The "End" of DesktopX...
...weather
Thursday, March 29, 2012 by sViz | Discussion: Community
…weather. DesktopX weather. The end of DesktopX is a topic for another day.
So, it seems the current weather feed—you know, the one which replaced the The Weather Channel feed because TWC moved to a license-based system—will be deprecated. Weather Underground is also moving to a license-and-fee-based system. It will affect some of the more recent weather widgets and gadgets in the DesktopX galleries. When will the current feed no longer be available? Dunno. Perhaps, it will coincide with the end of the world this December.
For now, it’s still functioning, but there are already features that are no longer supported, such as location search & search results (when you don’t know the name or code for the location, or when there are multiple locations with the same name.)
Are there any other weather provider alternatives? Looking into it (likely for the last time.)
More importantly, is there a point to finding another weather provider? Clearly, the market has spoken. Weather providers have decided the free service business model is unsustainable, considering having to keep up with the sheer volume of traffic. Find another service, and once use of their feed spikes, they, too, will adpot a fee-and-license-based system to manage the onslaught.
So, unless you’re a company that can afford and manage a license, like Stardock vis a vis AccuWeather, the days of free-range, customized desktop weather are coming to a close. And, really, mobile computing is putting most desktop applications out to pasture, anyways.
This has been your heads-up. 
(<--not really how I looked when I found out.)
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Reply #22 Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:02 PM
Is there over here ONE person who can swear he didn't download anytime any music or video/film on the WWW 
So what ? i'm still using Weather.com data (but through xml feed not through Xoap one) and you can trust me i still sleep well ...
Reply #23 Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:24 PM
What about "The Weather Network" www.weathernetwork.com
Reply #25 Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:47 PM
I just look out the window...I know...it's old tech...but it still works! And you can almost smell the weather...very realistic! Let's see a gadget do that!
Reply #26 Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:53 PM
its amazing how all this stuff is changing ..man i was looking at some video of online stuff from just a decade ago unbelievable how its has all changed,some good some not so good...just say'n
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Reply #21 Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:43 PM
Quoting Uvah,
reply 19
First goes the weather then goes.....................
.............the memory, or is it the hair?
The whole damn body actually. Head to toe.