touchtheSky

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by johnnysaucepn

V1.14 Mar 9, 2006 0:43:27 AM

International weather reports, in detailed, compact and mini modes. Automatically updated, Powered by AccuWeather.

Version 1.14 now available!

Only one minor bugfix in this version - upgrade is recommended before the release of Opera 9.5:

touchtheSky is a comprehensive weather display, featuring:

International coverage - just type your town name and search
Always up-to-date - data gets retrieved and updated every half-hour from Accuweather.com
Temperature
Windspeed
Satellite images
Air quality, including humidity, pollen levels, and UV levels
Moon phases
5-day forecast
Mini mode - always have it available in the corner of your screen!
Metric or US units
Actual temperature or AccuWeather RealFeel
Switchable skins, conforming to Opera Style guidelines
Animations can be disabled for slower CPUs
Automatic notification when software updates are available
Checked for compatibility in Windows, Linux and Mac OS

Data officially licensed from AccuWeather - thanks to all at AccuWeather for their help and support! Developed in fully-valid XHTML and CSS.

Read the Scotsman.com news article about ttSky here!

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i have just downloaded the widget. For some reason it gives me the weather for Oslo. I live in the UK, so this is not a lot of use to me. I can see no way of changing the location. Has anyone else had this problem?

By smcc, # Apr 28, 2008 6:42:46 PM

Yeah I too have problems with this Widget and Opera 9.27, the Widget either says Loading...... but never does or causes the browser to crash. When will this be fixed or updated as I really like this Widget, thanks.

By Diego1981, # Apr 26, 2008 0:17:47 AM

With reference to my post 15 March 2008, both locations have been showing the same info for the last two days.

On my wish list now is the atmospheric pressure, possibly with trend showing fast/slow increase/decrease.

Cheers Wadadli4Sun

By Wadadli4Sun, # Apr 19, 2008 7:45:00 AM

It got Opera 9.27 crashing, and caused it very corrupted! I warn you not to use it until it is fixed. If Crashing, unable to close this Widget or Opera Browser, then go to Task Manager to end them all. It also corruped Window XP Taskbar, until I exited it, then it went back to normal.

By AVWinfield, # Apr 19, 2008 3:06:21 AM

Sackese,

For Göteborg you have to spell it without "ö", ie Goteborg.

Cheers, Wadadli4Sun

By Wadadli4Sun, # Apr 18, 2008 2:00:10 PM

Problem just arised when I had do emergency switch with OSes: (From Win to Ubuntu)

Widget won't move to the right or lower side of the screen as in compact mode, but moves to left side freely (its like there would be some kind of pre-determined area where widget could(n't) be.)

By yakuzakyuu, # Apr 15, 2008 5:35:08 PM

I like this widget but it crashes Opera 9.27 often. It crashes Opera when I try to cose the widget. Works fine while using it though.

By Anthony A, # Apr 12, 2008 8:50:08 PM

Opera 9.5 Beta
Build 9903

...I think it works again....

lol

By greg1982, # Apr 8, 2008 9:03:18 PM

Haven't crashed yet.. I think. (My Opera crashes so often without any reason..)

If I may quote one thing that saw on another page. (Regarding for SoundOfVision's comment)

"This device shouldn't be used to protect life or property."

And remember, info comes from AccuWeather - their meters may show different than yours and they're just one page. If you're making plans, you should check other forecast pages too.

And I guess you shouldn't use this widget with any other version than stable releases.

By yakuzakyuu, # Apr 2, 2008 1:51:15 PM

Nice!
I use the widget every day.
BUT:
V1.14 Crashes opera 9.26 b8835 when first time installed:

slide in the the first sign, click on the sun symbol an click on "X" (close)
inspectr v3.2 -> CRASH!

"Opera.exe 8835 caused exception C0000005 at address 679E50A0 (Base: 400000)

Registers:
EAX=00000155 EBX=00000009 ECX=00000000 EDX=030D1728 ESI=02B532A0
EDI=67E98E00 EBP=0012EFDC ESP=0012EFD8 EIP=679E50A0 FLAGS=00080216
CS=001B DS=0023 SS=0023 ES=0023 FS=003B GS=0000
FPU stack: "
...
...
...

By masterofopera, # Mar 28, 2008 1:35:00 AM

I also have problem with 9.5 beta.... tell us at list if you can what we can do by ourserves to fix that ;-)

Thx!!!!!!!!! :-) :-)

By greg1982, # Mar 19, 2008 11:16:43 PM

Hi, thanks for a great widget. Can someone help me with this......I live in XXXXX, XXXXXshire, UK. When I put the town into the widget I get two results, both in the same area. Comparing them they show most often the same weather with small variations to observations and forcasts. If I go from forcast to Accuweather, the forcast is the same for both and indeed Accuweather only shows one town, not two as I get in the touchthesky widget.

How can I find out where the stations are so that I can select the closest one to were I live and why is there a difference?

Many thanks, Wadadli4Sun

By Wadadli4Sun, # Mar 15, 2008 0:48:50 AM

DOasn't work with Opera 9.5, needs updates?

By SiMcarD, # Feb 22, 2008 9:23:49 PM

Need some upgrade to work with opera 9.5

By JEskandari, # Feb 6, 2008 3:08:25 AM

I like TouchTheSky except for one mysterious problem: it seems very reluctant to get fresh weather data after the mac laptop has been asleep for a while. For example right now it is 10:20 am, and the laptop has been alive and lit up for about 15 minutes, yet the widget still has the weather dated "current time 9:13am, last update 8:53". I can't seem to find any keystroke or button press that will force it to get fresh data, so I'm looking at weather data 1.5 hours old, which around here can mean a huge difference. How can I force it to wake up and get fresh data?

By DeAnander, # Feb 3, 2008 6:22:18 PM

I do also get this error message on every Opera start. Ok, I could turn off the update feature, but I don't want to.

By gun, # Jan 15, 2008 4:51:12 PM

I have an issue with ttsky - every time I launch Opera it comes up automatically (so far so good). However, it comes open with an error message about not being able to update. But it did update, as evidenced by the date and time I see once I close the error message. How do I fix it? (Note: just got Opera and the widget within the last week.)

Otherwise, terrific widget!

By kirstena, # Jan 9, 2008 4:14:44 PM

I like this widget, but would find it much more useful if I was able to choose metric temperature BUT with windspeeds in MPH (there is already a choice between kph or m/s so I'm sure this could be added).

I am British and we never properly converted to metric, so we measure temp only in Celcius but speed only in MPH!

By thegizmo, # Jan 3, 2008 4:53:27 PM

Doesn't work in Opera Kestrel builds. The other widgets i've tried all work fine. The latest Opera build where ttSky works seems to be v9.25.

By RainyShadow, # Dec 27, 2007 5:19:02 PM

I'd like to add another request to show the actual and reelfeel temps at the same time. In places like where I am [Manitoba, Canada] the difference between actual and perceived gives a quicker and better impression of the actual weather than looking at the real temp, wind speed, et al. Great work, though!

By dex Otaku, # Dec 18, 2007 11:29:55 PM