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Get the weather in your Speed Dial

By Aleksander AasAleksander. Friday, August 20, 2010 2:42:30 PM

We all love the Speed Dial. There are lots of ways you can customize your Speed Dial. Let's add a weather report!

We first saw this trick over at search giant Yandex, and now BS-Harou has created an awesome solution for the rest of us.

All you need to do is take a look at the URL below. See where it says "area=Oslo"? Change Oslo to your city. You can also change the redirect location to any site by replacing "http://my.opera.com/" with your favorite URL.

Remember to right-click and select reload every 180 minutes!

http://speeddial.operacesky.net/weather.php?lang=en&area=Oslo&top=100&redirect=http://my.opera.com/

Thanks again for sharing BS-Harou!

Update

The first update is here. It now works again, and has a new feature for Fahrenheit and Celsius. For more updates subscribe to BS-Harou's blog!

My new source has only day temperature.
There is new parameter: &deg=F for °F

The reason why you should use Opera MiniOpera and Telenor to co-operate

Comments

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Tamil # Friday, August 20, 2010 3:15:25 PM

ouzowtfouzoWTF # Friday, August 20, 2010 3:20:57 PM

SupValyaSuperValya # Friday, August 20, 2010 3:22:29 PM

Pure Magic

Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, August 20, 2010 3:30:44 PM

What if there is more than one city that has the same name?

selurus # Friday, August 20, 2010 3:41:32 PM

Doesn't work with Opera Mini?

Martin KadlecBS-Harou # Friday, August 20, 2010 3:44:50 PM

Originally posted by selurus:

Doesn't work with Opera Mini?

I don't think so, speed dial on Opera mobile/mini works a bit different + the speed dial windows are too small.

Originally posted by Chas4:

What if there is more than one city that has the same name?

I think that the bigger wins. Anyway it takes the data from google, so if google has some solution for this ti should work here too.

KarenNerak # Friday, August 20, 2010 3:55:09 PM

slackwrdave # Friday, August 20, 2010 4:17:57 PM

I like weather!

Lucalucaviozzi # Friday, August 20, 2010 4:31:58 PM

Really nice! xD

Avola # Friday, August 20, 2010 5:02:41 PM

Pretty cool

Ali GrotkowskiAliKira # Friday, August 20, 2010 5:18:06 PM

I can't seem to get it to work, but I do like the idea.

d4rkn1ght # Friday, August 20, 2010 5:19:20 PM

Luxor # Friday, August 20, 2010 5:23:29 PM

Neat!

L2D2 # Friday, August 20, 2010 5:37:13 PM

Got it---but how do you get the temp in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius? I have to look up a converter to know what the temp is

Martin KadlecBS-Harou # Friday, August 20, 2010 5:48:03 PM

Originally posted by L2D2:

Got it---but how do you get the temp in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius? I have to look up a converter to know what the temp is

It's not possible yet, but it's in my to do list. Just wait few days - I hope I'll be able to do that this weekend =)

Vasudevan Mvasuwrath # Friday, August 20, 2010 5:48:24 PM

cool

Robsonrobsonpc # Friday, August 20, 2010 5:58:51 PM

Great tip!!
Amazing!

simola # Friday, August 20, 2010 6:41:42 PM

Very nice , any more Speed dial customisations?

L2D2 # Friday, August 20, 2010 7:11:25 PM

Originally posted by BS-Harou:

hope I'll be able to do that this weekend =)

Thank you. That will be great. I have temp. in my Firefox speed dial. Happy to have it here.

Sam Van den VonderHuRRaCaNe # Friday, August 20, 2010 7:13:03 PM

Originally posted by BS-Harou:

Originally posted by L2D2:

Got it---but how do you get the temp in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius? I have to look up a converter to know what the temp is
It's not possible yet, but it's in my to do list. Just wait few days - I hope I'll be able to do that this weekend =)

Now, why does it give the temperature in farenheit in my speeddial, although my region (region sounds small, but it's actually europe) uses celsius.

Martin KadlecBS-Harou # Friday, August 20, 2010 7:18:18 PM

I just made an update, change lang parameter to your language =)

EDIT: I changed default language to en-gb, sou you should have there Celsius again.

Martin KadlecBS-Harou # Friday, August 20, 2010 7:32:18 PM

Originally posted by L2D2:

Thank you. That will be great. I have temp. in my Firefox speed dial. Happy to have it here.

change lang parameter to en-UK =)

Sam Van den VonderHuRRaCaNe # Friday, August 20, 2010 7:39:16 PM

Amazing, you're awesome!

Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, August 20, 2010 8:57:50 PM

Originally posted by BS-Harou:

I just made an update, change lang parameter to your language =)

Cool, It works

Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaJurgi # Friday, August 20, 2010 9:01:22 PM

Nice hack. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Cool2.gif -

Zephirine # Friday, August 20, 2010 9:12:35 PM

Very good!! http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -

HeinrichP # Friday, August 20, 2010 9:26:40 PM

and as I wrote in this topic: in THIS topic, it could also be one of the things to implement in the speed dial, both as in personal bar or elsewhere.

Be creative! Have a nice weekend!

sholehin azizsholehin36 # Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:18:08 AM

thats good..erm..who malay here??please add me..

MJerezmjerez # Saturday, August 21, 2010 1:41:34 AM

Excellent!!

Plus, I haven't noticed the reload option.

YongShunyongshun # Saturday, August 21, 2010 4:41:23 AM

Wow cool. !

L2D2 # Saturday, August 21, 2010 4:57:16 AM

Originally posted by BS-Harou:

en-UK

You mean en-US?

Hokkuthokkut # Saturday, August 21, 2010 5:54:17 AM

hmm... it has already done for a long time by yandex.ru

http://files.myopera.com/hokkut/files/ya.JPG

link for Oslo: http://pogoda.yandex.ru/1384/

Martin KadlecBS-Harou # Saturday, August 21, 2010 7:36:11 AM

Originally posted by L2D2:

You mean en-US?

yes

Originally posted by hokkut:

hmm... it has already done for a long time by yandex.ru

yes, but not everybody here can speak Russian.

HyaeneLeipzigTinoSLE # Saturday, August 21, 2010 10:23:16 AM

oooh, really nice ... thanks for this

tomasb # Saturday, August 21, 2010 10:42:36 AM

So simple, that I'm supriced that someone didn't come with it earlier.

actually why not have a clock or shares or even simple RSS reader. If we make speed dial more customizable - like you can change size for single item - or add a possibility to add simple widgets there... Change simple speeddial to something like costomizable homepage...

netmaniac # Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:03:47 AM

nice.

Abhinavdecodedthought # Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:04:59 AM

Avola # Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:21:28 AM

Originally posted by tomasb:

actually why not have a clock

http://onlineclock.net/ does the job, though it doesn't look that good. Maybe someone can find a better one.
+1 to more customizable speed dial

Nexus009 # Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:55:36 AM

Hokkuthokkut # Saturday, August 21, 2010 2:16:27 PM

Originally posted by BS-Harou:

yes, but not everybody here can speak Russian.

yeah, thx for weather in speed dial, its really good job!

your weather more beautiful xD

Thu Huonghuong39 # Saturday, August 21, 2010 2:16:54 PM

huu, khong biet theo doi thoi tiet nhu the nao nua

Taneltankest # Saturday, August 21, 2010 4:16:45 PM

Speed dial page customizable by widgets: now there's an idea for you! Complete with Opera's geo tagging, this could be awesome. For Win and Linux, at least.