EarthDesk 4.0

It would have been nice if the download page had said it was to be paid for instead of reading 'shareware' on the site. Very obnoxious text makes me want to get rid of it asap.

I got version 3.5 from MacHeist and I really love staring at my desktop with this on there. It's not a free upgrade. However, if you got it from MacHeist it's available for a discounted $12.95. I was a bit disappointed by 4.0. Really the only difference seems to be that it is now a preference pane instead of a standalone application. I kind of wish I had just stuck with 3.5. Anyway, I like the application and I guess it's good to support future development. Maybe 4.1, or whatever the next version is, will have more new features.

It runs great on my iMac G5 and MacBook Pro. It doesn't use hardly any resources.

Sanjay, you might want to take a look at EarthBrowser. It is an actual application and not a desktop. But it does update the current temperature and time around the world in addition to many other things. It uses satellite images just like EarthDesk and is considerably more useful for a couple dollars more. It's available at http://www.earthbrowser.com

There are specific uninstall instructions on our support pages. -Trygve Inda, Xeric Design

Application is pretty but not worth $19.95. Also, why the hell isn't the uninstall simpler. I'm having a heck of a time removing this now that I've seen it. The web is littered with folks complaining about how hard it is to uninstall (but no good instructions for Mac newbies like me.)

I wish I could see it without those big letters. And i'm only willing to pay $3 for something like this. I'm sure a million other would too.

Is there an evaluation license key floating around?

@Trygve Inda: My mistake. I was told by friends in the biz that it was, and saw that many of your specs are identical (or near-identical) to that of OSXplanet. Thus, I believed them.

I got this free during from MacAppADay. It's interesting (as is OSXplanet) but not really useful. I ran it for a day or so before removing it.

The only way I would run this permanently would be if it could display specific cities on the map and update the
current time at those locations in more or less real time.

Unless they improved system resource usage, I'm not downloading. Last I used it, it was nice novelty, but not something I would dare keep running all the time.

Tried both of them. Earthdesk looks a lot nicer, and is a lot more stable, and adding Yet Another Extra Icon to my menubar is optional.

What's truly obnoxious is the "NOT LICENSED" in the middle of the screen. I mean, there could at least be an evaluation period before you get two-inch tall letters across the picture.

St3phen: EarthDesk is NOT AT ALL based upon any OSS code. It was fully developed in-house although we do license the satellite maps and some code for calculation of the position of the moon. -Trygve Inda, President, Xeric Design, Ltd.