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AlertMe
AlertMe gives you the latest warnings and advisories that you select. You are able to choose from 17 types of warnings and advisories. You can choose to warn for one on up to all 17 advisories. Once AlertMe finds an active warning or advisory, it displays a visual alarm. A window pops up over whatever you are doing and tells you that there has been a certain warning or advisory issued. At that point you may choose to either ignore the warning by closing the window, or clicking the 'more info' button to get the official National Weather Service statement on the situation. At the time of the warning as the program detects it, it will also sound a tornado siren .wav file that you can choose to turn on or off to be alerted by. You can reconfigure this sound also. Besides that, the program will also give you your local forecast and current conditions, along with radar to name a few links, with the click of a button. -All of your options are saved for future runs of the program. -The program runs in your system tray to keep it out of the way. Our Review: Interesting weather-watching program for those situated in the US. Simply choose your location - AlertMe will alert you (with a loud siren of course) whenever there is a tornado, hurricane, heat wave, heavy fog or any other catastrophe bearing down on you. Also on offer is a calculation window which allows you to work out heat indexes, windchill factors and the likes. Not a bad program at all, although the interface could do with some work. Great for everyone from the casual concerned citizen to the hard-core survivalist with home-made emergency shelter.
Licence: Shareware - 30 Days Trial Version: 5.0.1 OS: Win 95/98, Win NT Date: 2000/11/08 Developer: Convective Software Size: 5.24 MB		Free download
Yippee Ratings Breakdown (5 is best): Installation: 4 Interface: 3 Functionality: 4 Documentation: 2