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DesktopEarth3D 3.2

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Use realtime pictures of the earth as desktop picture. Demo ($24.95)

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SubRosaSoft LLC

Visualize our planet... DesktopEarth 3D uses a combination of satellite imagery and calculated data to provide real time views of the entire globe. DesktopEarth changes the wallpaper on your Apple Macintosh computer to show the globe in real-time. DesktopEarth 3D features real-time cloud maps, simulated horizons and live pictures of the moon and the sun superimposed on your choice of earth map. It also calculates the sunrise, sunset and current solar elevation for any location you choose. Coupled with a 3D Globe as a screensaver, DesktopEarth 3D is both a useful educational tool and a fascinating toy.

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Version 3.2: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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Anonymous reviewed on 30 Jun 2004

This is a neat application, the real time clouds are extra cool. I suggest you download this and EarthDesk to see which one you like best. Both offer a trail. While I love the clouds on Desktop Earth, I found the graphic quality on full screen to be lacking in sharpness, even at the highest resolution, when compared to Earth Desk at full screen. I found the lack of definition on DeskTop Earth to be irritating.

I'll miss the clouds, but I'm going with Earth Desk. Hopefully one day, one of them will find a way to combine razor sharp graphics with the coolness of real time clouds......

I found the DeskTop Earth interface to be very easy to negotiate.

[Version 2.0.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 23 Oct 2003

Quite a cumbersome interface... it never did set the desktop on its own.

Between this one, HourWorld Live Deskpicture and EarthDesk, EarthDesk still wins out for me (DesktopEarth is second)... the clouds are nice (and not available yet in EarthDesk), but the klunky interface along with metal windows is just too much.

[Version 2.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 05 Oct 2003

Nice app but it would be great, if it saved the position where the map is centered.

At the moment, when you restart it will always be centered to 180° west.

Is there any configuration file, where one can set this?

[Version 1.3]

Anonymous reviewed on 04 Oct 2003

When I click on the "Click here to apply" button nothing happens. I cannot find your registration page on www.subrosasoft.com either...

[Version 1.3]

Subrosasoft commented on 03 Oct 2003

Fargesh - click on the "full screen" checkbox and it will do exactly what you are requesting :)

Thanks for the support and kind words everyone - always appreciated.

[Version 1.3]

fargesh commented on 03 Oct 2003

Very nice. Thank you!

It would be geat if there was a way to choose a "slice" of the map, so that the resolution would fit the desktop. The big black bars at top and bottom are too distracting visually.

Keep up the great work.

[Version 1.3]

Anonymous reviewed on 02 Oct 2003

The developer has been very accomodating! Now my maps are downloaded and features requested earlier are implemented! Thank you! This is a gem of a utility - together with Meteorologist, local and global weather is visually on my Mac now!

Subrosasoft: One visual quirk- if I have a Mozilla window in the background of DTE with a flashing GIF image in it, and I am scrolling the DTE map, the flashing GIF image creates a visual intereference during the the scroll. Does not affect the map, but why spoil such a nice app!

[Version 1.22]

asmeurer commented on 01 Oct 2003

Another good feature to add would be to have the center caption be a text box where you could just type in the number of degrees east or west. That would be a lot easier then scrolling.

[Version 1.22]

asmeurer commented on 01 Oct 2003

SubRosaSoft,
Sorry for the confusion. I meant that it would be nice if DesktopEarth supported the random picture or change picture option in the desktop preference pane. In other words, when I have random pictures checked on the desktop preference pane then It will add the map to the set of pictures, that way it will be showed randomly along with the picture that I already have for my desktop. I hope that makes sense. Also thank you for adding the center feature that I requested. I really appreciate developers that listen to suggestions.

[Version 1.22]

Anonymous reviewed on 01 Oct 2003

I'm a bit lost - I dont think I have a cloud cover map being superimposed. I have left it running for a few hours and the map hasnt changed at all. I wish there would be a "last updated" notation somewhere - or some indication of when the map was downloaded and from where.

Another useful feature would be to allow automatic change of the underlying map to night map or other based on the local time of day - not essential but would be neat.

[Version 1.2]

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