Steampunk Weather Widget

Steampunk Weather Widget is a small widget developed for the Yahoo! Widget Engine that has a steampunk appearance and shows weather details, as the name implies. It is easy to install and configure.

The interface of the application is unusual but very eye-caching. A frame that resembles a compass shows the weather forecast, including the wind speed and direction, humidity and temperature values.

Hovering the mouse cursor over the frame reveals more thorough information, such as the pressure, temperature, humidity and last update time.

Plenty of options can be configured from the Widget Preferences area. You can change the widget size and clock style, enable sound and animation control, as well as choose an advanced or standard tooltip display.

You can modify the default language and pick the temperature measurement unit (Celsius or Fahrenheit). With the help of the settings provided by Yahoo! Weather Engine by default, you can also set the frame to stay on top or below all the other windows, to ignore mouse events and to prevent dragging, as well as set its opacity to a preset value, ranging from 20% to 100%.

Steampunk Weather Widget puts little strain on the computer's overall performance, using a minimal amount of CPU and system memory. It has a good response time and works well, without causing the OS to hang, crash or show error notifications. Thanks to its intuitive layout and overall simplicity, first-time users can easily work with Steampunk Weather Widget.