HTC Home Weather Gadget

[Everlong]

HTC Home for Windows



A nice clock and weather widget, which is the same as what's used on HTC mobile phones. It goes quite well with aero theme, and can be customised to start on startup, the size can be changed, the weather animation (the clouds you see on the image) can be disabled.

It's a nice looking gadget and worth a look.

It doesn't install like your normal gadgets, either. You need to run the .exe file that's in the .zip folder. So extract it to a folder and put the folder somewhere, then run the .exe.

 

[jebuchanan]

Then it is really just a utility program of sorts.

 

[Everlong]

It's not really a utility program. It just sits on the desktop like any other gadget would, and the customisation options are like any other gadget.

 

[sygnus21]

Looks nice, but watching the video it just sits in the middle. Would be nice if you could move the clock in a corner somewhere and still have the annimations. Not bad though.

BTW my I love my HTC's phone annimations.

 

[Everlong]

Looks nice, but watching the video it just sits in the middle. Would be nice if you could move the clock in a corner somewhere and still have the annimations. Not bad though.

BTW my I love my HTC's phone annimations.

You can. I have it in the top right corner of my secondary monitor. You can drag it around like any other gadget you'd have on your desktop. The animations can be enabled/disabled in the settings.

Don't know why they didn't show that you can move it around in the video, as it does make it seem it just sits in the middle of the screen. :huh:

 

[sygnus21]

Don't know why they didn't show that you can move it around in the video, as it does make it seem it just sits in the middle of the screen. :huh:

Yeah. And thanks for clearifying. I might give a try, though I rarely use annimated gadgets on my desktop.

Thanks.

 

[Selenium]

I like it, thanks. Maybe it isn't a gadget in the traditional sense, but I still like it. Who knows whether or not I'll keep it long though.

 

[boohbah]

Ive just stumbled this gadget and started a thread about not having the weather to my location, then i check new posts and almost first thread i see is this one , thats a bit wierd

 

[sygnus21]

Everlong, you running 1.9 or 2.0 Alpha?

 

[Everlong]

1.9

 

[roban]

Nice gadget. It's a keeper.

 

[scorpioninblue]

How do you install the latest version 2.0? Do you do a clean install or download over the older one? I downloaded the 2.0 version and nothing happened other than a quick image flash....but the program was nowhere to be found!! I think there are some serious bug issues with the newest version that should have been worked out before releasing it.

 

[Zepher]

Cool, I like this widget.

 

[Mark Phelps]

How do you install the latest version 2.0? Do you do a clean install or download over the older one?

Don't know if you HAVE to do that, but I was running 1.9 and removed it before installing 2.x.

I think there are some serious bug issues with the newest version that should have been worked out before releasing it.

One bug I found (on two very different PCs), is that it installs .Net 4.x client -- and doesn't do it right! When you then shutdown the PC, you get an error message. This is fixed by going into Programs, removing, and reinstalling .NET 4.x client manually.

 

[KremmenUK]

I'm running version 2 final now (not the one in the picture).

The changes, as far as I can tell, is that it can be resized to suit. Still quite large when compared to others but I like it.

 

[patrick27md]

I ran the latest 1.10 and it has several issues. For one I never see any animations. Second, it uses 3 times more memory resources than the stock weather widget. Third, when it's supposed to hit 12:00 it actually shows 00:00

 

[Tews]

1.10 is not the latest version, so I don't doubt that you are experiencing these problems... You can change your clock display to a 24 hour format in settings...

 

[Sunimar]

It is indeed a great program & gadget as well with nice Weather Presentation (which the Highlight of this program) . With some cons :

1) You can choose weather from MSN or AccuWeather (though AccuWeather normally don't work)

2) Consume lot of space upto 35MB

3) At times you have to keep adding the City as it tend to take NY by default.

Here is the screenshot of my laptop screen with HTC Home:



The version used here is 1.10 as released on 9th Oct'10. 2.0 got lot of issue & its a Beta version.

 

[Sunimar]

1.10 is not the latest version, so I don't doubt that you are experiencing these problems... You can change your clock display to a 24 hour format in settings...

Here's the screenshot of what Tom was referring to:

 

[Thomas]

HTC Clock 3 Beta is out today.