- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
- Date added: January 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 203,306
- Downloads last week: 1,412
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 57 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 18, 2009
Desktop Earth is a wallpaper program that will appeal to users who are curious about what Earth looks like from space. By updating constantly and operating on a simple premise, this is a fun and interesting way to spice up your desktop.
This free program embeds its icon in your desktop tray and provides a basic set of options to alter the wallpaper. The wallpaper itself is an enormous photograph of Earth from space and takes up all of your desktop space with no area uncovered. The continents appear clearly and most views provide a glimpse of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and slightly less than half of the entire globe from east to west. Desktop Earth impresses not only on its clear view, but the options users can tinker with. Users can cycle through all the time zones in the world to zero in on the corner they want to view from space. There is also a drop-down menu allowing for the picture to be updated every 5 minutes, 15 minutes, and hour. In addition, a slider allows for cloud cover to be erased for a clearer picture of land and sea. Finally, users can adjust the daytime image to get a better topographical view and the nighttime image to show natural moonlight, city lights, and more.
Desktop Earth is a simple tool that gives desktops a lot of character. Thanks to its clean picture and intriguing options, we highly recommend this download.
Publisher's description
From codefromthe70s.org :Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment.
Images are created from high-resolution textures (2560x1280) so it's perfect for that QSXGA display - but they work on anything, even on SVGA. There is an image for every month to accurately depict snow and foliage changes, and the night view is simply stunning.
What's new in this version:
Fixed a few minor bugs and a memory leak.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 57 votes
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Version: Desktop Earth 2.1.1
"Cool that you can make it change every 3 hours or so."
Pros: That it changes every 3 or more hours.
Cons: Cant make it change more recantly than 3 hours.
Summary: It has really awsome pictures.
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Version: Desktop Earth 2.1.1
"Nice to have the world at hand"
Pros: It's free.
Cons: Don't like the flickering when it updates.
Summary: An optional time zone overlay would be nice.
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Version: Desktop Earth 2.1.1
"very informative and you get what you want"
Pros: A very informative varied and interesting free download ,so far it has been trouble free with plenty updates I am enjoying the information .
Cons: I would like greater access to more localised information ,? of course I am new and maybe that is there and not yet found by me.
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Version: Desktop Earth 2.1.1
"free with no strings attached"
Pros: free
good to view real picture of earth
customizableCons: not much picture, it gets boring after some time
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Version: Desktop Earth 2.1.1
Pros: Nicely detailed view of the Earth with day/night sectors and city light features.
Cons: The automatic update feature does not work (on my computer) although it did for a very brief time after initial installation, then stopped.
Summary: The automatic update feature does not work (on my computer) although it did for a very brief time after initial installation, then stopped. It will now only update if I go into Options/Apply/OK. I have uninstalled/reinstalled it a number of times wi... read more >>
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