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Real Aquarium HD for Mac is quite possibly the most beautiful application available for the Mac platform. It's like having Discovery's "Planet Earth" right in front of you presented in a fun and interactive manner.
Real Aquarium HD includes:
Real Aquarium HD includes:
- Absolutely breathtaking High Definition footage of underwater life
- The built in interactive encyclopedia called "Animal Info" which allows you to learn about what you are viewing
- Built in music with options to choose from your iTunes library with a beautiful cover flow interface.
- A super easy way to change what you are
What's New
Version 1.2:
- Adds 11 new built in songs
- Adds a set of new shark footage
- Adds our brand new icon
- Bug fixes
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later,
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later,
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| Downloads:1,558 |
| Version Downloads:636 |
| Type:Utilities : Screen Savers |
| License:Demo |
| Date:28 Jun 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $0.99 |
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Real Aquarium HD for Mac is quite possibly the most beautiful application available for the Mac platform. It's like having Discovery's "Planet Earth" right in front of you presented in a fun and interactive manner.
Real Aquarium HD includes:
Real Aquarium HD includes:
- Absolutely breathtaking High Definition footage of underwater life
- The built in interactive encyclopedia called "Animal Info" which allows you to learn about what you are viewing
- Built in music with options to choose from your iTunes library with a beautiful cover flow interface.
- A super easy way to change what you are viewing
- A gorgeous "animal info" full screen mode which allows you to step away from your "aquarium" and learn about the species you were just watching
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sandymix reviewed on 22 Oct 2011
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Globe-Trotter reviewed on 21 May 2011
However, once installed, this app takes a huge 2,26 GB of space! Twice the size of the full edition of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, more than 3 times Apple's iWork '09 and much more than the 5 Apple iLife apps combined! Just to watch some sea creatures on a kind of electronic new age music...
Also, there is no mention of the source of the undersea clips or who are the composers of the music (and if you look in the app package content, you'll discover some music tracks from the well-known commercial video game 'World of Goo' - in there you'll also find a couple of tracks from the Razordoll album 'Dysnomia', an obscure Hungarian rock band).
Are the video clips and music tracks in the public domain? Or was the music composed and the clips shot by John H. Meyer himself, the 16 years old developer of Real Aquarium HD? I simply wonder because the 'Animal info' that explains the species has been cut and pasted directly from Wikipedia...
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Your point taken. But why give it 0.5 stars just because you wonder.No comment from your side about performance, stability, lack of features. Not very valuable.
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0.5 stars because I found absolutely no interesting or practical use for this app. No way to use any other app at the same time because it grabs the full screen display (OK: I understand that this app is designed like the 90's flying toasters PC screensaver: just to gaze at it...). The logout control is not practical and not explained (you have to try things intuitively to stop the app). The videos take a lot of CPU (and I have the latest 2011 Intel i7 MacBook Pro, very fast) and most of them are not HD as advertised. So, I trashed the so-called 'Real' aquarium...
One more thing... the price of this app changes back and forth continuously from anything from free to 9,99 $ and any price in-between depending when you check it on the Mac App Store. A puzzling commercial strategy... At the time I'm writing this, the new v.1.2 is 'on sale' at 1,99 for one... hour! Tonight, it might be at 9,99 again and in two days at 4,99. Very puzzling commercial strategy.
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picked yesterday for free in a "1 hour Promo": it's just some (a few) movies with bckg music and "info" (not much info) slips (not that many either)
trashed! :-p