The Windfinder widget is a small utility that displays wind, waves and weather from your favorite surfspot as observations and forecast on your Windows Vista or Mac OS desktop.

The widget/gadget frequently loads the observations and forecasts from windfinder.com. You can select your favorite surfspot, a maximum of 3 weather parameters (e.g. wind speed, wind direction, air temperature), and the units of measure (Beaufort, Knots, kph, mph, Meter, feet, Celsius, Fahrenheit) for the display.

Additionally you can set a threshold for windspeed, wave height, wave period. If the limit is exceeded, the display alerts you with a blinking icon or text.

You can also use the widget to jump to the corresponding wind report or forecast on the Windfinder website. If you do not use Mac OS or Windows Vista then please send us an e-mail and let us know for which operating system (Windows XP, Windows 2000, Linux) or respectively which desktop (KDE, Gnome) you would like to have a widget.