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APOD Viewer is a Dashboard widget for displaying the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" from NASA's web page. Each day a new image is presented along with a description by a professional astronomer.
In addition to showing the current image "APOD Viewer" also lets you see the accompanying explanation by simply clicking the image. Furthermore it can be used to browse the archives and can show a random image.
The widget has a simple and compact user interface. It is resizable to fit any screen size and provides you with easy keyboard shortcuts for easy interaction with
In addition to showing the current image "APOD Viewer" also lets you see the accompanying explanation by simply clicking the image. Furthermore it can be used to browse the archives and can show a random image.
The widget has a simple and compact user interface. It is resizable to fit any screen size and provides you with easy keyboard shortcuts for easy interaction with
What's New
Version 2.7:
- adds better support for movies, corrects a preference bug, as well as numerous other minor improvements and bug fixes.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
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APOD Viewer is a Dashboard widget for displaying the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" from NASA's web page. Each day a new image is presented along with a description by a professional astronomer.
In addition to showing the current image "APOD Viewer" also lets you see the accompanying explanation by simply clicking the image. Furthermore it can be used to browse the archives and can show a random image.
The widget has a simple and compact user interface. It is resizable to fit any screen size and provides you with easy keyboard shortcuts for easy interaction with the widget.
This is not the first APOD widget made, but download and try it to see why it, as one reviewer commented, is an APOD widget done right.
Features:
In addition to showing the current image "APOD Viewer" also lets you see the accompanying explanation by simply clicking the image. Furthermore it can be used to browse the archives and can show a random image.
The widget has a simple and compact user interface. It is resizable to fit any screen size and provides you with easy keyboard shortcuts for easy interaction with the widget.
This is not the first APOD widget made, but download and try it to see why it, as one reviewer commented, is an APOD widget done right.
Features:
- Automatically updates
- Browse the APOD archive
- Clean, simple, and compact interface
- Customizable size
- Keyboard shortcuts
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Antoinesynopsis reviewed on 23 Sep 2011
Self-Inflicted reviewed on 22 Feb 2007
The auto-scaling, selectable sizing, intuitive operation, and clean presentation of the details is very well done and makes this one of the two most elegant widgets I use (the other being iStat Pro).
Thanks for the fixes!
I tried reinstalling, but no joy...
Anyone have any ideas?