Set Your Desktop Wallpaper As a Real-Time Image of the Earth
By Craig Lloyd on Jul 5th, 2010 at 12:53AM
Want to see the Earth as it looks right now and have it show on your desktop? Well, you can with a little nifty application called Desktop Earth. It automatically downloads snapshots of the Earth from NASA every few minutes and turns it into a desktop wallpaper. It shows the night-and-day cycle, as well as clouds. It also has a few different options like the frequency of updating the wallpaper and how much cloud cover you want, as well as what to show on the night cycles. Despite it being an actual program that runs in the background, it really doesn’t take up a lot of resources. Give it a try!
Nice find i am giving it ago the only trouble is it doesn’t run on 1920×1080 for me and you dont have the option to change it if your running a 64 bit operating system, but hey its cool .
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Craig Lloyd Reply on July 5th, 2010 at 11:59 PM
@Meanman – It’ll support up to 2560×1280, so it should work with 1920×1080 easily. You’ll have to mess with the “add black bars” and “crop the image” check boxes until the whole image fits on your desktop.