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WindAlert OSX Dashboard Widget


Justin
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Hey fellow kite flyers--

Just posting to share a little tool I created for myself, that may be useful for others who have Mac computers. I use the website windalert.com to check the wind speed around my local kite flying fields, as well as their iphone app .. but going to their website all the time just to check one number was a pain in the rear, so I bundled their little wind speed web widget into an OSX dashboard widget so I can quickly check the wind throughout the day. I'm attaching it here, hopefully it's useful for others as well!

To use it you need the 'spot id' of the weather station you want to view-- you can get that by going to windalert.com and clicking the 'details' button on the one of the weather stations. The spot ID will appear in the URL address bar at the top of your browser. As an example, the I-5 Columbia River bridge is the nearest weather station to Delta Park. The WindAlert URL for that station is:

http://windalert.com/en-us/Search/SpotInfo.aspx?spotid=6478

So just enter '6478' into the widget and away you go!

Hope this is fun and useful to others! ;)

EDIT: I can't seem to figure out how to make attachments work here, so I've posted the widget here:

http://hellofromportland.com/files/WindAlert.wdgt.zip

-Justin

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