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Apr 29, 2005, 09:58 AM
 
Anyone having problems with Dashboard's weather widget? I'm outside the US right now and not getting any info, nothing but the name of the city and a couple of dashes. When I click on more info, it takes me to a website for US cities.

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Apr 29, 2005, 10:00 AM
 
That's all I've been getting - and I'm in the US... I think they don't have it turned on yet
     
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Apr 29, 2005, 10:06 AM
 
Ok. Well, at least it's not me.

Also, does anyone know about getting info at the same time on multiple cities?

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Apr 29, 2005, 10:10 AM
 
mine is working fine. i have my local one, london, cape town (south africa) and they are working fine.

did you notice if you click the main weather image in the middle it shows the 6 day forecast? neat-o
     
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Apr 29, 2005, 10:33 AM
 
I had trouble getting the correct city, I kept getting the forecast for a US city of the same name. Eventually I found if I just typed the city name (with no country, state, county whatever after it, just the name) and hit return, it showed me a drop down of possible matches, and the UK version was marked there. I clicked on it, and that did the business for me :standard:
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Apr 29, 2005, 10:44 AM
 
Yep, I'm in Japan. "Tokyo" automatically displays. It took about a half-hour before I realized I had to place the cursor within the "city" box and hit "Return". It'll then located a match: "Tokyo, Japan" and then updated. Pretty much every major city in Japan can be set in this way.
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Apr 29, 2005, 10:45 AM
 
Originally Posted by Randman
Ok. Well, at least it's not me.

Also, does anyone know about getting info at the same time on multiple cities?
To get multiple cities, click on the plus to the lower-left. Drag another Weather Widget (icon in bottom tray) to the desktop.
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Apr 29, 2005, 11:48 AM
 
Cool, thanks.

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Apr 29, 2005, 12:04 PM
 
Originally Posted by jaxxe
To get multiple cities, click on the plus to the lower-left. Drag another Weather Widget (icon in bottom tray) to the desktop.
FWIW, this is true for all widgets - you can get multiple copies of each which really doesn't make sense for some (e.g iTunes controller) but is helpful for others.
     
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Apr 29, 2005, 01:04 PM
 
Works for me.
     
   
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