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Product Description:
APOD Viewer is a Sherlock 3 channel that provides easy access to the images and data on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
Key features:
Key features:
- On launch, today's APOD picture and explantion data is automatically retrieved and displayed
- Day to day navigation via the 'Next', 'Previous' & 'Go Today' buttons
- Search mechanism to find up to 199 pictures for specified criteria (e.g. "nebula", "halley", "working in space" etc) with the clickable results loaded into a separate results drawer
- Ability to save selected APODs into a "Favourites" area for easy retrieval at a later date
- Option to view the high resolution image either Proportionally or at Actual Size
- Local saving of Full Size picture via dragging (i.e. to the desktop etc.)
What's new in this version:
Minor bug fixes for v1.01:
Major Improvements worthy for this v1.0 release:
- Search now returns the correct number of results (previously first result was not displayed).
- Site Stats changed to show previous month's stats (more relevant)
- Version History added to the stats window and associated button renamed "History & Usage"
Major Improvements worthy for this v1.0 release:
- New Favourites area where you can add, store (and remove) chosen APODs
- The "Large" image can now be displayed at its Actual size as well as proportionally "to fit"
- Recognition of APOD Viewer supporters via a scrolling area
- It is now possible to save the APOD image locally by dragging the "actual Size" image to the desktop etc.
- Font size of Explanation area can now be increased/decreased through a single click (a requirement of the Disabilities Discrimination Act 2004)
- Under the hood improvements : images are now fully downloaded and cached locally as well as in the the http cache; optimisation for Mac OS X 10.3
- Fixed a bug when the search progress bar did not update correctly when no results where found
- APOD Dates are now correctly displayed in APOD style i.e "Long Month, Short Day, Long Year" (e.g. November 9 2003)
- Network Indicator now accurately represents when network activity is occuring (i.e. only spins whilst downloading is in progress)
- Disabled Search button during an active search to prevent inconsistent search results
- Splitters in Search/Favourites area so each section can be resized
- Other interface Improvements
- Other minor bugs fixed
- Minor change to PayPal Donation Link (help keep APOD Viewer Alive)
- Minor change to Site Stats information
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher (optimized for OS X 10.3)
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| Overall Rating: |  (4.7) |
Features: | (4.5) |
Support: | (4.5) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.5) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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APOD Viewer 
- Version: 1.01, 6/3/2004 04:05PM PST
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Airwolf2000
Being a NASA employee, I believe this is excellent! Well done. Haven't had time to check all of it yet. So far it is running and working quite well. Good Job!
Its been renamed iAPODViewer and details can be found here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/iphone/205805