MSN Direct
Microsoft has released a Home Screen add-on called MSN Direct that displays News, Weather and Stocks in a bubble on your home screen. Selecting any of the sections will launch a full screen application with which you can browser Weather forecasts, Various new items, and Stock indices.
There are links to Microsoft services (or ads? call them what you will) injected into the home screen menu.
MSN Direct is not available as a stand-alone application, it can only be run from the Home screen using the MSN Direct Theme, which I find annoying.
If you are using a non-fixed height Home screen Theme (like any of the themes on this site) this is a decent plug-in, though it takes up a little too much screen real-estate for my liking.
Caution: Before installing this theme, make sure you are using a non-fixed width theme. When installed MSN Direct will inject itself into your current theme directly below the Date/Time lines.
June 6th, 2008 at 3:15 am
The only thing I don’t like about MSN direct is that I have to pick a city almost an hour south of me for weather. Anyone have a better solution? David? I know you’re crafty
October 27th, 2008 at 7:56 am
will work with 6.1 sliding panes?
January 14th, 2009 at 12:38 am
it will work for 6.1…but not with the panels. when you download it, it will automatically go to the classic 6.0 screen
January 15th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I do like the stocks page of this app, but ya, the weather only goes by major cities. I happen to live fairly close to denver, but it would be nice for the weather to go by zip code. I need to find a google app like this for just weather and stocks. You guys know of anything you like like out there?
January 15th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
jared, Have you checked out Yahoo! Go? It has weather and stocks however it has some other stuff in it as well. Its great for yahoo! users..
http://www.myblackjack2.com/applications/dashboards/yahoogo/
January 17th, 2009 at 12:05 am
does anybody know of a weather application that will work with the sliding panels? i really loved this application until i upgraded to 6.1…and i would put it back on my phone, but i still want to keep the sliding panels…
January 18th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
bld21909, I can’t think of any free weather apps that will work with sliding panels off the top of my head. Fizz Weather should work with sliding panels but its a commercial product.
Try searching the forums for “weather” and see if any other solutions pop up.