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- martona, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Wow, so it made the front page again.
Suggestions for improvements are welcome. (I wrote the thing.) - funderbolt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'd say open source the thing.
Unless you have a great way of making money off of it, If you could commercialize it like Google Earth. If your not making money off it, you'll lose interest and it will become cool abandonware (like the after dark toaster screensaver... http://www.screensavers.com/afterdark/ )
Open Source, but that's just me trolling. - Vryz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Why doesn't someone put up a satellite (lagrange orbit?) and give the world a high res REAL TIME image of the Earth. Bestest screensaver ever! I'd buy that! This is neat, but it would be really spooky to look down at your desktop at a REAL image of the Earth from a few minutes ago.
- martona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dtrinh:
It uses close to no memory when it's idle. When it's time to refresh the image (every 5 mins by default) it needs a pretty big chunk: take the image resolution selected, multiply the X resolution by the Y resolution, multiply by 4 (32-bit images), and multiply the whole thing by 3, or 4 if you have clouds enabled. So about 36 megs for 1920x1200, or 20 megs for 1280x1024 with clouds turned on. This memory is only needed for a second though... and should have no noticable impact on your system if the CPU or memory is needed elsewhere as updates run at the lowest possible priority. - undauntedspirit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Alternative? It's a demo....
- martona, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There's xplanet (xplanet.sourceforge.net) which is kinda similar.
- Chasin_Fat_Kids, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you read in the TO DO list it states "Mac OS X port (for the Mrs)" - funny
- zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5it got better by at least a threefold
- genetic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5this seems pretty cool. im a fanatic for wallpaper. so far ive been using johns background switcher and i love the random flickr wallpaper it throws on my desktop. ill be sure to test this. thanks
- jboi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yeah pritty nice.
They should add a night + cloud image though - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5more like 10 fold
- martona, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There are clouds on the night side, only they're black.
- livingb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Awesome!
- martona, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Try switching to the "abundant city lights" night image and turn clouds on then off. You will notice a big difference.
- dtrinh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just installed it - love it. Also has quite a few customizability options that make it all the better. Sort of concerned about what kind of memory usage this thing has.
+digg nonetheless - Wipeout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Live, updating wallpaper...what do I need to run this thing? A rack of Blade servers?
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is super kickass. I suggest using the "Regular wallpaper" option on Windows XP; when there are any Active Desktop things on like DE2 adds, icon text looks (by default) white on a blue background, instead of white with shadows (which I like better anyway).
It'd also be nice if it could switch back to the previous non-Earth wallpaper when exited.
Still, a damn good job worth many internets and many Diggs. - nogami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks very nice - great update!
One little request - any chance you could add adjustable cloud transparency for the daytime side? I like the clouds, but it obscures the background image a bit too much for my liking. - teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Al Queda would really love that wallpaper.
- tkdan235, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21920x1200 on my 24inch... i like it!
- jpt62089, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No this does not =) I am using it right now and I love it!
- amoeba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd like to be able to hide the systray icon, if poss.
- AKBryant54, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13 things:
1. calm the ***** down
2. grow a dick
3. ***** off - funderbolt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Why doesn't someone put up a satellite (lagrange orbit?) and give the world a high res REAL TIME image of the Earth"
I'm pretty sure that we don't have satellites that far in orbit to be able to see the whole of earth at a time. How much would you pay? Would that really be a viable business model? Who would pay for this imagery or the initial investment? (Yes, it would be cool to have a satellite, but who would it benefit.)
Another point is that obsolesces is the rule today. So what you call high resolution today won't be high res tomorrow.
The satellites exist, but they are not in the people's power because they cost so much money to build and get into orbit.
[/rant] - NptPrchr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Excellent "Snow Crash" reference!
- xNaquada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Solves my boring Wallpaper woes...
Awesome, uses ~11mb of Ram (Windows x64) -peaked once, good taskbar functionality.
digg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Somebody had to ask.
- tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Read the article, it is on the to do list! ::)
- funderbolt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"Xearth Xplanet have been doing this for years."
Xearth is one of the first programs I can remember that showed the sun's daylight. Did it have a Blue Marble like theme showing the "natural earth"? I only remember the contients being a toxic green color.
From Xplanet website "Some excellent earth maps created from MODIS imagery can be found on the Blue Marble pages at NASA's Visible Earth site." -- Look like your right on that account, and I looks like this.
Celestia doesn't have anything like this, but you might be able to program it in...
All of this is really cool stuff. It's like Star Trek, but better! - dtrinh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks! - good to know :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd LOVE to see a linux version... Why on earth didn't you use a cross platform framework to develop the whole thing?
- calebegg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't have a whole lot of memory and i haven't noticed a performance impact
- joeybenavides, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Retardedly bad-ass! digg times like eight.
- krux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1seems to run well on my machine though I have quite a bit of memory
- Lazaryn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The ability to rearrange the order of the monitor displays. I have my second monitor on the left of the primary - Desktop Earth splits the map on the wrong edge and shows the black bars in the centre.
- Pengo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice I downloaded it I've never used it before though
- DanaG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Why doesn't someone put up a satellite (lagrange orbit?) and give the world a high res REAL TIME image of the Earth."
Like geostationary weather satellites?
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ - panthrosrevenge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2is there a similar program for Linux anywhere?
- tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is also on the ToDo list.
- diagonalfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Triple-wicked. Been looking for something like this for ages. A somewhat buggy Windows version of Xplanet and a hacked-up manual cloud update system just wasn't the same.
- krux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1great job. looks great on my dual desktop. The only suggestion I would say is have the ability to run half the display on one machine and the other half on another. That and a linux/freebsd version. My setup at work I have a freebsd machine on the right and windows machine on the left, an use vnc to make them seamless. this synced across both would be quite cool.
- Jamezes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can't believe it. I've always been waiting for a dynamic wallpaper like this :)
- Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -0/+1The cloud images should be real interesting to watch next hurricane season.
- hiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very nice. I just uninstalled the old one yesterday 'cos I'd got bored with it but this is much better
- Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -0/+1I'd like to be able to show clouds only for the daytime part. I like to see the lights in all their glory on the nighttime parts.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is cool :)
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awsome. my new desktop wallpaper.
- grouge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is wunnerful!!
- Wintrmte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool application!!!
- zcasper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Still can't get this to work running as a limited user. I figured out how to modify the file permissions using CACLS but it's still not working.
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