yrWeather widget replace by tWeather
As announced earlier I had to rewrite the yrWeather widget to not use my server as a converter from xml to json. The 500k+ requests per day is causing big problems for my server and my other projects. I will “pull the plug” for the yrWeather widget in a couple of minutes. The old one will stop working… if it for some reason still work it is because some data have been cached.
I’m truly sorry for this but I had no other options, I already spend way to much money on the server I’m renting. I could not afford an upgrade for a weather widget I earn no money on.
It is going to be replaced by tWeather. It might look the same but it is a rewrite of the new app that uses YQL for the JSON conversion. It is also a bit more future proof, so it should be easier for me create a mac, opera, etc version later. This first release is just a alpha release without any options. It will just find the weather for your IP. It does not have a flyout either. I plan to expand this to include the same functions as the old yrWeather widget but it might take some time before I have completed that project. Lately I have been prioritizing my dog Yoshi over program in my spare time 
I have created this new gadget as google code project with the new BSD license. For download of the gadget or the source code go to http://code.google.com/p/tweather/
Stay tuned on this blog for new updates and changed in the gadget.
January 5th, 2010 at 23:39:01
Hallå Lars-Olav;
Ett litet hejarop kansje får dej å orke frem till en ferdig gadget:
“Håll ut och kjempe på, vi er mange som tidligere benyttet og opskattet din professionelle gadget. Vi håper og venter på en med tilminstone samme funksjoner som den du slukkede!”
(svorsk)
Mvh,
Bo Erikson
Ängelholm, Sverige
January 7th, 2010 at 09:41:01
Hei Lars-Olav.
Tenkte jeg skulle henge meg på å si at jeg allerede savner det ypperlige gadgeten din. Håper virkelig du finner tid til å jobbe med den nye gadgeten og finner en måte å tjene litt penger på den.
Mvh
Marius Vasaasen
Oslo
January 20th, 2010 at 22:32:01
Hi just woundering if you´d bee so kind telling me how to set it up.
it looks terrific and would be a blast having it on the desktop however i cant seem to actually choose either Norwegian or swedish cities. i’d love if some one could help me on this or if there is a wiki somewere that i have missed.
I at one of skistars resorts in sälen sweden it it would really nice to have the weather forcast on the desktop specially since yr.no is the only one that actually manages to get it right 9 of 10 times!
Cheers
P-A
January 20th, 2010 at 22:33:01
ahh sorry i forgot to tell you i’m running win7 pro x86
January 21st, 2010 at 02:16:01
Sukk.. denne var min favoritt
Går ikke an å forandre plass heller…
October 23rd, 2011 at 15:03:10
gadget…
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