[olug] Need a program for my wife

[Tim OBrien]

+1 Forecastfox, the Firefox plugin. The pretty little cloud image in the
lower right hand corner of your browser, telling you the temp.... Or
rather, for me the picture of the sun & the 115 degrees temp! :p

After all the spyware & adware issues with weatherbug, I try to stay away
from them as much as possible.



<quote who="Eric Lusk">
> Forecastfox works quite well.  Weather alerts, current
> temp, etc.  And not as much of a memory hog as so many
> other programs...
>
> --- Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> I know it worked with Suse 9.3 and Gnome. It's also
>> available with
>> Ubuntu. Didn't try to get it working with KDE since
>> I'm not a KDE
>> person.
>>
>> Firefox has a forecast fox extension or plugin. I
>> don't know the status
>> of that since FF 1.5. I used it on 1.2. Craig Wolf
>> might be able to tell
>> us more about that since he's the one that clued me
>> into it in the first
>> place.
>>
>> Son
>>
>> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 20:43 -0500, Mike Peterson
>> Charles wrote:
>> > There is a weather report applet for Gnome and one
>> of the latest Linux
>> > magazines in the last few months installed it on
>> KDE.
>> > It comes standard on Simply Mepis 6 RC3 on KDE and
>> Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora on
>> > Gnome.
>> > What Desktop are you running with SUSE (KDE or
>> GNOME)?
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org
>> [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Bill
>> > Brush
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 8:34 PM
>> > To: olug at olug.org
>> > Subject: [olug] Need a program for my wife
>> >
>> > I've finally gotten my wife to switch over to
>> Linux (whoody who!) by
>> > giving her a Suse 10.1 desktop complete with XGL
>> and compiz.  But now
>> > she wants Weatherbug, or something like it.  So is
>> there anything out
>> > there for Linux that will give you cute little
>> weather updates?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bill
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Timothy "Irish" O'Brien
Previous Publicity & Social activities chairperson
Omaha Linux User's Group (OLUG)
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