AeroWeather: Weather-based Aero Color

By Zubaz on November 16, 2010 9:20:03 PM from

I saw this and thought it interesting.

AeroWeather features include:

Temperature-based color changes
- Minimum and Maximum values let you define your own range of colors
- Maximum temperature (or higher) is always red
- Minimum temperature (or lower) is always purple
- Color is calculated based on minimum and maximum values
  - For example, given a minimum of zero, and a maximum of 100, if the temperature is 50 degrees, the calculated color would be a shade of green
Condition-based color changes
- UI is grey if it’s cloudy, blue if it’s sunny, white if it’s snowing, dark grey if it’s raining, etc
“Night Mode”
- Dims the Aero colors when the sun sets (retrieves sunset time from weather server). Colors appear dimmer and less vibrant
- Brightens them when the sun rises the next day

AeroWeather is freeware.

AeroWeather requires Windows Vista or Windows 7 with Windows Aero enabled.This software is designed to work with the “glass” effect in Windows Vista and Windows 7, and it will not work unless Windows Aero is enabled.

Download AeroWeather (ClickOnce installer)

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Is it skinnable? Hmmmm....

mabey i will have a look see. thanks for sharing

So, it's not a weather widget or gadget but changes the color of the desktop interface based upon the weather? Close or totally wrong?

EDIT:

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/21/aero-weather-change-windows-aero-colors-based-on-weather-us-only/

Its an installer package. 404kb from Spikes.net. I let AVG have a look see and found zip.

I was all excited and downloaded this but it is useless unless you live in the US. Does not support Canadian locations

Looks like a great idea, but I see a lot of dark grey and white in my future!

Would be killer idea to be implemented in to a DX widget tho..

Yes I agree would be neat if someone could put this in the dx weather widgets. I would say just to have the temperature fonts change color would be really cool.

I'm already thinking up ways to use it for a SMX. Haven't installed it yet hoping some one else will first. I'm chicken.

Mvtt says:

October 24, 2010 at 2:46 pm

You don’t need an alternative. This program works with other zipcodes. Go to weather.com and search for your location. When you press the link for your city, look at the URL address that is displayed in your web browser. At the end there will be a country code + several numbers (eg. PLXX0012) Paste that into the program and you should be good to go.

Note: I entered my location as described above, and the code was successfully validated, that is why I assume it works

Is it worth a shot?

Uvah I am interested to know what your thinking in regards to smx weather because I cannot even get my weather to work now. I get the parsing error.

Quoting JuniorCrooks,

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Uvah I am interested to know what your thinking in regards to smx weather because I cannot even get my weather to work now. I get the parsing error.

SMX or DX?

Interesting. It's 57 degrees F here (min=0 max=100), and I don't see a change in Vista windows appearance. I must be doing something wrong.

RND that would be smx. My weather stopped working a week ago or so.

I can't get it to work either despite doing the way its done in the folders I have from other smx's. Something's up with the weather people again?

I just thought of something. If the app works according to the weather you receive then if you don't get it neither will the app. I think.

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