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EarthDesk replaces your static desktop picture with a rendered image of Earth showing correct sun, moon and city illumination.
With an internet connection, EarthDesk displays real-time global cloud cover, allowing users to track hurricanes and typhoons, or simply admire our beautiful planet. User options allow you to adjust the overall transparency of the cloud layer.
With an internet connection, EarthDesk displays real-time global cloud cover, allowing users to track hurricanes and typhoons, or simply admire our beautiful planet. User options allow you to adjust the overall transparency of the cloud layer.
- Eleven different projections.
- Political, enhanced satellite and natural maps.
- Zoom from 50% to 400%.
- City lights appear at night.
- Atlas contains 10,000 cities.
What's New
Version 5.8.5:
- Fixes a visual glitch in the Living Earth map by removing a static line in the Pacific near South America..
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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EarthDesk replaces your static desktop picture with a rendered image of Earth showing correct sun, moon and city illumination.
With an internet connection, EarthDesk displays real-time global cloud cover, allowing users to track hurricanes and typhoons, or simply admire our beautiful planet. User options allow you to adjust the overall transparency of the cloud layer.
EarthDesk fully supports multiple displays and uses very little processor resources, running silently in the background. Universal Binary too!
With an internet connection, EarthDesk displays real-time global cloud cover, allowing users to track hurricanes and typhoons, or simply admire our beautiful planet. User options allow you to adjust the overall transparency of the cloud layer.
- Eleven different projections.
- Political, enhanced satellite and natural maps.
- Zoom from 50% to 400%.
- City lights appear at night.
- Atlas contains 10,000 cities.
EarthDesk fully supports multiple displays and uses very little processor resources, running silently in the background. Universal Binary too!
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Sgginc reviewed on 19 May 2012
I like to watch the clouds/storms.
The rendition of the earth and clouds are beautiful.
There are a lot of options to choose from on how you want the map/clouds displayed.
Well worth the price (including the $9.95/yr) for me.
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The deal you have with us is to provide a certain program for a certain price. Many people have taken the opinion that you have taken that price and are now suddenly refusing to provide the service unless we pay more money. Although you have pointed out a loophole that makes it legal for you to do this, personally I am not especially eager to give my money to developers who take the money and find a loophole.
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Our original cloud data provider is now charging $36/yr. We've been able to double that detail level (well beyond what we ever offered in the past) for $9.95/yr as an optional service.
We have also increased the detail level of the free cloud service as much as possible... a far better solution than simply ending the service entirely.
We plan to keep improving both free and paid services.
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Jumpjim reviewed on 26 Jan 2012
the image data for the maps. We have fixed this for a future release.
It might be released with EarthDesk 6, but is more likely to be sooner."
Nice! We might have to pay extra to fix a major bug in the program having already paid for it, AND paid extra for high-res clouds.. Not impressed :(
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The change in v6 will be how the VM system works and will use less memory, but this doesn't seem to be the root cause in your case. I sent you an email to ask about details from Activity Monitor, but have not heard back. Please contact us.
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Ok14me21 reviewed on 06 Jan 2012
Today I bought High res cloud images.
Now I am in the heaven of clouds ;-)
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Wile-E. reviewed on 31 Oct 2011
I have never experienced any problems with EarthDesk and appreciate the care that has gone in to its design. There are quite a few configurable options but they are not overwhelming in the manner of some apps that try to offer too much.
Easy-peasey to set up and has been rock solid throughout.
I can't comment on Xeric's support because I have had no need to ever contact them.
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Antoinesynopsis reviewed on 31 Oct 2011
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If we gave everyone the high-res clouds in 5.8.1 (which are double the data level of 5.8), then we'd have to find a way to pay for 2 terabytes of bandwidth every day... that is something we simply can't do for free.
You are welcome to try out the app before deciding to purchase it. There is a button with will provide a demo of the high-res clouds.
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ROFLMAO!
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For paid users, we are working on the possibility of doubling the resolution currently distributed. Internal testing is looking good so far and these very high resolution images look fantastic.
For free users, we are looking at ways to increase the resolution somewhat, perhaps at the expense of update frequency.
We welcome your comments here and on our EarthDesk facebook page.
Utilizzeremo gratuitamente le mappe ad alta risoluzione dal sito della NASA.
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L.b.j. reviewed on 24 Oct 2011
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We do not own the cloud data which is why our license agreement has always stated: "Cloud images are not provided by a source under the control of Xeric Design, Ltd. Image content, accuracy, availability and timeliness are not guaranteed."
If the service were to stop entirely, we are not going to launch our own satellites to replace it.
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I tried the latest version of EarthDesk. How can I remove the milky white in the bottom of map? I've tried the instruction from your website. But deleting the file at ~/Library/Application Support/EarthDesk/Clouds doesn't help at all. I'm currently using 10.6. Thanks.
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Thank you,
Trygve Inda
President, Xeric Design
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MacBook Pro unibody 15" Intel Core 2 Duo 2,40 GHz
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