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I've just noticed in the past few days that my Weather Widgets aren't working anymore. All I see is the two city windows, but they are are just a blue blank window (with the city text on top).
Does anyone else have this problem?
eMac/Superdrive, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
You can submit a bug report but since Tiger OS hasn't seen an update in about 4 years and Apple basically stops doing system component updates on anything older than the current second generation system (now Snow Leopard), don't expect anything. They will just tell you you are running an unsupported system and should upgrade.
Seeing that both Tiger and Leopard stopped at the same time but the SL widget still works, albeit through a different service, it looks to me like it was in the planning for a while. When Lion was released, support was also dropped for Leopard. It looks like Apple was using Accuweather and maybe they had a subscription they let drop once both Tiger and Leopard were no longer being supported and Snow Leopard was using a service through weather.com as indicated by shiekh.
I wonder what it takes to redirect the old widget to the new site...
and why doesn't the 10.6 widget work on 10.5?
The 10.6 widget seems to use:
and
I can't find any such references in the 10.5 widget.
I imagine it could be done in the hosts file, but as it turns out they are both the same IP...
http://apple.accuweather.com/widget/osx1/ (67.215.65.132)
http://wu.apple.com/adcbin/apple/ (67.215.65.132)
>I wonder what it takes to redirect the old widget to the new site...
To me it looked like the old widget was going to an Apple server. What you said suggested the 10.6 widget is going to weather.com. Two different feeds. It would probably take reprogramming of the whole widget to get it to redirect, or you'd have to basically set up your own server that massaged the feed to match that which Apple supplied, then feed that URL into the places I found on the old Apple widget.
>and why doesn't the 10.6 widget work on 10.5?
I would not a-priori assume anything written for a later OS to run on an earlier one, especially not a custom made system component like a widget included as part of the system package.
I have 4 Power Macs (non-Intel) in two cities all running Tiger or Leopard and the weather widget stopped working on all of them 2 days ago. It appears we've lost this widget, alas.
Kim, this one still works...
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/information/weatherundergrounddashboard weatherwidget.html
By gosh, it does work. I hadn't made time to look for a new widget and you saved me the trouble. Thank you, ever so much!-----kim
P.S. the new one seems even more functional . . .
I also posted a link to another widget that works. It's a bit less cluttered than the WU one though its graphics too are a bit crude compared to the ones (sometimes animated) on the Apple widget.
Great to hear... I like it better too, but...
I, too, am so grateful! I frequently check weather in many places. So glad to have new, improved widgets working again. BTW, I found that lately Accuweather was quite inaccurate anyway.
Apple's offering had a certain special streamlined efficiency, and it would be nice to see it up nad running again.
I agree. I'm using the weather channel one right now as a temp fix, but it's butt-ugly. The Apple widget was much nicer to look at everyday.
This is the same thing that happened to the Apple Translation widget nearly two years ago. And I got yanked around by customer support about it, and then told I would have to pay for support for it (and since they refuse to support old systems, I just hung up on them).
There is something others out there should be aware of, that I noticed immediately, which implies Apple let hackers into their servers…
When it stopped working, the day after, the widget started "dialing out" to untrustworthy addresses, including locations that have reported malware being installed into Windows machines. Though this typically would not worry me, I logged more than 300 different addresses that were attempted (and blocked) to 3 different servers that had nothing to do with weather or Apple. Most of them went to the first server that it started dialing to… something with "panther" in the address. Attempts to actually go to some of the addresses all returned errors… generated by the software on the server. So, if they weren't actively trying to install malware or hacking installed software, then it was probably scrounging for information.
This was definitely being accomplished through the weather widget, since blocked from access.
Has anyone else noticed this rather troubling behavior?
Weather Widgets Not Working
