Make the weather look nice whatever the forecast
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I live in the UK where we are currently in the middle of the wettest summer for decades. If I look at the news it seems that half of England is currently under water. Luckily I’m unaffected, but one advantage of all this messed up weather is that I have the opportunity to admire the artistic merit of the various weather icons in TreoWeather from Gx5.
The program allows you to simultaneously monitor the weather in up to 8 different cities from around the world. You just type in a city name then select the correct one from the list of matching options TreoWeather finds on the Yahoo weather server.
This means you can monitor the weather where your relatives live, or watch local cities to see what weather is coming your way. Personally, I keep an eye on the weather where the mytreo.net editors are based…then I know when it’s sunny and that I can expect slow replies to my emails. You have the option of viewing the current weather for up to three different cities at once using the miniscreen option.
If you prefer you can just view the weather for one city at a time, either in depth for one day, or a five day overview.
The quality of the graphics and interface are really high quality - they just look great. The program offers the usual options to alter the font color and style to fine tune the appearance.
They also include a clever option called overlay which works like putting a colored filter in front of a camera. This allows you to ‘tint’ the background image to alter its appearance to whatever you like.
If you don’t like the supplied background, the application offers the ability to use whatever jpg you desire.
If centigrade isn’t your favored unit for measuring temperature you can easily switch to display the information in several different formats.
Unlike most weather applications TreoWeather does not currently have the option to auto update its data. If you want newer information you’ve got to press two buttons and wait for it to download over the data connection.
The program doesn’t take long to update so it can’t be downloading much data. But if you don’t have a data package, be aware that if you’re checking the weather every day the cost could mount up.
TreoWeather is a great looking piece of software that allows you to keep an eye on the weather using your Treo. However, the marketplace is full of similar software offering a range of features; Agendus allows you to monitor 10 days of weather and integrates with your calender, 4cast allows you to view the weather in 2day. Still other programs use plugins, and there are some free options like KMeteo.
However, if all you want is a good looking piece of software to help you keep an eye on the weather this is well worth trying out (and at $9.95 it won’t break the bank).
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A word to the wise from the hasty:
I bought HandyWeather instead of this program only to find out that the US$14.95 I spent is only for a one year “subscription”. Either I hadn’t noticed this somewhere or it wasn’t mentioned in the descriptions. HandyWeather is a great program, but as soon as my year is up I plan to get TreoWeather which I *assume* is good forever. Am I wrong?
You are right. TreoWeather is a one time fee
Yes, TreoWeather is pretty, and that is its main strong point. One clunky design flaw is the number of clicks it takes just to update the weather. If you are on the main screen displaying weather summaries, you click once to select a location, once to select update, and once again to initiate the upate. And there are no automatic updates. If you really need to track weather at multiple sites, as I do, I still recommend 4cast by shsh software
Yes, TreoWeather is pretty, and that is its main strong point. One clunky design flaw is the number of clicks it takes just to update the weather. If you are on the main screen displaying weather summaries, you click once to select a location, once to select update, and once again to initiate the upate. And there are no automatic updates. If you really need to track weather at multiple sites, as I do, I still recommend 4cast by shsh software