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Google Weather Service And GMail Improvements
Philipp Lenssen writes "Google has added US-only weather forecasts to their web search. Type e.g. "weather palo alto, ca" (zip codes work too) and you get a small illustrated weather forecast on top of the search result. (Yahoo has been providing a similar service for quite a while.) You can also send your query as SMS to 46645 (GOOGL), as the official Google blog reports." Relatedly, Shachaf writes "Looking at my GMail account, I see that Google has added two new features: integration with Picasa and plain HTML support. Now you can 'Log in to Gmail directly from Picasa and send the photos from your Gmail account', and view your email from any web-browser."
http://www.theplaceforitall.com/2005/03/report-on- gmails-basic-html-view.html
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The National Weather Service at noaa.gov is excellent. Detailed local forecasts with NO ads.
Yes, use google "Convert (degrees)F to C) and it converts it.
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Not living in the US, all these wonderful google features are toally useless, woo google map of... the US, weather information for... the US.
Meanwhile MSN are putting on TV adverts here for there new search engine.
Looks like zip codes work as well. Nice.
Here's mine, 64119.
...does it work for the US, it also works for selected cities in the Socialist Peoples' Republic of Canada.
As Dave Letterman might say: pray your city has been selected!
I am happy that Gmail/Google have listened and added support for the Konqueror. Or, is it that the KDE programmers have added support for Gmail? I say this because I am now using KDE's latest Konqueror release candidate (3.4rc1) which works on Gmail just like other browsers do. Any Slashdotter sees this as positive I know.
That's what the "Archive" feature is for. It'll appear under the label and under "All Mail" but not in your inbox.
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This is quite cool, but I still prefer the ForecastFox extension for now.
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Ooo I'll bite the troll for this one.
Celsius is in fact, NOT arbitrary. Celsius is a scale where the phase change of water sets the zero (freeing) and 100 (boiling) marks.
Kelvin and Celsius are the same scale, but Kelvin has the zero set at the absolute point (-273 deg C).
Scientists use Kelvin so comparisons work. Celsius is pegged to 0 at water's freezing point, Kelvin is pegged at absolute zero - below the freezing points of hydrogen and helium. That way you can compare ratios of temperature: 10 deg. C sounds twice as warm as 5 degrees (and feels that way), but to a scientist the ratio isn't 2:1, it's 283:278 - a much smaller ratio. This comes in play in things like gas pressure, which is proportional to absolute temperature.
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Google's latest changes to Gmail include the introduction of a "basic HTML view" for people who's browsers cannot display the default view properly. This includes MSIE 4.0+ (pre 5.5), Netscape 4.07+ (pre 7.1), and Opera 6.03+, which previously couldn't be used to access Gmail.
Unfortunately, the new browser detection code they are now using seems to have been put together in a rather sloppy manner, which means (amongst others) Opera 8.0 users are forced to this "basic HTML view" when the fully-featured default view works perfectly well with that version of Opera. (Indeed, one of the many new features of Opera 8.0 is XMLHttpRequest support, which allows Gmail to work in full.)
Any Opera 8.0 user who logs into Gmail as usual will no longer be able to do some basic things, including create filters, amend their settings, check spelling, access keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete addresses. Fortunately, there is a workaround, which is to use the URL http://gmail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser, which solves the issue.
This issue doesn't only affect Opera 8.0 users: users of MSIE 6.x, Camino and other browsers have reported the same problem on the relevant Google group. I don't use any of those browsers but I'm fairly sure that the same workaround will work for them too.
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Then you could use evolutions vfolders, which work pretty much like labels.
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
So yeah, I remember when Google focused on their search engine. My short term memory isn't that bad.
I guess your short term memory is terrible, then?
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The mods are about as bright as mr. hex and his reply.
In the known world of weather bulletins via some text method...
wx = weather
So wx isn't "funny", he's correct for suggesting it and hex boy needs to get his weather from somewhere besides the msn home page.
according to google help, weather services are provided by wunderground, inc.a ther
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#we
They shouldn't be detecting the browser at all. It's fragile, it breaks with unusual browsers, and you have to keep updating the detection routines whenever a new browser comes out. It's Javascript straight out of the 1990s.
The proper way of doing it is to detect objects not browsers. If you need XMLHttpRequest, first check to see if XMLHttpRequest is defined. If so, use it. If not, try instantiating it the Microsoft way. If you get the object, use it. Otherwise, give the user the fallback plain HTML version. You don't need to worry about which browser is being used, so long as it supports the APIs you use, and new browsers, or browsers that you haven't heard of, work automatically without you having to alter your code to accommodate them.
The problem with Anchorage zip codes will be corrected shortly. That's a good catch.
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