it is displayed as Kilometers in WFB. There's a big difference between 10 Miles visibility and 10 Km visibility.
5. An appointment setting in the desktop end would really be useful. Manually updating everyday is just a pain.
All in all its a good freeware, but there is some work that needs to be done...
AllGamer: Great utility, and easy to use, it's just too bad, you have to manually run the "get" updated manually everytime
asthar00: This software has resulted in 2 hard resets for my treo 600. Beware of this one, if you do not want to spend hours fixing your phone avoid it.
Slartibartfast: It's a shame you need a PC to update the forecasts.
ginala: This is a great proram. Not only can I stay easily updated on the weather forcast, there is a great alarm clock.