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[App] Glance

Do you like this assistant with weather info and shortcuts to your frequently visited locations?
Do you like this assistant with weather info and shortcuts to your frequently visited locations?

Glance is a free simple app that allows a user to set a list of favorite items as shortcut to them, with the ability to take a glance at the Weather in your current city. Alternatively it can be a helpful assistant when displaying the number of unread items in Outlook’s Inbox.

Initial screen with no shortcut set.
Initial screen with no shortcut set.
Menu context to handle with shortcuts.
Menu context to handle with shortcuts.
Create or edit a shortcut.
Create or edit a shortcut.
Set your city of interest.
Set your city of interest.
Set your own weather skin or favorite theme.
Set your own weather skin or favorite theme.
Emails with sender name, title, and brief content shown along with number of unread messages.
Emails with sender name, title, and brief content shown along with number of unread messages.
Taskbar icon with your current weather info.
Taskbar icon with your current weather info.

Features

  • Shows a favorite list with various types of items which are clickable. They can be add/edit/modify.

  • Choose your favorite city/location for Weather.

  • Displays Weather condition for your selected city with beautiful presets of weather skins and app themes, which are customizable!

  • Displays unread items with different types: simple message, message with attachment, and meetings/appointments.

  • Displays short tooltip info when moving mouse over the icon in the Notification area.

Compatible: Windows® XP, Vista, 7, 8 (in Desktop Mode), and 10

Glance is completely free and contains no spyware or other than simple functions to get info from online Weather API and retrieving Outlook’s Inbox, please consider donating. For co-operate use the recommended donation is £2 per user. Thank you.

Other free apps:

  1. [App] Delay PC Lock

  2. [App] Mail Notifier

  3. [App] Hotkey Mobility

  4. [App] Glance

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