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EarthBrowser is an innovative earth simulation that combines an easy to navigate 3-dimensional globe with real-time weather conditions and 7 day forecasts for thousands of locations worldwide. Live earthquakes, webcam images, volcanoes and current cloud formations are also featured. A screen saver option lets it take over your desktop with a gorgeous image when you are away from your computer.
Features include:
Features include:
- Amazing 15 meter per pixel resolution worldwide
- Three high resolution 500m base maps of the earth
- Satellite overlays updated
What's New
Version 3.2.1:
- Bug fix to save satellite visibility status and ordering
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- Adobe AIR (to install the demo)
EarthBrowser User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:66,522 |
| Version Downloads:3,032 |
| Type:Utilities : Screen Savers |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:23 Jul 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $19.95 |
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EarthBrowser is an innovative earth simulation that combines an easy to navigate 3-dimensional globe with real-time weather conditions and 7 day forecasts for thousands of locations worldwide. Live earthquakes, webcam images, volcanoes and current cloud formations are also featured. A screen saver option lets it take over your desktop with a gorgeous image when you are away from your computer.
Features include:
Features include:
- Amazing 15 meter per pixel resolution worldwide
- Three high resolution 500m base maps of the earth
- Satellite overlays updated daily
- Global weather forecasts for over 17,000 locations
- Live hurricane and tropical storm tracking
- A full year of weekly sea surface temperature animations
- Satellite cloud animations are updated every 3 hours
- Live earthquake map with magnitudes and links
- Live ocean buoy data for over 250 buoys
- Antarctic iceberg tracking
- Daily fire hotspot display
- Hundreds of dynamic webcams all over the globe
- Add and save your own webcams
- Political borders/Tectonic plate boundaries
- Over 15,000 volcanoes with links to more information
- Screen Saver
- Times in cities of all world time zones
- Links to facts about countries all over the world
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Anyway, once I learned of a new Adobe Air update(v2.0.2) I reinstalled Earthbrowser and it's working just fine now.
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thus.spake.z reviewed on 23 Jul 2009
It's now smooth and stable, offers an extremely well rendered earth and has some terrific features i.e. major satellite orbits shown.
It's features are pretty easy to use. Earthbrowser is always interesting, I've never tired of using it.
The developer is quite accessible, being very responsive to input and queries; I've always gotten a prompt reply to questions.
He's another developer who's demonstrated that he really knows what he's doing. He's been around working on Earthbrowser for a goodly number of years and is very dependable and responsible, unlike many who offer their wares here at MacUpdate.
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STRob reviewed on 03 Feb 2009
So as of now I can't justify upgrading. Maybe the developer can comment as to why version 3 seems a step backward in performance? Could it be Adobe Air?
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When I'm using EarthBrowser, I'm not doing anything else processor intensive at the same time. One is usually focused on EB and not on anything else.
Anyway, where's the problem? What would be a potential problem? Please enlighten me.
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Rednail reviewed on 18 Jan 2009
3.1 gives you so much more and it's a free upgrade from 3.0.
Many companies would call this 4.0 and charge you for it.
(Looks over at Roxio and shakes fist) ;)
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Plasterpyrus reviewed on 23 May 2008
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The new version seems to have an expanded range of options, but I found version 3 rather glitchy and not at all as smooth running as version 2. But I expect any problems will be addressed in later versions.
Quite frankly, I find version 2 has a more well defined and graphically bolder rendering of Earth; I prefer that one and will likely just keep using my copy of version 2. I burned a dmg onto a CD for safe keeping, as well as put a copy onto my external hard drive for safe keeping.
There is a $10 off purchase price for upgrades, at $19.95.
You just click where it says "Upgrade Discount For v2.x Users" at the top of the purchase form at the Earthbrowser website, and enter your version 2 reg number and email address.
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I put up with this out of curiosity, launched and found all my favorites unavailable with no obvious way to access them, no 'import settings' or anything I could find in the windows type menus.
Back to 2.11 and that's it from now on I guess.. but at least 2.11 still works.
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Too bad, it was an outstanding, interesting and fun creation, and I miss it.
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I downloaded it rom Adobe but couldn't get a useable .zip.
So the problem is without doubt at Adobe's end.
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It's been working just fine for the past several months.
I wonder if there's a problem with Adobe Air which Earthbrowser uses.
I understand that Adobe Air has been glitchy in the past.
I contacted Earthbrowser's'developer about this issue but so far no reply.
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Ted46 rated on 08 Dec 2010