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  1. Re:Weatherbug? by Anonym1ty · · Score: 1 · on Who Invests in Spyware Companies?

    I use Weather Pulse and I love it. I also recommend it to everyone. I even allows you to set your desktop as the weater radar fr your area and updates it every 5 minutes. It has many other very useful features

    My only complaints with Weatehr Pulse are minor. It does verify the graphics it downloads which means those of you using dial-up accellerators may not be able to make it work and... sometimes it seems it almost updates a little too often, but I won't hold that against them!

  2. Re:Weatherbug? by Maestro4k · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Who Invests in Spyware Companies?
    • Can you give some links to some? I'd love to have a program that offers similar capabilities without the evilness.
    Weather Pulse is ad free and free (as in beer). I haven't used it myself though. Here's the info blurb from their website:
    • Display popular Satellite images and video from around the globe, share images with your friends and family, stay updated on current and expected weather conditions, it's just plain fun!

      Weather Pulse is Free for use, if you enjoy the program, just let us know by dropping by our website and using our many services and software. Please feel free to suggest anything you'd like to see in future releases, your suggestions will determine the future upgrades and software development.

  3. Re:Weatherbug? by Thng · · Score: 1 · on Who Invests in Spyware Companies?
    Tropic Designs Weatherpulse in my experience is a good program, and doesn't seem to come w/ any spyware (scanned using adaware, spybot, and Giant/MS spyware). They have forums there and the developer(s?) is active in them. I've been testing it to quietly replace weather bug on the salesmen's desks here. I think it'd work.

    thng

  4. Re:PC weather tools by kalpol · · Score: 1 · on The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet

    Try Weather Pulse.

  5. WeatherBug alternative by pen · · Score: 1 · on Spyware More Common in Popular Software?

    It took me a while, but I finally found Weather Pulse. It scrapes data from weather.com, displays a systray icon, and shows detailed forecasts. All without any spyware or ads.

  6. Saving people from themselves... by OneFix+at+Work · · Score: 5, Informative · on Broadband Access Leading to Internet Breakdown?

    I've found that most folks like to be told how to make their computers more secure and decrease their chances of infection/spyware...

    I have made it standard practice to install 3 applications on all Windoze machines that I fix anything on...

    1) Install Avast! Home Edition and set it to do automatic updates of both the Core Program and Virus Database. Because most people don't pay for Anti-Virus upgrades after their free trial version runs out...not to mention the fact that Avast! is better than Norton and most for-pay AV apps anyhow...

    2) Install Spybot Search & Destroy and make sure that the primary user(s) see what the result of the initial scan is (shock value) with instructions on how to use the app...

    3) Install FireFox (no link needed) with the follofing userContent.css...

    If they still insist on using IE I will install Google Toolbar and enable popup blocking...

    I then proceed to replace any spyware apps with free non-spyware apps (WeatherBug -> Weather Pulse, etc)

    As for a firewall, I talked most into buying a wireless router (generally a cheap 802.11b router) to use as a firewall and future network upgrades. I don't think any windoze software firewalls are very good...IPTables is about the ONLY software firewall that I trust...

    After doing this, I find that these systems stay fairly clean and have much fewer problems. Not to mention the owners of said machines tend to be much happier afterward.

  7. Re:What amazes me... by OneFix+at+Work · · Score: 1 · on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking

    If they are like most, they just need an alternative to the spyware that they are using...

    So they like WeatherBug, give em Weather Pulse...

    They want the functionality of Precision Time...give em Atomic Clock Sync...

    I've found that most users just want the functionality of these spyware apps and will switch if they are given a good alternative...