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Product Description:
• OSXplanet is a cocoa program that is based on the popular program, xplanet (by Hari Nair). It is able to generate live images of the earth as well as other planets in the solar system with additional informations such as the current clouds, storms, satellites, volcanos, earthquakes and times and locations of cities.
What's new in this version:
- Multi-Monitor Support has been added.
- Complete Rewrite of the program.
- Universal Binary.
- OSXplanet now has presets.
- New interface with toolbar.
- Cloud maps now update without problems.
- Now there are both high and low quality maps of the Earth.
- The origin coordinates can now be set to an active city.
- Changes to preferences are now saved "on-the-go."
- Live, Dynamic preview.
- Preview is now integrated into the General Tab.
- Many of the memory leaks have been removed.
- Interface is now much more responsive.
- Interface is now "smart." (Many options are set automatically depending on other options.)
- The cities interface has been touched up.
- The "Export..." button under the Cities Tab has been removed.
- Added the ability to Enable/Disable the download of Visuals Data.
- Added the ability to view Storm Paths.
- Magnitude Threshold Interface has had a touch-up.
- The Other Tab has had a touch-up.
- The ability to set desktop to the "OSXplanet Background" on quit has been added.
- Manual Check For Updates has been added to the Preferences.
- Smaller, Sleeker Splash Screen.
- The colors for city labels can now be chosen using the default Color Picker.
- OSXplanet now runs with low priority (aka nice).
- OSXplanet no longer supports Mac OS X 10.2.8 and earlier.
- The Cities List is now alphabetized.
- Volcanos are now rendered more nicely.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
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Download Links:
Download OSXplanet Version 1.0 (File Size: 10.2M)
Download Links:
Download OSXplanet Current Version (File Size: 14.7M)
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Feedback Summary:
| Version 1.0: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (4.1) |
Features: | (4.4) |
Support: | (4.3) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.1) |
Price: | (4.6) |
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Still doesn't work on Leopard - Version: 1.0.1, 6/27/2008 05:07AM PST
ttrtilley
It was nicer than EarthDesk when it worked, but that was long ago.
Links don't work - Version: 1.0.1, 4/15/2008 08:49AM PST
jshock
Have tried to download from Version Tracker and the developer's website. All download links appear to be broken.
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- Links don't work (1 replies)
On the OSXplanet Project Main Page the developer says it does not run under Leopard and he is working on a version that will. I enjoyed the product when I ran 10.4 but now running 10.5.2, Version 1.0.1 no longer works.