WeatherCal by Bare Bones, or DIY
Bare Bones Software, home of the fantastic Yojimbo and BBEdit, have released a new mini-app called WeatherCal. It’s a Preference pane that adds weather to iCal as an all day event. Simple and elegant and US$10.
If you want to save a few dollars, here’s how to DIY. Go to Weather Underground and bring up your zip code’s weather forecast. In the upper right, you’ll see an iCal button. Right-click, copy link, then Subscribe in iCal. That’s it.
If it’s this easy, why would you want to use WeatherCal? The feed is kind of messy, and WeatherCal cleans up the report. It also adds a nice little icon to represent the weather. For example, today’s weather shows an umbrella. WeatherCal also offers OTA syncing if you use MobileMe while my manual method requires a wired sync. You will have to decide if a clean feed and little icon are worth the price of two mochas.
Side note: If you are on iPhone 3, you can cute and paste the link into a subscribed calendar right on the iPhone.
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