Here’s a pic of one nice feature in MediaPortal: “My Weather”. Despite the cutesy *gag* name of the feature, it’s really nearly as useful in some ways and more useful in others than the default weather applet in Ubuntu, and MUCH better than such buggy and intrusive things as Weatherbug (*gagamaggot* I hate that thing).
Nice. Good data (I actually know the guys who manage the local weather stations–have been “hands on” with one of their dedicated weather computers) presented attractively in the easily-recognized Weather Channel format–for my lil Third World County town. Yep. That’s third world county central info. Edges it just past the Ubuntu default weather applet that can’t report any data closer than 30 miles away.
As I said, nice.
Now, if only MEdiaPortal didn’t crash evwery time I try to minimize it normally. Oh, well, if I use “Show the Desktop” it doesn’t crash, so there’s a kludge-around. Hey! The thing’s just in a newly-released 1.0.0 version (although an upgrade/patch to 1.1.0 is projected for… this coming Saturday), so I’m just pleased that it works better than M$’s Media Center on my hardware/locale situation.
I have a plug-in for Windows Media Center like this. Handy in the morning when you just missed the local weather dude.
They also have one on the Nintendo Wii, but after it insulted me I’m not using it anymore…
“They also have one on the Nintendo Wii, but after it insulted me I’m not using it anymore…”
That’ll teach Nintendo to stop insulting its users. *LOL*