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DESCRIPTION
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.

  • 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 gives you numerous options for configuring the map images placed on your desktop.

EarthDesk fully supports multiple displays and uses very little processor resources, running silently in the background. Universal Binary too!

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.2:
  • Added a screen saver only mode.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the cloud server list to not update periodically.
  • Improved the communication between the EarthDesk prefpane and the rendering engine.
Version 4 is a paid upgrade ($11.95 from v2 or v3, $14.95 from v1 or promotional licenses).
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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SCREENSHOT

Developer:Xeric Design, Ltd.
Downloads:78,302
  - Version d/l:1,803
Utilities:Wallpaper
License:Shareware
Date:28 Apr 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$23.95
RATING
****.
EarthDesk User Reviews (53 posts)Write A Review
Jan 27 2007
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AWT  Requires a lot of memory, uninstallation prodedure provided only on support developers site. Better would be a, uninstaller as you have to go through user and home libraries, delete caches, preferences and so on. Anyway nice to look at sometimes.  (Version 4.0.1)

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Jan 24 2007

PETR1  YES! Untill now the EarthDesk used to be the only breath-taking software like this.

But since OSX Planet was launched couple of day ago am afraid EarthDesk will lose many customers. I mean have a look for yourself at http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13521

It's showing not only earth and clouds, but satelittes, storms, earthquakes and all planets. It's just freaking ahead of EarthDesk. Sorry.  (Version 4.0.1)

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Jan 24 2007

XERICDESIGN  80MB of this is a cache on disk that will be purged if other apps need the space... the rest depends on the number as resolution of your displays.  (Version 4.0.1)

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Jan 24 2007

_RONDYKES  not too stoked w/ this paid upgrade. just paid in sept for 3.x license now have to pay again? will stay with vesion 3 for now, there are really no new features anyway.  (Version 4.0.1)

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