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Emulator Videos / Re: My first TWC emulation

« on: April 17, 2012, 04:01:39 PM »

This is actually really good, although I had to wait thru a little more than a minute and a half of commercials to get to it 

It would be an even better almost text-only emulation if the text was centered on the screen & perhaps enlarged &  the images other than the radar was taken out.

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Emulator Videos / Re: seminolefanboy's WxStar 4000 Emulations

« on: April 17, 2012, 03:48:01 PM »

Most recent emulation, the Intellistar v3

Intellistar v3.4 Emulator: Bennington VT, 4/16/2012

Downloaded it from AuthorStream, courtesy of TWCjon, who also let me use the blue LDL seen in my later TWC emulators. Unsure who the original author of this emulator is.

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Emulator Videos / Re: seminolefanboy's WxStar 4000 Emulations

« on: April 17, 2012, 01:45:05 PM »

Those weather icons actually came from TWC, not number1twcfan. 

To clarify, I downloaded them from number1twcfan's Photobucket page, using a link he provided in his Intellistar v2 emulator after doing a Google search for the emulator. I know they were used on TWC's website from 2010 until recently when they changed the icons used on their website. They still use these on the Intellistar.

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Your Local Weather / Re: Southern Vermont weather

« on: April 17, 2012, 01:35:35 PM »

62 & Partly Cloudy w/a Red Flag Warning in effect till 8pm this evening.

Yesterday it got up to 86, smashing the old record of 78.

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General Weather Chat / Re: MS Excel + updated data from NWS website

« on: November 03, 2011, 12:32:36 PM »

This would be extremely helpful and such a cool idea if it could work. I did not realize you could somehow put automatically updating NWS info. into an MS Excel spreadsheet.  If this is possible, you're going to have to show us how this is done. Very cool idea.

This website's help tip for Excel (http://www.mrexcel.com/tip103.shtml) provides a good overview of how to do it. It uses getting up-to-the-minute stock quotes as an example. Instructions are pretty basic & easy to follow, and it has tips on how to format the chart, how to set it to automatically refresh the data, etc. I think it's a pretty cool feature. 

Now if I could only link the data from the Excel spreadsheet into PowerPoint, it would make creating the emulations far less time consuming....

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Your Local Weather / Re: Southern Vermont weather

« on: November 03, 2011, 12:22:38 PM »

Bennington, VT Current Conditions

52 (11)
Fair
Humidity:   66 %
Wind Speed:   Calm
Barometer:   30.03" (1017.3 mb)
Dewpoint:   41 °F (5 °C)
Visibility:   10.00 mi.

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Emulator Videos / Re: seminolefanboy's WxStar 4000 Emulations

« on: November 03, 2011, 12:13:31 PM »

Something I did about a month ago in OpenOffice.org....a little parody emulation of the Intellistar 2. The weather icons came from TWC & were provided by number1twcfan via a link in his Intellistar v2 (the 1 with thethe current Weatherstar XL background) emulator. I used mostly the plain Arial font here, because I'm not sure which are used in the actual IS2.

HD Intellistar 2 Emulation Concept: Bennington VT, Fictional Forecast (test video)[)

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General Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself! (For New Members)

« on: October 31, 2011, 04:10:56 PM »

I've posted here for a little while, but never really introduced myself till now. Some of you might already know me thru my YouTube channel, but here it gos anyway:

**copied & pasted from Stygian Sounds (heavy metal net station) messageboard**

Name: Alex
Age: 31
Sex: Male
Location: Bennington VT, USA
Interests: Pretty much anything to do w/heavy metal and football. I also like to play basketball and am also a big weather buff.
Favorite Band: Nevermore
Favorite Album: Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Favorite Song: Dream Theater - "Learning to Live"
Background: I've worked as a drafter, waver, and assembly line technician off and on over the past 10 years. I'm disabled right now as I continue to rehab from injuries suffered on a Charlotte, NC interstate on 8/25/2010. I've been listening to metal since 2000, and I even like...get this...some smooth jazz once in a while, as that's the style of music I use in my Weather Channel Local Forecast Emulations posted on my Facebook page & YouTube channel.

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General Weather Chat / MS Excel + updated data from NWS website

« on: October 31, 2011, 02:02:15 PM »

So has anyone else here (besides me) tried doing anything like this? Automatically inputting & updating data from the National Weather Service's website into MS Excel (or Open Office.org)? I finally found out how to do this about a week and a half ago, and I actually use OpenOffice.org's spreadsheet to do it. I find it to be a convenient way to update the current conditions in my area without actually going to the NWS or TWC website to get that info that way.

The reason why I was trying to do this was so I could link it to my TWC emulator so I wouldn't have to enter the info into the presentation program manually, like I do now. It would save me a lot of time, because now it takes me up to 3 hours, if not more, to make the TWC emulator videos. It's very time consuming. But I haven't gotten to that point though yet (where I can just link the data from the spreadsheet into the presentation).

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: October 31, 2011, 01:53:51 PM »

Currently in Bennington, Vermont it's 46 degrees under fair skies.

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Your Local Weather / Re: Southern Vermont weather

« on: October 31, 2011, 01:51:24 PM »

46 degrees & fair right now. Plentiful sunshine w/temps getting back up towards normal are expected this week.

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General Discussion / Re: What is the last thing you bought?

« on: October 31, 2011, 01:47:12 PM »

Some root beer for the fridge lol.

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General Discussion / Re: Recent music purchases

« on: October 30, 2011, 01:25:24 PM »

Don't really buy music much anymore, since I'm on a shoe-string budget & can't really afford to I'm mainly into heavy metal, but maybe someone here would recognize these that I bought at my local Goodwill the last time I picked up any music:

Amon Amarth - Versus the World
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
Demons & Wizards - s/t
Nevermore - Enemies of Reality

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Local Forecast / Re: November/December 2011 playlist

« on: October 30, 2011, 01:14:49 PM »

I'm liking the return of Lily Was Here and Supernova to the playlist. And Fly by 7and5 is good as well, although I don't think I've heard that one on Local on the 8s.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: October 30, 2011, 01:07:33 PM »

I caught about the last 3 seconds of last night's Trammell Starks outage, but didn't bother posting it on YouTube because it was about a 5 second clip right around 10:54pm EDT, making it pointless to post IMO because it was so brief.