HTC Home Apis is a small and simple utility that lets you add three handy widgets to your Windows desktop. As its name suggest, this application recreates the HTC Home widgets, specific to HTC smart phones, on the Windows PCs. Though only three widgets are provided, they are pretty useful.
The first widget is a simple and neat desktop clock. It can be set to display both the time and the date using different formats. Its transparency level can also be customized.
The second widget is even better. It’s a handy weather reporting widget that shows the current weather forecast for any area of the Globe. It can display the current weather conditions, the temperature, and even the humidity or wind speed. Furthermore, it allows selecting the refresh interval for the weather data retrieval. Unfortunately, by default only one weather provider is offered for retrieving the weather information. If you want to use other weather providers, you have to add them manually using the “Extras” tab.
As you can see, there are plenty of advanced options for these widgets, letting you fully control the way they work. Style settings that let you choose the way they look are also available.
The third widget is meant to help you view photos and set them as the desktop background (wallpaper).
In conclusion, HTC Home Apis is a nice open-source application that offers some really handy desktop widgets.
v3.1 [Jan 28, 2015]
What's new?
Updated interface
High/Low temperature came back! Forecast combined with widget. It could be easily hidden by clicking on the weather icon.
Additional weather information
Clock widget can show additional information such as wind speed or humidity. There are some different icons for different wind speed and humidity so you can easily choose what to wear for a walk.
«Feels like» temperature
Sometimes it seems much colder (or warmer) on the street than displayed temperature. It depends on many parameters such as wind speed, humidity and other. We added «Show feels like temperature» option which shows temperature according to feelings.
Updated options interface
We tried to make widget setting more simple, logical and attractive.
Styles
Each widget has multiple styles. For Clock widget it is a usual digital clock with weather and several types of analog clock.
Each widget is separate application
Each widget now is a separate application. You can pin it on taskbar and you can run many instances of one widget.
New Weather widget
It shows only weather and has 3 different styles. Also it supports weather provider switching and displaying feels like temperature.
HTC Home 3 Extras
HTC Home 3 Extras are additions that extends functionality of widgets. It can be weather providers or resources or something else. To install extras just drag & drop it on any widget executable (Clock.exe, Weather.exe). You can delete installed extras in options.
Other changes
Non-system time
You can set non-system time for Clock widget in options
Date format
You can change date format for Clock widget in options
Startup time
Now widgets start faster because of separating them to applications.
Separate settings
You can specify settings file for widgets using /c parameter. You can create two different shortcuts to Clock.exe with different settings files and run two copies of Clock widget with different styles, time, location etc.
MSN Weather provider
The default weather provider MSN was improved. Now it supports localized search and automatically calculates sunrise/sunset time.
Automatic update
HTC Home 3 can automatically update itself and installed extras. If you didn’t find some function don’t worry, it could be added in updates.
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