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Sunlit Earth 3.3.1

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Physics Observatory, Texas A&M University

The original Sunlit Earth Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X returns! This simple and aesthetic widget will display the sunlit portion of the Earth, position of the Sun and lights at night.

Images of the Earth used by the widget are courtesy NASA and NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).

Painting top layer and bathymetry created by Don Carona based on bump maps courtesy of J. Hastings.

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Version 3.3.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

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PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Sebuchen tipped on 30 Jul 2010

Take the widget out of your home folder widget directory (~/Library/Widgets) and move it to the main computers widget directory (/Library/Widgets) and everyone should then be able to use the widget. This will work for any widget, by the way.

[Version 3.0]

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Roro01 replied on 30 Jul 2010

What you say is obvious to most users, however, the developer specifically writes: "This version must be installed for the user (it cannot be installed system-wide)" so I thought it would not work if I install it in the main library but it works. Thank you!

Roro01 commented on 21 Aug 2010

NO, IN FACT IT DOESN'T WORK!!!

If you put it in /Library/Widgets it would appear in the dashboard but will not update itself. Developer, please fix this.

Etnier commented on 10 May 2006

Seems nice, but it's a shame the 'controls' are not made accessible through radio buttons or something of the sort. As it stands now, I would have to save a text file somewhere to hold the operating instructions.

A resizeable (as in make it bigger) display would be nice too... ;-)

[Version 2.0]

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Bruce_Y reviewed on 10 May 2006

Pretty cool.
Both previous ver 1.0 and new ver 2.0 work fine on my G5 iMac.
Now v2.0 has customizable display.

[Version 2.0]

Roro01 had trouble on 30 Jul 2010

Why does this version must be installed for a particular user only and not system wide for all users? This is very silly!!! All the users of my computer are interested in this beautiful widget so now I've got to install it in three places ... I hope the developer would fix this.

[Version 3.0]

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