AlertMe Pro 6.4

• License:

  Free to try; $19.95 to buy

• Editor's Rating:

  3.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 5 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  1,483

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

• Limitations:

  10-day trial

• Date Added:

  July 31, 2007

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version AlertMe Pro 6.3 AlertMe Pro 6.1

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Publisher's description of AlertMe Pro

AlertMe Pro is a complete weather monitoring system that is void of any spyware or ads. The software gives you the ability to monitor up to 36 different watch, warning, statement and advisory types. The area you can cover is anywhere in the United States for up to 4 locations. AlertMe Pro resides in your system tray with a clear temperature icon representing your location's current conditions. On mouseover you get more detailed listing of your current conditions, while clicking the icon brings up the program's interface. Once viewing the software itself, you can see the current satellite, radar, current conditions, forecast and more at one time.

Version 6.4 adds Vista support.

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Editor's review of AlertMe Pro

• 3.0 stars

• "AlertMe Pro"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: AlertMe Pro 6.4

AlertMe Pro provides much of the same weather-related information as other standard programs, but some things didn't work as promised. You'll have to select a state and city in the U.S., and then AlertMe Pro displays forecasts, current time, temperature, and humidity specific to that location on its commonplace interface. Your specified location's current weather condition is displayed when you move your cursor over the system tray icon as well. Measurement conversions and calculations of temperature, wind, relative humidity, and more are provided, and the program automatically updates information at user-specified intervals. While it claims to cover four locations simultaneously, only the first city has full coverage, and the rest only include alerts. The program also downloads current radar and satellite images. However, download time of these images isn't as speedy as we'd expect, and the radars didn't show up during assessment.

While a 10-day trial is usually short for our tastes, AlertMe Pro doesn't have much to ponder. Overall, this program isn't more readily accessible nor does it offer anything above and beyond the weather information already available on the Internet.

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• 2 stars

  Version: AlertMe Pro 6.4

  "A few good features but also some disappointments"

  by bobreviewer on June 30, 2008

  Pros: Good radar image implementation with nice options. Nice alert features.

  Cons: Strange location selection behavior - I was unable to select the same location for the alert criteria and for the local condition/forecast. Why not just use zip codes for both location selections?

  I was under the impression that the data used is from the National Weather Service. However, the forecast displayed by Alert Me Pro never matched the forecast I would get from the NWS web site. Also, the Alert Me forecast sometimes did not make much sense - for example, I would see forecasts like this: Overnight, Clear with a 14% chance of light thunderstorms. (It seems like the forecast covers all possibilities.) I also did not understand the timing of the forecast - why would I see a current day forecast when the current time is after 6 PM? Shouldn't the first forecast be evening/night?

  For software that was advertised to have a graphical interface, there was a lot of information shown in predominantly text format (current conditions, forecast).

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