Catfood Earth 3.0

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This oddly named wallpaper program adds a view of planet Earth to your desktop, but its appearance is strictly average. The program offers four world maps to choose from, but they're all pretty dark and heavily shaded, making it hard to see everything clearly. You can further customize the program by telling it to display time zones, borders, and cities in the color of your choice. You also can configure Catfood Desktate to always display a particular portion of the globe or show the whole thing. Although the publisher claims the map will rotate, we couldn't figure out how to enable this feature in wallpaper or screensaver mode. We think a program this simple really should be free, but the trial period expires after a short seven days. Finally, in a minor but irritating glitch, if you try to change settings through the Display control panel (which you can't, by the way--you need to use an included utility), the program displays an error message and sets your desktop wallpaper to the Desktate planet-Earth view, no matter what wallpaper you were just using. Geography buffs might take Catfood Desktate for a quick run, but most people can safely skip it.

Publisher's description

From Catfood Software :

Catfood Earth transforms your desktop wallpaper into a regularly updated view of our planet's surface. Your wallpaper can now show current cloud cover, weather radar, earthquakes, time zones, the extent of daylight and nighttime, and political borders.

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