customizable computer software downloadable from a computer database, the Internet, or an electronic network that runs as a component of a computer desktop for use in transmitting, disseminating, and displaying information in the nature of live weather conditions, weather forecasts, weather alerts, network-specific messages and notifications, targeted advertising and marketing communications, security and emergency management alerts and information, and entertainment information; computer software for aggregating, disseminating, transmitting and displaying site-specific live weather conditions, weather forecasts, weather alerts, and other weather related information by means of a global computer network to a desktop software application; computer software for creation and management of messages and notifications; computer notification software for providing event, emergency management, breaking news, and marketing-related notifications to application users; computer advertising and marketing software for management of targeted advisory and marketing communications; computer software providing a user with computer-based information, news, weather, and licensee-related content dissemination services at a specific time; computer software providing a user with entertainment services, namely, RSS feeds, video, HTML links, weather, games, and other licensee-related content; computer software for uploading graphical, text, audio and/or video content for end-user view and consumption via a desktop web-enabled application; computer software for streaming graphical, text, audio and/or video content for end-user view and consumption via a desktop web-enabled application; computer software providing audio and/or video playback capability; computer graphics and animation software; computer software for using the Internet and world wide web; computer software for providing electronic advertisements space for others and placing advertisements for others in a desktop software application; Computer software for the collection, editing, organizing, modifying, book marking, transmission, storage and sharing of data and information