W_H_K  This is a very nice app which I use with pleasure. However, there are some very very annoying problems:

1: Thread creation: OSXplanet starts with 7 threads, but after a few days it runs hundreds of them. Whenever I hit 500 threads, I restart the app.

2. In its desktop folder, OSXplanet keeps ALL screens. At 2,4 MB every 30 minutes, this can grow quite excessive.

3. The memory leak is of minor importance, as the restart due to the thread problem takes care of it.  
(Version 2.0b02 Universal)

AAANOUEL  I like it a lot.

My only suggestion is to fade between changing images when updating them for no having the socking flash each time it's updated.

Congratulations and thanks a lot.

aaanouel  
(Version 2.0b02 Universal)

BOMBA  Really nice app but has memory leaks. Quit and relaunch often if you don't want it to hog your mac's memory.  
(Version 2.0b02 Universal)

JUMPJIM  I would agree with the last poster regarding the program crashing.

I have been an avid user of OSXPlanet for a number of years but swapped to Earthdesk when it became incompatible with Leopard.

Having recently switched back with the release of 2.0b2 I have also found that after an extended period of being open the app crashes, and istat menus has the program using almost 100% of BOTH cores until the program is force quit.

I also had the problem of it not remembering presets but this seems to have settled down.

I will be reverting to Earthdesk until Gabriel can sort these problems out. Sorry Gabe!  
(Version 2.0b02 Universal)

RCKTMAN77  I've downloaded and launched OSXplanet 2.0b02 on my Mac Pro. It certainly is a very nice-looking desktop providing a wealth of interesting information. I realize this is a beta and the developer is young and has limited time. However, my enthusiasm for this app and it's future improvement has Iead me to post here--without being able to find some other central forum--some of the troubles I've encountered with this beta on Leopard, specifically Mac OS X v. 10.5.6.

First and foremost, on my Mac Pro with Mac OS X v.10.5.6 the 2.0b02 app does not graphically remember my main preset settings. I believe at launch it reads the settings from the .plist file stored in ~/Library/Preferences but at times the app by itself begins refreshing the map every minute as the settings have reverted to something other than those originally specified. The only temporary "fix" is to delete the preset listed, add a new one. Then you have to go through and make any changes to the settings that you desire. However, given enough time, the preset settings will again revert to settings that weren't set, and the app begins refreshing the map every minute once again.

The second issue I've noticed is that earthquake data is not visible. The recent 6.1 earthquake in Indonesia never displayed on the desktop; eventhough, my settings explicity state to gather this data for any earthquakes worldwide above a 5.0. Another earthquake recently in San Bernardino was registered as a 5.1 and again was not displayed on the map.

The last issue I've encountered is that the application crashes after an extended period of time open ( > 10 hours normally).

If anyone has any solutions to these issues, then I would certainly appreciate hearing them.

Thanks.   
(Version 2.0b02 Universal)

CARBONIDE  Just found out that OSXplanet gobbled up about 6 GB of my hard disk space by archiving every generated screen in it's support folder (although I had this option turned off in the settings and also tried to limit it to 1 item).

I now simply made that folder read-only in the hope that that will cure the symptom.  
(Version 2.0b02 Universal)

BOOMER  This is, and has been the best program of it's type, by FAR.

The graphics are superior to Earth Desk and the program is donationware.

I am so happy to see it finally being developed for OSX 10.5.

I donated for earlier versions and I am donating for the latest version.

Everyone should give it a try.

I guarantee you'll find it superior to anything else out there.  
(Version 2.0b02)

UGGERHOLT  Thank you Gabriel Otte!

I stopped to use this wonderful little app. some time last year – as far as I remember, it didn't work properly on Leopard.

Now it's back on my desktop. Very appreciated :-)  
(Version 2.0b02)

GABRIEL OTTE  To the Tiger Users -

Please understand that I have no intention of abandoning development of OSXplanet for Tiger. I will try to have a Tiger version out soon, however, I can't say for sure when that will be. Thank you for your support.  
(Version 2.0b01U)

CHIEFTED  Oh its back and just in time for the end of Hurricane season.

The only quibble I have with this is that for now

I can't get the second screen to run in the dual screen mode.

Not a big deal at this point since as it is posted this is a beta version and I know that there will be bugs.  
(Version 2.0b01U)