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jason said 10:16AM on 8-25-2006
YES! I have been waiting for an app like this forever... ok not forever. But there was an app for the BeOS called Tave Desktop (or something like that) that would change the color from a dark blue hue in the morning to a bright sky blue at noon, and then darker as the day progressed. I've been looking for an app that could replicate this functionality. yay!
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Ed said 10:29AM on 8-25-2006
Yes, but does it do it with nice transitions? Just a simple fade over a minute or so would be clever :)
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Kyp said 10:46AM on 8-25-2006
So simple yet brilliant. One of those “why didn’t I think of that?” things.
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Nate said 11:24AM on 8-25-2006
Sweet. Now I just need to setup a camera on a tripod on the beach and take a picture every 5 minutes for a day. During the Summer of course! :)
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Keith said 11:59AM on 8-25-2006
1. & 4. Have you looked at XSkyDesk? It simulates the sky outside (based on your lat & long) in a very realistic manner. You'll get beautiful sunsets and sunrises, along with a real starry night.
Check it Out:
http://www.globalconscious.com/xskydesk/
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Yuri Walkiw said 8:01PM on 8-31-2006
I was just thinking about this a few days ago. Why can't I have a sunrise in the morning, and sunset at night? Now I can!
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Matthew Treder said 5:53PM on 8-25-2006
Yes, xSkyDesk is beautiful, and beautifully put together. A most calming environment for working at a desk ten hours a day. I like it together with the Pixie Dust setting of OmniDazzle. (Impress your kids on the Fourth of July!)
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidazzle/
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Pancho said 3:08PM on 8-26-2006
Wish someone would replicate ol' Expresso (by Berkeley Systems) feature of splashing the monthly calendar on to the desktop. Three years on, that is the one feature I still miss from OS 9.0.4.
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Brady J. Frey said 1:24PM on 8-28-2006
Is there something like this, or an applescript, that will switch screensavers on some type of schedule? It's purely selfish, but we have one of our xserves that we swing between the occassional looped mac add or pong or pacman or other stuff - we have hundreds, but we just change them on random occassion, an app that did it for us seems simple enough and worth paying for.
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Mike said 12:34PM on 8-28-2006
7. Wish someone would replicate ol' Expresso (by Berkeley Systems) feature of splashing the monthly calendar on to the desktop.
GeekTool
plus the 'cal' command takes care of that for me.
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Bob said 1:53PM on 9-05-2006
I'm looking for an app that will allow me to change the desktop wallpaper everytime I open a program. For example, when I open Safari, I want the wallpaper to change to black, or when mail opens, change to a blurred version of the destop to add emphasis to the current app. Anyone heard of something like this?
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