{"id":1962,"date":"2006-12-19T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/19\/wii-forecast-channel-out-today-opera-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:22:16","slug":"wii-forecast-channel-out-today-opera-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wii-forecast-channel-out-today-opera-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Forecast channel out today, Opera on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is shaping up to be a great week to be a Nintendo Wii owner. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilavatar.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=22595\">many people are reporting<\/a> seeing that familiar blue glow this morning. The glow heralds a message from Nintendo informing the Wii masses that the new <a href=\"http:\/\/wii.nintendo.com\/wiimenu.jsp\">Forecast channel<\/a> is available and will become active once your Wii unit receives a firmware update.<\/p>\n<p>And from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/pressreleases\/en\/2006\/12\/19\/#\">Opera comes word<\/a> that a &#8220;trial version&#8221; of the Opera 9 browser for the Wii will be available for download from the Wii Shop channel starting this Friday, December 22nd. They even have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/img\/products\/devices\/nintendo\/wii\/releasedate_comic.gif\">short webcomic<\/a> of the announcement that states that the &#8220;full version&#8221; of the browser could be expected to drop sometime in the spring. Nintendo Europe also put out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo-europe.com\/NOE\/en\/GB\/news\/article.do?elementId=IsC-1sqxBzf2X6D1MAbsTCubYmGJRdR9\">press release<\/a> about the browser, stating that it would be available for a free download until June 2007 <i>(which we already knew)<\/i>, and that after that date, the browser would be available for 500 Wii points. Nintendo also states that the final version will be available in March 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is shaping up to be a great week to be a Nintendo Wii owner. Today, many people are reporting seeing that familiar blue glow this morning. The glow heralds a message from Nintendo informing the Wii masses that the new Forecast channel is available and will become active once your Wii unit receives a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[53,126],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-nintendo","tag-wii","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}