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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (wow, I need to start thinking up longer relase names) has Dashboard and widgets. It's a pain to develop these (whoa, there's another hate), but more importantly for this hate it ships with a weather widget: http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/images/indexweather20050412.jpg So I type "London" into the back of it (because Apple has gone UI crazy and the back of widgets is how you configure them) and am pleasantly suprised at the massively hot weather that it'll be in rainy old London. Very surprised. For the next few days, until I figure out that it is stupid software and showing me the weather for London, West Virginia. You see, Dashboard widgets have a completely different UI to everything else. What I wanted to do was enter "London" and hit return. Even though there's no button, no form that I can see. Then it'll give me a list of cities and I can choose "London, United Kingdom". Would it be too much to ask to understand that people might mean "London, UK" a little more than they mean "London, WV"? This is supposed to be the future, dammit. Stupid software causing me hate because I have to work around it and guess what it is actually doing. Gah! Weather update: 15degC, overcast -- Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/ scribot.................................http://www.scribot.com/ ... (Tagline 5 of 12) - Collect them all!
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