AIM - the next Weatherbug?

[Mrvile]

Remember back when Weatherbug was useful - it gave us accurate weather reports straight to our desktop? And look at it now. Will AIM become the next Weatherbug? It's playing with a fine line here, in my opinion, loaded down with ads and banners and this whole "Viewpoint" thing leaves me a bit weary. I still use it, Trillian and Gaim intimidate me, but I just hope I can keep using it in the future.

 

[mundane]

For an IM client, I use Trillian. For weather services, I use Forecast fox - right at the bottom of my browser it tells me the four day forecast, local radar, and warns me (like today) of any serious weather moving into my area.

 

[Mrvile]

I don't really care about Weatherbug now, I have the weather in my Objectdock so I can just look at it and see it.

 

[modedepe]

I'm still using an ancient version of AIM with ads stripped out of it. Beats the new version, IMO.

 

[RollWave]

I bought trillian. I love the pro.

 

[Megatomic]

The free version of Trillian is good enough for me. Then again, I rarely login to the IM servers and don't any more than the basic package offers.

MrVile, what about Trillian intimidates you? It's super easy to configure and it's not a resource hog in any way.

 

[alm4rr]

trillian

and weather.com bookmarked to my zipcode on Mozilla Personal Toolbar

 

[Schadenfroh]

weatherbug is adware

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.weatherbug.html

 

[Kev]

weatherbug annoys the sht out of me. seems like every time the temperature goes up a degree they have to flash an alert to you.

i once got literally 3 frost warnings in an hour once. frost warnings?